I say we wait until we get our hands on the whole thing (or at least some of the more obviously screwed up footage). The colors are a little bit better in certain areas, and there's definitely some detail present which was too black in the 2004 to bring back...so there's some sort of voodoo going on here.
CP3S said:
He's gonna pull out his BASH hammer, and nobody wants to see his BASH hammer.
The Aluminum Falcon said:
We can get to see what kind of sequel Lucas would have been forced to make if Star Wars wasn't a success.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splinter_of_the_Mind's_Eye
I've got it, but I haven't read it yet.
The deleted scenes would look a lot less jarring if spliced into Puggo's stuff, but that's just one idea.
CP3S said:
TK's point was that Chewie is with Leia at the beginning of ROTJ, so it doesn't necessarily stand that every player has to have been in the same place they were left at the end of the previous film.
Even if you disregard the EU Shadows of the Empire, the search for Han was suppose to have taken some time and any number of things could have happened between films...
I've always been under the impression that an indeterminate amount of time had lapsed between the movies. I'd always imagined the Rebel Alliance hopping from planet to planet before finally settling on Hoth. Luke looks so much older and wiser in RotJ, I imagine all of the training and experiences he's gone through until that point.
And obviously the Death Star took some time to rebuild. Even in its unfinished looking state, it is "fully operational".
CP3S said:
I'd agree, though I'd make it plural, as I thought LEGO Star Wars III was pretty fantastic regardless of the fact that I've never seen more than a single episode of The Clone Wars nor have any interest to.
Yeah, I meant that to be plural, since even the first 360 LEGO Star Wars game was a compilation of the two games before it.
CP3S said:
The Force Unleashed titles have been really good sellers too. But yeah, like 005 said, it is for the Kinect Star Wars game, which is suppose to be an extremely big deal and move a lot of Kinect units.
Oh, didn't know they were making that. Weird, since not too long ago I remember them saying that they wouldn't be able to do anything like lightsaber controls, because of the severe limitations of the Kinect "controller" (or whatever they call it).
This almost makes me interested in getting a 360...
Weird that they'd do this, though, when the only Star Wars game on 360 worth playing is full of LEGO (not counting the original XBox backwards compatability).
adywan said:
Well i got a reply from the person who was at the Blu-Ray preview at the Disney offices and it does look like we are getting the same old crappy transfers done for the 2004 DVD set:
As I was also at the launch of the Original Trilogy DVD box set, and spoke to Lowry Digital, who made the digital masters, it is my belief that the Blu-rays are created from the same masters as the DVDs. However, Lowry Digital originally created either 4k2k or 8k4k masters at the time (my memory is a little vague) not 1080p ones. And I believe it is these that have been used as the basis for the new BD transfers. Certainly, they are considerably better than either the DVD versions or 1080i TV broadcasts.
I don't see the part where it says the BluRays are just going to be the HDTV broadcasts...?
Unless you typoed and said "does" instead of "doesn't"?
But if what someone else said is true, that the colors were butchered before mastering, then I guess that's that =/
I was playing around with blending GOUT with JSC in Photoshop one day when I was bored, before I realized there's nothing in the GOUT to benefit from.
So I take it you guys didn't catch Superman on AMC last year? In May I think it was.
I could be wrong, but after looking at all these clips, I'm pretty sure all of them were in it when they showed it. I'm pretty sure it was in widescreen, too. It ran from 4:30 to 8:00, so if it was the Donner cut, they must've showed a whole hours' worth of commercials.
DuracellEnergizer said:
All we need is Jar Jar's middle finger sticking up. Then it'd be perfect.
Didn't someone do one about 20 pages ago?
If you're in NTSC land, these are the droids you are looking for: 
1992's Special Letterbox Collection. It's the first and last time the movies were released in widescreen before THX added its motion blurring DVNR effects to the films (as far as VHS is concerned).
If the DVNR doesn't bother you, then you might as well just find the GOUTs on DVD. I believe this set has them, I don't think you can get them seperate from the 2004 DVDs: http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Trilogy-Harrison-Ford/dp/B001EN71DG/
Or if you don't care about widescreen, then the world is your oyster (or something along those lines).
_,,,^..^,,,_ said:
I must admit that I like too very much the previous spanish LD capture, but as explained it will be a "wrong" restoration... but IT IS better in resolutiion and colors, as it is THX-ed - they made something good, after all ;-)
I think it's still worth preserving, even if you don't end up giving it as much attention as this Pyramid set.
Not many people have the hardware to do this kind of thing, let alone the motivation.
I'm no expert by any means, but there's something about the Spanish capture that I really like. Something about the look of it that "feels" much more like a DVD should, and much less like an old LD transfer.
Maybe I'd have to see the Pyramid in motion, I don't know.
That was only one reel of ESB. From what I understand, he's got a copy of ANH that's he's also trying to capture.
And maybe more?
Jar Jar aside, I'm probably the only one on this forum who actually liked the prequels ¬_¬ I wish they weren't a huge bad-CGI-fest, but somehow I'm able to look past that and really get into them in a way that I probably shouldn't. Maybe it's only because I missed out seeing the original trilogy in theatres, and seeing Eps 2 and 3 on the big screen was a pretty big event for me.
*runs to hide from the slings and arrows*
Hmm. That's the first time I've heard that, but I guess we'll find out.
...unless it was shot unmatted.
Dolby Stereo logo noted ;) But it also says "(c) 1989 Turner Network Television" right after that, so...
I know beggers can't be choosers, but.......... 16:9!? :|
Was just wondering if anyone is considering Netflix streaming as a legitimate source for preservations.
They currently have The Keep, Quest for the Mighty Sword, and Double Trouble.
They also have Lifeforce and Erik the Viking, though I don’t know if they’re the theatrical versions or not.
Also we watched Warlock on there, and I may be wrong, but I recall it being in widescreen.
I can check the aspect ratios on the rest if anyone’s interested.
Wow.
^ Compared to Arnie.d's JSC
It might be because it's a different frame, but that X-wing shot definitely has a lot more stars in it.
Bingowings said:
Lawnmower Man was meant to be a representation of VR then (or at least very close to then) so it was pretty accurate even if the film was a pile of poo.
It's a visual representation of the interactions of programs and data in cyberspace that was rendered largely on a computer and it looks timeless.
Yeah, that's what I meant. It's supposed to be a virtual puppet sort of representation of Cain. If they wanted it to look real, they could've just shaved Tom Noonan bald and filmed him against a black background.
But different strokes for different folks, I suppose.
Bingowings said:
Yep and it ruined the menace of the featured character and dates the film terribly.
Oh, right.
I don't mind that so much, because it's supposed to be bad CGI. It's not trying to represent anything real. That's like saying Tron or The Lawnmower Man had bad CGI.
Or the Money for Nothing music video \m/
I don't get all the Robocop 2 hate.
I could understand the third movie, but #2 was great. I always thought getting Frank Miller to write it was a great idea, since his Dark Knight Returns feels more like a Robocop story than it does Batman.
Bingowings said:
I rather liked Robocop 2 but the CGI was rubbish.
There was CGI in it?
The "Smear Free '93" LaserDisc is the same transfer as the 1992 Letterbox VHS.
