JadedSkywalker

I have it, it was delayed so many times and I paid a hundred bucks for it. I wanted the Thrawn adaptation and Dark Empire in one hardback. It’s a no brainer. Can’t comment on the quality of the reprint yet my copy arrived in sealed condition and I put it on my bookshelf. I’m worried I will damage it, I might buy the digital version just so I won’t handle it.

It’s very heavy the delivery driver was like what’s in this box,lol.

Anakin Starkiller said:

“Love won’t save you. Only my new powers can do that.” is the single worst line in all of Star Wars, bar none.

Love won’t save you Padme, I forgot about that line. I’m dying laughing that is so bad.

I have the lid release and just found out about the sliding release from a youtube video. Crazy that there were variant packaging of the same letterbox tapes.

They actually don’t look that bad on an old crt, but they do look terrible on any HD or 16:9 set made in the last couple decades. I actually sort of thought ROTJ was quite acceptable in PAL upscaled on my Samsung 4K set. for DVD I mean and nothing else the format has its limitations. DVD is overly compressed on picture and audio, it was a format of convenience.

nightstalkerpoet said:

ShortJedi5 said:

I really would love to see the Japanese Laserdisc preservation of the From Star Wars to Jedi The Making of a Saga documentary that was included in the 1995 Japanese Star Wars Trilogy Collector’s Set Laserdisc set.

Would you be interested in From Star Wars to Jedi from the French Pyramid laserdisc release? Althor did capture and release that.

Yes, I would actually like that or any of the Pyramid captures, without having to download a torrent that is over a hundred gigs in size as the laserdisc archive is.

I want to know more on that Mangold project, I will say I’m curious, but I need to see a plot summary and trailer. Is it pointless to have Jedi and Sith earlier in the timeline after Acolyte? You have Jedi and Sith all over the place and in everything it waters the brand down, no? I mean in terms of live action the EU and cartoons can do it all the time, but with 1-6 it was a special limited case of telling a story revolving around only certain characters. It was a part of the plot but it wasn’t the thing, the story was about the Skywalker family. It’s a very superficial reading of Star Wars which is what you expect when a corporation buys something and makes content.

Then aren’t interested in story they are interested in cycles and quotas and the only agenda they have is corporate.

The whole bad guys only use red goes against Leia wielding a red lightsaber and even Luke having a shoto short blade that was also red. In the Expanded Universe of course not in Disney’s rebooted Star Wars.

Also the original Marvel comic had Luke and Ben with Red lightsabers on the cover were they Sith.

He should match the descriptions of Obi-Wan in the original trilogy, it still irritates me that whole he was a good friend and the best starpilot, and a great warrior when we get none of that in the prequel. We get none of his zeal for going on damn fool idealistic crusades with Kenobi, or his desire to use power to bring about order in a chaotic universe. We never get to see a slow seduction to evil, a betrayal of the Jedi, or even him hunting down and destroying the Jedi Knights.

I have this entire alternate trilogy I imagined as a kid that doesn’t exist.

He might even have been boastful and arrogant like Jorus from the expanded universe before he became Vader, headstrong. I get the feeling he would have always set his mind on something and believed he was right even if he went against the grain like Qui-Gon. Like joining the wars when Owen was against it. But what were the Clone Wars about, certainly not as shown in Attack of the Clones. Was it supposed to be a war against cloners and Mandos.

He obviously started out as Ben’s apprentice and wasn’t a respected General to later in the wars. When did he become the face of the war and the person who the republic counted on to win, their ace. Somewhere along the way he would have befriended maybe even helped Palpatine, I wouldn’t even be against the idea of him saving him from a kidnapping plot just different from Revenge of the Sith. When did Palpatine become like a spiritual and political adviser to him, when did he start to distrust Kenobi and the Jedi.

The featurette on the laserdisc is very poor and doesn’t explain the changes well at all. As far as making of or behind the scenes material goes its poor as hell. I think Anatomy of a Dewback is better. I don’t have the Cinefex or American cinematographer special edition material, or ILM Into the Digital realm.

An in depth look at the Special Edition and the why probably never will happen, as it was rushed and sloppily done to r&d the prequel. And somehow George got Fox to pay for it with the excuse of the 20th Anniversary of Star Wars.

On the featurette McCallum says if we don’t do this, we will never have the film to release again, but isn’t that what happened with the original being lost. They didn’t restore the movie its left in an unrestored state even now. The Special Edition isn’t the film.

I preordered the Hardcover reprint in Omnibus for the Zahn comic trilogy adaptation and the Dark Empire trilogy in one volume. Its monstrous in size and was over a hundred dollars. But it’s been delayed so many damn times I don’t mind paying 140 after shipping and tax. 1312 pages. These are my all-time favorite series from Dark Horse except for Splinter of the Mind’s Eye or Shadows of the Empire. Can’t wait to update this with a review. It’s out July 3rd.

Astroboi2 said:

JadedSkywalker said:

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.

I definitely saw this video. I tried to leave a polite comment on it to explain why he shouldn’t be promoting or endorsing the selling of fan restorations (and to point out the difference between the Despecialized and 4KXX versions). It was instantly deleted by the user… so he obviously knows what he’s doing is wrong.

Yeah he admits in the video to buying an illegal advance 4K bootleg which is perfect quality for a Godzilla Minus One. The store linked is literally pre-selling a bootleg of the Acolyte. I had hoped he was just a fan taken in by an unscrupulous person, but they clearly don’t care.

And to make matters worse that bootlegger I mentioned before from Europe who was kicked off of Ebay is back again under a new name selling all 3 4K projects on blu.

This other store, which is way worse is US based.

I wish something could be done to stop this piracy it hurts our community.

I’d message Williarob but he is probably aware of it.

A dark universe is a terrible idea that Tom Cruise Mummy from Kurtzman is literally one of the very worst films I have ever seen. I only liked the actress in that Sofia Boutella. The Brendan Fraser Indiana Jones Clones were better, in that I mean film 1 and 2 and but no they weren’t horror or gothic. Some of the cgi hasn’t aged well but I liked Rachel Weisz.

A problem I have with the prequel is the villains are more compelling and interesting than the heroes. There is no clear protagonist, despite us constantly being told it’s supposed to be Anakin. This was a mistake, the Jedi are written as aloof and without emotion and Anakin is written as the opposite as very open with them and un-jedi like outbursts, sort of Emo. The dialog is stilted and stiff and nobody talks naturally. Everyone is directed in a listless manner and is completely asleep delivering their lines except Ian in Episode III, in Episode II even he was boring in his delivery.

I really wish Lucas hadn’t filmed them against green screen as separate elements you need chemistry between actors and for them to be comfortable in what they are doing.

Why were the actors in the original able to convincingly act to puppets and bluescreen, why was the dialog in most places much more natural. What happened. Lucas can’t have slipped that much in 16 years between Return of the Jedi and Phantom Menace. Some essential thing was missing and I can’t quite quantify what.

I get that part about Sidious being behind both sides of the conflict so he could declare himself absolute ruler. Why did Jar Jar give him emergency powers again? Also, Padme was maneuvered into making him Chancellor in the first place. When Bail Antilles probably would have won the election. Since Palpatine is the one who stirred up lies that Valorum was corrupt, but you can’t argue that he wasn’t ineffective as a chancellor. He was a friend to the JEDI, I guess that made it doubly useful to ruin him.

I assume Mas Amedda was working for him the whole time as well reporting on Valorum to Sidious.

Also, Padme isn’t weak minded, so she was manipulated without use of the force, but Jar Jar is weak minded so who knows.

I actually like Matt Lanter Anakin more than Hayden, but I appreciate what Hayden did on the Disney shows.

I do like the Republic Comics those were before Filoni Wars. I also much prefer Ventress in the EU over Filoni, and I like the Micro Series and the Obsession comic. I liked the Battle of Jabiim and how it tied into Luke’s story later in the other comics. I like the character of Asharad Hett who went on to become Darth Drayt, I liked the Aurra Sing books. Those are all non canon to Disney Star Wars.

You want an unpopular opinion I hated Dark Disciple and how it comes off like a YA romance novel. I actually like Son of Dathmomir even if most of the retcons Filoni made to Maul’s backstory i dislike.

I may have disliked the Legacy books but I liked the Legacy comics the first one with Cade, though Legacy II was kind of meh, though a Solo without force powers has some merit.

I think Lucas really wanted to push the limits of cgi and digital cinema. I’m still of the opinion II and III should have been shot on film and used more reals sets and practical effects and locations than he did. I know there was a mix of them but it’s not clear when you watch the movies, they all look video gamey for some reason. Especially in Episode II and on Geonosis it’s almost like an animated movie so much cgi. The way the Clone troopers are rendered, the Walkers, the enemy robots nothing feels real. AT least the scenes change at a rapid pace, so you don’t linger on the renders too long to lose willful sense of disbelief completely, but there is zero verisimilitude or any used universe like the OT.

Other than Revenge what is Palpatine’s endgame, Ian is brilliant but the story makes no sense if you bother to ask questions. What was the trade federation boycott of Naboo about, Tariffs? What in the force does Sidious need taxes for. Why does he want to ruin the Naboo. And that is just in the first episode. In II he makes the Jedi the Generals of his army to then in III just murder them all because he sets Anakin on a path to betray them.

I’m not having an existential crisis, but I was drawn into the middle of this, and I didn’t want to be, how can I make that clear? Should I take it to private messages I guess I should and not derail thread further.

To be clear Luke is the heart of Star Wars for me, but that ship sailed with the prequel when Hayden Skywalker was made the heart of Star Wars. I’ll forever cherish Mark Hamill and the OT, but it’s like those Star Trek fans hoping Berman Trek is coming back at some point you have to realize things.

I hope the screenplay is good and the director did say she wanted to include something for long-term fans I wonder what that would be, a secret Mark Hamill cameo? If that was happening, I figured it would be in Dave’s movie.

The director said Rey is the heart of Star Wars and all the fandom menace are losing their darn minds. Despite the fact that Luke passed the lightsaber in the sequel trilogy, the whole point of making those movies was Luke passing the torch so to speak. The Disney trilogy isn’t getting retconned and Luke’s story purpose has been given to Rey, to those fans who object to this hoping for a retcon or a Luke academy series walk away Star Wars died ten years ago for you.

I’m not gatekeeping I’m just pointing out a simple fact that those type of news channels if you can even call them that are totally obtuse about.

I not super excited for this film to be honest but I want to keep an open mind and heart. I hope the trailer when it arrives is good and maybe even my nieces might like it.

I’m not at all interested in the politics of how things are made or what have you I just want to enjoy Star Wars. I have to avoid those channels in my feed the algorithm promotes.

Disney Music Emporium has the complete set of scores on CD for 150 and on vinyl for 300 for all 5 films. I can’t afford either because they made them for rich people and limited.

Cheers to those who can afford to pay such high prices for a John Williams set, I’m just going to import Crystal Skull on Vinyl I have the CD for Raiders and Last Crusade.

I would like to find the first issue VHS for Raiders, and I have been on the hunt for Crystal Skull on VHS for a while, it’s a rare Korean tape.

Get the mods involved I have no way to prove who and who isn’t a sock I have to use best judgment and treat people equally.

As to Thrawn being a good guy or it hinted that he was i never liked that aspect of the Duology or the other later Thrawn books which I need to reread Outbound Flight and Survivor’s Quest.

The idea that the Empire were the good guys because they kept order to prevent an alien Invasion from outside the galaxy because Democracy is messy, totally hate that.

Return of the Jedi 70mm, wow the amount of vinegar syndrome at the start of this scan,lol. But the rest even with some fading was very enjoyable.

I also watched the technidisc pressing of Star Wars someone preserved, the amount of aliasing is ridiculous just on the crawl alone. But I guess it has nice but faded color.

The Fantasia 35mm was also fantastic watched that as well.
I also watched Puggo’s Swedish Star Wars.

I also watched Superman again, the transfer is quite soft for a 4K I guess that is faithful to Unworth’s cinematography, which to my eye looks almost 2k. It’s not very sharp.

I was watching a video asking who would win in a rematch Yoda or Palpatine and it reminded me of how I never wanted either of them to ever have a lightsaber. Shouldn’t they be like super powerful wizards who don’t need anything but their mind to be deadly or just a motion of their hand to move an object, or to shoot lightning.

Thought better of my response and I’ve deleted it because it was of a political nature and I don’t want the mods to get pissed at me.

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.