JadedSkywalker

R.I.P. Nichelle Nichols, the incomparable Uhura of Star Trek.

R.I.P. Bill Russell the greatest Boston Celtic of all time.

I only liked John Williams scores. For Harry Potter. Never was a fan of the books. Watched like 3 of the movies on cable.

They were about average. They made tons of money though, that is all they care about not film quality.

I couldn’t be bothered to watch the newest one even for free, in the fantastic beasts franchise. I think i wasted time watching one of the others, it was just okay, i think it was the first one.

I sort of despise cash grab sequels. And remake sequels. All of the ones being made now. The Jurassic World, the Disney Star Wars Trilogy etc. Even though i think Last Jedi has some brilliant points in it, and some beautiful scenes. I don’t think i will ever be able to watch the JJ films again with any level of enjoyment.

The 4K of Phantom Menace, And Revenge of the Sith are the best that they have ever looked on home video. I haven’t watched the second one in 4K yet only the 1080P that wasn’t revelatory i didn’t notice a difference from the original blu.

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It would have been a destruction of the character. But what if we didn’t know who the new Vader was, Luke is missing. at the end of Force Awakens the New Vader removed his mask and its Luke Skywalker. Not Ben Solo.

Master of Disguise. Truly awful movie. I don’t think a single part was funny.

Star Wars story was complete in 1977. There was no A New Hope, Leia wasn’t Luke’s sister, Vader wasn’t Luke’s father and Obi-Wan didn’t lie.

Thanks to your review i bought the book. Luke is my all time favorite Star Wars character. I haven’t read anything with him in it since the novels of Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker. They don’t do post Return of the Jedi stories in print media. Like they used to with Star Wars Legends. Now just waiting until they actually start doing post Rise of Skywalker stories.

Added Goldfinger 1995 CLV with OBI, THX Laserdisc. I already have this in a mint copy but figured since this one rarely shows up for sale, and never for 13 bucks i would buy it.

Added Superman II late issue Japanese release. This was the last pressing of the movie on Laserdisc. It was released in 1997. CLV digital audio, Letterbox. Of course its the Lester version, the Donner version isn’t on Laserdisc.

Added Discotek Lum the Forever Blu-Ray.

Added Animeigo Megazone 23 Blu-Ray

Added Battlestar Galactica Definitive Blu-Ray collection.

Added Dirty Pair DVD Litebox set. Part 1.

Added Raiders of the Lost Ark pan and scan CLV first issue laserdisc US release no digital sound, Temple of Doom reissue 1989 pan and scan CAV with digital sound even if it isn’t stated on the jacket. And Last Crusade Pan and scan, the only one issued there were no re-releases, also digital audio.

Added Moroder Metropolis. Laserdisc sample with OBI Japanese edition.

Added King Kong Colorized Laserdisc.

Added Temple of Doom Japanese Laserdisc with OBI. 1987. CLV with Dolby Digital Stereo. Digital Sound. Pan and Scan. catalog # SF078-1241

Ron Moore’s Battlestar Galactica had bullets.

The only show i can think of not liking but i will still watch hoping it gets better is Star Trek Discovery, it never does though. Its the only Star Trek show that hasn’t hit its stride after 3rd or 4th season.

Its not the cast, or the comraderie or chemistry that is all good and fantastic. Its the piss poor writing like in all the Kurtzman Trek shows. I like the characters and actors though so i soldier on even though the writing is often unimaginative, derivative and ridiculous. Its the show that had the most promise since Deep Space Nine to not be another TNG clone, like Voyager or Enterprise.

The irony is they made cuts to not make huge sets except for the Sail Barge and to do mostly a US shoot for locations and it still went over budget. So reducing it to one death star instead of two, removing Had Addadon and the Wookiee Planet didn’t prevent it from going over. Though the original budget if it had been filmed as is Revenge of the Jedi would have cost like 50 million. Howard Kazanjian got it down to 32.5 million and Lucas was still unhappy.

Part of the reason of Lucas wanting to push digital cinema and cgi was to bring the costs down. He would have shot Jedi like he did Episode II and III if the technology had been available. Or rather he would have had Richard Marquand do so.

Even by the time Menace happened he didn’t have the tech ready.

I liked Incredibles 2. It wasn’t as good as the first, but it was decent. I also liked Toy Story 4 i know people say it was garbage, but i liked it.

One i expected to like but didn’t was Cars and i can’t quite explain why i disliked it. It was okay i guess, but not my favorite.

Williams Obi-Wan theme has gotten better the more i listen to it, but i always associated him with the Force theme. That was his theme like the Imperial March was Darth Vader’s theme.

I thought the duel was garbage, utter rubbish. Too dark to see what was going on. Disney Lucasfilm hasn’t been able to do a single good live action lightsaber fight yet, i guess i have to just accept they are never going to deliver.

The one draw this show had the saber duel and they botched it.

They got Vader’s voice right, and it was plenty menacing, but i don’t think i’m going to waste my time watching any more of it.

I was thinking of how they fixed only select matte problems in the Special Edition but left the rest of the garbage mattes in the movies. Lucas had a good enough attitude, he wasn’t trying to achieve perfection if it cost too much or they were on a deadline.

Some of the other changes improved nothing, and were so baffling. Especially the ones that look like a 1990s computer game those instantly take me out of the movie, they are janky and garbage.

Did someone actually get a hold of a decent print to scan or is that wishful thinking?

I wonder if someone will ever find a print with the original Mono mix.

I don’t care for Disney Star Wars like at all. But i loved the trailer for season 2 of this. I’ve never seen the first season so i guess it gives me something new to watch.

The point is how dumb it is the original hasn’t been released when its so easy. Every other studio or nearly every studio does catalog releases. You can get Vanilla Ice in Cool as Ice in HD but not Star Wars, its ridiculous.

I thank Jason for this scholarship, Lucas shouldn’t be able to get away with it erasing and rewriting history while gaslighting Gen X fans who remember how it was.

I watched Sonic the Hedgehog 2. It wasn’t a great movie by any stretch, but i liked Tails and i liked the end of it when Sonic goes Super Saiyan basically. I also think Idris was great as Knuckles. A dumb kids movie but enjoyable.

Happy real Star Wars day May the 25th.

An incredible piece of cinema, and a fun popcorn flick. I’m almost as old as the film is, damn i feel old.

One of the first people Lucas hired for Star Wars pre production, R.I.P Colin.

Mark Hamill looks fantastic at age 70. He really should get his own Luke show, not deepfake. video game Luke leaves me cold but Mark in the behind the scenes makes me a fan again.

Added Tenchi Universe Region A Japanese Blu-Ray. 1 disc SD no English dub or subtitle.

Added Wizard of OZ Criterion Collection Laserdisc 50th Anniversary.

Added Tenchi Muyo Ryo-Ohki Japanese OVA part 2 with English dub.

Added King Kong Criterion Laserdisc CAV reissue.

Added Project A-Ko 2 DVD from Discotek.

Added Blade Runner CAV Criterion Laserdisc.

Added Jason and the Argonauts CLV+CAV Criterion Laserdisc. Super disappointed in this one arrived moldy with scratches. Seller got pissed with me for not even leaving a negative just saying i disagreed with their scale of grading. I wouldn’t have given them seven dollars for a disk that smelled like mold, never mind twenty.

Added Goldfinger CLV Criterion Laserdisc. Arrived finally, cover and sleeve have a split, but other than that it looks new and unused.

Added Analog CX mono sound Dirty Pair the movie. Japanese Laserdisc no subtitles or dub.

The celibate monk thing goes back to the 1974 screenplay but was dropped in the actual movies and the EU. Only to be recanonized contexualized in the prequel. Like midi clorians being too similar to the Kaiburr Crystal as a way to describe the force. its something that should have not been revisited.

My opinion.