Baronlando

I guess most people aren't into it, but the marvel series is important, historically, because it comes from the days when Lucasfilm was MUCH smaller and Lucas and one or 2 other people were actually guiding the writers and artists. Lucas handpicked artists back then and voiced his displeasure with certain early stories/writers, and at the time anyway, it was the "official" chronicle of what was going on in between the flicks and was made happened DURING the making of the trilogy. 

I think boiling Marvel down to the main stories (ignoring some obvious deadline fill-ins and one-offs), compressing the time between Empire and Jedi and fixing the (relatively few) contradictions would be really cool. (it actually wouldn't be that hard. They had to ignore Luke losing his lightsaber after Empire, so the blue one ought to be changed to a "temporary" one he acquired along the way, there are a few he could be using that turned up in previous stories). Just a thought.

Whatever they did for Close Encounters, because that is now my gold standard for effects-heavy hit sci-fi movies from 1977 that were altered later on. 

Nothin wrong with that, but honestly I'm pretty indifferent.

Remastered for dvd quality?! What do you think this is, Xanadu? 

What about a version with the soundtrack music from New York tracked in? It would be fascinating to see, since pretty much every scene in LA has a corresponding scene in New York. Also, has anyone made a preservation from the Universal Hi-Def showing? I missed it, and the dvd is horrible.

About now, we're getting to the part where we get told we're being too picky about the changes and the transfers, they aren't that bad, we can never be satisfied etc.. Now, someone explain to me why these SAME people are always the ones that get completely cunty about the matte lines and R2D2's black squares and all the other terrible flaws in the original versions?  

Hey, forget childhood nostalgia or disrespecting a dead guy. It just looks SO SHITTY. Step back for a sec.: it's an outtake of a young guy's head crudely pasted on an old guy's body. The eyelines don't even match, which is 1st year film school shit, so it looks awkward even if you don't know why. and that's... The End of Star Wars? Isn't that enough to hate it? 

Canon is whatever you want. "We take what we want. And leave the rest, just like your salad bars".

egg shen, Big Trouble in Little China

That clip is interesting. Is the TFN guy really that dense? Or is he a Sansweet-type shill? Either way, he skeeves me out.

There's a big difference between a desire to see some proper preservation done, and Lucas bashing. And the flat out bashing that DOES go on around here is positively mild and limited, compared to well...everywhere on da internet that isn't TFN. Poor Lucas is a constant punchline out there man, look around. At least this place is celebrating that he did do something great once, something we all want out there more than he does! This forum might be the most genuinely flattering thing ever done about Lucas!

What a rebel!

Biting satire!

If the 77-83 restoration is what you want you should just leave it at that, without all the extra rage, that doesn't help the "cause", it just make us all look like crackpots. And crackpots are IGNORED in home video.

I like George, he's a good guy, (he just has some bad ideas about what constitutes film preservation). Is anybody else sort of concerned about his health?