Eric_S

NeverarGreat said:

I'd say that the largest problem with the OT from a technical plot point of view is the idea that the Millennium Falcon, without hyperdrive, manages to locate and fly to Lando's mining operation...

Alright, here's the best I can come up with:

The Anoat system is a neighboring star system to the Hoth system.  They are rather close together in galactic terms, probably much closer than the average two systems.  (Such as the Sun and Proxima Centauri).

The Falcon limped its way there without a hyperdrive over a significant period of time.  Weeks or even months.  Even at sublight, over time the Falcon is able to accelerate up to speeds that can make this journey.

Meanwhile, Luke travels to Dagobah in a far shorter period of time (hours to days) and spends the interval training with Yoda.  He arrives at Cloud City later on through the benefits of traveling again through hyperspace.

Also, it's pretty strongly inferred through in films that the Falcon would have no trouble outrunning a Star Destroyer in a straight drag race, but things become complicated when you factor the Destroyer's turbolasers into the mix.  The Falcon has to dedicate vast amounts of available power to rear deflector shields in order to withstand the blasts from the bigger ship.  Because of this, only a fraction of the Falcon's potential speed is available to flee with. 

As far as meeting Lando...

It's not called "Solo's luck" for nothing.

I'm sorry if this has been answered, but it's sort of hard to do a search on this question due to the terminology.

Will Star Wars in 3d be available anywhere to watch in 2d?

I know that most cinemas have both 3d and 2d showings of 3d films these days.  I would look forward to seeing Episodes I in 2d again, even with alterations.  I could probably live with SE Empire too just because I've never seen any version of that film in cinemas and it seems to have the least offensive changes. 

"You know of the rebellion against the Empire?!"

Tattooine is REALLY far out of the way in a really big galaxy.  Luke is a clueless teenager.  I would be more surprised if he actually knew who Anakin Skywalker was in the first place. 

My hope is that there will be a simultaneous 2d release for cinemas that cannot project the 3d version just like it is with most 3d releases.  I'd take a 2d extra-super-special edition release over nothing.    However, my gut tells me it won't be that easy.

Strange. 

I played the demo .mkv file on my blu-ray player (BDP-S270) last night with no problems at all. It added the black bars and played flawlessly.  My player has an option called "fixed aspect ratio" that adds the letterboxing.

I guess not all players can do that though. 

Will they be black bars, or gray bars? 

I just watched the PSB clip alongside Adywans' theatrical reconstruction at the same time in two seperate video players on my monitor. The differences are pretty incredible in the snow and ice scenes.  I had thought that the 2004 dvd was extremely blue, and when I saw Adywan's color corrected scenes those looked "right" to me, but now I have to go back and revise my opinion. 

The blues in the PSB scenes are just the right kind of pastel hues that look otherworldly, and almost a little dreamlike.  It definitely changes the tone of the planet.  I think the ability for Ady or anyone else to go back and re-re-color correct ESB alone makes this project worth the effort. 

Man, I wish I had a projector or otherwise big screen to watch this or PG on. 

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How many of these 16mm prints of each movie are around?