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Added Japanese Gatefold Back to the Future Laserdisc. 3 sides CLV. No OBI. Analog and Digital soundtracks. Pan and Scan first issue 1986.

Is it HD though. We’ve been waiting years for an affordable blu-ray release. I guess its not a priority for Lucasfilm anymore than releasing the Holiday Special.

I haven’t watched VHS in a long time. But i used to watch the 1995 pan and scan Star Wars trilogy, the audio for the time was great except for the smashing glass in the detention block sequence.

I also had the first 6 Star Trek films letterboxed and Goldeneye letterboxed. And Star Trek First Contact.

I also have a bunch of Laserdiscs all the Star Wars up to phantom menace, all the star treks all the James Bond films up to Tomorrow Never Dies.

I like the Star Trek ones the most the blu ray’s don’t have the 2 channel stereo mixes for any of the movies.

It might seem silly but i love the first analog only release for Wrath of Khan other than being time compressed i love the warm sound, and the soundtrack is great.

Also can’t beat Back to the Future, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Rocketeer on Laserdisc. I’m going to give Living Daylights a spin haven’t watched that in a while.

i’m seen so little pre Dolby Surround films. I honestly cannot think of a film that was in stereo not mono from before 1976 that i’ve seen off the top of my head, i’m sure i’ve seen something but i can’t think of it.

I agree the transfer of that Blu-Ray is so bad that when i could have bought it in the 12 dollar bin at Target, i passed on it. Temple and Crusade are also ancient transfers at this point honestly as well. Hopefully the new release isn’t just the same crap in 4K. At least Temple and Crusade will have gotten upgraded transfers. I’ll have to throw raiders in the trash if its the same master and keep this Litemakr release.

Also hopefully the blu’s not the 4k isn’t just the same old ones repackaged if they aren’t the new 4k i’m going to return them/cancel my order.

Addendum: I can indeed confirm the blu ray 4 film collection from 2021 is the same transfers from 2012 with the messed up colors for Raiders. Apparently only the digital 4k and 4k disc are the new transfers. They couldn’t be bothered to master new 1080P copies for digital and blu ray.

The Ghibli catalog and Miyazaki films in general are all over the place in quality. Though most are not DVNR’ed to hell and back like Totoro or Castle of Cagliostro. That was my point. Though the reissue of Nausicaa was grain managed.

Princess Mononoke looks absolutely fantastic and flawless on G-kids Blu-Ray and so does Howl’s Moving Castle.

I don’t want to speak for the Blu Ray for spirited away because i do own it but haven’t had the chance to watch it yet.

I also saw that listing too it seems he wants 2000 for each reel. Which is insane. It would be insane for a complete print.

Is it at all possible it is up to Lucas whether they are released or not? Does he legally maintain final cut on episodes 1-6 even if Disney owns Lucasfilm?

Its always been a question if there is a contractual reason it hasn’t happened, everyone thought it was because of the 20th Century Fox situation. But Disney bought that studio.

I always wanted to see Jaws III 3D just for kicks but i could never get a hold of the VHD, a player and the equipment. I’m only seen the standard 35mm version.

I understood the reference, Final Fantasy VII. One winged angel is only like the most famous piece of music off the soundtrack. Other than say Aerith’s theme. I also thought it was a funny comment.

The 5 Star Bootleg DVD is Laserdisc sourced. I’m just making an educated guess on that since i’m not the one who made that chart. But that was the popular bootleg before better fan preservations came along.

Unless i’m completely dense and there was a cam telesync of the 97 version.

Were these films ever really super grainy? I know they were shot on Super35. But what was the reason PJ had to degrain them to hell and back.

I don’t remember them being overly grainy at all. I do remember the image being not incredibly sharp and kind of soft on the prints i saw in the cinema. But they looked plenty lifelike and filmic in non cgi scenes. Unlike the Hobbit which looked like it was shot on a video camera, and everything looked flat and fake like a pre-rendered videogame cutscene.

Yup that is correct the 93 is itself a new mix and not theatrical either. It is the best mix sonically for home video too bad about that smashing glass sound in the detention block shootout.

I’m surprised there isn’t a fanfix that replaces that with sound effects from the 35mm mix to patch out the awful glass sound for the fan preservations.

The 35mm is on the first issue 1982 and 1983 Laserdiscs, the 1985 laserdisc in the US all analog. Its time compressed on the CLV discs and not on the CAV 1985. I think every VHS in the US after 1985 is the digital 85 mix for Star Wars, before DC and Faces. The reissue of the Star Wars CLV disc on laserdisc in pan in scan in the 1990s Us release was the same master as the original but for some reason the mix was the 85 mix.

The first Japanese release in 1983 is the 35mm mix on Laserdisc in analog and not time compressed. the 1986 and 1991 releases have the 35mm mix in digital. These are pan and scan CLV discs.

One oddity is that the 1982 and 83 pan and scan US release for Star Wars is an entirely different transfer from the 1985 CAV release, even if they all have the same theatrical stereo 35mm mix. And then like i said they reused the 82 version again in 1992. but with the 85 mix.

Godzilla Vs Kong. not a very good kaiju movie and the story was non existent.The human characters were just kind of there, you could have easily taken them out of the movie and had Kong and Gojira slugging it out for 2 hours. The rest of the film was like watching a two hour video game. The worst of the bunch of new films 2 out of 4 stars.

Its an insult to see a fully realized and secondary world like the original Star Wars as a rough draft the way Lucas does. He is entitled to his very wrong opinion. Along with convincing himself Han always shot second.

Its kind of insane that he never liked the movie, the one that shattered box office records, made him a multi millionaire before the age of 40. Put Lucasfilm and ILM on the map. Changed the entire focus and direction of the film industry towards blockbusters.

You can quantify things like quality screenwriting, acting, and cinematography versus poorly done hackwork. If you cannot tell the difference then what good is criticism in art. Of course there is some subjectivity in ones own background, experience likes and dislikes and personal views.

Is there one worldwide objective value for art i don’t think so but there are accepted standards, but every culture has differences.

Its never gonna happen these versions don’t exist anymore to George. Disney has followed his wishes on this matter. They’ve also made a business decision that Lucas already spent money on the 2020 special edition which they had to spend no money on, and they released that on Disney plus and 4K disc and made a ton of money doing so.

Also petitions never work, with few exceptions. I signed the original petition years ago it didn’t move the needle one bit.

Unless you think it was this site’s petition that got the GOUT released, which at best was a slap in the face and a way to kill the pirate DVD market.

This petition is so old its for a Blu-Ray HD release and doesn’t mention 4K.

It would have been fairly simple and easy for them years ago to do a 2k scan, grain managed but not heavily degrained, like a Criterion blu ray. And released it on just old Blu-Ray. It wouldn’t have needed to have come from the original negative. It would probably have cost no more than a few million dollars or less. Now that we are in the 4K era they aren’t going to get off so easily.

I think the Japan Special Collection for Star Wars has the 1985 digital remix not the 77 35mm mix. Jedi is missing the Huttese subtitles for Jabba, i’m sure there are other things people will notice i did not.

You also have the picture shifted up to fit the Japanese subtitles below the letterboxing.

The picture is not as good as the THX remaster but it doesn’t have the problems caused by the early dnr method they used in the 90s to reduce grain.

The colors i would say are not to be relied upon. Telecines were almost never accurate.

fans prized this release for the ability to stop on a frame in full featured CAV mode, it also was the first widescreen transfer. Letterboxed tranfers paired with digital audio. In America we got Pan and Scan releases of Star Wars and Empire with no digital option until much later. Widescreen versions only started to be released in North America in 1989.

Except in the places where some of the films were digital noise reduced to remove grain, i honestly don’t see anything to be gained from a release print.

Just got the reprint of Dark Lords of the Sith from Lucas books.

I forgot just how bad the art was on this series. In comparison to the first book and the Sith War. But the covers are all amazing. Of course Hugh Fleming is always amazing.

I got the Marvel Epic collection reprint of Empire Strikes Back arriving tomorrow. Star Wars is like 40 bucks so i don’t have that one yet. There is also one other book i need to get to collect all the books from the first volume Complete Marvel Years.

The books are quite good as far as reprints go. I hate the Legends logo slapped on the books though. Its really ugly on the slipcover on the hardback that has Boba Fett on the cover.

Don’t have the artists edition of Empire by Al Williamson, or the artifact edition of Star Wars. They look really cool though and are the original art pages photographed in black and white. The Chaykin/Infantino stuff is awesome.

Addendum: decided to get the reprint of Star Wars now i only need that one other book in between Star wars and Empire Strikes Back to complete the reprint of the original Marvel run.

additional note: the Marvel reprints have very bad color registration and poor paper, worse in the trade paperback than the hardback. For the original marvel run versus the dark horse a long time ago volumes. The new editions look very digital and flat. I was pleased with the hardbacks despite the poor paper, but the reprint of Star Wars is very poor and empire reprint is so so.

I pre ordered the new transfers of the Indiana Jones trilogy coming out in June.

Bought the Lord of the Rings Extended digital collection and, bought the Hobbit extended blu ray set.

Also got the new edition of Force Awakens.

Pre ordered Star Trek Discovery season 3 steelbook for July.

I recommend Princess Mononoke. If you are up for watching Ghibli films. Its not really a kids film though. And it isn’t lighthearted like Totoro, or Nausicaa, castle in the sky or Kiki’s delivery service. It is adult and quite violent. Though it isn’t as dark as say Grave of the Fireflies.

I’m playing mass effect legendary edition and so far the visuals compared to the original release are much improved. Colors and textures everything is more defined. The size was absolutely massive as well it took 100 gigs to install on my ps4. Plus the 10 gigs to install the play disc data.

You can play as the Mass Effect 3 Femshep straight from the beginning to the end. You no longer have to create a character design. All the DLC is included. And all 3 games.

A lucky shot that only two people in the galaxy could have made, Luke Skywalker or Darth Vader. The Thermal exhaust port only a Jedi or Sith would be able to hit that target. No pilot even the most gifted without the force would have been able to do it, especially at full speed.

I’ve been looking for the mono mix for Help!, but cannot find a home video release that has it. They did finally release the mono for a hard days night on the blu-ray released by Criterion.

He created two of my favorite movies of all time Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark.

I’ve always admired his imagination, his sense of visual composition and his incredible talent for editing.

His knowledge of how sound and the motion picture score is at least half the experience.

He got me interested in fantasy, science fiction and movies and how they are made in general. And in mythology.

Despite what i think of what he did with the second half of his career he will always be my favorite director, my generations Walt Disney/Thomas Edison. He’s influenced generations of filmmakers and visualists/artists and writers. Which i doubt was ever his intention when he made a fantasy film for 10 year olds that was supposed to be a Saturday morning serial, throwaway entertainment like those old republic serials.

Seriously he was the king of escapist cinema and i’m grateful for the childhood i had which would have been very bleak without his movies.