Neil S. Bulk

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Join date: 10-Mar-2003
Last activity: 7-Nov-2023
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Post: #66567
Topic: Problems with 2004 ANH disc?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/66567/action/topic#66567
Time: 22-Sep-2004 4:47 PM

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Originally posted by: Darth Balls
Is it true that the PAL dvds have no problems, even the big sound problem that everyones talking about.

No. The PAL discs also have the music issue as well.

Neil

Post: #66326
Topic: Star Wars DVD Music Mix Botched!!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/66326/action/topic#66326
Time: 22-Sep-2004 5:51 AM

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Originally posted by: ricarleite
is it me, or the STAR WARS logo and introduction text was going too fast, a few frames faster than usual?

The crawl seems okay to me, but the title card "Star Wars" does move faster. It was that way in 1997 as well.

Neil

Post: #66201
Topic: Getting the word out.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/66201/action/topic#66201
Time: 21-Sep-2004 7:29 PM

Do you want to inform them that the films have been altered yet again or that the music has been messed up and Lucasfilm is lying about it?

Oh screw it! Tell them everything!

Neil

Post: #66197
Topic: Story on DVD controversy done in Austin-American Statesman
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/66197/action/topic#66197
Time: 21-Sep-2004 7:22 PM

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What Lucas fails to realize is that the moment he first released "Star Wars" and any of the subsequent films in theaters, they no longer became his. They are yours and mine.

Yep!

Neil

Post: #66196
Topic: Problems with 2004 ANH disc?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/66196/action/topic#66196
Time: 21-Sep-2004 7:16 PM

I have a two frame glitch in the middle of chapter 25. It looks like this.

Neil

Post: #66140
Topic: Star Wars DVD Music Mix Botched!!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/66140/action/topic#66140
Time: 21-Sep-2004 5:10 PM

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Originally posted by: MeBeJedi
BTW, anyone else notice that Obi-wan's "as if a thousand voices cried out...." line is missing?

That line is still present.

Neil

Post: #66107
Topic: Star Wars DVD Music Mix Botched!!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/66107/action/topic#66107
Time: 21-Sep-2004 3:30 PM

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Originally posted by: rennervision
From what I've heard, there is one possible solution to John Williams' missing score - right after Red Leader says, "This is it!" you should switch to the French language track. There's no problem with the music on that one because Lucas made a different "creative decision" for the French.

Bill Hunt has screwed up his report. Why am I not surprised. He still hasn't even given me credit for my findings. The actual line of dialogue is not "This is it!" but instead, "I'm going to cut across the axis and try and draw their fire!". That's where the music is dialled out, after that line!

Neil

Post: #65850
Topic: Star Wars DVD Music Mix Botched!!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/65850/action/topic#65850
Time: 20-Sep-2004 9:41 PM

Let me say this simply. Read my lips....

Lucasfilm is the biggest bunch of liars.

Neil

Post: #65615
Topic: Star Wars DVD Music Mix Botched!!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/65615/action/topic#65615
Time: 20-Sep-2004 12:07 PM

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Originally posted by: Jay
Thanks for continuing to push these issues Neil, despite the overwhelming resistance from the HTF membership and moderators.

I've suddenly noticed an almost complete turn around there.

One person is giving me static still, saying the music mix in the surrounds is intended to be that way. If I posted in that thread, my reply might be, "Who's the more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him?"

Neil

Post: #65602
Topic: Star Wars DVD Music Mix Botched!!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/65602/action/topic#65602
Time: 20-Sep-2004 11:33 AM

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Originally posted by: justlnluck
Isn't there a way we can contact Lucasfilm and alert them about this problem. George Lucas is a perfectionist, I'm sure he still would want the soundtrack to play correctly in his films...even if his vison of star wars is entirely different than our own.

The Digital Bits is now reporting these errors and will be contacting Lucasfilm about it!

Neil

Post: #65584
Topic: Star Wars DVD Music Mix Botched!!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/65584/action/topic#65584
Time: 20-Sep-2004 10:54 AM

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Originally posted by: Bossk
What aspect of this entire DVD release hasn't been disturbing? This is just another cog in the machine fueling my ire for LFL.

I think a complete and total recall is required for this. Lucasfilm should have caught onto this problem sooner and stopped it then and there.

Neil

Post: #65556
Topic: Star Wars DVD Music Mix Botched!!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/65556/action/topic#65556
Time: 20-Sep-2004 9:59 AM

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Originally posted by: Jay
Fixed the link for you. FuseTalk code is unfortunately different from the vBulletin code a lot of people are familiar with.

Thanks!

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Originally posted by: Jay
I've been reading your clashes with the fanboys over at HTF in the big Star Wars thread. For all their talk, I don't think any of those morons cares a bit about the quality of the presentation. They go on and on about the improvements in image quality, but have no problems overlooking the many obvious screwups, both audio and video. I've pretty much stopped posting at HTF because the membership there has become dominated by a bunch of posers who pretend to be movie and home theater enthusiasts.

Jay, I found out about this site because of your posts there.

I never realized it was that bad there until I found a really obvious mistake (the reversed music in the surround channels cannot be an artistic decision) and I was grilled there. Wild accusations were thrown, that I was watching a bootleg, that I just had an axe to grind. Anything was said and done to discredit me. The truth is tomorrow they are going to get this disc and if they care to check (it's not tough, I provided timings for everything) they'll see that the music track is mixed all wrong during the movie.

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Originally posted by: Jay
I listened to the audio clips you posted comparing the laserdisc mix to the new DVD mix, and it's true--the background score really is butchered.

Yeah, and that was a really old laser disc mix at that. BTW, did you ever notice that side three of that set is much louder than the rest and one of the channels (the left I think it is) is even louder than the right? It's only on side three of the pan and scan CAV LD. I made a 2 CD recording of the sound (someday I'll put it on DVD with the 1993 picture transfer) and I had to do some work to get that to match the rest of the sides.

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Originally posted by: Jay
Where's the quality control?

It amazes me that this disc made it all the way to retail and no one caught the messed up surround channels. What scares me even more is that future versions of the movie will probably use this mix. While I really have no interest in re-re-re-re done Star Wars it's sad to think that not only will the original Oscar winning mix never be heard again, but that the music will never be heard properly again either.

Neil

Post: #65537
Topic: Star Wars DVD Music Mix Botched!!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/65537/action/topic#65537
Time: 20-Sep-2004 8:25 AM

As reported at JWFan.

It really is that bad for the music and annoying throughout.

Neil

Post: #36081
Topic: George Lucas no longer cares
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/36081/action/topic#36081
Time: 4-Mar-2004 6:26 AM

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Originally posted by: Luke Skywalker
everything he released pre prequel was a quality product...

only after the prequels has Star Wars as well as the entire Lucasfilm company went to shit....

Products like the 2 Ewok films and Willow, Radioland Murders and Howard the Duck? Heck, I even hate Return of the Jedi. And the Holiday Special was most certainly a product released by Lucas. It was bought by a TV network.

About the only thiings that were good after Star Wars were The Empire Strikes Back and the Indiana Jones films (which had a lot of creative input from Spielberg).

Essentially there should be no surprise that the SE's and the prequels are of substandard quality. Lucas hasn't made a truly good product in a long time.

Neil

Post: #32797
Topic: It's official! the 2004 OT DVD release will be the Special Editions :(
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/32797/action/topic#32797
Time: 10-Feb-2004 3:18 PM

I'll pass on this release. I don't want the SE's.

Neil

Post: #29135
Topic: How should the sound for the original trilogy on dvd should be master
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/29135/action/topic#29135
Time: 10-Jan-2004 3:50 AM

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Originally posted by: Luke30
This topic is for the sound of the orginal trilogy and how should it be master for the dvd's.

Star Wars should have the original 6 track mix on it as well as the original 1977 35mm Dolby Stereo mix and the original 35mm mono mix.

Neil