JadedSkywalker

I haven’t watched Die Hard in years. Its on my watch list but I don’t have the 4K.

Snubbed by the Globes except for Diego is wild. Genevieve was the standout of the series.

Didn’t the Special Edition restoration take 2 years to do? These things do take time.

At least when you are doing them properly and with quality in mind. Not a 30 day turnaround like the 2004 Lowry DVD.

To be honest I can’t wait until they release the trailer for this. Its going to be epic.

2022 makes perfect sense because the Fox deal finalized in 2019. The 40th was skipped for Star Wars but celebrated for Empire and Jedi which Disney had the rights to. So the 50th anniversary is kind of a big deal, even more so being the original.

Nothing of this magnitude has happened since the 1997 Special Edition, and the original Star Wars hasn’t been seen since the 1980 reissue. 1981 being the year A New Hope was added and they redid the crawl and starfield.

In 2027 it will have been almost 46 years since anyone has seen the original cut of Star Wars. As of this year it has been withheld for 44 years.

RM4747 said:

charlynne said:

I honestly thought that George would never do it, but I’m glad to be proven wrong. With so many changes made to this movie, a re-release of the original version and in higher quality was very due.

As of last year, George still seemed opposed to releasing the originals. He was asked directly at Cannes 2024, and grumbled about “We released them on DVD, but no one wanted them! Everyone said they looked terrible! It would cost millions of dollars to restore them! It’s my movie and I can change what I want!”

Once he sold the company in 2012, he gave up all control over things like this.

I seriously doubt they asked for his blessing, since they don’t need it. And Bob Iger supposedly doesn’t get along well with him anyway since he rejected his story ideas for Episodes 7-9 and he didn’t like the sequels.

What confuses me is why they waited so long.

Disney could’ve done this immediately after buying Lucasfilm, or for the 40th anniversary.

So I wonder who changed their mind, and why.

No they couldn’t for the 40th. They didn’t own Star Wars until 2019. The original film belonged to Fox.

Is Grauman’s going to show Star Wars in 2027?

They must still have the filmout tape which is the completed and finished negative. And the print master used to create cinema release prints. And the later DI which likely reflects the changes made for the 3D release and the 2011 Blu-Ray.

I think it’s kind of funny the 1997 edits on home video are stuck on primitive telecine to VHS, laserdisc and vcd. There is no DVD.

Lucas original vision never was on anything of higher quality except 35mm theater prints.

I don’t see Disney preserving those or the theatrical Phantom Menace.

They will do the originals only.

Howard Kazanjian a producers life. I had no idea the reason Tom Selleck was not available for Indiana Jones was because of a tit for tat spat over Universal being sued over Battlestar Galactica and Glen Larson getting even with Lucasfilm. Or that the Dykstraflex was used to film Galactica. And Lucasfilm was also suing to recover the equipment.

I also had no idea Richard Dreyfus refused to appear in both a second and third American Graffiti film.

Hell has indeed frozen over. Now if they could restore THX 1138 and American Graffiti. I doubt there is a lot on money on the table like Star Wars.

It would have been nice twenty years ago but late is better than never.

Though to watch the originals be restored in better quality than the special editions would be an irony indeed.

A lighthearted adventure movie is what Mando and Grogu is. A kids movie. Or at least the trailer said so, but trailers can also be lies like Rogue One.

I was hoping for Rogue Squadron. Though to be honest I was split on whether Patty Jenkins could pull it off. I thought Kathryn Bigelow might have been a better choice.

I’m heartened by the fact that no one sees the Maclunky scans as Archival anymore.

I do wonder if those scans were trash are they going to also remaster George’s final special edition cut and do we even care.

I meant for the visual effects of course like 2001 and Close Encounters.

Isn’t that what they did for Star Trek TMP they scanned the VistaVision and 65mm neg at Higher than 4K resolution?

I’d love to see that for Star Wars without the DNR added at the end though. SW is standard 4 perf and 8 perf? No 65mm negative despite it being considered before the film was made. They selected VistaVision.

Is Fallout decent?

Video game adaptations with the exception of the live action sonic the hedgehog and the super Mario animated are usually poorly done.

Like Halo I liked the first season but it did not adhere to the game canon, and season 2 went off the rails.

I’ve been wondering about Amazon making a Mass Effect show. I’d almost prefer it not to be made. because I have my game headcanon of my playthroughs through the game. Similarly, if Star Wars ever decided to do a Revan movie that adapted Kotor, I would dislike my game choices to be discarded in favor of a so-called canon choice story.

Although I know in EU Revan is canonically Male and redeemed as a Jedi. And the outcast is canonically female. But what is the point of having the ability to choose male or female or dark side or lightside ending. If someone says this is how it happened your player state was fanfiction.

Let’s say they cast commander Shepard as a man, Mark Meer. What if someone prefers Femshep played by Jennifer Hale.The can of worms that opens for fans, like if they chose one canonical love interest for the player. And everyone has their own unique playthrough choices.

Like if someone tried to make Skyrim show or something like that. there are thousands of different ways to play that game in Elder Scrolls.

The legend of Zelda movie I have no idea what to think. A Metroid movie would be awesome but derivative of Ripley and Aliens. I haven’t forgotten the Super Mario movie with Bob Hoskins. That is usually what comes to mind when videogame adaptations happen.

Star Wars Classic Creatures first pressing Japanese laserdisc. With OBI

Casablanca 50th Laserdisc set. With Obi. and a book and a bonus disc containing the colorized version of the film.

Great set Casablanca. The film in CLV, the colorized version on a second disc in clv as a bonus. A third disc making of. A book making of. And repro lobby cards.

And Classic Creatures Return of the Jedi is a very rare disc and it was immaculate and so was the OBI. It is mono sound and Analog audio only. 1986 VAP.

Mission Impossible the Final Reckoning also arrived on 4K, no frills standard edition not a steelbook.

And my limited-edition Arrow Jim Carrey in The Mask 4k also arrived. Very nice edition. Nice booklet, nice case. Much nicer than Lost in Space.

The tone of Return of the Jedi was all over the place though. People would know, if you said I want to style it like Star Wars 1977. Or TESB. Jedi has the scenes with Luke and Vader. Luke facing certain death at the hands of the Emperor, if Vader hadn’t saved him, and it also has dancing Teddy bears. Jedi in tone is a kids movie. even more so than the original film from 1977. It pulls its punches and even censors lightsaber damage. You have Luke’s whifflebat lightsaber, no weequays lose a head or a hand or arm.

Lucas already was pulling back from showing violence. Is it any wonder in the special edition he censored laser blasts and had Greedo shoot first.

There was graphic violence again in Episode III but it was necessary to the plot I suppose. Also getting a PG 13 rating made the film more appealing to teenagers. Ironically Disney is even more risk averse, and refuses to show anything on screen. and still gets PG 13 ratings across the board.

Han being stabbed through is the only thing I can think of, and it looked like a cartoon. When he fell from the bridge on Starkiller base. Finn gets injured. Rey never gets a scratch the entire trilogy. Not that I wanted her to be maimed, or lose a hand, but there was no real peril. In TESB you watched Luke get his ass whooped, and the rebels lose and you had no idea if Han was dead. You think he is alive in hibernation. You don’t know if Vader is lying. Until Episode 6. Then it’s played totally straight that Vader is Luke’s father, and Vader gloats when Luke accepts it.

Let’s hope it is better than the Frasier remake. Though I’m surprised Disney is bringing Scrubs back.

What are the odds that a 4th Season of Mandalorian happens. Favreau can claim he wrote one. That does not mean Disney will give him the money to make one. Even if they did its years off.

I did hear that they cut the budget for season 2, I suppose this is one confirmation of that.

I like Claudia but how about a Farscape series continue over Disney Star Wars instead.

I have no idea who owns the rights to Farscape these days.

I love Excalibur. I despised King Arthur the Legend of the Sword and I still do. I like some of Guy Ritchie’s films not that film.

I think it’s merely a design preference. But I preferred the used universe of Star Wars 1977 over the bright and clean cgi esthetic of the prequels. It lent a sense of authenticity and realism that the prequels lacked. And that also the sequel trilogy lacked.

The dinged up and dirty and dingy look of things. Landspeeders, the Millennium Falcon. X-Wings of the rebel alliance. Lightsaber hilts etc, blasters. Kenobi’s Robes. The detail work on Threepio and Artoo. And on Vader’s suit and all its parts and pieces including the cape.

And how the Rebels were much more utilitarian. the Empire more clean and antiseptic and austere in design. How the rebels could just be farmers or privateers or whatever port of call they hailed from. Some of them might even be criminals like Han Solo. Or people out on the fringe. Luke being a former moisture farmer and all of that. Kenobi being able to pass as a Tatooine local wearing the garb of a farmer. Of course, they made those Jedi Robes.

I think each world and culture should have varied more in the prequels. You would only get bright and Shiny on Coruscant but not on the lower levels. the Jedi being at the height of their arrogance, I wouldn’t have changed much about how they looked in the prequels. except maybe different colored lightsabers of various colors and different robes not just the Tatooine garb.

I’m really curious as to where they will get the original colors from 1977, 1980 and 1983 and to know they are accurate.

What references do they have. I’m somewhat skeptical because Lowry messed them up twice.

Why is the 2011 color timing so odd for some scenes. Light the lighting and Vader’s Helmet looks blueish black in that but black in all other comparisons. The corridor of the ceiling looks blue gray rather than the gray of the other images.