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Castle in the Sky Aka Laputa. The Japanese release is nicely filmic but not nearly a perfect transfer but it is reasonably faithful. Plenty of grain though I do wish it was less compressed. Its quite an older scan. Its from 2010 blu-ray.

Castle of Cagliostro from the 2014 Ghibli library. The least scrubbed of all releases and still the frozen grain and DNR is garbage. Its either put up with this the even worse 4K, or the 1080i blu ray from 2008 with edge enhancement to make it seem like it is more detailed. the Discotek 4K is probably the least worst of the options because you get multiple language tracks in English and Japanese and subtitles not dubtitles or so I’m told.

And to round it The Cat Returns which isn’t a film transfer at all. Very nice image quality not quite up to Ghibli feature quality this is more like an OVA. that is 75 minutes.

I think I’d like to watch Princess Mononoke next. Though I was thinking of Porco Rosso, and Whisper of the Heart.

Apparently, Mark Vaz book Into the Digital Realm says they used the O-neg for the live action photography, they used Interpositve and YCM separation masters and they printed the cgi segments back out to film it had high resolution it didn’t say how many whether 2k or higher. They located the original Optical effects pieces that didn’t include the 86 lost shots on CRI stock and they redid those, and those are the recomposites the original pieces.

So unless you consider recomposites to not be original if you didn’t cut in those new cgi redoes you basically have the original except for having to redo those 86 shots.

Its more and more clear to me it would have been possible in the 1990s and certainly would be now. We were lied to.

Am I mistaken in that John Williams didn’t conduct the Force Awakens Star Wars title? Gustavo Dudamel. Its also not LSO.

I like Luke and Artoo, and Luke winking at Threepio and holding Leia’s hand. Especially the scene between Mark and Carrie that feels real to me. Mutual love and respect.

The Yoda scene isn’t the best but it did make me chuckle. Not the gleefully burning the tree scene, but him whacking Luke with his stick.

I also like the scene where Luke leaves the hanger even if it’s a phony fake out. The framing, how epic it is. He slowly strides out like a hero of the old westerns.

Would be the greatest scene in history if he was physically there. Not an astral projection.

I also like the Rey training sequence and Rey gets pulled to the dark. I had that on 70mm film frames which got lost.

They wrapped on the first season of Star Trek Starfleet Academy, set in the 32nd century. Who knows when it comes out.

Tawny Newsome is supposed to be in the process of writing her Star Trek Sitcom in live action that is supposed to be in the 25Th Century potentially? Potential for Bill Shatner to be in it deaged. Or Riker with Frakes to show up.

Going to drive the usual suspects crazy because it hasn’t been cancelled except claims to the contrary. I love it.

Why wouldn’t they do a reissue of Force Awakens in December 2025 in select theaters.

It’s not like Disney Lucasfilm is raking in money not producing a film since Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. And not making a single Star Wars since 2019 for the cinema.

They could even tie it into the announcement the Rey movie is going into production, but there is far too much chaos at Lucasfilm for me to believe that would happen.

KK is not retiring and the next film being Shawn Levy’s is all but greenlit.

That means no Rey movie or Dawn of the Jedi. LOL.

No chaos at Lucasfilm she says.

Michelle Trachtenberg, Died tragically at the age of 39.

I can just watch the 4K UHD. I’m happy for the prequel fans who want to go see it as a group and have a communal experience.

I don’t go to the movies anymore, and i used to go once a week when i was in High School. The media environment is so different now so many films on streaming, so many quick to physical release after theatrical Blu-Ray and UHD, and so many digital first offerings.

The force awakens is likely to be the last film I saw in cinema multiple times and dropped well over a hundred dollars on in tickets. Covid closed my favorite Cinema. The only other alternative is a dirty theater with cheap uncomfortable seats.

Bob Orci. He was only 51.

I was often as critical of his work as I praised him, but I was a fan of his since Hercules and Xena and I loved chatting with him on Trekmovie, I know he was controversial and Star Trek fans hated him, I also know he loved Star Trek.

Rest in peace.

I’d hope they wouldn’t trip over themselves and at least make a good Superman movie first that is a big hit before counting their chickens. They need to stay in their own lane and not try to be Disney MCU. The last time they tried with Snyderverse they lost billions of dollars, the Joker could have piled it to the sky and burned it.

Getting any Star Wars film made or Lucasfilm project good luck to them at Lucasfilm, to stay on topic.

George is the one who said he saved everything in Anatomy of a Dewback.

I really like the source music for this in the soundtrack. Described as a Benny Goodman tune. Just called Cantina Band 1 and 2.

Some of the creatures, the ones made as action figures I had as a kid but not the rare Snaggletooth.

All cgi creature redos are garbage. It’s one of the things that irks me about the special edition.

Of course, I also only like Han to be the only one who fires, Greedo shooting first really ruins the Cantina scene.

The old masks and the dirtiness of the bar, the smoke etc said it was a den of iniquity and the perfect place for Ben to hitch an illegal ride off Tatooine. Scum and wretched hive of villainy.

Especially the cartoon cgi in Mos Eisley before they enter the cantina, we didn’t need dinosaurs.

The original used universe of griminess, grit and imperfection seemed real. It’s often overstated but in this case, this is verisimilitude.

I really like the western feel meets Kurosawa when Ben slashes Ponda Baba.

I keep wondering how Young INDY fits Crystal Skull or Dial of Destiny, it’s better to not try.

The story has shades of brilliance, but it is executed so poorly.

But Palpatine corrupting and manipulating the Jedi and turning the public against them and persuading their greatest hero to change sides turning their greatest hope into defeat, is good storytelling.

Promising peace and order to a galaxy thrown into chaos, a chaos Palpatine caused because he started the Clone Wars.

Anakin makes a devil’s bargain for his wife’s life but engineer’s her fate by trying to prevent it.

The died of broken heart might be poetic, but I do agree it is stupid.

It is a warning as well of how Republics fall to audacious dictators who promise things they have no intention of delivering on and dividing the people.

Who give rousing speeches, who promise to restore a golden age and appeal to a nostalgic past that never existed.

I’ve also heard of the bookends from overseas and I’ve always been interested that were different edits of the show.

Why did Lucas recut the show for VHS and DVD, does anyone know.

I have some old Trek paperbacks I got at the thrift store, library sale and flea market but that wasn’t one of them I’ll have to pick it up.

Agreed it’s a well-considered, thought out and compiled list of preservations.

I’m very grateful, the spirit of old is not dead.

The rollout of the new AnimEigo has been a complete disaster all copies of Bubblegum Crash Blu-Ray have been recalled.

I really wish Robert had not retired and sold his company.

I hope we get a new release date but Justin Sevakis hasn’t said a darn thing about it. It’s like they will quietly try and get it out by the end of the month.

Basically the last couple years have sucked to be a fan of Anime first the death of Rightstuf and whatever you can call this new company its not AnimEigo, only in name.

Edit: so they responded to me before shadow banning me on their youtube channel. A-ok at the replicator for a new batch. That doesn’t help how super irritated I am after spending 70 dollars and buying it twice and having no blu-ray, especially considering it still has no listed release date.

I assume rarewaves also didn’t have it and screwed me. I’ll have to get Ebay to get them to refund me. Not pleased with how unapologetic and blase they are about the entire thing, Robert would never have treated a customer like that. They have to get their act together and I’m not supporting this nonsense as much as I like Justin.

I get they are a boutique, but you can’t keep a customer out of the loop and on the hook for months waiting for a disc to be released when they preordered it and its been cancelled twice. Despite having a Jan listed release date which is a lie. Won’t even admit they recalled all the stock, claim and say it was all sold, despite no more than maybe less than a hundred copies being sold of the disc with the error before it was recalled and the entire batch returned to distributor.

You have no idea how much I would appreciate just the making of from the Japanese Laserdisc in good quality.

The rip that used to be on YouTube was horrible.

I haven’t picked the set up because the price its absurd it’s not worth 500 dollars or more it is being sold for.

Those guys are absolute geniuses. I grew up with the Star Wars sketchbooks and Joe Johnston was a hero of mine.

I can remember going to all the films ILM did as a kid.

How about Ghost in the Shell 1995 there was a 2.0 version that added new cgi and a redone color timing and a new mix. For the 2008 cinema reissue and blu-ray. Then when the 4K came out it reverted to the original version. And the 2.0 version was not done in 4K.

George saying the reaction to cgi was ridiculous, everything on film is fake.

Does not answer the point how much better used universe looked in the original trilogy and verisimilitude over shiny cgi in the prequel.

I feel like he started to do this quite a bit to the point its almost downright dishonest, like over Greedo shooting first, how Jabba was always going to be a Slug Gangster in Star Wars, how Vader was always the father and Leia the sister. How the original is an oxymoron. And now it looks bad because it’s a laserdisc.

I feel as though he mythologized more as time went on and the further away he got from Return of the Jedi’s release, he just started making things up. And even after selling to Disney making stuff up about how the Saga was always the Saga of the Son, and the Father and the grandchildren.

From the interview he gave in From Star Wars to Jedi to the one in the Definitive collection bonus and Leonard Maltin interview he had a long-time to create this idea of having it all mapped out.

I don’t think it’s all elaborate conspiracy to withhold the originals, or some evil plot. But he does like to tell tales.

The pre 77 stuff and 77 stuff George Lucas seems to be on the level it’s when he decided to make Vader Luke’s father, Lucas started mythologizing the Star Wars origins.

Of the prerelease and post release interview material Charley Lippincott took those are the most revealing and truthful about the film.

TNG made Klingon’s space Vikings.

I do remember some of the complaints around this a long time ago.