SilverWook

Valheru_84 said:

SilverWook said:

Weird Al wrote The Saga Begins before even seeing TPM, just using the leaks.

Did not know this. Interesting tidbit for the day 😛

There’s a hidden commentary track for the music video on the now out of print “Weird Al” Yankovic Live! concert DVD of his 1999 tour. Apparently the spoilers were so on the money, he only had to make minor changes after finally getting into an early TPM screening.

There were plenty of people who hated TPM right out of the gate. The Jar Jar hate machine started before the movie came out. There were many plot leaks back then compared to now. It was the golden age of spoiler websites. Weird Al wrote The Saga Begins before even seeing TPM, just using the leaks.

Among all the prequel characters that appear in Disney parks, Jar Jar is noticeably absent.

Williarob said:

SilverWook said:

Yikes! Did prices on DTS theater discs just go up, or is this seller overestimating their value? I paid a mere pittance many years ago for the ones I have in my collection.

“Hey look - it says ‘Star Wars’ on it. You should sell that on eBay - it must be worth a fortune. Those collectors are nuts, they’ll pay any amount of money for something with Star Wars on it.”

Like this SE Trailer C for $400

Utter madness, as the discs are easily copied. I’ve seen 35mm prints for sale with duplicate DTS discs. The sellers don’t conceal the fact they’re copies.

Yikes! Did prices on DTS theater discs just go up, or is this seller overestimating their value? I paid a mere pittance many years ago for the ones I have in my collection.

I’m sure an uncut print is safe in the trunk of the stolen Goldfinger Aston Martin DB5. 😛

Yeah, it’s odd such a thing would go unnoticed or digitized this long. I’m sure Bond fans are as obsessive as we are about documenting these things.

Does the original prop still exist?

Williarob, you have a working CED player?

ray_afraid said:

Landlines? Even my 80 year old parents don’t have a landline anymore!

After the 1994 Northridge quake, the landlines were the only thing that was working around here. Some old tech is pretty reliable. I also live under a small black hole that eats cell phone signals for lunch.

As of Jan. 26th, we have raised $141.85! You guys rock! 😃

A visual thermometer type deal showing how much has been currently raised would be ideal. If anyone knows how to make one, please let us know! It would be cool if we could get one that looks like this.

And yeah, linking donations to project downloads is a very bad idea.

LordZerome1080 said:

Even though I’m bumping my own thread I think this needs saying.
As the weeks get closer and closer to the merger finishing I feel that us OUT fans and protectors should be extra cautious about rumours and also should keep our ears to the grindstone for any comments from Disney. Ideally they will announce a restoration at about the end of December 2019 or Spring 2020 to coincide with the release of the BD of IX or as a precursor of it to generate good will. However I do think that at the next SW celebration we need to get one of our own to interview Kathy to get an actual answer on this. So with that we wait for what will come and for Harmy’s eventual release of 3.0.

Doesn’t one have to be some sort of journalist/blogger/podcaster/whatever to get such access at celebration? And IIRC, open Q&A sessions have been screened carefully in the past, at least where George is concerned.

I have a Betamax (NTSC) and the ability to capture if a tape doesn’t have macrovision. So long as someone covers the costs, I’ll be happy to help, so long as the tape does’t have any mold.

timdiggerm said:

SilverWook said:
Was Lucas quietly revising the history of the film even then?

If I’m not mistaken, he was having McQuarrie redo the paintings so they could all see how the shots would look with the new Falcon design.

Makes sense. I wish the originals had been included in the McQuarrie portfolio at the time. Thanks for the explanation! 😃

Has anyone ever checked out the earliest (pre-CBS/FOX) CED videodisc from 1982? RCA often did it’s own in-house video transfers in the early days of it’s videodisc format.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/CED-Capacitance-Electronic-Disc-Sean-Connery-James-Bond-007-Dr-No/283315695419

Then again, people today might think Vader sounds a lot like this guy. 😉

The only way that happens is if the prequels are reappraised and Jar Jar is fully embraced. 😉

pathustler85 said:

i keep getting this when i try and read private messages
😦
TypeError: viewTimes.forEach is not a function
at Object.handler (/srv/www/originaltrilogy.com/comitium/app/patterns/controllers/private-topics.js:35:17)
at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:68:7)

That’s unusual. Did you have an unread message waiting?

It’s a cool design. What I find interesting is there are versions of the Ralph McQuarrie paintings featuring what eventually became the Tantive, but the portfolio released after the film only features the Falcon we know.

Was Lucas quietly revising the history of the film even then?

Hindsight being 20/20, I think they worried too much about a resemblance to Space 1999’s Eagle transporter, as that is at least a kissing cousin of the Moonbus in 2001.

MrBrown said:

IIRC, somewhere was said that they made an error on the first squeeze LD release: they forgot to grade the colors. I think somewhere was stated that James Cameron was not amused.

I guess that would explain why we’re not getting True Lies or The Abyss on an HD disc format until hell freezes over. 😉

Surely, that would be a fold down, and not a true mono mix?

Maybe the implication was the failed colony Tasha grew up in was not a part of the Federation proper? Yar’s rant in the trial scene in Encounter At Farpoint, (before getting the cold shoulder from Q) was a pro-Federation/Starfleet sentiment.

timdiggerm said:

Possibly worth noting, given the nature of his website and the way he’s only posting little, skewed thumbnails, that this is essentially an advertisement.

The thought crossed my mind, and someone also pointed out to me in a PM that several other SW forums got the exact same post. But we got a nice thread out of it, and we need more of those around here. Never look a gift Taun Taun in the mouth. 😃

Auntie Yoda only added to the bizarro nature of it all. 😛

TiddySprinklesPimpBillion said:

SilverWook said:

Worth noting the 2018 Criterion Blu-Ray release of Barry Lyndon has the original mono track.

That’s expensive still.

That’s beside the point.

You’ve never seen TheThirdGather’s Backstroke dub? Some of the voice cast sounds so close to the original actors, it’s scary.