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The Star Wars Gout DVD. Region 2 Japan. watching it with the Japanese dub and English subtitles. The transfer is just as bad as the US NTSC pressing. And this is on an old crt standard def set. I think it has two different Japanese audio tracks. And just the 1993 track for English. None of the menus are in English, without a remote to set subtitles and to change audio I would have been lost.

What I don’t get is Luke had character development in the OT and why was it so difficult for Lucas to do the same for Anakin and also connect it to the original, like the speech Obi-Wan gave about Luke’s father in Star Wars.

You had Anakin as kind and generous in Episode I. But once you see him in episode II he is already a sullen asshole. Completely unlikable, and he never obeys his masters. I suppose that is supposed to make him look like a maverick, like the fact he openly marries a woman in secret against his Jedi wows. so, Lucas can do the dumb forbidden romance thing.

I don’t like the Padme pushed Anakin to the dark side because of love. So, if he died a celibate monk like Rian’s version of Luke Skywalker he never would have been Darth Vader? Go to a monastery and meditate Anakin. Or play politics in the Jedi council, don’t love a flesh and blood woman.

I honestly hate the chosen one thing because it makes him fated to be Vader, he had no choice he started as a slave, he ended as a slave. He could have chosen to not be evil.

Giving him a leadership role in Clone Wars and making him a Jedi master without the rank does expand the character. But it does not fit the prequel, but nor does Darth Maul surviving. And Ahsoka does not even appear in the movies, as in she never existed.

I also don’t like how the Jedi get younglings separate them from their parent’s and allow no familiar bond. They allow no attachments, this is very unnatural and why Anakin is so messed up, he grew up without a mother and father. He was surrounded by a monastic order and giving mantras. And taught how to use a laser sword. But not how to master his fear, not how to relate to other human beings. His entire life is stunted he never grows. He merely has power levels like he is Goku or something. They are training him for what? Until the Sith were revealed, the Jedi didn’t have a standing army and no formal conflict with other force users. What did they need martial skills for. training him to be a deadly assassin and hoping he doesn’t turn his blade on them, or become a Ronin or a Sith.

Anakin probably should not have been trained if he lacked basic empathy, or he lacked emotional maturity. Never mind being a soldier of the Republic like Palpatine’s sword. Give a young man power, teach him to kill and fight in a war. Act surprised when he turns rogue. All the while you’ve been distrusting of him and afraid of his growing power. And you keep telling him he is the chosen one. You make sure the rules don’t apply to him, and he is too big to fail.

The star pupil of Kenobi. The hubris of Kenobi is absolutely legend. I thought I could instruct him just as well as Yoda, my pride had devastating consequences for the Galaxy. Obi-Wan in the Return of the Jedi novelization.

When Yoda tells Anakin not to mourn or miss Padme that was straight up BS. No wonder he was easy putty in Sidious hands. He should just have left the order behind and all their false platitudes. Why didn’t he leave with Padme to raise his children in peace. Let the Jedi rot. There is no need to save the Galaxy from the Sith if Anakin never shifted the balance in their favor. No need to be a chosen one. The Empire couldn’t have come into being without Vader helping it. Or the Jedi being insipid and wrong. With all their discussions and endless politics. They have a complete inability to act, and when they finally did they were maneuvered by Palpatine like pawns in a game of chess.

Today my Bubblegum Crisis Complete Collection 1998 Laserdisc set arrived. Ridiculously good. Came with trading cards and an OBI and it is 10 sides. The episodes themselves are remastered from the original negatives. The videos themselves are from old tape and not remastered like Holiday in Bali, Hurricane Live. Bye Knight Sabers.

Also, my Star Wars Gout Japanese DVD tin should be here soon. I’ve been told it has the Japanese dub, fingers crossed.

Of all the souls I’ve encountered in my travels. His was the most human. James T Kirk on the death of Spock.

Sarek But at what cost, your ship. Your son. If i didn’t try the cost would have been my soul. JT Kirk.

James T Kirk. I lost a brother once I was lucky to get him back. Mccoy i thought you said men like us don’t have families. Kirk I was wrong.

You can certainly ask on LDDB. But don’t expect a response.

I’m not going to relitigate what I think of the sequel trilogy. but i did chuckle at Rey saying the force is a power that allows the Jedi to control people and make things float in the Last Jedi.

It’s so dumb and childlike, like something someone would say in our world watching the movies not within Star Wars itself.

True but you could get games like Kotor II that were obviously not even half of the way complete. Just rushed to market as a cash grab. The sequel to the game of the year Knights of the Old Republic. Its like they put more polish into the ad instead of the game.

Poor Obsidian they had no intention of releasing it in that state. It was interesting failure on Xbox. I still hear Kreia saying Apathy is death, apathy is worse than death. Because at least the corpses feed the birds and insects.

I still remember confronting Atris and demanding the lightsaber back, well you never get it back.

Some people like the Jedi fallen order games and Indiana Jones and the great circle, I’m not much of a gamer these days. I played the first of the Jedi games. And I played The Great Circle both on gamepass.

That other game with the female Han Solo that everyone complained about, I can’t remember the name of that one. Outlaws? Did not play that. It’s not playable on anything but Xbox X or ps5.

I wasn’t fully negative on the prequel then. I rented the soundtrack from the library, read the comic and book. Played the ps2 game. I had the Rinzler book on the making. Since then I find the film very unrewarding, too much cgi. I do like John Williams end credit and sat in the theater to listen to it.

I just don’t think it’s nearly up there with Empire like Prequel kids do. And I have a great deal of issues with Return of the Jedi, but it’s still better than Revenge of the Sith.

Return has a lot of the same issues of Phantom Menace. But was much less impressive in scope. I think with episode I George tried to push digital too far, way too many effects shots. Jedi had its moments, the Jabba set Sail Barge, Death Star II. Space Battle.

The Duel of the Fates I enjoyed, but if you slow it down it looks like a dance off and not a sword duel. Too choreographed.

Jar Jar is horrible, and I used to say he is an accidental hero. The court Jester character. The fool. The only time I found he was hilarious was in that Temple of Doom episode of Clone Wars.

I disliked petulant Hayden Anakin. It’s all Obi Wan’s fault he’s holding me back. Someday I’ll be the most powerful Jedi ever, I promise you. In episode II. Though Padme and Anakin getting captured was funny, and Obi-Wan saying good job. We came to rescue you and got captured. I sort of like the movie serial goofyness of them walking around the droid factory. But the cgi of Padme on the conveyor was ridiculous. Like the Space Taxes in part one, what does killing Padme achieve when Jar Jar already approved the emergency powers. I don’t get the trade federation angle, and Sidious whatever he was doing. Other than the war has begun.

Even Midichlorians are understandable in Phantom Menace even if i dislike them. Though I’ll say Red Letter Media might have scored a point about no central protagonist in the film. Even when it’s supposed to be Anakin in Phantom Menace. There aren’t characters there are barely archetypes. I like Qui-Gon but what does he do in the plot other than to be likable and warm. He exists to get killed to set OBI up on his hubristic journey to helping create Vader.

Obi-Wan and his detective adventure is ridiculous but made me smile. His fight with Jango is not bad. I don’t hate Jango. Though I’m not certain he needed to exist or Boba needed to be a Clone.

I don’t have a lot of thoughts about Revenge of the Sith except for all the cartoonish looking cgi scenes. Obi-Wan riding a lizard. Fighting Grievous. Palpatine losing to Mace on purpose and pretending to be weak. Mace being blown out a window due to unlimited power. Anakin being dumb and easily fooled to join the Sith. Obi-Wan looking into the recordings of the Younglings. The overly flashy and without substance duel. Too much cgi,too much lightsaber twirling.

Some of it is forgivable, but not Padme dying of a broken heart and never establishing the rebellion. Yoda losing to Sidious like a putz. Yoda being Chewie’s friend, and no mention of this is made of this in Star Wars 1977. Leia somehow knowing her mother when she never knew her thanks to the retcon ending of the prequel.

I like the listed changes for Star Wars. I assume the 2011 blu-ray was used as the base for this. Unless it was the 1080P HDTV version from 2004.

camdudetenger2018 said:

rewatched men in black 4 aka men in black international

You enjoyed it I assume. I had mixed feelings at best the last time I watched it. I missed Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones.

But I despise the idea for the 4th one spun off of 21 Jump Street I’m glad that never happened. They either should have made a genuine 4th film or just don’t bother.

It was a pretty good trailer, I’m not going to lie. See they can do fun stuff under the legends banner. But why not adapt EU as animated? I guess less baggage and not having to pay royalties.

Films that came out. Grease, Superman. Game of Death. American Graffiti Dolby Stereo re-issue. Mark Hamill in Corvette Summer. Ralph Bakshi Lord of the Rings. Animal House, and John Carpenter Halloween. Jaws II, Revenge of the Pink Panther. And Robert Zemeckis I wanna hold your hand.

The Prequel Storyboards book by Rinzler. Very disappointing its mostly Phantom Menace. Very little seems to be of previous drafts or aborted attempts of the story.

I’d be much more interested in reading about the early treatments for the prequels and earlier drafts that don’t reflect what ended up on screen.

Did they really have stinky the Hutt in live action. Why?

Filoni’s hands are all over this debacle.

I thought the trailer was awful. I’m not interested at all. It doesn’t look like, or feel like Star Wars.

Hopefully Starfighter will be different.

oojason said:

^ A poster for the US release of Richard Fleischer’s 1966 science fiction film ‘Fantastic Voyage’, starring Raquel Welch.
 

I love One Million Years BC both the film and the poster. From Hammer who produced all those Horror films no less.

Thank you and congrats. You’ve been incredibly helpful.

A great actor. I loved him Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Will always remember all the president’s men, The natural. The Sting. The Great Gatsby.

Considering Tony reprised Threepio for Lego I could see him doing this if it got made.

I’m thinking George Lucas can’t be that misinformed to think the originals always looked bad like a laserdisc and no doubt has to know his own archives have quality film materials for a restoration of the originals.

That Cannes interview in my own opinion was in bad faith to try and spin his excuse for not putting the originals out there except as bad bonus discs in 2006.

With 4K77 there is no way you can say with a straight face the originals look like a laserdisc. And the team was working from positive print theatrical release prints. And Ib tech. Look what Harmy did with the official home video releases in approximating the original in modern quality.

I think George’s argument is weak. At best it’s the creator gets their own way. Fine. No one is disputing his authorship of the 1977 film.

Release the damn film and let older fans revel in nostalgia.

I just started getting into DVD again because of DTS mixes. So far I’ve bought Ah My Goddess the movie that has DTS only on the Japanese track, Spider-Man 1 and 2. Ghost in the Shell. Pirates of the Caribbean Curse of the Black Pearl, 007 Die another Day.

The titles on my wish list are Die Hard, Die Hard II, Die Hard with a Vengeance. Underworld and Underworld evolution. Terminator II, True Lies. Jurassic Park, Ghostbusters. Starship Troopers. Lord of the Rings trilogy. Resident Evil. X-men 1.5, X2. Minority Report, Catch me if you can. Predator, Alien Directors cut. Stargate Ultimate Edition. Most are just DTS 5.1 some like 007 and Ghost in the Shell are DTS ES 6.1. Bond is matrixed and GITS is discrete. Don’t let the Matrixed audio fool you, Die Another Day is one of the best sounding DTS DVD. Loud and bombastic. The Star Trek TNG films for instance are DTS surround but its theatrical. On the 2 disc DVD sets.

What I like about DVD they can be had new for as little as 5-10 dollars each as long as they aren’t brand new just released movies. Spider-Man 2 Superbit was 4 dollars.

Until shipping opens up again, I won’t be importing any import DTS which is what the Japanese titles are. I’ve also stopped buying import laserdiscs. de minimis being gone also means no longer buying UK releases because they are cheaper. Whether 4K or DVD. or zone free blu-ray there are not a lot of those. Most are region locked to B.

Hilarious considering I’ve been fighting for the preservation of his films for decades. And I’ve long been a fan of his student films, Zoetrope years and completely champion THX 1138 and American Graffiti and Star Wars 1977.

But disagree with the Special Edition, and dislike the prequel and somehow you are hater despite paying to see each one in the cinema and giving him your money.

Toxic? The man is my all-time favorite director, I have bookshelf’s dedicated to his movies.

I studied film and took up writing because of him, my interest in mythology and science fiction were inspired by him.

You can criticize artists that you love. In all sincerity.

I have a complete Love/Hate relationship with the Last Jedi, nothing I said about the auteur theory is untrue.

The have a fan approved checklist method is JJ Abrams. Mystery boxes and member berries.

When things are sensible, and I can have the original Star Wars, American Graffiti 1973 with the mono mix and 1978 Dolby Stereo Directors cut version, and THX 1138 1971 and 1977 Directors cut version in a catalog release, that looks like they are to supposed to look and not scrubbed free of grain, In 4K no less I’ll relent on any criticism.

BY all means quote Worley to me, I won’t listen.

I think its chronically overrated. Every poll that places it above everything but The Empire Strikes Back is crazy. The duel on Mustafar beating the duel on Bespin is literally insane. None of the prequels are better than Return of the Jedi much less Star Wars.

If you don’t examine it critically the last third is a strong finish. It does make you think the Jedi were weak and pathetic and foolish, and Yoda losing to Sidious and just giving up is ridiculous. Mace’s attempt to arrest Palpatine is also incredibly ludicrous, he thought he brought enough Jedi. He never had the upper hand, Palpatine pretended to lose that fight and to be weak to get Anakin to his side. Then Mace is blown out a window do to unlimited power. Yet everyone rates Mace so highly and thinks he could take Empire Strikes Back Vader in a fight, in those who would win theories.
Vader would smoke Mace.

It will have been worth it only if the Original original trilogy gets restored and released. I’m so old now though It would be pyrrhic victory, at least for me personally, If not for film preservation. It would have meant the world to me in my 20s. Moving into my 50s not so much.