Registered: Jul 2005
Location: Living my life, fighting my war.
Possibly... if executed right. But let's face it, the movies won't be accepted unless they are written the same way that they were when they were first released. This is simply because of two facts (1) it's a classic, (2) it has an enormous fan-base that will simply not accept the story being changed in the slightest.
And on top of that, there are few to no directors that will keep 100% to the original story.
I mean, there are fans who complain about the relatively small changes that have been made to the OT.
With Clone Wars and a live action tv series, maybe SW will transform into a more general kind of public property. It may turn into a kind of Star Trek. Since ST gets remade by J.J. Abrams with a whole new Kirk, Spock, Scotty etc. (sacrilege prolly to some) it's not unthinkable. However, ST is not subject to a continuous storyline, so it's acceptable to RETHINK ST some 45 years down the line. If that'd work with SW? Who knows... But first Lucas has to die I think.
Registered: Jun 2006
Location: The United American Empire
I never really thought of that before. Hopefully Star Wars isn't rammed into the ground like ST was though...then they get back up, do okay then they ram the franchise into a ground again.
one way to gauge it...were any of the changes to the PT that were put into the DVD beneficial...i.e all the digitally added creatures in tatooine...the wall being removed in bespin to show the ships flying about outside?....no...they were all shit...and looked crap
i agree that parts of the OT needed fixing because of problems when it was made due to limitations of technology back then...for example i remember a documentary saying that in the empire strikes back...when the battle on hoth is taking place and you are seeing the view from inside the cockpit of luke's snowspeeder you could see right through the metal areas of the cockpit...where as this was fixed in the DVD release a few years ago to make it more solid
i also didn't mind the digital remastering
but the inclusion of entirely new scenes and added CGI was terrible...it may have been better if it was more subtley done but it looked horrendous
Those had to do with the matte lines. They couldn't make very clear keys out of the blue screen then, so they had to make the transition with a little opacity. Those were good fixes.
I looks very early days computer graphics. Unlike most of the other on screen graphics in SW, which had more their own look, their own SW universe style. It looks like Pong.
Registered: Jun 2006
Location: The United American Empire
Well, that is basically what they had back then if I am not mistaken. Assume the Imperials destroyed all of the Rebel's Macs and PCs and only left them with an Atari prototype to render with.
FER TEA!!
Nov 11th, 2008 11:33 PM
