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Bingowings said:

Men In Black (1997).

Still fun, shame the series went of the rails because there was a lot of comic potential for the premise and the first film only really scratched the surface.

The alien effects look so much more convincing than those in the PT which was two years later.

Men In Black is a comic book adaptation so the characters are meant to look a bit cartoonish but this guy:

seems less cartoonish to my eyes than this guy:

Three red lights.

The MIB fellow was more man in suit than CGI, so that makes sense.

It makes me smile to know Rick Baker is still making monster suits for movies.

Frink, where did you find Jimmy Smits saying "Linda Ronstadt"?

And did you know she and George were once romantically involved?

The theater I saw TPM at back in 1999 was an all DTS house. Do theaters exist that have DTS and Dolby under the same roof? It would be like a restaurant that serves Pepsi and Coke.

I think the current company made a big mistake changing the name after all these years. When I saw the Datasat logo on a trailer, I thought it was some new audio format!

This would have been a great time for 5-25-77 to have come out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bko7amHTAMU

I feel like I'm going to be a senior citizen before we ever get to see this.

The Laserdisc is pretty good, coming at nearly the end of the format. Why it was a Japan only release I have no idea. Not like that stopped LD retailers from importing it

I don't have one of those pesky demodulators for Dolby Digital, so have only ever heard the PCM stereo track.

IIRC, there is a timecode printed on the edge of the film that syncs up with the DTS playback unit. (This is why the CD's have been useless by themselves until recently.) That's about as non-technical as I can say it.

Technical explanation here...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTS_(sound_system)

http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-talk/star-wars-modest-opening-day-35-years-ago-205546627.html

....

Spike is showing the SE tonight. Nice that they remembered, if nothing else. I swear they've shown the trilogies more than HBO ever ran The Beastmaster.

If there's ever an OT convention, or some other sort of get together with you wonderful crazy people who keep these movies alive, I'll be the guy wearing the 10th anniversary t-shirt. Yes, it still fits. ;)

The Mace hologram censoring cracked me up.

If only there was a way to have something silly chase Obi Wan off camera in the hologram...

Any interest in Episode One?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/STAR-WARS-EPISODE-1-35MM-FILM-TRAILER-W-BONUS-DTS-DISKS-/380442469090?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item58942362e2

Keep in mind my gear can only take the analog output of my LD player. (This hasn't been much of an issue for me, as most of what I'm preserving doesn't have digital tracks anyway.) My Pioneer CLD-D704 had the best DAC's in it's day, and I've been pretty happy with the results so far.

If this isn't acceptable, I'm still willing to buy the LD and pass it along to someone who wants to take this on.

I recently captured a Mary Poppins LD circa 1992, as the stereo track appears untouched. You can hear a tiny bit of hiss and a couple pops in a few places, but it sounds wonderful.  This is just in case they don't include the original audio on Blu Ray. You know Disney and those pesky home theater remixes. ;)

Cool. Didn't know Blu Ray could do that. Criterion is about the only one giving original audio tracks PCM love though. ;)

No problem. I did the commentary capture last night, and will get to the Japanese track tonight if the weather settles down. No fun to be in the middle of a capture if the wind causes the power to hiccup!

I think PCM has to be two channels no matter what the actual contents.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong on that.

And George has gone to plaid? ;)

I think Jetrell means if the discs for Empire ever pop up for sale again. We kind of need those. ;)

25 years ago this weekend I was at a hotel near LAX for the 10th anniversary celebration. Egad I'm old!

My polite request to see the Clone Wars before 1999 is somewhere on this.

Didn't the 1967 Casino Royale put forth the idea that many people have assumed the mantle of Bond over the decades? He's the Dread Pirate Roberts of the spy world. ;)

I'm not paying for shipping from the Netherlands! Besides, there is a sealed copy of the digital remaster for much less and a lot closer. ;)

http://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/shop/22870/LV-1108/Grease-%281978%29

Is it presumed that the Dolby surround track on the 20th anniversary LD is also a futzed up mix?

TServo2049 said:

Another buggered 5.1 remix I forgot to mention: Grease.

When the film was remixed in 5.1 for the 20th anniversary re-release, they completely overhauled the music mixing to sound more "modern." You can read a whole lot more about it here: http://www.hometheaterforum.com/t/287394/a-few-words-about-grease-in-blu-ray

Here's the original mix of "You're the One That I Want" from an old TBS broadcast. And here's the remix. Notice the extra "It's electrifying!", the much louder background vocals and brass, and how during the second verse, the male backup singers are actually out of sync!

There really needs to be a preservation of the original version. Just take the Blu-ray, synch it with the original Dolby Stereo from one of the pre-1998 laserdiscs, and restore the original Paramount logos at the beginning and end from another film on Blu-ray (like Star Trek: The Motion Picture).

Chuck Pennington says that the original analog stereo laserdisc didn't sound very good, but LDDB says that there was a re-release of the full-screen LD with digital sound. They also list a Japanese LD with a digital track. Those would probably be the best source for such a project.

The tricky part is both full frame versions have virtually identical jacket art.

http://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/22870/LV-1108/Grease-%281978%29

http://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/45289/LV-1108/Grease-%281978%29

The revival house near me is literally a one man operation that only exists by the good graces of the dollar theater that hosts screenings. (Thankfully, they just posted their schedule through September.) Even if a theater keeps it's old projectors in place, this could nail the coffin shut. :(

I don't get out to the movies as much as I used to, but I haven't seen an actual film print for a first run movie since January 2011, and that was out of town.

DuracellEnergizer said:

This thread is dedicated to all the myriad colours lightsabers beyond blue, red, green, and the occasional Mace Windu (yuck) purple. May the rainbow live long and prosper. Lucas' white bread vision can suck it!

I see George wrote everyone a memo decreeing all Jedi have to dress like old Ben now. Based on the prequels, they go through about ten of those robes a week!

James Bond as a yank has been done already. ;)

Worth a shot.

And Dr. Lizardo will be haunting my dreams tonight. Thanks!