ChainsawAsh

My 2¢:

I'd definitely add in "The Rebel Alliance has been driven to the fringes of the galaxy." at the beginning.  It sets up the current situation for the Rebels, just like the first two films did. ("It is a period of civil war." and "It is a dark time for the Rebellion.")  And it grabs the audience more.

Also, your second paragraph fails to mention Han at all.  On top of that, "Upon learning of Chewbacca's capture" is just a better-written, more active sentence than "Learning that Chewbacca has been discovered and captured."  Plus, it's slightly shorter.  I'm indifferent on "Lando has sent a desperate message to Princes Leia" versus "Princess Leia has impatiently rushed to Tatooine to free her friends" - I think I lean more toward the latter, but they're both good.

Finally, I'm also indifferent toward "certain doom for the galaxy" versus "certain doom for the small band of Rebels struggling to restore freedom to the galaxy."

Here's my compromise attempt:

STAR WARS

Episode VI
RETURN OF THE JEDI

The Rebel Alliance has been driven
to the fringes of the galaxy.  Still burdened
by the terrible truth of his father's fate,
Luke Skywalker has returned to
Dagobah to complete his Jedi training
under Master Yoda.

Meanwhile, in a daring attempt to
rescue Han Solo, Lando Calrissian
and Chewbacca have infiltrated
the court of the vile gangster JABBA THE
HUTT.  Upon learning of Chewbacca's discovery
and capture, Lando has sent a desperate
plea for help to Princess Leia.

Little do they know that the GALACTIC EMPIRE
has secretly begun construction of a new
DEATH STAR. When completed, this
ultimate weapon will spell certain doom
for the galaxy....

This formatting actually uses fewer lines than the 1977 Star Wars crawl, so you shouldn't have timing issues.

--edit--

I'm not sure why we have a "center align" button when it doesn't do a damn thing, but whatever.

Erikstormtrooper said:

Spence, your latest crawl is good - I can live with that :)

I was thinking about what Bingowings said, and I've thrown together something with a little more punch. I left your final paragraph the same.

The Rebel Alliance has been driven to the fringes of the galaxy. Still burdened by the terrible truth of his father's fate, Luke Skywalker has returned to Dagobah to complete his Jedi training with Master Yoda.

Meanwhile, in a daring attempt to rescue Han Solo, Lando Calrissian and Chewbacca have infiltrated the court of the vile gangster JABBA THE HUTT. Upon learning of Chewbacca's capture, Princess Leia has impatiently rushed to Tatooine to free her friends.

Little do they know that the GALACTIC EMPIRE is secretly constructing a new DEATH STAR. When completed, this ultimate weapon will spell certain doom for the small band of rebels struggling to restore freedom to the galaxy...

This seems the best to me.  I give it my stamp of approval.

It was pretty much him pleading with me to talk to Moth3r and Jay so he could get unbanned.  I had scanned it and sent it to Moth3r, but it appears that imgur has deleted the image for some reason.

How long until Ghostskeetgate is added to the list, Frink?

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Borders-bookseller-faces-bankruptcy/post/476384/#TopicPost476384

One quick suggestion, if you do decide to re-do the crawl:

Jedi is the only one of the six films to end its crawl with three dots instead of four.  I don't know if this has been changed to four in your current crawl, but if you do end up re-doing it I think it'd be nice to make it four dots to keep the saga consistent.

If not, it's not a big deal.  Jedi has had three dots for almost 30 years, and no one's complained about it.

Naturally.  But on-set photos have recently confirmed that the Dagobah lightsaber training was, in fact, filmed, and parts of the Wampa attack were filmed (though the sequence was dropped as the Wampa costumes sucked ass).

Yep, physical mail.  He got my previous address from when I sent him a copy of ANH:R.  Next time, I won't write down a return address...

Yeah, the 2004 SE and 2006 SE DVDs are identical, with the possible exception of the art on the disc (not sure as I no longer own either).

Nice crawl!  Sets up the movie nicely.

Yeah, end of 2011 is what he's shooting for right now, IIRC.

Classic.

I wonder if whoever lives at my old place will get a creepy-ass letter from BadAssGhostbustingJanskeet like I did when he got banned as Janskeet.

Dunedain said:

Oh wow, look at what Mike seems to have access to.

http://www.starwarslegacy.com/forums/showthread.php?t=33

What wonders of restoration could be done if the tech guys here had access to a source like that... :)

Is that a motherfucking 4K scan of the 1977 crawl?!

Wwha....huh...

:O

And THAT'S unrestored?!

Oh my dear God ... I must go change my pants, now...

So I've searched high and low, and I can't figure this shit out.

I have a 5.1 DTS file that's sycnhronized to 23.976 video.  However, I need to convert it to sync to 25fps video (I've already successfully converted the video, so I don't need to worry about that).

So what I'm looking for is either an easy way to convert it, keeping the 5.1 and the DTS encoding, or a way to split it into six mono WAVs that I can then convert, and then join back together into a new 5.1 DTS file (though I guess I can deal with a 5.1 AC3 in the end if it has to be done that way).

Oh, and I'm in Mac OS X 10.5.8 right now.  I'd love to be able to do all this within OS X, but if I have to I can jump over into Windows 7.

The Aluminum Falcon said:

ChainsawAsh said:

It's nice to see the movie without all the DVNR smearing and other weird GOUT glitches, but the image is noticeably softer, and the colors seem a little wonky in some scenes but a little more accurate in others.

And that's pretty much exactly how I expected it to look, so you've done a good job!

Though I'm not a donator and will probably never see this set, I am curious; how does the quality compare to Arnie's V8 and Dark Jedi & Segaflip's collaborative transfer of it?

Don't know, I've never seen either of these versions.

What are you talking about?  There's a whole deleted sequence with C-3PO letting wampas loose in the base during the attack.  And there's the additional Dagobah training sequences, with Luke training with his lightsaber while Yoda coaches on his back.

I'm sure there are more, but those are the two that come to mind immediately.

Ooh, I like the music a lot!  And I like that we don't see anything of Leia after she jumps off of the speeder bike.

Just read your email, DJ.

I haven't had much of a chance to go over the JSC set yet, I've just peeked at ANH.

I like that you kept the CBS/FOX logo at the beginning, that was a nice touch.

It's nice to see the movie without all the DVNR smearing and other weird GOUT glitches, but the image is noticeably softer, and the colors seem a little wonky in some scenes but a little more accurate in others.

And that's pretty much exactly how I expected it to look, so you've done a good job!

I'll update more when I watch the rest.

Lucas has, outside of Star Wars, directed, produced, or executive produced:

1. THX 1138
2. American Graffiti
3. More American Graffiti
   
4. Raiders of the Lost Ark
5. Twice Upon a Time
6. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
7. Mishima
8. Labyrinth
9. Howard the Duck
10. Captain EO
11. Powaqqatsi
12. Willow
13. Tucker: A Man and His Dream
14. The Land Before Time
15. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
16. The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
17. Radioland Murders
18. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
19. Red Tails (currently in production)

So maybe he hasn't been doing much outside of Star Wars lately, but has made plenty of movies outside of Star Wars.

--edit--

And Frink is right, this isn't the thread for this kind of discussion, so I'll drop it.

G E Predator said:

Akwat Kbrana said:

And unlike Blade Runner and Alien, which are products of the company's that distributed them, Star Wars is owned by Lucas and not FOX.  Therefore, Lucas does have the right to decide which editions are deemed the default editions.

No one's suggesting that George's suppression of the original Star Wars trilogy is illegal; only that it's wrong.

From a certain point of view ^^

You realize what website you're on, right?

Hey, let's not forget that the GOUT isn't exactly a perfect representation of the theatrical cuts, either.  Your subtitles don't need to be 100% faithful, they just need to be close - and they are very, very close.  I love 'em.  :-)

What you're looking for is the J.W. Rinzler books, so yeah, the Star Wars one you linked to is the 30th Anniversary conterpart to the Empire book you mentioned.

I would assume a Rinzler-written ROTJ book will be out in 2013.

Krzysztof Penderecki - Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima

Weird as shit, but powerful nonetheless.

G E Predator said:

I think it's just silly to whine about something you really don't have any control over, especially if it's someone else's movie.  Sure, you can re-edit or "despecial-editionize" the original trilogy to your heart's content, but that's not gonna stop the man who created Star Wars to begin with from making his films more to his satisfaction.

That doesn't mean I have to silently stand by and accept what he's doing.

Here's what I remember Adywan saying about these things, artego:

He's not doing the things in the list because he doesn't think Empire needs any of those things, as (in his opinion) it's almost perfect as-is (or, as was, as the case may be).

That's the same reason why he will not be adding in any new scenes, regardless of what shows up on the Blu-Ray release.

However, he has not ruled out using deleted scenes from Jedi when he gets around to it, as he's going to be making radical alterations to that film anyway.  It really depends on what scenes are released, too.

Oh, I've definitely complained about the revisions.  If I want to watch Star Wars to watch Star Wars, I will never put in either SE or Revisited (as well as Revisited is done) simply because each time there's a change, it yanks me right the fuck out of the movie, screaming "HEY!  This is new!  Isn't this so much better than the old shot?  It's all shiny and CG!"

So I guess I wasn't being entirely honest when I implied that the suppression of the originals was the only reason I bitch about the SE's and refuse to buy them.  I have big problems with the changes themselves.

But I respect Lucas' right to make said changes, and I would shut the fuck up real fast if he released a Blade Runner- or CE3K-esque set with all the various versions preserved in the best possible quality.  He could replace OT Yoda with CG Yoda, and as long as the 1980/1983 versions are available in equal or similar quality to the newest one, I wouldn't say one word about it.

But if they're not, you bet your ass I'll be the most vocal, bitchy, purist fanboy in the world until they are released.