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Star Wars coming to Blu Ray (UPDATE: August 30 2011, No! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!) — Page 176

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Bingowings said:

Protecting art and culture is probably something that you just can't trust to a free market.

Very important point.  The "it's his he can do whatever he wants with it" argument presumes that ownership is the be-all-end-all of society. there are many cases where society places restrictions on what you can do with your stuff:

  • it's my car I can drive it however I want
  • it's my house I can make it look however I want
  • it's my kid I'll raise her however I want
  • it's my historic structure I'll tear it down if I want
  • it's my money I won't pay taxes if I don't want to
  • it's my lab I'll make whatever substances I want
  • it's my life I'll travel wherever I want


Most artists aren't so ridiculous with their own masterpieces as Lucas is, so society hasn't had to deal with this issue yet when it comes to art.

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Bingowings said:

Protecting art and culture is probably something that you just can't trust to a free market.

YOU'RE BEGINNING TO SOUND LIKE A SEPARATIST!

IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!

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Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

Bingowings said:

Protecting art and culture is probably something that you just can't trust to a free market.

Very important point.  The "it's his he can do whatever he wants with it" argument presumes that ownership is the be-all-end-all of society. there are many cases where society places restrictions on what you can do with your stuff:

  • it's my car I can drive it however I want
  • it's my house I can make it look however I want
  • it's my kid I'll raise her however I want
  • it's my historic structure I'll tear it down if I want
  • it's my money I won't pay taxes if I don't want to
  • it's my lab I'll make whatever substances I want
  • it's my life I'll travel wherever I want


Most artists aren't so ridiculous with their own masterpieces as Lucas is, so society hasn't had to deal with this issue yet when it comes to art.

I think those questions don't even begin to play a role here, as the OT is to 2/3 NOT, in fact, "his".

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In the logical and moral sense, not what the attorneys say.

ESB was, as far as I know, directed by Kershner with very little interference by Lucas, and ROTJ he didn't do, either.

He may own the "rights" or whatever, but there is no reasonable justification for him to say that these are "his" films so he can do whatever he wants.
If they were, we'd have to start bringing up those arguments.

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Detailed Infos regarding the UK Event with Anthony Daniels & ILM about the SW Blu-rays can be found here:

http://www.empirebigscreen.com/sites/empirebigscreen.com/files/schedulevs1.pdf

The presentation that is scheduled for Friday, 10.00-10.45 UK Time will start in 27min!

Same presentation is scheduled again for Saturday, 16.00-16.45 UK Time, and for 17.30-18.15 UK Time.

There will be a "Star Wars Blu-ray Lounge" the whole saturday.

I guess a press release can be expected soon on one of the following sites:
http://www.ilm.com/
http://www.fox.co.uk/
http://www.foxmovies.com/
http://www.foxstudios.com/
http://www.starwars.com/movies/saga/
http://www.starwars.com/
http://lucasfilm.com/





 

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Those guys from the press asked such lousy questions that have been asked before and have nothing todo with the blu-ray release.

"Q: Is everyone SW fan?"
"Q: What is your most cherished SW memory?"
"Q:Did you [as a actor] get the part you wanted in Star Wars?"
"Q: GL has changed the movies over the years - what would you change?"
"Q: How you would you recommend watching the six films for the first time? 456, then 123 or the other way?"
"Q: What do you feel about the fandom?"
"Q: Is GL right to change the films? Is there more monkeying around?"
"Q: What's the future of Star Wars?"
"Q: What do you think of Star Wars in 3D?"

That was supposed to be an ILM presentation?

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R2D2 said:

"Q: Is there more monkeying around?"

That's actually a good question. Anyway, it was a wasted oportunity. Nobody from ILM said anything (that we know of).

 

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adywan said:

The colours of ESB still look pretty screwed.

Specially the Luke close-up shot. Ugh, are they blind or something?

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adywan said:

The new official trailer is now up:

http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/blog/article/234525/star-wars-the-complete-sagaexclusive-trailer.html

so they went in and fixed the crossed lightsabres (and the Emperors slug by the looks of things)yet made Vaders sabre even more pink in ESB. The colours of ESB still look pretty screwed.

All the fooatege looks a bit odd. Even in PT the colors look different. Or they manage to screw this or there was something a bit wrong with the encoding that manage to tilt the colors that way, Even the blue sabers are more light cyan etc

 

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Deleted Scenes that are in the new trailer:

Ep4: Luke fixes some stuff from before looking into the sky
Ep4: Extended Cantina Footage (Han with Girlfriend) black/white
Ep5: R2 flees away from Wampa
Ep6: Luke building his green lightsaber

The pink is awful present. Did GL turn gay that he enforces this new color?

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adywan said:


The new official trailer is now up:

http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/blog/article/234525/star-wars-the-complete-sagaexclusive-trailer.html

so they went in and fixed the crossed lightsabres (and the Emperors slug by the looks of things)yet made Vaders sabre even more pink in ESB. The colours of ESB still look pretty screwed.
Well, I'll be damned:

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a115/doubleofive/ILMfixsaber.jpg

Of course, now Vader's saber is a lovely shade of purple, but they did fix the "slugs" which is nice. Let's see if they fixed ALL of them, or only on the shot we were bitching about.

Here's what I managed to do last year by changing the brightness:

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a115/doubleofive/Misc%20Mockups/EmpClash-bright.png

And here's what I got when I actually worked at it and bothered to replace the lightsabers:

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a115/doubleofive/Misc%20Mockups/EmpClash005.png

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Pink Ray, the future of crap!

+1 for them fixing stuff. Sort of.

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Rogue-theX said:


Pink Ray, the future of crap!

+1 for them fixing stuff. Sort of.
Welcome to the Special Editions. Where they put an incredible amount of work in a handful of shots and leave the others the same.

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Well, that one shot looks really good I've got to admit but what the f*ck is up with the pink stuff, it's not just the lightsabres, look at Luke's face at 0:12 or the stairs at 0:12 and 0:13 - that's pretty ugly.

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Has anyone managed to get a screen capture of the ROTJ Death Star and the Rebel fighters?

From the split second I saw the whole thing seems much more blue than before (indigo Death Star, magenta engine glows) that wouldn't match with the tangerine Death Star seen in earlier screenshots.

 

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So they fixed the cores on the saber cross but messed up everything else. Luke's saber is just plain weird, green haze is uneven, the white core is green on the right, the blade is thinner in the center... And of course, Vader's saber is now so pretty.

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