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Subnuts
09-02-11, 08:26 PM
Hold onto your original releases, folks. This man won't stop until every movie ever made has been butchered and replaced with his "original vision." I just got this list of changes he's proposing for the 2015 "special edition" of Das Boot from a friend of mine over on blu-ray.com:


Rita Cadillac has been removed entirely from the opening scene, and replaced with a new computer-animated dance scene and a musical number called U-boat Rocks.
All of the alcoholic beverages in the opening sequence have been replaced with sugar-free Red Bull.
A deleted scene has been reinstated where the Captain meets with a CGI rendition of Admiral Donitz and comically steps on his feet.
When the Captain, Werner, and the Chief are walking to U-96 in the submarine pen, a giant computer-animated rendition of a German soldier's rear end obscures the screen for two seconds.
The Captain now yells "NEEEEEEEEEEIIINNNN!!!" before retrieving his gun when Johann has his breakdown.
After the attack on the convoy, numerous shots of massive crowds across the globe celebrating the sinkings of the three ships have been inserted.
When U-96 is running through the Straights of Gibraltar, the Millennium Falcon can be seen for a split second.
The prop girl that can seen momentarily after the boat hits the bottom at Gibraltar has been digitally replaced by Salacious Crumb.

The British planes that bomb La Rochelle have been replaced with dozens of identical CGI B-29s.
Depressing theatrical ending replaced with upbeat finale where Lt. Werner reunites with the ghosts of Der Alte, Commander Richardson, and Captain Vasili Borodin, who have all become one with The Force.
All of Klaus Wennemann's dialogue has been overdubbed by Harvey Keitel.
Thanks to painstaking color restoration efforts, all of the red nighttime lights are now a historically-accurate pink.
More screaming has been added to the depth charge attacks.
In the distant shots of U-96 on the surface, the eyes of the lookouts now blink.
All of the depth charge explosions now have flat, glowing rings around them.
The entire interior of the U-96 has been digitally replaced using the most advanced CGI available.
All original copies of the film, theatrical, director's cut, or miniseries, will be burned and buried in a gigantic pit in New Mexico within 60 days of the Special Edition's release.
All of the water has been replaced with moisture-free computer-animated water. (George Lucas doesn't like water. It's cold, it's wet, and it gets everywhere.)

Platapus
09-02-11, 08:45 PM
Does the crippled tanker also shoot first?

frau kaleun
09-02-11, 09:13 PM
:har: :har: :har: :har:

Stealhead
09-03-11, 01:53 AM
The Captain now yells "NEEEEEEEEEEIIINNNN!!!" before retrieving his gun when Johann has his breakdown.

Because Walkie-Talkies where invented after WWII they decided not to replace all guns with walkie-talkies as they did to the cops and government agents in E.T. so the Captain will now grab the Enigma Machine when Johan gets up set.

Oberon
09-03-11, 05:34 AM
IIRC wasn't it B-17s that bombed La Rochelle anyway. :O:

Jimbuna
09-03-11, 06:50 AM
Don't see myself rushing out to buy it.

Dowly
09-03-11, 06:53 AM
Speaking of George Lucas: Howard the Duck and... sigh.. ducktits (and this is an PG movie :doh:):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tYzCDlBh9Q

Howard313
09-04-11, 10:42 PM
Speaking of George Lucas: Howard the Duck and... sigh.. ducktits (and this is an PG movie :doh:):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tYzCDlBh9Q

Ahh, the movie everyone relates me to, Howard the duck, also the beginning of the fall of George Lucas. How I loathe thee. :x

EDIT: You know if you wanted to bring up Nostalgia Critic and George Lucas together I'm surprised you didn't go with the Star Wars Christmas Special review he did, although I'm willing to believe it was an act of mercy that you decided against it.

Reece
09-04-11, 11:50 PM
Wow!! I'm totally sucked in!!:oops: This is bad news indeed!:nope:

Falkirion
09-05-11, 01:32 AM
Ahh, the movie everyone relates me to, Howard the duck, also the beginning of the fall of George Lucas. How I loathe thee. :x

EDIT: You know if you wanted to bring up Nostalgia Critic and George Lucas together I'm surprised you didn't go with the Star Wars Christmas Special review he did, although I'm willing to believe it was an act of mercy that you decided against it.
I believe you'll find GL will give you a blank look and ask "What christmas special" if you bring that up mate. :rotfl2:

Crécy
09-05-11, 01:40 AM
Finally!

Dowly
09-05-11, 04:09 AM
Ahh, the movie everyone relates me to, Howard the duck, also the beginning of the fall of George Lucas. How I loathe thee. :x

EDIT: You know if you wanted to bring up Nostalgia Critic and George Lucas together I'm surprised you didn't go with the Star Wars Christmas Special review he did, although I'm willing to believe it was an act of mercy that you decided against it.

I didn't think it was THAT bad. I mean, He-Man CS was pretty darn bad. :haha:

Apparently, GL is making changes AGAIN to the upcoming BluRay Star Wars box. This time he adds things like Darth Vader screaming the ridiculously
idiotic "Noooooooo" from RotS as he kills the Emperor in the end of RotJ.
Well played, Georgie...

joea
09-05-11, 04:17 AM
Well if I wanted to be pedantic I couold point out Star Wars is like modern mythology and like the ancient myths there were different versions of what the great heroes of old (Hercules, Jason and the Argonauts) got up to.

Some said Han and Greedo shot at the same time, others said Greedo shot first, there are even elder wise ones who whisper that in fact Han shot first.

Or I could just say George is a silly person who needs to be kept as far away from the films as possible.

kraznyi_oktjabr
09-05-11, 06:17 AM
Or I could just say George is a silly person who needs to be kept as far away from the films as possible.You would need loony bin on small rocky island somewhere middle of ocean. Preferably somewhere nearby Antarctic surrounded by waters with substantial shark population. :hmmm:

Ofcourse Millenium Falcon turning up would spoil this scheme.

Howard313
09-05-11, 11:54 AM
Apparently, GL is making changes AGAIN to the upcoming BluRay Star Wars box. This time he adds things like Darth Vader screaming the ridiculously
idiotic "Noooooooo" from RotS as he kills the Emperor in the end of RotJ.
Well played, Georgie...

Yes, among other things, blinking Ewoks, Yoda in A New Hope (Don't quote me on that one), and redubbed lines. I heard fans are even planning to form a boycott.

Lucky for me I'm too cheap for Blu-ray so I'll stick to my dvd copies.

Dowly
09-05-11, 12:08 PM
Yes, among other things, blinking Ewoks, Yoda in A New Hope (Don't quote me on that one), and redubbed lines. I heard fans are even planning to form a boycott.

Lucky for me I'm too cheap for Blu-ray so I'll stick to my dvd copies.

Dont even have a BR player myself, so don't care. :O:

Only have heard about the Yoda puppet being replaced by a CGI one in
the prequels. Think that's the only change that actually makes something
better.
http://fastcache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2011/08/yodaface.jpg