ChainsawAsh

Polygon -

You've got some good covers there, but I have 2 suggestions for the logos:

1) Get rid of the little notch on the "N" in "New Hope," and the same for the "M" in "Menace"

2) Consider basing AOTC's logo on the official logo (which has ATTACK on top, CLONES on the bottom, and OF THE in between on a single line, with bars on either side of it).  As it stands, AOTC, ROTS, and ROTJ have almost the exact same logo.

That is exactly how I feel, HH.  Episodes 4-6 are in film form, 7-9 are in book form, and 1-3 don't exist yet.

I'm laughing inside because I know several music theory and performance majors here at school that would balk at the idea that all these "obviously very different" genres could be the same thing.  Alternative and indie?  Those are clearly two different genres.  How could you even think to confuse them?!

Seriously, when they tell me about a band I should listen to, I ask them to describe it, and after they do I have even less of an idea of how they might sound than I did from just hearing their name.

No, I'm Spartacus!

Wasn't Embryonic terrible, though?  What happened there?

Seasons 2 and 3 are the best, followed by 1 and 4 (pretty much tied).  Then comes season 6 (the current season), with season 5 (the four DVD movies) coming in last.

Though, to be honest, seasons 1-4 are pretty damn close to being equal.

The new season of Futurama is pretty good.  Not up to par with the best seasons, but "The Late Philip J. Fry" and "The Prisoner of Benda" are instant-classic episodes.

Avoid "Attack of the Killer App" at all costs, though.  Garbage.

In Rainbows is definitely their best album since OK Computer, but it doesn't come anywhere close to The Bends.

Yeah, I had the widescreen TPM VHS, and it had the white subs, as pictured above.

It's possible.  I don't really remember, and most of my old PMs have been erased to make room for new ones.

Clearly, since I have no idea what "PTM" means.

I pray that the studio goes light on the DNR for this one...

Oh, and I noticed that when TheDigitalBits first ran the story for this release, the info they posted (taken directly from the press release) claimed that this would be the first time the original Australian audio track would be available in the US, despite the fact that the R1 SE DVD I've had for years definitely has the original Australian audio.

Speaking of which, the specs you listed seem to indicate that the American dub will be the default audio on this release.  I hope that's not the case ...

The first one's good.  Just don't believe the people that tell you how DEEP and PHILOSOPHICAL it is.

It is neither of those things.

And avoid the sequels at all costs.

TV's Frink said:

ChainsawAsh said:

All this talk of yellow subs is making me nervous.

Guess you're not a Beatles fan :p

Haha, bkev is right, I am most definitely a huge Beatles fan.

Interestingly, though "Yellow Submarine" is my least favorite album (well, if you can call it an album), "Hey Bulldog" is one of my favorite Beatles songs.

And glad to hear it, DJ - I didn't think you'd use yellow subs, but the chatter about them was making me nervous nonetheless.

The starfields look fantastic in this version, so I assume Ady did do some starfield recovery.

I'm not sure about the engine glows, but they seemed fine to me.  Then again, I haven't watched the 2004 versions in six years, so I don't really remember how bad they were.

I'm going to once again put forth my vote for msycamore's subs.  I can't stand subtitles in letterboxing, and I can stand yellow subtitles even less.

All this talk of yellow subs is making me nervous.

I've never seen any Star Wars film with yellow subtitles.  Ever.

(Excepting DJ's GOUT V1, of course.)

The first one's okay.  Empire was nowhere near as funny.  I'm not really looking forward to Jedi.

Haha, I really don't care.  I just always forget Erikstormtrooper's here, too.  And that there's nothing in my username or signature that would indicate what my real name is.

Mielr, you confused the hell out of me (my real name's Erik)!

This always seems to happen when that damn stormtrooper's around ...

I would see it if it's a rebooted PT with minimal (or no) involvement from George.  But only if it was meant to gel with the OOT, and not to reboot the franchise from the ground up (I would never see a remake of the OT).

I would consider seeing a sequel trilogy, but probably not if it were written/directed by George like the PT was.

Another Empire situation would be ideal (George comes up with the story, a good writer does the script and a good director does the film).

Not to reopen this can of worms, but ...

Crystal Skull is lightyears better than any of the prequels.  It's not that much worse than Temple or Crusade (which is only good because of Sean Connery and the last 30-40 minutes).  Raiders is the only legitimately good Indy film (which is why I'm glad it doesn't have "Indiana Jones" in the title - it makes it easy to keep it separate from the inferior sequel trilogy).

Alright.  So how does one get a hold of these transfers?  I've got about 570GB free on my editing hard drive, that should be enough to work with these, though I don't have any way to author them to AVCHD (unless Adobe Encore can do it - I'm not that familiar with Encore, though).

I can make nice MKVs without the letterboxing, though.

msycamore:

In theory, that doesn't sound like a bad idea.  Unfortunately, the only way for that to work is to capture a pan-and-scan laserdisc, and all of those are of much worse quality than the GOUT.  That, plus the fact that some sections on the sides may need to be restored using a widescreen version anyway, means that it would just be too glaringly obvious a difference.

"Some kind of."

As in "This looks like some kind of ____," or "It must be some kind of ____," or "I think it's some kind of ______."

Just drop the "some kind of!"  It's unnecessary and it bugs the fucking shit out of me!

... *ahem* ... sorry about that.