JadedSkywalker

I have no idea but i think Empire has the best duel. I think the prequels are like dance choreography, or at least Episode I is. There is a lot of flashy movement. That is not to say i hate it. I like Duel of the Fates but the originals had better sword fights. The sequels only had one duel which was good force awakens. The one film where there should have been a duel Last Jedi didn’t have one. They missed a chance to have Luke be a badass instead of a Force Hologram.

I like a lot of Star trek but i feel like the TNG films were a lost opportunity.
1 great action flick, 1 mediocre film and 2 awful films.
Even Star Trek V as bad as it is has its moments. The TNG films just never really worked, and i wonder why. Great cast, the potential is there and they had good writers and creatives. Yet nothing ever really gelled.

I don’t know but shouldn’t an archive of the making of the Original film actually reflect that film, and not some 1990s cgi that was garbage. Even Rian Johnson referred to the special edition as the cartoon versions.

I wish i could find that comment its probably since been deleted.

I would go to see another film with Rey becoming a Jedi Master and taking Finn as her apprentice.

We could finally see the Republic restored and the Jedi order rebuilt.

I don’t know if you could do an entire trilogy out of it but a stand alone episode 10 maybe.

I don’t see Lucasfilm doing that though.

Also conflict makes good drama, well the conflict of Star Wars is played out you can only do so much Jedi VS Sith stories, or rebels vs empire.

I have to say this looks pretty fantastic even if i prefer 4K83 no DNR. Its good there is a version that is more modern for those who want the remaster but still the original, instead of the Maclunky Edition.

The George Lucas interviews. It is a compilation of various interviews given to the press and magazines through the years.

I’ve read the ones on THX and Graffiti so far. Its interesting. His contempt for the Hollywood system and grudge for the edits made to his first two films is kind of hilarious. Especially the bit about art being pretentious and BS, and how he is more like a watchmaker.

How he admits to not being a good writer and that his strength was as an editor. And how he relied on his friends on the script, and how he threw out the first 3 drafts of Star Wars. That he considered the lead for Star Wars to be a girl before he cast Mark Hamill to play Luke.

Not like the 1990s and after how he had the whole thing as one big script and it was always the story of Darth Vader.

I love your live streams and commentaries i also want to chime in and say thanks.

I like the commentaries they remind me of those on TCM and Criterion collection.

You’ve been kind, decent and welcoming. I’m sad to see you go. May the Force be with You! Jason.

I don’t think telecines done for home video were ever meant to be representative of anything, much less a color source.

At least the negative for Star Wars is not gone, nor are other surviving prints or elements.

I would like to someday sit down and watch all of Droids. Not sure i would say its essential for a movie marathon.

I also like to watch the entirety of clone wars minus the new season which isn’t on blu ray or digital outside of Disney plus. I like to watch the Micro series and also to watch Rebels.

The 1976 Novelization with Ralph McQuarrie cover in paperback, signed by Alan Dean Foster.

I think it by the end of the film things start to shape up to actually look and feel like Star Wars, when it leads towards the original film. And people always wanted to see Kenobi and Anakin duel over a pit of lava and see how Vader became this more machine than man Frankenstein’s monster.

Of course the film ends just when things begin to get interesting and we never get to see suited Vader hunt down and destroy the Jedi Knights.

It is a good movie. Not as good as Star Wars or Empire, but a good movie.

There are some aspects of the film which could have been better though. While Luke Skywalker’s arc is strong and the central part of the picture, Han and Leia have little to do.

Anyway if Lucas was not so quick to finish the Saga i would have preferred to see Luke training as a Jedi, going through some stuff and confronting Vader. And then finding out about his sister and facing the Emperor in the second trilogy.

The rest of Tolkien’s books. I just never got around to reading them.

including the expanded Beren And Luthien, Fall of Gondolin, and the revised edition of On Fairy Stories.

I really enjoy the prequel scores i wish we got the rest of the unreleased music.

The remastered versions are just the album releases on Vinyl.

Quinlan Vos being mentioned is another one.

I cannot speak to the what is happening on Amazon UK but import releases make their way to Amazon US all the time. Even region B releases incapable of being played on a player in the US.
I think the Star Wars discs are region free or something, The Zavvi discs. Or why would people in North America be importing them? I’m speaking of the 4K steelbook releases.

I’m also looking forward to the Japanese Pan And Scan releases.
84 empire, 86 and 91 star wars.

These have never been preserved. Watching this thread with great interest.

I see you used the radio drama for the dialog. Not sure if it works because the sync of Luke’s moving lips doesn’t match. But what can you do? The deleted scene was silent because they never bothered to have Mark Hamill come back into the studio and do some voice recording over the scene. The clip was deleted early in the process even the Special effects are temporary.

On Laserdiscs where there are dropouts and the sound sounds like bacon crisping in a pan, you cannot really do anything can you?

Years ago i tried to capture a rotted title and even with software i couldn’t restore the sound even with filling in gaps from another source.

It simply was easier to get the VHS or DVD counterpart and use the audio from those.

I still hope you can find a solution on how to capture the DiscoVision audio.

The youtube stuff is primarily for clicks and profit, marshaling hate for money. I don’t even think its about fans who love star wars and have a disagreement where the franchise is going anymore. They never focus on what they love about the movies. You don’t like Disney Star Wars, fine then enjoy the past movies and novels and video games and comics.

If you don’t like a movie you simply don’t watch it plain and simple.

What did fans do who disliked the Prequels they walked away from the franchise. Only a small minority spent years telling Lucas he ruined their childhood.

The Dolby Digital EX track is fantastic. I’m watching this it is pretty incredible. Great job on the preservation.

I think Back to the Future III is a good one. II was never really that good, but i liked the whole tangent universe. As a concept it was cool in execution not so good. The whole revisiting the first movie within the second never really worked.I still like it though but as sequels go its kind of weak.

So many movie series where all i really need is the first film. Back to the Future is one of them, Terminator and Alien are others, and then there is Raiders of the Lost Ark and Jaws, and Jurassic Park. Also the Original Predator. And none of its sequels.

I couldn’t give away my Star Wars #1 after Phantom Menace premiered. I bought it for 60 during the early 1990s and after 1999 they wouldn’t give me more than 25 for it. I haven’t gotten it graded i’d say its maybe a 4 or 4.5, Its still only worth 60 bucks.

The sale of Lucasfilm to Disney has inflated the asking prices for a lot of things just because its Disney.

But the actual value of said merchandise hasn’t gone up. Except maybe if you are dealing in rare scripts, documents or props. Or vintage toys.

I think the Clone Wars animated series redeemed the prequels in a lot of ways. But its not to everyone’s taste.
There isn’t an animated sequel or Disney plus show to redeem the sequel trilogy, at least in the eyes of the fans. I’ve already said that i liked all the Disney Lucasfilm shows and movies except for Last Jedi. And that is sort of a mixed bag for me. A lot to like and a lot to dislike.
Over all Disney has a better track record than Lucas did post Return of the Jedi.

Honestly i also really enjoyed Rebels. the only show that was a miss was resistence but was starting to finally get interesting before it got the axe. The comic books were or are good for both the prequels and sequels. The video games etc.

Honestly the biggest miss for me is the new Disney Canon novels by Del Rey, other than Lost Stars and Bloodline they are bad, in my opinion. Zahn’s Thrawn books are dreadfully boring, and political. I tried reading Thrawn Treason and i put it down to never pick it up again.

The New Marvel Comics stuff was mostly good. But there are too many titles and a lot of filler.

What does any of this to do with the movies. I see Star Wars as a multi media franchise not exclusive just to movies. I like aspects of both the prequels and sequels but the sequel trilogy has the edge. And honestly i only like 2 of the films of either trilogy when i think of it. Attack of the Clones and Last Jedi are the weakest entries in the entire Saga.