Star Wars coming to Blu Ray (UPDATE: August 30 2011, No! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!) — Page 114

Isn't there too much stuff on that last disc for it all to be HD? The thing about spoofs alone is 90 minutes long.

timdiggerm said:

I think I've said this before: I think they should probably let The Criterion Collection handle the OT restoration.

This.

They always do a great job. But- (Insert Lucas rant here.)

Baronlando said:

Isn't there too much stuff on that last disc for it all to be HD? The thing about spoofs alone is 90 minutes long.

The Ultimate Cut of "Watchmen," which runs 215 minutes long, fits on a single dual-layered Blu Ray disc.  Even with that 90 minute doc, you've still got over two hours of space left, depending on the bit rate used (which would likely be a good deal less than a film as visually dark and dense as "Watchmen").

-NJM

xhonzi said:

BloodnoseThePirate said:

timdiggerm said:

I think I've said this before: I think they should probably let The Criterion Collection handle the OT restoration.

This.

They always do a great job. But- (Insert Lucas rant here.)

Er... except for my Criterion edition DVD of Time Bandits.  And my Criterion edition DVD of Brazil.  Those are two terrible DVDs.  And fully half of the Criteriod DVDs that I have.

I guess "always" wasn't the right word since I only own two.

;(

Licensing them to criterion would be acknowledging that they have any significance beyond being a curiosity or a footnote. Like an early demo of a song.

20th Century Fox only has a piece of SW and ESB, right?  Wonder if that also goes for the documentaries, and explains why the later RotJ docs are not there.  For instance on the old VHS releases there is a 20th Century Fox logo on SW and ESB but not on RotJ.  It seems to me that this blu-ray set is predominatly made up of Fox centric material. 

It's also interesting that there is no video from CV where they set up a booth to record fans talking about SW.  (think this has also been at other comic-con like events)  Maybe they're waiting till after the PvsG doc to get physical release.

I think Fox has nothing at all now except to be the avenue of distribution when it comes to the actual movies, pretty sure that was part the deal when getting the prequels. Maybe that didn't apply to the tv stuff. (I remember when Fox had sold New Hope to TBS but had no control over Empire and Jedi.If only they still had it... sigh)

Fox owned the copyright to Star Wars, but not ESB or ROTJ. They sold Star Wars to Lucasfilm in 1998 or 1999 in exchange for prequel distribution. So, since 1999, they've been purely in a marketing and distribution position.

timdiggerm said:

I think I've said this before: I think they should probably let The Criterion Collection handle the OT restoration.

Yes.

Shit would be awesome.

Make sure they have the theatrical versions and not the SE. Criterion prefers the versions that are according to the director's intentions.

On the actual covers of the Blu-rays: wow; that is making all the DVD covers look a like Rembrandt. I was at work so I could not comment earlier, but my god, no film should have box art like that. It looks like a crappy religious painting- there is fan art that is on par with those covers. I just love how LFL always aims for the zero in their products nowadays. 20 years from now they may start going for negative scores. I can't believe an adult actually helped choose this kind of artwork.

Darth Cracker said:

Star Wars is officially up shit creek without a paddle.

Will stick with my GOUT dvds (still haven't bothered going blu ray at Cracker Towers, although an O-OT release woulda swung it!)

So long George. It's been.........................really infuriating.

Going to have to.  From reading his daughter's tweets (don't know how old she is now) she is far from the heiress that Barabara Brocolli is (the 007 film empire).  She seems to be deluded like all the loser nerds out there.  I'm not saying she shouldn't defend her dad etc.  But she says some silly, naive things.

She's sitting there going on about how people should ignore the prequels if they hate them, that we have the choice NOT to watch them, and that we should just appreciate the originals etc.  What she fails to perceive is that we OOT lovers would gladly do that had her father not constantly changed the OT every few years.

So yeah, unless the rights to the Star Wars empire one day fall into the hands of say someone like Fox, we'll never see restored OOT.

Adium said:

timdiggerm said:

I think I've said this before: I think they should probably let The Criterion Collection handle the OT restoration.

Yes.

 

Shit would be awesome.

If Criterion did it, it would/should be titled Star Wars, not that episode iv crap.

[EDITED] Beat me to it :P

skyjedi2005 said:

I think it goes without saying i am strongly boycotting this release.

 

But by all means, please say it four or five more times.

Literal actual lol, mostly at the Double Standards thing, which continues to crack me up for how little sense it makes.

Davnes007 said:

Is anyone boycotting this release?.....

Good question. If they are, they're not being very vocal about it.