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Star Wars coming to Blu Ray (UPDATE: August 30 2011, No! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!) — Page 291
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I'm sure my last post has been posted before, but here's a poor guy on Reddit who could use some defense.
http://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/kh7j8/why_i_wont_be_buying_star_wars_tomorrow_but_will/
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Good article! And I agree with Simon Pegg's tweet! Im deeply concerned if Katie Lucas takes over LFL. It sounds like the apple hasnt fallen far from the tree. After all this is the same girl in ROTS where she plays a fat blueberry alien in the background during Bail Organa's interview, and rather than make a pleasant appearance, decides to hold a defiant expression and actually rolls her eyeballs as if to say "why did I agree to to this"?! Im sure daddy is sharing all his business secrets with her in order to pass the "middle finger" torch to continue to defy us OOT fans.
"There's no cluster of midiclorians that controls my destiny!" -Han Solo, from a future revision of ANH
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I'm pretty sure Katie doesn't understand the full extent of what's been going on since 1977, to be honest. She's just heard George's side of things.
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Plinkett has a sit down with the director of the People vs. George Lucas
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Tyrphanax said:
I'm pretty sure Katie doesn't understand the full extent of what's been going on since 1977, to be honest. She's just heard George's side of things.
yeah, thats what Im afraid of
"There's no cluster of midiclorians that controls my destiny!" -Han Solo, from a future revision of ANH
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Also here's a good link. Ive frequented this facebook page a few times and offered my support. some interesting articles as well.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Save-Star-Wars-Boycott-The-Blu-Rays/269110113114406?sk=wall
"There's no cluster of midiclorians that controls my destiny!" -Han Solo, from a future revision of ANH
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Well, by the dictionary definition of "fan", I haven't been a fan since the release of 1997SE.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fanatic
"a person with an extreme and uncritical enthusiasm or zeal, as in religion or politics."
1997 is definitely when I became critical. Indy IV is when I switched off completely because with enough "fans" criticism is moot.
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rpvee said:
Ignoring the first bit of this deleted scene (which is now perhaps one of the most awkward Star Wars moments... ever), the rest is actually pretty good. Leia's attitude comes through loud and clear.
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rpvee said:
Ignoring the first bit of this deleted scene (which is now perhaps one of the most awkward Star Wars moments... ever), the rest is actually pretty good. Leia's attitude comes through loud and clear.
I actually quite liked this scene in its entirety. Yes, it is awkward. Very awkward. But that's what's so good about it.
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With all this talk of alternative things to do with the money that might have gone on a good blu-ray set here's one obvious one.
Later on if you really want to have them you can get the set from a cancer charity shop and you will have both the blu-rays/a Star Wars tee and helped a lot of people with cancer too.
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thedaner said:
timdiggerm said:
The logic doesn't follow, but I suppose it's a bit of a nod towards the fact that he knows what's going on in this end of the fan community.
I think it's also a nod to the fact that Robert Harris personally knows of a print in a existence that can be used for a BD version of the original Ep IV. He's offered to restore it himself, with no response from Lucasfilm (surprise surpise).
But would the quality be that good?---- I am assuming Robert Harris has a 35mm interpositive release print.
And I say this because when Superman The Movie was restored there was actually a section of the o-neg that was not really the o-neg!:
There was a big chunk that was a dupe negative section, when
Lex Luthor pulls the Kryptonite out of the case all the way until he pushes
Superman into the pool. The original cut negative had been damaged by some lab, and somewhere someone combined YCM separations to make the dupe section. The colors were slightly out of registration. We never did find the negative for that. There was a dupe section for all of that and then there was
damage in other places, torn frames, stuff like that which had been backed by
mylar They would put clear mylar on the back of the negative so that the tear
wouldn't pull any farther and it would hold the film together. "
http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/mohenryfanclub/message/298?l=1
Now when the restored film was released on DVD in 2001 and again in 2006 that section of the film where Lex throws Superman into the pool was seamless(in terms of granularity and color reproduction) with the scenes that preceded and followed it. The relative low resolution of DVD did not have the ability to capture this discrepancy.
But on the blu ray release you can see a definite increase in grain structure aswell as a slight shift in the colour pallette during this scene.
1080p is very unforgiving on these kinds of anomalies.
And that is from a dupe neg that was generated from YCM separations(spliced into the original negative).
I am just wondering if ROTJ is afflicted by a similar problem---(as has already been noted----when the Rebels land on Endor there is a drop in picture quality on the new Blu ray)----and maybe it's tracable to the camera negative(or a duped negative like the case for Superman The Movie).
I saw Star Wars in 1977. Many, many, many times. For 3 years it was just Star Wars...period. I saw it in good theaters, cheap theaters and drive-ins with those clunky metal speakers you hang on your window. The screen and sound quality never subtracted from the excitement. I can watch the original cut right now, over 30 years later, on some beat up VHS tape and enjoy it. It's the story that makes this movie. Nothing? else.
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Just found this nifty chart. Interesting stuff about speeding them up to cut down on production costs:
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Didn't even know the films were sped-up for the first Laserdisc editions. That's actually even more disturbing than most of the 97/04/11-changes, in my opinion.
How do the shorter runtimes compare to the runtimes of the "Definitive Edition" and "Faces" sets? Have we actually been watching sped-up versions of the OOT since the 1980's?
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All PAL releases have been sped up from 24 fps to 25 fps because PAL is 25 fps. Maybe that is what the chart is referring to... I dunno.
BTW, have the Stormtroopers' lines been changed back to the original on the Blurays? Someone told me, but I have not seen that written anywhere.
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That could be source for that information. I don't know, though. As far as I know, most of the popular LD rips are NTSC. I hope the author has validated this info, cause it does sound a little odd.
What do you mean by the original Stormtrooper lines, Darth Lars? I haven't watched the originals yet, but are you referring to the added "There's no one here" off the 2004 DVD, or to the "Close the blast doors" from the 1977 mono mix (if I remember correctly)?
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Sped up to cut down on production costs? Yes, because (early?) Laserdiscs and CED Videodiscs could only HOLD 120 minutes. Did you really want the movies spread out across two discs for an extra 5 minutes? But speeding them up to cut down on production costs is not how I would describe it.
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The Aluminum Falcon said:
Argh! I've always thought that I saw the extended Biggs scene and this is exactly as I remember it. Somehow, I think I've seen this seen before, complete with the additional dialogue. I'd hate to think that I'm suffering from a grappling hook-esque syndrome... :-(
Ah well. Is this how you remember the scene Puggo?
YES!
"Close the blast doors!"
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Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:
YES!
Isn't it uncannily eerie? The whole time I was watching it I was saying the dialogue a beat in advance and was getting it generally right. I really believe I've seen this before, but I just can't find where.
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I'm pretty sure it was on Entertainment Tonight or something like that, but I've said that before.
Do we have any theatrical bootlegs from 1997?
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The Aluminum Falcon said:
Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:
YES!
Isn't it uncannily eerie? The whole time I was watching it I was saying the dialogue a beat in advance and was getting it generally right. I really believe I've seen this before, but I just can't find where.
That scene is in the NPR version, almost verbatim, and the published NPR script as well. Is it possible you heard the original broadcasts?
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Anchorhead said:
Is it possible you heard the original broadcasts?
Nope. I definitely just saw it at my house on some sort of VHS or laserdisc. It is plausible that I could have seen it on some documentary on TV, but it would have to be in the last decade; nothing from the 80's. I do remember the scene looking like that, minus the interjected bit with R2D2 and 3PO; that surprised me.