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Made for TV Ewok Movies to be Released on DVD 242

Posted by michael from the all-hail-lord-c3po dept.
thebus writes "I just wanted to let you know that I got an email from Amazon today informing me that two of the greatest made for TV movies of all time will be coming out on one DVD on Nov. 23rd 2004. Prepare yourself for the Star Wars Ewok Adventures - Caravan of Courage and The Battle for Endor."
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Made for TV Ewok Movies to be Released on DVD

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  • Question (Score:5, Funny)

    by chrisgeleven ( 514645 ) on Friday September 03, 2004 @06:59PM (#10154444) Homepage
    Are these the originals or special editions?

  • Stupid slashdot... (Score:2, Informative)

    by el-spectre ( 668104 )
    The Jedi mind trick doesn't work on us...

  • look at the reviews... (Score:4, Interesting)

    by Slashbot Hive-Mind ( 810267 ) <slashbotofborg@hotmail.com> on Friday September 03, 2004 @07:00PM (#10154454) Homepage Journal
    "
    Let me just start out by saying that the Ewoks are the single most underrated cinematic creations of all time. I love those little dudes! I love these little movies, too. Though I haven't seen them for a good six years or more, I remember absolutely loving them when I was little. They always made me want to go climb a tree and pretend I was an Ewok! Honestly, WHO would not want to live in hundred-foot trees, leaping on vines and speaking in those funky voices?! Um, anyway, just to give you the idea how much I love Ewoks . . . . . . .

    Plus, to all you Ewok-bashers out there, they were successful enough to star in not one, but TWO solo adventure movies. HA HA HA!!

    There had been rumors of an eventual DVD release of these two films for years. (That fawlty announcement of a three-disc ultimate collector's edition was a doozy.) Now, it's official: Come November, Ewoks fans across the nation can rejoice!! Though not in any special edition format (which coud be expected from two 80s TV movies), just having these priceless gems on DVD will be enough."

    Um, right. Long live the ewoks!

  • a fool and his money (Score:3, Interesting)

    by wintermute1000 ( 731750 ) on Friday September 03, 2004 @07:01PM (#10154457)
    I wonder if anyone will buy these, other than people buying them as joke gifts and those unhappy souls who think they'll be collectors' items someday.
    • I wonder if anyone will buy these, other than people buying them as joke gifts and those unhappy souls who think they'll be collectors' items someday.

      You underestimate the power of the star wars fan boy. My friend would probably trample on old lady in a wal-mart to get his hands on one of these. Not because its good, but because its in any way, shape, or form related to Stars Wars in all his "glory."
    • all of my films will be collectors items.......
  • Also known as:
    Return of the merchandising

  • Woah! (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Dzimas ( 547818 ) on Friday September 03, 2004 @07:02PM (#10154460)
    Umm... You guys don't get many dates, do you? :)

  • Don't get burned! (Score:4, Funny)

    by iamdrscience ( 541136 ) on Friday September 03, 2004 @07:02PM (#10154466) Homepage
    Notice this DVD has no special features (commentary tracks, making of featurettes, inside the ewok villiage, etc.). Obviously they're planning on releasing a second "special edition" version after everybody buys this one (all 5 of you out there). So wait and don't buy it now!
    • Better yet, don't buy ever! I'm going to hold out for the special Sun Is a Burned Out Husk, The DVD Format Has Been Dead for Decades Edition.
    • No doubt they should skip this first meager offering and wait for the special collectors limited edition box set with the little Ewok statues holding it up but it ain't going to happen. Not only are they too far gone but they also know that if they don't buy the first one then it will be determined that demand for a special collectors limited edition box set with the little Ewok statues holding it up isn't there. Then they'll never get a chance to hear the commentary tracks, see the making of featurette, o

  • IMDb info for the uninformed (Score:5, Informative)

    by bobbis.u ( 703273 ) on Friday September 03, 2004 @07:03PM (#10154469)
    The Ewok Adventure [imdb.com] (aka Caravan of Courage)

    Ewoks: The Battle for Endor [imdb.com].

    Clearly not all the viewers share the submitter's appreciation of these movies!

  • ugh (Score:5, Funny)

    by pteaxwa ( 126635 ) on Friday September 03, 2004 @07:04PM (#10154486)
    I think I just threw up in my mouth (again).

  • Where's the Chewbacca Christmas Special? (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Tofino ( 628530 ) on Friday September 03, 2004 @07:04PM (#10154489)
    I demand festive Chewbacca, and animated Boba Fett!

  • So... (Score:3, Funny)

    by iamdrscience ( 541136 ) on Friday September 03, 2004 @07:06PM (#10154497) Homepage
    When's the Star Wars Holiday special coming out on DVD? I'm looking forward to the re-edits and deleted scenes (I hear the scene with a few minutes of untranslated wookie dialog was originally meant to be twice as long)!

  • bah (Score:2, Funny)

    by EdwinBoyd ( 810701 )
    In this version Wicket better shoot first

  • Question (Score:2, Funny)

    by kamapuaa ( 555446 )
    So when is the Star Wars Holiday special coming out on DVD?

  • Great. More Ewoks (Score:5, Insightful)

    by starseeker ( 141897 ) on Friday September 03, 2004 @07:09PM (#10154518) Homepage
    Just what I wanted. (Disclaimer: I haven't seen these particular movies, so perhaps they are better than I'm guessing based on ROTJ.)

    I always viewed Ewoks as the first sign of the trend that eventually peaked with one Jar-Jar Binks. I heard somewhere Endor was originally supposed to be full of Wookies - what happened to that?? That would have worked. Instead we had teddy bears fighting stormtroopers in armor with rocks! (BTY, I nominate stormtrooper armor for the Most Useless Armor Ever, based mostly on the Ewok battle.)

    Thank goodness for Timothy Zahn. Without him I think I would have abandoned Star Wars.

    • Re:Great. More Ewoks (Score:5, Funny)

      by kfg ( 145172 ) on Friday September 03, 2004 @07:25PM (#10154621)
      I nominate stormtrooper armor for the Most Useless Armor Ever, based mostly on the Ewok battle.

      Actually, the hammer/club is an extremely effective weapon against people wearing armor intended to protect against piercing/slashing weapons. Even if it doesn't kill outright it knocks them down and stuns them long enough for you to stick your stiletto through their eyeslits.

      Even armor intended to protect against such concussive impacts can only do so much if the wearer is to retain any sort of fighting mobility.

      In any case the Stormtrooper's armor was clearly intended to protect against weapons such as the blaster, so you can only really judge it by its effectiveness against them.

      Oh. Wait. Nevermind.

      Ok, new theory. Stormtrooper armor was used primarily so that they could go out in public without having to worry about their hair and makeup.

      KFG

      • Re:Great. More Ewoks (Score:2, Interesting)

        by RsG ( 809189 )
        Actually, stormtrooper armour was meant to have a placebo effect. The poor sods wearing the armour would be told they were invulnerable, and thus would no notice when they got shot in the head!
        Hmm... that doesn't quite sound right, does it? Maybe it was to make them feel invulnerable so that they'd march into the meatgrinder without fear?

        Mod me down, and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!
      • I find it probable that stormtrooper armor is designed to protect against slug-throwing weapons, which is probably why no one bothers using them - though of course there are other good reasons. For example, imagine trying to find 7.62mm rounds on some alien planet. Good luck, sucker! I'd say there's good reasons not to use slug-throwers on spaceships too, except blasters seem to put holes right through most metal structures.
        • I find it probable that stormtrooper armor is designed to protect against slug-throwing weapons

          Similarly, a red Star Trek uniform makes you immune to bullets (but nothing else)

          blasters seem to put holes right through most metal structures.

          Trash receptacles excepted.
      • Armour has a two different functions. The simplest and most obvious is to protect against damage. Depending on the kind of armour you get different kind of protections. Chain mail works well against slashing but is far less usefull against arrows and totally useless against bashing weapons. Plate mail is good against arrows and slashing but is heavy and still mostly useless against a good bashing weapon.

        But a for more important reason for wearing armour in modern time and I think this was the reason for th

    • Re:Great. More Ewoks (Score:2, Funny)

      by Anonymous Coward
      Now, think about that. That does not make sense! Why would a Wookiee--an eight foot tall Wookiee--want to live on Endor with a bunch of two foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense!

    • Re:Great. More Ewoks (Score:5, Interesting)

      by Khan Fused ( 446871 ) on Friday September 03, 2004 @07:57PM (#10154768)
      Originally Lucas was going to have the last battle on Kashyyyk (the Wookie homeworld) ... a marvelously titanic battle of 'primitive' Wookies tearing down the might of the Emperor's best legions through cunning and sheer force of will. Problem is -- thanks to Chewbacca, we know that Wookies are quite adept with technology, thankyouverymuch.

      Ergo -- Lucas created Ewoks. Little teeensy furry cuuuuuuuuuuuute no-tech primitives that tore down the might of the Emperor's best legions through cunning and sheer force of will.

      And ate them.

      "Hey Leia ... try some of the stew. It's pretty good."
      _____________________
    • i am just about fed up with you clowns mocking my masterpiece... my creative genius is far superior to you and the slashdot crew.... directors Note: I modeled JarJar after CowboyNeil
    • I heard somewhere Endor was originally supposed to be full of Wookies - what happened to that??

      It is well known that Lucas originally wanted Wookiees at the end of ROTJ. However, through the trilogy we see (through Chewbacca) that the Wookiees are in fact a technologically advanced race. You couldn't have a race that was capable of fixing a hyperdrive fighting its wars with sticks and rocks! Lucas wanted to stick with the theme of the technologically "superior" empire being defeated by primitive weapon

      • You couldn't have a race that was capable of fixing a hyperdrive fighting its wars with sticks and rocks!

        I don't see why not. After all, humans have both advanced cultures capable of computers and rockets and primitive ones that can't even count beyond three.

        • Re:Great. More Ewoks (Score:3, Insightful)

          by bckrispi ( 725257 )
          I don't see why not. After all, humans have both advanced cultures capable of computers and rockets and primitive ones that can't even count beyond three.

          Yes, this argument is true from an anthropological standpoint, but for fantasy/sci-fi filmmaking it doesn't work. In these genres, cultures within a species are usually merged into an archetype (or stereotype, if you will). The Empire: white homo-sapiens with British accents, Hutts: gangsters and criminals, Jawas: scavengers. SW isn't the only franchise

  • Ewok Song (Score:3, Insightful)

    by dan_sdot ( 721837 ) * on Friday September 03, 2004 @07:09PM (#10154527)
    This is a may be considered a little offtopic, but I lost some admiration for Ewoks after they took the Ewok song out of the new editions Return of the Jedi. WHY LUCAS? WHY??
  • Crap has gone out of control.

    It was neat in the 70's.
    It was sorta neat in the 80's..
    It was brought back in the 90's. It sucked.

    And now, there's "Boxed Set", "Super Boxed Set", "Collecters Edition Boxed Set", "Totally Unrealesed Super Boxed Set" as nauseum.

    Go read something, like Asimov's Foundatations trilogy, or some other Sci-fi.

    This shit isnt sci-fi... More like populist vomit people watch.
    • This just proves yet again "the public will decide what is great in its own time." I'm sure in another twenty years we'll be reliving this shit again and again every saturday night on PBS - right between the Gazillionth rerun of "Lawrence Welk" and the Bazillionth rerun of "Are You Being Served?"

      People are idiots.

    • Populist? Are you suggesting that science fiction excludes populism? Or did you just pick the wrong word? (If you didn't, I think you're at least right in calling Star Wars populist.)

      Populist [reference.com]

      • If you didn't, I think you're at least right in calling Star Wars populist

        Star Wars is NOT populist. How could anyone be so wrong?

        Star Wars is elitist. It describes a universe inhabited by virtuous royalty, where a few special people ("Jedi") have the inborn power to shape interstellar empires. It's all about genes and destiny above effort and self-determination.

        Star Trek- now there's a populist space-opera franchise.

  • I just hope (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Daniel ( 1678 ) <dburrows@nospAm.debian.org> on Friday September 03, 2004 @07:14PM (#10154562)
    ...that they take place before the Endor Holocaust [theforce.net].

    Daniel
  • No ./'er reads SPAM!

  • Do you speak ewok? (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 03, 2004 @07:18PM (#10154592)
    Yub nub, eee chop yub nub,
    toe meet toe pee chee keene, g'noop dock fling oh ah.
    Yah wah, eee chop yah wah,
    toe meet toe pee chee keene, g'noop dock fling oh ah
    Coat ee chah tu yub nub,
    Coat ee chah tu yah wah,
    Coat ee chah tu glo wah.
    allay loo ta nuv
    Glo wah, eee chop glo wah, ya glo wah pee chu nee foam,
    ah toot dee awe goon daa.
    Coat ee cha tu goo (Yub nub!)
    coat ee cha tu doo (Yah wah!)
    coat ee cha tu too (ya chaa!)
    allay loo tu nuv (3 times)
    Glo wah, eee chop glo wah.
    Ya glow wah pee chu nee foam,
    ah toot dee awe goon daa
    allay loo tu nuv.
  • This is something I might consider getting for my kids... if at 13 and 6 they hadn't already outgrown it.

  • Ewok cartoon? (Score:2, Interesting)

    by Nermal6693 ( 622898 )
    I remember when I was a little (over 10 years ago), I saw a cartoon with Ewoks. I can hardly remember any of it, except that there was an evil witch or wizard or something with a staff, which had some sort of magic ball on the top of it. Also, I think this ball could shoot out lightning or something. Is this one of these movies? And if not, does anyone know what I'm talking about?
  • I can see it now... Tusken Raiders perched a top the hillside. Already back from several visits to the Cantina. They decide to have a little fun and pick off Jawas and their junk heaps, Ewoks, a couple of Stormtroopers, no one is safe from their sights. When finished, they laugh incessantly as they place their rifles down. The one Tusken Raider stands up and proclaims, "You know, I think I can do this blindfolded..." The other Tusken Raiders stare at him in silence, then at each other, then they all fallb
  • I don't know the name, it had ewoks, and was awful. It was at least an hour long, and only my younger siblings who could watch anything animated made it to the end. Avoid, unless you are doing Mr. Sinus theatre or some other derivative.
  • I read somewhere that Lucas originally planned to make the Wookies from Endor. He liked the Wookie character so much, however, that he wanted them to have a more prominent role. Thus Chewbacca as Hans sidekick. The flip side is that Endor now becomes populated by Ewoks. Just think how much cooler these made for TV movies would have been if Lucas had kept the Wookies on Endor.
    • Just think how much cooler these made for TV movies would have been if Lucas had kept the Wookies on Endor.

      Yeah, then they would have been The Wookiee Babies Special with baby Kermit and baby Miss Piggy as the guest stars.

      KFG

  • Oh my. (Score:3, Funny)

    by Fjornir ( 516960 ) on Friday September 03, 2004 @08:09PM (#10154803)
    Eee-chee-wa-wa! 'Nuff said.
  • Screw this, I want the Star Wars Holiday Special [starwarsho...pecial.com] on DVD! Preferably with additional footage of Chewbacca's family speaking gibberish to each other.

    Happy Life Day, everybody!

  • I'll stand apart and say that I actually like these movies. They are much more psychedelic than the mainstream Star Wars movies, well, I'll take that back -- Episode 1 had some highly mind altering segments -- holding this quality that was instilled in me during my youth, along with classic like Pippi in the South Seas, Mary Poppins, and Kiss Meets the Phantom. Nostalgia purposes these movies are great for.

    Besides, the annoying whining of the little Girl ("more water! .. i have a headache") make for great
  • I had only just been allowed to use spoons again. After enduring the first Ewok movie, spoons were hidden in my house for fear I would try and do a "King Lear".

  • Trivia (Score:5, Interesting)

    by HyperCash ( 768512 ) on Friday September 03, 2004 @08:43PM (#10154941)
    This is a ueseless piece of trivia but what the hell. Did all you Ewok fans out there know that there is an actual Lake Ewok? Its a little man made lake on Skywalker Ranch.

    Funny sidenote to that. I lifeguarded for LucasFilm's Fourth of July company picnic there a year ago. Yup, I lifeguarded Lake Ewok. Anyway I got a Skywalker Ranch hat for doing that and every now and then I wear it. Last time I wore it out to dinner the waiter asked me if I was a moisture farmer! I couldn't stop laughing for the rest of dinner.

    --HC
  • I always thought it was so sad when that one Teddy Ruxbin^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Ewok died because of the giant spider. Also, the scene where the older brother gets stuck under the pond gave me nightmares.
  • about cracked versions siphoning revenue from the creators of this masterpiece.

  • Such insult (Score:2, Insightful)

    by Hao Wu ( 652581 )
    ...two of the greatest made for TV movies of all time will be coming out on one DVD.

    Do not say these are better film than Master Ninja 1 & 2 starring Timothy Van Patten and Lee Van Cleef..... "Van^2", as I like to call them.

  • So is this being released because of more riddick stories? Well the screen writer seems familiar http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0923646/ [imdb.com]

    James
  • "Jar Jar: The Anal Rape Chronicles"

    "Jar Jar: Meesa Fucking Ideeot!"

  • because everybody loves the Ewoks
  • Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! It's impossible, it can't be!
  • The reason it will never be released on DVD is that George Lucas would die of shame.

    I've seen it. Twice. (Why? Evidence suggests I',m an idiot. No, wait, that wasn't it. I was going to do an article on it for someone, but never got around to it. Anyone out there want to pay me to write and publishthat article? I've just bought a house, so I need the money...)

    As God is my witness, The Star Wars Holiday Special is worse than Manos, the Hands of Fate. SEE! Bea Arthur sing a Kurt Weil-esque ditty in the Cantina! SEE! Wookies speak incomprehensibly to each other for ten minutes. SEE! Jefferson Starship perform! (Actually, that's one of the higlights, not because its particularly good, but because it's a blessed relief from the show itself.) SEE! Mark Hamil wearing enough mascara and eyeliner to play the MC in a Fire Island production of Cabaret! SEE! Harvey Korman play three roles! SEE! Grandpa Wookie watching human psuedo-porn! SEE! An embalmed Art Carney! SEE! Carrie Fisher sing! SEE! The lowlight of careers for every single peraon involved!

    He only appropriate way to release it on DVD would be with an extra track that consisted of nothing but everyone involved aplogizing for the entire length of the film. ("I'm really, really sorry. It was the 70s and they gave me an awful lot of coke before I signed the contract...")

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