The People vs George Lucas -Teaser Trailer

Happy Birthday Carrie Fisher

Everyone's favourite Star Wars Princess is 52 today !
"Still, she's got a lot of spirit. I don't know, whaddya think? You think a princess and a guy like me...?"

Star Wars interview from The Mike Douglas Show

The Classic Television Showbiz blog has posted interviews with Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill and Harrsion Ford from The Mike Douglas Show July 20th 1977 'Mike welcomes guests from a new movie called Star Wars'
Click on the picture above to take you to the interviews.

Ah those where the days !! It's great to see the fresh faced cast, but it makes what Star Wars has become as a franchise seem a world away from where it started.

Star Wars - Remastered DVD's - part 2

I'd already made a post here a while back about the picture quality of the 2006 remastered DVD's, you know the set where they put the original cut of the film as a bonus feature on the 2nd disc 'sigh'. Anyway I was talking to a mate online the other night and I'd mentioned the stuff I'd put on my blog regarding these problems and he alerted me to the end sequence in Return of the Jedi, now I bought the DVD's purely to watch the original cut so I've only ever flicked through the new versions when people have mentioned problems to me, or sometimes just to punish myself. Anyway I've took some grabs to show what he was talking about, for some reason the scenes in the Death Star reactor chamber have been tinted a pretty naff blue all over, and the explosions have a really awful burnt out look to them. So the so called remastering has actually made the picture look worse, I love the way with every version Lucas puts out of these films he gradually destroys what was already great.
Check out my old post here for Star Wars: Revisited, a DVD put together by a fan who colour timed the film and made adjustments to Star Wars that puts the stuff Lucasfilm did with their two attempts at Special Editions to shame. At the moment the same guy is doing his own version of The Empire Strikes Back again taking away awful blue washes in the Hoth scenes and re-timing the colour so Hoth looks like it used to in the original version, from what I gather he'll also be tweaking FX shots as he did with Star Wars: Revisited.

Star Wars Revisited DVD - Review

I made a post last year as an April Fool about a new DVD that Lucasfilm was releasing with more changes to the Star Wars films here and here. People fell for my joke thinking this would be just the sort of thing that George Lucas would do again.

Now a year later along comes a new version of Star Wars, not a new version by Lucasfilm, but a version put together by a fan. A fan who has decided to make his own edition of the film that he is happy with. A DVD made freely available on the internet for fans to download, not for sale, but free, he's making no profit from his version.

I was interested in this version for 2 reasons, firstly I was never happy with the Star Wars Special Editions, I still prefer the version I seen back in 1977. The 2nd reason was to see if a fan could out do what Lucasfilm had done with the film. I always thought that some of the stuff was decidedly ropey on the re-releases, Greedo shooting first, the addition of Jabba the Hutt etc... plus some FX shots that were never altered when some were. Now I know you could go on forever replacing stuff but ILM's work seemed a bit spasmodic at times. Anyway I would have to go as far as to say that if I had to watch either the Special Edition or this DVD called Star Wars Revisited then I'd choose the latter work by the fan.
Adywan as he calls himself has made quite a number of changes, some very subtle such as adding blinking light to Vaders chest panel and removing the red tint on his helmets eyes that he has in this film. And some such as whole new FX shots and sequences. Some scenes have even been changed editorially, but more on that later.

I'll pick out some stuff, there's lots to choose from but I'm highlighting some. One change that I thought worked was C3-PO sighting of the Jawas sandcrawler. In all versions it appeared as a black dot on the horizon, Adywan has moved C3-PO in the shot and added a much bigger sandcrawler, we can actually see what it is now and you get the idea it's close enough to see C3-PO waving and shouting. Continuity changes are shots such as when Luke is talking to Beru before he joins Owen with the Jawas, several bushes have been removed from the shot for continuity with the following shots where Luke walks away to join his Uncle. OK this is something most people wouldn't spot or give a toss about but Adywan figured in his cut it was worth doing. The FX for Luke's macrobinoculars has been updated to produce a much clearer image of what Luke is seeing.
One shot that I was surprised ILM never did was adding the missing radar dish to the top of the Millennium Falcon in docking bay 94, Adywan has not only added the dish but he's extended the back of the bay as well under the front forks of the Falcon.

The trip into Mos Eisley has been re-edited so we don't see the Jawa swinging from the Ronto anymore and other Ronto shots have been trimmed back. The famous cantina sequence has had a number of tweaks, mainly shots of alien creatures blinking and frowning etc... just to add a bit of life to what was otherwise a static latex mask. These on the whole are quite well done. And now we also get to see Greedo with some facial expressions, he blinks his eyes and tweaks have been done around the face to give him some movement. The great thing is Han shoots first again.
Another change for continuity is the shot when Ben, Luke and the droids are heading to docking bay 94, in the original shot R2-D2 was behind C3-PO and yet as they turn in the same shot to enter the area where Chewbacca is waiting R2 enters frame at the bottom, like he's just sprinted 30 foot in a second, they obviously had two R2's in this shot originally. Adywan has recoloured the original R2 red so he looks like a different droid, a new R2 has been added to the shot up front of Ben and Luke, you can see this in the pic above, so now when they turn R2 seems to be in the right place. Oh yeah and other great news is the Jabba sequence has been removed also.

Just going back to the cantina scene, a big change here is the severing of the arm by Obi-Wan. It's Dr Evazan, the ugly guy who actually pulls the gun on Ben who now loses his arm, not Walrus Man who was further back. A big change but it kind of makes sense. A mate said that the original furry arm was probably easier to get past the censors back in 1977. As far as we see in the film Walrus man never pulls a gun yet we see it next to his severed arm. The blood has been replaced with a smoking cauterized wound.

There are shots tweaked all the way through the escape from Mos Eisley and Death Star scenes, but I'm jumping forward to the Death Star escape. We now get new graphics on the Millennium Falcons targeting monitors as Han and Luke battle the Tie Fighters, we also see several new shots of the Falcon being attacked and tweaked stuff like the star fields out of the gun bay and cockpit windows moving faster. The shot after C3-PO says "Help I think I'm melting" of R2-D2 has been given a new background, the shot before looked like it was on the Death Star, and although we see R2 in a new location you can still see the Death Star corridor lights reflected in R2's blue just to the left of him on the pic.
During the journey back to Yavin we now see the Millennium Falcon traveling through Hyperspace, so the cockpit shots of Han and Leia talking have been tinted blue and the Hyperspace corridor added through the viewport.
Some of the best of the new additions are the Death Star schematics during the rebel briefing before the Death Star battle, I was always sure that this was the type of thing that Lucas would have updated for the Special Editions. Adywan adds new graphics some of which still incorporate the old graphics as part of them. They kind of show just how primitive the CG displays actually were in 1977.

During the preparation for the Death Star attack we see numerous shots of pilots putting helmets on, these helmets used to sport a blue rebel logo, these have all been changed to red now as we never see a pilot in battle with the blue rebel emblem. What hasn't been fixed, and I'm sure it would have been hard, is the cleanliness of the helmets in the pre battle montage. Once the pilots get into action they all have battle worn and painted helmets.
In a number of shots now out of the cockpit windows we can see the red planet of Yavin, an orange gas giant. This is logical seeing as though the Death Star is passing this planet in order to get a clear shot of the rebel base on Yavin 4. Another nice addition is the war room displays that Leia and the rebel commanders stand around during the battle, firstly we see a new graphic of the relation of the Death Star to Yavin 4 with the main planet in the middle, see pic above. And then secondly once the battle has started we get a schematic of the Death Star dome where the ships are fighting, and small specs representing the craft can be seen moving around. Now when rebel officers are pointing at the chart it seems more like they're actually viewing the events that are happening in space. See pic in the group below.

We also see some exterior shots during the Death Star battle that feature the orange planet. The schematics on the Death Stars display screens have been updated too.

Some of the biggest changes are during the battle. When the Tie Fighters first appear we see a whole squadron of them heading towards the camera, we then track around with them to the surface of the Death Star were they engage the rebel ships. Quite an impressive shot. We also get numerous shots that have been enhanced with more ships, lasers, explosions etc... But in this scene there are a number of brand new shots. Edits also change the structure of some scenes and dialogue changes such as when Luke says "Blast it ! Biggs, where are you ?" He now says "Blast it ! Wedge, where are you ?" this is an actual sound recording from what Adywan calls the 'Original 1977 Monomix' Again this change makes more sense as in the scene before Wedge says "I'm on him,Luke !" and after the ships destroyed we hear Luke say "Thanks,Wedge." So it makes no sense this he's calling for Biggs, Wedge already has the situation covered. And I assume as this dialogue exists then at some point this is how the scene played anyway.
Later after Biggs is destroyed we hear the electronic voice of Luke shouting "Biggs, Biggs !" this is taken from Luke's reaction to Bigg's death from the Radio Play.

The Death Star explosion has been changed and also includes the planet Yavin again. One scene a lot of people have talked about in the past is the giving of the medals, why Chewbacca never got one. Well Adywan has tried to rectify this, although we do see Chewie stood with his medal the actual presenting has been done editorially using flipped shots and some cut and paste, and although you can see what Adywan has tried to do we never physically see Chewbacca step forward and Leia place the medal over his head. Still a nice attempt at fixing the scene.

I said at the top that I'd talk about some of the editorial changes, a sound edit early on has changed C3-PO's words from "There'll be no escape for the Princess this time." to "There'll be no escape this time." I suppose the fact that when Luke asks C3-PO who the young lady on the hologram is later, C3-PO says "I'm afraid I'm not quite sure,sir." Now you could say either C3-PO is protecting Princess Leia or he genuinely doesn't have a clue. So if it's the latter this the change makes sense.
A major re-edit is the scene in Obi-Wan's house, the whole structure of the sequence has been changed , but still works. The original cut started with Luke saying that his father didn't fight in the wars, and was a navigator on a spice freighter, Ben responds with that's what you're uncle told you etc... and then Luke says to Ben " You fought in the Clone Wars ?" Ben then tells Luke about how great a pilot his father was and then gets his lighsaber chats about how his father died then see's if he can find the message in R2-D2, then asks Luke to join him.
The way the scene plays on Adywan's cut is that the first thing we see is Obi-Wan saying to R2 about the message, the message plays through and as Ben sits back to contemplate what the recording of Leia has said, Luke says " You fought in the Clone Wars ?" Obi-Wan responds with "Yes, I was one a Jedi Knight the same as your father." it's now that Luke says "No, my father didn't fight in the wars, he was a navigator on a spice freighter." Ben then tells Luke how his father was a great pilot and a good friend, now he gets Luke's lightsaber, Luke asks about how his father died and the force, then Obi-Wan asks Luke to join him. On first watch I though what the fuck has he done with this, it's only when you watch again you realize that all the script is still there, it's just in a different order. Star Wars editor Paul Hirsch says in the book Star Wars: The Annotated Screenplays that "In the original cut of the film Ben and Luke heard the message first and then they talked about Luke's father and the sword"
So what Adywan has done is return to something closer to the original edit.
During the Vader and Obi-Wan duel he's added music and cut the scene tighter, I wasn't to fussed on this but a mate said it does make you think how dull that fight was with no music back when it was made.

Some stuff that doesn't work in my opinion is the shot he's added of R2-D2 in the ravine on Tatooine, he's altered the shot to try and create some sort of continuity with the look of Tatooine from the prequels. Also we now see the Death Star in it's establishing shots orbiting a planet, this appears to make use of footage from The Empire Strikes Back, several times through the course of the film we now hear the Imperial March, such as this scene and when the Tie Fighters show up in the Death Star battle.

As I said at the top, Star Wars is the film I seen in 1977 and I prefer that cut, faults and all. But what this Star Wars Revisited disc does is show how todays generation can take a film and make what they would say is a near perfect version for them. OK you can't create live action scenes that never existed but you can tweak and adjust what's already made. And in a lot of cases Adywan has fixed faults that Lucas left behind or wasn't bothered about fixing. Some may agree with that others not.
The DVD features a track you can select to bring up a text description of what changes have been made etc...

For a full list of changes and links to dowload the DVD then visit here here

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

So it's been announced that come August Star Wars is returning to the big screen. This time as a CG film, it'll take the first 3 episodes of the new Star Wars: The Clone Wars show and make them into a 90 minute feature. Now although I quite like the look of the style they're going for I really can't see the point of doing stories that take place between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, we've already seen the outcome of that story, and the last film didn't work anyway because we did already know the outcome to this story !
At least the Clone Wars series by Genndy Tartakovsky was made before people had seen Revenge of the Sith and helped build up to that movie, but now it seems like this is seriously retreading old ground.
For me Star Wars has become to much about Jedi's and Sith flipping around with 2 lightsabers and lots of Sith lords with fancy tattooed faced, OK it may have worked for Darth Maul but it's become awfully boring. Star Wars used to be more than just Jedi. They were such a small part of the original trilogy now they've become boring in a lot of ways. In this new story Anakin has a Padawan, Ahsoka, pictured with Anakin above. Again we already know she doesn't survive even up to Revenge of the Sith making any new characters pretty much redundant already in terms of drama. Also returning is General Grievous, a poor excuse for a Star Wars villain if ever I saw one.
I'd rather Lucas use this style of animation and do sequels to the original trilogy if he doesn't plan to make live action films of them, or the adventures of Han and Chewie etc... There's so much more they could do if they stop being tied down by all this prequel crap.
Fans would love to see Timothy Zahn's 'Thrawn Trilogy' turned into an animated show I'm sure, characters like Mara Jade already have a very large following, as does Thrawn. Zahn's 3 novels Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, and The Last Command were super books that really stood out because the market hadn't been flooded with the hundreds of Star Wars novels there are now.

Here's the link to the news story at the BBC.

Star Wars TV Series

As I feared from this first picture of the main Jedi stood with Star Wars creator George Lucas, the TV show will be aimed firmly at kids !!

Poll

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Star Wars - Palitoy Adverts

Tying in with my post about the Marvel Star Wars comics are these adverts that run in the UK comic and were drawn by UK Comic Artist legend Brian Bolland.
I loved these ads when I was a kid, the top advert was showing what was the 2nd collection of figures to be released after the initial 12. Back in the days when Hammerhead was only called Hammerhead and he hadn't been given a name and back story etc... I love the fact that Bolland's drawings actually look like the figures, they're not fanciful doing things that the figures couldn't.

I had the Cantina and a mate had the Droid Factory, and I remember picking up the box with the Sandcrawler in at Romer Parrish's Toy Shop that used to be in town. The box with the Sandcrawler in was incredibly light so that put me off as a kid, figuring that it was probably pretty flimsy inside.

The bottom ad interests me as the top prize was for 'Six Boys or Girls to see the filming of the new Star Wars film' that being The Empire Strikes Back. It was design a Droid competition.
I often wonder who actually won this and if there visit featured anywhere as I don't recall it appearing in the actual comic.

Star Wars -Guns with roofs

I've been reading back through the reprints of the old Marvel Star Wars comics in recent weeks. For me a lot of these stories really captured the spirit of Star Wars, far more than the new comics do. I loved the story which took place straight after Star Wars drawn by Howard Chaykin in which we journey with Han and Chewie to Aduba 3, and they battle Serji- X Arrogantus with the help from a band of hired guns. A green rabbit named Jaxxon with a ship called the Rabbit's Foot was one of the more bizarre characters but somehow he worked. The first 3 or 4 volumes are the really classic stuff. Cool stories like Waterworld, To take the Tarkin, The Hunter etc...

One thing I've discussed before with my mates Kinnon and Paul is the fact that Carmine Infantino often drew his guns in the comics with what appeared to be little roofs on the top of them.

I suppose this was to keep your gun dry in case of a downpour :)

Return of the Jedi - Shield Generator Bunker

Lorne Peterson called the Shield Generator Bunker model as ' Seat-of-your-pants model making at it's finest' in his book Sculpting a Galaxy. But it's hard to show just how cheap these models were until you see photo's of the actual props. Made from drinking cups stacked together, some Airfix 1/144 Apollo Saturn V parts and topped with some stacked medicine cups.

The Airfix 1/144 Apollo Saturn V was one of the most used kits for parts in the original Star Wars trilogy and was also used on Battlestar Galactica widely. On TV shows and films like Space 1999, Blake's 7, Space Academy, Jason of Star Command, Battle Beyond the Stars, Starcrash the kit was used on various miniatures.

The way the background seems to recede of into the distance but with a curve always made me think that this whole thing went full circle like a huge magnetic coil or something, something powerful enough to create a shield around the Death Star being constructed in orbit above the planet Endor.
They must be very eco friendly though the Empire because up above they haven't disturbed the forest to build this huge generator, or where they've build the landing pad or the actual radar transmitter, you'd think the Empire would just level the place but they've left all the trees and shrubs where they were, unless they had a team of Stormtroopers go back in with Charlie Dimmock and re-plant them all.

Star Wars Zombies

Ok, I've seen it all now, a range of Star Wars Zombie figures, Darth Vader. Princess Leia in Slave Girl outfit but as Zombies !!

Star Wars Wallpaper - 1978

When I was 11 in 1978 I had this Star Wars Wallpaper on just one wall of my tiny Box Room Bedroom, it was probably there for around 6 - 7 years, I recently did a search around to see if I could find any good pics of it, besides the picture of me sat in bed ill reading the latest on Star Trek:The Motion Picture in the new edition of Starburst magazine I could find anything else. Then I was told on a forum by a guy named Andrew March that the factory that made this wallpaper and The Empire Strikes Back wallpaper had burnt down in the 80's, but he thinks his Mam has a couple of unopened rolls of this in her attic. I was also alerted to someone selling it on Ebay along with Empire wallpaper, still wrapped. It was pretty cool wallpaper, I wish I'd got my Mam and Dad to get a few spare rolls too now.

While searching I found this pic of me, again aged 11 with some of my new Star Wars toys. Those being, the Cantina Playset, Darth Vader's Tie Fighter and the X-Wing Fighter, all of these were released in the Uk by Palitoy
Hard to believe this was 29 years ago now,it was so much more fun in the 70's.

Star Wars at the AFI

The AFI are doing a 40th Anniversary event and screening eleven classic American films. It's interesting to note that Star Wars which will be presented by George Lucas is listed as 121 minutes, that being the length of his original cut, and not his 125 minute Special Edition. I suppose after all how many look upon his later editions as a classic in the same light as his original cut which inspired so many filmakers. ?

http://www.afi.com/tvevents/40th/default.aspx

Star Wars Episode III: A steaming pile of Sith.

I've read this before a while back but the link from Jim's page reminded me how funny but true it was.
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=episode3

Star Wars 30 today !

I first remember seeing a clip of Star Wars in 1977 on the News at 5.45 here in the UK. It was the clip when they're fighting the Tie-Fighters after escaping the Death Star in the Falcon, as a 10 year old I was totally amazed by what I was seeing. I started buying Magazines like Starburst and going through the Newspapers my Dad brought in for clippings about this film. Hard to believe that was 30 years ago. Pity he fucked things up big style with the Prequels and the Special Editions.

I could have went with a Star Wars poster for the pic, but hey I thought this pic of Carrie Fisher was way better !

1977: Star Wars in London

Star Wars - Remastered DVD's

I'd put off buying Star Wars on DVD when it first came out because it was the 1997 'Special Edition', the second time it was released it was a newer and so called improved 'Special Edition', making changes to sequences that were changed back in 1997, such as Jabba and the problem of did Greedo shoot first or at the same time as Han that the new version shows, or maybe it was a rogue Jawa who shot, I'm sure it used to be Han. Anyway the third time the DVD was released we were kindly given a bonus disc with a great extra, the original version of the films without all the digital tinkering, so I was not 100% happy with the way they'd released the classic versions but bought this version anyway.
I'd read on a few forums people complaining about the picture quality and other problems on the new 'Special Editions', anyway the other evening after reading another complaint online I decided to got through my set and check.

The first things I did notice were problems with the colours in some sequences the red on the Blockade Runner exterior is a lot brighter but this is one of the shots that doesn't go too overboard with colour, others do, the scene were the Imperial Stromtroopers blast open the door of the Rebel Blockade Runner before boarding shows just how bright the colours get in some scenes compared to the original print, see pics above. The other end of this is during the escape from the Death Star when one of the Tie Fighters explodes the colour is so washed out it's almost Black and White compared to the original version. One of the most puzzling shots is the hideous blue glow that now fringes the edge of the Death Star explosion, this wasn't in the original version, and from what I gather not on the DVD release of the 1997 'Special Edition', but has somehow appeared now ?! It looks pretty naff, so much for a remastered copy.

Other colour problems show up in the scene when Luke is training aboard the Millenium Falcon, the colour of the Lightsaber changes from Blue to Green between scenes, an obvious problem, how come this wasn't picked up on whilst the scene was being done, it's very obvious as these stills show.
Another overly bright shot colour wise is the Hologram of Leia that R2-D2 projects in Luke's Garage, it really is very garish compared to the original.

A problem that was meant to be fixed for the 1997 version was that of the visible cover mattes from the old optical compositing, well in quite a few scenes these are still just as visible as ever.
This is one of those problems that does differ between TV's and PC monitors though depending on how you have your brighness, some people say they can't see them, others say they can see the box surrounding the ship, which is known as the 'cover matte', but they are still there if you have your monitor on the correct settings so the technical bods say on the DVD forums, I can see them on my monitor and DVD.

The problem that shows up in the newly remastered version of both The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi is that of the lighsabers again, the white core surrounded by coloured glow has been replaced in many shots by a more coloured lightsaber which isn't as pleasing as the original effects shot, also that weird rotoscoped shadow to the side of the Emperors hood still appears in all version of the DVD.
It often makes me wonder just what sort of quality control George Lucas has over these DVD releases, and especially when the latest version has added errors that weren't there in the first place.
The Robert Wise supervised restoration of Star Trek: The Motion Picture proved that new stuff could be added, and that it could be blended into the film without sticking out like a sore thumb.It seems almost like Lucas hands these films over to ILM and the Restoration Team and lets them piss about merrily doing what they please no matter how ill fitting some of their work is.

Star Wars - More DVD alterations !!

I found these pictures on a site yesterday that has since been asked to remove them,by who they didn't say, I didn't manage to save any of the bigger pictures at the time but found these 6 pictures of what must have been 30-40 in my 'Temp Internet Files' They say they are grabs from a Star Wars DVD set to be released for the 30th Anniversary this year. They clearly show changes to Jabba yet again. From what you can see of Greedo not only has the colour of his Jacket changed, it appears to be more Blue than previously, but Greedo appears to have eyes of some sort instead of the plain black domed eyes that he had before. What is totally ridiculous is that here and on 2 or 3 stills I didn't get, select Stormtroopers now have various Clone Trooper style coloured markings, I suppose this is yet another attempt at trying to tie both Trilogy's together. The ship now parked for some reason by the Mos Eisley Cantina and not in a Docking Bay ?! Looks very similar to the one that was in a cut scene from The Phantom Menace, in that clip droids can be seen repairing this craft. From what it mentioned about the Jabba scene, is that the two Rodian's (Greedo lookalikes) that are helping Jabba's men search under the Falcon, have been removed and in one of the pics shown above replaced by what looks like a Gamorrean Guard from Return of the Jedi, it also claims that Boba Fett has now been removed from this scene, so why did Lucas put him in only to take him back out ? Unless it has something to do with TV show continuity which may follow Boba Fett as a character. One picture showed the Cantina with a few new CG additions and the Jawa's selling what appeared to be a very old Battle Droid in the line up being inspected by Uncle Owen at the Lars Farmstead.
So much for the 30th Anniversary of Star Wars, Lucas continues more and more to brush his classic under the carpet and make the original films as dire as the Prequel Trilogy, I'm sure for as many Star Wars fans who'll rush out and buy another set of the films on DVD there'll be the equal amount who'll boycott what Star Wars has become in recent years. I've posted a few comparison pics what I found online, the Jabba scene is really taking the piss though, changing it once was bad enough but a 3rd time, especially as the films better without it in the first place. Mos Eisley gets bigger with each revision, it's gone from a back water town to a sprawling metropolis almost.
The other rumour stated but no DVD grabs is that we'll see landing craft dropping off the AT-At's on Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back and that Jabba's palace will get more CG creatures in Return of the Jedi.

Carrie Fisher Named Biggest Nerd Crush

Carrie Fisher's portrayal of Princess Leia topped a recent Maxim.com Hit List for Hottest Comic Book/Sci Fi Character.

The poll conducted by the men's magazine in February, named Fisher above Gillian Anderson's "Dana Scully" character as well as The Matrix's Carrie Ann Moss (Trinity).

The list rounded out with Grace Park (Battlestar Galactica) in fourth, Lara Croft (Tomb Raider), fifth; Famke Janssen (X-Men), sixth; Jeri Ryan (Star Trek: Voyager), seventh; Aeon Flux, eighth; Jennifer Garner (Alias), ninth; and Natasha Henstridge (Species).

from www.theforce.net

Which Jabba is worse ?

I found a site the other day which was doing some comparisons between the various editions of the Star Wars films, what struck me was just how bad the CGI Jabba was that they used to replace the equally as bad CGI Jabba from the 1997 Special Editions... but which Jabba is worse ? They're both shockingly bad in my opinion, and the scene should never have been put back in, especially since most of Jabba's dialogue in this sequence just recalls what Greedo said to Han in the cantina in the earlier scene.