Supposed image from TLJ:
If it’s accurate, we may be seeing subtle design tweaks to the Stormtroopers.
I dig. The frown is more evocative of the 1977 design.
It’s the whole intro part of the theme, before the main melody starts
Weird, had to check to make sure you’re right because that’s not what I remember, but yes it’s there (but only for the same reason it’s there in Avengers - the film was still distributed by Disney).
That’s certainly possible. Either way, anyone who doesn’t think Disney will start doing 4K releases of their own at some point is just fooling themselves.
Also my main point ended up being that it’s important to remember that Disney released the Phase One box set even though they only originally distributed one of those films, which is promising for SW.
Oh, I know Disney’s going to start releasing stuff on the format eventually. It’s just super annoying when all of the other major studios (even lionsgate) jumped on within only a few months and yet here we are almost a year later and probably looking at Rogue One being previous-gen format only. Hmmm, where have we seen that before with a Star Wars movie? Hint: I’m not talking about the GOUT, which was actually released several months after hddvd and blu-ray debuted.
Disney is always the last on board. They dragged their feet on DVD for the longest time, initially only licensing out a handful of live action films to Anchor Bay. And here we are in 2017, with some of the animated features still not on Blu Ray, and an appalling lack of anything else from the studios vast back catalog.
Yeah, we’ve got multiple “precious metal/stone” editions of some of the classic princess movies, but they can’t be bothered to transfer the Black Cauldron to a basic Blu release. Crazy.
I guess I’ll get them sometime then.
Hold out and see what’s released for the anniversary this year.
Most of the lightsaber duels were intense.
Disney may soon be making an entrance to UHD BD (as in April soon). From Bill Hunt:
According to the German BD site Bluray-Disc.de, Disney and Marvel have licensed Iron Man, Iron Man 2, and Iron Man 3 to Concorde Home Entertainment for release in Germany on the 4K Ultra HD format on 4/6, both individually and as a Steelbook trilogy. You can see more here and also here.
If this is true, it would seem likely that a U.S. release is also soon to be announced. After all, the 4K Ultra HD format is all-region. It’s very hard to imagine Marvel and Disney sacrificing potential sales here in the States due to enthusiasts importing copies.
We know that Disney has been waiting for more Dolby Vision capability to start appearing in 4K hardware before joining the format and, as we reported at CES last month, Sony, TCL, LG, Vizio, and Philips have all agreed to support Dolby Vision in their displays and players. The new Oppo UDP-203 player will also support Dolby Vision after a forthcoming firmware update.
We’ve reached out to Disney to see if we can find out more on this and we’ll let you know if and what we hear back from them.
I’m really surprised to hear Bill say something uneducated like that. Movies coming out in other regions (from other studios) is about as indicative of a stateside release as seeing it on cable in HD. Or being able to buy it streaming.
One really has nothing to do with the other.
After all, the 4K Ultra HD format is all-region. It’s very hard to imagine Marvel and Disney sacrificing potential sales here in the States due to enthusiasts importing copies.
This was not the case for BD. Why would they let Concorde entertainment get cuts for American purchases when they could just release it themselves in the U.S.? Unlike with a BD, there is no region coding to protect against that and force American buyers to wait for a U.S. release.
Disney may soon be making an entrance to UHD BD (as in April soon). From Bill Hunt:
According to the German BD site Bluray-Disc.de, Disney and Marvel have licensed Iron Man, Iron Man 2, and Iron Man 3 to Concorde Home Entertainment for release in Germany on the 4K Ultra HD format on 4/6, both individually and as a Steelbook trilogy. You can see more here and also here.
If this is true, it would seem likely that a U.S. release is also soon to be announced. After all, the 4K Ultra HD format is all-region. It’s very hard to imagine Marvel and Disney sacrificing potential sales here in the States due to enthusiasts importing copies.
We know that Disney has been waiting for more Dolby Vision capability to start appearing in 4K hardware before joining the format and, as we reported at CES last month, Sony, TCL, LG, Vizio, and Philips have all agreed to support Dolby Vision in their displays and players. The new Oppo UDP-203 player will also support Dolby Vision after a forthcoming firmware update.
We’ve reached out to Disney to see if we can find out more on this and we’ll let you know if and what we hear back from them.
Right. I’m just saying legally it’s no different. Ryan was suggesting it is someone different from a legal perspective.
That’s because Fox only owns physical distribution. They will distribute whatever Lucasfilm gives them. It’s really no different now than it was before the Disney acquisition.
It just dawned on me that Vader’s confrontation with Ahsoka is only 7 years before RotJ. He ages a ton in those 7 years.
I think having the young, unscarred face behind the mask was an artistic license so that we get the emotional response we want from Ashoka.
probably. however that makes me wonder if we will get an ‘event’ that ages Vader at some point in this or another series. (unless there already is a cannon explanation that i don’t know or can’t think of right now)
He doesn’t look like that because he’s old. He looks like that because he was burned alive. That’s the canonical explanation.
It just dawned on me that Vader’s confrontation with Ahsoka is only 7 years before RotJ. He ages a ton in those 7 years.
I think having the young, unscarred face behind the mask was an artistic license so that we get the emotional response we want from Ashoka.
And Fox distributes all three still. They’ve been pushing 4K hard. Wouldn’t be surprised in the slightest. Would be a great format seller.
What do you think?
That the Ep VIII thread should do for now.
the vii crawl score performance and recording is inferior to that of Empire Strikes Back, my favorite of the original trilogy.
Honestly, it sounds almost like a mixing problem, especially at the beginning, as if some of the auxiliary horns are muted.
True. While the changes in the other movies are stupid, there are changes in Jedi that make JEDI as a whole become stupid
I thought Luke and Leia were different ages too. So long as it’s not explicitly mentioned, that detail can change too. Also I’m a bit confused as to why Luke and Leia had to be twins in the first place, and not just siblings.
If they weren’t twins, how would you explain that Vader didn’t know his wife was pregnant not once but twice? He didn’t know about Leia.
Nor were any of the “continuity” changes. This is logic I could see Lucas following honestly.
Perhaps he raised the question because the prequels turned Darth from a cool name into a lame title.
Another pointless post about how happy Rogue One made me…
I’ll never forget how ecstatic I was upon seeing Tantive IV and hearing the motif come in after the Imperial March. It feel very genuine and not forced - brought a few tears to my young eyes. I hadn’t read any of the leaks, thus I had no idea that the film would actually end the way it did.
It grows on me the more time passes by - as did TFA. Can’t wait for it come out on Blu-ray.
Yep. People have written that the ending was cheesy, unimaginative, etc etc. But when I saw it in the theater, it brought a smile to my face. Isn’t that the point of this whole enterprise?
The closest thing to “the myth” in the PT was the Emperor’s speech about the devil during the laser-light show.
Also, midoclorians.
What? Midiclorians robbed it of myth.
Who cares? I to watch good movies. I couldn’t give less of a shit what’s in the bad ones. If you call that head canon you’re over thinking things.
Bill Hunt posits that RO will hit the shelves on 3/28.
Slightly off topic but if the National Film Registry included Star Wars among its selected films in 1989, why did Lucasfilm offer the SE print 8 years after the fact??? Was Lucas intending to change the film(s) as early as '89 and wouldn’t submit a print until the film was ‘finished’???
Seeing as how the Library itself had two copies already and the National Film Registry is essentially just another bureaucratic wing of the Library of Congress, it probably wasn’t much of a priority. Who knows really? I’d be curious to see how many films on the registry don’t have prints submitted.
Their website is pretty vague on the matter:
Have all of the Registry films been preserved?
The National Film Registry of the Library of Congress works with motion picture studios, independent filmmakers, archives, museums and historical societies to secure the best available film elements for each Registry title. These elements are conserved under the best possible physical conditions i.e. low temperature and low humidity at the Library. In some cases, the films have already been preserved by a studio, filmmaker or archive, and the Library simply maintains a “reserve” print or a copy of the master materials which are not distributed or projected and is considered the Registry master element(s).
But given that preservation is the NFR’s mandate, and given the answer above, I would think that they have actively tried to get better elements, especially for Star Wars, whose copyright registry print, IIRC, is an exhibition print.
Maybe Mike Verta could strike them a copy.
because that’s always been part of George’s original plan.
So was, supposedly, the praxis effect.
It will be an emotional film to watch, I agree. Going to be hard to say goodbye to the princess.
+1. I watched Star Wars again and it just tore me apart seeing Carrie again.
FTFY
