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.
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.