JadedSkywalker

Thank you so much for being so helpful.

Prints of the adapted scope used to appear all the time in 16mm. I do wonder why they hardly ever come up anymore for auction.

As far as I know, and I’m not in the loop only the grindhouse for the Italian cut IB tech was released to donors.

And since I’m not a donor I’m not even sure an HD scan was shared.

There was a combo project on the web at some point in DVD quality using the scan with the laserdisc and the blu-ray to fill in gaps and replace the Italian screens with English ones.

Its quite unfortunate you have the choice to buy the Blu-Ray if you don’t already have it, i have the DVD. Or you can watch a DVD from the laserdisc if you can find one on some place like usenet or something.

But there is no quality release that isn’t some fanedit. And if you want something in retail HD quality you can forget about it.

If American Graffiti and THX 1138 were Star Wars we’ve already have a 4K 71 and a 4k73, a 4k77 THX and 4k78 Graffiti original director’s cuts.

Its not just the lack of interest its Disney Lucasfilm, and fear of their litigious nature. And the fact there is an official 4K for American Graffiti which is the 1998 cut redone with DVNR and a 5.1 mix. But has the redone credits and cgi sunset. And people don’t want to jump the gun because Warner’s is likely planning an official 4K for THX 1138 with George Lucas of the 2004 cut.

It’s a DVD recorder setup he would have to watch the film again and rerecord it to a new DVDR disc.

I would be quite peeved myself. As one doesn’t know where in the chain the glitch happened. And it’s strange that the rest of the film from the beginning up to that point is completely fine.

Jason is going to check the file from .bin to ISO. Maybe he can make heads or tails of it, if not it will have to rerecorded.

Edit: Whelp it was not the BIN to ISO conversion. I’ll wait to see what enater has to say.

Nope you’re right the file has an issue in Leawo it misses Luke’s and company run on the trench and literally skips to Ben telling Luke to trust him.

Some kind or corruption in the file, i hate to have to say so.

VLC literally quits out for me after that point in the film. Can you tell me what Sofware you are using for playback.

Thank you for sharing this and the cover art.

The Mono 2.0 English was left off the shout factory releases. It’s the censored track. The one with the Star Wars style roll up.

But is on the Japanese DVD from Pioneer.

I used to have the Laserdisc of the Euro cut from Japan not the Hill crane. I’d like to know if the Hill Crane is the version with the Star Wars opening and if its censored dialog wise.

Though it’s not worth a few hundred dollars to find out.

What is Finn’s story though? why does he want to join the new Rebellion other than being a Stormtrooper who broke his programming. I get he stays around because he likes Poe and Rey. and has made friendships. I thought he wanted to get away from the resistance and the first order. He was more of a reluctant, almost Han Solo type.

His character doesn’t develop.

Rose is a character for one film and almost written out of the next.

Poe goes from being a Wedge Antilles leader of Rogue Squadron type to being a smuggler like Han as his backstory.

Rey is a nobody from nowhere like Luke was, and then she is Rey Palpatine.

She was searching for her parents. And trying to latch onto an identity. Joining the Rebellion, wanting to be a Jedi. Those are Luke’s motivations.

Kylo wants to be Darth Vader and finish what he started. He finds being on the dark side isn’t all sunshine and rainbows. Nobody likes you and it’s hard to get a date. And he can’t say he hates sand. He hated his father for loving him, a psychopath with no real motivation in the story for his turn to the dark side and corruption. A bare mention of Luke with a pointy saber trying to kill him in his sleep is not enough exposition. Or dollar store Palpatine/ aka space Gollum, reached him through the force and sensed his power. Fair enough it still isn’t explained.

The force dyad thing and Rey being the new chosen one I didn’t even want to broach. One of those seems to explain why she is so powerful with no training. She is The Emperor’s daughter and granddaughter. Born for the sole purpose to house his spirit like some Lovecraftian nightmare. According to ROS he also wanted to possess Anakin and Luke and take over their bodies.

And the other aspect is to explain Reylo and their romance. And restore the balance as I once did, a disembodied Hayden Anakin says, per Rey being someone chosen by the whills of the force or destiny and one to bring about the end of Palpatine.

I probably gave it more thought in the last twenty minutes than any of the screenwriters of these movies did.

I wholly dislike Luke’s arc in Rise of Skywalker. Just pointless really. Key jangling. Ooh look he raised the ship out of the swamp like Yoda. and he admonishes Rey on chucking a lightsaber because that was what he did in episode 8, he did the Jake on an island. It’s time for the Jedi to end.

I was a coward, but Rian didn’t write me that way but don’t tell JJ.

He never trained Rey the movie pretends he did and acts like Skywalker was her previous master before Leia.

It also acts like they are surrogate parents to her when they literally never had any connection in 7 or 8. And Han was the kind of father figure that Kylo killed.

They hint at Finn’s force sensitivity in 7 and 9 and do nothing with it.

These films are endlessly debated and disappointing.

They botched so much it’s a wonder if Lucasfilm will ever have the courage to make that Rey film. Endless books, comics and shows to try and fill in plot holes and no outlining of the sequels. The post ROTJ timeline is garbage in Disney.

Porco Rosso. Pathe Canal + DVD 1999. Claims to be anamorphic its letterbox. Single layer DVD obviously the same interlaced transfer as the French laserdisc. Overly bright colors. Not the best transfer. It’s not the worst laserdisc master I’ve ever seen though. Kind of weird to watch with French opening titles, I am used to the Japanese ones with the marching Totoro logo.

I watched it in Japanese mono sound with no subtitles. Because all it has is French signs or French subtitles. the French 5.1 is the main track. The secondary track is Japanese stereo and, third option is Portuguese mono.

I just ordered the French tin box for all 20 James Bond films. Region 2.

And i won an auction for an early Gunbuster anime OVA DVD volume 3 with PCM sound and no English subtitles. Plus, I ordered the Studio Canal Porco Rosso. Its French 5.1, Japanese stereo. Portuguese mono. no English. Single layer. 1999.

I also saw some other stuff i was interested in but have to limit things when on a budget. I nearly grabbed Robot Carnival region 2 but it was 15 dollars. The other 4 DVDs, I snagged were 5 dollars each. Then came across a remastered region 2 set of all of Gunbuster for 25 but had already spent on those other DVD. I was sorely tempted by the Cowboy Bebop remastered DVD box but 40 bucks is a lot.

Money is tight and all but i couldn’t let that Gunbuster set and Cowboy Bebop set go. 60 bucks gone.

Bebop is 7 DVDS in 5.1 sound. HD remaster. Gunbuster is PCM sound remaster.

Things from Another World. The online comic store died in April. Likely a casualty of the death of diamond comics distributors.

There is nothing that irritates me more than being forced to either pay full price with Barnes and Noble or being forced to buy books from Amazon.

Less competition means higher prices and less customer service.

Going into the heart of darkness to understand the darkside is exactly what Ulic did. It seems to be something Veitch was interested in, if he used it more than once.

I’m going to infiltrate the Sith from within and slowly walk the path, I won’t fully go over. He gets a taste of power like a drug and it’s so seductive he loses himself. Then he slays his brother, a kinslaying there is no going back from that. Nomi took pity on him and cut him off from the force.

Yoda warned Luke. not to walk the quick and easy path. Forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will as it did Obi-Wan’s apprentice.

Working with the laserdisc was the problem i thought, something about Topaz ai and having to mask out Japanese subtitles with other video sources, tv recordings. I would just have accepted a rip of them raw.

I’ve looked at the prices on those sets and they are always 300 and above in price. Its not even a rare laserdisc set but its price gouged. I’ve seen so many of them.

The Japanese sellers think Indiana Jones or Disney, or they want to charge retail for the year of release in Japanese yen to USD. Nobody pays hundreds for laserdisc sets. You can go up from 50-70 to a hundred dollars for a rare set maybe. But a common set that was not low in circulation.

Whisper of the Heart is in Ac3 in the Ghibli Ga Ippai boxed set, so is on your mark. And Mononoke Hime was released separately in Ac3, all on laserdisc, not to derail the thread. Mononoke is 1998. and the big box set is 1996.

The only other AC3 is the English Dub on Kiki from Disney in 1998 also. Just talking laserdisc, not dvd or blu-ray.

Howls was Dolby 6.1 EX. And Spirited Away was DTS ES. 6.1 I no longer have those DVD. on the first Japanese DVD.

Bill Moyers dead at 91. The man who interviewed both Joseph Campbell for the Power of Myth, and George Lucas on the mythology of Star Wars.

It will all be down to tone, the screenplay. The actor chosen. And the score and cinematography, and editing, yes the director is of importance but not chiefly. In fact, i think far too much is made of the influence of a director. Auteur theory says they run everything, well that doesn’t exist in the studio system, and certainly never existed ever on Eon productions.
I don’t think Amazon will be of much difference. There is bound to be even more corporate interference.

It’s why I said Christopher Nolan was never directing Bond because they would never cede control to him. They hire you to shoot the script they want, no question.

You’re just a hired person to shoot a movie with no real love for the craft or story, its to make a product. Like how JJ was hired for Star Trek or Star Wars.

Denis is going to find that Warners gave him more carte Blanche for Dune then James Bond will afford him. Films in the studio hierarchy become art, through mostly happy accident, as well as tenaciousness.

But the Disney cookie cutter MCU by committee, doesn’t allow art or anything resembling Cinema. And that goes for 70% of the corporate wasteland. Stagnant and long dead IP, the shambling undead.

Its only if makes money not if its good, to paraphrase Mark Hamill.

it is being claimed in news reports that Denis Villeneuve is directing the next Bond.

I like the cast and was cautiously optimistic and i even liked the behind the scenes stuff, but i’m not feeling the trailers or the music or the editing.

I’ll have to see it before I make a judgement, but my gut says Corenswet and Hoult were miscast.

The trailers have a marked lack of energy in their performances.

I hope the comic book flavor of the film outweighs the weak moments in the previews.

If you are going to use the John Williams theme use it properly. Even Superman Returns did that. Though I’d sooner see this film have its own musical identity.

While that is true, i’m sure they are talking about the redone roll up and starfield. And the film being retitled Episode IV a New Hope. They are not talking about unnoticed visual effects changes or changes to the credits. Or getting into the weeds on audio mixes.

They simply know all the radical changes happened in 1997.

Thankfully while Lucas can call Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost art is hasn’t been changed in the film. I refuse to call it that. Just like to me Star Wars, is well Star Wars.

I’ve already seen it, but there is no download option unless you have youtube premium.

For me unless there is telltale sign its hard to tell if something was shot separately as a different element, unless it draws attention to itself.

I have no way to know if Amy was shot separately from Ewan, but sure looks like it.

May all your guesses be right.

People get angry when you laugh at George’s vision and say yeah which one. the 1977, the 1981. The 1997. 2004, 2011, 2019 for streaming and 2020 for physical for maclunky.

People have every right to like what they like. I also can prefer the original film.

I’ve never disputed Lucas right to change his film and have authorial control over it, at least when it to comes Star Wars 1977. What has been argued is preserving the original.

Empire and Jedi he didn’t direct them. Now Kersh may have been fine with handing his film over to George, to draw over it with cgi crayons. But Richard Marquand was not around to object to Return of the Jedi’s many changes over the years.

And still, both go against promising those directors final cut over their film.