Do you think this could have anything to do with Harmy’s Despecialized mini-documentary getting taken down last month? After years of existence Fox/Disney/Lucasfilm finally feels the need to suppress it, apparently out of the blue? Maybe I’m looking too deeply but perhaps that’s because they’d be competing with an official release?
I figured that the overlap in user base on the two forums would make it acceptable to post here, but it’s clear that that’s a dumb thought. It has since been deleted and I apologize for the lapse in judgement.
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he already has made what I consider the greatest restoration ever
Okay, I’m as excited for the day Legacy is released but take it easy. None of us have seen it. I think even he would say it’s a little unjustified to make that call before actually watching his restoration.
The end of August has come and gone, so one can only wonder whether it’s good or bad news that we haven’t heard anything.
It’s been about three months. Any updates?
Exactly how later this year are we talking? I don’t mean to sound impatient, I’m just curious.
Hey guys, saw MOMA’s 35mm preservation print of FOTR, and I must say, though the BD grading isn’t perfect, the DVD colors are far worse.
Rivendell especially looks nothing like it does on the big screen; it’s got a subtle cyan(!) shift to it rather the DVD’s ugly purple tones. Really, the film looked beautiful on 35mm in a way that none of the releases have done justice.
It really does look like to me that the BD was an earnest, if flawed, attempt to recreate the 35mm look in a digital realm. In short, trying to recreate the DVD colors doesn’t seem like the right path for theatrical accuracy.
Also, there was some footage for The Two Towers at the end of it, and, looking at it, the Extended BD (which keeps the established color palette from the DVD) looks flawed as well.
Where can one see the MOMA preservation? Assuming you’re talking about the Museum of Modern Art one, I have the feeling that’s not up anywhere online.
I’m making some bluray box sets of this. Let me know if you want one.
If you’re making them for anybody, I’d love one. I could pay for shipping or anything like that if necessary.
Yeah, there’s definitely a difference there. Makes you wonder why they threw that into the DVD then.
Before I go and download kk650’s newest version, I have a question: does it have the really orangey, warm filter over the whole Council of Elrond sequence like in the DVDs? How comparable is the color timing between the two?
How do extra frames happen? Why would there be that disparity if they come from the same source originally?
Is there any chance somebody could seed the Attack of the Clones Regraded edition on myspleen? It’s only at 3 seeders right now.
If you could still use some people I’d be down. Really, you won’t be running out of volunteers any time soon.
A few more questions to satisfy my hype:
What is the soundtrack going to be? 35mm Stereo and mono I’d assume, but maybe the 70mm 5.1 too? Will they be directly from the reels or will it come from the '93 releases again?
Will this release have a message before it like the SSE did? I’m all for giving credit where it’s due so I’m just curious.
Could it be because it hasn’t been cropped yet?
I’m dumb so if somebody could enlighten me that’d be appreciated:
What does it mean by “A conversion/preservation of the 35mm version of Star Wars East vs Technicolor hybrid?” Is this a version made from both Eastman and Tech prints?
<peeks in to see if drunk people are still giving out myspleen invites, not actually knowing anything about myspleen, but dying to get a glimpse of the cool, new preservation>
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The American-Rated Silver Screen Edition came out great, thanks for sharing!
Another thing if you’re going to re-upload the set:
Would it be possible to put the inner and outer parts of the inserts on the same pdf? As it is right now, the only way I know of printing both images is to print the first side, flip the sheet over and put it back into the printer, and then print the second side. Could there just be a simpler way to do that which I haven’t discovered yet?
I just printed off your first set, and I realized there’s a typo in the Empire insert. In the first paragraph of the crawl on the back, you wrote “persued across the galaxy” instead of “pursued across the galaxy.” I downloaded the set many months ago so I don’t know if it’s been brought to your attention before, but I thought I’d let you know in case it hasn’t.
So I guess the best answer would be both? Or maybe neither? I hadn’t considered that he wants to come close to the negative. It makes sense for him to try to remove any unique qualities that the print had, whether it was Eastman or Technicolor. That clears a lot up, thanks guys.
I only ask because of this comparison I made for various editions:
It looked like Legacy had a similar color scheme to the Silver Screen edition, and I thought that was based off an Eastman print. Maybe I just don’t have an eye for that sort of thing.
Quick question for anybody who can answer: Are the colors in Legacy going to lean more toward a Technicolor print or an Eastman print? I only recently learned of the difference, and I’m curious about what to expect.
I did anticipate a lot of people asking for it, so I’m just going to put it out here.
And the accompanying disc label:
Do not redistribute!
That is a very impressive cover, I like it a lot. Now I really don’t want to sound ungrateful, but would you ever consider doing a cover with US format for ratings on it instead of the European system? I’d completely understand if you didn’t want to bother, I’m just wondering.
