I hope they hire Mike Matessino and Neil S Bulk to do the John Williams scores. That would be a dream. But It won’t happen.
I hope Neil gets to do the TSWLM soundtrack one day. It’s never gotten a proper release and his work on the La La Land Bond soundtracks is amazing.
OK, I’ll back off.
Back to the PT - I find that II and III look much better after a regrade.
To bring in a little more controversy (since apparently my posts rile people up for entertainment value and generate performative “who cares” posts from people who clearly care), Luke is the “Ghost of Kyiv” from early 2022.
Eh, I really don’t care and I find it amusing that you put so much effort into this.
What kind of insane freak would talk about Star Wars on a Star Wars forum? In a thread asking for thoughts about Star Wars no less. Wild stuff. Better make a snarky comment that adds nothing like a redditor
I’m more just poking fun at your arguments and demeanor, because you seem to take yourself way too seriously. As Lucas himself said, these are movies for 12 year old boys and aren’t that serious.
To bring in a little more controversy (since apparently my posts rile people up for entertainment value and generate performative “who cares” posts from people who clearly care), Luke is the “Ghost of Kyiv” from early 2022.
Eh, I really don’t care and I find it amusing that you put so much effort into this.
I wasn’t talking about you.
But I’m questioning why it matters that other people think these things about it.
Because it shows how the prequels failed to communicate the story, and why their legacy continues to make the setting worse. This mainstream interpretation of events is directly responsible for The Last Jedi and The Acolyte and lots of other bad EU stories, and like I’ve been saying, retroactively damages the original trilogy. I think it has some real life consequences as well but I won’t get into that.
They were meant for DVD. Why Lucas thought they were good enough for Blu-Ray, I really have no explanation. Not to mention further changes. And fixes.
Just to think even the 2020 UHD only happened because of the 3D release that was cancelled and those scans.
We had the same HD master on DVD, HDTV, and Blu-Ray for what 15 or 16 years.
John Lowry literally said that when the Blu-Rays would come out, Lucas would most likely come back for a better restoration… That never happened.
Given that the blu-ray came out in 2011 and the Reliance master (for 3D) was completed the following year, I’m thinking the Reliance master was supposed to be on the blu-ray, but got delayed (hence implementing the changes meant for the 3D release on the old master).
I do recall she got a shot at Vader in Splinter of the Mind’s Eye but I don’t remember if it was handled well.
Splinter is generally a strange artifact of the pre-ESB expanded universe. It’s very entrenched in a ‘70s kind of sci-fi writing and none of the core stuff ESB established is anywhere near Foster’s mind. It also has Vader’s defeat coming from him tripping over his own severed arm, so that’s kind of a weird moment.
I like his movies but this is just a loser opinion. People that think this way don’t understand that it’s supposed to have mythological and spiritual qualities. It’s unsurprising that he put the overly simplistic interpretation of Dune into his Dune part 2 movie.
I mean, he got closer that Jodorowsky would’ve done.
I still believe I would’ve like Jodorowsky’s Dune over Villeneuve’s, regardless of “closeness”. Villeneuve’s Dune strikes me as a soulless made-by-committee corporate product.
Oh absolutely. Even the low-budget Sci-Fi Channel miniseries has more charm than the new Dune movies.
I like his movies but this is just a loser opinion. People that think this way don’t understand that it’s supposed to have mythological and spiritual qualities. It’s unsurprising that he put the overly simplistic interpretation of Dune into his Dune part 2 movie.
I mean, he got closer that Jodorowsky would’ve done.
You kind of created a second continuity error by not having the black droid in the shot. It’s good work, but it just looks kind of “off” now.
Wow! I never knew that the prequel trilogy had an overreliance on underdeveloped CGI technology, or that it had questionable VFX shots. Good thread!
I was going to say how the color person ruined excellent pencils/inking with that “esoteric” color scheme in Dark Empire.
Cam Kennedy coloured his own art, and the main reason he went with that colour scheme was due to failing vision from glaucoma.
Ah, I didn’t know that and now I feel like an asshole.
I was going to say how the color person ruined excellent pencils/inking with that “esoteric” color scheme in Dark Empire.
More “bricks and screws” in both a literal and metaphorical sense, please.
That scene on the Death Star that got reused in the Holiday Special might be a good scene to place between those two shots.
I rather like how you’ve implemented the changes, especially cutting from the conference room to the paltry search effort. The only gripe I have is the skeleton suddenly appearing behind the droids in the scene. Would it make sense to incorporate it into the establishing shot?
I just finished Me by Elton John and it was a fantastic retrospective on his life and career. He nails the surreality of a famous life and details his shortcomings more than most would. It’s somewhat more elaborate than Rob Halford’s memoirs, but not as much of an overly-emotional mess as Peter Criss and Paul Stanley’s literary tirades books.
The match cut (is that the right term?) between Anakin on the stretcher and Padme on the hearse might be my favorite touch in the whole sequence! You’ve done fantastic work in condensing the falling actions of III.
The BBY/ABY calendar existing in-universe.
Why do you hate it? I do not mind it.
Why would the New Republic establish a new year 0? Isn’t that something totalitarian regimes do? Why not use whatever year 0 the Valorum-era Republic used?
My problem is that the Battle of Endor makes a more logical start for a Year 0 than the Battle of Yavin.
Yeah, that actually makes a lot more sense. The battle saw the Emperor and Vader die, the destruction of a substantial part of the Imperial Navy, and the Empire was left without a centralized power. It makes more sense to declare that the start of the “new era.” IIRC, there’s been some new canon books that talk about an in-universe debate over BBY/ABY dates.
It still makes more sense than Stardates.
The Despecialized .mkv has Hairy_Hen’s 5.1 mix, which is a recreation of the 70mm six-track.
Now that’s certainly better-paced! So much simpler than the overdone set piece from the original cut.
It’d be intriguing to see if the print has the same slight cropping as 4K77’s main print.
Adywan, you should probably migrate your image hosting to Imgur or imgbb, since postimage is throwing up their “premium upgrade” banner.
I’ll believe it once shooting begins.
Let’s not forget his hatred of trans people (I.e. that Rowling defense video) and his extensive defense of Woody Allen. You can write the guy off.