The Official Episode-I DVD Thread

That'll teach you to be able to afford it. I SHOULD have this soon...

ah my heart bleeds 😄 😄 😄 😄

I'll have it tonight..... I still feel like killing the lot. 😠

I have it NOW! It's GOOD!!!

The delivery of mine has been delayed by an anthrax scare at the post depot for the country. Damn.

there are some strange scenes there:
I mean there are some extra scenes that were deleted, well; with them there are some bad fx; I mean you see when someone is a puppet, when bitmaps are used and stuff!
But it's still VERY GOOD

EXCELLENT DVD! I've been watching Disc 2 all night. I saw the Easter Egg blooper sequence on Disc 1, and there's also a funny one in the end credits of the Deleted Scenes Documentary.

I must say, maybe not the best film, but definately the best DVD in my collection. THank you, George!

It's the best I have as well. By a mile! MINE WAS 3 DAYS LATE !!! 😠

But it was worth it. 😄 😄 😄 The Beggining is great and so are the featurettes which I hadn't seen. The most dissapointing thing is some of the effects in the pod race deleted scene. They don't come close to the effects in the rest of the film. But it's still amazing. 😄

more racers, better; because otherwhise it gaves the result that there were only a few racers and not a lot

True, a lot of the effects were not as well finished as they are in the film. I can't blame them really. Finishing touches like that cost a huge amount of money and now we get a pretty good idea what it was supposed to be like.

So TPM IS a Special Edition now after all. One scene added: the Air Taxi scene. And a new quote from JarJar we can use to typify the board ladies: Pitty Hot! 😄

I thought he was talking about the Taxi Driver. 😛

he wasn't???

I thought Jake Lloyd was great in TPM but I know some of you don't like him. But you have to be glad that they chose him over the other two that we saw in the documentry. They were terrible!

that's you are used to see Lloyd being Anakin

Ya know, it's funny, but when I watched that sequence I actually thought Lloyd was the worst of the three...

😕 I thought he was miles better. He was the only one with any "life" to him. The kid with the brown hair just read the lines without any feeling, he was awful.

abouyt the ####### pod race it doesn't need to be longer it needs to be cut

it totaly sucks
redo the entire scene or cut it
thats my opinion
cause I really think that scene failled

EDIT NOTES: Edited to remove bad language. Please do not use bad language in future.

Failed in what way? I don't like chase scenes because you always know what's going to happen but the podrace was still amazing.

well
the first thing that came to mind when I saw a pod racer and the entire pod race is that

the pods look a lot like roman chariots (the pod being the chariot and the engines being the horses)

and the entire race seemed, because of that, to look like the race in ben hur as you movie fans know still considered one of the best scenes ever
well imo they wanted to reinact that in TPM with the pod race

and if that was really their idea it sucked big time

Good call, FM. THe Podrace was basically an ode or SW remake of the classic Ben Hur chariot race. Hence the roman look.

GL could have left those extra grid shots out for me really. I thought the grid was long enough as it was. Even the deleted scene with the original grid sequence is very very boring. I'm glad they cut that.

I still think they should have left Jira's farewell in the final cut though. Or at least the bit where QGJ cuts down the probe droid. It always bothered me that QGJ and Anakin left the slave quarters walking nice and easy and the next shot we see them they're running!!! And why????? Absolutely unclear. These four or five shots would have made that sequence a lot clearer.