Baronlando

Except for the alternate angles with saavik in the elevator, I think it is. 

My first ever digital comic, it's pretty cool, like a more emotional, melodramatic version of PHANTOM MENACE.

darth_ender said:

There is a fellow at trekbbs.com calling himself CaptainBearclaw who has been doing research on deleted scenes from the Star Trek films.  I already have linked to his thread over there.  Matter of fact, he is also a recent member here, calling himself Tack.  He just started up a blog on these deleted scenes.

http://startrekrarities.blogspot.com

Very cool. I'd flip out if they released that MOTION PICTURE workprint. It's too bad paramount home video is so lame about that kind of thing. (And has been since the laserdisc days so probably won't ever change )

Paramount pays his salary. With money from completely different, other movies and CHEERS reruns. So Pegg should really pay proper respect to everything ever. But really, who gives a fiddler's fuck.

How is this even a thing.

The Alec guiness stuff and the Han/Lando stuff is all wrong. 

imperialscum said:

Come on, don't be ridiculous. It is not like there is a lot of cloudy days in North Africa at that time either. And the sky can be just "as blue" here as in California.

They actually had a bad luck getting storms while filming (as stated in Empire of Dreams by Watts)

Jesus Christ, take it up with Lucas and everyone who worked on the fucking movie. 

Yikes ,TFN has gotten scary.

imperialscum said:

Ryan McAvoy said:

Just needs a few touches probably.

I think the shot would gain immensely by just adding a clear blue sky. Maybe a dune sea in the background would help (since Luke's uncle states he lives in a dune sea).

But as I said, I love the SE version which does exactly that.

Except the sky in North Africa was rarely  that clear california blue, they didnt want that, that was one of the whole reasons they went there, Lucas has spoken of the unique color over there, they could have just shot it on the way to Vegas. (Of course this is before the latest color seems to be trying to turn the movie into fuckin STAR WARS TOKYO DRIFT )

Considering how fugly the blu-rays are, episode 7 may end up looking more authentic to the trilogy than the actual trilogy does now.

twister111 said:

It has begun... 550 supporters already....


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Okay, I have to resist the urge now to flood the board with Batman stuff. I was starting to do it on my twitter.... Yeah anyways, um *posting*
Edit I just posted and there 560 supporters now....

I don't like to be crude but fuck those fuckholes.

The big indicator will be when they get to the point of selling the movies individually. Right now we're at the pointless box repack phase (see that 2005 box set without the extra disc), hopefully the blu-ray equivalent of 2006 is a color corrected, scratch-repaired IP, which frankly, would be awesome. And shamefully cheap and easy for them, so everybody wins.

msycamore said:

IIRC, Robert A. Harris mentioned years ago that the actual original cut negative wasn't altered (it was disassembled, cleaned up and reassembled). A new duplicate negative was what all the work was done on preparing Star Wars for the Special Edition. Everything else is just horror stories made up to conveniently make it seem like a restoration is somehow impossible.

I really hope that's true. And it does make a certain amount of sense, because otherwise you'd be waiting for every single new shot to come through the pipeline before you could even start putting the movie back together. 

Is it more than a little weird the way nobody is really acknowledging that George Lucas said, flat out, that the original 3 are in the movie. How long ago was that? Is he just losing his marbles? What is the P.R. advantage of ignoring and or contradicting that, unless something weird is going on. 

Lucasfilm dictates the packaging though, no matter who puts it out.

Harmys Despecialized seems like your best bet these days.

Theatrical Phantom menace should absolutely be released, even though I personally would probably never watch it. It was a pretty major pop culture event of summer 99.  

That'll be so low-rent if the DVDs are 2004. Besides, it was always part of the original artistic vision that sand people are afraid of Little Richard, how can we, as a society, go back to the days before that.

The Magnum Force one is really good.

rockin said:

especially if they feel the cost of doing this outweighs the benefit of $$$ return. 

This is impossible no matter what LFL might say. 

It's probably the newest version on its own DVD. A lot of young kids watch regular DVD, so this makes sense. After all, there's a whole new generation that needs to be utterly bullshitted about what a 35 year old movie looks like.

I will endeavor to be more respectful of cartoons and not-cartoons and or whatever.

http://www.foxconnect.com/star-wars-trilogy-episodes-iv-vi.html

So I guess this is just some pointless repack?

Every time this comes up, some prequelhead starts screeching about how many models were built for the prequels, as if the volume of model building is the actual criticism, not the fact that the models are swimming in a cartoon digital sea.

Nothing is a juggernaut for more than for 2 weekends anyway these days, I think Avengers and Star Wars in the same month is no big deal.