riddler95 said:
Nick66 said:
Just give me the pre 97 films (I'm OK with the 81 crawl) with a full restoration (hello Robert Harris) without excessive DVNR and colours that match the previous home video releases (at a minimum)*, and original audio in HD and I'll be happy....once they do that as far as I'm concerned they can add as many audio tracks as they'd like and release the old SE's and create new ones to their hearts content....I even promise to buy them.
*EDIT: I'd prefer a colour timing that matches the original theatrical releases, of course but I don't even know if anyone at Lucasfilm or Disney even knows what the films looked like back then anymore.
Robert Harris would do anything he could to perfectly color correct the Original Theatrical Versions to match exactly how they looked when they were originally released in 1977, 1980, and 1983.
If the wildly inconsistant colour grading/image dynamics of the Star Wars Despecialised Edition is truely representative of how it looked when it came out in the theatres in 1977, I don't imagine that Disney will wish to recreate those colours/image dynamics for an official blu-ray release, it simply wouldn't look like a modern professional release with consistant colour grading. I certainly wouldn't want them to and would have serious reservations about buying the Star Wars release if it did.
Outside of some people on this site and others looking for a nostalgia trip, I don't think the mainstream viewers would tolerate such inconsistent colour grading in a modern blu-ray release and Disney will be wanting to make as much money as possible off these UOT blu-ray releases.
Hopefully if they do release these, which I certainly hope they do, if only just to get at the lapti nek and yub nub footage in hd, they'll come up with a nice consistant natural looking balanced colour scheme that has a colour continuety that links all three films, that will blow our socks off and make these films look much better than they've ever looked before. As much fine grain and detail as possible would be a big plus for me as well and toning down the contrast to make them look as filmic as possible, not digital like the blu-ray releases we currently have. They'll certainly get my money if they do that.