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#1030850
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Star Wars at box office
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RO did poorly in China this weekend and its overseas BO receipts have been below expectation. Obviously it did quite well in the U.S.

TFA set an opening weekend record in China last year, but BO collapsed there in Week 2.

Looks like the Disney movies are fleecing people out of nostalgia dollars, while at least in China where the people in general have no connection to the OT, the reception has not been good.

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#1030524
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Everybody's Top Ten Favorite Movies
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Can’t give you an order but I can give my favorite films by decade.

1920s: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
1930s: The Wizard of Oz
1940s: Casablanca
1950s: The Ten Commandments
1960s: The Sound of Music
1970s: The Godfather Parts I and II
1980s: The Empire Strikes Back
1990s: Schindler’s List
2000s: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

And since you asked for ten: STAR WARS!

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#1030509
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Harmy's THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK Despecialized Edition HD - V2.0 - MKV & AVCHD (Released)
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I’m not an audiophile, but I found the sound effects for the 5.1 to be amazing while the music cues and dialogue were sometimes too soft. Is that fair or am I crazy?

Edit: not talking about the work you guys are doing of course, just the original theatrical sound seems different to what I’m used to hearing for over 30+ years.

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#1030334
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FAN EDIT REQUEST THREAD - Post your dream Fan Edits Here!
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bromeo said:

In Despecialized Star Wars… how much effort would it take to switch the Yavin base shot with the special edition’s one? I would much rather look at the CGI wall instead of the blank grey one.

Not much. You can use your own editing software and create your own version which is what I did with Harmy’s Star Wars Despecialized. I swapped in the SE Alderaan and Death Star explosions, as well as the X-wing shots in and around Yavin. It was easy.

…and in Despecialized Empire Strikes Back, I would like to switch the SE Emperor hologram with the original’s monkey face.

You might want to consider swapping in Adywan’s hologram for the Emperor. I just finished editing Empire Strikes Back Despecialized, and I really considered that choice heavily; however, I elected to just stick with the original. All of Adywan’s versions are an improvement over the 2004 SE hologram and offer continuity compared to the original, but ultimately I decided the final version Adywan put out with the whole scene just wasn’t enough of a homerun for me to justify the edit. I wish he would have done something more like what he did in the trailer he put out. Anyway, I was really unsure about this one so I elected to defer to the creative decisions of the brilliant people who made the original film.

Would these changes mess up with the frames / subtitles etc with the rest of the movies? I mean… are the special edition shots longer than the original ones? The Emperor one might be a problem since the dialogue and everything is different?

Most of the edits are very easy and just require swapping shots in and out. However, some edits may require experience and creativity. I will give you some examples:

-On Hoth, some of the speeder shots don’t look good anymore. I swapped them in with BluRay footage, and these edits were extremely easy. Assuming you cut the edits in the right places, you won’t even notice while watching.

-On Cloud City, when the Falcon lands there is a wipe in the frame rather than a camera cut, and so editing around the wipe or creating your own wipe requires a little more effort than say the snow speeder edits I did earlier in the movie, especially if you want it to look seamless and good.

-Later on, there is the shot with Leia in the window right before Lando’s betrayal. The original shot looks very dated and bad to me, so I edited in the SE version, but it comes with all of Lucas’s usual CGI quackery, which I didn’t want or need. Of course, you could just edit in the entire SE sequence which would be the quick and easy path, but it’s really out of place in the film if you ask me.

What I did was I only used the SE shot from the window’s exterior, and all of that other junk with ships flying around a fake computer-looking city I cut out. That edit requires creativity though because as you alluded to, the timing is off between the two versions and therefore the soundtrack won’t match. I had to cut the new shot into the right place to match with the sound effects of the escort ship flying by, but then there was dead space until the camera cuts into the room with Han and Leia. Luckily, there was a moment while Leia was pacing around where she briefly stopped in the room–it was at that point I spliced the shot and slowed the rest down to match the timeline and get the sequence back to the correct timing.

-Finally, I edited in the shot of Vader’s shuttle flying to the Executor, but not the scene from ROTJ where he lands and disembarks that stops the whole movie in its tracks. This was the most difficult and time consuming edit I did on either film, because the soundtracks are mismatched when you add in a whole new scene with different musical timing. But, after some persistence and a few tries, I was able to finish it perfectly.

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#1029538
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General Star Wars <strong>Random Thoughts</strong> Thread
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[DominicCobb said:]

What I posted was not a “retcon” I just made up. That’s what was intended when the film was made.

But it wasn’t in the film, so it’s not part of the story. It was just an idea that was (eventually) discarded. The story ultimately went in another direction. It may have been possible to go with that idea at one point in time, but now it’s not, because it contradicts the final version of the narrative that was put out.

I’m not sure if I’m just arguing semantics at this point, but I couldn’t get the intent of the person who made that initial post.

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#1029483
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General Star Wars <strong>Random Thoughts</strong> Thread
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I’m not sure where this conversation is going.

There were three films made. Out of the infinite number of narrative possibilities, a small finite number were written in stone, while another small finite number were left ambiguous and open to interpretation, and the remaining infinite number were undisturbed, from which future ideas for future stories could be gleaned.

Logically, the Emperor could have turned out to be a sith, or he could have turned out to be a figurehead. But if he were to be a sith–which indeed was the case–Tarkin couldn’t have known about it, because of what he said in the original film.

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#1029404
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Star Wars moving forward without Ms. Fisher
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Later in that article:

Another solution is to use CGI effects…"‘Rogue One’ is the road map," says one “Star Wars” source, referring to Lucasfilm resurrecting Peter Cushing and making Fisher young again in the current hit.

It sounds like their plan is to double down on the video game cutscenes. Maybe PIXAR can take over at some point.

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#1029058
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Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD - V2.7 - MKV (Released)
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The video that got taken down had three parts:

  1. the first half mostly different from the one that is still up
  2. interview with Harmy in the middle
  3. the back end same as the one that is still up

So either whatever was in the first half of the video got picked up by an algorithm, or someone saw one video and reported it and hasn’t seen the other one.

Kind of related to that second possibility is the fact that video was kind of going viral in the last week. In 18 months it had 600,000 views and 13,000-14,000 likes, then a week later it was around 850,000 views and almost 20,000 likes.

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#1029054
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Which version/release of the Star Wars movies do you watch and why?
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I was just watching an “Escape from Cloud City” comparison video.

Unlike the wampa cave, for instance, where TN1’s Grindhouse version looks far superior to Harmy’s 2.0, I would go the other direction here and say that Harmy’s 2.0 looks way better in Cloud City. But then you have the Bluray where Lucasfilm was able to make the longshot of Boba Fett boarding Slave I look so much better than anything anyone else has done.

Would love to see Disney use their resources to get some of those difficult shots up to date but retain the superior scene and color layouts of the despecialized versions.

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#1029049
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If you could only remove one Special Edition change...?
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Handman said:

I wouldn’t buy this release. There’s too much that’s wrong with it for me to be satisfied with the removal of any one change. I’d have to go with the addition of Jabba into the first film as being the most egregious change, so that would go.

Yes! This guy gets it.

All of changes on Tatooine, including Jabba, Greedo shooting, the dinosaurs and CGI slapstick, and Ben’s scream, are all so terrible they ruin the film.

In Empire, the Wampa cave, the changed emperor scene, and some of the Cloud City shots are severely messed up, but undoubtedly the shuttle cutscene from ROTJ stops the film dead in its tracks and ruins the frantic pace of the climax.

Jedi Rocks. Hayden’s Ghost. NOOOOO. Return of the Jedi all of those have to be ranked #1 too.