Okay, I’m sold. Doing the whole reel at once looks pretty awesome.
Those tweaked shots look way too bright though, and I don’t even have my monitor brightness very high.
If there was a third act scripted, it wasn’t in the script they used for the book.
The only major scene omission is the birthday party. The overdubbed scene of the kids at the tree in the rain is a little bit longer in the book, but they did a decent job with it in the finished film.
For those interested, I did a writeup about the book a while back: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089114/board/nest/39489468?p=1
Anyone smell that?
It’s kind of hard to define a “theatrical cut” of this film though, since there was more than one cut, wasn’t there?
What I really want is a director’s cut…but I’m not sure if that will ever happen =(
Just to clarify, the version I had on tape (not sure if it was HBO, may have been Showtime) included the scene of the tilt-a-whirl part rolling down the hill, and also the dream scene near the end where the Thunder Road shows up in Ben’s classroom. It did not have the scene of Ben and Wolfgang walking to school.
That shot has a delibirate blue cast, while the algorithm neutralized the colors. This is why it is probably better to correct multiple shots simultaneously.
Yeah, I was just going to say, that shot is clearly wrong.
Not bad for an automated process, though.
Anyone have an HBO recording?
I used to, but not anymore. As far as I can remember, both of the deleted scenes on the USA DVD were in the movie.
Edit: Actually…isn’t there an extra scene of Ben before he gets punched in the nose? I can’t remember if that’s on the DVD or if it was just in the book. Anyway, that scene wasn’t in the HBO version.
I’ll do seven, just to be on the safe side.
If you go into the forums, you’ll see a user named Negative1 asked for the Star Wars projects they created to be deleted as they plan on upgrading them.
How kind of him.
I can bet you Zion kept the crawl in because rifftrax started their recording during the crawl…and to remove it would then mean a black screen or whatever instead
I feel like the news segment was probably longer than the crawl, so the riff would just need to start later.
Hey, did you guys hear about those Star Trek reels that are up for auction?
160 Euros is probably like five billion USD, but I’ll see what I can do.
Beat me to it!
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That’s weird, because I was reading the spleen news bits, and they said Star Wars stuff would be unaffected.
Maybe I just had to have been into these bootlegs back in the day, but I don’t understand why that crawl needs to be in there. After watching the WHIO release several times, I downloaded a Rifftrax version and was confused to see that pointless crawl in there instead of the extra intro news bit.
It didn’t quite have the same “oh no, not this again” effect when I sprung it on my friends.
I made a compromise.
Yeah, I believe Puggo preserved a cassette for someone.
How do I set that post as my sig???
Hard… drive?
Well it sure as heck isn’t going to fit onto a floppy.
And from someone who should know better?
Are you sure about that? =)
You must have missed the part where the leader of TN1 was N1.
I can’t say I followed
him very much. I don’t read most of the
other sub-forums, so
I mostly only know him for announcements
and overly-compressed
JPG screen
captures.
Can’t wait for it to get off this internet thing I’m just starting to hear about (I mean, honestly, what is with that? it sounds odd), and back onto the sneakernet where it obviously belongs.
Sure man, as soon as I’m done downloading I’ll bring my hard drive over and let you copy it B)
I would however, not hold my breath for the technicolor project, without getting into detail.
Can’t they just use Person#2 scan and not use unethically obtained Person#3 scan? Or are they trying to cut ties with Person#2 completely?
I want to be able to end the pitch with a mic drop, basically.
I have absolutely no doubts. I’ve seen my share of “how did Lucas mess this up?”, but every time I watch one of your clips, I am amazed at just how botched the BluRays really are.
Shame about TN1. Here I was thinking we’d finally have a project without giant egos to ruin everything…
TN1 has been here for a while and everyone knew what they were doing and exactly how illegal it is.
So something has changed.
I agree. People use the phrase “grey area”, but all of our fan edits and preservations are illegal, regardless of whether or not you’re taking money out of George’s pockets.
But, you know, if the movie companies had their way, it would be illegal to sell used DVDs.
I have all of the DVD Battle Sets discs now.
