Baronlando

The fact that WEIRD AL videos are in the set and the originals aren't is already more ricockulous than including the holiday special could ever be.

It's interesting how by that point, it was so easy to write Anakin off as merely a dumb fuck, I just accepted anything he did.

It's a pretty fascinating topic to pore through, how the movie was semi-remade before it ever came out. But it was always tough to really discuss it because fans get very defensive, as if Anakin is a real person or some shit. I'm very curious to see those scenes from the 2003 shooting.

I can only see this:

Yes but August 3rd was the day I got a response back. I'm not going to explain it again.

Ken, I believe you dude but NOW you're taking a hardline about repeating yourself?

I would have felt gypped if they didn't attack something. And the difference between calling it a death star or a control ship/ imperial base/facility/bomb factory/headquarters/ dam/bridge/Arby's/secret lab is too cosmetic for me to care.

greenpenguino said

OTHER DUMBASS derp-d:

  there has never been a digital restoration of the O-OT released to the public, and there probably won't be. That's not because Lucas hates the fans or is stubborn or is just a jerk. It's because, and as a personal friend of GL, I have a much deeper insight than you, blah blah blah

I believe you Ken. Mostly because getting the sabers the right color, which SPACEBALLS has always managed to do, sounds like the kind of thing LF will expect a medal for.

I think only that they were up at the ranch being interviewed in the early 2000s, beyond that, not sure. I wonder if the "inspired by" true events thing means that it ended up being more fictionalized then they originally intended. It looks decent, it's interesting how the reaction to the CGI varies so much from person to person. We seem to be at the point where you have people who expect it to look utterly real, as if it's just an event that was photographed, and others who recognize it's not real but still find it appealing.

With Star wars, in a way it feels like it's evolving backwards. Only because in those days the pirate home video tapes were just like additional gravy, since the movie was also available to see in the theater pretty much anytime, often in 70mm, for literally months and years. Now theater showings are basically forbidden.  (and contrast that with Indiana Jones as shown here: http://raven.theraider.net/showthread.php?t=18467&page=22

Probably an old question, but has anyone ever figured out of if the actual film source used in those first widescreen lasers is the same one as the '93 or a totally different one? (Yes it looks dirtier and more dinged up, but also somehow just...different to me.)

LforLiving said:

Wow I can't believe that the official Star Wars twitter account retweeted this:

https://twitter.com/#!/starwars/status/96643296104947712

I can believe it, Clone Wars is the current thing for selling trinkets, the prequels were last year's model.

It could have been in the 1981 or 82 releases though, right?

A better look at what comicon was showing. (and some nice dinner theater awkwardness as a bonus!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ofxcM6Cufw

I'll go with the laserdisc of the 1997 versions. I hate the changes and it's not perfect but I'd say that's the best they've ever looked and sounded at home, going by the then-current standard of quality.

Weak.

Yet with little fanfare plenty of movies manage to clean the scratches and get the color right so it's not a big deal until we have these weird guys and their personalities entering the mix. Gordon Willis says this (about the blu of All the President's Men:

it's all fucked up...all the medium tones [are wrong] and contrast is way higher than it oughta be....it's overloaded. They don't get it. They get on those fucking dials...it's a disease. Their idea for a Bluray is to make it for guys who are watching football.""And what are they gonna say?," he said. "We're sorry and we'll do it all over again? You call these guys, it's like talking to a head on a stick."

So basically all it takes for a hugely respected cinematographer to get hosed is one or 2 of those tech support guys who get a little taste of authority. 

captainsolo said:

SilverWook said:

Are we supposed to believe Leia rode in the cargo hold of the X-Wing, or that they abandoned a perfectly good Y-Wing on Tattooine in the middle of a war? ;)

Well...Luke did abandon his X-wing on Cloud City. It magically reappears. Unless the Alliance just gave him another expensive ship to simply replace the one he left sitting around.

I'm waiting for the LOBOT CHRONICLES tv show, which will show how he flew Luke's X-Wing out of there, looking for a job as one of those reverse-lobot guys in Flash Gordon.

It sounds like it was a real emergency re-design so I guess it's not that odd that there isn't much documentation, it could have been over a weekend. (I drive by the crappy old ILM building all the time and it's amazing what a shoestring operation it must have been, it's pretty awesome. One more reason it's such a shame when any of that early Macgyver work is replaced)

http://starwarsaficionado.blogspot.com/2010/08/ilm-classic-image-first-falcon.html

Looks great...resolve failing...want to buy...hostility weakening...

And for actual workprint it looks great.

It looks like those zonadvd shots aren't even the right aspect ratio (full-frame or whatever we call it now on widescreen tvs)

Pirates of the Caribbean 4 just cleared a billion bucks worldwide, it must be the most beloved tale of our times.

doubleofive said:

 

So according to the only article about the restoration, it doesn't even sound like they cleaned it in 1080p, but 480p (which is crazy).

 

My favorite part of that article-Jim Ward 2004: it’s hardly a controversy. We sold over $100 million in one day of this DVD around the world, so I don’t think anybody’s too upset about it. And any changes that George made, they might be controversial to about 5 people.”

vs. Jim Ward 2006:" a truly countless number of fans have told us that they would love to see and own the original version that they remember experiencing in theaters," said Jim Ward

I wonder if the clone wars cartoon may end up having more influence in the long run, only because we've seen how a weekly cartoon can worm it's way into people's brains for years to come if they're the right age. Look at how Transformers and Thundercats and all that stuff never goes away. I can't really tell how popular clone wars is these days, but I assume it's pretty successful. (Although I don't really get it, it feels like I'm watching Veggie Tales or some shit to me)

What about isolated, out-of-context images from I-III? There's some good ones, stuff that is like the idealized prequel in my pre-99 brain:

alex s said:

The only version of SG not available on DVD is the 106 min US theatrical release which contains a side shot of SG flying as she's about to fly out of the Phantom Zone into Selena's fortress not seen in any other cut. 

Is that the version that was in that big chunky VHS box? That brings back memories. I had that and the ABC version of II from 1988, I can't believe i tossed both of them, duh!

 

Loser from TF.N said:

Fanboys are the problem. Fanboys write online petitions about things that aren't any of their business.

 

Ah, a perfectly healthy way to react to a petition about a home video product: religious zealotry!

There's stuff in the various old books/articles about how Lucas had to fight to have Greedo speak with subtitles and how strongly he felt it added to the atmosphere of the whole thing (and how it was actually meant to be an unexpected novelty for Admiral Ackbar to speak regular english). But when FRINGE-Lucas came through the vortex and switched with ours in 1995, he just really thought Hanna Barbara voices were hilarious.