GoodMusician said:
I never liked Ben Burtt...
Lets leave it at that lol
As for the Jacket... As I said earlier in this thread... what something looks like in reality, is NOT what it looks like on film. Clothing, walls, paint, everything looks different after being filmed due to lighting and other affects.
You ahve to take that into account and kinda accept it as a form of... stylized reality...
What may look blue to one camera is brown to another and so on and so fourth...
I couldn't agree more. And the filmmakers do this on purpose. Look at City of Lost Children for example... the weird makeup everyone wore, and then the colors were done in such a way that it didn't look out of place, but it gave everyone a certain stylized look. I didn't even realize it until I listened to the commentary. Key thing to remember.
I also agree about the paint jobs on the Slave-I. There's simply no need to tinker with stuff to make it "match the prequels" as if such a thing is necessary. If we're going to do that, the Prequels should change to match the originals (like fixing the wrongly shaped Death Star and Tantive IV in Episode III). But really, I think differences in style and tone and visuals from the PT to the OT is a GOOD thing. Why would we want everything to look and sound the same? It's twenty frickin' years later. Stuff changes, even if it's not a leap forward in technology. Look at cars and military craft from the 80's vs. today. Heck, look at how the styles change within the prequel trilogy itself. You can't "correct" that, since it's now part of continuity. Same with the sounds, styles, colors, etc. I think a few folks are overthinking ESB:R. It's been said before... ESB is the movie that really "needs" the least. We shouldn't pile on the changes for Ady to make just because they can be made. This doesn't have to be as extensive an edit. What needs to be fixed first and foremost is the poor color restoration job done in 2004, and second: correcting the excesses of the Special Editions. Third: fixing continuity gaffes ("gaffes" within the same film, not with the prequel trilogy) and bad SFX glitches.
My plea is that we don't go all "fanboy" on this one, it just doesn't need to happen, or it'll end up as bad as Lucas' SE's...
From the sound of it, it's going to take 2 years just for Ady to do the color and sound fixes. He's got plenty of work ahead of him if he's going to do ROTJ:R and the Prequels after that, without throwing in more unnecessary changes.
As far as the Wampa is concerned, I'd love to see the 1997 Wampa look more like the original 1980 Wampa (though I realize his scenes are getting trimmed). Whatever.
Excellent call that was made above about the colors of Boba matching HIS Slave-I and Jango's colors matching HIS. This stuff about modulating Boba's voice to sound more like Jangos... no, just no. And adding a filter to the 2004 lines just makes him sound like a Clone trooper, not as the "best bounty hunter in the galaxy" (thanks SWHS), an evil badass, should sound like!