yoda-sama

DominicCobb said:

dahmage said:

I’ll give my dad the bad news.

Me too.

dahmage, I’m sorry, ROTR won’t be done this year.

Whether it is a perfect example of irony or not, I at least meant to present it ironically in the context of those sentences. Though when looked at with more scrutiny, it could be funny to think of Harmy’s work as the reverse of the Special Edition process, and not in a high level, obvious, Despecialized mission statement sort of way, I mean how the SE’s got worse all the time with each release, Harmy’s gets better all the time with each release… Partly Despecialized lining up (not chronologically, obviously) as being Harmy’s answer to the Blu-ray tweaks, 1.0 being an answer to DVD tweaks, 2.5 a response to '97 theatrical tweaks (and 2.1 for the title tweak, dropping SE from later VHS covers, officially supplanting SW with the SE)… 2.7 being an answer to the '81 crawl tweak… 3.0 finally meeting up harmoniously (Harmyoniously?) with the original theatrical release.

solkap said:
Each subsequent release is just a more highly polished edition of the films.

And boy are we a community that loves it when someone constantly tinkers with our favorite films… * irony *

yoda-sama said:

doubleofive said:

EAST MAN! HE CAME FROM THE EAST TO BATTLE THE AMAZING RANDO!

If not fully satisfied with this movie, please return unused portion for a full refund.

Actually, that might be a fun line to put into the last seconds of your credits.

doubleofive said:

EAST MAN! HE CAME FROM THE EAST TO BATTLE THE AMAZING RANDO!

If not fully satisfied with this movie, please return unused portion for a full refund.

Wow, I just noticed something I personally hadn’t before about the SE (I don’t view it any more than I have to, and got sucked into a clip of Kenobi showing up in SW embedded in some article I was reading), right after Ben says “Hello there” to R2, in the following shot of R2 they totally forgot to add shadowing on him from the stupid rocks… And then the shadowing is back, darker than ever, the very next shot of him… Add in that crazy “Obi-Wan getting a hummer in a back alley of Mos Eisley” yell (my favorite description I’ve heard of it), the whole scene is just bottomless insanity.

Harmy said:

I’m sorry to say I’ve been so busy with work that I had no time or energy to do any work on Star Wars.
We have some big projects ending in September, so I’m hoping that then I could start doing some work on Despecialized.

We’re probably mostly all just glad that you’re well and still keeping the project in mind. We’d all be thrilled to see this quickly come to fruition, but obviously you need to get the important stuff in your life done first. Still, come the end of some work projects in September, perhaps it is a good time to take a little vacation time to focus on …other… activities. 😉

The Bull’s Eyed Womprat said:

After watching the Kennedy interview, I think when she says ‘those will always remain his’ she was referring to the edits themselves, not the SE’s. Implying she doesn’t want to be associated with the changes at all.

LOL, who would?

Z6PO said:

English is not my first language. I’m not able to detect sarcasm. Or express it.

I said good day, sir!

Z6PO said:

yoda-sama said:

Fang Zei said:

It’s going to be interesting to see just what film elements they end up using as their starting point when the OOT is inevitably restored in the next several years.

And imagine the huge “we told you so” if they wait just a little too long and the original film elements fall apart when they finally touch them.

They have the separation masters, they may even have a pristine interpositive (first generation copy). And film stock from the seventies doesn’t turn to dust, even after 40 years.

I’ll keep my sarcasm in my own way, and I’ll leave you to keep yours in yours.

Fang Zei said:

It’s going to be interesting to see just what film elements they end up using as their starting point when the OOT is inevitably restored in the next several years.

And imagine the huge “we told you so” if they wait just a little too long and the original film elements fall apart when they finally touch them.

SilverWook said:

If this ISIS was still around, we could hire them to “liberate” the negatives. 😉

generalfrevious said:

The OT are not just mere films; they have become far more than that in just a mere four hours of content.

Indeed! By now they’ve become closer to six hours.

robertelee said:

Sorry if this is slightly off topic Harmy, but what is your profile picture of? It looks like Vader, but closer inspection reveal that it isn’t… sorry, I have literally been wondering for years, and tgought I would go ahead and just ask.

We’re barely a week from the sequel coming out, the reference should be more relevant and recognizable than ever, haha.

NeverarGreat said:

This is where I was as well, and even though her answer was rather vague it is disheartening. Guess it’s back to work 😉

Also, I don’t know if it is necessarily disheartening that the head of Lucasfilm has announced they aren’t further ruining the OT through continued SE dicking around.

Cobra Kai said:

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

I think the “are you kidding” implies wouldn’t.

Yeah I know it doesn’t really change anything. The unedited clip though is interesting and makes it even more clear to me that she wasn’t even thinking about the theatrical versions.

Yeah, he completely dropped the ball on his question, she was so completely lost for a while there as to what he was trying to ask, and then was excited to get out a simple answer and move on once she thought she figured out where he was going with it. Off of this impromptu interview alone, I don’t think there’s any cause for new speculation either way about the state of the OOT, just that there’s some confirmation of what was already obvious, there’s no further SE tweaks going on without George.

Fang Zei said:

So here’s a question:

Lets say they wait this out and do nothing until 2020, simply reissuing the same 2011 discs in the meantime. Will they have to phase those discs out of the marketplace by May of 2020? If Lucasfilm gets the rights to Empire, Jedi, and the prequels, will Fox still get their cut on sales of the existing unsold discs?

Don’t underestimate Disney’s ability to put things in vaults.

nickyd47 said:

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.

Apparently none of this has anything to do with sense, though.

They should partner with Nintendo to surprise-release the restored OUT this May, to ensure that, while they’re finally doing what the fans want, no one will be able to see it.

They should go back and remove Hayden’s eyebrows in Jedi, just for the heck of it.

Also, the reason for the sarcastic sounding response from alexp above is that there is honestly no chance in all of this discussion that WHERE to get this project could have been skipped. It is talked about or mentioned or, at the very least, hinted about almost all the time, you’ll figure it out. We know people want the quick and easy path, but you know where that leads… Yep, it leads to not learning anything, where did you think it led?

stealthboy said:

The search is half the fun!

But that IS how to search…

TV’s Frink said:

HotRod said:

old and lazy!

Citation not needed.

He was just afraid he’d forget.

You need to move. Simple as that. Just don’t move near any of us, to be safe.

poita said:

Home again safe, now it is hailing outside. This country is messed up.

Still… rain, though. Gotta help with the fires.