ChainsawAsh

Eulogy (2004), with Zooey Deschanel, Hank Azaria, Ray Romano, and Rip Torn, among others.

It may not be the greatest movie in the world, but I have a soft spot for it.  Not sure why, exactly - I just think it's charming and funny.  And it's the only thing I've ever been able to stand Ray Romano in.

Ah, gotcha.  I know nothing about avisynth, so I was unaware.  Never a big fan of the whole command-line thing, I just can't get my head around it - I'll stick with Avid, Final Cut Pro, and Color, thank you very much.  ;-)

"BD-9" and "AVCHD disc" are the same thing.  Blu-Ray format on a DVD-9.

Technically, BD-9 is inaccurate anyway, since it's burned using a red laser on DVD media, not Blu-Ray media.  AVCHD disc is the correct term.

CP3S said:

Listening to that Mumford & Sons' album again. I swear that song Sigh No More was written for Warbler. I literally think of him every time I hear it. :)

+1

"Going Up" - Infant Sorrow

(From the soundtrack to the movie Get Him to the Greek)

I agree wholeheartedly.  I'm kind of excited to finish the conversion so I can start on the fan edit.

I've also added a new level of obsessiveness to this project - I've gone back to my idea of emulating the retail disc exactly.  Unfortunately, the menu audio is (mostly) subject to the 4% speedup as well.

So I'm going through and testing each menu to make sure that the audio is, in fact, at the wrong pitch, and if it is, I'm fixing it.

I've also decided that there will be two releases - one that emulates the Region 1 retail disc 1 exactly (the FBI warning will be replaced with a disclaimer of my own), that will be dual-layered, with any and all speed issues fixed (menus included); and a single-layer, bare-bones release that will include just the movie itself.

Note that the main feature's video will be 100% exactly the same between the two, as the retail DVD-9 video fits snugly on a single layer anyway.

So, with that in mind, I pose a question to those that are interested in this: Would you download the DVD-9, with all retail menus and features, or the DVD-5, with just the main feature and the 4 audio tracks/2 subtitle tracks?

(Also, I haven't checked to see if the music tracks are subject to the 4% speedup or not; if not, only the main feature's audio tracks and the menu audio will be adjusted - all the other extra features were created at 25fps from the beginning, so there's no reason to adjust them.)

Harold and Maude.

Very good film.  I hope to be as awesome as Maude when I'm 79 years old.

Except that NTSC/ATSC video isn't 0-255, it's 16-235.  Anything beyond that is an illegal video signal.

Ziggy Stardust said:

Um... isn't my answer pretty obvious?

Elton John?

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See, it did it again!  WTF?!

Butter & garlic Pasta-Roni.  Not the most delicious pasta in the world, perhaps, but it sure tastes like it in my ... ah ... current state.

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Okay, that's weird.  Ziggy's post was there when I started writing mine, and now mine is above his.  Is this a DST issue?

SpenceEdit said:

Well, the music is going to be from all different sources for the entire duration of the movie.

I understand this, but whenever I hear that particular track I immediately think "Whoever picked this is lazy."  The original version was perfect for Requiem for a Dream, and the remix was perfect for the Two Towers trailer.

Every other time it's been used since then, I groan.  I'd go with something less recognizable, if I were you.

Agreed about the music.  It's incredibly overused (not necessarily in fan edits, just in general), plus putting Requiem for a Dream music in Star Wars just doesn't seem right to me.

Otherwise, it looks absolutely fantastic.

I was 5 and had already worn out my Jedi tape.  We had to buy a new one.

I wore out Empire a year or two later.

TV's Frink said:

Ziggy Stardust said:

I never think about the prequels so they don't bother me.

You just did.

You also just lost the game.

Aren't you a little old for this sort of thing?

Hal, there's a whole section of the forum dedicated to rewriting the prequels.  Take it over there.

Out of curiosity, would you consider revising this edit if there turn out to be potentially-useful deleted scenes on the Blu-Ray?

Same thing always happened to me when I used my Droid Eris to post here.

Yeah, he hasn't done anything worthwhile since Big Fish.

There's so much baggage throughout that thread, it might be better to start a new one.

DuracellEnergizer said:

I watched Beetlejuice last night for the first time since I was twelve; I didn't like it then, and I don't like it now.

Blasphemy!

brash_stryker said:

What I meant was that you can't copy them all as a list =) Instead you have to right click and copy each link individually.

This is what I had to do.

I'm the same age as Jake Lloyd.  People always told me I looked like Anakin when Episode I came out.

He actually goes (or went) to my school (Columbia College).  Never met him, but some of my friends have had classes with him.

Wow, that's longer than I thought it would be.  Oops.

Okay, since I don't seem to be getting up to go to class (technically, class doesn't start for 4 more hours anyway, I just wanted to get some work done beforehand), here's my review:

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Wow.  You've made me enjoy watching Return of the Jedi again.  Up until now, it's been a chore to sit through the whole thing ... but this is almost perfect.  Not the way it should have been made, but the way it should have been cut once Lucas saw all the crap that had been shot.

Opening with Luke on Dagobah is great.  At first it's a little awkward, since we're so used to Luke having a badass entrance and all, but it really sets the tone in a way the film was severely lacking before.

Jabba is now a dirty gangster - like Lucas always claimed he was meant to be - and Bib Fortuna may in fact be the one who holds the real power in his court (I got this from the "message" scene - getting subtitles for Bib was a very nice touch).

Love love LOVE that you got rid of Boba Fett.  I've been championing that idea for a very long time, and you're the first that's done it ... and it's everything I thought it could be!

I didn't miss the Rancor at all.  The transition from Luke bargaining with Jabba to Han being brought out really wasn't awkward, like I was worried it would be.

The general silliness reduction in Jabba's palace really helped.

Cutting Obi-Wan's ghost was also a very good call - Luke has to figure shit out on his own instead of getting it all explained to him in one fell swoop.

Loved that you went back to the Empire in the middle of the Jabba's Palace stuff.  It really reminds you that the Empire is still a threat, and that the rebels are going to have to deal with them soon.

I wish more Ewok silliness had been cut on Endor, but it's nowhere near as bad as it is in the theatrical cut.

Luke figuring out that Leia is his sister worked so much better than having Obi-Wan tell him.

And finally, the climax.

The whole final battle actually felt exciting!  I was worried about the lack of Ewok traps, but that actually improved the whole "Ewoks beat the Empire" thing a lot.

Loved that you moved the duel to a Star Destroyer.  It works very well, and doesn't require a leap in suspension of disbelief like I expected it would.  It helped that you never had any throne room scenes until Luke was taken there, I think.

I retract any and all negative statements I made about putting the Luke/Vader battle all in one continuous scene.  It works much better, particularly for your edit.

All the added Death Star shots look great, and really help to "sell" the change in location.

The ending seems a wee bit abrupt, but it's very good, and substantially better than Yub Nub or the SE song.

I don't miss the Force ghosts, either.

It's just too bad you couldn't give Han something to do, or better lines (it really hit me this time how much Han in this movie is NOTHING like SW or ESB Han), but there's only so much you can do with what's there.

Anyway, this is definitely my preferred version of Jedi from this point forward.  Five-star work all around, Spence!

Very, very highly recommended for anyone who's disappointed in the official vesions of the movie!

zombie84 said:

My understanding is that it is only certain sections that are damaged, no? If a full-film transfer is out of the question, wouldn't a salvage job of certain reels be viable? Because the previous clip demonstrated that at least parts of the film look great.

Very much this.

Haha, the menus are fine, it's just the color range that's off.

And the big sync thing I noticed in the sail barge fight was the whole "saving Lando" bit, including "It's alright, trust me."

The shot I'm thinking of is right after the Emperor says "and the end of your insignificant Rebellion."