I thought it would be crap because of Seth McFarlane but i’ve heard the film is actually good. Though the producer of the originals went on and on about how he thought the remake was garbage and did not make his film.
There is a market if you live in Japan have an 8k television set and NHK television which broadcasts 8k movies like 2001 a Space Odyssey. I don’t think that is Disney’s demo.
As for my personal opinion about higher than 24fps I saw the Hobbit in 48 frames per second and it looked horrid like video. I was generally unimpressed they chose to shoot on digital for 3D over film in any case since Lord of the Rings was shot on Super 35.
Honestly anything over 4k seems like overkill for consumers anyway. You can scan higher for sure if your final output is 4K.
Then the EU he had a wife in Russ Manning strips, and a mistress in Daala in the 90s EU. In some short story in Disney Star Wars which I haven’t read, it is supposed to be his lover is TK-421. He still is a fascist and still dies on the death star.
I liked Lynch Dune part I more than Villeneuve. There is no Lynch part II to compare part II to. I liked the second part I know people complained about the changes to Chani from the book.
I also liked the sci fi mini series all those years ago and the Children of Dune follow up.
Return of the Jedi is where the prequel rot started to set in, i still enjoy the movie but not the rough patches. And Darth is way weaker in that movie than The Empire Strikes Back and Han and Leia have pretty much nothing to do. The rescue of Han Solo makes no sense but i enjoy the movie serial silliness of it. All except the whiffle bat lightsaber that causes no damage to the aliens Luke is fighting over the pit of Carkoon. No one loses an arm or a hand or a head.
There are some impressive set pieces Jabba’s sail barge, Jabba’s palace. The Death Star II. The Ewok Village. Then you have unbelivable fake stuff like the Matte painting of the Falcon in the Rebel Hangar. Instead of a full size built Falcon.
The Redwoods provide a unique setting for the rebels to chase stormtroopers on Speeders and you believe in the action that they could crash into a tree.
The Space Battle. at the end still hasn’t been topped. I like the chorus and and the part with the lightsaber duel and Luke fighting Vader, but it has nothing on the duel at Bespin, and Vader fights like a weak and already defeated opponent. He is only winning when Luke refuses to fight. The fight is very one sided.
The version with Leia as Queen of her people and Han dead would have been poignant, but would have angered parents and disappointed children and you can’t sell dead Han toys. Leia ends up alone, Luke ends up alone. They both find their duty is separate from their circle of friends. No screenplay for this version exists, we but rely on Gary Kurtz recollection of the early idea for the third film. Han died in his attack on an imperial base. He survived Carbon Freezing just to bite it. As a kid I would have felt cheated if Han killed in such a lame way, I felt the same way in Force Awakens.
The film is an incomplete experience without Lapti Nek, Yub Yub or Sebastian Shaw as Ghost Anakin. I refuse to watch the later versions. I intensely dislike the version with Hayden at the end. I hate Jedi Rocks, and Victory Celebration sounds like an incomplete temp track piece. The Ewoks singing is much more mythological and fits with Threepio storytelling earlier in the movie. They’ve added themselves to the story by helping to fight the Empire.
That does not mean its intended for release even if there is a restoration. It could be just to put it back into Disney’s vault. To protect their assets.
What are the odds Lucas relented. Look how angry he got that Disney did not use his story treatments, you think he wants the original of Star Wars available.
I wonder if Disney can do it against his wishes. If they actually have a contract that prevents them from releasing them.
Where do people do these laserdisc rips and restorations, I’m not aware of such a forum. I’ve seen a few pop up on archive and be deleted. But not for Rock and Rule or Gargoyles unfortunately.
I’m quite interested especially in archiving anime laserdiscs.
The price of making and purchasing equipment to do it right is exorbitant. Domesday.
Back in the old times me and my friend were simply using a DVD recorder to dump them to a burned DVD.
The DVD recorder was his of course and I was sending the discs to be captured. A lot of the stuff did eventually get a DVD or Blu-Ray release. Some of it didn’t. Lensman is still a non available movie. That was his rip not mine of the Japanese disc and US disk on 2 DVD no subtitles.
Gall Force is never happening, much to my dismay. I lived long enough to see Bubblegum Crisis get multiple blu-ray releases, and even Project A-ko was saved from obscurity. I have the Gall Force mega laserdisc set that has a vinyl record with it, Gall Force Rhea is in non anamorphic its the best film ever looked. I’ve collected all but Genom Rally and I have the CLV reissues and the CAV initial releases of all the films and OVA except for the remake which i did not care for.
And of course Urusei Yatsura Beautiful Dreamer the 4:3 version is still stuck in a laserdisc master.
I’ve looked for Rock and Rule on Japan laserdisc its like a 4 leaf clover. I’ve never found it or not some place in some insane price.
Gargoyles the movie US laserdisc is expensive but not impossible to find. It’s gone up in price of course I passed on a slightly beat up copy when it was 70 dollars and now every copy that comes up is 90 to 100 US.
Why doesn’t Lucasfilm create a new IP. Where is all the creativity.
George could create Star Wars, and Indiana Jones and Willow. So Lucasfilm without a young Lucas can’t create anything, is what the last ten years have told us. All they can do is recycle old worn-out IP.
Even his more wacky and ill considered ideas like making Howard the Duck was taking a risk. Something Disney Lucasfilm would never do. That was mere poor adaptation, the comic is completely different more political and less Disney.
It’s also the weird kind of comic parody and social commentary that does not work in a live action film.
I remember the deleted scenes from the behind the magic cd-rom I do remember someone captured them and put them on a DVD in times long ago.
Alternate Greedo footage, i think. Jenny. The black and white was half Kurosawa and half Flash Gordon with temp audio and some silent parts. For the Cantina.
Of course you also had the Biggs meets Luke and the Gang and Luke and the Macrobinoculars. And then the scene of Biggs telling Luke he is joining the rebellion.
Are they really that out of ideas Sith again?
I’m almost afraid to ask what nostalgia bait and member berries they will insert into the film.
I like that Zahn retconned the Lando/Mara romance and mocked it in the Thrawn duology.
I’m indifferent on him also mocking The Emperor reborn and taking a shot at Veitch. When he himself has a Clone of Thrawn in the story we never get to see.
I liked that the Callista romance went nowhere. The Akanah thing was a total waste of time. The Black Fleet trilogy was garbage.
Though I actually like 2 of the 3 Callista trilogy novels.
Well there is Splinter of the Mind’s Eye where Luke and Vader first fought, and Luke had a sort of almost romance with Princess Leia. Vader even appears to have fallen in a deep pit and died and he lost an arm.
Then Lucas made the Empire Strikes Back and it’s like Splinter is elseworlds.
Lucas dropped the love triangle between Luke, Han and Leia set up in the first film. And its barely there in deleted scenes for Empire, and when Luke is in the medical center, but Leia obvious falls for Han on the way to cloud city and at Cloud city. Lucas little bandage he put on it in Jedi, making Leia the sister, and making her the other was to this day completely unbelievable to me.
You think Luke is pining for his sister, kisses his sister. Saves her from the death star and is standing at the medal ceremony smiling at her because they were platonic. Its one of Lucas dumbest moves.
I don’t believe in the doctrine of attachment it was made up on the prequel. It exists literally nowhere in the original trilogy or the expanded universe before episode II. In fact Luke wins because he doesn’t follow what Ben and Yoda told him, his attachment to his father turns the tide of the war bringing Anakin back to the light.
No it was a compromised production at every level. He never was in control of the process. It was a virtual nightmare for him.
He would say I can see the seams, all the places where everything is held together and barely worked.
When he says it was 25% of the movie he wanted to make that is being generous, he thought it was a turkey and his career was over.
Considering I’ve never had a chance to see Star Wars in theaters in general, I’d undoubtedly go to this regardless of cut. Obviously I’m hoping for the OUT, but I won’t hold my breath. We went through similar speculation for the 40th anniversary with absolutely nothing to show for it.
And the 30th and only got the Rinzler book and no film.
Can you be more specific what 2012 scans is this Maclunky. Those scans were done in 2012-2013 are these fan made?
I specifically avoided the Revenge reissue release because the ticket price was 20 dollars and standard laser DCP. On their smallest crap screen. At AMC. Meanwhile Sinners was on the Imax. If it was the Imax I would have paid as much as 25 dollars.
It wasn’t even in the Dolby cinema that was some other movie too.
Reminds me of when I wanted to see Dead Reckoning and both Imax screens were showing Barbie and Oppenheimer.
If this is not the original cut they can forget about it. 1981 release I probably would see just for the hell of it, but they aren’t doing that, Lucas and his vision and all that speak.
Even if I despise the title A New Hope.
To be 100% transparent the 2020 Maclunky cut from the official 4K home video release, Dead on Arrival. For me at least, although so many people will just go see it anyway. They don’t care it’s not the real deal. A lot of them like Lucas so called enhancements. And won’t mind seeing Han shoot second in 4K. or the awful Artoo behind cgi rocks. Of the three films it is the least ruined 4k release. It had a ton of DNR but not ruinous like Empire. And the Atmos mix is not bad. It’s not the actual movie, it’s a redone mix but for modern mixes it’s as tasteful as you can get.
TBH the only Star Wars I’m waiting and hoping to see is the 70mm Star Wars. Since Lucasfilm is not going to restore the oot for home viewing in any century without Lucas’s consent. He is more in tune and interested with his museum of narrative art and his charitable causes and god love him for that, but I want Star Wars. Not A New Hope.
George is never relenting, he is a known quantity. He never apologizes and he never forgives, he never comprises. And he always wins. He likes it that way, fans be damned. Unless suddenly the man has mellowed, and says give those Gen X haters of the prequels the originals. He is more likely to withhold them even more, due to his quote they throw rocks at me. They do fanedits of my movie, it’s my movie. I’m paraphrasing but he said similar things. He also said the original movie was crap because it was a laserdisc. That whopper was at Cannes.
I will pass if maclunky in 4K I already own that. I realize people will argue DCP are better quality than a 4K disc.
But if it’s not Star Wars 1977 I’m not going to bother. Instead I’ll watch 4k77 on May the 25th.
Or Puggo Grande or the laserdiscs. Even gout would be better than the horrible cgi version.
Its amazing that they are ignoring two anniversaries. The one in Jan for the 30th of the 1997 Special Edition, and the one on May the 25th. 50th of Star Wars 1977. May the 4th is completely made up.
Its coming to an end. I haven’t read any of the books or comics. And now its a closed book with the final comics series getting published. And the last novel.
I’m not entirely sure. But I believe Alert my Star Destroyer to prepare for my arrival is alternate angle from Return of the Jedi. In the Empire Strikes Back.
Luke hugging Wedge In Return of the Jedi.
Sailor Moon on the other hand one imperfect DNR ridden fest, or at best decent upgrade over old video master material. I don’t have those blu-rays.
The original laserdisc have their drawbacks of course but no DNR applied. But poor telecine and some color issues. I wonder if some fan tried to upscale the laserdiscs.
And of course there is no 4:3 version of Beautiful Dreamer from Urusei Yatsura at all in the realm of HD. The last video master was on laserdisc. Which CPM cleaned up for DVD with its own associated frame blending and cadence issues. And English titles superimposed over Japanese ones. the 16:9 on the blu-ray as well is an ancient DVD master which was HD remastered but for DVD. Toho was going to do a new scan and had even pulled the Blu-Ray release for some years due to not even being up to a standard of quality, and then they release it as is anyway. The other ones were brand new scans but film 1 was not uncut like the DVD aka Only You. I have no idea who owns the rights to the tv series currently and the films except for film 2 being owned by Toho Co.
I mean because Kitty films is defunct, Pony Canyon obviously does not own the rights. Its likely Bandai or Warner Bros or some damn holdings group.
I did not want to double post but i just had quite a bit to say.
I’d be lying if i said DNR, Color correction and upscaling does not have their uses. But i dislike DNR intensely. The only cases i can think of where it may be necessary is where a damaged film source, or very dirty piece of film is scanned and limitedly applied as grain management and not global DNR. Also Q-Tec has their own upscale, and you have AstroRes.
As for AI like in the way Peter Jackson’s company uses it i don’t know if it would be a good use for anime. The type of image stacking, sharpening and manipulation.
And for computer cgi animation i did see Lord of the Rings from Sola Digital and some of the flying camera shots were very impressive.
The biggest use again of these oldest and newest tools in the video restoration toolbox is for old as hell composite video masters or 1 inch tape or digi-beta. Lots of shows, lots of OVA. That can’t be afforded a new film scan or the film may be lost, or it was animated on cel but finished on videotape and few such shows can warrant an expensive redo.
One of my favorites and a friend of mine’s favorites was his and her circumstances, well that does appear in not a so good place for a remaster. Or as its called in Japan Kare Kano. Anno.
Fairly recent digital done shows like 2009 maybe or a few years earlier done in 480P anime. Yeah those are usually upscaled by some company if they even bother to do Blu-Ray for them at all and just don’t have one DVD release. or they reissue them on DVD. Or put them up on a streaming site.
I’m thinking of Haruhi Suzumiya season 1 that was animated in SD. And I do have the Blu-ray. You might be able to trick me into thinking its 720P because it’s not the worst upscale but it is definitely not 1080P.
Even the alleged to be 2k master of the film in 1080P looks to me not very highly detailed and a rather low ish bitrate on the disc. If I was again told it was animated in 720p I would believe it.
Those are just one example.
There are cases where an upscale looks worse than the DVD like Lucky Star from Kyoani.
Or Shakugan No Shana from J.C. Staff.
And there are certainly decent examples but imperfect like the 4K of Nadia Secret of Blue Water. Which is from a film scan and not an upscale but had been subjected to DNR and has less detail than the previous blu-ray.
Most people are happy with the result of increased contrast and better colors. And being faithful to the animation cels and won’t be upset over the film grain being gone.
You also have really tremendously good remasters only knocked down a peg or two by the use of DNR like Urusei Yatsura original not remake tv series. Dirty Pair TV series, movie less subjected to DNR but still applied. Plus old gags removed for copywrite reasons ever since the remastered DVD. And need the old DVD or laserdisc for those scenes.
Ranma as well good film scans. Most of the Rumiko works. I forget if they redid Mason Ikkoku. Or the Rumik World. But certainly, the films of Inuyasha had good scans. I forget if the series did.
I was thinking about it today and I much much prefer the idea of Vader hunting down the Jedi knights. and not an order 66 killing younglings, none of that is what lines up with what Kenobi said in SW.
A Young Jedi named Darth Vader was a pupil of mine before he turned to evil. He helped the Empire hunt down and destroy the Jedi Knights, he betrayed and murdered your father. Now the Jedi are all but extinct. Vader was seduced by the Dark Side of the Force.
And Lucas original prequel outline of Vader being a Jedi assassin and secret Sith is better than what we ended up with.
Of course you have to still keep the part about Kenobi lying, because in Star Wars when he said that he wasn’t lying and Luke’s father was killed by Vader.
And then you get the certain point of view speech in Return of the Jedi and Luke looks at him, WTF Ben, with his looks. A certain point of view really?
I couldn’t make it ten minutes into a Space Adventure hour even for free. Wesley is awful and not Kirk. I’ve seen so many better and even funnier parodies of Shatner.
This guy is like Jim Carrey playing Kirk without the funny. On a CW show.
I’ll finish the rest of the season later but it’s just absolute drek.
I’m no longer upset about the cancellation of the series especially after the Muppet preview for season 4. They make all sorts of things and none of it is Star Trek.
What is the point they could just make Star Trek but won’t. I don’t hate everything about new Trek but I start to wonder whether the secret hideout contract should be cancelled, and Kurtzman given his walking papers.
I miss the era of nitpicking and everyone wanting to fire Berman from their comfy seats on the internet. But i can rewatch TNG its good and bad, and Deep Space Nine is excellent. Even Enterprise my least favorite series has something to offer in comparison to whatever this modern so called Trek is.
I started reading Northwest of Earth the complete Northwest Smith.
The first short story was incredibly strange. C.L. Moore.
I found it very uncomfortable to read. Shambleau. I will try and continue on with some of the other stories but maybe it’s not for me.
This book was claimed to be Han Solo or Indiana Jones like and its nothing like that, and not like Edgar Rice Burroughs John Carter stories either.
I do remember reading A Merritt The Moon Pool.
350 is actually a good price but i don’t have that kind of chunk of money just kicking around for this kind of thing. and I have no 35mm projector.
Is there something wrong with the blu-ray or DVD.