New survey:
http://www.starwars.com/webapps/survey/200903.jsp
As usual, I used all the 'comments' boxes to request a remastered 77/80/83 OT on Blu-ray (no point in bothering with DVD anymore).
Too bad you have to be a member. I am never paying to use Lucas online ever again much less ever resubscribing. The magazine has gone done Hill ever since Dan Madsen left.
Plus Lucash star wars.com website did not put out all the promised bonuses for hyperspace like possible old documentaries, deleted scenes, commentarys. Not only did they remove the DVDrom commentary for the 2004 box set release of star wars and empire strikes back, they never bothered to do one for Return of the Jedi.
I swear other than being a flash animation site, or being spam to sell more Lucash products there is nothing on there remotely even any good. The old site despite the fact it could have been improvements was still better.
I mean its a joke when TFN site is better and easier to navigate than Lucas site. Despite basically linking mostly to the Lucas site, repeating lucas based employee reporting on star wars and indiana jones releases verbatim. And overall kissing ass and gushing.
Still the dvd's are still not fixed and deliberate creative decisions so to ask him to spend any money on website development or content is out of the question especially since the last star wars film was in 2005.
Mielr what happened to being an unabashed Lucas Basher?
By the way dvd or blu ray at this point is not enough the original elements need to be restored and vaulted and a new negative made. They would have to basically restore the o-neg that has been altered in 1997 which robert harris said he was up to the task.
The fact that the films could be forever lost and are rotting in Lucas Archives is unforgivable, since the films need to be safely preserved not just for future home video release but ultimetely new theatrical release prints being viable of the originals. Robert Harris does not consider a film a true restoration is there is no film print to be screened after the process.
What Lucas considers an Archival Master is the one he handed over to lowey at Blu Ray resolution way lower than the total resolving power and resolution of film. A 1080 master is a frickin joke. Sure Lucas can dump that telecine to blu ray of the 2004 and call it a day which is lazy. For the newest Blu Ray releases they scan at least 4k on films shot actually on film and not HD VIDEO. And the VistaVision elements of the oot need to be scanned at least to 6K before bieng reduction printed to a new 35mm master.
“Always loved Vader’s wordless self sacrifice. Another shitty, clueless, revision like Greedo and young Anakin’s ghost. What a fucking shame.” -Simon Pegg.
skyjedi2005 said:
Too bad you have to be a member. I am never paying to use Lucas online ever again much less ever resubscribing.
Sky, I don't have a Hyperspace membership anymore- and I was able to take the survey (?)
skyjedi2005 said:
Mielr what happened to being an unabashed Lucas Basher?
LOL! I did that mainly for negative1's benefit. He was always going on and on about "no Lucas bashing!" I figured since he was gone now...
I'll change it back if you think I should. ;-)
Nah just laughed my ass off every time i read it is all, because it reminds me of myself when i get going on a roll about how Lucas from 1977-1983 to the new Lucas its just so damn dissapointing.
“Always loved Vader’s wordless self sacrifice. Another shitty, clueless, revision like Greedo and young Anakin’s ghost. What a fucking shame.” -Simon Pegg.
Yeah I HATE the way the new site is laid out, its crap...all flash and no substance as it were. Before the Clone Wars movie it was decent, not perfect, but decent.
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." - Mark Twain.
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AxiaEuxine said:Yeah I HATE the way the new site is laid out, its crap...all flash and no substance as it were.
LOL! I don't know why that strikes me as funny, but I am still laughing. Nice pun.
Count me in for the survey as well.
Mielr said:skyjedi2005 said:
Too bad you have to be a member. I am never paying to use Lucas online ever again much less ever resubscribing.
Sky, I don't have a Hyperspace membership anymore- and I was able to take the survey (?)
It tells us to please login to take the survey. I guess you can get a free non-hyperspace account.
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I don't think that this survey is going to do very much. I'm never rejoining the fanclub, as SW Insider will never be as it once was. Nowadays the site is geared up for the clone wars seres and little else.
VADER!? WHERE THE HELL IS MY MOCHA LATTE? -Palpy on a very bad day.
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C3PX said:Mielr said:skyjedi2005 said:
Too bad you have to be a member. I am never paying to use Lucas online ever again much less ever resubscribing.
Sky, I don't have a Hyperspace membership anymore- and I was able to take the survey (?)
It tells us to please login to take the survey. I guess you can get a free non-hyperspace account.
I was notified about the survey thru the Homing Beacon email newsletter (which is free). There was a direct link in the email to the survey, so I didn't even have to sign in.
Thanks for bringing attention to this, Mielr.
I filled it out and put the following in the "add your own comments" section. It's pretty much a copy-paste of my last post in the SE vs. theatrical section:
"The pattern we've (perhaps coincidentally) seen continued by the cgi The Clone Wars movie is one-new-star-wars-release-in-theaters-every-three-years. 2011 will be the next cycle, and the clone wars show is supposed to have run its course by then. Wouldn't it be a smart marketing move for Lucasfilm to put out the 3D conversion then? 2011 is the year before the 35th anniversary, kinda like how 1996 - the year before the 20th - was when they were originally planning on releasing the SE. They could use that to build up hype for the live-action show, which at this rate won't hit until 2012 at the earliest. They could put out the definitive blu-ray sets with Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith and both versions (oldest and newest/final) of the Original Trilogy and The Phantom Menace - with all of the versions in 1080p - at some point prior to when the show debuts. Maybe they could throw in a preview for the show on the set or - better yet - wait until the show debuts and advertise the hell out of the blu-ray during commercial breaks."
Guys, seriously, the more of us who fill it out, the more LFL doesn't think it's just a bunch of random people who coicidentally all want the same thing.
