JadedSkywalker

You mean there is someone below frame under Artoo? Weird.

Is that Kenny Baker? The resolution of the image does not make it clear what is being looked at.

I’ve always respected these guys but the stuff on Phil Tippett and Richard Edlund, and especially Joe Johnston makes me respect them even more. I’ve always thought he was a supreme draftsman and artist and had a good eye, and he is one of my favorite directors.

I’ve idolized him since reading those OT sketchbooks as a kid and taking the art books out of the library for the OT. One of my earliest memories is marveling over his speeder bike sketches on ROTJ and The Snow Speeder on Empire Strikes Back.

Not just him but really being taken aback by Ralph McQuarrie paintings, they transported you to another place and time. Especially the ones for SW evoke a Kurosawa meets Flash Gordon esthetic. Which I love. And no wasted space in the paintings.

Also, it’s delightful to watch them geek out over Forry and famous monsters as I loved that magazine, to think they also reverence Ray Harryhausen, which I suspected but not so many of them.

I feel like season 2 was quite rushed. But i guess we were lucky to get anything with Kerner going bye bye.

But almost nothing on Revenge of the Sith when so much was focused on I and II. And nothing on the sequel trilogy.

I watched the episodes that covered Star Wars 1977 and was surprised to see theatrical footage and not from a laserdisc source and not special edition 1997 or anything after. The dirt and scratches and the lack of any sort of digital cleanup was very obvious.

This proves Lucas is lying about the film being a laserdisc. Because it’s terrible that’s how it was. if the original cut only exists on laserdisc where did Kasdan get the film from for this documentary?

The part about Lucas allowing ILM members and even the equipment to be on used on Battlestar Galactica was something i never knew. I knew John Dykstra had been fired, but I never knew he stayed on as long as he did and just wasn’t asked to join the select members who moved from Van Nuys to the new location to do Empire.

Grant Mccune was only talked about briefly i wish he was alive to tell his story.

Also the part with the company that had employed a lot of them to do tv commercials before ILM was interesting, i know Lucas talked about them doing Pillsbury commercials i never knew the name of the company.

Kenji Kamiyama can be hit or miss you can get Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex season 1 and 2, or you might get the awful 3D 3 and 4th seasons. And you could get a animated lord of the rings Ride of the Rohirrim.

I haven’t seen Visions as no longer have Disney plus.

I think of saw a bit of the old Clone Wars from Genddy and the last season of Dave Filoni and Bad Batch. I don’t believe we get it free no more from Verizon we got a whole year free.

I’m not a big fan of Sola Digital. Production IG did the first two seasons of Stand Alone Complex and in 2D.

Though i have seen one or two of the films they made for Appleseed and i can’t recall if i did watch Starship Troopers. Shinji Aramaki. I did think Lord of the Rings was impressive looking at least.

Does Disney and Sony ever have a plan to release any of the animated Star Wars on physical media?

I thought that too except about Phantom Menace until i saw the awful redone colors and DNR on Attack of the Clones, a digitally shot movie. The 4K is a mess. The 2011 blu has more detail in places. Lucasfilm keeps making these ridiculous mistakes with releases going back to 2004.

The 4K of Phantom Menace looks waxy and smeary in places like a 1080P HDCam and not a movie shot on 35mm motion picture film.

I think with the Filoni movie i just no longer care. Luke, Han and Leia can show up deaged and i’m already more than half completely done with Star Wars. I’m sticking around for Andor. Or for the potential of episodes 10 11 and 12. Maybe the Rey movie depending on whether its compelling. But sick of the marvelization of SW.

I’m kind of sick of Filoni/Favreau Mandoverse.

Once again no news about the Original Original Trilogy. But thanks for the wrap up anyway.

Can you believe Star Wars is 50 in 2027, I remember the 30th like it was yesterday we got the Rinzler book and no film.

Yeah i wanted to see this when it was Rogue Squadron and Patty was the director.

Censored or time compressed so they cut some scenes?

CX audio instead of Dolby Stereo also seems odd.

This appears to be its own release. The Hong Kong release is uncut with Cantonese subtitles and is the same master as the US VHS Pan and Scan.

It’s also an officially licensed release. Not a bootleg. Very strange indeed, but this was for the South Korean consumer or rental market I assume.

I’d be super grateful if you could do such a preservation.

The Pan and Scan THX master has only been preserved as VHS.

And no one has done the Korean or Hong Kong release.

Also, welcome to OT.

Gout is better than composite master its component d1 master tape, but its not suitable in modern parlance for anything.

its 4:2:2 Component. Most laserdisc masters were composite D2 tape. and some were Digibeta. No theater is showing a laserdisc.

SnooPac said:

ornithocc said:

is there an 35mm version of all the 3 movies extended edition?

Only FOTR extended has a 35mm scan so far.
In theory it’s possible that someone will find a TTT extended print and have it scanned.
In theory it’s NOT possible that someone will find a ROTK extended print and have it scanned, as 35mm prints were never created in the first place.

Note, I have no personal knowledge about this stuff, I’m just repeating what I’ve read from others since these scans had become available.

absolutely right, 100%.

DZ-330 said:

I’m not convinced this movie is ever coming out.

I’m of this opinion as well seeing how Kathy talked about the Shawn Levy movie in her interview.

This film has had no real news for quite some time and has absolutely no buzz and no traction.

I sort was wanting to see what they came up with, I mean Steven Knight is talented, but they aren’t going to use his script. Sounds an awful lot like his Man of Steel 2 script that was not produced. DC went with James Gunn instead in that case and a total reboot.

Did Asimov find it flattering when Lucas borrowed from His Empire and Foundation books.

I know Lucas also read the Lensman and Skylark series from Edward Elmer Smith and Dune by Frank Herbert, and he had read the Martian stories of Edgar Rice Burroughs that feature John Carter. And he read Tarzan.

I looked they are definitely up there all but the Swedish print.

MKV or MP4.

Search for Puggo.

Those models are impressively huge and detailed.

I was always wondering if the Imax would ever surface for this. The film reels would be massive in size.

All I’ve ever seen were overpriced film cels of the Star Destroyer cut from a print.

I hope you all enjoy the screening I live in the US and nowhere near Baltimore where the first of these types of screenings happened, or California where the film academy screened theirs.

Rod Serling? You’re traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That’s the signpost up ahead- your next stop, The Twilight Zone!

That is the Seito Style A. Its on the Japanese Story of Star Wars Vinyl Album. You can’t really find all that much out about the artist but he did a Flesh Gordon poster, Conan the Barbarian, and a Roger Moore 007 poster. As well as Death Race 2000 and Gone in 60 Seconds.

Maria De Aragon as Greedo really cool. I really like those pics.

Superweapon VII said:

JadedSkywalker said:

But i have the same problem with them i do with the DIsney trilogy they don’t look used universe. They look too new and shiny.

I’ve never understood this complaint about the prequels. Now, I think the art direction for the PT is definitely off in many regards; there should’ve been a more retro-futuristic/fantasy aesthetic than what was presented. But being set before the dark times, things should look new and shiny.

You’d be correct about Coruscant. But there should be dirty and lived in worlds like Kashyyyk and Tatooine. And Naboo would be Art Nouveau and renaissance. With some Asian inspired culture. Tibetan.

The design of the Jedi robes and lightsabers would be more spartan as they are about blending in with the people and wear the robes of commoners. Farmers.

The Underworld of Coruscant for instance would be seedy and dirty. The metropolis of the seat of government would be futurist and clean and antiseptic.

Nice Colin Cantwell X-wings in that one.

I need to see more to make a criticism, the trailer was no more than a taste. I was not thrilled or moved by it. But I’m also not one of those people who will attack those who will derive genuine enjoyment from this show.

The title is kind of strange though it does remind me of George’s unmade tv series Star Wars underworld.

I’m sad to see he is gone, I will always cherish my memory of the film Willow, and Batman Forever.

Leia was implied to be force sensitive in a draft of Star Wars. She knew the art of Mind control. I do believe Lucas was thinking Bene Gesserit. Third Draft.