Personally, I think the Samurai Jack styled 2003 'Clone Wars' microseries edited together into one two-hour film serves quite well as an Episode 2.5.
And I think it needs a good coat of film grain too.
The Hobbit was originally going to be made into two films: An Unexpected Journey, and There And Back Again. But once principal photography wrapped, it was announced that it would be a trilogy instead. In my opinion, this sets up the middle film for failure. Even going into the movie with all this in mind, I was very surprised as how little I enjoyed it. The movie just drops every plot thread it was in the middle of. Gandalf is loitering around in Dol Guldur doing video game shit, the Master of Laketown was introduced and then did nothing else, and the "cliffhanger" cut to black had me leaving my seat in the theater without caring to hear even a little of the credits song.
Thanks, cuivienor, for the kind post. To set the record straight, the first version of Sharkey's Purist Editions came before Kerr's book cuts, but they weren't very good. I was about a third of the way into doing my own 6-part book cuts when Kerr released his first one. I knew right away that I needed to stop, because Kerr's were fantastic. His book cuts compelled me to go back and do a much better version of the Purist Editions to utilize some of his ideas. I don't really care about recognition; I just want to have the best edit possible.
Kerr's doing the editing this time around, and I'm serving as a contributor/consultant. The idea at this point, and it could change, is to do both a 4-part cinematic quadrilogy (though it could end up being 5 parts), and a 7-part 'book cut' version.
I firmly believe in Kerr's ability to put this together, and I think I'm more effective in a backseat role. Given that my only fan edits to date are Star Wars and LOTR, I feel more like a curator than an editor.
And don't get me started on DoS. That was 'Phantom Menace'-level disappointment. It's a garbage film that shouldn't exist, the stale outside pieces of the end of the first film and start of the second.
It's finally done, and I've begun seeding the DVD5 version. First post has been updated.
That much closer to 2015, with the flying cars, CD player hats, and dehydrated pizza.
Murry Christmas, Mister Potter!
Tobar said:
They were shot in 1080p.
Holy carp! I had heard about them existing in a 1080p master, but that's crazy!
Did they just suppose the resolution of their monitors was the maximum the films would need to be for posterity? Who does that?
I can conceive of Episodes IV, V, VI, and I being mastered in 1080p at this point because that's all they bothered with when they digitized them. However, were Episodes II and III only originally exported at 1080p resolution, like, when they were MADE?
Whoa, whoa, whoa... Are you telling me the films' best current master has an upper limit of 1080p anamorphic?
If so, at least my new fan edits won't be going out of date anytime soon.
You gotta admit, though, that the video itself is pretty funny. Like a self-parody.
My worst fear at this point is that the plot will pick up on and continue the idea of a Chosen One prophecy.
Hey, I'm not complaining.
This thread didn't stand a chance.
I already requested that day off work. If I have any luck in my life at all I'll be at a totally different job by that time, but just in case.
Thanks, You_Too.
Does anyone know if the 5.1 surround audio for the 1997 SE being used for this project came from somewhere else, of if it is being made by Team Blu?
Just showed the DEed v2.5 at my house to a group of family and friends. There were five or six adults who aren't Star Wars fanatics, a few young adults (one of which has never seen Star Wars), and my 12 year-old niece who had never seen it either. The DEed was enjoyed by all, and I was totally amazed how utterly seamless everything looked. There was no point when I or anyone questioned anything about what we were seeing. It was indistinguishable from a proper HD release of the OUT. And the best part is that two of the viewers do not know that Darth Vader is Luke's father, and everyone else was prompted ahead of time to play along with Obi-Wan's lies for their benefit.
Empire is next week, so we're all looking forward to it. Thanks to Harmy for making it truly possible to watch the original version without even thinking about it.
The sudden movement that George makes at four seconds into the video on the first post always manages to make me chuckle.
SilverWook said:
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Star-Wars-Frames/post/458942/
Am I to understand that this has been in development for three years? He must be very proud.
All by himself. Let's go around the circle and say thank you to George for sharing with the rest of the class.
Speaking of Beru's voice, there was a very slight change to her dialogue for the SE. Compare the audio of the original to the SE or post-SE when she says, "He has too much of her father in him." Ever since '97, there's a very slight pause inserted before the word 'father.'
I learned that while researching to make a custom GOUT-synced audio track for myself. I grew up with the 1997 SE and certain bits of audio don't sound right to me unless they're there. Things like the computer noises from the SE (and from the mono mix) as the Falcon takes off from the Death Star. I'm glad the DEed is GOUT-synced, as it makes these kinds of things relatively easy to do.
George Lucas' story treatments are cursed. Ideally, they humored them to his face only to utterly disregard them later.
Darth_Sidious said:
thanks night for a real anwser and grow up tv
That's one for the wall.
Threepio's left leg (golden, prime universe)
vs.
Threepio's right leg (silver, also prime universe)
The left leg is original, straight from the factory, while the right one was salvaged from a CZ-3 bounty hunter droid that Space Jimmy Smitts fought off with his bare hands and crushed him in the airlock door. The leg and part of the pelvis was all that remained onboard.