ADY,
Well, just seen the blurays of the OT. Empire looks to me to have gotten away unscathed. Didnt notice any digital tweaks, although been a year since I saw it last as I was waiting to see the Adywan edit. However I must say, it looked gorgious! Ady, will you be putting some of your fx/edits etc over a bluray version?
I have your New Hope edit, and love it! But its at the low res avi, and its the first release of it you did. So when I compared it to the new bluray the picture quality is a huge step down. Are you planning a higher res release of New Hope? I hate that the bluray didnt even fix the lightsabers, and seeing only 4 tie fighters in the final battle now looks kinda silly.
As for Return of the Jedi, Jesus! What a mess. The NOOO clip is getting all the attention, but what seems worse to me is the amplified bad dated Mattes. There are now boxes around the speeder bikes, Grey boxes around the space ships in space. A hexagon around the Deathstar.Much work to do there, I don't envy you there. Well, actually I do, I would love to have a go at it. Pink lightsabers throughout too.
What pains me most of all, is I was imagining that this whole time, that Lucas and/or his ILM team, where fully aware of your edits. And were silently impressed and so let what your doing slide. And was hoping that his team would be trying to match what you were doing then releasing them on bluray.
Maybe thats just fantasyland I was in. What a shame! Still, your edits of these films, now more than before, will go down in history!
