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I thought that's what is on his Wookieepedia article. Is it not, or is there a joke I'm failing to pick up?

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I read the character's Wookieepedia article, and there's nothing there about him wearing a mask other than his goggles. It does mention that he was portrayed as a human in the second issue of the Marvel series, though.

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So right after tonight's episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. there was a promo for the sitcom the The Goldbergs. It's set in the '80s and tonight's episode was about the premiere of Return of the Jedi.

Naturally I stuck around. They did a great job of using period accurate props, something other(That 70's Show) shows never bothered with. It was cool that they had some big fans that I always see at Celebration come on the show.

Sadly, the final shot of the show was a theater screen projecting the explosion of the Second Death Star and I'm almost certain it was from an old pan and scan VHS.

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At least it didn't have the shockwave? Going for the entirely legal route of showing the original version, if they didn't have the "Limited Edition" DVD, they'd have to go with a VHS they digitized. Not like the producers come around here very often.

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At least they're acknowledging the existence of it.

Doesn't look like it's been remastered though. :/

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I've not seen that Doc. Is it worth preserving at that quality or can you get it better some place else?

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The LD would be better quality, but the only Laserdisc release was in Japan, so there are burned in subtitles.

I've been hoping a 16mm print would pop up on ebay for years now.

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Someone on this site has that as an avatar...not sure who.

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A new Star Wars doc with an interesting angle.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/832232974/elstree-1976

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And Manos: The Hands of Fate was restored for pocket change by Hollywood standards, and by Kickstarter funding no less. ;)

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ITV (One of the older UK TV channels) has been running the PT over the last few weeks and I've dipped in to them when channel hopping. ITV seem to always chop down the films they show to 16:9... because they are philistines clearly. So these were 16:9 versions of the PT.

My gods, if you thought the PT looked bad in scope, then you ain't seen nothing yet. Zoomed like this they look soft to the point of cheesy and cheap daytime soap-opera and being closeup on the actors faces further reveals how horribly, horribly these films are edited together e.g. TPM uses shots of Cpt Paneka quickly glancing off camera at the crew/director/something while speaking (Like he was reading lines off of an idiot board). I hadn't seen how bad these moments are at the distnce that scope provides and the SFX looks considerably worse. So sloppy for films produced on these budgets.

Contrast that, with me repeatedly watching ANH footage (Almost frame-by-frame) for my 'Lost Workprint' cut and it's night and day. I reccomend the next time anybody watches ANH, they just train there eyes on Alec Guinness' face. There is a whole 'nother film going on there while the action is happening and the other actors are talking.

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One of my favourite scenes in terms of background acting is the one where Luke is training on the Millenium Falcon. Harrison Ford, though not the focus, still acts in the background throughout the scene. It looks natural. In the prequels, the actors can't even act properly in the foreground.

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Ryan McAvoy said:

ITV (One of the older UK TV channels) has been running the PT over the last few weeks and I've dipped in to them when channel hopping. ITV seem to always chop down the films they show to 16:9... because they are philistines clearly. So these were 16:9 versions of the PT.

My gods, if you thought the PT looked bad in scope, then you ain't seen nothing yet. Zoomed like this they look soft to the point of cheesy and cheap daytime soap-opera and being closeup on the actors faces further reveals how horribly, horribly these films are edited together e.g. TPM uses shots of Cpt Paneka quickly glancing off camera at the crew/director/something while speaking (Like he was reading lines off of an idiot board). I hadn't seen how bad these moments are at the distnce that scope provides and the SFX looks considerably worse. So sloppy for films produced on these budgets.

Contrast that, with me repeatedly watching ANH footage (Almost frame-by-frame) for my 'Lost Workprint' cut and it's night and day. I reccomend the next time anybody watches ANH, they just train there eyes on Alec Guinness' face. There is a whole 'nother film going on there while the action is happening and the other actors are talking.

 You should see the 4:3 pan and scan DVD's. ;)

IIRC, Lucas was shooting multi camera on AOTC and ROTS, so the soap opera analogy is spot on. I think single camera is more appropriate for movies, the exception being when you need coverage on a one take affair like a stunt or blowing something up.

When I've seen the prequels run on Spike TV, my cable company compresses the signal so much, it makes the CGI look really really flat and really really bad.

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This is the oddest portrait of George I've seen, if only for the fact the tiny thumbnail image I saw made me totally misconstrue what was going on. ;)

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Ah, so Lucas is a master of eldritch magicks. That explains everything now.

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Zatanna holds that pose so much better George.

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George has been peeing in a hat for years :-D

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As opposed to fans who want the original versions of the OT released, who are of course just peeing in the wind lol

That's some bad hat, Harry
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As opposed to fans who want the original versions of the OT released, who are of course just peeing in the wind lol

 Aren't you one of those fans???  I mean the site is called, OriginalTrilogy.com, yet you just took a shot at 'those' fans????

Maybe I will sign up at StarWarsSpecial Editions.com and go rag on those people!  ;-)

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DuracellEnergizer said:

Easterhay's obviously a sleeper agent working for Lucasfilm.

He is just a PT lover imo.

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