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#652595
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Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD - V2.7 - MKV (Released)
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"As a student of English linguistics, I can explain this phonological phenomenon quite thoroughly - it is called linking and it causes the speaker to link the words ending in a consonant with words beginning in a vowel - in this case the normally unstressed "D" sound at the end of "find" gets linked with the schwa sound standing for the indefinite article "a" in fluid speech and together they create a sound which is one of the ways of pronouncing the definite article "the" in English. I hope that explains it :-)"

 

Kudos for that. I myself am a TEFL teacher, graduated in linguistics. And now for 'linking-"R"'s :)

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#652318
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Info: Highlander Endgame (+ request that someone make an 'original theatrical version')
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Hey Folks,

There is a film I’m really interested about. I’ve been a Highlander fan for quite a while and while I acknowledge that it is only the original movie that’s worth something (actually - quite a lot. Queen scored their most recognizable music ever for this film). Stunning story, great atmosphere, beautiful photography on the Scottish Highlands.

All the subsequent films were terrible (except the third, but that was practically a remake of the first one), but the TV series was pretty good IMHO. Hence I was really anticipating the fourth movie - Endgame, especially because they put Christopher Lambert and Adrian Paul in a head-to-head (literally) situation, an actual showdown between the main protagonist of the movies and the TV show.

Fortunately, it was shown in my town when it came out in cinemas, because at the time there was a rerun of the series on TV, raising some interest in the topic. So I watched the movie in the cinema, and thank God I did!

Well, not really for the quality of the film. It was apparently quite low-budget, looked actually like as a feature-length episode of the series. The dialogues were quite dumb, the narrative was quite shaky, but I did like a story quite a lot and the bittersweet, downbeat ending to it.

Fast forward a few months and one of my friends who saw the movie in the theatre as well told me that the home version had a different ending I might want to check out. I rented the movie on tape at once and was genuinely stunned to learn that there was a completely different ending on the video that would make George Lucas himself blush (one of the main characters isn’t actually dead as the theatrical release suggested, but quite alive and well - inexplicably left alive by the main antagonist).

Fast forward about ten years, I came across one of the old movie magazines that dealt with the film at the time, then I realized the theatrical version was actually much shorter - almost by 13 minutes (!) - than the version I own on DVD and the one shown on TV. I didn’t notice at the time for some reason but in retrospect it made perfect sense why certain scenes felt quite odd. Not just because they weren’t shown in the cinema, but many of the scenes included alternative takes to make up the sequences.

More importantly, virtually ALL of these changes made the movie even worse than it already was. (Does that ring any bells?)

So I started browsing the web whether the theatrical versions were available somewhere. To my greatest disappointment they weren’t. But, apparently one of the special edition DVDs contains an actual workprint version of the movie, which is virtually the same as the theatrical edition (and some more) only with incomplete SFX, and the whole nine yards that’s part of workprints.

Moreover I found this great website where they attempt to track the changes b/w the theatrical and the home edition using this workprint: http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=820504

Unfortunately my hardware is quite old-school to do such a project, so I’m asking whether there are Highlander fans here who have the will and the time and would find it interesting to recreate the original theatrical version.

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#652236
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OBITUARY - Star Wars Fullscreen/Pan and Scan versions. R.I.P.
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Hello all,

 

This is my first entry at OT.com. I've been reading it for quite a while now - chasing for that one Holy Grail edition of the Star Wars Trilogy.

 

I was lucky enough to watch the Special Edition trilogy in the cinema - along with all the subsequent Star Wars films - which I felt really enthusiastic about at the time. The way it looked, sounded and was generally there. Not until a few years afterwards did I revisited the original trilogy on TV and came face-to-face with the changes made with the SE. Some were pretty good - e.g. the extended Cloud City sequences and backdrops are really great IMHO, but others were quite disappointing (like the infamous "Han shot first" argument).

Since then I've been trying to get hold on GOUT - the 2006 DVDs never made it into Hungary where I live, and Laserdisc is virtually unknown. The only original versions of SW I own is the VHS edition of the SE - in pretty bad shape now.

One of the versions I'm really trying to get hold on is the 1995 fullscreen VHS version or alternatively the 1993 FS LD. For one reason they are the ultimate versions of GOUT apart from the 1977 theatrical releases (I'm very much looking forward to negative1's 35mm scan, and Harmy's Despecialized version is an excellent release as well) and the other being that I'm looking specifically for a p&s version.

Now, I know a lot of people hate FS and I agree with their argument - I used to hate it, too - but in the age of CRT TVs and VCR units that was the only way to exploit the maximum resolution from the technology available.

Unfortunately, I'm still stuck with a CRT TV along with a VCR and a DVD unit and I occasionally watch films on my 4:3 laptop, too, but the small size of these screens turned me from a P&S hater to a user - especially in an age of HD where resolution is key.

I don't know if there was a FS release from the 2006 DVDs - I'm assuming not - hence my question: does anybody have these releases?