Baronlando

Too bad, it was a solid show from what I saw. I'm curious if they ever showed the episodes that were rejiggered into the movie. It probably played better that way. 

I remember some Mcquarrie paintings of the early scenes appearing way, way beforehand, and then extrapolating the whole movie from that. The movie was pretty close, if cheaper. And I also expected Jabba to appear in his marvel comics form.  (I wasn't there opening night but I can confirm people chanting "Throw him in! Throw him in!" When Vader saves Luke.)

So, did this show get canceled? I just caught the last couple episodes and it seemed pretty final. But it's hard to find any straight info about the status, there's so much shrieking and defensive hysteria from the prequelheads. 

It feels like people are optimistic that it won't be necessary under the new regime. But nobody wants to say it out loud, like it's a timid deer that could get scared off.

I like how Greedo is blasted before he can even finish his sentence. Clearly, he was always intended to shoot first but the precise technology controlling what we now call "pencils" didn't exist yet to draw it that way.

timdiggerm And wouldn't there have been a sandstorm scene in ROTJ? or B-Wings?

So, the "artist" was limited by problems. I can see the rough cut perspective.

Only if every movie ever is now just a rough cut.

I went to a screening of AMERICAN GRAFFITI that had George and Gary Kurtz on a panel afterwards. I said hi to George in the lobby, they both seemed like really  cool guys. 

Trooperman said:

This is why I believe the true version of a film SHOULD be the 4th generation theatrical print, because that is the version everybody saw 

Not always. You have some cases like the opening roadshow version of DOCTOR ZHIVAGO, which were all 70mm blow ups right from the negative, which caused major headaches years later for that restoration. Star Wars also had prints made right off the negative. Also there's a recent interview with Howard Kazanjian where he mentions that the opening night JEDI in hollywood was a 70mm blowup right off the negative. It happened a lot, they were pretty reckless with that stuff.

I had a few problems connecting too but I thought it was very interesting, thanks, Mike.

Tobar said:

Craig Good a 30 year Pixar veteran tweeted this earlier today:

Craig Good ‏@clgood

Would you buy a Blu-ray or DVD of the Star Wars theatrical cut? Take & share my informal, personal, unofficial survey. http://fave.co/Us1oeb 

Interesting. Fox would merely distribute and take their cut if the situation is as it seems, so disney would be handling the actual work, and they have a home video army in place working every day on about a zillion hours of cartoons and movies dating back 75 years anyway. It becomes even more of a no brainer than before. "Hmm, should we prep the Star Wars trilogy this week, or some episode of Davey Crockett from 1953, can't decide."

msycamore said:Where is  Baronlando's new HD release updates?

I guess I just grew up. Accepted that SW '77 is too obscure and niche to do what we expect.

danny_boy said

 

My opinion is  that when the original negative was washed back in 1995 it was re-assembled without the insertion of any new material

I hope so, but is that based on any specific info?

I think the prequel scores are quite good, considering you're dealing with a million of these dry little one minute scenes of sitting around explaining stuff and loud, long action scenes that are futzed around and tinkered with long past the point where it's too late to compose and record full orchestra for it.

http://www.wideanglecloseup.com/starwarsaudio.html

this theater recording has the "taste" line and is the 70mm. (Is near the end of the 

first empire clip)

It's all relative, I would guess that after Last House on the Left and Hills have eyes, Craven probably thought he was being pretty soft. 

There might be a legit blu-ray coming, ill try to find  where I read that.

3.5 million for 30 seconds. 

There's no question the OT could have been nicely taken care of for a fraction of this. The fucking Super Bowl ad alone.

SilverWook said:

Why do people keep harping on young Kirk driving his late father's car off the cliff? It was a perfectly reasonable way to keep his jackass stepfather(?) from ever getting his clutches on it.

I could have sworn the bar fight was started by cadet cupcake, who appeared to be human.

And now people are nitpicking Kirk's active libido? What's the universe coming to? ;)

Yeah, plus the tv show was actually very stylish and flashy, especially the first season when they had more money. The lighting and camera and general style was not conservative at all, we don't think of it that way now but compare it to Gunsmoke or Dragnet or whatever. 

The cyan layer being out of sync is fixable now I believe. The thing is, they haven't even really tried to do anything since 1996, (or 2003, if you want to be way more generous than me) which is completely the Stone Age now when it comes to restoration. The blu of CABARET, without fanfare, is made only from an interpositive that was all scratched for one reel, but looks great.

 

Kasdan has a history with Lucasfilm, as screenwriter on The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Return of the Jedi. Kinberg was writer on Sherlock Holmes and Mr. and Mrs. Smith

My favorite part, like an accidental insult.

Jeez are people really not impressed by the LOST pilot, just purely as a director? (Made in like, 14 days) Man, tough room. 

After 4 Generations movies, 300 hours of Voyager,Deep Space etc., it doesn't hurt to have a couple action Trek movies. Don't worry, it will be back on TV lecturing us soon enough. It does seem weird there hasn't been an official starwars.com  announcement though, it's like they weren't ready to tell us yet.

rpvee said:

, but these films are supposed to fit with the past ones, both in terms of content AND visuals.

Yeah but that ship sailed long ago, I like this choice of Abrams.

Nice, Ill probably get em. That would be a real coup to get episode 2 in its full original version, whatever that was. I bet there's complications there, though. (If they get to JEDI that will be pretty cool, it should have been a double album back in the day but wasn't).