Harmy said:
Isn't it a little sad, that in higher quality I could quite likely have recognized which is which just by a still image of the starfields before the pandown starts? :-D
No, that just means you're the right man for the job.
TV's Frink said:
You owe me a new mouse.
I think g-force has to pay for half of it now.
skyjedi2005 said:
poita said:
The best analogy I read was someone's tag here, the SE is like having someone run a long scratch down the side of your car with a key. It doesn't affect the performance of even the look of your car all that much, it would equate to less than 1% of the paintwork being changed, but every time you looked at your car it would piss you off, and you couldn't help feeling annoyed and wondering why someone would do that to you.
No disrespect to you the the person's sig and i am against the changes Lucas made but it is a poor analogy. Star Wars was Lucas creation if anything he was keying his own car not ours.
Now its Disney's car.
Since the car part of the analogy is clearly more important than illustrating how frustrating it is to be forced to put up with unwanted alterations, I'll run with that:
We're not talking about a personal car that George Lucas keeps in his garage at home. We're talking about a fleet of cars being sold worldwide with unwanted alterations deliberately added at the factory as standard features to all new models. It's infuriating to know that you either have to settle for a worn-out used car, or a new one that's almost what you want, but with really annoying alterations that you can't opt out of.
Davnes007 said:
Ya.....but he's making an edit so, that it matches the original. Isn't that worth making, a new thread here?
My understanding is that the section we're posting in right now is intended for comparing various official Lucasfilm releases, so an announcement for a new edit really should go elsewhere.
DarthKenobi said:
I am making a star wars edit so, it matches up with the original 1977
There's a whole section on the forum for projects like that:
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/forum.cfm/Star-Wars-Preservations-and-Other-Fan-Projects/forum/17/
No, because the menu is not actually part of the movie itself. If anything, I consider the "Despecialized Edition" label to be something of a quality assurance seal, where I can be assured that Greedo won't shoot first, Jabba was nowhere near Docking Bay 94, and gratuitous CG won't smack me in the face. As it is, there are a number of official movie releases that contain their special edition titles in the menus. For instance, the T2 Extreme Edition DVD shows that title twice before getting to a point where it's possible to play the movie, and the first of the two appearances has an elaborate animation where the title forms from liquid metal.
If Harmy pasted it into the opening crawl or something, you'd have a case. But he's long since earned the right to apply his stamp to any menus. Just as I'm perfectly ok with not having all the correct 1977-era movie trailers playing before the movie starts, I'm perfectly ok with a subtitle that reminds me of Harmy's tireless efforts to give us the version of Star Wars George Lucas doesn't want us to have. There's no such thing as theatrical accuracy anyway when it comes to a DVD or Blu-ray menu.
AntcuFaalb said:
Ugh, the comments. Why do people keep calling this (and other projects like it) an "edit"?
Well, technically this did start life as a Special Edition version of the film that has been edited to remove all the revisionist garbage. But yes, it is annoying to see something referred to as an edit when its (amazingly successful) goal is to be a restoration.
chyron8472 said:
Though I only speak English, I have to side with accessibility on this issue.
There are more people who want to watch Star Wars spoken in their native language than there are people who have enough money to buy a big theatre-style entertainment room for their house with 7.1 surround.
I realize you crossed this out, but if you're making a disc for your own uses, why bother keeping a bunch of extra languages in? Your argument would make perfect sense for a disc that's intended for wide distribution, but unless you regularly host international viewings of Star Wars, I don't see how stripping out unneeded language dubs from a personal disc is even up for debate.
After all the damage George Lucas has done to his own movies, it's reassuring to see what the fan community has been doing to right George's wrongs. I'm especially impressed with this project, and I'm eager to follow its progress! Thank you negative1--and everyone else involved--for all the hard work that goes into making something like this possible.