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Original Star Wars light blue saber is the most beautiful.

SilverWook said:

Close enough?

Lobsters don’t have mammary glands.

yhwx said:

I still think it was interesting story that could have been told well.

Well, it’s an interesting premise for a story, but the story George came up with sucked.

Earl said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Somehow I don’t think it was built to scale.

They even threw in the Emperor’s Throne Room from the second DS for some reason.

The first Death Star could’ve had a throne room too

Yeah, I’m surprised no one on myspleen has gotten around to preserving those intros in a 1080 upscale.

Fifth disc for legacy??? 😃 I jest

bkev said:

For what it’s worth, my local event (Los Angeles) still lists 35mm 1997 Special Edition.

No it doesn’t. No mention of 35mm. It’s just the uncorrected vague text originally posted on the Alamo website.

That’s why I suggested fit, scan, dot by dot, etc. TV’s overscan by default, it’s a remnant from old over the air broadcasts and early HD broadcasts that had some static around the sides, so this would cut it off. Why it is still the default makes no sense to me. You see broadcasters compensating for it all the time by adding padding around graphics (like below the news and score tickers) so customers who don’t turn off overscan won’t lose any of the superimposed graphics.

He actually died in the original script, and was resurrected at the actor’s request. That said, I don’t think it was handled awkwardly at all.

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

I think he means he never took geometry.

Confirmed

I think he means he never took geometry. Because, if it did support it, no matter the source aspect ratio, it would magically fit his screen.

It was my fault, long day

Wrong thread. Anyone else click reply since the update and get sent to the wrong thread?

I’m pretty sure it was the empire that committed the terrorist attack.

I wonder if the “could have killed” isn’t a bit sensationalist. It was a line from the prosecution, not the court. But who knows?

You should your TV on fit. Period. (aka dot by dot, just scan, etc)

I’m sorry. I was confused. It’s been so long since I watched these movies, and I just looked up this and now I get it. I thought we were suggesting Watto was racist, as in he acted in a racist manner against the humans he enslaved and abused, not that the depiction was racist. My bad, and goodnight.

Re: song of the south. There is a difference between racist filmmakers inserting racist themes into their movies to make racist statements and on the other hand depicting racism, and in this case in a negative light.

EDIT: see later post for clarification.

yhwx said:

Watto was probably the best character in the movie, if you excuse the racism.

You don’t have to “excuse” the racism for him to be a good character. That’s the point of the character. He’s a bad guy, and that’s one of the bad things about him. Despite this, he is by no metric of the concept a good character.

EDIT: see later post for clarification. Preserving original post for the record.

Frank your Majesty said:

At one point, they changed the pic of the Star Wars facebook page to an OT scene.

Lol. It’s been a while. Maybe I should check their Facebook page again 😛

I love how he says, "if that’s all that was filmed,"as if the photographer missed something, as if reality exists in an aspect ratio of 16x9.

MathUser said:

I wish the movie didn’t have black bars around the top and bottom tho. Of course if that’s all that was filmed then that’s how I have to take it, but I woulda rather had the space taken up by video.

Don’t, just don’t.

I feel like we’ve had this convo before…

Fang Zei said:

The LoC request from Disney (which was first mentioned back in December IIRC) and Verta meeting with the suits are two huge signs that something is happening behind the scenes.

Yes, quite old news. It’s a sad state of affairs when a production studio needs to rely on the government to obtain the original cut of it’s own film. Could’ve been a last-ditch effort to try to salvage something in-house before Verta came along and offered the meetings early this year.

moviefreakedmind said:

Fang Zei said:

Packaging TFA with the PT just because they’re the only ones ready go in 3D seems like a really odd choice. Bill Hunt’s never been one to post bogus rumors but I seriously have my doubts about this one.

Hermit’s post about a source inside LFL is encouraging, assuming the source actually knew this info for certain. Finding out that they were indeed planning on getting the true OT out there before TFA just sets the speculation wheels in motion. Maybe they wanted to keep a hundred percent of the attention on TFA?

I occasionally check the Steve Hoffman Forums purely for information on this subject, and Hermit has been posting the same thing for a long time. I don’t doubt that he thinks that whoever his source is is reliable. Someone else also once stated that they were going to release them in 2015 but had problems with ANH and were instead going to wait until 2017. Who knows what’s true though?

I’ve suggested before that perhaps Disney’s willingness to entertain Verta’s proposal is because they are planning a release and are unhappy with what they have in house for Star Wars. I mean, why else entertain it if a) you are dead-set on not releasing it (there’s no way they are unaware of and need to be enlightened about the technical issues with the current transfer or the historical significance of the originals) or b) they already have a satisfactory master of the theatrical version ready to press or know they are well on their way to one.