skyjedi2005 said:
How much better would sky captain have been if they shot it on film?
The story wouldn't have been any different, so shooting it on film vs however they did it, wouldn't make any difference.
skyjedi2005 said:
I'm convinced the reasoning behind George's support of HD Video is that he supports the independant one man studio system, and wants to bring old hollywood to its knees. George's friends rely on the old studio system for financing and for the analog film as well as their technical crews. He has always had a grudge against hollywood and wants to bleed them dry.
It also seems to me that with all the fights he has had with the unions he would prefer to make films without needing them.
Oh come on now. I seriously doubt Scorcese, Spielberg, and any other of George's "old pals" are relying on the studio system for financing. Their reputations are so good that studios have a tendency to green light anything they want. And it use to be that the studios fell over themselves to distribute Lucas's stuff. Now nobody cares, but I blame that on the PT and not Lucas's love of all things digital.
If he wants to make movies without unions, he can go to Australia and make them there. Oh wait, I think he did that with the PT.
skyjedi2005 said:
Now as to film grain being removed or minimized in lucas films i am entirely against it. Having a perfect cleaned and scrubbed image for American Graffiti and THX 1138 when they were shot in 16mm with the grainyness as part of their art. Just like Lucas wanted star wars to look like a documentary shot on film, grain should be there.
Then the dvd releases get digitally scrubbed and dvnr so that the crappy added cgi does not stick out line a sore thumb.
But maybe Lucas never wanted the grain there in the first place. Maybe it was only there because he had no choice at the time. I don't like the SEs or the THX "SE" either, but that doesn't mean Lucas wanted grain in those movies. Sure, it's what the medium looks like, but if he could do them over again today, he'd probably do it digitally so he wouldn't have any grain, then it would look exactly how he wanted.
Yes, Lucas always wanted Star Wars to look like a documentary, but I don't think he's ever said he wanted it to be grainy. Just because that's how film looked, doesn't mean that's how he wanted it.