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Added Whisper of the Heart Studio Ghibli Steelbook Gkids. Blu-Ray

I read on variety they cancelled Rogue Squadron again, but they are saying shelved. Yeah sure shelved. I’m sure it will happen just like those Rian Johnson movies. That Kevin Feige thing is also cancelled. Shelved,lol. Who are they kidding. They are never happening.

I’d love to see this as a movie. It is a real shame the Disney/Lucas executives thought it was a risk and brought in JJ for the sure thing, a safe on the rails final chapter. Now i know a lot of people worked hard on that movie so i’ll hold my tongue.

1. Empire 1980
2. Star Wars 77
3. Jedi 83
4. Phantom Menace theatrical 99
5. Last Jedi
6. Sith
7. Force Awakens
8. Clones
9. Rise of Skywalker

Honorable mention Solo and Rogue one.

And yet the 1997 prints had very good color, despite the awful new inserts and cgi. Why didn’t they just put those on Blu-Ray/4K. With the originals of course.

I like the Japanese Cover Art for New Jedi order but not the novels themselves.

Yeah that is the one. But it doesn’t have from Star Wars to Jedi which is in the Collectors CLV set instead.

The Japanese Commentary on the Analog channel?

The second release is the one to get if you want the making of trilogy, but it also goes for a lot more whenever it shows up in auctions or for sale.

i’m actually getting the making of separate. I’ve got making of Empire without OBI. Good squid has making of ROTJ for 30 bucks, i’ll just need making of Star Wars.

I hate the reboot of the EU, no not the Disney one but i do hate that. I hate The New Jedi order. I hate how grimdark it is, i hate how it tries to make Star Wars science fiction instead of space fantasy/adventure. They could have gone in any direction after the Zahn duology and the move from Bantam to Del Rey, but instead we got garbage.

Not pan and scan but HBO or Cinemax may have shown the 2004 cut in HD in 16:9. I saw ROTJ on TNT once it was crap, zoomed in. I was like why? I do remember the picture being better and sharper than the 2011 blu.

The Star Trek TNG films in 4K will have the same 7.1 audio as the 2009 Blu-Ray discs.

Not sure how original that is or not. Once again there is no Stereo 2.0 Dolby or DTS mix.

But i have my 2 Disc DVD releases of the TNG films and my Laserdiscs of Generations, First Contact, and Insurrection for the original audio. Its not HD but what can you do.

Added Nausicaa Steelbook now that it is back in stock, no deal retail thanks Amazon. Also Outlaw Star Blu-Ray from funimation.

I like The Thrawn trilogy and Duology the most, the rest of his EU stuff is okay if you forget the prequelisms. The Disney stuff is solid writing but boring as hell without a Luke Skywalker, or Mara Jade.

The original arc of the trilogy and duology are almost perfect. Except for the invaders hinted at beyond the galaxies that turned out to be the Vong. Hated Thrawn and Palpatine being turned into the good guys. Hated Mara saying she didn’t believe the emperor reborn was Palpatine, that was Zahn taking a shot of Veitch.

Don’t care for in the trilogy how it is described Palpatine used the force to give strength to the Imperial Navy and after his death how they were routed. Too lord of the rings and Sauron.

The VHS Faces Cassettes, yeah all i could afford was the pan and scan not the more ritzy widescreen boxed set. And i had the earlier non THX Star Wars set, which i preferred to watch Star Wars on because the 1995 release had the smashing glass in the detention block which i never liked. The one i watched the most on tv and on tape was the 85 sound mix.

I didn’t get a laserdisc player or the definitive collection til around 2005. About ten years too late for it to mean anything but by that time they were cheap enough. Then i got some of the fan made DVDs and the rest is history. All the way up to the release of the GOUT DVD’s and 4K77 hitting the net. Buying the awful Disney 2020 4K Special Edition watching it once and putting it on the shelf.

He had a lot more legends stories planned as well. More Thrawn, Mara and Talon Karrde. But of course Disney had the EU shelved and rebooted. And his new stuff is tailored to the Disney verse. Boring and uninteresting and political. Chiss politics. Imperial politics. Couldn’t finish Thrawn Treason. Don’t care for Disney Thrawn either. Not in Rebels, Not in the novels. Don’t care if he is in live action. He was slightly less unbearable in that comic Marvel made. Only because of its brevity.

The Nolan Batman trilogy is overrated. And Batman 89 and Batman Returns are underrated. I used to believe the opposite but Batman begins hasn’t aged all that well IMHO. Nor has Rises. I will say i still view Dark Knight as almost flawless except for Aaron Eckhart’s Two Face. Bale is just okay in it, Ledger plays Joker to the hilt.

I already got the last go round of 4Ks on sale for cheap. No OOT is a nope.

Disney did the MASH HD remasters.

I would keep it basically the same. But have his turn to the darkside not be about learn the dark side to save Padme. Would require a total rewrite of the prequels. He would be a moisture farmer on Tatooine who gives up his farming to join Obi Wan on a damn fool idealistic crusade joining the Clone Wars. Obi Wan recruits him sensing a he has a gift for the force. Obi Wan is a general in the republic. The Enemy is clone masters and Mandalorians not Jango Clones fighting trade federation. Anakin is a great starpilot and a cunning warrior, and a good friend. He is slowly seduced to evil and a descent into madness. There is no Qui-Gon, we see Vader in the suit destroying the Jedi Temple but we aren’t sure who he is. Obi Wan thinks he killed him over the volcano they dueled over.

I’d keep Padme basically the same but have her actually be a character with something to do in II and III. She would help surviving Jedi escape the Purge, be a senator and one of the founding members of the rebel alliance. She does this in secret because she knows Anakin sees it as treason and a betrayal of his mentor the President of the Republic former Senator Palpatine.

She’s doesn’t die til later on Alderaan when Leia is very young. She is one of Queen Breha’s handmaidens to be close to Leia until she dies somehow?

I think it is like the Star Trek situation they want to spend money on new shows instead of remastering old ones. Probably put their money into a Buffy remake.

I like the opera scene. and how slick and evil Palpatine is. Still not sold on choose the dark side to save Padme. The movie needed something else for Anakin’s turn.

Worst aspect other than the out of place slapstick comedy, or cartoon cgi graphics are the lightsaber duels, or lack of them.

Wish they had done the battle of the heroes more like Empire’s fight except with the Jedi in their prime. And i wanted Mace to duel Anakin.

A one note character who represents hate. Who is dispatched easily by Obi Wan. Even less of a character than Boba was in the OT. Boba existed to get Han to Jabba, Maul existed to be killed by Obi-Wan and to kill Qui-Gon.

Was he a better character in Rebels and Clone Wars debatable but that character isn’t the same Maul.

I want the theatrical versions. Yes even for the prequels. Always had a soft spot for episode 1, no not the awful derided parts. The enjoyable ones.

You know i watched a bit of TNG remastered even the season 1 has a certain charm, No it isn’t the best but it is recognizably Star Trek. But yeah the design is dated 80s. But it is obviously of the same family as TOS and TMP.

I don’t recognize these characters in the CBS/Paramount post 2005 period of Trek.

I just got the making of Star Trek First Contact. Haven’t started it yet, i’m waiting for the making of Wrath of Khan which keeps getting delayed. The best making of the Star Trek film books is Return to Tomorrow, the filming of TMP. But it would have been better as an official book with photos and editing.