logo Sign In

ORIGINAL STAR WARS TRILOGY OUT 09/2006 BY LUCASFILM — Page 2

Author
Time
Post link
Damn, I guess I better stop my Myspleen download then.....

http://i.imgur.com/7N84TM8.jpg

Author
Time
Post link
First time poster. Long time lurker, a real big fan of the work down here.

I'm really excited by this news. It really came as a suprise.

A question for you guys.

Just how faithful to the original theatrical prints do you guys want to see these releases?

Would it be ok if fx were changed/ and or cleaned up like for the SE and 2004 releases? Eg Matte lines/boxes digitally removed, fixed snow battle and Rancor scene, Vasoline smudge from under the Landspeeder removed etc.

Or do you want to see it in all it's original glory?

I'm all for a digitally cleaned print with the above "improvements" made. Am I crazy/wrong?

I'd prefer it if the left the lightsaber blades unfixed. We all know how wrong they got it on the 2004 dvd's. Are the people here who want to see them redone?

I'd like to hear your opinions on this now that we know we're offically getting an O-OT release on dvd.

Edit: I'd just like to add that if the new transfers are subpar then yeah we will always have OCP's hardwork to enjoy. Thanks Man!

"Well here's a big bag of rock salt" - Patton Oswalt

Author
Time
Post link
I just want them not to fuck it up again.

The fixes you stated would all be fine, as it doesn't change the story or look like shit.


The main problem is whether this is going to be a decent transfer, contain more changes or what.
Author
Time
Post link
If this is true and they release the originals intact, no new crap added or anything botched to hell like they did with 2004.

THEN GOOD JOB EVERYBODY. If not for this place showing how many want the originals and not the crap-editions, maybe they wouldn't be doing this.

He big in nothing important in good elephant.

"Miss you, I will, Original Trilogy..."

"Your midichlorians are weak, Old man." -Darth Vader 2007 super deluxe extra special dipped in chocolate sauce edition.

http://prequelsstink.ytmnd.com/
Author
Time
Post link
Originally posted by: ReverendBeastly
I, for one, think this is going to be something special. This is the first time ever that Star Wars has been officially released without the "Episode IV" tag.


I don't believe thats true. To the best of my knowledge, the original release of Star Wars on VHS video tape back around 1979 or 1980 did not have the "Episode IV" tag. I do remember that these VHS tapes sold for $120. I waited to buy it on CED Videodisc, which came out in 1982. I believe it cost $34.95, or $39.95 which was far cheaper than the VHS tape, but by that time the "Episode IV, A New Hope" title had been added, and the scroll altered to accomodate it.
Author
Time
Post link
Originally posted by: see you auntie
Just how faithful to the original theatrical prints do you guys want to see these releases?


I want to relive the experience of seeing it in summer of 1977 in the Glenwood Theater in Overland Park, KS. The Glenwood was a grand 70mm movie house (816 seat capacity) which was sadly torn down in 2000.

Star Wars was the first movie in which I became completely involved as I watched, the first I went to see twice, and the first I bought the musical soundtrack for.

So the answer is anything to make it look and sound EXACTLY like they did when they were originally released, while being as pristine as possible.
Author
Time
Post link
Time for me to do an eBay listing; "FOR SALE: 21 silver 12" Star Wars frisbees" cos that's probably what my 3 laserdisc sets will be worth by the end of this year. Glad fatneck has finally decided to give us what we wanted not what he wanted, but he could've done it a bit bloody sooner!
http://www.haku.co.uk/pics/LukeCruise.gif http://www.haku.co.uk/pics/dontcare.gif
***Citizen's NTSC DVD/PAL DVD/XviD Info and Feedback Thread***
Author
Time
Post link
Skyranger, stop posting. We don't need lies.








Anyway.


You know, I can admit this now ... I was actually planning on doing an improved version of my Star Wars Classic Edition, which would have been better quality and better done than any of the previous ones.

I'm now glad I didn't, as it would have been a waste of a week.



My god, I've wasted my life.
Author
Time
Post link
Originally posted by: ocpmovie
Skyranger, stop posting. We don't need lies.




HUH???? LIES? About what?

Author
Time
Post link
Welllll, Star Wars wasn't out for rental back then. Is what I'm saying. It was never released without the Episode IV tag. Sorry.


So, to say it was, wrong. End.




So, by the way, this site is to blame for this. It's our fault Lucasfilm gave in. They saw the site. Saw the bootlegs. Watched one in particular that had the original original crawl on it ... coulda been mine, not saying it was mine, just saying ... lol ....

Realized, hey, money!

Sometimes you do things you hate for money. Jennifer Connelly: Requiem for a Dream. Gotta feed George's coke habit somehow.


Anyway. Seriously guys, sorry to post so much but I feel weird. I guess because I did spend a lot of time restoring these things. It's almost like .... I'm happy, but I want to be drinking and feeling weird and thinking, well, fuck, y'know, some things in life are more important, better reassess my priorities.

I'm kind of kidding, kind of not.


Heh?




Surreal.




Anyway, fuck Star Wars. Star Wars sucks.
Author
Time
Post link
"They are mine. They've taken them and they're releasing them officially.


There, I admit it. If I'd known I would have worked harder on making the LD portions not look like shit. "

ROTFLMAO!

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: Sadly, I believe the prequels are beyond repair.
<span class=“Bold”>JediRandy: They’re certainly beyond any repair you’re capable of making.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: You aren’t one of us.
<span class=“Bold”>Go-Mer-Tonic: I can’t say I find that very disappointing.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>JediRandy: I won’t suck as much as a fan edit.</span>

Author
Time
Post link
Originally posted by: ocpmovie


My god, I've wasted my life.


Hahahaha.

Like you said before let's wait and see.

Your skills might need to be put to use once again.

"Well here's a big bag of rock salt" - Patton Oswalt

Author
Time
Post link
In that case, my "skills" are pleasuring sexy nurses.
Author
Time
Post link
Originally posted by: ocpmovie
Welllll, Star Wars wasn't out for rental back then.


That may be correct. I didn't say it was out for rental. I said it was for SALE. I don't remember for sure when they started renting video tapes, but I don't think it was until a few years later. I worked in a store that rented video tapes in 1984, so it couldn't have been too many years later.

I specifically remember the videodiscs were released in 1982, five years after the theatrical release, and the best I remember the VHS tapes were released for sale shortly before that, probably about 2 years earlier.

However I believe I am mistaken about the "Episode IV" tag. I reviewed the source where I thought I had seen it mentioned, and found that it said the VHS version missing the "Episode IV" tag was a bootleg, not a commercially available copy. So evidently that first VHS release was in 1980 or 1981, after George added the tag. My apologies.
Author
Time
Post link
OCPMovie: Did you plan on using some method for stabilizing the LD captures? I always noticed that there was shaking/movement in the LD portions and the DVD sections were steady.

Dr. M

Author
Time
Post link
When you guys heard the news...did anybody else feel "sad" or weird....like they knew it was never going to happen and accepted it and now that we can have it....we dont want it?

I almost dont want to get them as a big "FUCK YOU!" to the fat cats over at lucasfilm.

I personally have Cowclops v.2 and the CLASSIC EDITIONS and am totally satisfied with them.

The fact that we had to get several committed fans to give us what we wanted YEARS(in some cases) in advance is realy disturbing when you think about it.


Anyways...I would be interested in what Jay thinks about this news.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v167/bgiffen/bigbluerig.jpg
Author
Time
Post link
Doesn't matter now. I was never into pre-release hype, unlike some releases.




Unable to find alcohol, I lay down and thought about this.


I fought to get At Last the 1948 Show on DVD for a long time (and Do Not Adjust Your Set). Finally they released a DVD set, and it was indeed At Last the 1948 Show (and Do Not Adjust Your Set) and it was wonderful ... but it was none of the episodes I had, or had seen. It was all new to me. I loved it, but they hadn't released what I'd expected. And they still haven't. They released other stuff.


I fought to get the rather crap Rutles 2 released actually, and when it came out no one cared including me.

I fought to get Rutland Weekend Television released, and now it's been announced.

I wanted the Frighteners extended LD released - Alex was working on a version of it - then it came out, which was nice.


All this is nice.


But, y'know, you spend so much time fighting these battles, you're not a regular consumer anymore. Somehow you can't share in the joy in the same way. Or it takes a minute to.

When my rough cut of the Thief and the Cobbler was released on GBS.TV, somebody posted, really happily, at IMDB saying, we won! It's restored! We are the champions! We've defeated Disney, etc ...

Well ... no. No one defeated anyone. I restored a movie, the fight goes on.


It was like at the end of the Seven Samurai ... a film I haven't seen in a few years so pardon if I misquote. At the end, as I recall anyway, there's been a great victory won, but the old, experienced samurai just say to each other, it's been another battle lost.

Because so many died fighting, y'know?


We were fighting a war here, and we've won it, but we'll never be thanked for it. We, the fans, will never be thanked for our part in that. The joy we get is from the film itself, on its little picture disc.


We know, on some level, that we've been duped again. That George got us to freak out again, and buy his things over and over and over again, again.


Like when he wouldn't release Star Wars on video. Like when he wouldn't release it on DVD. Like when he wouldn't release the original versions.




It's like a cosmic joke on some level. He always hurts the ones who love him.


I feel a fool.





LOL US!

Author
Time
Post link
You know we'll always have fan edits of the originals. We can put isolated scores into these things ourselves if Lucasfilm doesn't, we would just have a really kickass source material this time (Oh, but does that count as piracy now?). We can always have different versions; consider the debate (well it isn't really a debate, more of a structured discussion) about the sunset's colour over at the XO project.

I don't know, it finally feels like we won't lose the original trilogy. I mean everyone suspected that as soon as the money dried out that this would finally happen, but I really thought Lucas was seriously dedicated to his art--"his art" now being the 2004 DVDs. I might suspect him of being a greedy corporate hog like a lot of other people are, but considering the fact he's including both "his" version and the version the "people" want. Maybe he's compromising.

Spaced Out - A Stoner Odyssey (five minute sneak peek)

Author
Time
Post link
I would appreciate it if anyone remixing the 2006 DVDs ... I'm gonna start calling them that cos it's fun ... if they include the Star Wars commentary created for the Classic Edition.
Author
Time
Post link
It doesn't matter what his true intentions are. Whether he's changed his mind and wants to give something back to the fans, or he's just out for the next thing that will make Lucasfilm some money now that the ROTS ship has sailed, people will still find ways to shed a negative light on this.

I think a lot of people need to take a step back and think about this for a second. A lot of you are asking some very valid questions. A couple of you can't seem to handle the news and have reverted to posting like a 3rd grader on AOL for the first time. Still some just think that everything this site stands for is obsolete and there's no reason to continue doing what we do.

I don't have all the answers, but I challenge everyone to think about what this news means to the community as a whole and ask yourself why it is that you come to this site - and more specifically - this Preservation and Fan Edits board. If you only come here to find out how to leech a copy of your favorite transfers, I doubt we'll see you back here much anymore. For the rest of us, I think this news changes things, but not nearly as much as people are led to believe.

My Projects:
[Holiday Special Hybrid DVD v2]
[X0 Project]
[Backstroke of the West DVD]
[ROTS Theatrical DVD]

Author
Time
Post link
Well, what a turn up for the books! I thought I was still asleep when I read this news. I must say it came totally out of the blue. I really didn't think this would ever happen.

I can only hope that the transfers are from an anamorphic SD source (digi beta perhaps). Whatever, as long as they look better than the letterboxed 4:3 laserdiscs I will be happy.

Oh.. and Lucasfilm, if, by any chance you want to include 'Building Empire' in the release, just give me a call.

JD

Creator of Star Wars Begins, Building Empire and Returning to Jedi
Follow me on twitter @jamieSWB. Please support me at - http://www.patreon.com/jamiebenning/

Author
Time
Post link
Numb.

I feel Numb.

The original trilogy is dead, long live the original trilogy.


I'm just a few days away from completing my ROTJ transfer and then we get this bombshell. I'm extremely pissed off at Lucas for pulling this crap, he kept on releasing the OOT on VHS with the slogan that it would be the last chance to own it, then he added all that CGI crap and denied the OOT still existed, now he's releasing it on DVD.

This gif is for you, Lucas...
http://www.haku.co.uk/b3ta/Smash.gif


I'm going to finish my ROTJ transfer just so my trilogy is complete but after that I'm done with SW LD stuff, my US definitive box set, my German set and my French set cost me a lot and I don't think I'd get much money for them on eBay now so they'll just be packed away like the ark of the covenant in Raiders. Will I buy the DVDs later this year? "baa baa".


The future? I still have a pile of LDs that haven't been released on DVD:

Arcade (1993)
Cookie (1989)
Deep Red (1994)
Dream Machine (1990)
Dudes (1987)
Hamburger The Motion Picture (1986)
Howard the Duck (1986)
Invisible: The Chronicles of Benjamin Knight (1994)
Mandroid (1993)
My Demon Lover (1987)
Out on a Limb (1992)
P.K. and the Kid (1982)
Rad (1986)
Recruits (1986)
Sticky Fingers (1986)
The Invisible Kid (1988)
The Night Train to Kathmandu (1988)
The Prince of Pennsylvania (1988)
The Wiz Kid (1989)
Solarbabies (1986)
Willy/Milly (1986) aka Something Special

so will be doing some crisp DVD transfers of those.
http://www.haku.co.uk/pics/LukeCruise.gif http://www.haku.co.uk/pics/dontcare.gif
***Citizen's NTSC DVD/PAL DVD/XviD Info and Feedback Thread***