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Absolutely!

In all seriousness, you need to watch Wallace and Gromit. That is real claymation, and a true art.

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dude.... i actually have that on VHS tape.

when i was a kid, one of my friends dad had a satellite dish.. that was back when they were huge, and the channels were like, 'comstat1', and 'telstar5'.. anyway, after his dad went to sleep one night, we went into the TV room and put a tape in the VCR and just recorded the porn channel all night.. then got up early the next day, took out the tape, and he never knew we did it.. i saved that tape for over 20 years, and still have it.

the tape also has a marilyn chambers movie called 'instable', and a movie called 'tangerine'.. i remember these only cause i watched this tape almost every night thru puberty..

the more i think about it.. the more i realize how screwed up my childhood was!!

bigjohn

Oh yeah the big dish... I remember now .....

Star wars, folks. Star wars....

Just watched most of the first movie. I knew the reviews were bad on "the new CGI" but I thought it would at least TRY to be spectacular.

As far as I can see the only addition is a bunch of those "alien elephant" animals and a couple of flying droids. PLEASE tell me there was more -- don't tell me George messed with the movie just to put one of those tacky animals into every empty spot in the spaceport...

Forrest Gump anyone ?

Don't forget the new light sabre effects... they look thinner when they're sideways now, gives them more of a slick rapier look.

And every town has a perfect place for a CG "crane" shot in it... but they keep the rendered landspeeder a speck on the print so you can't tell they mapped Mark Hamill onto a mesh that looks like a Playmobil construction guy.

And Jabba the thin Hutt.

Bren R.

>>And Jabba the thin Hutt.

Ah yes, I didn't remember seeing Jabba in front of the MF before, but I have been known to forget things.

The original movie, he was played by a fat man (but that hit the cutting room floor - I can see George screaming now... NO, NO... Like a REAL slug, not just a fat bastard!)... for "A New Hope" they rotoscoped the CG Hutt over the gourmand human (which, because of the problems with blocking, Ford has to walk over Hutt's tail) - that's why they have all that footage to work from.

Saw that old footage on a "making of" documentary of the real movie... er, the original movie.

Bren R.

my wife sent me out to the Walmart market for some sour cream for her cheese cake she was making. Came back with the sour cream and the 45.00 box set... I'm such a weak person. I walked in the house and said, "this is some expensive ass sour cream I bought."

I probably won't get to these movies until the weekend.

I had heard about that, Jabba being just a fat man.
In fact, i had an old comic book when i was a kid. It was this oversized magazine like thing about 1.5' tall and a foot wide, that contained a comic figure of that missing scene and Jabba was a fat man.
Always confused me since it wasn't in the movie.

Bigjohn- "Insatiable" RULES!!! We must have recorded off of the same satellite. Ah, the golden days of porn. They sure don't make movies like that one anymore!

Perhaps I've said too much...

Moving on... Star Wars rules, too, just to keep this semi-on topic. Anyone play the new Battlefront video game yet? Though I'm disappointed in Lucas' latest efforts in movie making, his genius shines through on the marketing side. In the videogame, you get to choose which battles you'd like to play from any of the films. That includes battles from the as yet unreleased third episode. So those people who want some clues to the movie can buy the game and find them out for themselves. That's some incredibly smart marketing if you ask me.