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Adamwankenobi

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#167362
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hot like fire thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/167362/action/topic#167362
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Originally posted by: Warbler
Originally posted by: PSYCHO_DAYV
THAT WAS IN THE PAST. AWK HAS TURNED A NEW LEAF.


Really? Are you certain? Have you read his post-Double-Secret-Probation posts in the General Star Wars secton?


Warb, Jay explained the situation in his "Time to grow up" thread that he posted a while back. What happened there was that me and couple of guys got into an argument because they were bashing the PT, and it got me mad. So we traded insults, and Jay thought that we were all stupid for the posts, so we all agreed to stop the insults. He decalred that this was not an anti-PT site. Everything seems to be back to normal now for the most part. I am trying to be better and get along.
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#167351
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Can someone please explain WHY the audio on the 2004 ANH DVD is so messed up?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/167351/action/topic#167351
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Originally posted by: SilverWook
The screw up with Tarkin's line just boggles the mind. If the master recording is damaged, how hard is it to lift it from another source and isolate the dialog?


My thoughts exactly. But it was probably because they were in such a hurry that they just forgot or something. Seriously, I just don't understand why he HAD to relase the set last year. Why didn't he wait until after ROTS, so that he could get everything right THE FIRST TIME.
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#167263
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Indiana Jones 4
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/167263/action/topic#167263
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Originally posted by: Nanner Split
Originally posted by: Adamwankenobi
Well, let's take Young Indy, for example. Was it spectacular? No. Was it groundbreaking? No. Was it fun at times? Yes. And plus, in it, we got to see 93 year old Indy, and he wasn't an embarrasment like some say an older Indy would be. We even got to see Harrison Ford as a 50 year old Indy in one episode. Was he as bad as some say he would be? No.


But just how much action did the 93 and 50 year old Indys take part in? Were they swinging from whips, outrunning boulders, pistol-whipping Nazis and bangin' German women?


Well, that was a bad example, I suppose. No. He was too old to do those sorts of things at 93. But... at 50, he could have, they just didn't show it in the show. But, I just don't get why people have something against an older Indy. People age. It is a part of life. Naturally, Indy would get old. What on earth is so bad about an older Indy going around on adventures? To me, it would be a fitting end to the series to show a somewhat older Indy as this film will, and prove to the world that he is still ready for adventure, even at an old age.

So is Rocky...

So is Rambo...

You can't keep an old dog down...

George Bush hates old people.
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#167261
Topic
Can someone please explain WHY the audio on the 2004 ANH DVD is so messed up?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/167261/action/topic#167261
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Well, it was only the ANH DVD that had the audio mistakes. The ESB amd ROTJ DVDs had excellent audio quality.

But, the reversing of channels on ANH, I am certain was no mistake. That was something they did to improve the overall sound of things like Vader's voice, which sounded very echoed in all other versions of ANH. That is one improvement, IMHO, as it is one of the few things that makes the audio clearer than before. And I just reallized that Luke's line of "You mean it controls your actions" was sourced from the regular on-set audio, where you could hear the lightsaber rod spinning. Apparently, in the DVDs, someone put in the wrong audio recording there.

I seriously hope that he or someone else notices these audio problems before they do his archival editions of the films. If he could just get everything exactly how he wants, and every one of these little problems fixed, I... would be EXTREMELY happy.
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#167237
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Can someone please explain WHY the audio on the 2004 ANH DVD is so messed up?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/167237/action/topic#167237
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Yeah! I mean, what Lucas should do is personally take a few good months to PAINSTAKINGLY look over every single frame of the original negative and fix ANY problem with it, color correct anything that needs corrected, add or remove and make adjustments EXACTLY as he sees necessary, etc. He needs to make a definitive version that he wants to remain throughout history. I mean it needs to be THE BEST it can ever be. He then needs to put it on the highest definition available and release ALL oif the films this way on the BEST available format.

Now, take a look at what Ridley Scott has done to Blade Runner. He definately improved the film by making his director's cut. But what did he do? He used a crappy copy of the film to do it with, and didn't have it restored correctly for the DVD, and now he has to do this definitive DVD that he should have got right the first time! And then of course now, that asshole Jerry Perenchio (who owns part of the rights to it) refuses to allow it to be re-released, due to his own greedy desires.
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#167209
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Can someone please explain WHY the audio on the 2004 ANH DVD is so messed up?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/167209/action/topic#167209
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Well, I just can't believe that they couldn't have found a better source for those two Tarkin and Luke lines. I mean, this is one of the greatest films ever made, surely it would have been better kept than that.

And by the way, what's the deal with the way films are stored? It seems as if director's disregard their films until later on and say "Hold on a sec, what happened to it?" And then they do a poor restoration job on it. Take Raiders of the Lost Ark, for instance. It contains so much grain that it ruins the experuience. It was very poorly put to DVD, and the audio is messed up on it as well. I mean, it is understandable that some of the copies of the film would have deteriorated.. but, the original?
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#167194
Topic
Indiana Jones 4
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/167194/action/topic#167194
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Well, let's take Young Indy, for example. Was it spectacular? No. Was it groundbreaking? No. Was it fun at times? Yes. And plus, in it, we got to see 93 year old Indy, and he wasn't an embarrasment like some say an older Indy would be. We even got to see Harrison Ford as a 50 year old Indy in one episode. Was he as bad as some say he would be? No.

(And, BTW, the Young Indy series serves as proof that Indy will not die in Indy 4, as he was shown as an old man of 93 in the Young Indy series.)
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#167188
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Now when I talk about SW, I have to specify the old ones!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/167188/action/topic#167188
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The OT had such an impact because it was new and groundbreaking. By the time the PT rolled around, it naturally wasn't that big of a deal to the general public. For the most part, they probably only were interested in TPM and ROTS, as the media wanked them to death. And then of course, there were the original fans, who had in their heads what the PT would be like. And when it didn't deliver their expectations, well, things turned nasty.
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#167181
Topic
Can someone please explain WHY the audio on the 2004 ANH DVD is so messed up?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/167181/action/topic#167181
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Originally posted by: TheCassidy
For someone like yourself, I would assume Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope sounded great to you.

Wasn't the DVD set the first time you watched it?


No. The first time I saw it was the OO version of it in 2000. It was the "faces" tape. I then bought the special edition tapes of ll three when they were re-released in 2000. Comparing the ANH DVD with the tapes, and comparing the DVD of ANH with the DVDs of ESB and ROTJ provides a noticeable difference.