I see Princess Mononoke had a 4K restoration screening in March by G-kids which I never had heard of.
Hopefully that means at least a Japanese 4K disc release is in the planning.
I was reading the making of Star Trek and i stopped for a while. I’ve also picked up the Making of Star Trek Phase II. The unmade series.
I have the making of Star Trek V by Shatner’s daughter Lisbeth.
I will see if the library has The view from the bridge from Nick Meyer.
Edit:
I’m reading Star Trek Prime Directive by Judith and Garfield Reeve Stevens.
And i finished most of Nick Meyer’s book and not much new was added about the making of those Star Trek films he hadn’t already covered in interviews or DVD commentary. Though there was a bit of stuff about The 7 percent solution and time after time but not much just his personal experience. It’s a not a production kind of document it’s a memoir.
The Star Trek films deserve the same kind of attention in making of books that the Rinzler books did for Star Wars. The only thing remotely close is Return to Tomorrow and that was self-published, has no pictures and is in need of editing. and its only Star Trek TMP.
And there is an updated Making of Khan and Star Trek First Contact but they did no others. And the Insurrection book by Michael Piller is about the films writing not its making. Also a self-published book for screenwriters and quite expensive. Though the book had already been leaked for free for quite a while before Michael’s Wife published it.
Ronin in Visions is very Kurosawa inspired.
It was so close to Seven Samurai i was like holy crap.
Plus, its very Yojimbo like in its Mifune Esque Ronin Sith.
And its strange that a Sith is the good guy, well its Legends and not canon.
I’m not in agreement. the Art on the Temple of Doom Korean Laserdisc by Struzan is amazing. Yeah you can complain about floating heads or whatever like the thread creator.
R.I.P. Peter David author of the Star Trek novel series New Frontier and numerous comics.
One of the greats is gone forever. I’m sad to say goodbye to him.
Rip Peter David. Author Star Trek novels and comics. And author of runs on She Hulk and Supergirl. One of my favorites.
A restored theatrical print for a wide re-release for the 50th is what I want. DCP, 70MM, AND 35mm. I don’t need to mention is needs to be Star Wars 1977 right and not any version after 1980.
Let’s also have the original 6 track magnetic audio at the basis for the 5.1 mix.
The Dark Side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. They literally quoted Palpatine from Revenge of the Sith.
Rey was the daughter of his clone. His clone had no force powers and was a disappointment.
how he was able to transfer his soul into another dying clone, and maintain his midichlorians they never explain.
there is no way his body survived the death stars explosion or falling into a reactor. It’s absurd even for Star Wars.
This preservation is fantastic you are a real gem.
I watched some of Return of the Jedi are we sure this is even the THX master.
I know the Hong Kong is, wouldn’t it be weird if this was an earlier master.
It does not have the THX logos and no Leonard Maltin. What a find.
Happy Star Wars Day to you as well Jason. May the Force be With You!
Everyone needs a malt like Biggs and Luke. Cheers to 48 years of Star Wars.
Was there any news at celebration Japan because I did not hear of such.
Also not a peep about Kinberg’s trilogy either.
And Waititi and Mangold are still working on theirs independently.
Starfighter was greenlit; Rogue Squadron you would think never had existed. Is it memory holed like Rian Johnson’s trilogy, Benioff and Weiss Old Republic trilogy. Lando pretty much disappeared as well.
I swear it’s like half the projects either don’t get made or they take the idea and make it into something else.
Instead of a Boba Fett Bounty Hunter western film you get the Mandalorian. Instead of an Obi-Wan trilogy you get a season of a tv show. Instead of Old Republic you get the High Republic and the Acolyte.
Well to be clear I don’t want a Disney Revan trilogy.
The 1990 Pan and Scan or it may have been a 1992 reissue. That is VHS.
If i was to pick a laserdisc its the Special Widescreen Edition for Empire Strikes Back.
And Definitive Collection for the whole trilogy.
For DVD its easily Return of the Jedi PAL Gout. The other two transfers look horrible. In Pal or NTSC. I prefer the PAL THX laserdiscs for those.
I’d like Ronin to become an actual full animated show. Not just two short films/animation.
I’d like a new trilogy of live action films but I don’t what about or who should Star in them.
I kind of don’t know if you can do anything further with the sequel trilogy without pissing large swathes of people off. Or at least online naval gazers.
Disney/Lucasfilm seems to not want to bring anyone back except Daisy as Rey. Probably to hand it off to whoever the next someone is like Luke was supposed to.
But they seem to genuinely not be fussed with getting a script together or timeline to shoot the movie, hell maybe it gets cancelled.
Welcome back. I’m looking forward to what you’ve discovered.
I’m also super excited for Indiana Jones if you ever get around to it.
I just pulled out my Hong Kong Return of the Jedi disc and Temple of Doom Korean. Indiana Jones would go into other preservations and fan projects. I’m just talking about foreign releases in general and their unknown qualities.
I’m having problems with my player at the moment though.
I think ROTJ should be uncut in the HK release. It has a nice pan and scan transfer, very good THX deluxe digital LPCM audio. I have to watch the entire film and take notes though.
And Re: the Technidiscs i don’t want to derail your thread. But would like to hear your opinion on them.
I understood it to be rotoscope animation. But that was where my knowledge ended.
What i can’t get over is the housing moving me into an apartment complex knowing this woman is nuts and makes false complaints and they’ve moved her around but won’t throw her out of the neighborhood. She made false noise complaints to them all last summer and the did not listen because she is a crank, so she calls cops on me when I’m asleep in bed.
And they had the audacity to move me here from my comfortable apartment down the way and lie and say my new neighbors were nice.
They put me in a situation where i can’t live or make any noise. They take my rent money more than i can afford every single month, they hardly seem to care.
Like they don’t care their own irresponsible movers stole important documents of mine, stole and committed theft of expensive items and destroyed valuables. As well as family heirlooms.
I’m ranting i know. But i condemn the entire lot of fools and condo board who bought this neighborhood. Ever since sketchy people work for them come at all hours and the things they allegedly fix they make worse, construction is always going on. The so-called landscaper’s landscape like criminals, i used to landscape i now how to do it properly. You don’t mow a lawn with a weedwhacker.
The people who paint don’t know how to paint looks like someone did it with a blindfold on. They come to fix your doors and windows give you no new screens, and make sure your door closes worse than did before you complained. And not only is your shower impossible to turn on its impossible to turn off, and leaks water into the hallway if you don’t put beach towels or spa size towels in front of it.
The last year has been a nightmare.
I’m determined to somehow hack out an existence even in the mist of high inflation and tariffs. And nothing in the world being constant anymore or making a lick of sense.
The Ronin episode was the only one i liked, so I’m glad they are making a sequel. Thats the one that should have been developed into a show.
I did watch a 1997 press conference for the Special Edition and I thought it was wild, he seems to be saying he always intended for Greedo to shoot first.
Not in those words but if you parse his intent, He says he doesn’t like the idea of Han killing in cold blood because it was not intended.
And this does not reflect how the shoot went down and what Gary Kurtz has said.
If he admitted he didn’t like the message it was sending kids, and that was why he wanted the change I wouldn’t like it, but would understand his motives. The whole Han can’t be a hero or marry Leia if he is killer is laughable and pandering.
Luke nuked an entire space station full of people, those weren’t robots George. I guess 99% were imperial nazis but they had to have some slaves who died on that thing. Or conscripted forces and labor.
Hello Enater. Did you find anymore differences. I watched Some of my Hong Kong of Return of the Jedi and so far its not censored or cut. But i will have to watch the rest to confirm. The quality was superior to the Pan and Scan Faces VHS as well with its own varied issues. What surprised me was the quality of the print they telecine or interpositive source. It tells me that Return of the Jedi likely did not need a restoration but Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back did in the 1990s.
That and the proof of LPP quality prints, show prints. Only the 70mm seems to have faded.
Did receive error pressings for the Technidisc labels on wrong side, dead sides etc. It not a test release it is junk basically but watchable.
I do wonder the different releases you can PM me the details or talk about them here. I’m more aware of the Mitsubishi and Pioneer USA, and Pioneer Japan pressings.
I never knew or had forgotten the Throne Room was a Harrison Ellenshaw matte. For years this has been called a cardboard cutout.
Matte painting before digital is kind of a lost art, the best kinds were ones people thought were a normal part of the image and blend in, don’t draw attention to themselves.
Like warehouse in Raiders at area 51.
Ben Kenobi suspended on a platform hundreds of feet above the bottomless depths of the death star.
The Genesis Cave matte painting in Star Trek II.
Thanks for reminding me I do know Brian Daley wrote that. He also wrote the Robotech novels with James Luceno. Under the pen name of Jack McKinney
Happy Birthday to George Walton Lucas Jr. Happy 81st Birthday.
I do hope George someday relents and releases the originals. or at least allows Disney to do so.
The Mobile Suit Gundam Trilogy of films from the early 80s were “remastered” in 2000 or so. This involved having most of the original actors come in and redub their lines, and adding new, out of place sounds that belong in a PS2 game. Sadly all of the BD releases of these films only include the redubs. The only way Americans are able to experience the original sound design is if you have copies of the VHS with the infamously bad dub.
Another Gundam project with butchered audio is the OVA series Stardust Memory. In 2006, it, like the Trilogy before it, was remastered to 5.1 audio by redubbing all of the dialogue and sound effects. American releases only include the 5.1 mix, while the dub has sound effect alterations of its own, so that should be avoided as well.
I thought they released the original mixes in Japan is that not the case. US is barely a footnote and afterthought for the Japanese industry. Extra money at best but not even a consideration. How many decades have Gundam fans and Macross fans been screwed here. Not to mention to Space Battleship Yamato fans.
Thanks for recommending the series Jason and sticking with it.
I haven’t liked anything else they’ve done recently. Except for Ronin from Visions.
I even think light and magic while initially awesome petered off.
There isn’t much on the Disney service worthy of one’s time and effort to fully digest it.
Andor is well written and has good sets and production values, it does not look completely faked in the volume and cgi. Nor is it insultingly cartoonish.
It was interesting watching John Boyega on happy sad confused talking about the Disney sequel trilogy, and his hopes for Daisy’s movie and his candor about it not potentially getting made.