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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.

Isn’t there a Laserdisc like this which also has the mono mix. I think it was the first version and had no digital audio. I cannot confirm whether it was time compressed but it probably was.

Final Fantasy VII remake and that was like a year ago.

I’ve ordered Final Fantasy VIII remaster and Mass Effect Legendary edition. Cannot wait to play them.

If my Xbox hadn’t died i’d probably not have bought the remaster of the Mass Effect trilogy, and would have been able to play Kotor 1 and 2, my digital collection of Metal Gear Solid HD. And probably one of my favorite games ever Star Wars Battlefront 2. The original not the one that came out in the Disney era.

The making of Star Wars wouldn’t have been possible without the work of Charley Lippincott and his contemporary interviews which he was never paid royalties for on the sale of that book, not when Lucas owned Lucasfilm and not under Disney. A man written out of the history of Star Wars much like Marcia Lucas and Gary Kurtz.

RIP Charley.

Why would secret hideout be involved they are Alex Kurtzman’s production studio, a bunch of other details don’t add up.

CBS digital always does their own restorations TOS and TNG are both at 2K. None of the new shows are being shot at 4K. We are supposed to believe that Deep Space Nine is now going to be in 4K. I don’t believe it.

Considering how even the new shows are being finished in 2k, and the sweet spot for television for Trek has been 2K, i don’t give this any credibility.

I thought it was Obi Wan’s pride and hubris as said in the novelization of Return of the Jedi.

He thought he could teach Anakin just as well as Yoda had taught him.

Then we get to the prequels and Obi Wan’s Master isn’t even Yoda it is Qui Gon.

I also thought it was a slow seduction to evil. Not a turn on a dime. Not murder younglings or lose Padme.

I’ve read some of the books. The tone is all over the place, the art is inconsistent, and the stories aren’t at all memorable. But as far as disposable entertainment goes they aren’t all that bad.

I did like the original Aphra run, and the second Darth Vader series. And i have read a good amount of the new main Star Wars series, Vader Down, and the screaming citadel.

Haven’t read the post Empire Strikes Back books yet. To be honest i’m waiting for post Return of the Jedi, that was my favorite era. And yeah i did read Shattered Empire.

I’ve read Rise of Kylo Ren as well. I’ve read The Poe Dameron and Phasma books.

I kind of liked the adaptations of Force Awakens and Last Jedi, and was upset when the comic version of Rise of Skywalker wasn’t published.

The rogue one comic was fantastic it was better than the novel even.

I’ve never read that one. I’ve read Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, And Julius Caesar. And Henry the V.

Haven’t read a midsummer nights dream, the tempest, or Macbeth. Yet.