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moviefreakedmind said:

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

moviefreakedmind said:

They were released on vinyl with original artwork.

I know. It’s just that my entire music collection is on CD. It’s the medium I grew up with.

Right, I understand. It shows that they think of the OOT as a “classic” item in their catalogue as opposed to the SE being more mainstream.

EDIT: That didn’t stop them from releasing them both on iTunes though.

Maybe the 40th anniversary home media release of the OT will be special editions on UHD BD and OUT on 8mm tape.

Edit : I understand vinyl is a high fidelity medium despite its age. Maybe the OUT will only be available on 35mm then.

moviefreakedmind said:

They were released on vinyl with original artwork.

I know. It’s just that my entire music collection is on CD. It’s the medium I grew up with.

lovelikewinter said:

Could this possibly be a good thing? A sign that Harmy’s Despecialized might no longer be needed?

Are you suggesting that 2oth C. Fox might be cracking down because something official is on the horizon? Interesting prospect indeed. Why else let it sit for five years and all of the sudden have it pulled?

moviefreakedmind said:

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

nickyd47 said:

the 2016 iTunes digital remasters

what are you talking about?

Original soundtracks

Ah. Was hoping we’d see them on CD-Rom sooner or later. Something I’d like to own on hard media. Hope they are eventually released individually with original art so I don’t have to waste dough on the prequel tracks.

nickyd47 said:

the 2016 iTunes digital remasters

what are you talking about?

Also I think important to note that the tie fit in with the “disposable infantry” mentality of the Empire. They seemed pretty easy to shoot down(did once read they were unshielded?) and had no ability to travel long range, so if left behind will do die.

Would hope the new Republic values their fighters’ lives more than that.

The thing about the ANH title is that it’s meaningless without Empire and Jedi happening.

Edit : it works if you’re viewing in sum with the chronological saga, but not as the first film in what may or may not have become a series

Because he could

yaboykevin01 said:

For me, it has to be Jedi Rocks. Having watched the 2004 DVDs as a child, nothing particularly is too egregious, but every time Jedi Rocks comes on while I’m watching with my family, I feel really uncomfortable. It’s just stupid. They should at least add subtitles.

Before despecialized, I’d be embarrassed at the point of Jedi Rocks if I was showing the trilogy to someone who wasn’t a “fan.” There are worse changes, but this one illicits a unique response for me.

Watched ROTJ despecialized today with my sister. She’s probably seen the BD version 2 or 3 times. She knew we were watching a different version, but she is not familiar with the specific changes and probably didn’t notice any of them except maybe Lapki Nek (how could you not?). But as the credits role she asks “wait, I never heard Vader say ‘nooooo.’” I told her it was a change, and she’s like, “that’s stupid.”

Goes to show what a stupid and, really, damaging change it was. A) she recognized its absence having only watched a couple times and not in a couple years. And B) not necessarily being a huge SW fan, instantly understood how awful that line is and how it degrades from the gravity of the moment.

NeverarGreat said:

If you know something to be fake, your brain generates any number of reasons that it looks fake, even if they aren’t true or not noticeable to the average viewer.

I thought some of the Tarkin stuff was seamless, despite knowing it to be CG. If motion capture got good enough to capture the micromovements of facial muscles, I would feel a lot better about an actor using a ‘digital likeness’ of another actor (provided the actor or their estate were in agreement). In this case, the actor wearing the digital likeness would be translating much of their performance to the screen, even more than an actor with layers of prosthetics on their face.

Yeah, it’s like when someone says you and your siblings look alike, but you don’t think so. They’re looking for similarities, and you’re scrutinizing differences.

Wazzles said:

The Library of Congress has not selected Return of the Jedi for preservation.

You’re confusing copyright deposits with the National Film Registry. LOC has original prints of all three from when they were released. What they don’t have are the pristine, conservation grade prints of SW and TESB they requested for the registry.

Is it intentionally biblical?

digitalfreaknyc said:

SilverWook said:

I’ll wait until I hear the news from a more reputable site. TMZ is sleaze.

You’re saying TMZ isn’t reputable? Are you 80? Or living on another planet?
They break ALL entertainment news.

Not sure this is the time or place to have this debate.

SilverWook said:

I’ll wait until I hear the news from a more reputable site. TMZ is sleaze.

Major outlets now reporting.

How terribly sad. Extreme grief can lead to this. Prayers to her and especially her son. Could you imagine?

The Aluminum Falcon said:

Puggo - Jar Jar’s Yoda said:

The effects were even more stunning the second time, and Tarkin was even more convincing (although his voice didn’t sound at all like Cushing’s to me).

Agree. Regardless of how accurate it looks visually, the vocal performance is distracting from someone familiar with Cushing’s voice from the Hammer films. I have a feeling they didn’t ask the actor to explicitly mimic Cushing because they weren’t 100% sure they would go through with the motion capture. Either that, or the actor is simply not that familiar with how Cushing sounds…

Yeah, he sounded like someone trying to impersonate Cushing. Which, albeit, is what he was.

MalàStrana said:

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This is in poor taste.

I agree. - Anchorhead -

I think resurrecting a 20-years-dead actor for a relatively minor role is quite different from using a CG likeness of a recently deceased actress playing a main character.

The former is “hey cool!” The latter seems irreverent.

Always loved this cameo

moviefreakedmind said:

http://www.denofgeek.com/uk/movies/star-wars/46074/star-wars-a-new-hope-4k-restoration-2017-re-release

Has anyone seen this?

Some related articles and extrapolation has been coming up recently in this thread.

Fang Zei said:

Darth Id said:

ImperialFighter said:

…Gareth is quoted as saying that John Knoll said that …

Stopped reading due to Landis being absent from this chain of hearsay.

What’s weird is that I was reading through the most recent comments in this thread before asking when exactly that John Landis quote happened. Then I googled it and apparently it was September of last year, placing it roughly halfway between when Edwards would’ve watched the 4k restoration and right now.

In reply to the earlier comments about it being an upscale, it’s definitely not an upscale. Reliance Media Works had the OT listed on their website as “4k 16-bit” very briefly in July 2014 before it was quickly taken down. This would’ve been only a couple months after Edwards was hired. The brief clips on RMW’s demo reel show that it’s clearly from a fresh scan.

Are you suggesting Edwards told Landis, and Landis spilled the beans?

Do they know each other? I know they’ve both been critical of the revisionism in the past.

Handman said:

You also think Phantom Menace is the best of the prequels, which is awesome in my book.

That’s because it is.

Lord Haseo said:

Anchorhead said:

Ren isn’t interesting

This is a complaint I haven’t heard very often. May I ask why you feel this way? I find him wanting to fulfill the “wishes” of his Grandfather while being pulled by the Light and possibly lunacy to be extremely compelling. And aside from that like that Kylo is a bit of a smartass and his temper was both frightening and humorous.
There are a few more things I could mention but I think he has a lot going on as a character. Certainly more than Vader in STAR WARS, Maul in TPM and Palpatine in general.

Yeah, hard to see this as a legitimate complaint, especially from someone who likes SW enough to be on this forum. Ren is by far the most complex Star Wars villain to date.

Did anyone get a good enough look at the recycled 77 footage to determine what master it came from?