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I suppose it’s good to have this clarification, in that these projects don’t have a sword dangling over their heads of an official release.

It sounds like if that were the long and short of it we’d be able to. But he’s persistently broken the rules throughout with socks. It’s too bad, but I don’t see a path forward without a change in behavior first.

Even in the event that everything being tossed about is correct, I don’t think those would be warranted.

Film ends with the victorious Emperor Palpatine, now the only conscious being in existence, sending dozens of star destroyers into a nearby star for fun.

snooker said:

The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars
The Last Jedi
The Force Awakens
Return of the Jedi
Solo
The Phantom Menace
Rogue One
Attack of the Clones
Revenge of the Sith

Nice.

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Not sure where you heard that; I am pretty sure his plan was to somehow depict Padmé as going to live on Alderaan with Leia in Ep3.

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May or may not have just listened to the whole soundtrack. Spoiled rotten, but one doesn’t know the meaning of everything until sitting in the theater.

Here’s my pre-IX hot take. For this ranking, I’m considering my fan edited versions of each. Like bowling with bumpers, it only helps the incompetent. And this is on enjoyment and/or personal meaning, not from a film critic perspective.

4
6
5
8
7
1
3
2

SuperEmory said:

What do you guys think of The Empire Strikes Back’s Special Edition?

No, sir, I don’t like it.

ray_afraid said:

It’ll all make sense and tie all 9 movies together as a cohesive whole.

‘Eeeeyyyyyyyyyy.

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Thank you, Octorox, for the glimpse of what looks like a properly presented 1080p version of the 4K masters. The contrast looks good compared to how it appears when I view it on Disney+, which still doesn’t make sense to me. The image itself looks wonderful; certainly the best I’ve seen the OT look. The colors still don’t seem like a slam dunk to me, though obviously a huge improvement over the Lowry masters by default.

I’m hoping I can get the chance to at least put out an updated ROTJ workprint using this as the main source. That would go a long way to making it truly watchable, as a temporary version at least. The colors and overall appearance are more similar to 4K83 than I would have expected. The colors are more natural and it feels less saturated. I’ve used Adywan’s color work for ANH and based ESB off DrDre’s work, with each appearing somewhat ‘technicolor.’ This master of ROTJ would seem to need a little work to fit in well alongside the other two. That, or redo ANH and ESB using the new master, which may well make sense to do at a later time.

I imagine what Adywan comes up with would be the most congruent with my presentations of ANH and ESB, though. For now, I hope to switch my temporary primary source to the new master and await whatever fan work emerges to use as a final source.

EDIT; I almost forgot the reason I wanted to post. While taking a look and listen to my ROTJ timeline, I made a few more reversions to OOT audio during the Sarlacc sequence to undo some subtle audio tweaks that were made to accompany the CGI beak. I ensured none of these changes disrupted the flow in 5.1, with each of them feeling smooth individually as well as part of the overall mix.

Because of this, I will also include these in veerrrry slightly updated version of ROTJ’s GOUT and 4K84 synced 1997 SE audio mixes.

Boy I sure haven’t either. Wish I’d done more to. Oh, well. Some of what I’d looked at months ago I’m told is more or less confirmed wholesale.

I’ll be attending it with my brother who wouldn’t have been spoiled much if at all, so I’ll have his eyes to be viewing them through anyway.

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I haven’t been careful at all this time around, so I won’t do a blackout yet, just avoiding the obvious places for now.

I bid $1, Bob.

EDIT: And it was in Japan after opening weekend.

I, I, I can’t… I’m weak, I’m so weak…

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I like it, but I agree that there’s no visible debris, which would make it better. The fire seems to look like a miniature has been blown up.

Could you break down what elements (original and new) you used? I’m interested in this shot and would like to just see if it could be improved further.

Yeah, at least taking Yoda painfully literally, he died at 900 after 800 years of training Jedi.

Well, sure, assuming that an eventual 1080p rip/conversion I can get in front of me looks right. (Any of my devices make it look dark and dull.) I agree about the eyebrow removal being superior.

Any device I’ve looked at them on looks dark and dull, so it seems bizarre that they’d all just be set up wrong to handle it, including my iPhone X.