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Oh I bet they love us over there.

Noise reduction is something that came along in the HD era to reduce film grain (like the notorious Predator Blu-ray) while before that DVDs were usually plagued by different problems caused artificial sharpening since the movie would have been crushed down from a higher quality. So that’s two separate/opposing issues from different eras. I would imagine the current streaming version is closest to what is being sold on BD now. Are there no AV club style reviews?

I can’t find a copy online but it’s possible another member has a screenshot.

SparkySywer said:

Omni said:

This thread loses much of its point when it’s just shamelessly biased.

This thread is rife with this stuff lol

I think that’s stating the obvious. Unfortunately there’s no alternative topic titled George Lucas: Star Wars Creator, One True Omniscient Genius…

So did Shmi need help working as… an interpreter? Or something more seedy… did she get sold to Watto for being pregnant? Ugh.

jinxfan2 said:

This did not age well

Because they didn’t use his work beyond a teaser, or because the art they used was kind lame? Or both lol

In any case Struzan’s work was not favoured by studios for a long time even before he retired. In the “Art Of” book that Hellboy one above specifically came up as being rejected after Del Toro wanted it, then found he had no decision making power.

Well everyone else in the movie is as dumb as rocks, so that’s consistent. Why did Owen (or Cliegg) need 3P0 then but says in SW that he has no need for a protocol droid? What job was he built for anyway?

I’ve only posted one interview to contrast it with another, so if there’s more info feel free to add it. You said the same thing twice without a source, I’d like to read it.

Well I don’t think anything else is needed there especially with the pacing. There’s the change between Luke and Ben selling the speeder and the spy walks to towards camera, before it dissolves to Ben’s “we ought to do well” line… I don’t think it’s that bad. Unless anyone really wanted to see how Luke found R2 and C3P0 hiding behind that door? Maybe cutting out more of those two parts would be smoother.

Dark Empire was pretty basic and occasionally silly, a newer full movie version could have worked if it was more complex instead of dumber.

The awkward part is the repeated exposition and the first reveal of the Falcon being changed.

I feel like everything’s riding on the Mandalorian movie, a lot of things could just be scrapped if it doesn’t pan out commercially. I mean they could be scrapped before then too… as is the case with so many other things they announced.

Recent George soundbite where he says why Yoda talks that way.

"He was basically the philosopher of the movie, so he was talking about all the things. I had to figure out a way to get people to actually listen, especially 12 year olds.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/yoda-speak-george-lucas-explains-1235326334/

However, just a few years earlier Frank Oz said it was his own idea based on one line in the script:

“It’s funny you ask about that because I was just looking at the original script of The Empire Strikes Back the other day and there was a bit of that odd syntax in it, but also it had Yoda speaking very colloquially. So I said to George ‘Can I do the whole thing like this?’ And he said: ‘Sure!’ It just felt so right.”

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/aug/30/frank-oz-on-life-as-fozzie-bear-miss-piggy-and-yoda-id-love-to-do-the-muppets-again-but-disney-doesnt-want-me

Basically zero hope (ironically) of anything new happening unless the BFI, who have a copy and also distribute plenty of classics on Blu-ray, somehow get to cut a deal.

The rumour mill suggests that Bix will be the next item on Disney’s content list to be uh… milked.

https://www.darkhorizons.com/disney-has-plans-for-bix-from-andor/

Well the Special Editions exist as a way of testing vfx and raising money for the prequels, so perhaps they would never exist. Or maybe they would as a way of getting funds for a sequel trilogy starting in 1999…

I haven’t played it but I think the gist of it was that it’s yet another Ubisoft title full of basic A-to-B quests and glitches that needed patching out over time. I thought Jedi Survivor was pretty good apart from the storyline towards the end.

Oh that’s been done ages ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CXMb_MO3aw

Oh sure, if not unfinished then perhaps “just for a sizzle reel”. Like they got Henry in quick, already had the set all built anyway, and captured the footage right there just for that purpose, never intended to be part of the movie.

Of course if you want to over-think it there was once a version of the movie without CGI Tarkin at all, where ILM decided not to go there, and he’s only ever seen from behind like that. But they decided to go down the stupid path.

Trailers are often put out without finished effects, and Rogue One is notorious for missing scenes and sequences only ever seen in promo materials. If there’s a “why” it’s probably just internal production troubles and budget. Some said get a trailer out by certain date, someone else say “good enough” to the unfinished shot.

There are a bunch of threads here already, plus one of our members made this site you can check all the many things that were chopped and changed:

https://rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-archive.blogspot.com/

I watched Rogue One too. Still tepid as ever. Still strangely edited with odd tonal shifts and bland characters. The idea that one piece of media improves another just isn’t the case in my experience. I think it’s a Gareth Edwards problem, since despite the input of other writers and studio interference it feels a lot like his Godzilla and The Creator. Nice to look at but damn they are lacking charisma. Jyn’s response to seeing the hologram is where I knew there was a problem; this and the other “emotive beats” are just them going through the motions rather than having real feeling. Oh well, I gave it an honest chance.

As always they need to be able to sift out all the tiny bits of gold from the last 10 years, understand why it works, understand why a lot of it doesn’t, then move forward. Anything can be good as proven by Andor; a project I had no faith it. Anything can be bad as proven by top branding icons like Obi-wan and Boba Fett. Can they achieve this? Probably not.

Yeah the Saw fuel heist thing went nowhere, beyond filling in his change in personality from prequel era to Rogue One. I thought the stolen gas would appear later somewhere.

Bix ending was fine though she could have been used more earlier, however the PTSD and drug use was obviously no go, removing herself from the equation makes some sense. Not sure about being on that same farm planet was a good idea though.

Lonni and the other guy plot was just there to lead into Bix being taken on the revenge mission; he used the guy to get info for Luthen. Somehow he never got caught afterwards and the ISB didn’t think it was suspicious.

slow clap

Now, where’s the Jyn and Saw prequel series?

Yeah the cancelled re-release of their earlier games I remember, never heard of this one. Which is odd when these kinds of SW starfighter games were being made by other studios at the time, so there was a market.

A prototype of an unreleased game called Star Wars: Dark Squadron has been found.
Dated June 30th 2004, it was being developed by Factor 5 for Xbox.

https://x.com/Daily_SWGames/status/1922034295775879380

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