SilverWook

Doesn't bode so well for revival screenings if the studios aren't going to replace worn out rental prints, or convert their libraries to screen in the new format.

All the theaters near me were built before digital, but are totally converted now, or soon will be. Whether they've kept the 35mm projectors in place or ripped them out, I have no idea.

Actually knowing how to operate a film projector is on it's way to becoming a lost art.

The day a major movie release has no 35mm prints struck at all will truly be the end of an era.

Talking pictures are just a passing craze too. ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j8GwkniGrU

Yeah, that Episode Seven remark stung a bit after his denials in recent years about the third trilogy. ;)

There is some nostalgia for seeing a Star Wars movie in a theater with a bunch of crazy fans, and lightsaber fights breaking out in the front row. Those are the good memories I have from 1999.

Should be interesting to see how Beauty and The Beast does this weekend, compared to The Lion King, as the Blu Ray is already out.

We really don't know what the average Joe in the SW universe thinks about the Jedi in the OT. We do see someone alert the sandtroopers about the altercation in the Cantina. People probably get fried almost daily in that dive, but a Lightsaber was seen.

Over the years, people might clam up to get by under the new boss, people pass away without sharing their memories of the CW, memories fade, history books are rewritten by the victors, and younger people have not a clue.

There are people in this world who think the moon landings were faked in a tv studio. Disbelief in Jedi or the Force isn't that much of a stretch. (Especially if there is an Imperial propaganda machine in place.) Han might not have been anywhere near the war in his young life anyway.

It's pure concentrated evil! Don't eat it!

Did anyone catch The Daily Show?

georgec said:

This is the worst marketing effort I've ever seen.

No, there is another.

That's what scares me. Some collector will try to preserve one! A sealed box of C-3PO's cereal is one thing...

I wonder who has the fast food tie-in here in the states?

I'll believe it when I see it. Make the third trilogy while Mark Hamill can still strap on a lightsaber why don't they!

Why google thought I'd want to see an ad banner for Lesbian dating over that video I'll never know!

Criterion actually announced they were going to release five of the Godzilla films on Laserdisc back in the 90's, but they were all cancelled without much explanation.

Nice they finally got this one.

They must have moved it then.

I'm glad I visited Starcade during it's Tron phase in the 80's.

If I was running the joint, there would be a Cantina themed eatery upstairs, with an animatronic alien band playing, and blue milk dispensers.

Is there still an X-Wing hanging from the ceiling in the upper level of the Starcade?

Some people are into pain and suffering? ;)

I have a notion of downloading the Phantom Menace Rifftrax, and getting a cheapo MP3 player to take to a late night showing.

I think someone would have noticed something like that by now if it was there. The thread at MF.com was pretty thorough.

http://www.millenniumfalcon.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=9065

I hate to say it, but CPY actually looks decent in this shot...

It must be the lighting. And who knew George gave the cast free massage?

This is for me is the most unintentionally funny shot in ROTS...

because without any FX, it's just a blue screen of Wookiee crotch!

I'm not sure the Yoda in the poster is even the same CGI model used in the movies.

Not quite as funny as those Lava Pop Tarts when ROTS came out.

Because breakfast and a Anakin bursting into flame go together. ;)

The merchandising behemoth for PM 3D is beginning to stir...

http://www.fandango.com/movieblog/yoda-battles-darth-maul-in-lipton-brisk-commercial-and-do-you-want-to-eat-this-darth-vader-burger-no-you-dont-689187.html

Doesn't that sithburger look yummy!

I lean towards Anakin's fate being spin doctored by Palpatine. Savior of the new Empire dying at the hands of the evil traitorous Jedi makes for good press. The truth is far too complicated anyway.

And if you're the boss of the Galaxy, once you bring in the new guy in the scary armor and heavy breathing, nobody dares to ask too many questions.

All Palpy needs to do is introduce Vader as a injured Jedi who had remained loyal.

Tarkin and others know Vader is a former Jedi, but probably little else.

mverta said:

This screening was done with 70's era bulbs on a 70's era screen to recreate the experience of its actual projection when it first came out.

Where does one acquire 70's vintage 35mm projector bulbs in the 21st century?

There's a grand canyon sized difference between tweaking a film during it's initial release, and screwing around with it twenty years later.

Even Kubrick made changes to his films after their initial engagements.

You do know there was a very valid technical reason for the mono mix, right?

Nobody in 1977 knew if Dolby stereo was a flash in the pan or here to stay.

See any movies in Sound 360 lately?

Comparing the mono mix to the SE changes is mind boggling. There are many films that have different sound mixes. It's just that Star Wars' mixes has been documented in excruciating detail.

I watched Krull on DVD recently, and noticed a line was added when Liam Neeson's character dies in the stereo mix. It wasn't in the 5.1 mix, which I presume was derived from the 70mm.

What's with the mono mix hate all of a sudden? It's what most of us crazy kids heard for the first time in '77.

Not everybody had a Dolby stereo equipped screen in their neighborhood back then you know. ;)