Spaced Ranger said:
LOL I know it's been a lo-o-ong time! :D
Ha-ha.. Yeah, at one point I felt the LD project stole a lot of my time and yours completely in vain but looking at it on the bright side we've learned a lot of things about this film along the way since then. Just remember that the true warrior of this thread is the silver haired wookie who have captured laserdiscs, videotapes, shipped his personal print for transfer and bought a vintage film print in hope and in order to make some sense of this mess. Good things come to those who wait... I know Antcufaalb will do a great job on the laser and it will be awesome to see what Poita's magic will bring us. :)
SilverWook said:
Kubrick liked THX. Star Wars too. ;)
Yes, Star Wars the film, everyone did except Lucas himself. Also, one minor similarity between THX 1138 and The Shining are the opening titles which are highly unusual in the way that they are scrolling upwards in the frame. I actually cannot recall another movie offhand that did that before THX.
Speaking of the titles, I can't believe I hadn't noticed it before, but I just discovered that the opening credits on the 2001 DVD of The Shining are different from other transfers, I know the end titles were blue colored on the first home video release, but the 2001 DVD opening credits also seems to have been made specifically for home video, they are smaller than the theatrical and contains a dark blue drop shadow. The visible dirt and grain makes me believe they were also optically made. The '99 DVD and nineties LD did apparently contain the theatrical titles from what I understand. Please confirm if you're able to SilverWook.
SilverWook said:
We could start a Shining thread to gauge interest in a color corrected tennis ball/original mono/correct WB logo project?
Not a bad idea. The vintage WB logo would be a nice touch but in my opinion it's not a deal breaker like the audio and color screw up. In THX the WB logo is at least part of the film.
Spaced Ranger said:
That is telling about both Kubrick and Lucas. We expect professionals to admire their betters, but are surprised learn the other way around.
Personally, I still think Lucas was a brilliant director and filmmaker (with the emphasis on was) despite the clusterfuck we've since been presented with. I have still not to this day seen his last two SW-movies in full, only short segments here and there and they actually seem to be worse than his previous one. I didn't know what to think back in '97 other than disappointment, in '99 it was like a sledgehammer hit the skull - there was a studio mogul behind the wheels and not a director.
Ronster said:
But what I am most interested in is this opening Narration and any other "Big" differences between versions comparable to the directors cut. But I am talking outside of movie censorship.com comparisons.
Is there a streaming link to this alternate opening sequence?
I have to say I also prefer the original Theatrical ending credits of course too but I am mostly curious about different scenes in different versions to be honest.
Never mind I found the link to the iIalien opening... Is there an English version though????
The opening narration of the Italian TV-broadcast is a foreign distributor thing. I uploaded a dvd of THXita's avi a few years ago along with english subtitles to Myspleen, don't know if it's still there. Plan to make another version with some calibration applied... I have no idea what you are referring to in regards to "original Theatrical ending credits."
note filmmaker. And that's not bad. John Wayne was a one 
