JadedSkywalker

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.

Alien 3 sucks but i doubt that is a controversial or unpopular opinion. Aliens is also so vastly overrated its incredible. Alien is a better film in nearly every way. Its real science fiction, its a thriller, its horror. Its not a schlocky action flick.

I hope the work out the issues with Indiana Jones as well so they can reprint the comics at Marvel. If that is why they are not being reprinted because they don’t want to pay royalties. The rights transferred to Disney from Dark Horse.

The library of congress does have the original prints submitted for the copyright they digitized. What they don’t have is an archival print. Lucasfilm couldn’t provide one because it doesn’t exist, even Fox never had archival prints made. What they did have was a 3 strip backup of the original camera negative made, which had color layers misaligned they never checked it before putting it into storage. Lucas dug it out in the 1990s and found it was useless.

The only archival quality print Lucasfilm could offer the LOC was the 1997 special edition which they refused.

As insane as it sounds no restored version exists of the original 3 movies at Lucasfilm, and no DCP has been prepared for exhibition. Lucas never spent the money for obvious reasons. He spent money on the 3D conversion and the Reliance 4K scan of the Special Edition, which eventually was released as Special Edition 4.0 in 2020 but not in 3D.

I see no problem presenting a film looking like it did during its original release, grain and all. With original audio. They should look like films made in the 1970s. They should look like Techniscope films.

I like all of those films. The Kurosawa films, Lone Wolf and Cub, Samurai Trilogy, the Zatoichi Films.

I like THX 1138 i have the laserdisc rip by Rikter. I watched the cartoon version once and never will again. The so called George Lucas directors cut.

It always seemed to be a different iteration of Star Trek. First reruns of TOS and TAS. Then TNG and Deep Space Nine, then Voyager and Enterprise. I’ve seem some of the new stuff but i really only found Picard to be the only one i really enjoyed.

Metal Gear Solid 1 in HD.

Funny that one. That would make Rey Luke’s aunt. Since she is both the daughter and granddaughter of Palpatine. And if Anakin was Palpatine’s son then Rey is Vader’s sister. It would make Ben Solo related to her which is incest.

I haven’t played those in so many years i had Halo 1 and 2. I also really liked Reach. I thought Halo 4 and 5 sucked, 3 was kind of a mixed bag.

The newer games the single player story mode/campaign is mostly an afterthought. They put everything into the online features.

I don’t care about MMO or online, it wasn’t why i was a fan of Halo in the first place.

I think i played Halo remastered and completed the first one. Started the second remake and lent it out to my brother who never returned the game.

Final Fantasy VIII remastered was extremely disappointing no 16:9 mode no skipping cutscenes, no voice acting. Looked like SD cdrom ps1 quality with some uprez. The game might have been amazing in 1999 not so much now.

I spent 40 bucks to buy the import, what a waste of money no wonder it didn’t get a US release.

4:3 1080P with black borders on all sides,lol.

I figured i would ask here where i can look for the HBO airing. I’m not looking for the standard airing premiere with Mark Hamill hosting.