Laserschwert said:
About as good as Control Panel Shoots First. :D
Front page of reddit now.
“Grow up. These are my Disney's movies, not yours.”
Looks like Bill Hunt is being attacked. Originaltrilogy.com is also mentioned toward the beginning. I'm still trying to figure this out:
How you can be an advocate for quality cinema while at the same time telling an artist that he MUST release earlier versions of his films he no longer supports is a contradiction.
I've never even heard of this blog before. Who is this person?
Interesting to find out who actually coined the infamous phrase I loathe so very much.
And Heaven forbid someone who runs a popular/infamous DVD/Blu Ray review site have a change of heart on something. He's not running for elected office or anything.
Where were you in '77?
Just another fan's blog from the looks of it. I don't think the blogger is anyone well known but I thought he wrote a pretty informative if misguided article.
Another Johnny-Come-Lately who falls into the camp of there being only two thoughts on Star Wars - theirs and all the wrong ones. It came online after the BR was announced, criticizes people who don't want or support them, and states early on that no comments will be allowed unless they agree with the blogger. No thanks.
I wonder which inappropriate superfan that is. That unabomber manifesto thing they do is familiar. Either way, he sounds like a real barrel of laffs!
SilverWook said:
Interesting to find out who actually coined the infamous phrase I loathe so very much.
This.
And it was used again just one page ago. *sigh*
Wow, he called us "tea partiers". I'm not sure what to think about that.
And nice to see the DVDActive pages get updated.
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this was posted from quad73 at the mf.com forums:
Wood talks about the vader-no, however gives whole responsibilty for this change to GL. It is JEJ voice.
Tobar wrote: Looks like Bill Hunt is being attacked. Originaltrilogy.com is also mentioned toward the beginning. I'm still trying to figure this out:
Silverwook wrote: I've never even heard of this blog before. Who is this person?
acertainpointofview's blog, part of bigshinyrobot (Swank-mo-tron somewhat), some of prequelappreciationsociety (Lazypadawan), RLM rebuttal writer Jim Raynor are part of the active blogging community that would like to see that Star Wars remains Positive. This is a hugely inaccurate generalization, but that's the general sense I get from them if you see them as related, which they are not. Their interests in SW cross at many points, but like we know from the members of OT.com not everyone can see eye to eye on everything.
*EDIT*
Maybe the remain Positive thing is too severe. It might be more that they don't like seeing negative aspects go unchallenged.
Okay here's a question for those who have seen these Blu Rays:
In TPM, after Obi Wan has finished off Darth Maul and is standing over the chasm, is his lightsabre reflection still missing from the shiny floor?
I noticed this the first time I saw TPM in the theatre and it's bothered me every time I watched it since.
They told me they’d fixed it!
R2D2 said:
this was posted from quad73 at the mf.com forums:
Wood talks about the vader-no, however gives whole responsibilty for this change to GL. It is JEJ voice.
He really comes off as a great guy, especially having to smirk about not knowing the intentions of George's changes... and of course his "I just work here!"-attitude. You gotta give him the fact that it must be awesome to work at Skywalker Sound (with them editing other shows than Star Wars), and he certainly can't bash Lucas if he wants to keep that job.
I'm proud to be a part of the OTea.COM community (I first joined in the late Sixties).
That interview with Wood is dumb. The interviewer's theory about why Vader's No was added is just moronic.
Bingowings said:
I'm proud to be a part of the OTea.COM community (I first joined in the late Sixties).
Jai-TEA! yes please
J
Here's an early review from someone that obtained a copy of the SW Blus.
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/51146
Do you have the SW Blus? :-)
I do not fear the Dark Side as you do.
I'm watching the special features on the Blu-ray discs and i have to say that, overall, they are pretty disappointing. Not the actual content, but the quality. The old "making of.." docs are terrible quality. They are plagued with horrendous mpeg1/2 compression and other digital artefacts and then the interlacing issues turn the picture into a line-fest when there is the slightest motion. It looks like watching an old VCD but with slightly sharper picture.
Deleted scenes:
The prequel deleted scenes, well i feel sorry for the prequel fans who wanted to see these, because they are a waste of time. The quality looks like they were ripped from youtube when it first started. There are a couple that the quality improves at times, but the majority look like crap. Instead of using the footage from the filming of these scenes they mostly use the low quality quick composite jobs done for tests to visualise the final scene before the effects are added. And with 2 of these films being shot using HD cameras you would expect some of the scenes to be in HD, but they are not. And why use anamatics, that contain NO live action footage, as deleted scenes? I really feel sorry for fans of the prequels here because they are getting truly screwed here. If they had put the original DVD deleted scenes on here at least that would have been some consolation, but alas they are not present. But one interesting thing that i spotted on the Utapau animatic sequence is General grievous. Now was it originally intended to be Darth Maul because you can clearly see that it is him behind the mask?
But now onto the original trilogy ones. Now these are indeed good. Even the worse quality ones are heads above the quality of the prequel ones. ANH ones are pretty bad quality for the most part, which is understandable due to the age of the movie. The best quality one of the Beru "blue milk" scene. this looks like it has had a high quality modern scan and it really sharp and in great condition.
ESB scenes are also mixed quality, but none as good as the beru scene. The capture of Lobot is pretty interesting and you can see exactly where it was supposed to have gone in the movie, just as get to the first landing platform door that is locked. Luke's training footage is a mixture of what would be the same shot, filmed multiple times and from different camera angles. The wampa footage really shows why the whole thing was dropped as that suit just didn't work. One section shows how the conversation between han and leia when he rushed out of the command centre would really have started, with the camera panning to focus on a small but of the wall crumbling to reveal the Wampas hand scratching at the ice while the original conversation continues in the background.
ROTJ has some good deleted scenes. The sandstorm is in pretty bad condition but the majority are pretty good quality with some excellent. The extra Jerjerrod scenes are pretty good. And seeing the whole deleted subplot of the Emperor ordering him to fire upon the planet if the shield generator is destroyed and Jerjerrod's turmoil because of the troops still on the planet, is a great moment, and would have worked great in the final version of the film. The lost pilots is great also. Although the first 2 women are in black and white only, the whole segment is unedited with them repeating the lines that are spoken to them off camera. there is also some funny moments with the lines spoken by the mon calamari pilot puppet. General Madine scenes are pretty good but all of his part here was replaced by Admiral Ackbar in the finished version. It's a shame they didn't add the other scenes especially his death scene. Then you have the rebels inside the falcon during the battle. Now there is no sound here but the quality is very good. Most of the first part is just generic shots of them running around the falcon but then you get to see a long sequence of two of them in the gun turrets. The bunker scenes start off showing the same action in one continuous sequence then, when it ends, it starts again from a different viewpoint, so fan editors are going to love to play around with this.
All in all the OT fans get the best treatment here.
I'm going through the other special features on discs 7 & 8 so i will go through those later.
If you are a fan of the OT and love deleted scenes and special features then this set is for you. If you are a prequel fan and love the same things well i would forget about the deleted scenes and stick to the rest of the extras, unless you are watching them on a 19 inch or less screen.
Don't say that! Now I want them! But I'm only going to buy them used!adywan said:
If you are a fan of the OT and love deleted scenes and special features then this set is for you.
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adywan said:
so fan editors are going to love to play around with this.
Obviously, the entire paragraph here about ROTJ stuff is super-exciting, particularly because we've all got ridiculous expectations for ROTJ:R.
Thanks for doing the writeup on this stuff Ady; it's much appreciated!
Star Wars Spoofs... YAWWWWN. Just clip after clip. Lame
Any announcer or interviews, or just clips?adywan said:
Star Wars Spoofs... YAWWWWN. Just clip after clip. Lame
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adywan said:
Star Wars Spoofs... YAWWWWN. Just clip after clip. Lame
90mins? just clips?
R2D2 said:
this was posted from quad73 at the mf.com forums:
Wood talks about the vader-no, however gives whole responsibilty for this change to GL. It is JEJ voice.
He looks really nervous as he's trying to think of what to say about the "nooooo".
Especially the "It's [George's] movies, it's his ideas, and all that..." line.
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adywan wrote: Star Wars Spoofs... YAWWWWN. Just clip after clip. Lame
Hopefully the problem is the clips are not representative of the full range of spoofery? Don't drift into other less humorous areas of reflection on SW as a cultural item?
Do they intro the segments or find common themes? Hosted like a tv clip show?
BIAS WARNING : the poster says this as it has collected 2,500 SW tv/movie acknowledgements and found mention of 5,000+ and was planning to recreate the films using these clips but also include references and reverse references, and would still like to complete this project but after Harmy's comedy version and this official thing has really put a damper on SWIRP:V...
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/SWIRP-V/post/399228/#TopicPost399228
sad watching shit load of hours of effort turn to real shit..... waste phuck errrr
I just stuck in ESB and the first thing i noticed is some horrible motion smearing. This is really noticeable during the crawl where the crawl actually seems to drag the stars into streaks as it recedes . This was a problem with the 2004 transfer although hardly noticeable on the DVDs but it looks terrible in 1080p
doubleofive said:
Any announcer or interviews, or just clips?adywan said:
Star Wars Spoofs... YAWWWWN. Just clip after clip. Lame
No, just clips
