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Baronlando

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#749808
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A new Indiana Jones?
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Harrison will be tough to replace. They could just let Pratt be a student who is inspired by Indy (as Indy was by the cross of Coranado guy). They could even put him in B-roll of the classroom scene in Last Crusade. Go back to the "Raiders of the...." title system. Disney just wants to have the music and Pratt wearing the fedora on the poster, and the WW2-ish time period more than Indy's life story anyway. Everybody wore a hat like that then, it wouldn't even be a reach. 

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#744204
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Star Wars Ring Theory
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I'm not even particularly anti-prequel but this is another variation on "you're watching it wrong. You are too dumb/nostalgic to get it." Which has been going around since 1999. (And is often used to justify the special edition changes as some kind of moral imperative that just had to happen). Seems like a long way of saying I-III did the same thing sequels do all the time. Mirroring, reveals, callbacks, reversals, subverting expectations. You could apply almost everything in that essay to ANOTHER 48HRS. 

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#743450
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Which is considered canon, the Special Edition or GOUT?
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MathUser said:

It's prettty stupid, he saved him so he's at the point before he became evil right? That's why he gots normal color for his skin and normal body parts? But for some reason he's aged. Did Luke somehow create an alternate timeline or something?

 Oh yes, of course, we all remember the embarrassing obviousness of this mistake from 1983 to 2004. For over 20 years, it was all anyone could talk about, dominating all Star Wars conversations, because it was just SO clear that a huge mistake had been made. And, then finally, our long nightmare was over and it was corrected. 

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#741909
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What will the "official" Star Wars blu rays mess up?
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It's not hard to satisfy the fans on this, no matter how much that notion gets thrown around. The gold standard  for catalog 70s movies is what it is. The same basic color correction and cleanup that has happened every day with titles for years. It doesn't have to be special, it just has to be competent. TRANCERS 2 THE RETURN OF JACK DETH has now managed to pull it off. It's nothing supernatural. If they just do it with the basic competence we see all the time, everyone would be happy. Except about 12 guys on a few forums. You can probably single them out in your head right now if you've been around over the years. 

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#740316
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4K restoration on Star Wars
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AntcuFaalb said:

There's no consensus, but there's a very simple solution: scan an IP, grade to a good release print, fix annoying temporal anomalies (e.g., flicker), dirt/scratch clean, encode, and release.

I don't see how anyone can argue against a "this is the original, as it was" release.

An as-unfucked-with-as-possible OOT release benefits everyone.

 This is absolutely the most reasonable thing to hope for and expect. Because its a thing that actually happens when they release old movies.

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#739291
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Help: looking for... 'Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid' - HD version of Turner Preview?
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I've been keeping my eyes peeled for it but I don't think there is one. (The new cut is out there on some HD streaming things like Vudu and even the theatrical cut has been on some HD channels a few years back). But it raises a question, what is the master they used for the turner cut dvd? When they did the blu for Alfredo Garcia they just utilized the same master as the dvd, so I wonder if a turner cut blu could be done as simply.