DavidMerrick

Or someone could just tell me in the standard, normal person hours:minutes format. But sure, I'll do some unnecessary math.

Approximately what time in this 8mm version does the 35mm LPP come in?

Yeah, 4K is just not practical for most living room setups. I would prefer to see 1080p downscales of 4K masters, like what Team Negative One is doing and what companies have done with Ghostbusters and RoboCop.

Which is the better of the two available Blu Rays for Mad Max 1?

The contrast, colour correction, etc. in these recent clips and screencaps are all temporary.

Huh, I had thought cue marks had standard locations across all prints. This is quite reassuring.

How does one get rid of cue marks? Some painstaking photoshop work?

Nah I'm fine here.

On topic, I think 12-15 year old me would have loved to have seen Fett survive and grown up to be a gruff old Max von Sydow, but upon coming back to the trilogy in the last couple years, he's not much of a character to me. He has a great look, and Jason Wingreen's voice was perfect, but he's not a character in the same way that Luke, Leia, Vader or even Chewie was. He was a means to an end, a method of tracking down Han and bringing him to Jabba. Like, based on his scant lines in Empire, all we know about him is that:

-he's in it for the money

-Han is no good to him dead

And then he dies early on in Jedi. Now, you could easily argue that Lucas and co. failed to develop him, but he's only effective being cool and mysterious. I'm already apprehensive about the thought of Abrams and co. bringing back dead characters (though I doubt they'll do it), but could von Sydow do for the character without erasing all the enigma that made Fett cool to kids? He'd give a hell of a performance, but it wouldn't be the same character--or non-character.

Oh I had him confused with Luke Skyywalker.

I could get angry at the sheer perversity in this thread but then I remember this forum has a 36-page, nine-year-long topic devoted to restoring Song of the South and this doesn't seem so bad.

I'd be interested to see that, if you please.

Watching Despecialized last night, I noticed that during the Alderaan asteroids/tractor beam sequence Luke and Han have orange blotches on their faces. I wondered if it was a colour correction thing but then I considered it was makeup. Anyone have an idea?

Because it's not your usual wear and tear but something that shipped with the prints.

Ohhhh. Stealth announcement. Nice.

Oh hold up, I'm confused: the Artoo and Rebel soldier shots at the top of the page---are those from your theatrical '77 scan in progress or from the '97 SE material you have?

Looks fantastic either way.

team_negative1 said:

We have not announced anything regarding the 97 SE versions yet. But we plan on preserving those also when the time comes.

Team Negative1

 Oh I meant your '77 theatrical version.

Those from your 35mm scan, Negative One? The colours look fantastic.

It's funny, when I see '97 Jabba the nostalgia of seeing Star Wars for the first time allows me to see past its gaping flaws. When I was seven, CGI Jabba was real, dammit. When I look at the '04 version I just see a digital effect, albeit a much improved one.

(And '04 Jabba is actually a damn good effect, just visually inconsistent with everything else in that movie.)

Actually, all I notice is how the cleaned-up frame is somehow less cropped.

Silly question, but would you have a shot of the Emperor saying "Young fool. Only now, in the end, do you understand"? His face in most versions of the movie has a raw, reddish tinge to it and I'm wondering if it's always been like that or if that started with the DVD release.

Very nice. It seems that after artifact clean-up and colour correction, one of your next obstacles is flicker. How do you correct for that?

Dude, nobody knows. Nothing has been told of the plot save for script leaks that may or may not be true. We'll have to hold off until a more detailed trailer or, at the very latest, December.

Remember that Into Darkness takes place in an alternate timeline. Khan wasn't resurrected, just rebooted as a lot more white and a lot more British.

And yes, you can reasonably blame that decision and the entire movie's bizarre 9/11 Truther undertones on Orci.

They aren't, as their print of Jedi had the best quality of the three movies.

Exactly. The universal appeal of Star Wars has only ever been a positive.