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MotherGunner said:

It would be really cool if Obi-wan stopped calling vader "Darth".   Maybe remove this and modify his face so he doesnt move his mouth?

"You are under arrest, Chancellor."

"Good morning, Doctor."

"Welcome, Mr. President."

People call others by their title all the time. There's no problem there.

I do realize that there are a lot of pages to go through so you may have missed it, but Adywan already said the old voice will be restored, because the line readings were better and the original voice was more menacing. (And keep in mind that Leia and Anakin both had different voices with their helmets on :)

Sounds great, I'm sure we'd all rather wait a little longer for a more polished product.

By the way, is it pronounced Puggo 'Grand' or Puggo 'Gran-day?'

Sounds interesting. I've always thought a "Highlander" version of Star Wars would be cool, with the OT as the main story but using key sections of the PT as flashbacks to flesh it out more.

I've even considered trying to tackle it myself, trying to maybe streamline it all into one 3 hour epic movie, but I'm not sure how much I could squish it to make a coherent narrative out of 6 films.

So am I to understand there will be a Swedish overdubbed audio option?

I can't wait to hear Vader in Swedish if that's the case! (or did it just have English audio and Swedish subtitles?)

"He's more CG now than man; twisted and evil."  Heh, I couldn't resist.

There is still good in Lucas. I can feel the good in him; the conflict. But the question is, how can it be brought out?

Couldn't have said it better myself.

I keep saying Lucas isn't nearly as proud of the original versions of the OT as he should be.

ben_danger said:

its like correcting perfection, so much so the dvd will actually glow with some sort of holy aura...

 

Let's just hope perfecting ESB won't have the same sort of effect as dividing by zero.

Of course you can't add detail which isn't there. I don't think negative 1 was suggesting that.

However, you CAN through the use of filters and such make a low-res image easier on the eyes when making it higher resolution.

Example: Gameboy Advance emulation (unfiltered)

and filtered

There's no extra detail, of course, but it looks better.

This'll be fun to follow. I loved the 8mm transfers. They made some... interesting... editing decisions.

Hey, great job on that rough mock up with the reflection asterisk8.

There, now I gave the correct person credit for it. I feel better :)

When I was a kid, TBS's showing of the Trilogy during thanksgiving or christmas (or both, I forget which) was always one of the highlights of my holiday season.

By the way, Bingowings, those reflection shots above look MUCH better. I never noticed the transparency before, but something always seemed off. I guess I just never looked frame by frame.

Wow, it says Roddy Mcdowall's collection was raided in 1974. Yet theatrical films didn't even BEGIN to show up on home video until November 1977. (source: http://www.entmerch.org/industry_history.html)

So it's not like the film companies were losing money by him not going to the store and picking up a copy on video. Unless he was showing them publicly and charging admission, they should have left him alone. Jerks.

negative1 said:

I can't tell you how proud I feel for this board, and for the SW fans

that are supporting this effort.....

 And likewise I'm sure words can't express the gratitude most everyone on this board feels at the moment

Ziz said:

Side note - notice how I used "effect" and "affect" each properly in the same sentence?  That's one of my internet pet peeves...people who mix and match words and spelling because they're too lazy to learn the right way.  If there was some way I could get paid for it, I could make a million $ a year just running around the internet correcting spelling and grammar mistakes.

Heh, just like people using apostrophe's to make words plural.  And yes, I realize that I just did that in my last sentence.  Doesn't it look foolish?

Anyway, getting back to ESB, I forgot all about that door that closes behind Luke.  That's always bugged me.  What slow reaction time Luke has.  No wonder Vader whooped him.  That door closes, and like 30 seconds later he whips around to look at it.  (by the way, in the suggestion terminal it lists that as "Fix Jump-cut of steal gate doors closing behind Luke."  Unless Luke is going to chop off the doors and run off with them in this version, it should be "steel gate." I know, I'm a pain.  I'll stop now :P )

ben_danger said:

ady, i read on another thread that apparantly on the 2004 release, that scenes during battles of people being shot were shortened as not to offend younger viewers. i wasnt aware of this, but have you restored any of these in your IV and V edits?

 

That's always puzzled me. They shorten a few shots of people getting blasted in ANH in order to 'not offend', but just look at what happened to Mr. Burned and Crispy Anakin in Revenge of the Sith. I realize that Sith is rated PG-13, but still... Lucas wants us to watch them in order from 1-6, right?

The 2004 DVD's are a disappointment to say the least, and the 2006 GOUT discs, while they look 'alright' on a standard 4:3 TV, are an insult not only to the fans but also to the achievements of Lucas himself and ILM.

However, my SW prequel DVD's, Willow, and Indiana Jones trilogy all look and sound great. So yeah, I wouldn't say that they simply don't care about about quality.

However, I would like to hear any excuses that Lucasfilm has as to why the 2004 SE set isn't up to par since, after all, those DVD's are supposed to be the best representation of those films available.  I'm sure SOMEBODY at LFL had to have noticed that something wasn't quite right. I was excited when I heard that it was being restored, and that some of the SE additions (like that funky 1997 CG Jabba) were being redone or tweaked, but now I wish they would have just released the 97 SE masters as they were and just left everything alone.

Prepare the Yub Nubs!

I wish I could help out with such an exciting project but, having less than no money and also no expertise in film transfers, I'm about as useful as a food dehydrator on Tatooine.

I'll just try to be a good cheerleader and help with distribution if/when the time comes.

I still remember seeing Luke trip Vader with his lightsaber in ROTJ, but I know I couldn't have. Memory is a fickle mistress.

As for the generator, adding a power loss for a second would be cool, but then who's to say that there wasn't a separate generator dedicated solely to the shield. It certainly would be important enough for that to be the case.

"This will be a day long remembered..." and so on and so forth.

If you guys wouldn't mind beating each other's horses in private, the adults are trying to have a conversation.

My favorites besides Star Wars Revisited are:

A.I. - Supertoys Last All Summer Long

Army of Darkness - Primitive Screwhead Edition

negative1 said:

i was  just mentioning in the technical area, i got the CED versions today,

and am watching those for the first time ever also, and its absolutely amazing to me !!!!!!

I got our old CED player working again and really want to transfer my Star Wars CED's to DVD for nostalgia purposes (as that's what I grew up watching)

I just need to get out of the hole so I can actually but the necessary equipment to hook it up to my puter.

I believe that would be referring to this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDiGsZOpOFA

It's really exciting to hear of this kind of stuff falling into the hands of those who really care about and want to preserve them.

I just hope the legal quagmires of such things don't end up in having them forcefully removed from your posession, since your intentions are not to profit, but to spread love and joy.

Sigh... If only George Lucas was as proud of the original films as he should be, this wouldn't be an issue.