JadedSkywalker

The story has shades of brilliance, but it is executed so poorly.

But Palpatine corrupting and manipulating the Jedi and turning the public against them and persuading their greatest hero to change sides turning their greatest hope into defeat, is good storytelling.

Promising peace and order to a galaxy thrown into chaos, a chaos Palpatine caused because he started the Clone Wars.

Anakin makes a devil’s bargain for his wife’s life but engineer’s her fate by trying to prevent it.

The died of broken heart might be poetic, but I do agree it is stupid.

It is a warning as well of how Republics fall to audacious dictators who promise things they have no intention of delivering on and dividing the people.

Who give rousing speeches, who promise to restore a golden age and appeal to a nostalgic past that never existed.

I’ve also heard of the bookends from overseas and I’ve always been interested that were different edits of the show.

Why did Lucas recut the show for VHS and DVD, does anyone know.

I have some old Trek paperbacks I got at the thrift store, library sale and flea market but that wasn’t one of them I’ll have to pick it up.

Agreed it’s a well-considered, thought out and compiled list of preservations.

I’m very grateful, the spirit of old is not dead.

The rollout of the new AnimEigo has been a complete disaster all copies of Bubblegum Crash Blu-Ray have been recalled.

I really wish Robert had not retired and sold his company.

I hope we get a new release date but Justin Sevakis hasn’t said a darn thing about it. It’s like they will quietly try and get it out by the end of the month.

Basically the last couple years have sucked to be a fan of Anime first the death of Rightstuf and whatever you can call this new company its not AnimEigo, only in name.

Edit: so they responded to me before shadow banning me on their youtube channel. A-ok at the replicator for a new batch. That doesn’t help how super irritated I am after spending 70 dollars and buying it twice and having no blu-ray, especially considering it still has no listed release date.

I assume rarewaves also didn’t have it and screwed me. I’ll have to get Ebay to get them to refund me. Not pleased with how unapologetic and blase they are about the entire thing, Robert would never have treated a customer like that. They have to get their act together and I’m not supporting this nonsense as much as I like Justin.

I get they are a boutique, but you can’t keep a customer out of the loop and on the hook for months waiting for a disc to be released when they preordered it and its been cancelled twice. Despite having a Jan listed release date which is a lie. Won’t even admit they recalled all the stock, claim and say it was all sold, despite no more than maybe less than a hundred copies being sold of the disc with the error before it was recalled and the entire batch returned to distributor.

You have no idea how much I would appreciate just the making of from the Japanese Laserdisc in good quality.

The rip that used to be on YouTube was horrible.

I haven’t picked the set up because the price its absurd it’s not worth 500 dollars or more it is being sold for.

Those guys are absolute geniuses. I grew up with the Star Wars sketchbooks and Joe Johnston was a hero of mine.

I can remember going to all the films ILM did as a kid.

How about Ghost in the Shell 1995 there was a 2.0 version that added new cgi and a redone color timing and a new mix. For the 2008 cinema reissue and blu-ray. Then when the 4K came out it reverted to the original version. And the 2.0 version was not done in 4K.

George saying the reaction to cgi was ridiculous, everything on film is fake.

Does not answer the point how much better used universe looked in the original trilogy and verisimilitude over shiny cgi in the prequel.

I feel like he started to do this quite a bit to the point its almost downright dishonest, like over Greedo shooting first, how Jabba was always going to be a Slug Gangster in Star Wars, how Vader was always the father and Leia the sister. How the original is an oxymoron. And now it looks bad because it’s a laserdisc.

I feel as though he mythologized more as time went on and the further away he got from Return of the Jedi’s release, he just started making things up. And even after selling to Disney making stuff up about how the Saga was always the Saga of the Son, and the Father and the grandchildren.

From the interview he gave in From Star Wars to Jedi to the one in the Definitive collection bonus and Leonard Maltin interview he had a long-time to create this idea of having it all mapped out.

I don’t think it’s all elaborate conspiracy to withhold the originals, or some evil plot. But he does like to tell tales.

The pre 77 stuff and 77 stuff George Lucas seems to be on the level it’s when he decided to make Vader Luke’s father, Lucas started mythologizing the Star Wars origins.

Of the prerelease and post release interview material Charley Lippincott took those are the most revealing and truthful about the film.

TNG made Klingon’s space Vikings.

I do remember some of the complaints around this a long time ago.

I think John Williams music is incredible. It might be overrated in terms of how great the prequel scores are viewed as like the best in the Star Wars series, I wouldn’t go that far. But I’m quite fond of the score for Phantom Menace.

Meyer worked on two shows Discovery and the unmade Khan show none of his ideas were used or produced.

Whether his Star Trek Ceti Alpha V podcast audio drama ever gets off the ground its beyond my ability to predict.

The amount of movies he was attached to, through the years that didn’t get made is too hard to count.

His Don Quixote is the most interesting to me I wonder why it didn’t happen. That and his version of Tomorrow Never Dies.

His Star Trek is Hornblower, Shakespeare and Melville. Along with World War II submarine movies. He didn’t make them as sci fi they only happened in the future. Also VI largely comes from his interest in geopolitics and Sherlock Holmes.

They work like a play. They don’t lend themselves to hundreds of millions of dollars Star Wars style explosions and cgi. Which is what JJ Abrams did.

My opinion is some franchises have a natural life cycle and should die and people need to let them go.

Stop hoping Berman Star Trek comes back 20 years after Star Trek died. Stop hoping Disney sells Star Wars back to George Lucas or just sells it in general.

People want their franchises to remain the same way as they were, when they were young. They kind of expect and want them to continue forever when the entire nature of the universe is eventually all things end.

It’s not just limited to these two examples, they should also stop making Ghostbusters movies. And Jurassic Park is more than played out. We don’t need a fifth reboot of the same Superhero film made again.

Copyright law should be restored to its original intent and works after a time works should fall into public domain and a sharing of ideas should occur and derivative works, not the perverse copyright exists after an author has died long ago. not in a favor of capitalism or corporations.

No giving mickey mouse eternal life as a Disney owned character long after Walt died. We gotta pervert the entire law to protect steamboat from going public domain. To which they eventually lost anyway they just delayed it by decades.

Patents should expire too and hobbyists should be allowed to do Roms of Nintendo games without legal consequences.

Preservation of long out of print works should be protected under fair use.

Some false memories can be from a trading card or the novelization or comic book.

But anyone saying he threw the hook twice, Jabba was in the movie or Luke did two runs on the exhaust port, i shake my head.

There is no valid reason for Han to shoot second. When in a saloon in a western the guy who draws and fires first lives and the guy who hesitates is dead.

Greedo said he wanted to burn Han down. It was self defense.

I do hope he has more success and it’s not his third flop in a row with Disney.

rocknroll41 said:

George Nolfi is officially the new writer of Sharmeen’s movie (so I guess getting Kasdan back didn’t work out).

At least they hired a new writer. So, it’s not dead in the water. Just severely delayed. No way in hell does it come out in 2026 for Christmas.

As for Larry I hope we get the second season of light and magic soon.

I’m referring to the so-called unrestored version seen theatrically with a radically different color timing Chris Nolan was responsible for. There was many a complaint and discussion.

original 70mm prints looked nothing like that.

It’s safe to say modern teal computer colors weren’t on the mind of Stanley Kubrick when he filmed 2001.

Not Spielberg he recomposited Indiana Jones and pretends they are the original movies as well as Ai upscaling Duel.

He is just as much a revisionist as Lucas, Jackson and Cameron. I’d also include Nolan for the horribly tealed 2001.

Sorry for the tangent if there is someone who can restore Dune without revisionism, I’d welcome it.

I wish directors would lose their digital tools of DNR, revisionist color timing. AI upscaling and sharpening. The movie is the product of when it was made and its limitations.

The tech isn’t quite there yet but i was impressed with how ILM did the Carrie Fisher scenes in Rise of Skywalker and the deaged Indy in Dial of Destiny. Much more impressive than what they did in Rogue One or Mando.

But all the deepfaking and deaging still has that telltale fakeness to it. Like Harrison moved like an old man and sounded like an old man despite appearing young. Which gave it away.

I didn’t understand the film when I saw it as a child, but it had a profound impact on my imagination, and it won’t be forgotten.

The strangeness of the movie, and Patrick Stewart being in it. It became a yearly watch for me starting in the 1990s.

I like Qui-Gon because of Liam Neeson and the quiet dignity he brings to that character, not quite Sir Alec. But better than people give credit to. The whole problem was Midichlorians. People scoffed at that and still do. May the Midichlorians be with you. Such a bad idea, almost as bad as aliens in Indiana Jones. But at least there the 1950’s cold war era B movies and that conceit lent itself to such an absurd idea it almost worked. Midichlorians were dead on arrival like Jedi as celibate monks.

You can say what you want about the prequels, but they do reflect Lucas as a filmmaker and all his strengths and weaknesses are on display.

Every director has their style and eccentricities. I just don’t get how people don’t notice the same issues in his earlier films maybe because they are better movies?

Or maybe he had help with the screenplays.

The whole digital cinema and we’ll fake it in cgi and fix it in post, is almost every major comic book or fantasy or science fiction film now.

The actual state of the negative and whether or not there are sufficient good quality sources to restore the film to its original state lie within Lucasfilm itself.

Of course, we can’t leave things up to chance seeing how since 1997 the entire point of Lucas was to erase that the originals ever existed. They were a rough draft, a work in progress he was forced to release, and he was unhappy with them and so, and on.

It’s completely unconscionable to leave it up to Loc and BFI to have to rescue these movies, as is 4k77 wouldn’t even exist if George had done the right thing.

I like to think of Palpatine as the evil Kenobi, I don’t know what George’s plan was, one is the evil father and is the good father. The best aspect of the prequels is the story it tells visually and with music, the dialog and acting are often the things that pull it down. You do have standout moments like the opera scene but they are few and far between.

I also think Ewan did a good job with you were the chosen one speech.

I actually like some of the derided goofier moments in Attack of the Clones, they bring levity and fun to a very wooden movie. And yeah the duel between Dooku and Anakin and Obi-Wan is mostly good. But then you have cartoon Yoda fighting Dooku.