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SilverWook said:

I was surprised to see TFA airing on TNT this evening. I would think they would have promoted the heck out of it. I’m old enough to recall when it took a feature film three years to reach network tv.

I came home and my girls were watching it. 😃

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What?

“Get over violence, madness and death? What else is there?”

Also known as Mr. Liquid Jungle.

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Well they’ll be prepared to watch the TLJ Blu tomorrow. Wouldn’t be surprised if this was intentional.

TV’s Frink said:

I would put this in my sig if I weren’t so lazy.

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SilverWook said:

I was surprised to see TFA airing on TNT this evening. I would think they would have promoted the heck out of it. I’m old enough to recall when it took a feature film three years to reach network tv.

TFA is almost three years old!

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star wars has always sounded good. the quality of the recording for the film’s sound track has been better preserved across a few home formats, compared to the visual content, which has rarely been treated with patience, care or respect.

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CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

Well they’ll be prepared to watch the TLJ Blu tomorrow. Wouldn’t be surprised if this was intentional.

How much is it there? its $40 for me

“Get over violence, madness and death? What else is there?”

Also known as Mr. Liquid Jungle.

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a_o said:

star wars has always sounded good. the quality of the recording for the film’s sound track has been better preserved across a few home formats, compared to the visual content, which has rarely been treated with patience, care or respect.

Not really. The original film sounds like garbage on all home media until 1997, and then you have to deal with stupid content changes. Then 2004 onward it sounds even worse than before. Basically the 1997 mix is the only decent sounding mix on home media. (I’m sure the original Tracks sounded better when they were on fresh prints) thankfully it’s been edited by some to conform to the oot.

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I wonder if Bane’s orange lightsaber will ever made it into canon now that that stupid “bleeding crystal” thing has been established.

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CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

paja said:

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

Well they’ll be prepared to watch the TLJ Blu tomorrow. Wouldn’t be surprised if this was intentional.

How much is it there? its $40 for me

What? Where are you buying it?

Out here the BD costs ~$25 and the 4K ~$30.

My mistake its Actually $30

“Get over violence, madness and death? What else is there?”

Also known as Mr. Liquid Jungle.

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Possessed said:

a_o said:

star wars has always sounded good. the quality of the recording for the film’s sound track has been better preserved across a few home formats, compared to the visual content, which has rarely been treated with patience, care or respect.

Not really. The original film sounds like garbage on all home media until 1997, and then you have to deal with stupid content changes. Then 2004 onward it sounds even worse than before. Basically the 1997 mix is the only decent sounding mix on home media. (I’m sure the original Tracks sounded better when they were on fresh prints) thankfully it’s been edited by some to conform to the oot.

Really? I don’t think you’ve met my friend Laserdisc. The 1993 THX LD mix can even give a modern home theater system a workout.

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Where were you in '77?

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SilverWook said:

Possessed said:

a_o said:

star wars has always sounded good. the quality of the recording for the film’s sound track has been better preserved across a few home formats, compared to the visual content, which has rarely been treated with patience, care or respect.

Not really. The original film sounds like garbage on all home media until 1997, and then you have to deal with stupid content changes. Then 2004 onward it sounds even worse than before. Basically the 1997 mix is the only decent sounding mix on home media. (I’m sure the original Tracks sounded better when they were on fresh prints) thankfully it’s been edited by some to conform to the oot.

Really? I don’t think you’ve met my friend Laserdisc. The 1993 THX LD mix can even give a modern home theater system a workout.

Yeah I’ve heard the laserdisc mix. Sounds terrible to me. Well half terrible. The sound effects sound great on it I will admit and the dialogue is fine. Score sounds terrible. Muffled, tinny, even out of tune at times. Just listen to the opening trumpet blast, even it warbles. The 97 mix is the only one that sounds good all around to me.

I’m just talking about star wars by the way, not empire or jedi.

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Rob Zombie shows love for the OT and hate for the PT in this interview (link starts at the lead in to that conversation)
Was filmed just before TFA was released.
Best bits-

Rob Zombie said:

It was fun when it was Peter Mayhew in the Chewbacca costume- So the logic is then “Well, if you liked that, here’s a thousand CGI wookiees running over a hill!” No, That’s just stupid.

You’ll notice if you watch, like, Phantom Menace, if you dare, you have Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman… but in those movies, they’re all shitty because they’re always on a green screen and it looks horrible. You can feel that the actors have nothing to grasp onto.

I was excited by Star Wars in 1977. Not anymore.

Ray’s Lounge
Biggs in ANH edit idea
ROTJ opening edit idea

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Good actors becoming mediocre (and mediocre actors becoming bad) is probably due to the direction they’re getting, but sure that’s also a factor.

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SilverWook said:
Really? I don’t think you’ve met my friend Laserdisc. The 1993 THX LD mix can even give a modern home theater system a workout.

I was just going to say that—I think the '95 Faces LDs (same sound as '93 LDs) sound fantastic, in all respects (including the score).

SilverWook said:
This is pretty interesting. I was aware of the fact that Luke was Starkiller in the shooting script, but I had no idea they actually shot scenes with it.

I wish this would be released, I’d love to see it.

I guess Mark’s memory is selective–he didn’t seem to recall shooting the lightsaber construction scene for ROTJ. 😉

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SilverWook said:

Hey! I’m not that old! And what’s a wookie?

Haven’t you heard? A wookiee’s name doubles as its telomeres. The older a wookiee gets, the more letters are shaved off of its species names. Old wookiees are Wooks, or even just Woos.

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Mielr said:

SilverWook said:
Really? I don’t think you’ve met my friend Laserdisc. The 1993 THX LD mix can even give a modern home theater system a workout.

I was just going to say that—I think the '95 Faces LDs (same sound as '93 LDs) sound fantastic, in all respects (including the score).

SilverWook said:
This is pretty interesting. I was aware of the fact that Luke was Starkiller in the shooting script, but I had no idea they actually shot scenes with it.

I wish this would be released, I’d love to see it.

I guess Mark’s memory is selective–he didn’t seem to recall shooting the lightsaber construction scene for ROTJ. 😉

To be fair, that scene isn’t really him constructing it anyway, he’s making a small tweak at most. He might have been assuming people were talking about a scene where he builds it all from scratch.

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Does anyone else refuse to call Star Wars “A New Hope”?

It seems like people are really embracing the new characters. In fact, the big question people ask me now about Star Wars is, “Are Finn and Poe gay lovers?” And really how the f*ck would I know? My second husband left me for a man, so my gaydar isn’t exactly what you’d call Death Star level quality. ----Carrie Fisher