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suspiciouscoffee said:

According to this, there’s a much better slipcover with the awesome IMAX poster in the UK.

Is it region-coded???

DominicCobb said:

and their box art is the best anyway.

Really? The only one that’s any good is the standard one. Similar to poster anyway. Disappointingly they scrubbed fader’s shadow from it for some reason. He’s on the DVD though.

Tyrphanax said:

Really tired of retailer-specific content.

And always with incredibly ugly box art too.

joefavs said:

Has anyone suggested that Disney might put out a regular Blu-ray (of either the OUT or a new master of the SE) this year and then a UHD release after 2020? They’d be able to cash in on the anniversary and have something exclusive for when Fox’s distribution deal runs out. Plus the ST will be complete by then, so it could be box set city.

Perhaps. But I think anyone who doesn’t think TLJ and IX will get UHD on their respective home video launch days is kidding themselves.

In all seriousness though, I can’t figure what else that could mean besides a new home video product and/or a wide theatrical release.

moviefreakedmind said:

http://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-celebration-orlando-kicks-off-with-epic-tribute-to-sagas-40th-anniversary

It says that there will be some “not to be missed surprises”, whatever that means.

Not the OUT, that’s for sure. It’s been five years for fucks sake.

Alderaan said:

Well, wish and hope if you want. I’m not going to begrudge you that. But maybe busting Disney’s balls a little after 5 freaking years, especially the way Lucas was criticized, might be a little more productive than everyone just shrugging their shoulders and closing their eyes.

Well given that practically everyone here has said that they’ll hold out until Celebration/May 25, or this fall at the latest, what exactly are you so bitter against us about? I guarantee you hell will be raised against Kennedy/Lucasfilm on this site if there’s no OUT announcement by the end of May.

Not sure I have the time to keep reading this thread unless something drastic happens… like maybe:

Jedit: I’d even settle for this at this point:

ImperialFighter said:

Another ‘bash George’ opportunity. Okay, I’ll bite. 😉

As some have said, the fact that GL has managed to make his flawed SE versions the effective ‘default’ versions of the Original Trilogy for the masses, is just the pits.

However, one of my biggest bugbears against him is his decision to do a woeful PREQUEL storyline back in 1999…instead of doing a SEQUEL trilogy first…with a much older Luke, Han, and Leia…but who all still looked in prime condition back in that year, so long after ROTJ was done with! - his damned ‘tragic fall of Anakin’ storyline could have waited, and been done anytime after that.

I’ve seen footage of Carrie being interviewed back in 1999, and she was looking really fabulous. I’ve always wished that George had continued his ‘Luke Skywalker’ storyline in some way instead of the ‘prequels’ at that point…and retrospectively, wish that even more so now, considering that Carrie was sadly unable to reach the last of the current GL-free ‘sequel’ trilogy…

To be honest, I’d find it a jarring leap to go directly from watching ROTJ (Episode 6) to then watching TFA (Episode 7) afterwards, if I was doing the chapter ‘viewing order’ - and this is due to the great leap in age difference of the characters involved at this point. But luckily for me, I’m content to watch heavily-edited versions of the Prequel Trilogy as a ‘flashback storyline’ placed inbetween the Original Trilogy and Sequel Trilogy instalments instead…as a way to ease into the ‘age’ transition much better for myself. 😃

So yeah, the fact that George DIDN’T end up doing a SEQUEL trilogy where Carrie and the gang could have featured throughout at their marvellous best (even if Harrison STILL demanded to die at some point!), is one of his worst decisions as far as I’m concerned.

you’re operating under the most likely false assumption that those movies would have been good.

Lord Haseo said:

I guarantee that an early draft of TFA had Luke doing something similar. Would have been awesome if it had happened that way instead.

I’d love to see Luke wield a blaster again. Not sure how that would work with the new persona though.

Right. What you’ve said only further points to George’s inconsistency.

imperialscum said:

The way I see it, Disney should at least give a clear statement whether they plan to release OOT or not. At least Lucas was clear on this matter.

Except he wasn’t. He released it two years later, albeit in shitty quality.

Alderaan said:

SilverWook said:

It’s called giving Disney the benefit of a doubt.

It’s been 5 years. Five. It was fine to give them the benefit of the doubt for a time. But five years is long enough to figure out that Disney has no plans to release the OOT.

Five years is the cutoff? So you have experience as a professional film restorer and seasoned, profit-driven studio executive then?

I’m pretty sure English is used as an analogue for whatever standardized language they all seem to speak. In every movie besides SW they also have a different alphabet.

It might actually be more profitable for Disney to release a new product now than in 2020. A 40th release I think is inevitable, and another repackage of the existing master would sell to new viewers, but not to folks like us.

A new product including OOT, on the other hand, would have wide appeal and justify a higher price. By 2020, I imagine we’ll be the only market, with the inevitable growth of streaming and the continued sale of the current version (at lower and lower real dollar prices) to people who wouldn’t care or notice the difference between the two products.

IIRC, the distributors cut is relatively small, and Disney would benefit more by increasing sales volume rather than waiting for the rights.

Alderaan said:

They’ve owned Lucasfilm for 5 years. How long do you think it takes to greenlight and execute a film restoration and release exactly?

It’s amazeballs that some of you were carrying your pitchforks to George’s door after a couple years, but after 5 years you’re all card carrying Mouseketeers. Give me more sequel crap!

Lol

bishabosha said:

Mocata said:

To be honest both have the same amount of distracting fan service and poor writing. At this stage R1 bothers me more because retconning the exhaust port from a flaw to a feature is so lazy.

The R1 novelization shows that the exhaust port was rushed to approval, as a quick fix for the reactor overheating, because the project was behind schedule.

The exhaust port wasn’t retconned, but rather the reactor. Erso didn’t tell them to shoot a torpedo through the exhaust port, he told them to find a way to blow the reactor. They still needed to study the plans to find the way to the reactor. If the exhaust port was a feature, as Mocata alleges, they wouldn’t have need to steal the plans, because erso could have just told them about it.

DominicCobb said:

TV’s Frink said:

https://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Legacy-Jedi-1/dp/0439536669

???

SHHH!

LG, I’ll sell it to you for $200. No less.

Are you holding a thermal detonator?

Wazzles said:

Shouldn’t this be in the spoilers thread?

I would say no, as this is apparent to everyone who’s read about this not in English.

I’m not taking just effects shots. Print grain is also apparent in many places. This works be absent from a restoration from the negative.

moviefreakedmind said:

stealthboy said:

Wazzles said:
If we don’t hear anything by the 25th of May, then I will give up hope. Until then, I actively believe that the OUT will get a release this year. Even if it doesn’t, there are always fan preservations.

Seeing what I have now in a box set thanks to Harmy and njvc, I don’t see how an official release can get much better than that!

It could get better because an official release would not vary so much in resolution and picture quality.

Or grain. Some of the 35mm shots in DE have excessive grain. I wouldn’t mind to much if it was the whole film, but what really bothers me is switching from BD to 35mm sources and having inconsistent grain levels.

yeah, the more i think about it, the more i think the novelty would wear off by like the second viewing

I had a thought, and probably totally off base but I think it would be pretty cool. We’ve seen the toy packaging and the poster. And the teaser crawl photo was B&W. Why? RED OPENING CRAWL. Totally not going to hapoen, and I’m sure a lot of people would find the break from tradition off putting. But I’d dig it.

And how much you wanna bet Rey learns something important, surreal, and surprising about herself or her lineage?

DominicCobb said:

Ever??

Also, they changed the stormtrooper designs after ANH so this is yet another ESB rehash.

Next we’ll be hearing the First Order is looking for Luke and Rey. Shitty rehash.