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Price is insane for their condition, and Star Wars clearly has vinegar syndrome look at the warping.

Star Trek III Pan and Scan. With OBI. First Issue 1985. It does have digital audio unlike the first issue TMP theatrical and Star Trek II.

My GOUT Star Wars arrived. so, its official, only Return of the Jedi is superior on PAL. Star Wars transfer is not that good, but Empire was the worst of all 3.

Despite the blown out overly bright colors and crushed blacks and messed up audio the corresponding 2004 DVD remaster looks a whole lot better than the definitive edition transfer of all 3 films. The PAL DVD for those is quite good.

Yep Fake DTS 5.1 mix too because they didn’t have the CDS to work from or a way to extract the audio.

They are factory pressed bootlegs, but the cover art printed on the discs does look printed nothing like a real disc would, and the misspellings and obviously computer printed cover tells you all you need to know.

The only official Asian copies were on VCD prior to 2004 that weren’t on VHS or laserdisc.

I have the official VCD.

Most of these 5 Star Collection shipped in nothing but a sleeve or envelope with the cover, not in a DVD case that tells you all you need to know.

I’d love to have the Japanese tapes captured. A seller was selling the Japanese Dub of Trigon 1 but it was 100 dollars US. It’s just one episode of Droids. Like the size of one anime OVA short 24 minutes?

Kiki’s Delivery Service. The encoding on the Japanese Blu-Ray is fantastic no DNR. My only complaint would be its the redone dub. Not the original from the first release DVD or US Laserdisc. English Dub is also very compressed 192 KBPS.

Both were cinematic magic in terms of visuals, both suffered in their plotting and direction.

I appreciate the sequel for using practical sets, shooting on film. The art design, the cinematography and I think the acting is better. No not somehow Palpatine returned, or they fly now.

I also think the sequel has more likable people, no one in the prequel except for Qui-Gon was likable. Maybe Padme and young Ani in Phantom Menace.

So yes, I do put Rey, Finn, Poe ahead of Hayden Anakin in likability. And i would take Jake Skywalker everyday of the week over Hayden Vader.

I’d argue Rian is an auteur in that he made the story he wanted to see and didn’t care that fans hated it, and he went in without a fan approved checklist.

The same way George said he didn’t care about the fans, or what 20th Century Fox wanted, and made his prequel his way.

George’s argument was the fans aren’t making the movie but they feel like they can tell you what to do and feel entitled.

They tell different stories. The story in Kenobi is good, Reva is too over the top though.

The prequel is a good story severely ruined in execution with childish and cartoon things. The downfall of Anakin and the Republic should be an epic. instead, it is fun to remember now for memes. Like Kenobi’s Hello there.

And Unlimited powerrrrr! and shooting Windu force lighting out a window.

First Dave Prowse died, and now James Earl Jones. It is truly the end of an era. For me Darth Vader is gone.

All things do end, but I feel sad anyway.

The 1997 German 35mm Prints show just how good the 1997 looked in cinemas it was incredible.

Every new release has been worse than the last.

1997 Special Edition trilogy had Greedo shoot first, and Wingreen as Boba Fett voice and original Emperor scene. And Seb Shaw as Anakin as a Force Ghost.

It was far more acceptable to me than the version that has Hayden, Tem as Fett, and the awful Revenge of the Sith Emperor in Empire Strikes Back. But of course, you still have alert my star destroyer instead of bring my shuttle.

Then in 2011 Lucas had to add awful Vader yelling noooo!, R2-D2 behind rocks, the ridiculous cgi door at Jabba’s, and blinking Ewoks. The new Krayt Dragon yell and so many other pointless changes. I also missed the other dumb 2004 ones like Jar Jar saying Weesa Free and a Dug in Jabba’s palace. Adding the Jedi temple is relatively minor and coruscant was added already in 1997.

Added 4 different Dirty Pair tv episodes laserdiscs with OBI and shrinkwrap. And Wrath of Khan Pan and Scan with OBI analog first release. The Khan disc was 8 bucks. They others were 29 each.

Had to reorder my Kiki’s Delivery Service Blu-Ray this time I bought a used copy in the US off of Ebay since Sf Express lost my sealed one from Japan and I had to haggle with Amazon over it.

Once they delivered an item with no tracking and it arrived brilliantly intact but i’m never using them again, the point of saving 25 dollars by not using Fedex isn’t worth it. Who is to say Amazon won’t use them in any case free shipping or no, not buying any more import blu’s from them. CDJapan or Yesasia or some other site from here on out if at all.

The movie edit of part one has just been added its just combining the other videos into one.

Well for starters no theatrical 1973 cut with mono mix, no 1978 theatrical cut in stereo. Only the 1998 cut with a new 5.1 mix and cgi sunset. DNR to hell and back.

Warners was gauging interest in THX for 4K, I think the George Lucas director’s cut was done in 2k probably if not 1080P how could they do that in 4K?

I want Willow, there is already a stunning release on Disney plus in 4K I just want a physical disc copy. Don’t want Lucas to get his hands on it.

I’m fine with Luke’s story being told in comics and novels but the quality has to be good. Who am I kidding, its Disney I should be happy if its mid as the kids say.

They did in between Empire and Return of the Jedi with Disney Marvel Star Wars comics, and they are doing post Return of the Jedi with Luke in the Jakku war trilogy which starts in Oct. No, they aren’t live action, but they are allegedly canon to Disney’s Star Wars continuity.

Doesn’t Ben come back to life in Revenge of the Jedi proving what he said in Star Wars, shall strike me down I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine. He returns from the netherworld of the force and joins forces with Luke and Vader to defeat the Emperor. I vaguely remember something about Vader casting himself and Palpatine into a lake of fire sacrificing himself.

The 1982 Eastman Print looks rough. I wonder if any LPP prints exist for this film.

There is also a Star Trek VI 16mm up for sale in Germany it has good color but the pictures don’t tell anything about whether its scope or flat, a dupe or an actual original print. Also, around hundreds of EUROS already.

Not worried about James Cameron movies. They are so popular; the 35mm fan scans are numerous for them.

I’m never going to get a good copy of American Graffiti or THX 1138 that bothers me far more.

A couple of projects have come and gone like a puff of smoke. They aren’t Star Wars, their lack of popularity means they are never getting scanned.

Lucasfilm is too quick to cancel things. I thought the Acolyte was interesting in concept but poorly executed.

Would I have watched a second season probably not, but why cancel it for the fans that did enjoy it.

I feel like Favreau and Filoni projects will get made and they might cancel everything else, except for what has already been made.

Remains to be seen if the Rey movie and Dawn of the Jedi are going to still happen.

2006 Pal UK Bonus Disc for The Empire Strikes Back, the transfer is horrible. Just watched the beginning so far I hope it improves. The freakin roll up looked like a bootleg the quality was so bad.

What do I know, I thought Rogue One was a bad idea and it lead to Andor. And it made money, despite the fact the roll up to Star Wars is the only background info you need for Star Wars. You never needed to see the plans be stolen, its completely unnecessary Star Wars prequel style exposition, backstory that was never intended to be a movie.

If I was an exec, I would have pulled the plug on Solo and Rogue One and solely focused on the sequel trilogy, and I would have given Mark Hamill an extensive role not a cameo.

Hard disagree on Solo miscast leads and a leaden script no matter who the director was it was in trouble, especially considering the actor is not Harrison and they killed him like he was nothing in Force Awakens, way too late to make a prequel for a dead Han. Might as well have tried to sell dead Han toys.

As to moving the timeline from 3 to 2 years between films I do somewhat agree, but I also agree throwing out Lucas outline and then having no plan was a problem as well.

Didn’t Leia meet a Mando named Fenn Shysa in Marvel?

Haruhi Suzumiya complete series Essentials collection. It was only 22 dollars an absolute steal. Watched the first two episodes so far, and man I can’t believe this show came out in 2006. The nostalgia.

nobodybutjarjar42 said:

tbh what i want is a 4k remaster of THX 1138 in the criterion collection

Which cut? if its anything like the situation with American Graffiti Lucas is going to remove all the grain that was there in the techniscope negative because he hates film now. Also the director’s cut may have been done at 1080P or 2k, no one seems to know.