Hey FanFiltration, Sony had a line of external Dolby Digital surround processors in the early days of DVD that had an unadvertised extra feature, an AC3 RF demodulator built in. Might these be in your price range?
I try to go to local revival screenings whenever I can. Seeing Raiders and Temple of Doom after so many years was totally worth it. As was seeing Singin' in the Rain with an audience.
I saw Monty Python and the Holy Grail earlier this year, and the sound crapped out right when the cheesy organ music is supposed to start at the end. People just started whistling it! That group experience sometimes redeems seeing a dodgy print that's been in circulation too long. ;)
The sad fact is trained professional projectionists are a vanishing breed. I've seen the quality of presentations go way downhill the past two decades. The guy working the snack bar is often the one who turns the projectors on.
The last time I had to complain about focus issues, it took three trips before anything was done and half the movie was over. Sad thing is, I was the only one who got off my ass to complain!
Two horror stories from different eras: I saw Star Trek 6 opening night, and the print already had a vertical scratch on the right side of the frame for the whole movie.
I saw the special theatrical screening of the remastered Star Trek episode "The Menagerie" a few years back. That was being broadcast (via satellite?) into participating theaters. Some dumbass had the projection system set at SD resolution! By the time I figured it out, it was too late to complain, alas. I think we could make an entire thread recalling the botched screenings we've all seen! ;)
Some film buffs have taken to calling digital IMAX "LieMAX" because it isn't film, but I've been pretty impressed with my local venue so far. I do think it's sad a lot of people will never see a true 70mm presentation though. Seeing Empire all those years ago in 70mm six track Dolby will always be a cherished memory for me. I really need to see 2001 on the big screen, and maybe a Cinerama film before I die.
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But is it "Panasonic Panacolor X" Awesome?
Is there a bigger version of this ad out there? Never seen this one before...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVnMxAZjMsI
Lucas should hire these guys and put them to work on a followup to Clone Wars!
So, anybody watch the premiere tonight?
The Citadel training area for the clones looks a lot like a map from Star Trek Elite Force. The Japanese hotel style barracks were neat too.
I smiled at the THX-1138 reference.
The guys who light those shots so they blend in with the background plates probably never get enough credit.
IIRC, all the bluescreen shots for the bike chase were shot at ILM, so Muren would be around.
If those shots were considered part of the post production phase, Marquand might have gone home for the day, so to speak. ;)
Maybe someone else knows if this was before or after the Endor location shoot.
Yeah, it sounds like a perfect tool for fanfilms and edits.
Wow. I guess the barn door has been open too long on that one!
The DVD Beaver reviewer seems to have fallen for the "Let's pretend we had CGI FX in 1970" baloney of the extra features though.
I like the glimpse of concept poster art that puts the uber space vixen version Leia from the Hildebrandt poster on the Tauntaun with Luke! She's going to catch a cold!
Would the widescreen version have been anything other than a crop job though?
There is a murky glimpse of a widescreen used in a mixing session here:
Damn. Maybe it's burned into the print after all?
Finally heard back from the seller, and awaiting their findings compared to the screencaps.
BTW, can someone politely suggest this fellow amend his review? Lucas restored the five minutes Warners cut for the post 1977 reissue for starters. I can't believe they are totally oblivious to how much the film really has been changed!
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film3/blu-ray_reviews52/thx_1138_blu-ray.htm
Smoking gun at 1:12!!! ;)
Given how that Robot Chicken has outright mocked aspects of the prequels and the SE's, (The Jaws Special Edition sketch was clearly making fun of Lucas' revisionism) I wonder if he really gets the jokes in the first place.
If George has veto power over scripts, Seth Green will be selling out to the man! ;)
People are pretty set in their opinions at this point though. Either they buy the prequels to get the OT, (or vice versa) or they don't buy it at all because they can't suffer the SE's.
So, this was a panel at an officially sanctioned Lucasfilm event, filled with it's employees? The odds of that being an open and unbiased affair, are about the same as having a snowball fight on Tatooine. ;)
I'd be willing to bet any Lucasfilm employee who publicly criticized any aspect of SW would be pinkslipped pretty fast.
The interesting question is, why the PR attempt at blowing sunshine up the garbage chute now, five years after the last film?
One idea I had years ago is to edit all the Wookiee family scenes as if it was a sitcom, add subtitles and a laugh track, Brady Bunch style music, etc.
Malla: Lumpy! Take out the trash!
Lumpy: Why do I have to take out the trash?
Malla: Because I said so! Or I'll spank you so hard, the fur on your butt falls off!
It would need a new title though. Life with Lumpy? All in the Wookiee family? The Chewbacca show?
With the Tron sequel coming out, whomever currently has the video rights is missing a golden opportunity to release a properly remastered dvd.
Angry Ani sound makes no sense, as the entire Tusken camp was slaughtered. There might be a Tusken version of the Boogeyman that was born from other tribes discovering the carnage though.
The Krayt dragon tidbit has been around since the 70's, and makes more sense, as we see a dead one in the movie.
Found this link on DVD Savant's review of the Blu Ray...
http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=541751
Extensive comparisons between the UK DVD and original letterboxed PAL VHS. The white speck is not present, so it seems to be a different transfer! The plot thickens...
Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:
Having been to Skywalker Sound myself on numerous occasions, it's just unfathomable.
That must have been interesting! Did you feel like a rebel spy just being there? ;)
I heard back from the TheThirdGathers. Unfortunately, this was while my DSL was out for a week, so I only now just got the reply. Did anyone else hear back from him? I pointed him in this direction in any case.
Hey everyone, I've been sick for a while and if that wasn't bad enough, my DSL went kaboom last week. Took a while for tech support to fess up that they forgot to send me a new modem when they upgraded their hardware. >_<
I got some things to catch up on from being internet deprived for an entire week, but I haven't forgotten about this.
Still no reply from the Japanese seller yet. Starting to wonder if the message got through...
http://www.instructables.com/id/Yoda-Head-Cake/
I don't know whether to scream, or ask for a slice!
