JadedSkywalker

For what it’s worth people are illegally selling 4K versions of those fanedits/preservations, I would just as soon go into a store or online and legally purchase HDR and 4K copies from Lucasfilm. These sellers make thousands of dollars quite rapidly and once one site closes down or some site they are on kicks them off they just reappear.

I would like to own copies I didn’t download or burn myself, which I can’t do for 4K and I can only do 1080P and stream it off my external or watch it from there. because I don’t have a disk drive.

These people have been making quite likely into the hundreds of thousands off of fan projects, there is a market for legitimate releases, but Disney has to be not stupid.

But they are anti-consumer and anti-fan by putting everything into their streaming model so what the hell do I know.

I thought with the release of Cinderella and Snow White in 4K, and Andor and Obi-Wan they had changed their tune, maybe I was wrong.

I did like the New Jedi Knights series but to be honest it’s a junior novel series and I haven’t read them since the last volume was published by the Science Fiction Book Club, I have the hardback for.

That was why it was so disastrous to change Jacen’s character so much. Unlike others I never liked Caedus, I hated him.

I agreed with everything Han said about his burning the Wookiee homeworld and how he wasn’t his son.

When he killed Mara I thought Luke was going to kill him, Jaina did.

At least Ben Skywalker was smart enough to turn away from following Jacen down the darkside path. Its pretty sick that Jacen tried to turn him the way Vader was, Luke’s own father Anakin, or how he killed his father in law Isolder. He
killed Boba Fett’s daughter as well, just an evil little asshole. Unlike Vader he was never redeemed he went to the void.

Edit: I meant Young Jedi Knights damn I must be mixing up that and New Jedi Order sorry. I think Kevin J Anderson and Rebecca Moesta wrote those?

There is a site. I found out about it on youtube, selling 4K discs of 4k77, 4k80 and 4k83. Not going to link. It seriously is bad for the community for people to do this. The Blu-Ray boots were bad enough but offering 4K and not just 4K but HDR copies as well, awful.

Edit: it’s not through youtube obviously it’s a webstore that sells bootlegs. They even call these despecialized when they are 4k versions of the 4k77, 4k80 and 4k83. And Harmy isn’t the one who did those they can’t even get basic facts right.

The one I’m looking for wasn’t ever on archive. Stjärnornas Krig.

Lucas was going to make Leia not Rey the chosen one of the entire Saga. But he never made his sequel trilogy. I wonder if Leia taking over and ruling the Republic was in any way like the original idea for ROTJ where Leia became Queen of her people.

Still Luke running the Jedi religion and Leia running the government how does that work if the galaxy finds out Vader was their father. How do you prevent something like the first order from happening, which happened in Disney. or how does Luke prevent a student of his or several of them from going dark and upending everything.

Superweapon VII said:

JadedSkywalker said:

I hate Star Wars becoming the Saga of Darth Vader rather than the Adventures of Luke Skywalker, I hate Luke being supplanted and replaced by Vader becoming the lead character. We are supposed to root for a wife killer and child murderer is that it?

Lucas totally lost his sense on the prequel, virgin birth, chosen one prophecy, rules on attachment, midichlorians, Whills, how can people take any of that at face value.

He destroyed Star Wars there was nothing left for Disney to destroy.

While I agree with your points overall, I wouldn’t want Star Wars to JUST be the Adventures of Luke Skywalker. The SW Universe is bigger than any Skywalker, Luke or Anakin.

Well I meant about the Saga as in the movies, sure the expanded universe and tv can go on tangents. For me nowadays I’m either just a Star Wars guy, or maybe an Empire guy and Jedi is subpar. The prequel is unnecessary backstory muddled and screwed over in the details. The Disney movies are almost like the Kelvin timeline of Star Trek for me, I can sort of enjoy them but they aren’t worthy of respect or time. They didn’t take the lore seriously because George didn’t in the prequel, so they were like what the hell, we will do what we want.

Maybe it’s for the best the canon is destroyed the very notion of canon might be stupid, if you thought about it too much.

Yoda says the dark side clouds everything, that is supposed to excuse their stupidity. Episode III is almost like Dark Helmet said about good being dumb.

Lucas hates the original that is the only reason it’s not available. I mean Vanilla Ice in Cool as Ice is on Blu-Ray, but not Star Wars doesn’t that seem absurd.

Though I’d like a 4K disc because I won’t settle for a Blu anymore. Its 2024 Not 2015.

The price is too high maybe when it comes down to earth and reality I will play it, I just started playing Battlefront II and Jedi Fallen Order on gamepass because its affordable.

rocknroll41 said:

New post up on my blog regarding the acolyte (and the state of the franchise in general):

https://henrynsilva.blogspot.com/2024/06/the-acolyte-past-present-future-of-star.html?m=1

Nice summation and without Hyperbole, but you didn’t mention Willow the tv series being erased from existence or Dial of Destiny flopping. And I disagree on Solo, I feel like Alden didn’t at all come off as Harrison. What Disney needs is a Star Wars film in the cinema that breaks a billion at the box office. If Dial can fail and Harrison was in it, what does that say about Lucasfilm? The same actor who was a draw when they made Force Awakens, couldn’t get people to see the 5th Indiana Jones film. And also the Rey movie isn’t going to have Harrison or Mark or Carrie to carry it, we shall see what the box office says on that one if it ever gets released.

As for the Acolyte itself I just got into the older shows on disc, when is Disney going to put out Mando season 3 and Ahsoka? Because I would have to sign up for Plus and other than some of the cartoon shows and maybe Light and Magic it doesn’t seem like all that good a deal at the price point for no ads.

I’ll give him credit for his interview with Paul Duncan that was excellent, but his video on the Special Edition and the prequel irritated me.

He does come at things from a pro George perspective, which can be off-putting to say the least.

As for the accuracy of Lucas statements in Star Wars archives or the accuracy of the research I can’t speak for that because it’s a 200-dollar book, which I don’t have.

Does anyone have the Semi Specialized Star Wars Episode IV?

There certainly are enhancements which I don’t condemn like cleaned up picture and sound, but I really dislike Han shooting second. I didn’t like the Ronto in frame I thought it was obnoxious. the Stormtroopers riding Banthas is fine. Replacing the awful Landspeeder shot, cardboard cutout in the Throne room, fixing misaligned rotoscope on lightsabers. The recomposites of original film pieces, not the cgi, is done so well I can’t complain. Creating a multi channel digital mix. All fine, the cgi new shots are almost always worse. Always hated the new cgi X-wings over the original effects.

The praxis ring when the death star blows up hate that too.

The Jabba scene I actually like, but it should have stayed out because it and the Greedo scene have repetitious dialog, relay the same information. Slows down the pace of the film. If Lucas wanted more Stormtroopers that Han was chasing he should have filmed them, I hate the CGI added ones.

I like Mark Hamill in Last Jedi, I appreciate the performance. When I didn’t like how Luke was written, but I liked the film visually, it’s hard to really nail down what was off with the movie. I still think a good episode 9 would have contributed greatly to making the narrative of episode 8 make sense. Having Luke say he was afraid seems to totally be out of sorts with the story Rian was telling. I think Luke purposefully took himself out of the fight, and cut himself off from the force, wanted the Jedi to end. I don’t think it was fear. He saw the prequel Jedi as colossal failures and arrogant, they let the Emperor rise to power and OBI-Wan created Darth Vader.

MonkeyLizard10 said:

JadedSkywalker said:

The trailers are donation only as well as the feature or just the feature?

The trailers will go up on Youtube (but links to less compressed versions for most will be for donors, links to less compressed versions for the ROTJ trailer will public).

I should have been more specific will the Bring it On Trailer be made available, sorry for the long wait to respond.

I hated the Black Fleet Crisis trilogy where Luke builds a tower/castle and sulks, refuses to train Leias kids, pretty much jake Skywalker. And some women shows up who claims she knows his mom, who wasn’t Padme. Its a total waste of time.

in the end battle he even refuses to wield a lightsaber, not even when he is supposed to save Han will he use violence.

Its some really weird story with this new force discipline called the white current.

The one other book that doesn’t feel like Star Wars at all and is totally weird other than the Crystal Star, is that unpublished book the Heart of the Jedi.

Is it unpopular to pretty much hate everything that happened after Vision of the Future. I like Luke and Mara settling down together maybe they have one or more children based on Vision of the Future, I even like Ben. But all the grimdark stuff from the Vong, to killing Anakin Solo, making Jacen Hayden Skywalker and killing him, and killing Mara I despise.

I want a complete reboot of the EU from Vision on, don’t mind if Jacen and Tenel Ka have a kid, that is about the only thing other than Ben Skywalker I’d keep. Yes it means Cade and Legacy would be erased, or at least they’d have to go in a different direction than the Vong and return of the Sith.

Mandalorians wouldn’t be the mary sues of the universe, Jedi would eschew all prequelisms, no mention of the rules on attachment period. And Daala would never be chancellor.

I wonder if Patty makes Rogue Squadron since Wonder Woman 3 is permanently cancelled and they are recasting Wonder Woman, Gal is out.

I’d wonder if Chris Pine would come over to Star Wars from Star Trek to be in the movie.

American Graffiti someone posted a 35mm scan that is allegedly HD on archive.

Now I don’t know if this is upscaled 1973 cut or if it’s the 1978 cut or not but there is gate weave and print damage and a fair amount of grain. It’s also sitting at 16 gigs.

I think THX 1138 was there at one time as well but all I can find is a 2-gigabyte version.

I also watched the beginning of the 70mm premiere cut of The Empire Strikes back.

Also, Superman 4K theatrical UHD the original 70mm mix is seriously lacking in punch its mixed very low I had to really turn it up. Its not very high res I’m glad to have it but I bet the Atmos sounds louder. And louder is more impactful on low quality soundbars.

Grindhouse THX its no bigger than 5 gigs and only at 720P resolution, a bummer. Wish I had access to the actual 1080P file from the original scan of the IB tech print, but the screens and dialog were in English. Marrying laserdisc and blu ray footage to the 35mm scan is less than ideal. Whoever did this must have had no choice to do this to recompose the 1977 version.

Watched the Time Machine Letterbox Laserdisc. Very good color transfer, sadly the audio is remixed and it’s not the theatrical mono.

I also watched Willow THX the laser rot was bad on side 1, less bad on side 2, then very bad on side 3. I was very engaged with the plot and it was quite enjoyable, but I also feel like Willow and Madmartigan or Sorsha aren’t really all that well developed as characters, though I like them. Bavmorda is kind of a weak villain and General Kael is a pale imitation of Vader. The worst part of the movie is the Brownies, I know why they are there for the fantasy aspect, but the effects of how they are in the movie don’t work, and they are worse than Jar Jar to me. Ebersisk is cool as a monster and the music is great. Did they run out of money or something because I feel like a ton of stuff was cut out. Tir Asleen never really feels like this grand place. Its never set up, you only see if in ruin.

I also watched the first issue Japan Star Wars the rot is horrible and never improves this is the non-time compressed, the US release I also watched time compressed the rot gets better as the movie goes on.

I purchased Dragon Age Inquisition with all the DLC as a digital edition on Xbox One for 4 dollars. A pretty good deal I’d say. I’ve also been playing Mass Effect Legendary Edition on Gamepass.

Its really good forgot how much i loved that game. If only they’d remaster Dragon Age Origins or Dragon Age II. And add in the DLC.

I recently listened to the Radio Drama for Star Wars, I enjoyed myself quite a bit. I like the expanded scenes with Luke and his friends they work in a Radio play if not in a movie.

I also love the opening A long Time ago in a galaxy, far far away, there came a time of revolution when rebels united to challenge a tyrannical Empire.

I like the Episode where Vader shows up to confront Leia, she just happens to be on a planet of rebel activity.

I hate how the Jedi are portrayed in the prequels. You get from Lucas in interviews and in audio commentary they are supposed to be the good guys, and really pure because they reject attachments and are selfless.

In the movies they come off as arrogant, insular and corrupt. Which is poor writing and directing, or he thinks these are good qualities.

Ghostbusters Frozen Empire. Awful, great cast but it just never comes together. I wouldn’t recommend it.

I really wanted to love it, but it’s actually worse than the 2016 movie because it is less funny.

They totally waste the original cast, the Spengler family is the only good aspect of it.

I loved Winston suiting up and Janine being a Ghostbuster but it wasn’t enough to save this cashgrab of a film. It reeked of corporate filmmaking chasing nostalgia.

I will never say the second one is bad again after seeing this.

I feel awful for younger actors because it isn’t their fault this was a turkey, it was the fault of the director. It’s probably a serviceable script, Jason Reitman should have directed it.

Shouldn’t this be in preservations. I have no idea who might have taped this I wish I had done so but I didn’t.

Thanks for the comparisons, Harmy is doing amazing work. His process has gotten really good. But this must be painstaking and labor intensive doing shot by shot and frame by frame.

Why doesn’t Lucasfilm care as much as he does about getting it right, I will always ask the question.