It looks amazing and I hope it’s not going to become an Ivan Ortega situation.
Whenever there are faneditors outside of this community and the IFDB forums, I worry about them going the Ivan Ortega way.
The Ivan Ortega ordeal escapes me.
He was breaking the “selling fanedits” rule, IIRC.
It looks amazing and I hope it’s not going to become an Ivan Ortega situation.
Whenever there are faneditors outside of this community and the IFDB forums, I worry about them going the Ivan Ortega way.
Women are fucking masterminds, they almost never say what they really want and what they really think. Men are the ones who directly say what they want, but women are not like that. They go around things, create hyperbolic speeches and often lie about their emotional state, because they want men to understand what they think, but without telling them directly.
I’m sorry, but this was all I was thinking while reading that.
Summoning Salt - The History of Lego Star Wars Records
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W72cyc5sESo - Summoning Salt retells the history of any-percent speedruns for Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga. It’s pretty fascinating to see the glitch exploits and the constant pursuit of shorter times.
General Grievous being an incompetent “nepotism officer” (promoted due to Dooku’s role in his creation) would also be good. It’d help to ground Vader’s implied dislike of “nepotism officers” in the OT (Ozzel, for instance).
I get the disdain for a lot of larger EU projects though. Especially the entire Shadows of the Empire project, the disdain for that one I totally get. Prince Sex Pest and the Han Solo replacement don’t have much lasting appeal.
As far as the dumbest EU stuff I can remember, it’s Death Troopers. Star Wars but a zombie movie! Han and Chewie showing up laughably kills all tension it ever had.
It’s ludicrous that the AP Stylebook doesn’t allow Oxford Commas.
Speaking of Dragon Ball Z, recut the entire saga into 20-minute anime-style episodes, with the opening crawls replaced by a Tom Kane impersonator narrating over the DBZ recap theme. Insert enough deleted material (whether actual deleted scenes or recreated bits from the novelizations) to make the movies twice their original length, in order to properly capture the DBZ “10 minutes of filler per episode” storytelling method.
Then hire TeamFourStar to make an Abridged version, often beset by copyright strikes.
It applies to both men, and the LA-shot shows in general.
EDIT: disregard
As a viewer who has got a special interest is cults, the non-Buddhist reading of the Jedi is appealing but robs Anakin of his agency. If you wanted a more agency-friendly criticism of organized and esoteric religion, it should be “some people shouldn’t be exposed to certain religious thoughts, because it’ll make a troubled man believe what they’re doing is righteous.” Palpatine exposes an already troubled Anakin to the dark side philosophy and it’s over for Anakin. A historical example of this would be Roch Theriault finding Seventh Day Adventism (after difficulties with Catholicism) and using Adventist philosophies to launch the infamous Ant Hill Kids group.
Adywan are you fixing shots like these as well to look like the one on the top.
That’s a problem with the 2020 version , i’m using the 2011 mainly. Although that shot is a little softer in detail than the previous shot, it is nowhere near how badly scrubbed the 2020 blu-ray version is. I did give it a tweak to restore the detail though
2011 Blu-Ray
2020 Blu-Ray
ANH:RHD
I really don’t know why so many rave about the 2020 blu-rays. ANH & ESB are worse than the 2011 blu-rays in many respects. ESB is horizontally stretched and cropped, The static grain on all 3 is horrendous, the grading is flat and dull, the terribly executed use of power windows to brighten areas of a shot without bothering to move the masked area to track with the section as it moves in frame is mind blowingly amateurish, especially for someone that is supposed to be a professional, plagued with bed DNR smearing, the films have been scrubbed of so much detail and more. Why we can’t have a decent copy of these films in 2023 is beyond me.
I’m having to combine the two versions. For ANH:RHD, certain shots or sections from the 2011 version are being replaced with the 2020 version, but only in the places where the 2020 has a better image, which surprisingly, isn’t as much as you might think. For ROTJ:R though i’m having to use mainly the 2020 version as this is actually better quality than the 2011 version, for the most part, but there are some parts that are going to have to use the 2011
I’m half-surprised that you haven’t needed to use 4K77 or 4K83 to restore shots that are too far gone to DNR or poor color grading.
As far as adaptations go, did anybody read the Dark Horse comic versions or listen to the Marc Thompson audiobooks?
Rifftrax doesn’t help much, either. It’s one of those early ones, with Matt Sloan as Chad Vader on it instead of Bill Corbett. Pre-“trio reunion” Rifftrax is a strange beast indeed.
Speaking of Chad Vader, it really got weird after its first season. It wasn’t so much cringe-inducing as it was just bizarre. The production values were leagues above anything else on YouTube at the time (glares at Channel Awesome), but the content itself was fairly strange.
They have a huge TV catalog, and the very limited amount of HD restorations prove the rule (X-Files, Simpsons, can you even name a third?).
A 16:9 restoration so successful that the unrestored 4:3 versions had to be added due to fan outcry.
But… hold onto your DVDs. For the long haul.
Exactly - those commentaries and special features aren’t getting ported to streaming services, while also being subject to the current whims of the production team. Take James L. Brooks’ decision to delist “Stark Raving Dad,” for instance.
Never say never, but I don’t think it’s likely. Even if the OOT got released, it’d be DNR’d to hell and back (not to mention poor audio) with automated cleanup errors and revisionist color grading. I’d rather stick with something fanmade.
Funny you say that when Paul did re-record several Beatles tracks in his Give My Regards to Broad Street (1984), which got pretty bad reviews and even amongst Beatles and Paul fans is seen as a pretty bad entry in his canon.
Ringo (who was in the movie) refused to play on the re-recordings, because:
Of you could end it with this if you’re not a coward.
I was thinking this.
I’ve had a surprising idea for a radical restructuring of ROTJ - end it with TLJ’s Broom Kid finale. Give it a subtitle like “30 years later” or something like that, and show Luke’s story to be a myth inspiring people around the galaxy to find The Force. It wouldn’t work in a more faithful fan edit, but in something that tries to reinterpret the OT/saga, it could work.
This kinda rips off the idea of Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor (legends of Luke vs. reality of Luke), but that’s a good legends novel to emulate.
Harold Schechter’s Deranged - what amazes me the most about the book is how little the true crime industry has changed since the 1920s. Schechter calls attention to all the sensationalist bullshit around the Albert Fish cases, while also centering the book on the investigators, the victims, and the courtroom proceedings.
Ashita no Joe II - it turns out that doing an anime adaptation several years after a manga is finished produces better results. Also, the animation isn’t as sloppy as the ‘70s version.
If it has to be a live-action show, then I’ll pick Michael Palin’s Around the World in 80 Days documentary.
At least they only have 1/3 of the word count that Stardust1138 had.
Oh God, don’t remind me. 😉
But it’s interesting you brought him up, because I remember he was a massive Rick Worley fan too. Why does that guy have so many loyal followers? Why do 4 hour apologia sessions for some of the most hated creators in history seem appealing to anyone?
They’re natural contrarians, no matter the morality involved. A lot of prequel fans feel resentment for years of abuse those movies took in pop culture, so it’s natural that it sometimes comes out in bitter ways. Worley takes it a step further by adding in Woody Allen and JKR.
Similarly, I do remember Stardust giving the “but she (the victim) forgave him” excuse when talking about Polanski. But that’s a whole separate can of worms.
At least they only have 1/3 of the word count that Stardust1138 had.
Yeah, “Yub Nub” with the Williams orchestral backing (like Neverar suggested) is looking a lot more appealing. It’s in-keeping with the original intent, albeit with a bit more gravitas.
The music debate almost makes me wish the movie ended with the pyre scene. In a radical reinterpretation of the movie that could work, but the focus should be on better executing the OG ending.
I’ve got one idea, that uses the end credits version of “Parade of the Ewoks” (appropriately upbeat/triumphant for the party - and has Yub Nub vibes sans lyrics), that segues into “Luke and Leia” from the end credits once Luke shows up.
I really dislike “Yub Nub” and “500 Nations Ripoff,” so finding something from the 1983 OST that “works” is my goal.
