I don’t think Star Wars is a possibility, the next Lucasfilm will probably be THX 1138 in 4K from the cgi George Lucas directors cut.
And like Universal’s horrendous version of American Graffiti I don’t think Warner Brothers will do it justice.
Does anyone still have this I hate asking like this in a thread but the thread owner last posted in 2016.
I googled the files and nothing.
Raiders
Temple
Last Crusade
Crystal Skull
Dial of Destiny
The quality actually is by release order. The only change is I raised LC up one slot. I do like Skull more but it’s got too much cgi and it’s too goofy in places.
I still like Dial of Destiny and its still the weakest entry. Worst Maguffin. I disagree with all the complaints about INDY he was still Indy. I disagree with 90% of the reviews on the Waller Bridge character I thought she would be awful from the trailer, but she had a Marion esque spunk, and she brought energy and verve to otherwise dead movie that had none. INDY is not without his weaknesses remember when he almost went to oblivion with Elsa, it’s not unbelievable that he could give up. Indiana Indiana, let it go.
My biggest complaint was it was character piece and not a Raiders movie like the other features. INDY felt like a man out of time in 1969.
They still haven’t even offered 100 gig version of their 4K disc of the 2020 Special Edition in Dolby Vision. And it’s unlikely they will never mind the theatrical.
The Steelbook release was the same disc, I refused to play stupid and buy the same product twice with no improvement.
Somehow Palpatine Returned or They Fly Now. In Rise of Skywalker.
Vader yelling No in Return of the Jedi, or Padme dying of broken heart in Episode III.
Hayden as Anakin in the ghost scene in Return of the Jedi.
I’d put Luke’s baseball bat lightsaber on the skiff that doesn’t take off an arm leg or head up there. Its freakin laser sword we saw what happened in the Cantina to Ponda Baba and when Luke lost his hand.
Looks like they took the believe in angels poster and cropped the image to the right side instead of the middle why not just do the poster centered. Those ugly rating certs are always on Euro releases. I generally don’t mind if the disc is region free for a blu-ray or its a 4k disc. Other people lose their minds if not a one sheet or theatrical poster on a Zavvi steelbook, generally i just watch the damn thing. Like I pefer Jcard, OBI or slipcover. But it’s not a deal breaker for me except for Japanese laserdisc to have an OBI. Because as insane as that is it impacts the value. That and if or not its sealed.
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.