Those models are impressively huge and detailed.
I was always wondering if the Imax would ever surface for this. The film reels would be massive in size.
All I’ve ever seen were overpriced film cels of the Star Destroyer cut from a print.
I hope you all enjoy the screening I live in the US and nowhere near Baltimore where the first of these types of screenings happened, or California where the film academy screened theirs.
Rod Serling? You’re traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That’s the signpost up ahead- your next stop, The Twilight Zone!
That is the Seito Style A. Its on the Japanese Story of Star Wars Vinyl Album. You can’t really find all that much out about the artist but he did a Flesh Gordon poster, Conan the Barbarian, and a Roger Moore 007 poster. As well as Death Race 2000 and Gone in 60 Seconds.
Maria De Aragon as Greedo really cool. I really like those pics.
But i have the same problem with them i do with the DIsney trilogy they don’t look used universe. They look too new and shiny.
I’ve never understood this complaint about the prequels. Now, I think the art direction for the PT is definitely off in many regards; there should’ve been a more retro-futuristic/fantasy aesthetic than what was presented. But being set before the dark times, things should look new and shiny.
You’d be correct about Coruscant. But there should be dirty and lived in worlds like Kashyyyk and Tatooine. And Naboo would be Art Nouveau and renaissance. With some Asian inspired culture. Tibetan.
The design of the Jedi robes and lightsabers would be more spartan as they are about blending in with the people and wear the robes of commoners. Farmers.
The Underworld of Coruscant for instance would be seedy and dirty. The metropolis of the seat of government would be futurist and clean and antiseptic.
Nice Colin Cantwell X-wings in that one.
I need to see more to make a criticism, the trailer was no more than a taste. I was not thrilled or moved by it. But I’m also not one of those people who will attack those who will derive genuine enjoyment from this show.
The title is kind of strange though it does remind me of George’s unmade tv series Star Wars underworld.
I’m sad to see he is gone, I will always cherish my memory of the film Willow, and Batman Forever.
Leia was implied to be force sensitive in a draft of Star Wars. She knew the art of Mind control. I do believe Lucas was thinking Bene Gesserit. Third Draft.
That is Gainax and Anno. Who went on to do Evangelion and Shin Godzilla. Who is supposed to be doing Gundam now,lol. He also was doing a Space Battleship Yamato film for the 50th anniversary but I have no idea what happened to that.
Star Trek II the Wrath of Khan Anamorphic first issue DVD. Super grainy picture and its DVD so its highly compressed in picture and audio. The print negative damage and color shift is obvious. I did watch it because unlike the 4K it has the original mix even if it’s in lossy 2.0 Dolby surround format. And i did not want to hook up my old tv and get my laserdisc player working and search for the Star Trek 1-5 box set to find my letterbox copy of ST II.
The original Empire Strikes Back being released and preserved should be dedicated to him, Jason Wingreen, and Jeremy Bulloch. But Lucas will never allow it. 2030 will be the 50th anniversary. It’s almost criminal the 20th anniversary happened in 2020 with little to no fanfare and no film.
Its clickbait meant to enrage, leading to engagement so the algorithm will reward him and ad revenue flows in. I may have been born at night but it was not last night.
I was kind of shocked when I saw the prequels because I interpreted the Jedi to be like the Knights Templar mixed with Samurai, and a bit of the Lensman of the Galactic patrol thrown in.
I never pictured them as celibate monks in a political structure like the Vatican. I pictured them as having families, the EU strengthened this belief.
Warriors that can put down rebellions and can end conflicts but don’t seek them out because they are peacekeepers. And negotiators. Their entire bodies and minds are sharp and honed like a weapon, but they only use a lightsaber in defense, never for violence as its own end. The Sith use violence and intimidation to rule.
Thanks to Elendil then. But you are the one who shared the film with me. I was just being grateful.
I had forgotten to thank you and felt like saying thanks.
I had the unique privilege of seeing the first screening of this at the Liberty Tree mall theater and having the print break halfway through. While they stopped it for 20 or so minutes to splice the print back together. Right at the Ringwraith scene. I was there with a buddy of mine Nathaniel, and his brother Eliot. Fellowship was a great film to experience except for the broken print and audio going wacky while it unspooled and broke.
The splice was an inventive temporary solution as they had to order a replacement reel for future showings.
Thanks Snoopac I’m enjoying Fellowship of the Ring. For the first time it looks like it did in the cinema no DNR has been applied. PJ really needs to go back and remaster these films they are horrible on 4K.
I like the lightsabers that are based on the ones in the original trilogy.
But i have the same problem with them i do with the DIsney trilogy they don’t look used universe. They look too new and shiny.
I like Mos Espa and Otoh Gunga as set pieces or places that people reside.
The Baroque style of the Jedi Temple on Coruscant is interesting.
I don’t agree with all of the choices made but I’m more than willing to argue in defense of what the film did well versus what it did not.
Good acting, cinematography, score, art design. The humor did not work in the slightest. But you know Mark and Carrie put their all into their performance. You get a good slice of the old Luke and Leia in there even if it’s not enough to satisfy original trilogy fans. And I like some of the film better than the novel, but the novel version is better in a lot of ways than the film in how it approaches the OT characters and treats them not as set pieces but people.
Han Solo’s funeral was moving beyond words to me. Why is that not in the film. Just so many odd decisions.
Lukes’s regret and Luke’s redemption are clear in the novel and not in the film. In the film you have to put yourself in his shoes and fill in the blanks, Rian gives you very little to understand other than the repetition of Kenobi’s hubris and pride as described in ROTJ novelization, being repeated. And a New Vader rising.
Watching the film with Rian’s commentary just confused me even more, I don’t see Star Wars the way he does or the character of Luke Skywalker and that is okay.
Maybe if duel of the fates had been made and Episode 9 stuck the landing people would be more forgiving of some of the more baffling choices made. I’m talking more of the sequel trilogy as a whole rather than the Last Jedi in isolation, the film does work better in isolation and not a direct sequel to Return of the Jedi.
Overall the sequels have better acting more understandable human interactions and motives and better dialog than the prequel trilogy. They are much better-looking films, the parts shot on film anyway and with real sets. You can fault them for not doing boring space politics, but I don’t disagree with why they did that, no one wanted midichlorians and space tariffs again. Rise of Skywalker has the worst story and dialogue period in the entire Saga enough for me to pull an Elrond say cast it into the fire destroy it.
I hope that 4K Connery set happens and I hope it is new scans. I’d be really disappointed if it just was the old Lowry ones given an HDR pass, or even worse some AI upscaling and filtering like Park Road.
6’1 I’m actually less tall than I was. Have no idea how that works.
Grant Imahara as well, RIP. I loved him as Sulu in that Star Trek Continues fanfilm, I won’t get too specific what I think of Vic. Because you know no politics and all.
I used to watch Mythbusters all the time.
Thank you SonnyGFunk and You-Too. A nice looking release.
I couldn’t believe they still had the actual prop from the movie of the Medal of Yavin and not a cast from the original.
Chewie’s Bowcaster is quite a prop.
Didn’t Adam work for ILM?
Hoyte Van Hoytema is someone whose work I admire along with Roger Deakins, I always assume no matter what the cinematography will be fantastic.
Even when a film is essentially lifeless and looks nice like Dunkirk.
I do remember Blockbuster Video and West Coast video. I used to go and rent a tape after work on most weeks. It was right next to my workplace Blockbuster.
Its where I rented my SNES games, Nintendo 64 and PlayStation. And where I bought used and new VHS tapes, and CD releases.
I remember when they rented DIVX and DVD and they were in competition. And some HD-DVD. Netflix and Redbox killed them they went out of business.
DVDs by mail killed them. Streaming wasn’t even a thing. Though piracy of DVD was an issue and so was illegal sharing of mp3 music files.
Now the Bestbuy and Walmart here pulled physical sales of discs. I do wonder if a retro video rental store would work.
I remember when VHS was king and Sam Goody and Suncoast were at practically every mall. I remember strawberry music and tower records. Even Newbury Comics is a shadow of what they once were. They at least still exist.
If we could get a repair shop that knows how to fix VCR’s we could keep the retro VHS era in continuance.