It's not like LFL didn't know what they were doing. There's a big huge elephant in the room when the '04 dvd's are enhanced for 16:9 television (like 99.999 percent of all widescreen dvd's out there) while the '06 bonus discs aren't and they go "but isn't that what you wanted?"
While there's no real point in "should have's," I do think that the whole laserdisc port vs. genuine dvd remastering thing is what allowed GL to get away with what he did. We can blame ourselves for this, but we'd be the only ones to do so. Who in their right mind digs up a laserdisc master of a 29 year old movie for its first time ever on dvd?!
No, I have a feeling George would've done this even if we had specified "remastered from an actual film print, thank you." No one at LFL ever even said they read that specific petition (as if there was any bigger one), they just said that there'd been a huge demand from fans for it.
Yeah but that's the thing, I remember LFL making an official statement way back when that they were supporting blu-ray.
I know the recent talk (even after January) from LFL is that they're playing the waiting game, but didn't they say wayyyy back in '06 that they were supporting blu-ray?
As a friend of mine has said, the "Art of" books for the prequels really make you hurt from what might've been.
I just LOVE how misleading it was that they framed both of them in 16:9, even though the GOUT is only 4:3 letterbox.
(all kidding aside)
My dad recently got an HDTV, and the '04 discs look so good that it hurts to not have the original versions in comparable quality.
When I first clicked on this thread several days ago, I thought I was going to find that someone had finally drafted an actual petition. If someone can just make a good argument as to why we want the OOT in decent quality, then we can go from there on what exactly we want.
ESHBG said:I am going to laugh so hard if the OOT bonus discs do turn out to be anamorphic and Luca$ tries to slip it in like ntohing even happened at all. With how crazy he is, I could see him doing something like this LOL
No, the "like nothing even happened at all" act is going to step out on stage when he puts the OOT on blu-ray.
Ditto on what Gaffer Tape said.
They don't actually say a word about it on any of the discs to my knowledge. There's just that one glimpse as Gaffer Tape said.
I would want the theatrical versions of ALL six movies on a future blu-ray set, not just the OT. After all, I actually saw the prequels up on the big screen. I don't want the OOT or theatrical TPM stuck in laserdisc quality.
Baronlando said:Well, even though it's most likely just a repackage of the shitty 2006 discs, look at it this way: the original versions have now been widely released TWICE, so much for the whole Integrity of Lucas' Vision BS holding things up, at least that's been put to rest.
Yeah, and what's weird is that I didn't even notice this thread until after posting in the Star Wars: Take Two thread. What I was going to say there, but didn't, is that Lucas has already thrown out the window all credibility as to an artistic stance by releasing the original versions at all. "Now we'll see who wants them, it'll all come out in the end, etc." As you said baron, we're now getting them for the second time when they were supposed to be limited editions. Hell, I still saw them on sale at Borders recently next to all of their other star wars stuff (mostly the new Clone Wars books, in addition to stuff like the paperback of Allegiance, etc).
Could the estate allow it, or would Lucas write into his will "not even over my dead body?"
Hey, whatev. If we can at least get the OOT mastered in HD someday (a feat well within the realm of the possible) then I can live without Episodes VII through IX. It would be hard enough to fit it into continuity, although they have left themselves a one hundred year gap before the Legacy comics start.
While I'm on that subject, no, I don't think we're ever going to see something like a reboot happen with Star Wars. This only happens when the franchise is both creatively bankrupt and not still controlled by the guy who started it 30 years earlier. Even when Lucas is gone, the most unexpected thing that might actually happen is what we're all on this website for. But I have a feeling that could happen much sooner.
It's been redone in its own way anyway, with alterations to the original and retcons in the prequels. Really, I think that's the key difference between Star Wars and the other franchises.
Episode VIII is up.
Johnny Ringo said:The thing that DOES piss me off about the Show / Film is that it totally disregards the 2d clone wars series, While HEAVILY borrowing ideas from it.
Do tell. I've been curious about this ever since Filoni acted in that behind the scenes video as if the Genndy series never happened. "Ever since that conversation in A New Hope, Star Wars fans have been wondering ..... what were the Clone Wars?" Ummmm, yea, and we just got exactly that several years ago.
http://chud.com/articles/articles/15965/1/REVIEW-STAR-WARS---THE-CLONE-WARS/Page1.html
Oh, and Moriarty's review is worth reading just to get to those last couple sentences.
Incentive, much?
The two-disc blu-ray costs the same as the two-disc standard dvd, which is the same thing Iron Man is doing (and for the same price). However, the single disc is still five dollars less than Indy's.
Since this is the most recent thread that's relevent, I'll mention it here.
Indy IV has been officially announced for blu-ray. Yes, that's right, Lucasfilm is putting stuff on blu-ray. We're one tiny step closer to our goal, people!!!!
http://www.dvdactive.com/news/releases/kingdom-of-the-crystal-skull.html
Here's another Washington Post article that I read just a few days ago in the paper and ink edition.
It's a good read:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/07/AR2008080701846.html
A not so positive, but somewhat generous review.
Seeing as how the new software apparently lets you upload your own, yea, I'm on it.
CO, I'm strangely in the almost exact opposite situation.
A friend of mine mentioned to me a couple weeks ago that he'd actually considered going the midnight madness Toys R' Us sale. To be fair, he was in a club in college where people would mod nerf guns, so that's kinda his thing. Anyway, this was over an aim conversation, and I mentioned the whole deal with how this is basically just an ad for the show. Then, earlier today, this same friend sends me a message asking about going to see it on friday.
So while all of your friends either don't know or don't care, I don't care but know someone who does. It's surreal.
It says right in the opening crawl of ROTS that both Obi-Wan and Anakin are KNIGHTS. Also, in the EU Anakin becomes a Knight some six months prior to ROTS. His hair being slightly grown out and his scars, along with the fact that he can now take a padawan, would place the new show somewhere in that six month span (probably at the very beginning).
Yea, I'm just wondering if when they show it on tv - since they're probably not going to show it in 2.35:1 - if there was more picture information that's getting matted off for the movie or if that's all there is and the tv version will just "zoom it in" to 16:9. Trivial, I know, especially when the rest of the show will almost definitely be done in straight 16:9.
So have we gotten confirmation of whether or not this is just the first several episodes of the show edited together (and in cinemascope)?