SilverWook

Baronlando said:

This movie is in a weird position, the Star Wars connection isn't the source of goodwill it would have been a few years ago. Maybe they should de-emphasize it. (plus, I think we now have the weird situation where even current Star Warsies aren't necessarily going to support it, they've been getting all pissed and resentful about nostalgia and putting the old movies on a pedestal, that one guy with the angry prequel blog might have a rage stroke). 

As Phantom Menace is 13 years old now, they are running out of time on that silly argument. ;)

Going by the trailers I've seen, a good chunk of 70's SF/fantasy is represented in the film. It isn't a Star Wars geek film, since the fandom didn't really exist in early 1977.

none said:

xhonzi wrote: I'd really like to see/support this film!

Here's the direct fund raising effort, they are looking to get 30k.

https://fundrazr.com/campaigns/1JIQb

This Heart of Dorkness seems to be a way to strum up interest and a way to create additional material for a DVD release.  and explain why the project languished and had these odd starts and stops.  It's not impossible but would be odd to get a theatrical release at this point.  John Daley doesn't look the same anymore.  But that's no reason not to try.

 

Unless some reshoots were needed, does anyone have to look now like they did several years back?

Since "Fanboys" (the movie) didn't set the box office on fire, I've worried that there's a perception with the suits there's no audience for this film.

Asaki said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Special Edition adaptations?

According to the back of the books, they're just "special commemorative issue(s) celebrating the return of the Star Wars trilogy to the big screen."

The inside says "This book was previously published as Star Wars #39-44 by Marvel Comics, Classic Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back #1 and 2, and the trade-paperback collection entitled Classic Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back."

There are a few pages of concept art/storyboards in the back of the books though that say "Look for these scenes in the Special Edition of..."

There were Special Edition adaptations put out by Dark Horse.

http://www.darkhorse.com/Books/46-518/Star-Wars-A-New-Hope---The-Special-Edition-TPB

They did do reprints of the Marvels, but with new duller coloring than the originals.

On a side note, someone finally went for that $1200 Super 8 ESB print. Zero feedback and new i.d. makes me question if it's a serious bidder though.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Empire-Strikes-Back-scope-feature-Super-8mm-color-snd-RARE-/320920880320?pt=US_Film&hash=item4ab86004c0

The ad copy at the time implied the SE comics were going to replace the Marvel versions. Thankfully, that never happened. ;)

Not having much luck getting this to work in VLC.

The first U.S. video cassette release was in 1982.

http://www.swonvideo.com/vhs/vvhsanh1982us.htm

Thanks for the info, none.

Artoo's subs look a lot like the way his sounds were conveyed in the old Marvel comics.

I've seen that five star set on Ebay occasionally. So SW and ESB wouldn't be worth tracking down for the subtitles?

Would this be a subtitle file I could load into VLC and try it out with the official DVD without too much fuss?

Just for fun, especially if you haven't seen it before, probably the most elaborate Alien spoof ever made. Not that there's a lot of Alien parodies to begin with. ;)

Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgXG_HHb4Uo

Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu6TZCjDpcI

Welcome aboard, gadlen. I did something similar with Mystery Science Theater 3000 back in the 90's, and got pretty good results with my DVD transfers a few years back.

Have you checked the condition of your tapes recently? Have they been in a cool, dry, dust free climate all this time? Did you record in SP speed?

Okay, barring any other delays, I should be able to mail the discs out to you next week. I've listened to all the tracks to make sure there weren't any unexpected audio gremlins.

I stumbled across a trailer that has the logo I saw in front of the re-release print.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hcWCcxGZDY

Is that Orson Welles, and is he trying to tell us something? ;)

Dino De Laurentiis had the balls to actually crank out a sequel in the 80's. You see, Kong didn't die in the fall. However, he's in a deep coma, and one artificial heart transplant the size of a Volkswagen later, he's revived in time to chase after the recently discovered Lady Kong.

Even had the same director as the 1976 film. Rick Baker didn't sign onto this one, for obvious reasons, but Carlo Rambaldi came back. Possibly the low point in Linda Hamilton's career before T2.

Too bad MST3K never got their hands on it.

DuracellEnergizer said:

The poster for the '76 film is so unintentionally hilarious.

Is the film titled King Kong or King Kong For Christmas? And what about the tagline? "The most exciting original motion picture event of all time". Yeah, its certainly original all right. LMFAO

Not as hilarious as it once was on account of the location. However, the American distributor of Godzilla vs. Megalon thought it was good enough to rip off.

There was plenty of time to pick up a British accent between ROTS and ANH. I knew someone who moved down south after living most of their life in California, and they picked up quite a twang after 15 years. I didn't even recognize their voice on the phone at first.

Things just sound more evil when you're British. Imagine Tarkin or Palpatine with an American accent, and it just doesn't work. ;)

I'm not an alien! ;)

My dad was using Compuserve via dial up on his TRS-80 computer back in '82.

Outside of universities, there were still relatively few people who had that kind of access back then. There was no world wide web as we think of it now.

It still boggles my mind I chat with people on this site who live clear on the other side of the planet.

The voice replacement is perfect! Laughing my head off here.

The light sabers in the dark suddenly reminded me of an infamous scene from a Blake Edwards comedy. Slightly NSFW...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNTg2Uz7-pM

Film preservation and restoration was an abstract concept if the average person even knew about it at all back then. It didn't because a rallying cry until around the time of the colorization controversy in the mid 80's. Today, it's a marketing buzzword often used when a film less than 20 years old, with excellent elements, is reissued on video for the fifth time. Disney uses it so much it's almost become meaningless.

Why didn't fans complain about the Kansas scenes in The Wizard of Oz not being in their original sepia tone in all pre 1989 video releases? They probably weren't aware it had been that way anymore than any of us were aware Star Wars had a mono mix until much later.

And the small group of hardcore film fans who knew something was changed or not right with a movie, had a very limited venue to vent their rage. An angry letter in a genre magazine wasn't going to hang in the ether or public consciousness the way angry internet postings do.

Most major Hollywood films were not available on video prior to 1980, at least not legally. The studios were deathly afraid of Beta and VHS, at least until they slowly woke up to fact it was a whole new money machine.

When studios started opening up the vaults, they often didn't know what they were slapping on the telecine. Edited for tv prints occasionally slipped under the radar. An entire run of Gone With The Wind videos had to be junked because they used a version with a prologue intended for European audiences explaining the Civil War.

If Lucas had not exerted some control over Star Wars' initial video release, (he didn't originally want it on home video at all) Fox could have just as easily used a pre-1981 print.

Do Tauntauns go in the snow? ;)

At least John Carter got a bonus disc. All BB had for the Star Wars set was one of those fake "collectible" film frames that's never been near a projector.

I'm surprised the Indy DVD set got a bonus disc.

Tobar said:

SilverWook said:

Spooky timing, Tobar.

Raising Arizona (1987)

Thought about jumping into Total Recall but decided I was in a more lighthearted mood. I always get a kick out of films set in Arizona that were also filmed here. As was the same with Used Cars (1980), Arizona is populated with a bunch of oddballs. (Probably not too far off the mark.) =P A very fun film.

So, you didn't know Richard Dawson just passed away?

I could see Williams' 1941 score working in a couple places. Maybe even his Lost In Space work?

Lando is dead???