I’d love to see the cut with them escaping with the plans on the beach and the Imperial Walkers. The scene where Vader was supposed to show up in the battle.
Or you could just watch the Blu-ray from the new master. If your region includes it with the 4K.
OT is fundamental, prequel is supplemental and sequel is live action Expanded Universe.
The only one in my mind that is essential is the OT. I don’t love the sequel but force awakens if goofy fun in places, and i like aspects and not the whole of the last jedi. Rise of Skywalker is an acquired taste and i’ve seen it a few times on cable tv, i mean its watchable. Its a better experience with the novelization and Shadow of the Sith, but supplemental material shouldn’t be necessary.
I’m rating them as whole trilogies as stand alone films Empire would always come out on top. And Last Jedi is easily the best of the sequel movies. The prequel is tough i have real nostalgia and love for the good parts on Phantom Menace and its being the closest to Return of the Jedi in quality. I’d have to pick that as my favorite but Sith is always going to be the top rated just for the last third of the film. Attack of the Clones was the worst in the Saga until Rise of Skywalker. I’d personally probably still rate it dead last.
I prefer the animated shows.
Not gonna rate the others until i rewatch or see them all which probably will be never with how Disney keeps refusing physical releases of their content, i mean i’m only getting to see Mando finally in good quality because they had the sense to release the first 2 seasons in time for Christmas.
People holding out for the originals are gonna be disappointed they haven’t been touched since the laserdisc master in 1992. The restoration was the 1997 edit. No restored OT exists.
The best you can hope for is team blu. I can’t fathom the mind of George Lucas on this nor will i try to psychoanalyze it, its just so bizarre.
Added Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning part 1 digital.
Added Neon Genesis Evangelion rebuild 3.0+1.11 Thrice Upon A Time Gkids Blu-ray
I also added the last of the SAO sets because Righstuf is dead and closed.
Added Maoyu Archenemy and Hero Sentai blu ray. English Subs only no Dub. Its enjoyable but it never really develops, the mild fanservice and harem element is standard and overdone. Its like a not as good Spice and Wolf. With politics and economics. The backgrounds and animation are quite good for a show that came out a decade ago.
I saw live action Aladdin on tv, which i had been avoiding seeing for years because of all the negative reviews, and i was surprised how much i enjoyed it. So while i didn’t like Beauty and the Beast, i did enjoy Cinderella and Aladdin. And i haven’t seen any of the others.
Added Japanese Definitive Collection with making of trilogy laserdisc set. This is the most expensive Star Wars set i’ve ever purchased. At a whopping 200 dollars US. Real value is closer to 160 or so and i had to pay for shipping and tax so it came to 225. It is a set i’ve wanted for close to twenty years. Had a milestone Birthday and so that was the gift i bought myself with the money my father sent me, which was a surprise since the last 3 years before that he gave me nothing.
I doubt they ever do a 4K remaster. They are going to continue to repress the same blu-ray. Deep Space Nine and Voyager are never gonna happen. DVD only.
The only 4K show is going to be Strange New Worlds.
I mean they are doing a second edition of Picard to fix a visual effects shot that made it to print that wasn’t the correct one but that is for Picard season 3 Blu-Ray.
Rightstuf is closing and being absorbed by Crunchyroll. This is the death of cheap anime and manga. R.I.P.
I wonder if someone ever preserved the DTS tracks for the Star Trek films.
Added Lowry Indiana Jones Full Screen DVD. It is only the trilogy and a bonus disc.
I know i have the widescreen somewhere but i haven’t been able to find it. I just don’t feel like digging out 3 different closets of boxes to find it.
I also have added Forbidden Planet. A somewhat weird less common earlier release in Letterbox from Japan on Laserdisc. In CAV format. I don’t even know if it has digital audio or not.
He seems to be very human. He gets afraid and angry. He even loves Artoo, in his own way.
Lucas wrote him that way. Though i don’t know if Tony feels the same way about Artoo. He seems to have been genuinely annoyed. Actor Vs character, the actor and the character aren’t the same.
I still like Star Wars … from a certain point of view.
Same. My response is another galaxy, another time. To paraphrase the opening of the Star Wars novelization.
I have no idea either there are a lot of works up there that aren’t supposed to be there. I’m not talking about long out of print or dead media that may still be in copyright, but things like the new Indiana Jones movie.
I’d be excited if they announced a director and it had a chance of getting made. Which is zero until the strike is over. Which is also true of the Rey movie, and Dawn of the Jedi all effectively dead and shelved or put off long down the line projects.
I wonder if Alden returns as Han Solo, i would pretty much guess no. But who knows.
I refuse to subscribe. But i will support physical releases. I will despite my limited income support the Blu-Ray release of Mando season 1 and 2. Will get them for Christmas. Even if the price is too high, the 4k is separate and not bundled in and there is no digital copy. But by their own decisions they are driving piracy. 50 dollars a season is insane. Even discounted to 40 its too much. Steelbook or not.
Knowing Star Wars fans though it will probably sell out. The pre sales are encouraging for Disney.
The colors on the 1997 prints are great. Just wish they hadn’t changed so much. The clean up work was welcome. Original non reissue prints of the original trilogy are really bad. My own experience is that Empire was the worst of the lot. I used to collect film. Like trailers and super 8 and stuff like that. I came across some Empire reels, awful. Almost no color left. Someone else bought them.
Great showrunner for the animated shows. His successes are writ large, only failure was Resistance. Which was getting interesting when it was cancelled.
Not sold on him being a film or live action director, and i think people wanting him to have Kathy Kennedy’s job is insane.
Midi-chlorian microverse trilogy. How the fuck anyone could think that’d ever have been good, I fail to understand.
Yes, it seems so strange. As well as him going to make Leia be “The Chosen One”, and it no longer be Anakin. I guess that would be quite divisive for Prequel fans, and fans on Anakin.
I do have a weird curiosity to learn more of how George thought he was going to pull those ideas off, although I am glad we will never see them.
I would have been interested in his ark for Luke only. But it is clear to me he wanted to make a sequel to the Star Wars prequels which Disney didn’t want to do. The biggest issues i have with what we know, Darth Maul as the new Sidious i don’t like it and i don’t find him a sufficient threat for Luke or the New Republic. I don’t like having Talon in the wrong timeline or her inclusion at all. Maul should have died in Phantom Menace. While i like what Clone Wars and Rebels did with him, its almost a different character. George also wanted Boba to survive the Sarlacc and ultimately Disney resurrected him. I’m against this as well except for in the Expanded Universe. Characters who die should stay dead.
I think Joe Johnston is an underrated director.
Wish he had directed more movies.
The Making of Star Trek II the Wrath of Khan. When i unboxed it and unwrapped it i noticed how thin the book was and was disappointed. I was hoping for a JW Rinzler size making of book, oh well.
I haven’t finished it yet apparently they did new research using Meyer’s papers and had access to deleted scenes the original making of book didn’t. They make remarks on them.
Added The Flash Icon Edition Blu-Ray/4K/digital code combo.
Worst packaging ever. They way it holds the discs in a sleeve on each side leads to scratches. I carefully took the discs out, and i’m not storing them in that case.
I definitely prefer the look of the 1997 35mm prints, as we’ve seen with 4K97_V. The more consistent color timing (which was still respectful to the source material) was an improvement. It sucks that ESB came out in one of the worst years for film stock, when Eastmancolor was your only mainstream option with minimal alternatives (Fujicolor and Agfacolor, IIRC).
I agree on all these points. Pre LPP Eastman prints are terrible. At least with Star Wars you got a LPP reissue and there were IP tech prints made in 77. Maybe there is a reissue print of Empire that just hasn’t surfaced in LPP. But since Technicolor was dead there was no Empire Strikes Back print.
And you would think fading isn’t possible after LPP was introduced but my 70mm film cels for ROTJ say the opposite. At least Team Blu had a show print. As for Empire the 16mm dupe retained its color.
The only stable color 35mm print to show in a theater is the 1997 print.
Picard season 3 was like a fanfiction of someone who liked the TOS movies and wanted to retcon things he didn’t like about the TNG movies. Some of the nostalgia makes no sense. The Enterprise E should have been in it.
They retcon perceived wrongs from the TNG movies but keep bad things from Picard season 1 and 2 intact. When they should have retconned those. The worst thing about Picard is not fixed. Everyone knows it but because there might be someone who hasn’t seen these i won’t spoil it.
Its basically the Nemesis sequel movie extended to a mini series. It might have been better as a slightly longer than 2 hour movie.