msycamore said:
danny_boy said:
Simple solution.
Watch it lo-fi(VHS,Beta,V2000, laserdisc)!
It forces you to focus on the characters and the storytelling and nothing-else.
Effects and sets are obscured by the relatively low quality picture that you have no choice but to follow the story.
Maybe Star Wars fans have been too obsessed with Pixels and picture quality in the last 17 years(at least since the advent of DVD-1997) that it forbids them from just enjoying the film itself.
I know that the counter aurgument is that the picture quality is so bad(for NTSC VHS in particular) that it is too much of a distraction to enjoy the flick.
Or is that because we are so used to being spoiled in the high -definition era?
I am fortunate enough to own a 4K Sony 1000 projector.
I can watch the likes of Oblivion,Elisium,Looper,Pacific Rim,Man Of Steel and Star Trek Into Darkness on this projector upscaled to 4K, enjoying every last ounce of pixel information/detail that these flicks have to offer.
They may look fantastic but IMHO all the above are just average movies---great style....but little substance---I re-iterate---in my opinion!
So yeah.....I get more of a kick watching my beat up ol' 1982 1st release(library rental) VHS video tape of Star Wars than watching any of the above movies in 4K.
I understand your view and I agree to some extent but I don't think Star Wars fans have been obsessed with picture quality in the last 17 years, more like being denied it. The story is what's most important yes, but film is very much a visual medium and a form of visual storytelling, especially in the case of a film like Star Wars. Your signature proudly says;
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.
^ If that's all that makes that movie work then why bother when you can just as well pick up the script or the novel of the film and read it instead? I can personally enjoy Star Wars in crude form, we have basically been forced to enjoy it that way since it left the theater but picture and audio quality is definitely important. And it really goes without saying that it's fucking ridiculous that not a decent modern video release exist of these iconic classics either in Special Edition or in Original form. Stop trying to justify the silly George Lucas syndrome.
I am not trying to justify anything.
I want to see that hi-def OUT release as much as anyone.
But until that happens(if it ever does) I am more than content to watch it on VHS!(I can understand if a lot of people are not happy with this proposition)
I would strongly disagree that there is "not a decent release of the special edition" version in high def.
The Blu Rays(especially upscaled to 4K) are spectacular. Incredible levels of detail-------No----- they may not be accurate with regards to colour timing and other aesthetic issues when compared to how the films originally looked but even that cannot be confirmed until you physically run a non faded 35mm print side by side with the Blu Ray or the 2K/4K DCP (not just rely on film cells posted on jedi net or screenshots from the IB tech screening at the senator theater in 2010).
We also did that at ILM for the transfers of Star Wars and Jedi that I worked on, where they had prints up in the Stag Theater across the hall to use for comparison. At any moment, we could stop and say, "whoa, is that supposed to be green?" and then check the print.