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#1554969
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Your DVD Collection
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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.

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#1554642
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<strong>Lando</strong> (live action series) - a general discussion thread
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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.

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#1554278
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<strong>Disney+</strong> streaming platform : <strong>Star Wars content</strong> &amp; various other info
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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.

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#1554276
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Highest quality version of 1997 Special Editions? Is there a DVD release?
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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.

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#1554266
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What changes would you make to the Sequels?
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Emre16O1 said:

Superweapon VII said:

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.

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#1554261
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What are you reading?
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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.

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#1552892
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Anyone else think Empire Strikes Back's Special Edition is actually better than the Theatrical Cut?
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BedeHistory731 said:

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.

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#1552577
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All Things Star Trek
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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.

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#1552576
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Unpopular Opinion Thread
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Luke does the same thing Ben did in Star Wars in The Last Jedi to allow the rebels to Escape. The astral projection/fake ligtsaber duel was so Leia and the alliance wouldn’t die. Which is undone in the next film when she dies anyway. I understand it because of the absence of Carrie Fisher, but Leia lying down and willing herself to die like Yoda was horrible. I mean she dies so Ben Solo will be saved and he dies anyway. He doesn’t become a force ghost. The only Skywalker left is adopted.

I agree on Bespin being the best Duel though. ROTJ i like the personal sense of the duel and the chorus, but somehow Vader forgot how to fight. I also hated how the story of Vader tempting Luke to join him from Empire was just dropped.

And Vader instead of having agency is just a puppet for Palpatine again. Like a lapdog. He blocks Luke’s swing, he should just have let him kill the Emperor and join him on the dark side.

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#1552487
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&quot;The series won't end until 2007&quot;
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It was longer than that though. He also spent the years developing Star Wars underworld, working on Clone Wars. He started writing Phantom Menace in Nov 1st 1994, and sold to Disney in Oct 30th 2012.

Not to mention he made a 4th Indiana Jones film, and also Red Tails and Strange Magic.

From what we’ve been told Lucas was working on the Star Wars sequel treatments before he sold Lucasfilm. He hired writers to develop them into full screenplays. Obvious that never happened due to some decision made by Kathy Kennedy or Iger.

I really don’t blame him for selling though 3 decades doing Star Wars without a break would be a bit much if the sequels took ten years.

Remember he also had plans to make a 5th Indiana Jones and to do a Willow sequel, and a bunch of personal experimental films and never did them. Probably due to him being one person and time and not for lack of interest.

He works so slow look how long it took to get the prequel trilogy and Crystal Skull made. We were lucky with the output he gave us because he set himself an unachievable impossible goal.

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#1552453
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Different changes of the original trilogy even existed before the special editions were created
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I don’t like Worley’s videos. He doesn’t want the original to be available. His prequel video about how they reference other films visually is even more insipid. I thought he would make some good points to disprove Red Letter media but he didn’t. Even the troll titles tell you to not watch them.

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#1552262
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Your DVD Collection
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Added Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny Digital + making of bonus.

Added Star Trek Picard seasons 1-3 blu-ray set standard edition. I only wanted 3 but the regular set and steelbook are sold out and on backorder. I wanted release day delivery.

Added Korean Temple of Doom Laserdisc. This is ultra rare and was very expensive. But i had to have it since i recently purchased the Hong Kong Laserdiscs for Temple and Last Crusade. It is Pan and Scan CLV but mint not even smidge of visible rot no damage to the cover, burned in subs i think. It will take like a month to get here i hope it doesn’t arrive broken or gets lost in the mail.

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#1552061
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JURASSIC PARK 35mm 4K scan + 35mm 4k scans of many trailers Mega Project including the rare Spiderman Twin Towers Teaser, Blade Runner, Pretty In Pink and numerous, some rare, others, see post (WIP - 6.5K scans of JP and trailers complete. Scan data now in hand! Funding of the project is a little past half-way now. Contributor only project for feature. I can't publicly distribute it. Small preservation project.)
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The trailers are donation only as well as the feature or just the feature?

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#1552060
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Last movie seen
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I sat down and watched the home video release on Digital of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. With the making of. The opening is exciting but it is the only part of the movie like the first 3. Except for one scene i changed my mind on the cgi it is mostly well done. I haven’t changed my mind about it being too digital or modern.

I have also changed my mind a bit on the score it is effective if not as rousing as the original trilogy.

The negatives isn’t that it is too long, it is that it is so boring. The maguffin is weak. All the complaints of Phoebe Waller Bridge aren’t warranted either, she is like the only thing in the movie with some spunk and life. The movie being boycotted over culture wars before a single frame was shot is insane.

I think all involved did a good job with all the difficulties of the production. Yes even Kathy Kennedy, she deserves some credit. Mangold had a difficult task on this movie. I salute the effort even if it is flawed.