I think John Williams music is incredible. It might be overrated in terms of how great the prequel scores are viewed as like the best in the Star Wars series, I wouldn’t go that far. But I’m quite fond of the score for Phantom Menace.
Meyer worked on two shows Discovery and the unmade Khan show none of his ideas were used or produced.
Whether his Star Trek Ceti Alpha V podcast audio drama ever gets off the ground its beyond my ability to predict.
The amount of movies he was attached to, through the years that didn’t get made is too hard to count.
His Don Quixote is the most interesting to me I wonder why it didn’t happen. That and his version of Tomorrow Never Dies.
His Star Trek is Hornblower, Shakespeare and Melville. Along with World War II submarine movies. He didn’t make them as sci fi they only happened in the future. Also VI largely comes from his interest in geopolitics and Sherlock Holmes.
They work like a play. They don’t lend themselves to hundreds of millions of dollars Star Wars style explosions and cgi. Which is what JJ Abrams did.
My opinion is some franchises have a natural life cycle and should die and people need to let them go.
Stop hoping Berman Star Trek comes back 20 years after Star Trek died. Stop hoping Disney sells Star Wars back to George Lucas or just sells it in general.
People want their franchises to remain the same way as they were, when they were young. They kind of expect and want them to continue forever when the entire nature of the universe is eventually all things end.
It’s not just limited to these two examples, they should also stop making Ghostbusters movies. And Jurassic Park is more than played out. We don’t need a fifth reboot of the same Superhero film made again.
Copyright law should be restored to its original intent and works after a time works should fall into public domain and a sharing of ideas should occur and derivative works, not the perverse copyright exists after an author has died long ago. not in a favor of capitalism or corporations.
No giving mickey mouse eternal life as a Disney owned character long after Walt died. We gotta pervert the entire law to protect steamboat from going public domain. To which they eventually lost anyway they just delayed it by decades.
Patents should expire too and hobbyists should be allowed to do Roms of Nintendo games without legal consequences.
Preservation of long out of print works should be protected under fair use.
Some false memories can be from a trading card or the novelization or comic book.
But anyone saying he threw the hook twice, Jabba was in the movie or Luke did two runs on the exhaust port, i shake my head.
There is no valid reason for Han to shoot second. When in a saloon in a western the guy who draws and fires first lives and the guy who hesitates is dead.
Greedo said he wanted to burn Han down. It was self defense.
I do hope he has more success and it’s not his third flop in a row with Disney.
George Nolfi is officially the new writer of Sharmeen’s movie (so I guess getting Kasdan back didn’t work out).
At least they hired a new writer. So, it’s not dead in the water. Just severely delayed. No way in hell does it come out in 2026 for Christmas.
As for Larry I hope we get the second season of light and magic soon.
I’m referring to the so-called unrestored version seen theatrically with a radically different color timing Chris Nolan was responsible for. There was many a complaint and discussion.
original 70mm prints looked nothing like that.
It’s safe to say modern teal computer colors weren’t on the mind of Stanley Kubrick when he filmed 2001.
Not Spielberg he recomposited Indiana Jones and pretends they are the original movies as well as Ai upscaling Duel.
He is just as much a revisionist as Lucas, Jackson and Cameron. I’d also include Nolan for the horribly tealed 2001.
Sorry for the tangent if there is someone who can restore Dune without revisionism, I’d welcome it.
I wish directors would lose their digital tools of DNR, revisionist color timing. AI upscaling and sharpening. The movie is the product of when it was made and its limitations.
The tech isn’t quite there yet but i was impressed with how ILM did the Carrie Fisher scenes in Rise of Skywalker and the deaged Indy in Dial of Destiny. Much more impressive than what they did in Rogue One or Mando.
But all the deepfaking and deaging still has that telltale fakeness to it. Like Harrison moved like an old man and sounded like an old man despite appearing young. Which gave it away.
I didn’t understand the film when I saw it as a child, but it had a profound impact on my imagination, and it won’t be forgotten.
The strangeness of the movie, and Patrick Stewart being in it. It became a yearly watch for me starting in the 1990s.
I like Qui-Gon because of Liam Neeson and the quiet dignity he brings to that character, not quite Sir Alec. But better than people give credit to. The whole problem was Midichlorians. People scoffed at that and still do. May the Midichlorians be with you. Such a bad idea, almost as bad as aliens in Indiana Jones. But at least there the 1950’s cold war era B movies and that conceit lent itself to such an absurd idea it almost worked. Midichlorians were dead on arrival like Jedi as celibate monks.
You can say what you want about the prequels, but they do reflect Lucas as a filmmaker and all his strengths and weaknesses are on display.
Every director has their style and eccentricities. I just don’t get how people don’t notice the same issues in his earlier films maybe because they are better movies?
Or maybe he had help with the screenplays.
The whole digital cinema and we’ll fake it in cgi and fix it in post, is almost every major comic book or fantasy or science fiction film now.
The actual state of the negative and whether or not there are sufficient good quality sources to restore the film to its original state lie within Lucasfilm itself.
Of course, we can’t leave things up to chance seeing how since 1997 the entire point of Lucas was to erase that the originals ever existed. They were a rough draft, a work in progress he was forced to release, and he was unhappy with them and so, and on.
It’s completely unconscionable to leave it up to Loc and BFI to have to rescue these movies, as is 4k77 wouldn’t even exist if George had done the right thing.
I like to think of Palpatine as the evil Kenobi, I don’t know what George’s plan was, one is the evil father and is the good father. The best aspect of the prequels is the story it tells visually and with music, the dialog and acting are often the things that pull it down. You do have standout moments like the opera scene but they are few and far between.
I also think Ewan did a good job with you were the chosen one speech.
I actually like some of the derided goofier moments in Attack of the Clones, they bring levity and fun to a very wooden movie. And yeah the duel between Dooku and Anakin and Obi-Wan is mostly good. But then you have cartoon Yoda fighting Dooku.
David Lynch director of Twin Peaks and Dune has died at age 78.
The 2006 is quite a strange facsimile, as its not at all the theatrical cut. Its just the Definitive collection with worse more compressed audio of the 1993 mix, with the 1977 crawl tacked onto the beginning.
Still its pre–Special Edition if not quite the real deal.
Earlier releases did have the theatrical 35mm mix the Dolby Stereo, so they must just have been incredibly lazy. Seeing how fans could retrieve the audio off of laserdiscs. Or even VHS.
I’m getting up there in age and even I haven’t seen the pre 1981 cut on 35mm in the cinema. It hasn’t been shown in over 40 years. Nobody has seen it since 1980. Beyond an odd screening here or there, but not more wide and broad, no restored print exists.
I think it is personal preference. The only THX Pan and Scan on laserdisc is the Hong Kong release.
But there is the quiet reissue in the 90s with the same catalog number of the first issues in CLV all with digital sound, likely same video master. In the USA. and there was Pan and Scan reissues in Japan the Evergreen releases, all with burned in Japanese subtitles.
And the Faces Pan and Scan VHS, and the only perseveration I ever had was Dark Jedi’s Pan and Scan Faces I haven’t been able to source new copies.
You have everybody but Ben Affleck and Marky Mark in this, I don’t know what to think. Especially Tom Holland.
Fans want to cast him in everything.
I just expect it to be bland if its Nolan but have nice cinematography. If its anything like Dunkirk.
Sounds like a new can of worms has been opened with these statements.
I bought Megalopolis two months ago, today i go into my library the film is no longer available because it was pulled due to contractual reasons. No refund and i can’t watch my movie just because i waited a few weeks.
This is the first time I’ve bought something, and it wasn’t on the server after it left rental or purchase.
What a crooked thing to do, oh well we sold the rights to Peacock. Why sell me something and then take it away.
I wonder what happened to the site admin that site hasn’t been updated in ages. Also, they suspended and apparently deleted the forums that used to be there unless they are archived somewhere.
I never got too heavy into CED i have the Star Wars trilogy and was looking at getting some other ones but players are expensive. And it’s about equal to VHS quality so it’s not worth the money sink.
I did want to get the Hobbit Rankin Bass to see which version it was.
My Mom’s aide gave me attitude and accused me of things i’m not even doing, she gets paid an enormous amount of money to work 5 hours a week. I put in that amount daily and I don’t get paid.
Twice today I had picked my mom’s recycling off the ground because she put in bin with no lid and its blowing, blowing around.
And her aide gets angry at her for being in a wheelchair, but my mom likes her she would sooner fire me.
God forbid her aide follows the rules on putting recycling in the recycle instead of the trash dumpster. It was just as suggestion not an accusation.
Trash and recycling it doesn’t matter, well the environment matters to me lady.
And the attitude I have to the work the day after new years. so did I every single bleeping year, you deserve a medal.
Me storing stuff at mom’s place are you kidding me, I have boxes of her pictures and glassware and god knows what else in my apartment.
The last 7 months moving 3 times and dealing with the new owners who took over the apartments who want to run it like a Condo has been hellish. Lets hope 2025 is better. Though accusing me of not paying first and last when I know I paid I have to go the bank and get statements to prove it. Accommodating to the disabled and elderly hardly, they no longer have covid as excuse to mistreat us. You call there no one ever answers, and the office doors are always locked and they are only open twice a week 9-12. But maintenance is there 6 days a week. Moved me into a new unit with no room, paying more rent less freedom, no back yard, can’t make noise. Crazy neighbors. I could have done without the entire charade. Plus I always have neighbor’s false complaints and following me and taping me with their phone. Years ago you could cook hamburgers outside or run a garden hose without someone tattling. Now god forbid i put up my tv loud enough to watch a film, forget about it.
They were concerned more with corporate synergy than telling a story, they treated the sequels like toy commercial. A way to move other merchandise. I mean come on its Disney they are about the theme parks and merch.
I would love a Rey standalone or episodes 10, 11 and 12. If they can outline them and have an actual story and worldbuilding. And not have to have tie ins fix it for them later or tv series. I think they haven’t learned a thing from the Clone Wars or prequel situation, if anything they’ve made the same mistakes Lucas did and more. Because at least the prequel had progression and world building.
And the EU gave developing character arcs for Han, Luke and Leia that sequels failed at. And Luke successfully passed on what he had learned, became a husband and a father. His Jedi order lasted over a hundred years. Lukes in Disney lasted 6 years or something like that.
And the New Republic and Empire are never even addressed in the sequel trilogy at all. They created a First Order and Resistance just so they could do Rebels VS Empire again. They did the Kylo thing because they wanted another Vader.
I’m not in that group of people, excited to go out and read 3 comic series and several novels to fix someone’s bad movie.
Even the merchandising and Disney EU consumed the movies under Disney, the all one canon nonsense, just make a good movie forget about that stuff. Don’t MCU Star Wars so people have to do homework. Do your exposition within the film.
Retcons can only get you so far. I almost feel bad for the story group, because there is supposed to be a canon they follow with these movies, and nobody believes in it anymore. Not when Filoni changes something every five minutes, they got themselves into a fine mess and unlike the old canon they can’t push it into legends and say this was never canon.
Yes, it is LPCM.
Dolby Surround.