JadedSkywalker

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.

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.

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.

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.

As much as i very much enjoy collecting them myself i like VHS and Laserdisc preservations i can watch on my modern tv or laptop even more.

Anyone else excited for Snow White in 4k? After the Cinderella release i am looking forward to it. Its coming in October, and is reportedly a brand new scan off the original negative.

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.

Filoni did say it was a continuation.

The trailers are donation only as well as the feature or just the feature?

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.

I wish someone with the laserdisc would capture the making of. We would have it in the best quality even if there are Japanese subs. The tv recording i have only seen clips of is awful.

Star Wars. ITV broadcast. Surprising good quality recording for its age. It has the Blast it Wedge where are you line from the mono mix.

I was surprised how obvious the garbage mattes are and this is from a recording in nov of 1982. So it doesn’t have to be HD for them to stick out like a sore thumb.

They also are releasing Prey on 4k. From 20th Century Studios. I never thought Disney would put out so much all at once.

American Graffiti is coming to 4K in November. I’m waiting for them to announce the date for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. I’m still waiting for the blu-ray release of Young Indiana Jones. I’ll buy Mando just for completionist sake, because i hope it means other things will be made available. I want Tales of the Jedi, Visions, and Clone Wars season 7. Obi-Wan Kenobi, and eventually after its run Ahsoka. Andor would be a nice one to release as well.

I want Willow 4K, and the tv series as well in Blu-Ray.

Mando should have been released before this point, they should wait a year and release a show like Paramount does for Star Trek.

To me the biggest oversight of all is the lack of an announcement about a restoration of the theatrical Star Wars trilogy, the pirates make money for years and no official DVD, 4K, or Blu. Really stupid. They could even made it plus exclusive and then release it on physical months later.

Added the Black Swan which is an out of print FOX Blu-ray with Tyrone Power. I bought the Canadian pressing which worked in a region A player because even if i thought 46 bucks was a lot for it used, the US pressing is going for a hundred and fifty dollars.

Added Bubblegum Crash OVA episode 1. Illegal Army. Japanese laserdisc. Very good cover, mint disc no OBI or insert. CLV and digital sound. I got it for 11 bucks. I wanted to see if the picture was any better than the AnimEigo release. Since only Bubblegum Crisis was remastered in HD, and the US DVD and Laserdisc of Crash has always left a lot to be desired.

There is also a Turkish VCD of Phantom Menace. I’m not sure but i think it is dubbed. no English.

That is also an official release.

There is also 2 different VCD bootlegs. The common version which i used to have and the Z release.

Clones is the film that had a SVCD and it wasn’t official.

I will say something nice about the prequels for once. I liked Maul’s reveal when the doors open and the music starts up for Duel of the Fates. In Phantom Menace.

I always liked Qui-Gon but the character fits nowhere in the Star Wars Lucas set up in the original trilogy.

Lucasfilm Animation Singapore. R.I.P.

He kept changing the number of episodes. I guess by the 1990s it was always going to be 9. But he never made the last trilogy. I mean if he hadn’t sold and Rick McCallum was the producer of the sequel trilogy things would have been very different. He probably would have directed and worked with the writers on 7, and came up with a story for 8 and 9 and had one or two other directors make them.

That is because when Lucas made Star Wars he thought Leia would end up with Luke. There was no romance with Han. But since history has been rewritten that they were always brother and sister, and it was always the Saga of Darth Vader and Star Wars was always episode IV a New Hope, people believe it.

I ordered all the movie comic adaptation trades done under Disney from Marvel TPB. All for under ten except for Last Jedi which was 22 dollars for some reason. Can’t wait to read them. Solo, Rogue One, Last Jedi and Force Awakens. I wish they’d reconsider publishing Rise of Skywalker. I also wish they would do one for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.

The Flash. Awful script. Bad cgi. Story and continuity makes no sense. Wastes Michael Keaton and Sasha Calle.

The only thing i liked about it was Michael Keaton as Batman.

Sasha’s Supergirl is one note and all she portrays is anger. But she is in the movie for such a short time i don’t blame her for that.

It was cool to see some of the cameos, but it really shouldn’t have been made. Why they didn’t just adapt the much superior Flashpoint instead. Baffling. The animated is such a better movie.

I can’t speak for 35mm scans of Temple of Doom or Last Crusade. I know there were a couple of projects But i’m not the person to ask. I assume they were archived and not released.

I wish i had gotten the HD scan of Making of Raiders before it was taken down. I wish i had gotten the laserdisc preservations. I understand why they were taken off. to not get Disney’s ire.

Here we had the Return of the Jedi screening. But it wasn’t advertised and it was like only for 4 days. It was the 4K DCP. I didn’t go because i own the damn UHD why would i pay to see what i already own projected in a cineplex? Would have gone if it was the 1997 print or the 1983. We did get Empire here as well years ago again that was the old 2011 master.

We also got two different restored DCPS of Raiders. The old one and the more recent one. The new one is the 4K. And its a different restoration than the Imax version. I assumed it was going to be the old one but someone went and saw it and said it was a brand new version. We do have a small theater that is a two screen that shows 35mm, but the AMC is all digital. They wouldn’t be able to project 35mm if they wanted to no equipment. Same for the Omni theater they went full digital so they no longer show 70mm films. My local Imax is Liemax no film equipment whatsoever, completely digital.

I found a not so good taping of Raiders off TV From Victoria BC from Archive.org And i also found captures of the trilogy from VHS just not the THX tapes. No Laserdisc preservations.

The Trilogy tapes appear to be from the period when Young Indy was on tv because the advert at the beginning of them is for that series. So they aren’t first issue but they also aren’t the THX tapes.

While i was there i also found a superior recording of Warriors of the Wind, from UK Pal tape source. And the 2001 Japan DVD of Transformers the movie with the Japanese Dub. No subtitles and no English track. I didn’t save the link for Transformers because its the same audio as the laserdisc in mono and lossy and its a rip so even worse quality. Its non restored.