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Post #985586

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joefavs
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Should we attempt to watch Star Wars (original trilogy) in true 24p?
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Date created
20-Aug-2016, 2:00 AM

Personally I think this obsession with trying to make everything as close to a 1977 screening as possible is more than a little misguided. At the end of the day, you’re still watching digital video; short of striking a new print, you’re only ever going to get a simulation of authenticity. This refusal to optimize these things for home video has kept me from fully embracing a lot of the 35mm-based projects that have been released. I would love to see a 35mm scan of an entire Star Wars film all cleaned up and degrained like what Harmy did in ROTJ v. 2.5 with that sequence that was out of focus on the blu-ray, but the insistence on carrying over all of the imperfections to a new format where they don’t even really make sense kind of ruins it for me.