Mocata

Fruit672 said:

Ok, lets get one thing straight, George Lucas is the Creator of Star Wars and every other property he has created; He will always have a say and the final say. If he wants something to be X, it should be like X and honestly he’s been pretty kind considering how straight up evil the “fans” have been. The “Fans” at some point start to get this ridiculous idea that they know better than the creator and should have control over what happens with his creations.

You don’t think this is an odd thing to say, on here of all places?

I guess it’s about a time and a place. Is the discussion of the wealthy one-percent, animal cruelty, or war profiteering appropriate for SW? Probably not. Does it lead to anything useful in a story arc? Nope. Those animals will be captured later and the arms deals with continue as if nothing happened, nobody really learns or progresses as a result (though that’s potentially a TROS issue). That being said it’s one of those things that even in a well written script (aka Andor) it doesn’t gel with the space opera genre itself.

They should have tried harder to make the Vader costume look crappier.

Does woke mean anything these days? I use to think it was something do do with common sense being replaced by box ticking and messaging but it’s hard to say any more. Overall I still like TLJ but it’s odd if you break it down in any detail. Grifters complaining about Hollywood will say the Rose side-plot is forced but fail to say how beyond the basics of a lame non-romance. Would they be complaining less if Finn and Poe Dameron did this mission or is that too gay for them (or Disney)? Does it make sense Finn gets talked down to about how evil the First Order is when he’s witness to a massacre?

Elsewhere things like Luke being in hiding to avoid the circular nature of the conflict makes some sense. Some people say he shouldn’t be shown as an old grouch. But can the same old heroics go on forever, can these characters be simplistic and static? Which to me is the problem with Rogue One… it’s just so bland and has more fan service and CG action than personality. The sequels might not have much to say but RO is just ‘here’s Darth Vader, please clap’, and then people do.

Oh I meant like a fan passion project not an EA product, which current LFL might have some vague chance of replicating.

Broom Kid said:

Make it anime

Rip off Macross

Done.

That TIE Fighter short from some years ago did it successfully. Less than 8 minutes long… it’s impossible to imagine them achieving this vibe in 8 episodes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9GRYa_3gno

Why? They don’t have a good track record on TV with characters that should be impossible to get wrong. Something like this would need much better writers than they have, and I’d have hoped for a movie budget.

Yeah… from a “Twitter scooper” that I’ve never heard of, and that seems to have the original post behind a paywall.

Why are they still talking about it as if there’s “one rare print” lying there like the ark of the covenant and Gareth Edwards caught a glimpse before it vanished into a bottomless pit, gimme a break. Like he saw “it” rather than he saw one of many prints that are around and always have been. They didn’t even reference BFI release never mind the new leaks. Utter tabloid crap.

That’s a lot of new bits but it’s still pretty odd, I feel like it still could vanish like that Mike Verta project.

Vladius said:

Initial thoughts:
Since they would be “hunting” for Ben Solo he wouldn’t actually be in it as much as the other characters, so it might have looked like the Rey movie they’ve already worked on and cancelled (twice?)
People liked him as a villain, and people generally didn’t like the last minute romance, so it’s hard to say that the popularity of the character would be there.

I missed this supposed title somehow. Would it be like The Search for Spock LOL

Latest George soundbite on SW:

I’ve moved past it. I mean, I’ve got a life.

https://www.darkhorizons.com/george-lucas-has-moved-past-star-wars/

Which I hope is true. Maybe that’s why the leaks of new material have come along recently? Then again it could mean absolutely nothing.

Just last year of course we were hearing this stuff:

https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/New-Lucas-interview-2-Insists-Unaltered-Versions-Of-The-OT-Will-Never-Be-Released/id/118589

I think a film belongs to its creator. When Michelangelo made the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, he looked at it and said: I’m going to redo this part.

But I suppose both things could be true, he could be done with it all and still have power to veto a restored OOT release.

Now they’re saying David Fincher did the same thing, tried to pitch a movie post-TROS and got refused.
https://bsky.app/profile/culturecrave.co/post/3m3twora7r22n

It worked for Palpy, Boba Fett, and Darth Maul.

Dagenspear said:

Is this a joke? Kylo? The guy who I think has no developed solidly origins, goals or motives, is written as a real character?

Compared to Rey and Finn? Lol.

I feel the shroud of the Dark Side around this whole thing.

If they can’t figure out what to do in six years then maybe it should just stop. Or at least have producing duties taken off them. Kylo being the one who lived and wandered into the desert was the obvious choice since he was actually written as a real character.

I came across this artwork and remembered “Star Wars: Eclipse” was a thing. The Quantic Dream (Heavy Rain) production. Then I wondered if it’s ever going to come out.

https://x.com/qdream_ru/status/1916749239201272081

They claim it’s still in development, but say they are also making a multiplayer game. Which lately has signalled the death of dev teams since the market for such things is basically full.

https://www.eurogamer.net/star-wars-eclipse-is-still-in-development-quantic-dreams-assures-alongside-new-competitive-multiplayer-game

Audio tracks should just be an option for the viewer, anything else is probably harder to avoid.

I said they art they used was lame, not his work.

Anyway, RIP to a legend.

Well if you’re worried about leaving breadcrumbs now is the time to clean them up before it’s too late… before someone claims everyone got fired and the project isn’t going to see the light of day. If you’re actually legit use some common sense.

It would be very funny if Vader gave up after less than a day searching, and the bounty hunters were all just available together that same afternoon.

Yeah, same for me.

fallenorder0392 said:
The reason why we “gatekept” this in the first place was out of fear that the absolutely pristine restoration work that these people were doing of the Original Trilogy would be publicly leaked, and be pulled out of release by Disney and Co., and that these projects wont ever see the light of day. It would put the fansites (us, TSWT, etc.) in jeopardy as they might go on banwaves trying to silence us, or finally break that “legal gray area” that we’ve all been operating on for years in terms of restoration projects and fan-edits. It wasn’t really out of hoarding or keeping them to ourselves, we knew the implications if this would leak (given this is some very high level technical stuff involving teams of people working across different departments, allegedly) and we wouldn’t want these people to lose their jobs because of a shoddy autouploader that was posted to a random YouTube account.

I’m still not convinced an automated system accidentally created a youtube account and shared clips tbh. Does such a thing even exist, does it happen to other YT users? Is there a ghost in the machine at LFL? It seems more likely this leak was a test gage who much niche interest (and therefor profit) might be gained from such a release. Ironically the release of the real OOT would “silence” fans doing their own work… because the lack of any official release is the reason for the bootlegs.

On the subject of these pictures though… they look nice? I’m not expert but it’s newly graded and the old magenta is gone and the new Disney+ de-saturation is also gone. There’s a bunch of technical stuff in text form which is odd, and so is the lack of real watermark other than a tiny text thing underneath. Is someone on the site that’s been working on their versions over the years around to comment?

crissrudd4554 said:

Mocata said:

It’s done well, but also you could watch any of the many other cuts quite easily at one time (this edition seems to be out of print).

It is and therefore not as easy as it once was.

Not as easy, but still doable. It was always a collector’s item, so a bit more expensive (or a lot depending on your chances in the used market today) rather than something impossible. That’s how it should have been done with Star Wars; a choice for the OOT fans (or even the 1997 SE fans) instead of it being buried.

JadedSkywalker said:

I did vastly prefer the previous director’s edition of Star Trek the motion picture for instance because they tried to make it match what was done in 1979. The 4K was much more like a Lucasian affair. I may enjoy it as an alternate cut but I would hate if they had decided to not allow the 1979 version. But in an expensive boxed set they allowed you to have not one and not two, but three cuts of the movie including the special longer tv cut in widescreen with the matte for the Kirk finally finished.

Well that’s the thing; as a casual fan of Star Trek TMP I can live with it being the “DVD” cut whichever that one was. But at least over time different editions have existed. Even my personal fave, STVI, has been altered on different releases over time for some reason.