Thanks a lot for doing this....honestly, you're sort of heroic for taking a classic documentary, practically lost to time, and increasing it's cinematic viewability to more reflect today's HD potential. For real, thanks again....
I grew up on this documentary which I had recorded from PBS television on VHS... its influence cannot be overestimated. You're doing the lord's good work by preserving this new presentation in HD. Incredible efforts, Sir... Incredible!
What George said about imposing the monster over the actor for A New Hope is exactly what he did when they did the Special Editions for the 20th Anniversary of the franchise.
I grew up having this on VHS. Pretty sure I watched it so many times that the tape disintegrated. Thank you for your efforts for uploading this and enhancing it. Re-watching for the first time in many years, I still find myself learning something new from it.
You know, when I was a kid, I ran my VHS tapes of the trilogy itself dry. Each movie had an ad for this documentary beforehand, but we didn't have that tape, so I never got to see it. Thank you for your efforts, Ben Phillips! Now I can finally watch this!
This is magical. Haven’t seen this since I was a child. It’s criminal it’s not on any DVD/Blu Ray release as it’s absolutely amazing. Thank you so much for uploading this. I’m ready for the 40th release of Return of the Jedi and watching this has got me feeling 9 years old again.
Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi are quite simply the three greatest and most influential films ever created. They are the blueprint for almost every movie that has been released since. The Holy Grail of modern cinema without question.
Man, when I was a kid I just ate this kind of thing up! I would intensely watch any kind of 'behind the scenes' making of docs or shows about my favorite movies. Filmmaking in the 70s & 80s was just as exciting to see behind the camera as it was on the screen.
"Special effects are just a tool, a means of telling a story, people have a tendency to confuse them as an end to themselves. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing." You said it brother, WAIT YOU SAID THAT?!
If you are saying this as a criticism of the prequels, it doesn't apply that trilogy. The prequels stayed the course with the philosophy of that 'special effects without a story is a pretty boring thing' quote. it's the sequels that's completely derailed from the philosophy of that quote. That's what you get when you make Star Wars without George Lucas.
@crixxxxxxxxx they're not as bad as they seem, what you get is a solid orgin story to what happened before the originals. Not saying they don't have faults though.
best documentary out there bar none to this day!! Still holds up well to this day also,Nothing better than the original trilogy V IV VI point blank no argument!!!
I wore my original copy of this - on Betamax, recorded from the TV one Christmas- out completely. It's so good to see it again, and what a fantastic job of reconstructing it. So good to see it again. Thank you!
The one part I wish they kept in Return of the Jedi was the scene that was shown in the original trailers where they showed Luke and the others boarding the Millennium Falcon and Luke's X-Wing.
Wow, what a historic moment to see all three directors of the original trilogy together. It feels weird when they're talking about the Sy Snootles puppet as it eventually got replaced with CG in the Special Edition. I can understand George not being entirely happy with the puppet and therefore replaced it with a CG version. But couldn't he have kept Lapti Nek in the movie instead of changing it to Jedi Rocks? 40:30 Control, control! You must learn control! 41:52 OMG! I had no idea that was a miniature Leia on the speeder. Such an amazing documentary.
I still remember a time as a child in 1983 when I saw this on PBS knowing it might be the last source of Star Wars footage ever. Then came Ewok Movies and Saturday Morning Cartoons. Then came the Prequels. Then came the new cartoons. Then came Disney. Maybe I was right in 1983.
Thank you for doing the work necessary to preserve and improve this important video. It has been one of my favorite behind the scenes shows about Star Wars, and it literally has never looked this good. Nice work.
I bought ROTJ in the previously viewed shelf at my local video store in 1990 in the summer same time in January I taped A New Hope off The Disney channel which was good timing because they had just opened Star Tours at Disney MGM studios and in 1993 I taped TESB and ROTJ off the sci-fi channel that summer
Thank you for this! My dad had this on VHS when I was a kid and I watched it over and over. It’s so great to see it again and in such a good restoration! 🎉🎉🎉
Sourced from VHS (don't think a laserdisc existed of this). Bluray footage of the film scenes has been "overlaid" whenever the doc shows a scene or shot. It's a hybrid of VHS & 4k footage which was exported so you get the best quality available when possible.
I remember hearing that the puppeteers responsible for making Yoda 'accidentally' dropped the puppets head cracking it if I remember correctly and they nearly ended up ruining it.
Recorded this on VHS when it was first on in the UK must of watched it once a week every week for a long time and i've most likely still got it among'st my videos in the garage.Big thanks to Ben Phillips for the fantastic job you have done,you have made me feel 30yrs younger,gonna sit and watch this with my 9yr old son now.
Thank you very much for this. I looked for this a while ago but it must have been before you uploaded this and Im really chuffed to have found it. I really appreciate your time and effort
This is such a great documentary series (videos were also made for the two prior Star Wars movies). There are so many moments with the creators as they assemble the many aspects of these films, it's such a joy to behold. This really ought to be released on Blu-Ray. Thanks for sharing!
Justin Fencsak While I first saw this one on PBS back in the day, I remember seeing the SPFX: Empire one on one of the networks (CBS, I think). This one is still without a doubt one of the best of its kind.
He was taking a swipe at Star Trek: The Motion Picture that has a 5 minute scene with a shuttle pod circling the Enterprise as Kirk looks at it in ecstacy. There's nothing even comparable to that in the prequels.
Yes, Ben Phillips!!! I totally forgotten about this great documentary. I had it once on VHS and knew every word from it. Thanks for posting it. It's my birthday on top of all that. So thank you very much.
@@disma4191 agreed. I was joking. It looks like shit. They should not have tampered with those movies. I think I was probably stoned when I said that. Wasnt funny when I look at it now haha
i think the original vhs doc was mixed with the despecialzed blurays for the cimematic film clips, however it was done though, it's absolutely fucking brilliant. A+ Ben
It's amazing how many people were operating Jabba and how much they worked on his development. I really hope that they never swap Jabba for a cgi version in some future special release.
I still find it funny that after all these years that one of the Ewoks was played by Kenny Baker the same guy who worked inside the Artoo Detoo costume.
I can just never see that Anakin. He doesn’t look related to Luke or Leia, neither does he look 45 like Anakin should be in RotJ. Dude lukes at least in his 50s-60s
57:11 is NOT in the finished film. They mention that shot in JW Rinzler’s Making Of Book. There are also NUMEROUS space battle shots with finished FX that have never seen the light of day.
i have a question: a lot of behind the scenes clips in this were reused in the 2004 Empire Of Dreams documentary in slightly higher quality but in shorter duration. could one theoretically crossfade those clips against the VHS clips to get a slightly higher quality version?
The BEST of the Star wars making of's. The crew isn't bitching about Lucas is the main benefit of this one. Thank you George Lucas for making the Star wars universe. All of it. :{D
Outstanding!! I was just thinking of this one the other day. Thank you! Haven't seen it since it aired on PBS. This documentary and all that it encompasses is what inspired me to get into filmmaking.
Fantastic! I bet they were hard to make, but you can tell they were having a blast making those creatures. Those sets still look realistic to me. I've been watching them for over 40 years now and you still see details that you've not noticed before! I know it's all for the story, but ya can watch these films just to take in all the details in the frame eand many, many designs. There was nothing much like it back in those days. Everything about it was mind-blowing! Though I disagree with George about more is bigger + better. TPM has fantastic story details in the designs alone but limits can help in creating, as for me it's not any more mythic, fun or groundbreaking than the original 3. : )
I know Jurassic park has nothing to do with this, but since It also Changed Film Industry. I’m just going to say this. Before Jurassic Park, there was……STAR WARS. Sorry if this sounded dumb. Had to put this since Jurassic park also changed Film Industry apparently.
Had this on VHS, lent it to a friend and never got the fucking thing back. At the time we thought this was gonna be the last taste of Star Wars we’d ever get and we clung to it like a last grain of chocolate.
Thanks for uploading this. I was actually just thinking of this documentary the other day. And also found another copy during a garage sale. I too think its "the" documentary of all SW documentaries.
31:36 ... I KNEW Han originally said "Trust Me" not... "I can see a lot better now".... phew, thought I was going crazy. Also, the Trust Me makes more sense as a phrase between the characters given their past.
Yeah there are some changes like this that feel pretty pointless. Like adding the extra planets and Anakin’s young force ghost were good changes in my eyes then others were random dialogue and alien replacements
I think the "I can see a lot better now" works better as it echoes Anakin later in the film when he asks Luke to take his mask off so he can "see you with my own eyes". Star Wars always plays with the same dialogue and motifs across all six films.
Catching this video again after who knows how many years, I find it sad that all of the good, hard work from the people who put together the Max Reebo band was replaced by that cgi sequence in the Specialized version, whatever that was.
This video just doesn't hit the same without the distortions and fuzz and the pan and scan from the VHS tape I recorded off of PBS at Christmas time in 1983
Aurora Uplinks Yes, I know. He's the joker in the animated Batman series (which earned him an Emmy), a Fire Nation villain in "Avatar", and the list goes on and on.
It's fair to say there are a number of geniuses: McQuarrie, John Williams, Richard Edlund and John Dykstra, Ben Burtt, even Harrison Ford. Might as well throw in Frank Oz too.
Puppets are so much better than CGI. They actually seem real. 'Farscape' was an excellent example of this. You can grow attached to something you know is physical, but fake, not so much. The brain is a funny thing.
Thanks a lot for doing this....honestly, you're sort of heroic for taking a classic documentary, practically lost to time, and increasing it's cinematic viewability to more reflect today's HD potential.
For real, thanks again....
Well said
I grew up on this documentary which I had recorded from PBS television on VHS... its influence cannot be overestimated. You're doing the lord's good work by preserving this new presentation in HD. Incredible efforts, Sir... Incredible!
Seriously! This is awesome! Lots of work to update this with HD footage sync. Really great!
Ditto
What George said about imposing the monster over the actor for A New Hope is exactly what he did when they did the Special Editions for the 20th Anniversary of the franchise.
I grew up having this on VHS. Pretty sure I watched it so many times that the tape disintegrated. Thank you for your efforts for uploading this and enhancing it. Re-watching for the first time in many years, I still find myself learning something new from it.
You know, when I was a kid, I ran my VHS tapes of the trilogy itself dry. Each movie had an ad for this documentary beforehand, but we didn't have that tape, so I never got to see it. Thank you for your efforts, Ben Phillips! Now I can finally watch this!
This is magical. Haven’t seen this since I was a child. It’s criminal it’s not on any DVD/Blu Ray release as it’s absolutely amazing. Thank you so much for uploading this. I’m ready for the 40th release of Return of the Jedi and watching this has got me feeling 9 years old again.
How very true, agreed!
"the reality is i love that world. there are friends there. i have a home there. so there's always going to be a desire to go home again."
Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi are quite simply the three greatest and most influential films ever created. They are the blueprint for almost every movie that has been released since. The Holy Grail of modern cinema without question.
Man, when I was a kid I just ate this kind of thing up! I would intensely watch any kind of 'behind the scenes' making of docs or shows about my favorite movies. Filmmaking in the 70s & 80s was just as exciting to see behind the camera as it was on the screen.
Now everything is “we did it on the computer “
Man, seeing the CBS/Fox logo alone brings back great memories...
lol Yep, quite the trigger for the memories.
"Special effects are just a tool, a means of telling a story, people have a tendency to confuse them as an end to themselves.
A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing."
You said it brother, WAIT YOU SAID THAT?!
If you are saying this as a criticism of the prequels, it doesn't apply that trilogy.
The prequels stayed the course with the philosophy of that 'special effects without a story is a pretty boring thing' quote. it's the sequels that's completely derailed from the philosophy of that quote. That's what you get when you make Star Wars without George Lucas.
@@theunknowncommenter725 Of course it does. The prequels were terrible. Indefensibly bad movies.
@crixxxxxxxxx they're not as bad as they seem, what you get is a solid orgin story to what happened before the originals. Not saying they don't have faults though.
best documentary out there bar none to this day!!
Still holds up well to this day also,Nothing better than the original trilogy V IV VI point blank no argument!!!
Have the VHS of this. Thank you for the HD upgrade! Really turned out great. Looks seamless. Great job syncing the proper HD footage into this.
God's work.
I wore my original copy of this - on Betamax, recorded from the TV one Christmas- out completely. It's so good to see it again, and what a fantastic job of reconstructing it. So good to see it again. Thank you!
The one part I wish they kept in Return of the Jedi was the scene that was shown in the original trailers where they showed Luke and the others boarding the Millennium Falcon and Luke's X-Wing.
this was and is such an inspirational documentary as a young filmmaker; George being prescient as ever
Wow, what a historic moment to see all three directors of the original trilogy together.
It feels weird when they're talking about the Sy Snootles puppet as it eventually got replaced with CG in the Special Edition. I can understand George not being entirely happy with the puppet and therefore replaced it with a CG version. But couldn't he have kept Lapti Nek in the movie instead of changing it to Jedi Rocks?
40:30 Control, control! You must learn control!
41:52 OMG! I had no idea that was a miniature Leia on the speeder.
Such an amazing documentary.
Mark Hamill's narrating is out of this world!
Miss Agent E says the guy with Mark Hamil profile pic
You don't think so? I'm just wondering...
Miss Agent E I think it's amazing aswell
Brick By Brick Oh. I'm glad. If I sounded harsh in my first reply I apologize.
He’s a true fan too
I never saw this documentary as a kid, but one of my earliest memories is the cheesy promo at the start of all the Star Wars VHS tapes.
I still remember a time as a child in 1983 when I saw this on PBS knowing it might be the last source of Star Wars footage ever. Then came Ewok Movies and Saturday Morning Cartoons. Then came the Prequels. Then came the new cartoons. Then came Disney.
Maybe I was right in 1983.
Right you were.
😂😅😂
I remember hearing in this that they cannibalized battleship model parts for the trench run for A New Hope.
Thank you for doing the work necessary to preserve and improve this important video. It has been one of my favorite behind the scenes shows about Star Wars, and it literally has never looked this good. Nice work.
I first saw this on the the Sci Fi channel in 1993 when they first marathoned the trilogy hosted by Carrie Fisher
Me too over the next few years back then, they'd play the whole thing. Alot of good memories.
I bought ROTJ in the previously viewed shelf at my local video store in 1990 in the summer same time in January I taped A New Hope off The Disney channel which was good timing because they had just opened Star Tours at Disney MGM studios and in 1993 I taped TESB and ROTJ off the sci-fi channel that summer
Thank you for this! My dad had this on VHS when I was a kid and I watched it over and over. It’s so great to see it again and in such a good restoration! 🎉🎉🎉
I can't believe the quality here for a VHS from almost 30 years ago! Incredible!
It could be from the laserdisc
Sourced from VHS (don't think a laserdisc existed of this). Bluray footage of the film scenes has been "overlaid" whenever the doc shows a scene or shot. It's a hybrid of VHS & 4k footage which was exported so you get the best quality available when possible.
I am so happy to find this on TH-cam! I had it on a beta cassette... THANK YOU!!!
i'm here from the 1980s when this aired on PBS. Anyone else watch this back in the day?
I remember hearing that the puppeteers responsible for making Yoda 'accidentally' dropped the puppets head cracking it if I remember correctly and they nearly ended up ruining it.
Thanks for not just preserving this documentary but also enhancing it!
Recorded this on VHS when it was first on in the UK must of watched it once a week every week for a long time and i've most likely still got it among'st my videos in the garage.Big thanks to Ben Phillips for the fantastic job you have done,you have made me feel 30yrs younger,gonna sit and watch this with my 9yr old son now.
‘A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing’
The irony of George Lucas saying this 😂
6:15 "The Dark Lord of the Sith" it's always existed wasn't just a name thought up for the prequels.
Yes there's a return of the jedi annual mentioned that from. 83
The word "Sith" has existed in Star Wars since the original 1976 novelization.
Totally Awesome, I remember seeing the commercials for this with the new releases back in the day. Been looking for it ever since. Thank you.
Your efforts to share this are to be highly commended. Bravo!!!
Thank you very much for this. I looked for this a while ago but it must have been before you uploaded this and Im really chuffed to have found it. I really appreciate your time and effort
I picked this up on VHS at a flea market when I was like 12 and watched it until the tape broke! Thank you so much for uploading ❤❤❤❤
This is such a great documentary series (videos were also made for the two prior Star Wars movies). There are so many moments with the creators as they assemble the many aspects of these films, it's such a joy to behold. This really ought to be released on Blu-Ray. Thanks for sharing!
This documentary used to air on PBS. It was the first Star Wars documentary to air on such a network.
Justin Fencsak While I first saw this one on PBS back in the day, I remember seeing the SPFX: Empire one on one of the networks (CBS, I think). This one is still without a doubt one of the best of its kind.
'special effects without a story is a pretty boring thing'
Someone should tell George Lucas tha... oh... wait....
Someone should have told JJ Abrams.
He was taking a swipe at Star Trek: The Motion Picture that has a 5 minute scene with a shuttle pod circling the Enterprise as Kirk looks at it in ecstacy. There's nothing even comparable to that in the prequels.
patbuddha I wasn´t talking about Star Trek.
He's talking about the original Star Trek film from 1979.
Yes, Ben Phillips!!! I totally forgotten about this great documentary. I had it once on VHS and knew every word from it. Thanks for posting it. It's my birthday on top of all that. So thank you very much.
I like the preview in the beginning!, I have this, and that box set advertised!
This is glorious! This is the Star Wars that I remember watching as a kid. I wish I could go back in time to then.
I actually like the original version of Jabba.
The first cgi Jabba in a new hope is flawless. He looks so real
Did a good job. But I wish he didn't need with other footages.
You are the original version of Jabba, mate, if anyone is...
@@danecompton6604 the first Jabba it's the one in Return of the Jedi that terrible CGI was added in 1997
@@disma4191 agreed. I was joking. It looks like shit. They should not have tampered with those movies. I think I was probably stoned when I said that. Wasnt funny when I look at it now haha
I love this documentary. I was 11 when Star Wars came out. It took me away from dark things in my life. It's a shame movies miss the story anymore.
i think the original vhs doc was mixed with the despecialzed blurays for the cimematic film clips, however it was done though, it's absolutely fucking brilliant. A+ Ben
Look at the end...its Sebastian Shaw as Anakin Skywalker! Thanx Ben Phillips, this was awsome!!!
It's amazing how many people were operating Jabba and how much they worked on his development. I really hope that they never swap Jabba for a cgi version in some future special release.
What makes it even better this wasn't CGI .This was real physically hard work!
I’m really loving how you painstakingly edited in HD footage , proper aspect ratio into the entire thing, including the opening ad. Great job.
12:36 ah, what a relief to hear that good old song instead of the 97+ version.
I think it's neat learning about the Star Wars movies and people get to learn new things.
I still remember seeing the trailer for this on my parents’ VHS copies of the original Star Wars trilogy.
I still find it funny that after all these years that one of the Ewoks was played by Kenny Baker the same guy who worked inside the Artoo Detoo costume.
I'm going to have to put this permanently on my phone. It's the story of the saga behind the saga!
1:08:17 spirit of Anakin Skywalker ... the classic scene ... how i like it ;)
Yeah, I also like the little wink Luke gives them at 1:08:32, which sadly was cut from the Special Edition.
That's not Anakin, it's the Wizard of Oz in a Jedi Robe.
I can just never see that Anakin. He doesn’t look related to Luke or Leia, neither does he look 45 like Anakin should be in RotJ. Dude lukes at least in his 50s-60s
This is great! I recorded this off the TV back when it was first shown...and I watched that tape to absolute death!
57:11 is NOT in the finished film. They mention that shot in JW Rinzler’s Making Of Book. There are also NUMEROUS space battle shots with finished FX that have never seen the light of day.
Oh man i had this vhs, i miss watching it over and over after the trilogies
This is so cool! I've always wanted to to get this when I was growing up, but it was so rare I couldn't find it! Thank you for uploading this!!
KK and Jar Jar Abrams: "Yeah - but does it have 28,546 star destroyers? ?"
Wow, my childhood great memories. Thanks for posting, I first saw Star Wars to Jedi back in 1983 on KQED telethon around that fall season.
What a wonderful documentary :) Also, that guy smoking inside Jabba xD
"Hey, sweetheart, I like your threads!"
*tail smack*
"! ... Sorry."
That part still gets me every time! XD
I love the outdated audio. Really brings the nostalgia.
awesome!! Thank you may you be with the force forever ! Born Norway 1975 never hit the store here
i have a question: a lot of behind the scenes clips in this were reused in the 2004 Empire Of Dreams documentary in slightly higher quality but in shorter duration. could one theoretically crossfade those clips against the VHS clips to get a slightly higher quality version?
The BEST of the Star wars making of's.
The crew isn't bitching about Lucas is the main benefit of this one.
Thank you George Lucas for making the Star wars universe.
All of it. :{D
Because George Lucas wasn't such an Asshole
@Risen General it's funny how I always get these weirdos who stalk my comments across tons of videos like you're doing. :{
@Risen General bullshit. You're following my comments around on several videos now creep. :{
Outstanding!! I was just thinking of this one the other day. Thank you! Haven't seen it since it aired on PBS. This documentary and all that it encompasses is what inspired me to get into filmmaking.
Proper Star Wars.
One of the most greatest franchises in media, entertainment, and Hollywood history.
Fantastic!
I bet they were hard to make, but you can tell they were having a blast making those creatures.
Those sets still look realistic to me. I've been watching them for over 40 years now and you still see details that you've not noticed before!
I know it's all for the story, but ya can watch these films just to take in all the details in the frame eand many, many designs.
There was nothing much like it back in those days. Everything about it was mind-blowing!
Though I disagree with George about more is bigger + better. TPM has fantastic story details in the designs alone but limits can help in creating, as for me it's not any more mythic, fun or groundbreaking than the original 3. : )
I know Jurassic park has nothing to do with this, but since It also Changed Film Industry. I’m just going to say this.
Before Jurassic Park, there was……STAR WARS.
Sorry if this sounded dumb. Had to put this since Jurassic park also changed Film Industry apparently.
There is a very nice version of this. i might upload it. 2k scan i believe, it was all shot on film. think about that for a second.
Do it…
It even sounds like a warbly VHS! Excellent...
Nice job.Looks brand new. Thumbs up!
Amazing job! Thank you so much for posting this.
the un-remastered star wars audio sounds super uncanny
Had this on VHS, lent it to a friend and never got the fucking thing back. At the time we thought this was gonna be the last taste of Star Wars we’d ever get and we clung to it like a last grain of chocolate.
Thanks for uploading this. I was actually just thinking of this documentary the other day. And also found another copy during a garage sale. I too think its "the" documentary of all SW documentaries.
13:08 the greatest music of ROTJ. Lucas, please recreate this lost track.
John Williams’ son wrote it.
Hes also known as the the singer of TOTO 😅@@crixxxxxxxxx
Isn't that the music that plays on Jabba's sail barge when they're out on the Dune Sea?
@@Bauglir100 The same. (also plays when "Boushh" arranges the deal for Chewbacca)
They used to show this on HBO as a special back in the day.
Great colour and resolution to the footage
Thank you! I lost my VHS ages ago.
31:36 ... I KNEW Han originally said "Trust Me" not... "I can see a lot better now".... phew, thought I was going crazy. Also, the Trust Me makes more sense as a phrase between the characters given their past.
Yeah there are some changes like this that feel pretty pointless. Like adding the extra planets and Anakin’s young force ghost were good changes in my eyes then others were random dialogue and alien replacements
I think the "I can see a lot better now" works better as it echoes Anakin later in the film when he asks Luke to take his mask off so he can "see you with my own eyes". Star Wars always plays with the same dialogue and motifs across all six films.
This was a very impressive upgrade. You should be very proud of this.
OMG! That CBS FOX video intro!!
0:23 this might be a best way somebody said that line
Catching this video again after who knows how many years, I find it sad that all of the good, hard work from the people who put together the Max Reebo band was replaced by that cgi sequence in the Specialized version, whatever that was.
+25:08 Tim Rose had the best job ever.
Nice job re-inserting the scenes from the films in the correct ratio!
Thank you!!!
This is awesome. I remember watching this on TV when it was first shown in 1983(?)
Why did they leave this off the blu-ray set??!!
mikusguitarius I know, right?! This is a classic!
This video footage has alot of depth
This video just doesn't hit the same without the distortions and fuzz and the pan and scan from the VHS tape I recorded off of PBS at Christmas time in 1983
Mark Hamill is fantastic as a narrator!
Miss Agent E he's a professional voice actor
Aurora Uplinks Yes, I know. He's the joker in the animated Batman series (which earned him an Emmy), a Fire Nation villain in "Avatar", and the list goes on and on.
The real genius behind Star Wars is Ralph mcquarrie
Nope
amaxamon yes
Fuck off :)
George had to tell Ralph what was good and what wasn't though. So, you couldn't be more wrong. X{D
It's fair to say there are a number of geniuses: McQuarrie, John Williams, Richard Edlund and John Dykstra, Ben Burtt, even Harrison Ford. Might as well throw in Frank Oz too.
Puppets are so much better than CGI. They actually seem real. 'Farscape' was an excellent example of this. You can grow attached to something you know is physical, but fake, not so much. The brain is a funny thing.
I like both both Puppet Yoda and CGI Yoda.
Except the puppet in the Phantom Menace. It looks so strange
18:58 "Hey Edgar!" LOL
42:44 idk why, but this is funny af.
How funny it would be if hamil narated the making of material of the new ones too, but with his grumpy sarcastic attitude
Great job, though I would have personally loved if you respected the 4:3 aspect ratio for the non-HD stuff, rather than using the blurring.
I always felt that they focused more on Jedi than the previous two movies
Emotionally yes
of course they did, this was made in 83. It makes sense.
39:30 "No sir I didn't see you playing with your dolls again."