I like the listed changes for Star Wars. I assume the 2011 blu-ray was used as the base for this. Unless it was the 1080P HDTV version from 2004.
rewatched men in black 4 aka men in black international
You enjoyed it I assume. I had mixed feelings at best the last time I watched it. I missed Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones.
But I despise the idea for the 4th one spun off of 21 Jump Street I’m glad that never happened. They either should have made a genuine 4th film or just don’t bother.
It was a pretty good trailer, I’m not going to lie. See they can do fun stuff under the legends banner. But why not adapt EU as animated? I guess less baggage and not having to pay royalties.
Films that came out. Grease, Superman. Game of Death. American Graffiti Dolby Stereo re-issue. Mark Hamill in Corvette Summer. Ralph Bakshi Lord of the Rings. Animal House, and John Carpenter Halloween. Jaws II, Revenge of the Pink Panther. And Robert Zemeckis I wanna hold your hand.
The Prequel Storyboards book by Rinzler. Very disappointing its mostly Phantom Menace. Very little seems to be of previous drafts or aborted attempts of the story.
I’d be much more interested in reading about the early treatments for the prequels and earlier drafts that don’t reflect what ended up on screen.
Did they really have stinky the Hutt in live action. Why?
Filoni’s hands are all over this debacle.
I thought the trailer was awful. I’m not interested at all. It doesn’t look like, or feel like Star Wars.
Hopefully Starfighter will be different.
^ A poster for the US release of Richard Fleischer’s 1966 science fiction film ‘Fantastic Voyage’, starring Raquel Welch.
I love One Million Years BC both the film and the poster. From Hammer who produced all those Horror films no less.
Thank you and congrats. You’ve been incredibly helpful.
A great actor. I loved him Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Will always remember all the president’s men, The natural. The Sting. The Great Gatsby.
Considering Tony reprised Threepio for Lego I could see him doing this if it got made.
I’m thinking George Lucas can’t be that misinformed to think the originals always looked bad like a laserdisc and no doubt has to know his own archives have quality film materials for a restoration of the originals.
That Cannes interview in my own opinion was in bad faith to try and spin his excuse for not putting the originals out there except as bad bonus discs in 2006.
With 4K77 there is no way you can say with a straight face the originals look like a laserdisc. And the team was working from positive print theatrical release prints. And Ib tech. Look what Harmy did with the official home video releases in approximating the original in modern quality.
I think George’s argument is weak. At best it’s the creator gets their own way. Fine. No one is disputing his authorship of the 1977 film.
Release the damn film and let older fans revel in nostalgia.
I just started getting into DVD again because of DTS mixes. So far I’ve bought Ah My Goddess the movie that has DTS only on the Japanese track, Spider-Man 1 and 2. Ghost in the Shell. Pirates of the Caribbean Curse of the Black Pearl, 007 Die another Day.
The titles on my wish list are Die Hard, Die Hard II, Die Hard with a Vengeance. Underworld and Underworld evolution. Terminator II, True Lies. Jurassic Park, Ghostbusters. Starship Troopers. Lord of the Rings trilogy. Resident Evil. X-men 1.5, X2. Minority Report, Catch me if you can. Predator, Alien Directors cut. Stargate Ultimate Edition. Most are just DTS 5.1 some like 007 and Ghost in the Shell are DTS ES 6.1. Bond is matrixed and GITS is discrete. Don’t let the Matrixed audio fool you, Die Another Day is one of the best sounding DTS DVD. Loud and bombastic. The Star Trek TNG films for instance are DTS surround but its theatrical. On the 2 disc DVD sets.
What I like about DVD they can be had new for as little as 5-10 dollars each as long as they aren’t brand new just released movies. Spider-Man 2 Superbit was 4 dollars.
Until shipping opens up again, I won’t be importing any import DTS which is what the Japanese titles are. I’ve also stopped buying import laserdiscs. de minimis being gone also means no longer buying UK releases because they are cheaper. Whether 4K or DVD. or zone free blu-ray there are not a lot of those. Most are region locked to B.
Hilarious considering I’ve been fighting for the preservation of his films for decades. And I’ve long been a fan of his student films, Zoetrope years and completely champion THX 1138 and American Graffiti and Star Wars 1977.
But disagree with the Special Edition, and dislike the prequel and somehow you are hater despite paying to see each one in the cinema and giving him your money.
Toxic? The man is my all-time favorite director, I have bookshelf’s dedicated to his movies.
I studied film and took up writing because of him, my interest in mythology and science fiction were inspired by him.
You can criticize artists that you love. In all sincerity.
I have a complete Love/Hate relationship with the Last Jedi, nothing I said about the auteur theory is untrue.
The have a fan approved checklist method is JJ Abrams. Mystery boxes and member berries.
When things are sensible, and I can have the original Star Wars, American Graffiti 1973 with the mono mix and 1978 Dolby Stereo Directors cut version, and THX 1138 1971 and 1977 Directors cut version in a catalog release, that looks like they are to supposed to look and not scrubbed free of grain, In 4K no less I’ll relent on any criticism.
BY all means quote Worley to me, I won’t listen.
I think its chronically overrated. Every poll that places it above everything but The Empire Strikes Back is crazy. The duel on Mustafar beating the duel on Bespin is literally insane. None of the prequels are better than Return of the Jedi much less Star Wars.
If you don’t examine it critically the last third is a strong finish. It does make you think the Jedi were weak and pathetic and foolish, and Yoda losing to Sidious and just giving up is ridiculous. Mace’s attempt to arrest Palpatine is also incredibly ludicrous, he thought he brought enough Jedi. He never had the upper hand, Palpatine pretended to lose that fight and to be weak to get Anakin to his side. Then Mace is blown out a window do to unlimited power. Yet everyone rates Mace so highly and thinks he could take Empire Strikes Back Vader in a fight, in those who would win theories.
Vader would smoke Mace.
It will have been worth it only if the Original original trilogy gets restored and released. I’m so old now though It would be pyrrhic victory, at least for me personally, If not for film preservation. It would have meant the world to me in my 20s. Moving into my 50s not so much.
Vaguely. It has been a long time. I’d have to go back and read 20-year-old threads. Amazing you still remembered your sign in or did not lose your log in credentials.
Welcome back.
Jason is the resident archivist and archeologist. He knows people and remembers them, collates old pages, almost the OT historian as it will.
The GOUT is still a topic of discussion. Lucas has prevented the originals from being remastered for decades. Even with the ten years of Disney tenure this hasn’t changed.
Well It certainly would be the first Special Edition without Lucas involvement. If it happened. Does anyone want an AI messed with version of Maclunky. Considering Disney cancelled the 3d conversion of Episodes IV, V and VI. A Sphere conversion of SW would be super weird unless Disney sees profit in it.
Andor was planned meticulously. It’s the opposite of how Disney usually approaches Star Wars. Well done on Emmy wins, even if awards are usually nothing but money spent and politicking to get said awards. A lot of artists and craftspeople had to construct those sets and costumes. I regard the fact they did not fake everything in cgi and the volume very highly, in terms of the way the show looks and the production design. Vs a show like the Book of Boba Fett and that fakery of the bikes chase. And the poor writing.
Yeah, but they had the High Republic era and project luminous and after five years they’ve abandoned it. On the heels mind you, of the Acolyte being cancelled. There are no films in that era. I don’t see what placing a film at the Dawn of the Jedi, how that somehow miraculous fixes the fan discontent with Disney. The lack of adherence to canon, or any sense they’ve planned or outlined anything, have finally figured out how to build out a story and do world building. and aren’t just throwing stuff at a wall to see what sticks. Like a blindfolded person throwing darts trying to hit a bullseye.
They always do random things then try to get the comics writers and novelists to fill in the blanks, or to get the story group to claim it all makes sense. Of course we have a plan, right. I don’t believe that with somehow Palpatine returned.
I feel bad for the Disney EU writers who have to retcon or make sense of one of the bad movies. Where the director didn’t do his homework. And the story group allowed them to do whatever they wanted. With no regard to the legacy of SW, or its characters, or its own separate internal laws of how it all works.
Happy 59th Anniversary to Star Trek. Its been a long road getting from there to here. and the less said about New Trek the better.
I disagree I’d like to see another Star Wars within my lifetime. Who knows if I have decades left, god willing. But I may not. I’d like to enjoy life and smell the roses, so to speak, while I still can.
I’d also like an X-men film I don’t have to wait another ten years for, and can we please get a Star Trek film.
If they aren’t making that Rey movie please let Daisy know and stop gaslighting the fans, and KK please retire.
I’m somewhat pleased there was a new Superman film, can’t wait for a Supergirl and Wonder Woman movie. And another James Bond. I’m even looking forward to the Hunt For Gollum but have no idea what to expect with Andy Serkis not Peter Jackson directing. Looking forward to Avengers doomsday, maybe I’m setting myself up again, Disney is known to disappoint. With few exceptions Like Alien and Predator, and Planet of the Apes franchises. Fox films.
Will there be another JJ Abrams Star Trek, that is as nebulous as Disney and The Rey Skywalker movie. I don’t hardly trust Simon Kinberg with anything that is not X-men related. Even there he had his hands in X-men The Last Stand and Dark Phoenix and 4-Tastic. With Star Wars and Star Trek, please.
Star Trek Lower Decks. It’s well-made, but the comedy is not up my alley. It turned me off completely. I don’t think I will finish watching it.
I also started watching season 2 of the Frasier remake. I don’t know if it will finish that either, I think I prefer watching the old episodes.
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I’m watching Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex Second Gig.
Section 31. I love Star Trek films. I couldn’t get into this. It was bad. It might be the single worst Star Trek ever made.
I’ll gladly watch Generations, Insurrection, Nemesis or Star Trek V the Final Frontier over this and I don’t like any of those films.
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Spider-Man 2 Superbit DVD. I forgot how much I loved Raimi Spider-Man, and the DTS mix is quite good. Picture quality is nothing to write home about. I mean DVD-9 and Mpeg-2 video, just how good can it look.
DVD always looks pixelated on a 4K tv set.
Leia was visited by Anakin Skywalker in The Truce at Bakura. Leia ends up coming to terms with her father being redeemed, a part of that was naming her son Anakin, Anakin Solo. and seeing the good in him. Tatooine Ghost. Her son died in the Vong Wars, New Jedi order.
Her other son became the next Darth Vader, Jacen Solo/ Darth Caedus, and her daughter Jaina who was trained by Boba Fett had to kill him in a personal duel to the death. Jacen had murdered Boba Fett’s daughter. And Jacen did not join the Jedi afterlife, he was not redeemed. But Leia and Han adopted their evil son’s daughter as their own. Allana Solo.
The Next generation of Jedi would be Allana Solo, Jaina Solo and Ben Skywalker, the son of the slain Mara Jade Skywalker. Mara was murdered by Jacen Solo, it was his ascension to Sith apprentice. And Ben was the son of Grandmaster Luke Skywalker.
Jacen’s Sith Master was none other than Lumiya/Shira Brie the Dark Lady of the Sith. And he had been corrupted by Vergere who was also a Sith. He wanted Ben Skywalker to be his apprentice. But Tahiri Veila ended up being his agent and assassin and sort of apprentice.
Of course this is now legends.
