SilverWook

Can we at least wait until Celebration to give up all hope? Geez!

There are still some people for whom DVD is “good enough”. There were people who would buy VHS if it was still offered. I do recall a few barking loonies on the late IMDB boards who insisted Blu Rays were a ripoff. 😉

We got to see the black and white workprint of the cantina scene. It first appeared on the Making Magic CD-ROM in 1996.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Maybe he’s talking about a porn parody we haven’t heard about yet.

Rogue XXX? And Moroff will still barely be in it. 😉

ray_afraid said:

There is nothing wrong with re-creating a character whom the original actor sold his likeness for.

And whose estate gave their blessing.

generalfrevious said:

Of all the bad things Lucas has done over the years, at least he didn’t tastelessly CGI in long-dead actors into his movies.

He only erased the long dead Sebastian Shaw as Anakin’s ghost, and otherwise altered a film whose director has been dead since 1987. 😉

Beast did have a visible tattoo in the bath scene. 😉

Does the Blade Runner workprint count?

DominicCobb said:

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

A lot of those trailer shots are just glamour shots. For instance Jyn vs Tie Fighter, Jyn in tunnel, etc

Exactly.

Not to mention earlier versions of the film were unfinished in many regards (VFX, sound mixing, score, etc.), and were likely quite a bit worse than the theatrical. Oh, and yeah, when has a studio ever released a rough cut of a film before?

Literally the only instance I can think of is Alien 3, but that’s only because Fincher wouldn’t do a director’s cut. And how much later was that?

imperialscum said:

MathUser said:

If the forum had a search feature I could at least search for a topic that way.

Search feature is completely unnecessary when you have Google. In case you do not know how to search within particular website with Google:

site:originaltrilogy.com frink bully

http://originaltrilogy.com/announcement/Updated-OTcom-Forum-Rules-and-Guidelines-Applies-to-all-forums-including-Off-Topic/id/52717

How come these mass prayer things never ask for useful stuff, like Kim Jong Un slipping on a banana peel, and falling down a long flight of stairs? That would be a Christmas miracle!

Anyway, as Bannon might just be a warlock, Trumpy is probably safe either way. 😉

joefavs said:

Eh. We can crow about how justified we are and how mistreated we’ve been about the OUT, but the truth is our side can be real dicks. There’s a viciousness here recently that I don’t think is proportionate or appropriate.

Compared to a decade ago, this is rather mild. We used to have a few potentially deranged people around here making disturbing posts that made the rest of us look bad. I could never figure out if they were trolling, or really wanted to do George physical harm. Glad they’re long gone in any case.

But it’s incumbent on everyone here that if you see a posting you feel crosses a line, tell a mod?

Ani/Obi slash? Not sure I even want to know! 😉

ray_afraid said:

I love this BTS pic. It’s canon to me.
The Rebellion runs on coffee.

The old making of ESB paperback describes the tea cart ladies cheerfully serving Vader and his snow troops on the set. Wish there was a photo of that!

ray_afraid said:

LexX said:

ray_afraid said:

I love this BTS pic. It’s canon to me.
The Rebellion runs on coffee.

And on British cars?

And on imagination, which you need more of. 😉
If we can pretend that the DS’s laser firing equipment isn’t TV station controls, I’m sure we can turn that headlight into anything.

Grass Valley video switchers are very versatile. And yes, I did do a double take the first time I saw one when I first set foot in a tv studio back in high school. 😉

Handman said:

What’s wrong with Trek fans? 😛

Nothing at all. They have the same silly divisive arguments we do. Kirk Vs. Picard ring a bell?

Cedric T Sealion said:

moviefreakedmind said:

stealthboy said:
I’m fine with people liking the prequels up until they start trashing the OUT. Then we will have words. I make the mistake of venturing over to reddit.com/r/starwars/ sometimes. Basically I’m not a real fan and not welcome because I don’t embrace the prequels and all the changes they feel were necessary to the OT just to fit more inline with their prequels.

I agree with you. This is the reason why I can’t stand the Star Wars fandom, I’ve never seen anything like it with any other major franchise.

Star Wars is a nasty fandom, and it’s all because the OUT is unavailable in acceptable quality and prequelists gloat about it. If Disney made the OUT available, it would calm everything right down.

You need to hang around Trek fandom for a while. 😉
Some bad behavior from SW fans simply comes from being a douche, not the lack of the OOT.

pittrek said:

Wasn’t it mastered on D1? At least that’s what I read somewhere, that TNG was mastered on D-1 and later they upgraded to D-2,

Probably, but some local U.S. tv stations outside major cities were still using analog broadcast formats. Satellite delivery of tv shows was more economical and practical than sending tapes out. (And digital tv signals didn’t exist yet.) Unless you lived in a major tv market, you might not have been seeing shows on the same format they were mastered in. And if you didn’t have cable tv, that’s a different can of worms.

Laserdisc releases of TNG episodes probably looked better than most broadcasts did.

Well, the obvious marketing hook would be “Original 1977 version!” or “The Star Wars you loved as a kid, now you can watch with your kids.” or some such thing.
And if they actually go with that, I will sue. 😉

Unless there’s a major news leak, we aren’t going to hear anything concrete before Celebration.

That tidbit on Song Of The South is interesting though.

Mithrandir said:

I think George’s worst decission was not to trust himself enough.

Unlike what most of people think, at times (and only at times) I believe he failed on looking and caring way too much what other people (the industry) was doing when he engaged the prequels. The chosen one thing was taken from Matrix. The Coliseum in AOTC from Gladiator. Qui Gonn came out of someone’s suggestion.

In his initial schemes for TPM back in '97, the Jedi duo was supposed to be ObiWan and a teen Anakin. Had it gone that way without caring about loosing market (sorry, audience) with Matrix or Lord of the Rings, the PT would have turned out a better arc. But from there on, a chain reaction of bad choices took place, of which Jar Jar was just the least important (though perhaps the most evident) of all (if there was no baby Anakin, there was no need of going to Tatooine, or at least not in the same terms where comic releaf was needed to make a light-hearted middle act in a dull desert planet).

There are chosen one types in ancient mythology though, and Edgar Rice Burroughs was having John Carter battle Martians in a gladitorial arena over a century ago. So much has been outright lifted from ERB’s books, that when Disney made John Carter, it seemed like a rehash of those concepts to the uninitiated.

lovelikewinter said:

I want the Ewok Adventure and Battle for Endor on blu-ray. For what they are (1980’s TV Movies) they are pretty good and would be something kids today would like.

They were released in Europe theatrically.

So, in review, transgender bathroom issues…state’s business.

People smoking weed…FEDERAL JURISMYDICKTION!

I also must have missed the part in history class where the feds let the southern states sort out those pesky social issues in the 60’s all by themselves.

Not sure how widespread digital tape was when TNG was airing. And if the show was delivered to stations via satellite, (more than likely) the picture quality is only as good as the equipment it’s being recorded/played back on.

DuracellEnergizer said:

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

SilverWook said:

Where the heck is he getting that 20 years figure from? We still had our VHS and Laserdisc OT versions of recent vintage back in 1997.

Didn’t the ad campaign for the last VHS / LD release state it would be the last home media release of the original versions?

I don’t believe anyone took that proclamation seriously at the time. Personally, I thought it was just a sales gimmick.

The SW Laserdisc had this sticker, ESB and ROTJ did not…

Not sure about the VHS release.
Disney had already overused this sort of thing by that time. I wish I still had the ad copy saying Snow White would only ever be released on home video once.

Yeah, but I never heard a reissue rumor until DVD was the dominant format. And DVD was barely on the market at the time.