Rikter

Originally posted by: Kiwi Slasher
A question, is it worth purchasing the rare japanese Laser discs of IV ? Are they better quality then LD dvd transfers?

I was out bid the other day, but it went too high for me to rebid. $60US + $20 shipping!! I was hoping another one pops up cheaper and gets less attention.

Originally posted by: hiphats
Good call, Rikter! This way Superman fans will have a choice, should they decide to go the Torrent way.

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Originally posted by: hiphats
Kiwi Slasher,

The best version of the extended Superman I that I can recommend to you is my edit (my digitally edited recreation of the Salkind International Edit). E-mail me and we'll discuss things.

Originally posted by: agr1170


You say uploaded, do you mean to MYSPLEEN hopefully?

Originally posted by: TPK2
Well, howdy all! This is my first post here, although I've been lurking for a few days after being pointed here by one of the fine fiolks at rpgnet.

Let me just say that this site, and these re-edits, and the fact that peopel do them, and the people that do them, are all very, very cool.

YEARS ago, in the ancient days of the mid-'80s, when dinosaurs ruled the earth, I did a re-edit of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, shaving about 45 minutes out of it, which helped. The version on the new(ish) Director's Edition dvd well makes up for the fact that that old edit of mine no longer exists. This was before DVDs, in fact before digital anything. Well, okay, I bought my first cd thje same year (it was either ELO's "Out of the Blue" or Van Halen's "Diver Down"), and about 10 years before I would own my own computer, back when diskette's and Syquest discs were really cool. I'm just now getting to a point in terms of hardware and software where I'm able to look into doing re-edits again. I love movies and I love Star Wars. I was the only person I knew who knew about A New Hope before it came out, because I had a subscription to Starlog magazine. I saw it 7 times at the theatre, riding my bike five miles there and back every time, and it probably changed my life, or at least cemented me into alife of geekdom, just in case years of Star Trek reruns and Planet of the Apes movies hadn't already done that. I went to film school for a couple of years, with dreams of making Lord of the Rings movies. Peter Jackson seems to have taken care of that fairly well (though I'd still like to see a 40-hour BBC miniseries version!). Currently I work as a professional illustrator, graphic designer, and (mostly) as a comic book colorist. I'm currently looking into SiteGRinder as a way to design websites straight from Photoshop (with which I am a bit of wiz, if I may say so). I have a wife and two kids, and am trying to figure out how old they have to be to watch ANH...

Why all that? Well, I didn't want anyone to think I was just some greedy schlmeil off the streets when I say that I'd saw off a leg for DVDs of MagnoliaFan's latest versions of Balance of the Force and Clone War and...whatver else he has. Looks like he has ESB in the can (?). Either leg will do - I make a living sitting.

Some kind soul could PM me.

Originally posted by: hiphats
Rikter,

I think it would be wise to also keep on your trade list the "Darth Anonymous" NTSC composite of the SIC of Superman: The Movie if only for the sake of those here in the U.S. that do not have players that can also play PAL. This way they can have a choice.

Originally posted by: Citizen
I'm curious to know, what has been done with the "Edge" documentary I supplied, re-encoded to be smaller? menus?

Originally posted by: segaflip
Sounds like a cool project, if you would like it uploaded to a.b.starwars just let me know.

Originally posted by: Crappy_Logo_Productions
And it’s done…

~PULP FICTION~

OK I took the movie “Pulp Fiction” and edited it so the whole movie runs in chronological order. From start to finish you get the story as it unfolds without jumping back and forth in the timeline of this movie. The only scene that is still out of place is the opening prologue, which I wanted to cut as a split screen with the later scene, but couldn’t get it to work to my expectations so I left it where it was. The only part of this film that was cut completely was the scene with the guy in the bathroom while Samuel L. Jackson gave his Ezekiel speech. Other than that it’s all here and in order.

Also for this disc I had to go in and personally re-master the 5.1 sound mix so that it would work well when jumping from scene to scene. Because of this some music cues have changed slightly but you would be hard pressed to find where without watching this back to back with the official DVD release of the film.

I again designed the menus and the picture is in anamorphic widescreen so everything looks as nice as humanly possible. I have designed a cover for this project (unlike “The Evil Dead” and “The Dark Side of Oz” projects) and I hope to have it posted on the web soon.

I’m just letting you guys know that this is out and to see what kind of interest there is for this disc. I’ll let you know what is going on with this disc in a short while. So as of now just consider this “Coming Soon!”