Jetrell Fo

Jay said:

Jetrell Fo said:

It is only now, after reading remarks in this thread, that I see how overly critical some of the fans are. I mean no disrespect to anyone and I will not point out any 1 person, it just seems that some can’t enjoy a movie for what it is … a joy ride, an escape, a family and friends experience …

This is what you think a movie is. It’s not necessarily what we all think a movie is.

Star Wars definitely falls on the action/adventure side of the scale and shouldn’t receive the same scrutiny as Interstellar, but after ESB, which is a good film in its own right, I expected Star Wars to keep growing up. ROTJ regressed quite a bit, but still had its moments. The prequels couldn’t make up their minds, going back and forth between politics and poop jokes.

If not ESB’s quality, I was at least expecting ESB’s sophistication, especially given the writers. TFA has some really nice dramatic moments in it, and that’s why I give it a 5 or 6 out of 10. The missing four points are for almost a complete lack of originality and general stupidity.

It’s condescending to suggest that because some fans didn’t get what they hoped for from TFA that somehow they don’t understand the point of a movie. I could just as easily suggest that people who eagerly accept TFA-style filmmaking lack sophistication and don’t understand what the art of filmmaking is about — which would make me a pretentious ass.

Anyone who went in wanting ANH, but not expecting it to be quite as good, got what they wanted. People like me, who wanted ESB, but not as good, were disappointed.

As I stated in my original post, I meant no disrespect to anyone, I thought I was pretty clear right out of the gate. I wasn’t calling anyone out. I still won’t. I went in to the movie expecting nothing but a Star Wars adventure with characters I love and I got it.

If that’s condescending in any way then apparently I know nothing about Star Wars and don’t deserve to be a member here.

My apologies to anyone who took it personal.

http://variety.com/gallery/star-wars-the-force-awakens-deserves-every-dollar/#!1/a-long-time-ago-in-a-galaxy-far-far-away/

It is only now, after reading remarks in this thread, that I see how overly critical some of the fans are. I mean no disrespect to anyone and I will not point out any 1 person, it just seems that some can’t enjoy a movie for what it is … a joy ride, an escape, a family and friends experience … Star Wars has never been about brain surgery or a cure for cancer … it is supposed to be fun. My daughter and I had fun and finally got to see some of our favorite characters back on the big screen, together again, part of yet another adventure … that is what made it fun for us.

Cheers

I saw TFA for the first time, today with my daughter, and in 3D.

My daughter and I loved it, from start to finish. I realized while watching that even though the EU slate had been wiped clean by Disney’s purchase of Lucasfilm they obviously borrowed aspects of it for ideas.

We will be going to see it again, guaranteed.

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I was very pleased with what I saw. I know there is some work to be done but for what it is at the moment, it rocked!!!

Just purchased a copy of Godzilla Vs. Biollante VHS from Dimension films. I don’t know if it has anything useful for projects but if it does, let me know and I’ll cap and upload it.

Cheers

TServo2049 said:

No. The Ultimate Toy Box was also direct from computer files; I remember that it was definitely publicized at the time that it was straight from the files, while previous video releases had been from film.

So the highest-quality film-transferred version would be the laserdisc.

Gotchya

DuracellEnergizer said:

At this point, all I want from Disney pertaining to SW is a proper restoration of the OOT. Everything else can take a flying leap into the sun.

I agree.

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Jetrell Fo said:

I have Godzilla Vs. Megalon in SP mode. I have it capped already with pcm, I will just have to convert it to DVD9 size for sharing.

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Ok, question. For some reason I chose MAGY codec when I captured this. HOW do I get it from the AVI it’s in now to an mpeg file, keeping the pcm audio, so that I can do a DVD9 size for this release?

Thanks

Old rumor, my bad then.

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towne32 said:

“March 13, 2015”

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Yes, old rumor.

http://epicstream.com/news/Disney-To-Release-Original-Unaltered-Cut-Of-Star-Wars-Trilogy-On-Blu-ray

What about the Toy Box set of Toy Story 1 & 2 DVD’s? Aside from the bonus material is there any reason to believe they’d be of any assistance?

TServo2049 said:

Diamond? You’re serious? I had no idea Diamond ever did anything SP! This blows my mind as much as the time I found an early Goodtimes copy of Alice Sweet Alice that was SP (and probably weighed as much as a half-dozen ordinary LP-mode GT tapes combined).

I just assumed you found the Anchor Bay SP version, the fact that it was from DEC just amazes me…

I bought it before I got the Anchor Bay VHS EP set that I ended up replacing with the SP set. I was at a local collectible store and bought it for like $7.00 because I was trying to snag a Godzilla 1985 VHS that was on hold for another customer who hadn’t come in for it yet. I did some research and found out from a fellow collector that he has the same Diamond release and it is in fact, SP mode, circa 1991. Probably a rarity of sorts, especially for that time frame. Fact is, I got lucky, and didn’t know it until afterwards, LOL.

All I know is this … supposition for something like this is not my thing. Going to see the film when it releases in my hometown is all I will need to answer some of the burning questions I have.

Have fun with this discussion.

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SilverWook said:

Betacam was a broadcast industry standard for decades. It’s not going to look like something recorded on a home VCR.

I might just go with DVD9 and keep it there. If it’s nice enough upscaling to 720p would probably be as far as I wanna go with it.

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SilverWook said:

Congrats on actually finding it. There were so many crappy slow speed PD versions released I lost count.

Weird thing is, I already owned it and didn’t realize it. It’s a 1991 Diamond Entertainment release that I can find nothing about.

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I have Godzilla Vs. Megalon in SP mode. I have it capped already with pcm, I will just have to convert it to DVD9 size for sharing.

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This torrent is up and running at the “bean” place.

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Space Hunter M said:

Jetrell Fo said:

Okay, for those who want these … I NEED a list of things these tapes contain that didn’t make it in to other versions so I can have a good description while I await approval of their upload.

Cheers!!!

It’s already established Gigan and Mechagodzilla have the unaltered dub tracks (no reverting to a clean M&E source/no lost voice work/no sync issues), but the remaining three are all okay because Son of Godzilla’s Titan dub has never been released digitally (and the domestic R1 of the export dub is OOP), Godzilla 1985 has never been released digitally on home video, and the theatrical sound mix is not on the MonstersHD version (What’s missing: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2qesua) (I already have a marginally better audio source on account of the Image LaserDisc but whatever), and Ghidrah’s DVD version is a rather poor reconstruction of the U.S. version not mastered from an actual complete U.S. visual source. These are all fair game for MS.

Coolness. I got the OK from Eftydub to upload. I just wanted to cover all my bases so they didn’t get put down after being uploaded.

I will upload the captures first and I will follow up with the pcm audio only afterwards. Thanks for the info. I will add it to the description.

Jedit: I also have a Dolby Digital ac3 file for Godzilla 1985.

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Okay, for those who want these … I NEED a list of things these tapes contain that didn’t make it in to other versions so I can have a good description while I await approval of their upload.

Cheers!!!

Space Hunter M said:

I wouldn’t mind raw VIDEO_TS folders of Mechagodzilla and Gigan to go up on the 'spleen (I would prefer folders so I can edit using the files and seed without having to extract an .iso which would take up unnecessary space).

I believe these would be okay on the spleen. I’ll get the approval and I think what I’ll do is put all 5 in 1 folder with their own perspective titles so that people can chose.

Give me a day or two to get things set up and I’ll drop a note in here once they’re up.

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FrankT said:

This might be of some help.

Thanks Frank, I will check it out.

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Would MP4 be more desirable than DVD?

FREDDY007 said:

hi, where can see the movie or it is possible to download it?

Reading above would have revealed this …

http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Post-in-this-thread-to-request-an-invite-to-MySpleenorg-you-MUST-read-the-first-post/id/8592/page/89#785311

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SilverWook said:

Yeah, I thought I linked to that one already. 😉

Why yes you did. I feel like a turd, LOL.

Sorry SW

There is a Beech Release VHS on eBay but it’s $24.99 and I’m not sure if I want to spend that for 1 tape. I’ll keep my eye open as patience usually brings better deals.

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http://www.ebay.com/itm/Godzilla-vs-The-Sea-Monster-VHS-Beech-Video-/350752506746?hash=item51aa7a837a:g:BrgAAMXQC-tS~ZuL

TServo2049 said:

Another cool thing to find would be an SP copy of Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster. This may be impossible; the film spent the 90s sub-licensed to GoodTimes, who released exclusively in LP mode. The only chance would be to hunt for possible SP versions of the earlier Video Treasures issue, or the Canadian HGV release which had the same box art style as the Anchor Bay releases. (I am assuming HGV had Canadian distribution deals with both GoodTimes and StarMaker/Anchor Bay.) But I have no idea if either were even issued in SP, and as with many dual-format releases the only way to know for sure may be to look at the cassette itself. (Makes me wish I hadn’t recorded over my SP recording off AMC…)

I will see what I can do about finding it if it’s out there.

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