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Erikstormtrooper

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#441362
Topic
What we like about the Prequels
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OK. I'll bite. Here's what I liked.

Episode I:

  • Destroyer Droids
  • Seeing all the droids scramble to repair Amidala's ship. It was a great way to show what astromech droids are actually designed to do.
  • The look of Coruscant
  • Liam Neeson's performance in general
  • The lightsaber battle at the end of the movie
  • Wondering how these story threads would play out over the next two movies


Episode II:

  • The opening sequence as Padme's new ship flies through the foggy skies of Coruscant
  • The look of the new digital Yoda
  • The scenes of Clones marching in formation
  • Ewan McGregor's & Christopher Lee's performances
  • The scene between Obi Wan and Dooku, where Dooku reveals the senate is controlled by a Sith Lord
  • Fantasizing that Episode III would be about the Clone Wars


Episode III:

  • The epic scale of the opening space battle
  • The ROTS clone armor as a nice transition between Episode II and Episode IV
  • The EMOTIONAL IMPACT of Anakin's turn to the Dark Side (this part of the movie has a lot of emotion, even if the plot and logic behind the turn are lacking)
  • The tension I felt before and during the final saber battle on Mustafar: How would Obi-Wan defeat Anakin?

 

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#441010
Topic
Star Wars coming to Blu Ray (UPDATE: August 30 2011, No! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!)
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kenkraly2007 said:

I can see why the audio for episode 4 back in 2004 for the dvd is so messed up because when you listen to the english track the audio is  all over the place then when you listen to the french track is pefect now when and if they do the new audio mix for blu-ray release and base it more on the french audio mix but in english in 5.1 or 7.1 then I think everyone will be happy. No or yes?

No. The original versions are what people are really after here and unless the original versions are in the bluray set then it wont really make much difference basing the new mix on the French mix might solve a few problems assuming they still have all the source files used for the French mix but there are many problems with the dialog levels in the 2004 English mix so unless they spend extra time adjusting the dialog levels it will ultimately be a waste of time.

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#441003
Topic
Back to the Future as one film (Released)
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Ziz said:

Can't do it.  Part of the set-up in the beginning of the film is when the woman with the "Save The Clock Tower" flyer interrupts Marty and Jennifer about to kiss.  That's the whole key to how Doc comes up with the grand finale - because Marty had the flyer in his pocket.  Without the Jennifer scene, where did Marty get this flyer from?

It would be cool if you could recut the scene so that no front shots of Jennifer were used.

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#440703
Topic
Star Wars coming to Blu Ray (UPDATE: August 30 2011, No! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!)
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Akwat Kbrana said:

Yeah, that would be nice. Sadly, it's already been confirmed that the theatrical cuts will not be included on this release. Go figure.

Pardon me while I split hairs.

I recall a quote from Lucas saying the original versions were not a high priority.

But I don't recall him saying that ONLY the new versions would be on the Blu-Ray set.

But I have been known to make mistakes ... from time to time.

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#440702
Topic
Star Wars coming to Blu Ray (UPDATE: August 30 2011, No! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!)
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kenkraly2007 said:

All I am saying is that everyone is worried / conserned about the fact that the audio track for episodes 4-6 for the upcoming blu-ray release won't be fixed. But what if they are then what?

Then we'll only have the suppression of the original versions to bitch about.

Wow, you're right!

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#440311
Topic
STAR WARS: EP V &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - <strong>12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW</strong>
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Isley said:

Speaking about the galaxy at the end of ESB, I read somewhere that according to Leland Chee (I think it's him), what we see is actually the whole Star Wars galaxy, meaning the rebel fleet is massed outside it somehow.

What doesn't make sense with that is that we get to see a whole lot of stars in the background, yet since we're suppose to be outside of a galaxy, shouldn't there be only black void to be seen?

If you were outside a galaxy, you would still see what seem to be stars. But they would in fact be other galaxies that were far away.

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#439958
Topic
RETURN OF THE JEDI 1983 THEATRICAL VERSION RECONSTRUCTION DVD by Harmy (MKV, NTSC DVD5 AND PAL DVD9 AVAILABLE)
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I never saw the Classic Edition of Return of the Jedi. But I think the consensus (of version 1, at least) was that it was less than satisfying.

I did see a few clips from the sarlacc battle. The judder there was bad, especially when one half of the screen was from the DVD, and the other was from a laserdisc capture. Once again, I don't think OCPmovie did any color correction or saber fixing.

In short, I'd say there's definitely a need for your ROTJ reconstruction, just like there was one for ESB.

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#438599
Topic
The Empire Strikes Back &quot;1980 Theatrical version&quot; Reconstruction - Adywan (Released)
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skyjedi2005 said:

Forgive me for asking but what is the diff between the Adywan Empire reconstruction, the paulisdead vintage empire edition and the ocpmovie version.  Other than being Adywan quality.

Ocpmovie's version used laserdisc footage. The jitter of the image was not corrected, and I don't think any color correction was done. I believe there was a 2.0 of ESB, but I don't know much about it.

I haven't seen Paulisdead's ESB Vintage Edit, but it seems he used some histograms for automatic color correction. Which is better than OCP but not as good as Adywan's shot-by-shot color correction method.

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#438521
Topic
SW Episode III - Reign of the Dark Side (* unfinished project *)
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The new "Star Wars" logo is neat - I really like the design of it. But I'm not sure how it fits in with the rest of the movies. If this were a spinoff movie like the Clone Wars cartoon or something, I think the different logo would be great. But it feels a little weird as one of the six films.

For the crawl, I vote for the regular yellow-orange treatment. If it ain't broke...

The Republic cruiser looks good in gray. On the other hand, the colored cruisers do make it easier to quickly see who's who in the busy battle. But I think the fighters should be colored regardless (I know, that will be more work).