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It's only been 9/11 for 1 hour and 21 minutes here, and I haven't posted for at least two hours. So I'll keep the ridiculousness to a minimum for the next 24 hours out of respect.
A B C said:
I have worst...
How dare you lie in front of Jesus!
IIRC, their primary source is a 1080p version of the 2004 SE (from HD broadcasts), with GOUT clips edited in where necessary. So the majority of the films are in true 1080p, with certain sections upscaled from letterboxed SD.
Am I too late for the Raptor Jesus bandwagon?
I'd say that the miniseries and seasons 1-3 were fantastic. Then the first half of season 4 is pretty good, while the second half is pretty mediocre, minus the mutiny storyline, which was excellent. I personally liked the finale, but it wasn't up there with the best of the show.
And Razor & The Plan were both terrible and unnecessary.
Agreed. And isn't that shot (minus the shuttle, obviously) just reused from when the Falcon is leaving Bespin a few minutes later?
No, the "purist edition" is just Revisited without added music, and with the scene in Obi-Wan's hut restored to its theatrical cut. (I think one or two other things may be different.) But other than that, it's Revisited, just ... less revisited.
And Ady, that is bloody fantastic news! I know it's early, but do you think you'll be using the 1977 crawl, or the 1981 crawl?
Which do you think is better:
The main points of contention about ANH's 2004 5.1 mix:
1) Dialogue audio levels and dialogue sound quality are all over the place; this was never an issue on previous mixes.
2) The music in the surround channels are flipped (i.e., what's supposed to be in the left surround channel is in the right surround channel and vice versa); the front left and right channels are fine. I'm fairly certain this wasn't an issue in the 1997 5.1 mix. It's also almost impossible to fix, since the sound effects in each channel are fine, so flipping them would result in the sound effects being backwards.
3) At the very beginning of the Death Star battle, the Force Theme is dialed down to almost inaudible levels (it had been heard clearly in all previous mixes).
It sounds to me, based on the interview, that the sound mix is likely to stay the same.
The best way to tell is if, when the Blu-Ray technical specs are announced, the audio is going to be 5.1 or 7.1. If it's 5.1, it's likely to be the same, and if it's 7.1, I'll be even more scared because that means all the movies will have to be remixed.
How'd I get bumped up to "Unreasonable" so quickly? I made one post that violates your rules, and my shoddy internet tripled it accidentally. Every other post I've made has been pretty on-topic and "reasonable," in my opinion.
Agreed, I'm very excited about this. It'll be the perfect companion piece to Ady's ESB reconstruction.
Now we just need someone to do a proper ANH recon ...
Oh, by the way, Harmy - are you planning on doing color correction on this? That would definitely seal the deal for me.
Argh, double post this time ...
Indeed. While Blomkamp's Halo may have been great, District 9 is too awesome for me to trade it for Halo.
TV's Frink said:
The same dude from District 9 was going to do Halo? I don't know thing 1 about Halo but that would have been interesting.
Yep. That's why District 9 was made.
Peter Jackson was producing, and he hired Blomkamp to direct. They worked on it for a while, and then the Halo movie fell through.
Jackson felt bad that Blomkamp didn't get a chance to direct a big-budget movie, so he gave him $30 million to direct whatever he wanted. He decided to remake his Alive in Joburg short as a feature, and District 9 was born.
In the interest of being slightly on-topic:
I don't think the Halo movie would have been bad, based on what Neill Blomkamp did with District 9, and his Halo demo footage.
Okay, I swear the triple post was NOT intentional.
All 3 movies' color timings were completely scrooged for the 2004 DVDs, not just Jedi.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say Empire was the most affected.
I may need to pick up the old 20th Anniversary Edition DVD. I don't remember the colors being that significantly different.
I'll check DVDBeaver and see if they have a comparison ...
Well, anyone hoping that the Blu-Rays will improve on the fucked-uppedness of ANH's 2004 5.1 mix will be disappointed:
http://themoviebit.blogspot.com/2010/09/star-wars-blu-ray-audio-news.html
Sounds to me like they're using the same mix for the Blu-Ray. Bummer.
bkev said:
OHMSS at a local theater, with special guest George Lazenby himself. A little slow at times, but certainly up there.
Now that is awesome. My #2 Bond film, after From Russia with Love.
Then again, my top 5 tend to shift a lot...
I thought msycamore meant actual altered footage from the Director's Cut made it into the branched version of the theatrical cut (as in, a shot with altered effects, or a shot that simply wasn't present in the theatrical cut), not color timing differences.
