Ronster said:
I also have a retrofit idea for this scene
When the executor pulls out of the asteroid field we should see that sun that happens to be visible from directly looking out the hole. And perhaps quite imposing
An interesting idea Ronster, but the suddenly bright white opening seen in this shot has already been nicely improved now to remove it's inconsistency.
As far as the GOUT versions of the movies go, there's certainly a big difference in how the colours and details on them look compared to the SE versions. Between the colour grading and the 'crushed' blacks, the original look of the movies has been quite drastically altered overall...and the 'asteroid chase' scene you mentioned is a very good example. I'd love to see the original cuts given a proper HD release someday, but just hope they don't end up overly-'processed' like the SE's are, where the colours etc. are concerned...
But despite the limitations of the source material being used, the new 'starfields' on the 'Revisited' edits seem a vibrant improvement to me compared to the SE ones...so I'm more than happy with them.
asterisk8, having thought about it a bit more, I see what you're saying about 'camera lens effects' etc. when it comes to Earth's aura/haze/atmosphere effect. I guess I've been used to seeing all kinds of those type of 'optical illusions' you describe from various footage/photos over the years, and have gotten a false impression from them about how things should look. Your last photo example was especially telling, and I'm very pleased with how the 'Hoth' haze effect is looking throughout 'ESB:R'.
At the start of STAR WARS, I always used to imagine that the Stardestroyer *seemed* to somewhat 'skim the outer atmosphere' of 'Tattooine' at the point where it's rear entered the frame...even though that could also be looked on as a kind of 'lens flare' given off by the effects given to it's rear boosters. The shot used to have a far more subtle blue effect at that moment, but it ended up looking dreadfully overblown and garish on the SE release unfortunately...and I really miss how it originally looked. But thankfully, the 'Revisited' version has salvaged that particular muck-up a great deal to get rid of the excess of the SE effect.