LexX

I’m only on the third episode, but I have to say I strongly dislike the show. There are just things happening here and there and they cut from scene to scene every time something almost happens. Also the wokeness just stinks through pretty much in every scene, it’s hard to see what is actually happening as you can only see corporates doing the same paint by numbers and ticking every woke point. The only thing I can say is that it looks good as a TV show (as it should), but other than that this is just a big pile of garbage.

Back in the day I once tried to read one of the New Jedi Order books in English which isn’t my first language, and I didn’t understand anything. Man, that was baffling.

G&G-Fan said:

I find it a little ironic that she apparently left George because he wouldn’t stop making movies, but now she thinks it’s unfortunate that she wasn’t brought in to do the prequels.

That’s not what really happened, though.

MonkeyLizard10 said:

Fang Zei said:

emanswfan said:

And to note the extra bit depth is incredibly useful for color grading work in fanedits.

I’ve run into many issues with regrading the prequels due to the limited amount available on the current blu-rays. Meanwhile working on Solo from the 4K Blu-ray, it’s incredible just how much you can alter the image.

Are you one of the twelve people in the world who actually owns a UHD optical drive?

???
plenty of people have them

Well, yeah, 3 years later…

I really like that Marcia has been coming out of the woods in the recent years. I wish she never left, she knew exactly what SW was… It’s cool to hear from a person who I had not heard talk or even seen anywhere other than possibly in old BTS clips until like 5 years ago.

DrDre said:

Wazzles said:

The version Gareth Edwards saw was likely the current Disney+ version since it was in the works at the time.

Almost certainly since he mentioned at the time they just completed a new 4K restoration.

I remember him mentioning/referring that it was the actual original version. Maybe my mind is playing tricks on me. If he didn’t then yes, it certainly would be the D+ version.

adywan said:

And why does everyone keep going back to the GOUT to “prove” that the footage is not upscaled or that it is all new? You really think that is the only source they have? Have you checked all the supplementary material over the years? But it’s also pretty obvious to see that, even with the lower quality compressed youtube vid, that all the film footage is lower quality than even some of the 16mm BTS footage they are showing in the trailer. It looks like older scanned footage they had already scanned from prints and not negatives.

Because the GOUT is all we officially have. I don’t want to speak on behalf of others, but when talking about new scans it means they seem to be new to us. Who cares what year they have actually scanned it, you don’t know it, we don’t know it. I think the main point people are making is that these shots seem to be from different sources than anything before while LFL has been giving us all kinds of excuses not having the originals, not wanting to scan or release them, and just trying to oppress them. Who believes what is a different story of course. The only thing that comes to mind is that Gareth Edwards said he saw the original film at LFL over 5 years ago, was it a 4K scan or something.

And you answered to yourself in the last sentence. It seems that way, so it’s something different than has been before. As in new to us coming from LFL.

CarboniteSolo said:

Most of the stormtroopers were there in Mos Eisley.

That’s because of the droids they were looking for.

Oh, man, there’s so many. Too bad I’ve forgotten most of them…

• Forrest Gump
• Caddyshack
• Harry Potter movies (okay, I haven’t seen one but all the clips I’ve seen are just nothing I’d be interested in)
• Iron Man (one of the two Marvel movies I’ve seen and this is supposed to be a good one) --> all Marvel movies
• pretty much most “great” movies made in the 2000s
• oh yeah, ALL Tarantino movies
• and ALL Pixar movies
• and ALL Kubrick movies

These I don’t hate but I don’t get why they are considered great (if they are). I think they’re mediocre at best

• Gremlins films
• Vacation films
• Goonies

D-O said:

nobodybutjarjar42 said:

also starting with the 3D release and later disney+,2020 physical re-release,and all streaming services since 2020 of the phantom menace have one change to add more detail here

Oh right, they updated the end of the magnet stick to look more 3D.

https://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=326049

Will you be adding these D+ changes to the list as well? They now end to the 2011 version.

screams in the void said:

I watched the 2006 GOUT version of Return Of The Jedi yesterday and noticed something I never caught after decades of viewing this film …not a visual thing , but an audio one …at the start of the scene where Threepio tells his story in the Ewok village , a few notes of the Imperial March are played on Ewok Drums . Who’s side were they really on ? Their stomachs apparently .

I don’t think it’s supposed to be “live music”, it’s just part of the score to set the scene.

Wow, nice find! It even moves its head and arms. 😃

Who didn’t grow up with VHS versions of any movie unless you’ve been born in the 2000s? Seems a bit weird question to ask, should we just abandon all 4K releases? 😄

The Batman is the moviest movie I’ve seen onscreen for awhile. After a couple of minutes the movie sucks you in and it has you right to the end in its own world. Man, I’ve missed that feeling since I was a kid. The world of The Batman is awesome. It is also a rare movie that I even think about after I saw it. The last one like that was BR 2049 which I also enjoy. The Batman himself is also really good. I thought Affleck was pretty good as Bruce Wayne and certainly the best part of the last DC films but that Batman was just crap all the way to his CGI cape and car, ugh.

While I really enjoyed this film, there are a couple of parts that I thought could’ve been handled better. First, I really didn’t like Bruce Wayne’s look who looked like a 16yo emo kid. I honestly don’t know how old he is supposed to be but his look just threw me off almost everytime I saw him, at times he felt like a kid and at times he acted like an old dude.

Secondly, The Riddler is for some reason one of my favorite villains as an idea. But his duct tape costume was ridicilous along with the weird question marks. Also I have a problem with many films where there should be this crazy villain or something, and then their handwriting, messages etc. look like they are made by an underground marketing department. Like The Riddler really would write his letters and question marks with different font types and sizes for no reason just for one guy to see. This may sound like a weird complaint but I’m a logo and font enthusiast you might say.

But my biggest complaint is the running time. I thought that the first half went on like a train and I was completely on board. But then there was probably 30min or more of just talking where they went back and forth and the plot was a bit mess, and then it for no reason ended with an overelaborated bomb plan that took way too long and didn’t even really seem to matter or bring anything new. I’d rewrite the whole ending to make it more tight as I was already rolling my eyes at that point.

But I don’t want to end in a downer, so I have to say that I haven’t had that much fun in the theatre when Batman was chasing Penguin through the streets, damn that was fun to watch. It’s also interesting that this is the first time since Batman (1966) to have The Riddler, Catwoman, Penguin and Joker in the same movie.

Stardust1138 said:

LexX said:

It is also weird Luke referring to Ben as Obi-Wan for the first time in ROTJ. I wonder if that is a writing error as well, or is it something that happened production-wise. For the past 2 movies and 30 years of Luke’s life he’s always been Ben to him, and then a couple of years after his death and when he has seen Ben for only 2 times after that, he starts to call him Obi-Wan? It just doesn’t fit into the story.

I don’t see this as an error. Yoda says as Luke is leaving Dagobah the first time - “Yes, yes to Obi-Wan you listen” - when they’re trying to warn him to not go to his friends. Anakin/Vader also calls him Obi-Wan to Luke. Luke naturally picked up on considering him as Obi-Wan instead of Ben Kenobi, his alas, from exile. He does though still call him Ben when they’re sitting together and having their more personal heart to heart. “I can’t do it, Ben.” I can count only three times when he refers to him by the name Obi-Wan. Once when he isn’t sure if who he knows as Ben is one of the same as Obi-Wan, with Leia on the Death Star, and the last time you talk about is when he says “Obi-Wan” before thet instance where they sit down and talk things out. You can see his slight irritation before they do. It makes sense within each context. Plus keep in mind Luke is only twenty three in Return of the Jedi.

I do. Also it’s the only time Luke calls Ben Obi-Wan in ROTJ so you have counted wrong.

It is also weird Luke referring to Ben as Obi-Wan for the first time in ROTJ. I wonder if that is a writing error as well, or is it something that happened production-wise. For the past 2 movies and 30 years of Luke’s life he’s always been Ben to him, and then a couple of years after his death and when he has seen Ben for only 2 times after that, he starts to call him Obi-Wan? It just doesn’t fit into the story.

Luke saying robots in SW as which has to be a writing error for sure.

I’ve said this in many topics but I haven’t watched the PT after 2007. It is possible I once saw TPM on VHS after that for some reason, to check the condition or something. I don’t remember anymore. Anyways, I still remember what happened in them and I can play them in my head if I wanted to (but I don’t), mostly TPM. ROTS I’ve luckily almost forgotton except a few scenes but I would have hard time to explain what happens in what order.
The point is, I love the original trilogy and I remember the time before TPM like it was a full life even though I saw the OT in 1996 for the first time. It was great time all around. After the PT I had lost this feeling. There still were the same movies I loved but with them came this other thing that wasn’t anything like it. So I made the decision, which wasn’t really hard at all, that I wanted that same feeling back where I didn’t know what happened before as that was way interesting that the PT ever delivered. I haven’t looked back since. From a nostalgic point of view it could be interesting to watch them again but I know for a fact that after seeing them the feeling isn’t one bit better than it was before, there no reason for me to disappoint myself as there are much better movies to watch instead.
Now, after saying that, I have to honestly say that after the dust has settled with the ST, I have to agree with some people that the PT felt more SW than the ST. For the ST I didn’t have to make a decision to not watch them, but I don’t even care to watch them. I haven’t seen TROS after cinema, and outside of the sequels, I don’t even remember if I’ve watched Solo at home or not. They’re just like 99% of new movies, you just don’t pick them up from a shelf to watch. Just boring and irrelevant. And for a movie being boring is worse than being bad.

If you take the Duel of the Fates “EPIC version” out from the trailer, there is nothing interesting or cool about the trailer. I rolled my eyes at least 3 times watching it.

MalaStrana#2 said:

This famous danish orchestra chooses Yup Nub

https://youtu.be/0BvqGkcoY88

This is probably the first time I’ve seen Ewok Celebration played live. Very cool.

mcbenzi said:

Hello! Anyone have the “recaps” clips? Which episodes have the recaps? Thanks!

I have but only on VHS and not in English. All episodes have recaps except the first episodes of each story.

For me that actually is probably the best SE change. That’s coming from a person who hates the SEs and all changes and haven’t watched them at all for years, but for me the scene works better with music. But of course all changes are changes, and I’d rather have the original.

Darth Muffy said:

Wow, alot of salty comments about Star Wars in general in this thread 😬
End of the day its a good time to be a Star Wars fan if your able to embrace the new.

“We are what they grow beyond” - Yoda 😉

It’s a problem if the new isn’t good.

Interesting topic and I agree with the OP and other posters as well. Mostly it comes from writing and how all the trilogies have been written in different eras. In the 70s and 80s if you left your hometown without a map you really were lost, and the world was a big place just behind a corner. Now when you have Google Maps, GPS and you can track anyone around the world, this place has gotten a lot smaller. And it shows as the writers are living in this world, everything is a click away so that is how they also write, unintentionally.
The same could be said about many aspects regarding 70s vs. now. Many people for example had military background or at least grew up with people who did. It showed on screen, people respected each other, standed correctly and silent, made no extra remarks or stupid facial expressions, had formal announcements (Death Star, rebel hangar, in combat). Contrast to now when everyone acts like they’re on YouTube, as it’s written.