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jedi_jra said:

I look forward to a correctly color-timed film with LD audio.  I'm sure an MKV will show up one of these days....

Sample with correct color timing here using the new remastered blu, looks incredible!

http://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=6541900&postcount=731

Looks fantastic. I knew people here had their eyes on this. A color corrected version with the original mono track would be definitive in my book. Looking forward to it.

SilverWook said:

This post in particular caught my eye.

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/11368548-post37.html

"I can tell you this, the University of North Carolina School of the Arts has an unfaded Technicolor-process print of Star Wars, and good condition 70mm prints of Empire and Jedi. And that place is full of film students who all undoubtedly loathe what Lucas has done to the films. Get those prints to this mysterious scanner and we'd have HD editions of the original cuts of all three films by the end of the year."

I find this hard to believe, but someone should probably follow up on this before George does...

This is SO GOOD.

<3 Harmy

The Prequels and the Special Editions suck.

I finished reading Making of Star Wars and am making my way through Making of Empire right now. These are some of my favorite books I own. Such a fun read.

Can't wait to read more about behind the scenes with Jedi. Especially the script changes.

George Lucas is a hack. Remember that.

I'm 19. I was exposed to Star Wars for the first time through this release in the 90s:

I watched them so many times I wore out the tapes. This couldn't have been any earlier than 1996, I was 4 years old. Out came the special editions. I hated them. Out came the prequels. Appallingly bad.

I don't think you need to be someone who watched the original film in theatres back in 1977 to understand why it is culturally significant and deserves to be preserved.

So good.

Sooooooooooooooooo good.

Very well done. I laughed!

HE KILLED YOUNGLINGS

timdiggerm said:

In which a bunch of voice actors do a very weird version of the Star Wars radio drama: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBzRmWeC6Ds

Frink, surely this is of significant interest to you. Bender makes an appearance, among others.

Was going to post this. Too damn funny.

It's on days like this that I wish the film had a home release I could watch.

Oh well. Harmy's it is.

THE WORST THE WORST THE WORST

It wouldn't hurt so bad if we could just ignore it and watch the actual films =(

Seeing this topic bumped is just a sad reminder that I'll never see a technicolour print of Star Wars. Those shots of the screen are simply stunning =(

Save us Verta!

I'm fairly certain that the movie studios would have passed on Star Wars if it weren't for McQuarrie's art.

R.I.P to a true legend. You will be missed =(

The Phantom Menace has matched expectations and brought in a very healthy $23 million dollars at the North American box office, taking fourth spot for the weekend.

That's bad, lol.

Pretty sure the OT will pull in a good deal more when it's released starting in... 2015?

Even though George has said so in the past, I really don't think it has anything to do with money.

George wants us to watch HIS versions of the films. Those "other versions" don't exist in his mind.

Cause if it did have to do with money, we could start a Kickstarter account and raise whatever amount was necessary in about 5 hours, probably.

EyeShotFirst said:

Sorry again, I've got to make more adjustments. They aren't turning out the way I want them.

Yeah no problem George.

I kid, I kid ;)

Tighe said:

doubleofive said:

 

Tighe said:

Speaking of transfers, Dragon Ball Z is getting a proper 1080P transfer from the original film!  And Lucas can't do it???

Pretty sure this is at least the second time in the last 7 or 8 years.

 

 

The last transfer was to DVD and they included the whole film frame to give it a 16:9 aspect ratio if I recall correctly.  This version is blue-ray, and will have the original broadcast 4:3 aspect ratio.  I think a bunch of fans were upset about the changes. LOL go figure.

It's pretty funny. The DVD release was cropped to 16:9 and DNR'd to hell. This blu ray release is pretty much FUNimation's apology to the fans, and looks like a pretty damn good release.

Oh George.

Thanks for the idea.

Yeah, the only part of the documentary I totally disagreed with was the ending. "We love you George, we still love you. blah blah blah"

George can eat a bag of dicks at this point.

Ultimatejedi04 said:

 I like just having a star,wars conversation with alot of people.

Greatest use of a comma EVER.

EyeShotFirst said:

Coming soon!!!

In a vein similar to Harmy's restorations I have restored the film posters to the best of my abilities. They may not be 100% accurate, but they are very pleasing to the eye. I did my own take of the Definitive laser disc box set, though it is still quite different. I'm almost done with the discs, so they will be uploaded sometime in the next few days or so.

All art and images are pre 1997 material to make things more legit. The only images on the back that are not from Harmy's preservation are promotional images and what not.

In an ideal world, the original unaltered trilogy is released on blu ray, and they are in these cases. Great work!

Finally got this on DVD a couple days ago.

I've watched it 5 times already, and I have to say I really enjoyed it. However, I don't think this movie is aimed at me, or OT.com members.

It's aimed at my parents and friends, who ask "You're getting the new Star Wars blu rays, right? You LOVE Star Wars!". When I say "No, I not picking up that crap", I now have this documentary to show them why. It does a very good job, in easy to understand terms, explaining why I'm so "anti-Lucas" and why I can't stand the special editions.

hey look george let his daughter play with photoshop again