JadedSkywalker

Well the more cgi they use and the more amount of shots a film has, the worse the quality is going to be.

You look at all the television and films that use cgi. Effects houses are stretched thin. CGI has gotten noticeably worse but not in all cases. What I worry about is the application of AI, over actual human artists who do the cgi, if you can even call it art.

This is more about the advent of its use as a lazy catch all like everything digital, we’ll fix it in post.

I wonder what it must be like to be on a set that is nothing but bluscreen and greensceen, and actors being shot separately as elements like in Avengers Doomsday.

The Deleted scenes in Attack of the Clones humanize Anakin, when he meets Padme’s family. But of course those scenes were cut.

I wonder if there was more material with the Lars family than what ended up in the film.

The Tatooine scenes are strong in my opinion, that whole part of Anakin going to find his mother and him at her funeral.

I feel like the Tatooine and Naboo scenes were strong. The scenes on Kamino much less so, and the least engaging material in the entire film is on Geonosis.

Sith is very rushed and Anakin does not really have all that much to do except fall to the dark side. You have this happy expectant father and the fear of losing his wife. Then he tries to kill her which never made any sense to me but, I get Lucas saying Anakin lost his humanity in selfishness. His bargain with Sidious was like the literary act of selling his Soul.

He even goes to literal hell planet to kill the separatists and where he gets sliced and diced by Obi-Wan. His eyes turn red. Suggesting Anakin became a demon.

The one consistent thing in the three films is Anakin’s fear of loss. In part one he is afraid to leave the safety and comfort of his mother and he leaves her behind. His dreams lead him to her in episode II, only for his fears to be realized when the Sand People torture her to death. He promises himself, he will be strong enough to stop his friends and loved ones from dying. Then in Episode III, his fear of losing Padme and his unborn child is his complete unraveling.

I think Anakin would have worked better if he was portrayed differently. He is so unlikable. So unrelatable. A problem of the prequel is there no Luke Skywalker to latch onto. No real central protagonist, even though Anakin is supposed to be that. Is he supposed to be an Anti-hero? Lucas didn’t seem to know where he wanted to go with the character.

Hayden acts like he is portraying dark and conflicted/selfish and arrogant. But where is the good friend and star pilot. Damn fool who follows old Obi-Wan on an idealistic quest.

You don’t have a believable through line of the Anakin who wants to use power to restore order to the galaxy, because he has zeal for justice, but the ends justify the means. And the more he uses the dark side, the more he digs himself into a place where he can’t escape and The Emperor is waiting to grab a hold of him.

That is what I wanted to see the Shaw Anakin become Darth Vader. The Horror Gargoyle in the Mask, the machine man.

He is a slave to the Sith as much as he was a slave on Tatooine and a slave to the Jedi. He really is an undeveloped person and a pathetic and pitiable wretch. Frankenstein’s monster, and a terror to the galaxy.

And Padme’s dreams and Anakin’s ambitions they all are manifest in their children.

People dislike that, but apparently that was what George wanted a scared kid trapped in a machine body. A young man who lost his mother and his wife. And his true sin was not in his evil acts, it was his desire to hold onto them selfishly.

Condemned to live as Darth Vader because he tried to change fate based on a vision of the future. Like Oedipus trying to outsmart the oracle. If he accepted the nature of things and dispassionately let them fade into the force, he would have been a good Jedi or so the films attempt to say. Letting people stay slaves is fine too, it’s not the mandate of the Jedi to free them.

So like what. Anakin finally accepts his role and becomes a true Jedi when he kills the Emperor in Return of the Jedi. He dies and saves his son, does something loving and unselfish. And that is fulfilling the prophecy of doing away with the Sith? Bringing Balance to the Force.

Final Fantasy VI is better than Final fantasy VII. If we need to go there. I like each one Up to Final Fantasy X and XII. XIII is where it went off the rails. And now they are bogged down in remake of VII I have no idea how many millions of dollars and how many years it will take to remake, and how many games.

The series means a lot to me, and I love the music of Nobuo Uematsu.

Final Fantasy IX is also one of my favorites. I do like VIII and VII. VI was legendarily good on Super Nes and so was Final Fantasy IV. Released as Final Fantasy II and III on US SNES.

I really don’t want a season 3 with them ticking off member berry boxes, keep it clean, no Ewan as Kenobi. No flashbacks of Hayden as Anakin. No young Leia.

I know there is desire for some fans, to set up and show everything that lead up to the opening of Star Wars. It’s not necessary showing everything and dotting every single thing. The early rebellion is quite well done as is.

You have Rogue One and two seasons of Andor.

Cautiously optimistic. Talented director and the casting is quite good.

But we’ve been done this road before. With the sequel trilogy. Casting and directing is not the issue it’s the writing.

I’d say the same about MCU and Kurtzman Star Trek, nobody can write worth a damn anymore, well except for Tony Gilroy on Andor.

I have zero interest in Mando and Grogu but this has piqued my interest a slight amount, I’d say a bit less than Rogue One or the Han Solo a Star Wars story did. But it’s not zero interest, I’m intrigued to see more.

It’s not the hell yeah I want this film, like I felt about Rogue Squadron. Having read those X-wings books for years and loved them all.

It’s not a, should they or shouldn’t they like the Rey Skywalker movie, this will be well within the spinoff territories tiptoeing around the sequel trilogy and its negative impact on Star Wars and the fandom.

I’d say go ahead and do it since The old Star Wars is gone and never coming back, Carrie is gone, and Mark and Harrison are done. What do they have to lose. some fandom menacers who were never going to watch it anyway.

Time to rip off the bandage and move beyond key jangling and member berries. If they dare.

oojason said:

Star Wars (1977) Filming Locations - Then and Now

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVxJEJsm02g - a 13 minute video form the gluecement youtube channel.
 

The blurb: ‘Pretty much every filming location from the original (“Despecialized”) version of Star Wars. Big shout-out to https://www.starwarslocations.com for finding and documenting many hard-to-get-to places.’

 

I love the shot matching ‘then-and-now’ comparisons - a cool video that brings a smile to the face. Kudos to the amount of work that went into making this.
 

Reminds me of the old David West Reynolds Star Wars articles.

Terence Stamp. Zod from the Donner Superman films, Lester Superman film. He was also Chancellor Valorum in Episode I the Phantom Menace. He was 87.

Mocata said:

Unfortunately general audiences might not see it that way. Just look at how many of them seem annoyed that people even talk about their desire to get it released. Like, how dare we even think about messing with with George’s true artistic vision etc. They’ve been fed that idea for so long now; if respect is due it’s not to SW 1977 and the ground breaking award winning original film… it’s respect for George or nothing; especially in the Disney era where they can say his story has been “ruined”. Despite all of the content he added between 1997 and 2005 being utter crap.

I don’t know if It is general audiences, but the EU Lucas devotees and the prequel kids from youtube seem to be completely incensed by the idea of the original getting released. The fact it would be Disney and KK is seen as heresy.

For some its the Saga of Darth Vader, they see Hayden Christensen as the icon.

I don’t see Star Wars that way at all being older. Star Wars was the Adventures of Luke Skywalker and Mark Hamill, it was the Star Wars Saga. David Prowse was Darth Vader imho. It may well be just a generational divide.

I hope you get a response; I also miss the content but not the watermarks.

I used to love that. Star Wars lost worlds, timeline gold. The Jedi Bendu Script Site.

They were meant for DVD. Why Lucas thought they were good enough for Blu-Ray, I really have no explanation. Not to mention further changes. And fixes.

Just to think even the 2020 UHD only happened because of the 3D release that was cancelled and those scans.

We had the same HD master on DVD, HDTV, and Blu-Ray for what 15 or 16 years.

Leia Vs Vader in the Third Law in Marvel comics, and Leia getting caught up with Vader in the radio drama. Welcome Princess Leia to Ralltir, once again you show up where Rebel activity is rampant. You should be more prudent. You might come to harm someday. - Darth Vader voiced by Brock Peters.

Let us see what they do. What trilogy, what characters, what story. What timeline in SW.

If it is not episodes 10, 11 and 12 and not the story of Rey Palpatine what is the plan.

I thought it would be crap because of Seth McFarlane but i’ve heard the film is actually good. Though the producer of the originals went on and on about how he thought the remake was garbage and did not make his film.

There is a market if you live in Japan have an 8k television set and NHK television which broadcasts 8k movies like 2001 a Space Odyssey. I don’t think that is Disney’s demo.

As for my personal opinion about higher than 24fps I saw the Hobbit in 48 frames per second and it looked horrid like video. I was generally unimpressed they chose to shoot on digital for 3D over film in any case since Lord of the Rings was shot on Super 35.

Honestly anything over 4k seems like overkill for consumers anyway. You can scan higher for sure if your final output is 4K.

Then the EU he had a wife in Russ Manning strips, and a mistress in Daala in the 90s EU. In some short story in Disney Star Wars which I haven’t read, it is supposed to be his lover is TK-421. He still is a fascist and still dies on the death star.

I liked Lynch Dune part I more than Villeneuve. There is no Lynch part II to compare part II to. I liked the second part I know people complained about the changes to Chani from the book.

I also liked the sci fi mini series all those years ago and the Children of Dune follow up.

Return of the Jedi is where the prequel rot started to set in, i still enjoy the movie but not the rough patches. And Darth is way weaker in that movie than The Empire Strikes Back and Han and Leia have pretty much nothing to do. The rescue of Han Solo makes no sense but i enjoy the movie serial silliness of it. All except the whiffle bat lightsaber that causes no damage to the aliens Luke is fighting over the pit of Carkoon. No one loses an arm or a hand or a head.

There are some impressive set pieces Jabba’s sail barge, Jabba’s palace. The Death Star II. The Ewok Village. Then you have unbelivable fake stuff like the Matte painting of the Falcon in the Rebel Hangar. Instead of a full size built Falcon.

The Redwoods provide a unique setting for the rebels to chase stormtroopers on Speeders and you believe in the action that they could crash into a tree.

The Space Battle. at the end still hasn’t been topped. I like the chorus and and the part with the lightsaber duel and Luke fighting Vader, but it has nothing on the duel at Bespin, and Vader fights like a weak and already defeated opponent. He is only winning when Luke refuses to fight. The fight is very one sided.

The version with Leia as Queen of her people and Han dead would have been poignant, but would have angered parents and disappointed children and you can’t sell dead Han toys. Leia ends up alone, Luke ends up alone. They both find their duty is separate from their circle of friends. No screenplay for this version exists, we but rely on Gary Kurtz recollection of the early idea for the third film. Han died in his attack on an imperial base. He survived Carbon Freezing just to bite it. As a kid I would have felt cheated if Han killed in such a lame way, I felt the same way in Force Awakens.

The film is an incomplete experience without Lapti Nek, Yub Yub or Sebastian Shaw as Ghost Anakin. I refuse to watch the later versions. I intensely dislike the version with Hayden at the end. I hate Jedi Rocks, and Victory Celebration sounds like an incomplete temp track piece. The Ewoks singing is much more mythological and fits with Threepio storytelling earlier in the movie. They’ve added themselves to the story by helping to fight the Empire.

That does not mean its intended for release even if there is a restoration. It could be just to put it back into Disney’s vault. To protect their assets.

What are the odds Lucas relented. Look how angry he got that Disney did not use his story treatments, you think he wants the original of Star Wars available.

I wonder if Disney can do it against his wishes. If they actually have a contract that prevents them from releasing them.

Where do people do these laserdisc rips and restorations, I’m not aware of such a forum. I’ve seen a few pop up on archive and be deleted. But not for Rock and Rule or Gargoyles unfortunately.

I’m quite interested especially in archiving anime laserdiscs.

The price of making and purchasing equipment to do it right is exorbitant. Domesday.

Back in the old times me and my friend were simply using a DVD recorder to dump them to a burned DVD.

The DVD recorder was his of course and I was sending the discs to be captured. A lot of the stuff did eventually get a DVD or Blu-Ray release. Some of it didn’t. Lensman is still a non available movie. That was his rip not mine of the Japanese disc and US disk on 2 DVD no subtitles.

Gall Force is never happening, much to my dismay. I lived long enough to see Bubblegum Crisis get multiple blu-ray releases, and even Project A-ko was saved from obscurity. I have the Gall Force mega laserdisc set that has a vinyl record with it, Gall Force Rhea is in non anamorphic its the best film ever looked. I’ve collected all but Genom Rally and I have the CLV reissues and the CAV initial releases of all the films and OVA except for the remake which i did not care for.

And of course Urusei Yatsura Beautiful Dreamer the 4:3 version is still stuck in a laserdisc master.

I’ve looked for Rock and Rule on Japan laserdisc its like a 4 leaf clover. I’ve never found it or not some place in some insane price.

Gargoyles the movie US laserdisc is expensive but not impossible to find. It’s gone up in price of course I passed on a slightly beat up copy when it was 70 dollars and now every copy that comes up is 90 to 100 US.

Why doesn’t Lucasfilm create a new IP. Where is all the creativity.

George could create Star Wars, and Indiana Jones and Willow. So Lucasfilm without a young Lucas can’t create anything, is what the last ten years have told us. All they can do is recycle old worn-out IP.

Even his more wacky and ill considered ideas like making Howard the Duck was taking a risk. Something Disney Lucasfilm would never do. That was mere poor adaptation, the comic is completely different more political and less Disney.

It’s also the weird kind of comic parody and social commentary that does not work in a live action film.

I remember the deleted scenes from the behind the magic cd-rom I do remember someone captured them and put them on a DVD in times long ago.
Alternate Greedo footage, i think. Jenny. The black and white was half Kurosawa and half Flash Gordon with temp audio and some silent parts. For the Cantina.

Of course you also had the Biggs meets Luke and the Gang and Luke and the Macrobinoculars. And then the scene of Biggs telling Luke he is joining the rebellion.

Are they really that out of ideas Sith again?

I’m almost afraid to ask what nostalgia bait and member berries they will insert into the film.

I like that Zahn retconned the Lando/Mara romance and mocked it in the Thrawn duology.

I’m indifferent on him also mocking The Emperor reborn and taking a shot at Veitch. When he himself has a Clone of Thrawn in the story we never get to see.

I liked that the Callista romance went nowhere. The Akanah thing was a total waste of time. The Black Fleet trilogy was garbage.

Though I actually like 2 of the 3 Callista trilogy novels.

Well there is Splinter of the Mind’s Eye where Luke and Vader first fought, and Luke had a sort of almost romance with Princess Leia. Vader even appears to have fallen in a deep pit and died and he lost an arm.

Then Lucas made the Empire Strikes Back and it’s like Splinter is elseworlds.

Lucas dropped the love triangle between Luke, Han and Leia set up in the first film. And its barely there in deleted scenes for Empire, and when Luke is in the medical center, but Leia obvious falls for Han on the way to cloud city and at Cloud city. Lucas little bandage he put on it in Jedi, making Leia the sister, and making her the other was to this day completely unbelievable to me.

You think Luke is pining for his sister, kisses his sister. Saves her from the death star and is standing at the medal ceremony smiling at her because they were platonic. Its one of Lucas dumbest moves.

I don’t believe in the doctrine of attachment it was made up on the prequel. It exists literally nowhere in the original trilogy or the expanded universe before episode II. In fact Luke wins because he doesn’t follow what Ben and Yoda told him, his attachment to his father turns the tide of the war bringing Anakin back to the light.