ROTJ 97 SE
Bit underwhelming to be honest. Looked and sounded fine, although going back through the SE on a large TV with the 5.1 has really made it apparent just how shoehorned all of the additions/changes really are. You don't fully realize as a kid just what they've done, to you it just seems like an alternate version with more stuff in it.
Jedi Rocks is composed to be something of a big F You to the audience. You cringe horribly and yearn for the days of the understated Lapti Nek and limited puppets. Similar thing with the added celebration shots...oh look isn't that the EXACT SAME BESPIN SHOT MADE FOR THE ESB SE!?!?!?!?! ARRGH!
I do appreciate the new ending music as Yub Nub just has never felt right to me for being the ending of the trilogy. But it is just a bit too
Bingowings said:
And although these LDs are very well made, as soon as the 97 trailers come on there's an instant jump in color and saturation that looks much more like the films that I remember and Technicolor.
You know, I think I've had it with the SE in general. It's too compromised and the only release was a 1997 video master that itself has problems. On top of that the original work was tampered with and replaced. Screw it. Shut up McCallum-I like the slow artificiality of the original Yavin battle shots, it resembles something much more realistic and imposing as it is in space!
Who's up for just starting a freaking Kickstarter campaign to fund the super "expensive" OT restoration? People and news agencies talk about internet funding all the time now, and since ol' George doesn't want to pay for the restorations we could offer the money ourselves-do it ourselves and George wouldn't ever have to worry about it.
5,337 petition signatures so far. Imagine if everyone who signed chipped in ten bucks to start. That's not a bad starting figure.
I've always remembered how Robert Harris in an old HTF forum stated that he knew of good elements being around for the OT and that the "saving the films" claim was essentially bull. This shouldn't be that difficult people. It won't be on the level of scowering the world for Godfather elements.
Reference using the IB technicolor printing, 70mm version and release with three audio tracks: mono, Dolby stereo, 70mm recreation. Done.
ESB and ROTJ should be much easier to do, being printed and handled less than the original film and being Dolby Stereo. (Though of course the 70mm elements should be checked and scanned for differences.)
End rant...