The novelization is spectacular at least if a bit overrated. I’m saying that a diehard fan of Stover. After a while everyone tells you to read a tie in book, acts like it the best thing since sliced bread. Then you read it and you go Meh like Plagueis from Luceno.
The 4K had a different problem the first release had the 70mm mix although in a lossy format and the redone Atmos mix. Then the reissue had the 35mm mix and Atmos and left off the 70mm completely. Because both were in lossless.
I have the first release with the 70mm and i’m not rebuying for the 35mm mix. It’s crazy you have to own both to get the 3 mixes and neither has correct color timing. Though like Damn Fool will say Warner never gets anything right, or they seldom do.
DNR on The Fleischer blu-ray and ruined. DNR on Batman the animated series. Messed up colors on Superman, no extended cut for Superman II and III. No Supergirl or Superman Returns 4K.
Now lets see if the blu-ray collection of Lois and Clark has the proper audio mix and finished effects and isn’t just the screwed-up HD masters lazily thrown on disc.
I reread every available screenplay for Attack of the Clones. and the dialog is so bad, shockingly bad and inept. And no one talks like that. What happened to the somewhat better dialog of the original trilogy. Characters talk much more naturally. If have to read my lady one more time. The stilted insipid dialog. Even Palpatine’s speeches are enough to make you want to either vomit or fall asleep. Boring politics. If anything, the actors are to be commended the screenplay is worse than the movie.
There is no gravitas to anything on the page. Christopher Lee makes much of very little or nothing given to him. And poor Frank Oz, he had to pretty much create a performance from nothing. The script is no more than a guide.
It’s worse written than Phantom Menace.
I wonder what i would think of reread the Revenge of the Sith screenplay, it has to be better right?
The films from what I gather are completely driven by their visuals and John Williams score. The soundtrack is what gives the films any sense of drama or life. Because nothing works on the page.
This is where the prequels have to be appreciated as a silent film comes from.
Which is the source music that plays when Threepio says he is surprised to see Artoo serving drinks.
I don’t think that has ever been officially released.
Dark Empire supposedly ruining the chosen one story and Saga of Darth Vader doesn’t bother me, because neither of those things existed before the prequels.
For me the easier critique it’s out of character for Luke, he faced his trial in Return of the Jedi and did not go over to the Dark Side. Veitch, on the other hand probably thought well Luke got a taste of the Dark Side in ROTJ why he wouldn’t go over.
A lot of EU has to do certain things like the Rebellion can’t be victorious on Endor we can’t have a happy ending. We need to have decades of further conflict, Sith and Jedi wars, Vong. A second Galactic Civil war.
I do like the unaltered trilogy in that is has a beginning, a middle and an end. and yeah they celebrate with Teddy Bears. So what. It’s a simple fairy tale. And good triumphs over evil. I’m saying that and do like Dark Empire over ROTJ.
What would a post 1998 EU look like I often wonder if the prequels were wiped from the timeline and Dave’s clone wars never happened.
Bantam solution for everything was Superweapon of the week. What would have happened if Del Rey did not get the book license for everything except the Han Solo trilogy by Daley, The Lando books and the novelizations of SW, TESB and RotJ.
I’ll give them fair play. There is an article on succession wars in Hollywood. But its mere rumor mongering on Kennedy’s status and replacement. They see Carrie Beck and Filoni as the people who will rule jointly the Lucasfilm empire.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/hollywood-succession-war-1236236327/
It’s a bunch of tabloid crap and it’s not factual based its following trends and making guesses.
I do find the term protege of Filoni to be misleading he never was George’s protege, he was a cartoon showrunner.
If Lucas has a protege there are many choices, Steven Spielberg, or Ron Howard, or even Joe Johnston.
If that is the future of Star Wars a bunch of lame videogame deepfakes and cartoon Luke Skywalker you can count me out. Filoni and Favreau Mandoverse is the Marvelizing of SW and I’m not on board.
Andor showed a different side of Star Wars it’s possible to do something new.
I know people will laugh but at this point they have nothing. you might as well make Rian’s trilogy at least it will be unexpected and different. No mystery boxes or fanboy checklists.
That is definitely an IB print. They are unmistakable when you see them. It’s astounding the 1981 new crawl is on a separate reel and was not spliced into this print. Making this possible the most valuable print of Star Wars in the entire world for having the original crawl and rollup and starfield.
Brian Wilson. dead at 82. I grew up listening to the Beach Boys on my father’s radio from General Electric.
It may even have been my first exposure to pop music.
Pierce Brosnan saying Tom Hardy should be Bond. No. Too old. And he is Bane in Batman the Dark Knight Rises. And an awful Mad Max.
You can’t start your first film at age 47 when they want to lock you down with a 5 to 8 picture deal.
Ironically, I could buy him as Batman, but not Bond.
None of the actors proposed remotely have the suave demeanor or the sex appeal to be James Bond. I’m sure whomever Amazon chooses is going to go over like a barrel over Niagara Falls.
I’m waiting for the Connery 4K James Bond to arrive. Now for them to replace all of the Lowry scans. If they stop with the first 20 films, I’ll be fine with that, I don’t intend on buying Daniel Craig collection. He was never Bond.
I wish they had done Never Say Never Again as Bonus item in the Connery box but it’s not an EON film.
The same timeline of Rogue Squadron. Which is never getting made by the way and has been memory holed.
With much applause and rejoicing. I hope your skills never fail you. and I also hope your hunch on the Taiwan releases is correct.
Thank you enater. I’m very pleased with another one of your fantastic preservations. And thanks also to Jason once again.
There is a quite terrible 16mm print with burned in Norwegian titles up on Ebay at the moment.
Khan is a project I’d be interested in. They always want too much for these films. 300 for a poor print as a starting bid is a nonstarter.
Is it damaged beyond repair or can you splice and fix it.
The prequel score remasters on CD and Vinyl were good. But they were not complete they were the original albums missing much material. This is just reissue of the already released Vinyl from a few years ago, I assume with a new color scheme for collectors to buy the same release again.
I’d like complete scores on CD remastered properly from the album masters and all alternates for the Star Wars trilogy. But like the Indiana Jones scores we are likely to never see them done any justice. And its even less likely with Disney owning Lucasfilm and the death of CD as a format in terms of sales.
I just finished reading the Art of the Kelvin timeline and i’m not the biggest fan of those. I do think Ryan Church’s production painting of the USS Enterprise is not that far off from Jefferies design. Too bad they did the one in the film instead. With all those silly hot-rodded designs and ugly bussards that look like Jet engines.
Despite those criticisms the book is short and sparse but what is there does give me more appreciation for the art and costume design. For movies I sort of enjoyed the first two but they weren’t Star Trek.
But its closer to a love/hate relationship I have with few films that I hate and love equally.
Thanks Jason. Quite a nice set. I still have mine and no way to play PAL tapes. So preservations are a must.
Green Day Corvette Summer. With Mark Hamill in the music video.
Strange.
The rumor that Filoni is Kennedy’s replacement at Lucasfilm. I had a good laugh.
Dave taking over Disney Star Wars would be pure comedy.
It’s just another fake Fandom Menace rumor I looked it up nothing on Hollywood reporter.
Wow. I have this but mine is missing the certificate. I also seem to have lost the creative impulse excerpt that just covers the Star Wars trilogy. For years it was just 3 tapes i found Star Wars to Jedi somewhere else and put it back together with the others. I also still have the Styrofoam inlay.
I had better put into storage again before it gets all covered with dust.
RIP Jonathan Joss, King of the Hill actor killed by gunshot wounds and homicide. In an apparent homophobic killing.
I was surprised that Raiders was the cleanest looking transfer of the lot having been the first of the movies.
Love that Struzan cover art for Temple of Doom.
Thank you enater for being so generous with this project, and thanks to Jason for his kind assistance.
The third radio play it’s more an extension of the EU than an expansion of the film.
You have mentions of EU. Luke building his lightsaber in Ben’s hut or cave with Kenobi’s book with Adegan Crystals. Mara Jade shows up as Arica at Jabba’s Palace. And they mention Threepio flying the Falcon in Shadows of the Empire.
Mark Hamill does not reprise, nor does Billy Dee Williams. Only Tony Daniels returns as Threepio.
Though they were able to bring back the other radio players. Perry King as Han, Ann Sachs as Leia. Brock Peters as Vader. And Johh Lithgow as Yoda and they had Ed Asner as Jabba the Hutt.
Joshua Fardon does a decent job but he is no Mark Hamill. Lando is exceedingly poorly cast. Arye Gross sounds nothing like Billy Dee.
The Han Solo 2016 comic is decent.
I also read the Imperial Cadet comic. Good art. Story not recommended.