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Article here. DVDtown

Ya I saw that earlier today...man I cannot wait, its going to be amazing...

Now, where is the Star Wars trilogy. I would love to have the new and old trilogy on blu-ray. And what about all of the titles that were already available on hddvd, where are they at. If it is already released on hddvd, isn't it just a matter of running off copies to blu-ray's instead? All the hard work is done, or am I missing something?

- Nick

Oh, don't worry, Star Wars will be coming just about a year before blu-ray is rendered obsolete, complete with re-re-re-re-remastered edition in which Obiwan does not chop people in half, cut off people's arms, and doesn't even turn on his lightsaber when Vader kills him. Then Vader apologizes, because as we all know, he's actually a nice guy, if a tad whiny. So that's where Luke got it!

Indeed, the lightsabers will be replaced with walkie-talkies.

Sweet! Now I just need a bluray player! I would rather see star wars come than LOTR, but I will def pick it up.

I am going to nab a bluray player soon... just waiting until a good model is out at a reasonable price.

Isn't that the 40gb PS3 or at least that's what Sony wants you to believe.

Thanks for sharing the news. I'm glad they are not doing the Star Wars thing. Well said Ken. Funny cause it's true.

I'm a HUGE star wars fan but I don't care if the new trilogy ever comes out on BD. I'd be totally satisfied if they make a special effects, sample/demo disk as there are lots of impressive sound and visual effects but as for the stories. It's like he wrote them each really quickly, just so he could say he finally did it.

'I' was turned into something worse than an episode of Barney with that despicable J.J. Binks. 'II' was such a mish mash of broken plots it was pathetic. III wasn't as bad but I still couldn't get by the totally worst actor ever which is Hayden Christenson. I might have actually enjoyed III somewhat except for him. When I drug my wife to go see it, as an ex-nurse, she kept asking why he couldn't have stopped taking his prozac for a few days while they were filming.

As a side note, the casting director for III, "Christine King" is also responsible for deciding that Nicholas Cage would make a good Ghost Rider. No offense Nicholas but you just were not made to pull off the whole biker warrior of Satan thing.

(Semi-interesting side note: my spell checker insisted that I capitalize the "S" in satan. I always suspected my laptop was innately evil.)

Actually, she didn't originally cast Hayden in II so she can't be blamed for him entirely, but he was a relative newbie to big budget films before II. So it was a bit of a lost gamble by a casting director who only had 4 other films behind him, thus being a bit of a gamble himself.

George Lucas, I give you one last chance. I'm going to see Indiana Jones tonight. I am confident or at least hopeful that Spielberg will be able to pull your butt out of the Sesame Street like world you fell into.


I guess I should really have my first coffee before I post.

I thought I was the only one who thought that Hayden Christenson's performance was the worst acting jobs since Earnest.

Good one! Nice reference to E.T.'s remastering ...