ChainsawAsh

Me too. The holiday season always makes it worse, too.

I’ll actually throw my hat in the “keep the eyebrow removal” ring. It makes more sense given how Anakin ended up in the suit for him to be eyebrow-less.

Though Rebels did depict him with eyebrows, so…

Chewie’s Tarzan yell has got to go.

towne32 said:

Possessed said:

Depending on your definition of simple you could use tsmuxer and eliminate all but the dub you want. It doesn’t re encode anything so it only takes a few minutes to save the new file and it’s pretty user friendly.

I don’t think it will save as an mkv though, I think it only does .m2ts so you might have to then open it in something like avidemux and resave it as an mkv if your tv won’t take that format.

Just use MKVmerge instead of tsmuxer, and do basically the exact same thing.

Yep. MKVmerge (aka MKVtoolnix) is exactly what you want here.

HerekittykittyX said:

ChainsawAsh said:

HerekittykittyX said:

For this entire edit replace the audio so use all of this of course ask for permission
For a new hope ask Harmy if you could use Harmy respecalized audio track
For empire make your own using harmys despecialized 2.0 and the Blu-Ray
For Jedi use Harmy despecialized 2.5 and the Blu-ray

Do it So the audio doesn’t sound bad

Um…no.

First off, Harmy used the theatrical 1977 audio. This is the 1997 Special Edition. They don’t sync.

Second off, Poita is using the theatrical DTS audio - as in, the exact same audio you would have heard in a theater with DTS sound instead of Dolby in 1997 - which is by many accounts the best-sounding mix of Star Wars out there, SE changes notwithstanding.

JEDIT: Just saw that you said “Respecialized.” For that, Harmy used the 1997 Laserdisc Dolby Digital audio. If I’m not mistaken, the DTS discs that Poita is using are higher quality and are already designed to sync to the film reels he’s using. Plus, they’re the same mix as the LD audio Harmy used.

Ok I thought it would sound better so it doesn’t sound like 20 year old film second
I still think he should recreate the audio for empire and Jedi

Why would he need to recreate anything if he has access to A) the optical stereo audio on the film itself and B) the theatrical DTS discs for the movies? And this isn’t about updating it to make it seem like it was just made. It is 20 years old, it should sound like it did 20 years ago, just like any restoration of the 1977 version (Harmy’s included) should sound like it did 40 years ago.

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984)

Just got the new GKids Blu-Ray of this (all the new Ghibli GKids Blu-Rays are selling for great prices on Amazon, by the way). Looks and sounds amazing, and it’s wonderful to be able to watch it in Japanese without dubtitles for once!

Definitely one of my favorites of Miyazaki’s. The world is so well-realized, there’s just the right mix of cute (the fox-squirrel!) and creepy (the Ohms). Oddly, watching this again has made me really wish for an animated Dune adaptation…

9 ridiculously bushy mustaches out of 10

Now I’ve got to get one of my other favorites, Castle in the Sky - the new GKids release has a third audio option that’s the English dub with the original electronic music (though sadly in lossy DD instead of DTS-HD), so that’ll be nice to have.

Or let us see the pre-reshoot scenes before he grew the mustache in the first place…

I was under the impression Poita was using them specifically because they were easy to sync to the reels.

HerekittykittyX said:

For this entire edit replace the audio so use all of this of course ask for permission
For a new hope ask Harmy if you could use Harmy respecalized audio track
For empire make your own using harmys despecialized 2.0 and the Blu-Ray
For Jedi use Harmy despecialized 2.5 and the Blu-ray

Do it So the audio doesn’t sound bad

Um…no.

First off, Harmy used the theatrical 1977 audio. This is the 1997 Special Edition. They don’t sync.

Second off, Poita is using the theatrical DTS audio - as in, the exact same audio you would have heard in a theater with DTS sound instead of Dolby in 1997 - which is by many accounts the best-sounding mix of Star Wars out there, SE changes notwithstanding.

JEDIT: Just saw that you said “Respecialized.” For that, Harmy used the 1997 Laserdisc Dolby Digital audio. If I’m not mistaken, the DTS discs that Poita is using are higher quality and are already designed to sync to the film reels he’s using. Plus, they’re the same mix as the LD audio Harmy used.

Yeah, that’s honestly one of my favorite shots in the film…

I skipped the last 5 pages and honestly don’t think I missed anything worthwhile.

Haven’t seen the new Ghostbusters, but I will admit to enjoying the new Jungle Book quite a bit. Not that I think it needed to exist, mind you, and I have no interest in Beauty and the Beast or Lion King.

I live in a basement studio apartment, so I have no actual deck to put it on, sadly.

Knob Creek 100-proof bourbon mixed with ginger beer.

I mean, not right at this moment, I’m at work. But it’s on deck back home.

Warbler said:

ChainsawAsh said:

Warbler said:

male breasts ≠ female breasts

and therefore should be treated differently from each other. Don’t know how else to say it.

But why?

You’re asking me why we treat things that are different from each other differently?

Yes. Just because they’re different doesn’t mean they have to be treated differently. How and why they are different is what matters. I’d argue that there’s nothing inherently different about female breasts beyond the fact that they have more fat and are used to nurse infants, and as such shouldn’t be treated any differently than male breasts. Women should be as freely able to walk around topless as men.

Warbler said:

male breasts ≠ female breasts

and therefore should be treated differently from each other. Don’t know how else to say it.

But why?

I think it’ll happen, but not until part II is out, at which point we’ll get a 4.5-hour combined extended cut of both movies as one.

That or they’ll double-dip and put the extended cut of part I out right before part II hits theaters, as you say…

TV’s Frink said:

^He doesn’t give any.

Uncensored ur!

SilverWook said:

It’s amazing to me you can say shit and asshole on basic cable now.

You can say anything on basic cable, it’s not FCC-regulated. It’s Always Sunny aired two episodes with uncensored “fucks,” one of which also included uncensored C-, N-, and F-words (the other F-word). Taboo was aired in the US on FX completely uncensored, with multiple “fucks” and worse in every episode, and Mr. Robot airs uncensored episodes now and again, too.

On cable, it’s all about what the advertisers are okay with. If you can get enough advertisers to fill out your hour or half hour without censoring anything, you’re good to go. No FCC fines or anything involved.

What about a topless shower scene?

I might be able to give you ROTS above ROTJ, but certainly not TFA.

SilverWook said:

ChainsawAsh said:

We have a the first color Doctor Who TV story in proper HD, but not Star Wars.

JEDIT: Not saying that DW story is unworthy of the HD treatment, mind you, it’s just kind of mind-boggling when you consider that we don’t (and can’t) even have proper standard def copies of many of the episodes that surround it.

Only by virtue of a labor strike at the BBC forcing them to shoot the entire story on film at the time.

True, but still, I own “Spearhead from Space” on an official Blu-Ray that isn’t insultingly revisionist, but not Star Wars. That’s crazy to me.

Jeebus said:

This discussion makes me want to bash my head against a wall until I die.

This is also a good post.

I noticed it one day when making a custom DVD cover that used the crawls about a decade ago and I’ve never been able to unsee it. Sticks out just as much as AOTC’s upward tilt, IMO.

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

Cobra Kai said:

Found the answer from Mike, via twitter:

“ICANN verification bullshit. Working on it.”

Damn. all revved up and no place to go.

Legacy in a nutshell…