Mielr

Wow! Thanks for posting, SilverWook. I once had a subscription to Starlog, but I never did catch up on all the back issues before I started subscribing.

Thanks for that- I guess the Burbank address would more likely reach the right person; I don't think writing to the resort address would be of much use.

Maybe calling the main switchboard # (818) 560-1000 and asking where to send a letter of the type that we want to send? And I guess then also asking if there is a specific person we should be calling to leave a message on 5/21-5/25.

PQTkid314 said:
1. As a group, we should all call Walt Disney Pictues on May 21 and 25, and advocate for a proper release of the unchanged versions of the trilogy. Phone number here: http://studioservices.go.com/disneystudios/contact.html

Sorry if this has been posted before, but someone posted this on the facebook page, and I found it very funny:

"Thanksgiving" by Paul and Storm:
http://youtu.be/nQoPyxIaREY

Tobar said:
Craig Good a 30 year Pixar veteran tweeted this earlier today:

Craig Good ?@clgood

Would you buy a Blu-ray or DVD of the Star Wars theatrical cut? Take & share my informal, personal, unofficial survey. http://fave.co/Us1oeb

skyjedi2005 said:
Mark Hamill has to be in it, he has not been signed as far as i know.

That and Disney has to address the  release of the oot.  And i will pay to see it.  That and it better not be an absolute cgi trukey like 1-3.

Sorry to hear it. :-(

Bester said:

I wonder how George proposed?

From the moment I met you, all those years ago, not a day has gone by when I haven't thought of you.  You are in my very soul, tormenting me... what can I do?- I will do anything you ask: ... if you are suffering as much as I am, PLEASE, tell me.

Riiiight....that's why they had to hire Billy Dee for ESB.

(...because Star Wars was racist. ) ;-)

I wonder if his impending marriage had anything to do with his decision to sell to Disney and retire from directing?

http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/George-Lucas-engaged-to-investment-executive-4168300.php

Pretty big age difference there....hope it works out for them.

I wonder if Harrison, Mark & Carrie will attend. If so, it will be the first time they've all been together publicly since the GL tribute.

Have a nice wedding, George.

There, I said something nice. :-)

Gotye song parody ("The Star Wars That I Used To Know"):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJlbPXZEpRE&feature=youtu.be

Moth3r said:

 - cover scan of the most embarrassing album you ever bought

I don't like the look of 48fps. :-/ It looks cheap & flat to me, like a sit-com or a soap opera.

There was a company called MaxiVision in the 90's that was pushing 48fps using 35mm film. I actually emailed Roger Ebert about it (he was a proponent, as was Martin Scorcese) and I got a response from him. That was before I really understood what it was; it sounded good on paper at the time. Now that I've seen it, I don't care for it.

Removing the film from metal reels & cans helps somewhat. Last year I had 2 B&W 16mm films of TV shows from the 1950s transferred to DVD, and the owner of the shop told me that ideally the film should be on a plastic reel, but he told me I should at the very least take the metal film reel w/film out of the metal can and put it in a plastic bag. I use the kind with a drawstring, and allow it to vent at the top. One of the films has VS, the other one doesn't (different stocks, I guess) so I keep the one with VS in a different room. :-/

You_Too said:

Maybe he's referring to generation loss when creating a theatrical print. I don't know about the chemical process of creating a print but I know that there is negative -> interpositive -> internegative -> theatrical print. Except Mike Verta said the technicolor IB prints of SW were printed straight from the negative itself.

KoolGuy7 said:
Can I ask what an IB print is exactly? Also is there one for Empire and Jedi?

Easterhay said:

I would second that in regards to From Star Wars To Jedi. Excellent documentary.

SilverWook said:

Baronlando said:

From what I've heard, sales of any blu ray that isn't a new release have been shockingly low, and not getting significantly better. I don't see how that can continue for too long but I'd like to be wrong. Supposedly even always-reliable titles like Wizard of Oz and Godfather fell way, way below projections. 

Oz is out of print right now, and Warners is going to milk it for the 75th anniversary next year. Maybe somebody will find some lost footage by then.

1990osu said:
I think Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back are obviously masterpieces both. 

What I don't understand is the critical snobbery and adults thumbing their nose at ROTJ. 

ROTJ is arguably the best of the OT.

Mark Hamill is apparently a fan of "Svengoolie" show :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNzLuUA6XNI&feature=relmfu

photo:

http://farm9.static.flickr.com/8321/8044485236_6b385d1f17_o.jpg

Mark Hamill is also on Twitter now (I was unaware):

https://twitter.com/HamillHimself

I guess time will tell if Fox now has any more decision-making power regarding the OT/OOT than they did before the Disney deal.

I'm sure they'll release the OOT if they can.

The fact that we're even discussing this boggles my mind! If you'd asked me in 1983 if there was a greater chance of MH, HF and CF considering a SW sequel 30+ years later or me growing a third arm....I would have chosen the latter.

Fun idea, but I'm still waiting to see what Disney does about the OOT on blu-ray and then I'll see how excited I can get about anything else.

Yeah, I don't know what happened. :-/ The cable directory said it was supposed to be CF and RZA it ended up being Matthew Perry and RZA. Maybe it was a last minute change.

In any case, I've discovered that Carrie is going to be in a Christmas movie on the Hallmark channel, so that might have been what she was going to plug, if anything.