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RogueLeader said:

That is really great! I feel like something could be done at the very end to help transition to the credits music. It just feels a bit jarring, it feels like it is missing some kind of build up or something. But honestly that is a perfect track to use for the ending!

Thanks! The way that song goes is that it builds up to a big note, then quiets down. I didn’t want to have the big note/crash happen, let the music quiet down (but not finish the song), then start the end credits (that felt more jarring).

“Luke and Leia” makes for a far better ending theme to the OT than “Yub Nub” or “Victory Celebration”/the 500 Nations emulation. Its tone doesn’t clash as much with the pyre piece or even “Leia Breaks the News” (which I like shortened, to eliminate envious Han).

This is my attempt to redo ROTJ’s ending with a non-diegetic piece from the 1983 soundtrack (namely, “Luke and Leia”). A bunch of other fanedits have done this (e.g., the Dan Edit), but I wanted to demonstrate it with the 1983 cut of the ending. I sped up the music a little, for better sync.

Here’s the vimeo link.

Password: fanedit

Sweet! Good work, man.

Fantastic work, Ady!

Well, the 4K version of AVTAK (recently put online) undid the cropping from the Ultimate Editions. However, the master is otherwise the same. A few of the 4K versions are a bit better than the blu-ray, such as LALD and Goldeneye.

The MGM HD version of OHMSS surprisingly wasn’t used for the 4K version of that movie (from what I’ve heard), even though it also undoes the pillarbox titles. Did the MGM HD master have the same over-boosted contrast from the blu-ray?

SilverWook said:

Have they just been sitting on a bunch of decent non-Lowry 007 remasters? Like the one for TSWLM?

I’m honestly surprised that one improved as much as it did for blu-ray/4K. It’s like the home video crew took one look at how thoroughly awful that movie looked on home video (e.g., faded colors, severe edge enhancement artifacts on both SE and UE, and poor color timing on the UE), and figured that they should start from scratch for a new master. The added frame information, better color timing, and preservation of the soft-focus look lead me to believe that they either started from scratch with the video master or went back to the negatives/interpositive for a better source. Maybe they found the cinematographer/editor’s notes and redid the presentation to better match the original version.

Flexicon9 said:

… My DVR now has three rare broadcasts… (TCM HD) Looking For Mr. Goodbar in a pristine high definition broadcast that even host Ben Mankeiwicz said was a TCM premiere (this was 2 years ago) … (MGM HD) On Her Majesty’s Secret Service… not the Lowry transfer, but actually the original print from EON with the proper color timing… rare as it gets, without question. And now, Star Trek II… and I have the SKY broadcast (European) of the director’s cut which is AWESOME. The TCM is better. My DVR is magic… but alas, I have no way to share it with the world. No capture card or a nerd to do it for me. But I will own this magic for the life of a hard drive dvr cable shit box. Thank you and good night.

We could help you out on that front. That OHMSS broadcast, in particular, has been sought-after by several of our Bond preservationists.

I really like them! Do a bit of tweaking and you’d be set. It’s a good way to “exclude” the prequels from any OT edits/accommodate any one of those three-in-one prequel fanedits.

I partially agree with Dre on this one. While the Hayden ghost has been the default for many people who watched the movies for the first time in the past fifteen years, one does not need to look far to know about the controversy on this one. From my browsing of the often toxic Star Wars reddit, a decent amount of people prefer Hayden as the ghost. They buy into the logic that George used (i.e., restored to where he was before he completely fell to the dark side). There’s also the fact that many fans grew up with the Prequels/the Clone Wars cartoon series, where the Hayden visage is how they “see” pre-fall Anakin. These fans will also admit that he should have been better incorporated into the scene, so it’s not that bad. Many fans, even young ones, prefer Shaw. This is why popular series of parodies either make fun of the change (Robot Chicken) or default to Shaw (How It Should Have Ended).

I’d be largely OK with Hayden. We’ve learned that Force ghosts can appear however the heck they want to appear/what’s relevant to their current goals. From Kylo’s perspective, Shaw wouldn’t really mean anything to him. Hayden, on the other hand, is how Anakin would have looked for in-universe media and the in-universe memory of the character. While Shaw may be relevant to Luke, Hayden/distortions of Vader would be relevant to Kylo. Of course, I only want the ghosts if they’re essential to the plot. If it’s an unnecessary cameo (the stoned Yoda puppet in TLJ was kind of necessary), I won’t like it.

MikeWW said:

Another SE style thing would be the ship combat scenes. The ST uses no practical scale ship models. (That I’m aware of.)

That’s just the forward march of special effects technology. Heck, the SE’s and bits of TPM used scale models for some material (e.g., the sandcrawler, several TPM ships, etc.).

SilverWook said:

MikeWW said:

SilverWook said:

There might be wiggle room on that as Yoda looks a tad younger in TLJ, or at least happier.

Luke probably didn’t know what young Anakin even looked like at the time, but Kylo worships his grandfather so either form could appear to him and make more sense than the SE change.

But seeing as Kylo is based on Hayden’s Anakin in many ways, having some kind of CG-Sebatsian-Shaw-voiced-by-Matt-Lanter monstrosity would be lame IMO.

Anakin could make a point about the life he could have lived had he not fallen, going from healthy Sebastian to Sebastian right after the helmet came off would emphasize that. Kylo may have ignored certain aspects of Anakin’s life soley focusing on the Vader aspect.

I remember how one of the original plans for TFA was to have Anakin’s ghost appear, phasing in and out of the Vader suit.

I could imagine something like that with some Shaw stock footage, Hayden, or a different actor. Granted, I’d only want it if the story and character arcs would benefit from it.

I’ve always liked the idea of chopping the episode numbers and titles off of the crawls and moving the movie titles to the place of the “STAR WARS” card. That way, we have Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi without calling to attention the need for prequels or anything like that.

I like what you’re presenting, what with the 4K77-styled grade/grain & damage overlay and the idea that Qui-Gon fathered Anakin. It adds some much-needed motivation for Qui-Gon’s pursuit of him beyond “he’s especially force-sensitive.” The Jar-Jar removal is also pretty seamless, which I didn’t think could be done that easily. Good work!

While I get what Criterion was going for here, it’s disappointingly bland. The digipak release had a much better “inner cover (a bit of photoshopping work to add Phoenix and Reeves would help):”

Hi Adywan, I’ve been following your projects for ages now. I love both ANH and ESB Revisited, and I can’t wait to see what you do with ANH:HD and ROTJ (your color grades on both thus far are fantastic, BTW). I just have a few questions regarding ANH:HD.

1. Will you be fixing the weirdly warped pylon at the beginning of the duel?

2. Is Obi-Wan still going to ignite his lightsaber first? That was one of my least favorite changes in ANH:R, as it doesn’t jive with the dynamic between the two characters. Vader with an already ignited saber fits more with how he’s waited for their confrontation. Obi-Wan doesn’t seem likely to leap to the defense that quickly.

3. Will the shot of Leia before Alderaan’s destruction be returning, like the shot of Tarkin before the Death Star’s destruction?