nickyd47

SilverWook said:

I think you can argue THX had a cult film status. At least two music videos have been inspired by it. Queen did one in the 80’s and a Hip Hop duo did their own homage in the 90’s.
The angry letters I saw printed in Cinefantastique magazine from readers who didn’t like Star Wars when it came out, wondered how such a film could even be made by the same man who made THX. 😉

Daft Punk referenced THX 1138 as well.

The AMC theater where I saw Revenge of The Sith on opening day is still standing. I was born in '97 so I didn’t get to see the originals or the special editions.

They eat space food that they buy with their space dollars

Density said:

Just FYI, “high res audio” is a fraud, a marketing gimmick based on pseudoscience. It is not physically possible to hear frequencies that high. A standard CD already captures everything within human hearing range and then some, after you’ve reached the age you’re likely to care about audio quality your hearing won’t even be able to reach that, and the vast majority of music does not make use of anywhere near the dynamic range supposedly offered by this “higher resolution.” All it does is waste disk space. It’s useful only in studios for purely technical reasons, utterly useless for the end consumer.

This explains it better than I could:

https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html

As for Star Wars, I would advise seeking out the 1993 anthology CD set for the best sound and more complete versions of the OUT soundtracks.

Well, there’s more detail and clarity in the sound with the 2016 digital release. Not saying that’s due to the resolution, but by better mastering

SilverWook said:

nickyd47 said:

MisterRey said:

Fang Zei said:

Lets at least wait until 9:41 PM EST 😉

https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2006-05-03-star-wars_x.htm

And then until May 25 😃

Nah, let’s freeze ourselves till 2077

And then we have to battle a bunch of evolved otters for the last surviving copy of the OOT? 😉

An epic showdown in a decayed Library of Congress

I refer to the film by both its titles interchangeably. One day I’ll call it Star Wars and then A New Hope the next. Doesn’t really matter to me

MisterRey said:

Fang Zei said:

Lets at least wait until 9:41 PM EST 😉

https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2006-05-03-star-wars_x.htm

And then until May 25 😃

Nah, let’s freeze ourselves till 2077

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

I wouldn’t be surprised if we never see another Complete Saga set and they just sell individual trilogies from now on

That would be preferable

I wonder why he went silent
Is it a sign of something or did life get in the way?

digitalfreaknyc said:

nickyd47 said:

Also, if Disney and FOX weren’t interested in the original version of Star Wars, why setup a meeting with Mike Verta? Both parties sounded pretty interested to me

None of us know how true that information is

I trust Mike Verta

Also, if Disney and FOX weren’t interested in the original version of Star Wars, why setup a meeting with Mike Verta? Both parties sounded pretty interested to me

As far as I know, the original Star wars trilogy is the only series of films where they’re not being advertised as being what they actually are, the special editions. Even Lucas’s other films are labeled as special editions or directors cuts but not Star Wars. That’s so bizzare

Fang Zei said:

Interesting how this problem of ESB and RotJ being labeled “theatrical version” was at first isolated to amazon and has now (apparently) extended to Disney’s service as well.

Nope. It’s actually labeled correctly

Edit: I just saw your post correcting yourself. We posted nearly at the same time

Yes but Reddit in particular is quite the hell hole

joefavs said:

DrDre said:
Practically nobody is interested in a special special edition.

Based on Reddit, more people are interested in this than the OUT. Every time I see the subject of the different cuts come up anywhere other than here, someone inevitably says some variation of “the unaltered versions would be nice, but I’d rather they just get rid of the bad changes and update the CGI for the rest so that it will match the new movies”, and then everyone else upvotes it.

Reddit sucks

George tried to give ideas for Episode 7 and I’m sure if Kathleen could she would have let him chime in but Disney told him to buzz off

Also, like I’ve stated, does it matter what Kennedy thinks whilst under the rule of Disney?

It’s one thing to distribute a film in its original version, it’s another to release an altered version made by someone that’s not the original creator.Atleast that’s what I think.

Tyler0013 said:

Even if she wanted to, it’s hard when GL has the Only copies (if he didn’t destroy them) to himself. Hell Even Fox Owns the Rights to the ANH. I don’t ever see this coming out officially, but I would love to eat my words.

What makes you think George has the only copies, and not Fox or Disney?

I’m not bothered by it. I think it’s funny that someone thinks like that

CEASE THE HYPOTHETICALS THAT INVOLVE ISIS NAOw

generalfrevious said:

That’s Lucasfilm for you: fucking over their benefactors since 1997. They’re no different from ISIS or the Taliban in terms of cultural destruction. Hence the reason I’m angry all the time.

Banned lmao

Also, is that orange from a permanently altered supply that can only provide oranges of the same characteristics as the one that may or may not be in said drawer

Fang Zei said:

Cobra Kai said:

Like I said before, I could totally see them putting out a regular 1080p blu-ray of the OOT this year because of the guaranteed dollars it would bring in, even if they have to share some of it with Fox. They would still have a UHD in their back pocket waiting to be released after May of 2020.

This possible scenario makes the most sense to me.

Windexed said:

nickyd47 said:

Also, does it matter if Kathleen believes in George’s vision when the house of mouse can override that and be like “nope, we like money, put out the OOT, we worked out a deal with FOX”

They let Disney have their way with EP7 so…

This. George was his own boss. If he wanted to make a sw film made of nothing but of cgi potatoes, he could. Kathleen Kennedy is not her own boss. She is a figurehead/manager who answers to stock holders and a corporate board (see: syndicate).

When Disney bought Lucasfilm, they bought EVERYTHING. There’s no contract that says they can’t release the out. For $4 billion, they don’t owe George anything. Kk might have professional and personal respect for George, but also has superiors to appease. Superiors who micromanage every decision to the tiniest detail in order maximize short and long term profits.

Disney can and will release the out, but it will be solely when they feel it will get the biggest bang; not when the fans want it, not to comemmerate some date,etc.

The biggest bang would be literally any time now because they haven’t had a proper release in over 20 years

It’s been 22 years since the widescreen VHS tapes came out. It’s been nearly 11 years since we got those terrible DVDs. What’s to wait for?