Not really sure if this is the place to ask but does Kerr still plan on doing "Arkenstone Editions" of the other Hobbit films? I watched the first one with some friends and we all loved it. It was their first fanedit experience.
Not sure if anyone posted this yet but here are some official hi-res stills and they look less teal/orangey.
Am I the only one that sees the "Darth with the red lightsaber" thing as an integral part of Star Wars? I grew up with the Knights of the Old Republic games as an essential part of my headcanon so I can't really dismiss that.
It's suffering from many of the same problems, but not all of the problems. Many aspects like the acting and production design are still very solid.
NTSC for film based sources is 23.98, not 29.97, so it's closer to the original than PAL.
For me Harmy's blows everything else out of the water. While it is reconstruction, meaning it's not frame for frame the original celluloid, the PQ difference between it and other preservations is staggering and makes for a vastly superior viewing experience. If you're more interested in a pure transfer of the original film, Team Blu's work is very solid, but when watching Harmy's, nothing every stuck out to me as clearly manipulated or recomposited.
I like L8wrtr's best overall, although I wouldn't necessarily call them definitive.
HAL's are a bit more lenient on pacing and a bit less aggressive with cutting.
I personally still like Kerr's episode III the best although it's only available as a SD DVD.
Q2's I would only try if you want the OT "secrets" preserved although that's never interested me.
Seciors Episode I is interesting (I haven't watched it front to back but it does some bold things), his Episode II doesn't really work for me at all however.
The blu for ROTS and TPM are pretty good (although Phantom Menace does have some significant visual changes from the theatrical). I'd go for the HDTV broadcast version of Clones however, since the Blu-Ray has weird colors and some inexplicably rearranged shots.
...That said. I'd personally go with fan edits.
Yeah, that's really it. The skin tones are more saturated and warm and the blues have been pushed to turquoise, I think that's what gave me the orange/teal impression.
It's interesting but It doesn't look very OTish to me. It reminds more of a modern orange and teal grade.
If the prequel films didn't show the transformation from Anakin Skywalker to Darth Vader I would have no interest in watching them. To me, the idea of preserving the twist is crazy, people watched the prequels in the first place because they wanted to see how this happened.
Ok, so there is a mono mix but it was paired with 16mm prints which probably weren't as widely shown in theaters. Afaik there are no major differences between the 16mm and 35mm mixes right?
Ady started this project when I was in high school. Now I've graduated college. That said, I'm still eagerly anticipating the release, I just hope the workflow for ROTJ and the prequels is more manageable for Ady's sake.
There is no mono mix of Empire.
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I guess my post couldn't be last forever... AntuFaalb, I'm impressed you actually haven't seen any of the SE versions this whole time. Still, the '97 SE isn't as consistently irksome as watching what they did from '04 and on.
Harmy, if you don't get the scenes you wanted from that iTunes book, are 35mm scans of Jedi becoming available instead? I have no idea how far along -1 is.
As of now, I have no 35mm footage for Jedi and the way it looks, I don't expect to for the near future, so it seems that v2.0 will be using the same sources as v1.0 and the improvement will mostly be only in the over-all picture quality.
:( That's unfortunate. Has Team Blu provided you with anything? I just hope that the lapti nek scene doesn't stick out like a sore thumb in the next version.
It would sound like this. And yes, someone actually made this.
Yeah, close the blast doors and the removal of the echo effect in the swinging scene are the big ones for me. Stuff like removing the intercom effects would be really unnecessary imo.
Out of curiosity, besides flipped rear channels, some unnecessary SFX additions/changes and a few gaffes, what's so bad about the DVD/BD mixes?
I'm pretty sure only ANH is on the spleen
As long as it's 5.1, sounds clear, syncs to the theatrical and doesn't have annoying SE sounds like the Ronto roars and such I don't really care where it's sourced from because I'm afraid I don't have much of an ear for those things.
Tbh, I could live without the alternate takes/alternate voices, the things I really miss are "close the blast doors", the tractor beam line, the lack of that horrible echo effect in the chasm and some of the extra sound fx. A lot of those are on the BD/DVD mixes
Harmy, if you do make a BD25 version of this down the line, is there any chance you could include the 81 crawl via seamless branching? That would make me very happy :)
Here's a version of the Obi/Vader duel with no choir in case people were wondering how it sounds.
As someone who really didn't like the aesthetic of the CG Clone Wars series I actually like how this looks. Yeah, It skews more toward kids than I would have liked but it has some of that OT vibe.
Edge of Tomorrow was really good. Need to see Snowpiercer