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Post #207030

Author
Uhfgood
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ITS HAPPENED-- OOT AVAILABLE FROM LUCASFILM
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Date created
6-May-2006, 12:28 PM
Am I the only guy that hopes it will be "fixed" ? When I heard that it was going to be re-released in the theatres, I thought great finally get to see it only with all the effects fixed and enhanced from the 1977 state-of-the-art. Unfortunately when I did see them not only was it not fixed it actually looked worse in places. (For instance certain spots in the opening shots seemed to change tint, most likely from the deteriorated negative) - The lightsabers in the battle between Darth and Ben were not fixed either, as well as some other things I can't remember off hand. To make it worse they added the cg, the 'ring" to the death star explosion, and the trip into mos eisly, etc... Now I will buy these just to have the originals as I saw them, but I do not like the idea of keeping matte lines, bad matte painting to live action comps, and garbage mattes. What I want to see is the original story, dialogue/music/characters but to have pristine quality. Degrained, color corrected, the whole 9 yards. But it seems like I must be in the minority because i've not once seen anyone say they want a nice clean "enhanced" (but not sufficiently altered) copy. Like someone said anything to make it look better than it did in 77 yet not change the story. (I'm not sure where I was reading, but the guy made decisions to fix or clean up stuff that didn't significantly screw with the story or pacing of the original editing). Please tell me i'm not alone :-) If they are the theatrical versions with transparent cockpits, and what have you i'll still buy it, but maybe i'll make my own edit fixes these issues :-)

Keith aka Uhfgood