SilverWook

Hehe, the initials were completely unintentional when I chose the name.

Thanks for the explanation, even though the cat's out of the bag on who owns the print. I fear a certain bearded gentleman in plaid flannel will be coming after me. Now I know how my pal Jaxxon feels.  ;)

I wonder if the sort of color video voodoo the Dr. Who restoration team has done with episodes  that exist as black and white prints could be possible with this?

Jetrell Fo said:

^^^^^^^^  Oh my, that is more like a Road Kill Hoagie on Tar sandwich.

 Did someone miss a pop culture reference? ;)

This might get too political for general SW discussion.

That has always been a touchy part of the world though. They must have had some sort of security on the prequels, not just to keep curious fanboys away from the locations?

There's an old story I've heard that when the original film was being shot, the Libyan army across the border was allegedly very concerned/interested in the Jawa Sandcrawler, as they thought it was a real military vehicle. Don't know if it's actually true...

And you post in a completely unrelated thread to complain about it?

Calling the owner of the site names is also a bad idea.

AntcuFaalb said:

Until poita and I can work out some way to fix the red fade, I'll be releasing a B&W 1080p ProRes Proxy encode of the scan. The raws will always be available via HDD->HDD copy, of course.

 That is fixable though? I would hate to think nothing can be done with the print considering what it cost to obtain.

Ewoks got a second season though. And we got two live action Ewok movies as well. George might simply have been burned out on Star Wars by the mid 80's, and just didn't pursue any other SW projects as he turned his attention to Willow and other things.

There was also the danger of over saturating the market, even back then, which Disney ought to keep in mind.

What's the point of a war movie that is scrubbed of the very reasons war is a horrible nasty thing? That would be like Titanic where there's enough lifeboats for everyone. Oh wait, somebody actually did do that...

I don't care for people who curse loudly and in public, either. (And my Dad swore like the sailor he was. I curse quite a bit when nobody is around.) But you can usually avoid a book or movie if there's questionable content. Ratings these days are so detailed, they practically give away plot points.

Books don't have ratings of course, but reviews can probably clue one in as to content.

Fan edits are like dance remixes. They require a certain amount of creativity and passion that's lacking in something merely being edited to appeal to a segment of the audience who can't even handle the mild profanity allowed in G rated films. Anybody can censor a movie. You don't even need a pair of scissors these days.

This app would be more fun if you could at least replace the dirty words with suitable replacements, like kumquat, but it would probably censor that as well. ;)

This app will probably only appeal to people who want the world sanitized for their protection. (And those who like to control what others read.) If you can't handle a few swear words in print, you might want to rethink why you're reading certain things. 

It's as dumb as those video stores and companies that censored the movies they sold.

People have tried to remove books from library shelves because of language, no matter the context in which it's used. Now you don't even have to engage in the tiring chore of finding naughty words, a computer can do it for you!

And drawing parallels to fan editing is a snake river canyon sized jump of logic.

I can only imagine what this thing does to books like Fifty Shades of Grey. ;)

Wonder what George thought of his own likeness in carbonite? ;)

http://gizmodo.com/5028103/george-lucas-in-carbonite

I wonder if Warner's would have originally attached a cartoon to THX, given it's short running time?

His name was never removed from the credits. The 1997 SE credits were never updated to reflect any of the later changes of course.

One of those absurd ideas that hits me out of the blu when I'm waking up.

Han's blaster fire in the trash compactor ricochets all the way up the garbage chute, bounces around the Death Star corridors, finally escaping via one of the hangar bays. It bounces off several celestial bodies, travels through hyperspace, and finally finds it's way to Tatooine, where it strikes the still smoldering remains of Greedo. Yes, they're too lazy to clean up dead bounty hunters in Mos Eisely.

Ditto. I've never heard THEX except as said by LUH. Her pronunciation might be a term of affection?

I have no idea, I was just going by what people here say is the reaction elsewhere. I can barely keep up with this site as it is. ;)

The guest list is getting better all the time, Billy Dee Williams, Ian McDiarmid, and Clive Revill! I'd pay money to see Ian and Clive debate each other. ;)

Still no Ralph Brown. :(

Tobar said:

Okay. If you want some real entertainment while at Celebration, you HAVE to attend this panel:

One Big Story: Working Within the Star Wars Canon

Fri. April 17| 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM | Star Wars Fan Stage – 303ABCD

Last year Lucasfilm announced the beginning of a brand-new approach to storytelling: the continuing Star Wars universe would be one huge, entirely connected, canon saga across all media, overseen by the Lucasfilm Story Group. As a major provider of non-film or TV related creative content, publishers bear a responsibility to tell new and exciting stories within these parameters. What’s it like knowing that the projects you are working on are considered canon? How do you approach storytelling so it fits in with so many other types of media? How can publishers work together to help fans feel like they really are reading one big universe? And exactly where does the Story Group fit in? Join Michael Siglain, creative director and Jennifer Heddle, senior editor, from Lucasfilm and Disney publishing; editor-at-large Shelly Shapiro from Del Rey; editor Jordan D. White, VP International Development; C.B. Cebulski from Marvel; managing editor Sadie Smith from DK; and Leland Chee from the Lucasfilm Story Group as they discuss the new world that has opened up for Star Wars storytelling, and how to navigate the intricately interconnected world of a galaxy far, far away.

The sheer amount of salt that will be generated by this panel will be legendary. I would not be surprised to see outbursts from the crowd and actual tears during the Q&A.

 With all the online uproar, I seriously doubt any "unscripted" questions will be asked, (like when George appeared at Celebration) if there's a Q&A at all.

TV's Frink said:

SilverWook said:

TV's Frink said:

Since when is BTTF a comedy?

 http://vhscollector.com/sites/default/files/vhscovers/back%20b_0.jpg

 BTTF is hard to categorize but I think comedy is probably no better than third on the list.  I don't care what someone wrote on the back of the box.  It's funny in many parts, but not a comedy.

What I remember of the hoopla around the film back in 1985, was that it was considered a comedy. Note there's a movie critic quote there too?

DuracellEnergizer said:

SilverWook said:

Exorcist II: The Heretic. ;)

All joking aside, I prefer Exorcist II to the original. I've always found the original heavy-handed and lacking in subtlety, and I just plain don't like Satan as a villain, so the movie's never held all that much appeal for me.

 Yes it's a joke, but I don't think anybody will actually get the reference. ;)

TV's Frink said:

Since when is BTTF a comedy?

 http://vhscollector.com/sites/default/files/vhscovers/back%20b_0.jpg

The TBS dub of Gatchaman was even worse. There was a scene with a skeletal corpse in a dungeon that clearly was a missing monarch or something, and the son says something really stupid along the lines of "This skeleton must be a message from my father!" Yeah, because dad was into putting his clothes on dead people...

I think it's kind of based on the Kenner action figure look. (Kenner versions of some cantina aliens and vehicles keep popping up.) And if you recall, TCW was initially criticized for it's characters looking like marionettes. Which was ironic, since Lucas said somewhere that Thunderbirds was a design influence.

I can't think of any modern shows in that age bracket that so casually kill off the bad guys, if at all. We've come a long way from the days of G.I. Joe. ;)

And Frank Oz is probably the only person on the planet who can go off script with Yoda.

Ryan McAvoy said:

I'm not sure if I've ever mentioned this before but, Short Circuit 2.

Airplane! 2. Maybe it's not better, just very very equal in quality.

and yeah, 'Hot Shots: Part Deux' was excellent. So many great gags. Where else are you gonna see The Prez have a Lightsaber duel with Saddam? Plus he wallstreet gag and comedy legend Rowan Atkinson was brilliant...

 I've bugged Frink a couple times to put the Saddam Lightsaber duel in ROTR.

Exorcist II: The Heretic. ;)

Okay, I could have heard wrong.

Didn't they finally acquire the original Death Star miniature from that fan who discovered it in a curio shop? I think it was safer in that fellow's house!