Hal 9000

I’m going to try rating them by whether they “spark joy.” If I picked up the movie while digging through trash, how much joy would each spark in me? Visceral reactions to being unexpectedly confronted by each film.

A New Hope
Return of the Jedi
The Empire Strikes Back
The Last Jedi
The Phantom Menace
The Force Awakens
Revenge of the Sith
A still-sealed reese’s peanut butter cup that seems pretty edible
The Rise of Skywalker
Attack of the Clones

Looks like 43 minutes or so of fun regardless.

So best case, Episode 6. Nominally defeated, but ready to reemerge.

Throughout TROS, Leia occasionally hears ghostly voices of Deckard and Leon, culminating in, “Time… to die.”

“Just help me take Padme’s life… I can’t live with her.”

Still waiting to see if this 2020 story turns out to mirror the ending of Star Wars Episode 9 or 3.

😕

Poorly.

Adding menus would be a fairly elaborate process, and you’d need software geared toward it. You’d have to rip the video, audio, and subtitle streams and recreate the DVD from those.
Personally, I never bothered with DVD menus; just start the damn movie. And I know what audio and subtitle options there are going in.

It should be ready to go. I am pretty sure all you’d need to do is author the VIDEO_TS folder and any other computer-readable files you want to include on there. I’d also include an empty AUDIO_TS folder just in case; some older DVD players get confused if that’s missing.

In looking over my ROTJ Custom SE which was sourced from the 19SE and Labyrinth of Evil which was sourced from the HDTV transfer, it does seem pretty consistently blue.

When I imagine the scene in ROTJ, it does seem purplish, so perhaps that was indeed a 1997/2004 peculiarity. As things stand, though, it really doesn’t seem merited to change the color even if I did feel like being a stickler for it.

Rodney-2187 said:

I wonder how fast Cobb Vanth’s bike is.

616 mph

nl0428 said:

What about DominicCobb?

Yes, absolutely.

Also, on the eve of an important day, let me sign off with…

“There are more of us.”

It’s not me that you need to trust in for the Rey Nobody version.

RogueLeader seems to be the pioneer. I’ll just implement it when it’s ready.

You wanna do it? I wouldn’t be opposed to it at all, and would include it if it were done. That being said, it doesn’t seem super important.

R2 totally explodes when shot by Vader over the Death Star.
When they land, a tech says, “You want a new one?” Luke says, “Yeah.”

Recolor R2 red and yellow for remainder of the saga.

My condolences as well. Best to you.

Well, turns out not tonight.

Tonight I plan to give this edit it’s true test: watching it with the proverbial “someone’s mom.” It forces me to see it through virgin eyes. Now that there are subtitles we can.

I gotta imagine any system this thing would ever play on would not make any appreciable difference between the two.

Or perhaps dub only dialogue that comes through Fett’s helmet, regardless of whose.

Sorry to hear that. Hoping you’re able to be with your family.

Also, thought this was funny. Inevitable, but funny.

https://youtu.be/OYvM5CYA7mA

They forgot to dub all stormtroopers with Temuera Morrison.

That was a thoroughly enjoyable hour of television. It’s so cool to see this old stuff from a mid-budget mid-70’s sci-fi movie explored and expanded.

I think it walked the tightrope of tying into the familiar without it feeling arbitrary and overly coincidental.

That sound design for the dragon was impressive, expanding on what we got in the original and ‘97SE mixes. Didn’t sound identical to a dewback but kept the core. (I went with the ‘04 DVD version of Kenobi’s kyrat call due to the sound effect implying it’s just a dewback and the ‘11 BR version being about the worst sound effect I’ve ever heard for anything.)