TV's Frink said:
My hard disk is supernatural. I paid extra for it.
I don't like those because I can't stand cleaning out the ectoplasm from my USB port.
That's “ghost media” anyway.
imperialscum said:
Internet is fairly consistently wrong and my mission is to correct it!
No, it isn't, and no, it isn't.
I know the guy whose job it is to fix the internet. He's taller than you.
imperialscum said:
I hate to be Ric again but even if you download the digital content on your hard disk, you get a physical copy. The information is stored physically on your disk.
To pedantry… and beyond!
I mean, seriously… we know that (if it wasn't true, the hard disk wouldn't work, it's not supernatural). We're using common parlance, where “physical media” refers to films, tapes and discs, whilst “digital media” refers to files. You will find this phraseology fairly consistent across the internet.
The Criterion CAV and CLV are the same transfer.
And unless I'm mistaken, all Criterion discs of the era should have color bars.
wheeldeal said:
An imperial officer's transmission is lost as a result of an asteroid impact. I hadn't seen this effect before, although I've heard it was included on certain laserdisc releases. I wouldn't be surprised if it was present in the 70 mm 1980 version, but it's not part of any original 35 mm release I've seen.
This has always been there.
The reason you may not be familiar with it was because the hologram of the Imperial officer who dies (he's on the bridge of the Star Destroyer you see get smashed by an asteroid in the establishing exterior shot) has traditionally been panned-and-scanned out of the image when transferred to television to focus on Vader, who is on the opposite side of the shot.
It has always been visible on all anamorphic and 70mm prints and letterboxed video editions.
I always thought that the point of the end of Empire was that Vader was losing his cool. He gets progressively frustrated when Luke refuses to join him, and spends the rest of the film seething. That he doesn't kill Piett has more to do with how distracted he is at how close he came to having Luke within his clutches, but that he squeezed too hard.
damn said:
I'm curious...will the audio sync problem be fixed on the 2.0 version? Or will it be the same as v1.0?
Harmy said:
After a bit of a hiatus, I finally started working on ROTJ v2.0. Here's a first look :-)
Beautiful!
Scruffy said:
Does she claim, or exercise, diplomatic immunity?
“Darth Vader. Only you could be so bold. The Imperial Senate will not sit still for this. When they hear you've attacked a diplomatic —”
“I don't know what you're talking about. I am a member of the Imperial Senate on a diplomatic mission to Alderaan.”
You could say she's not claiming diplomatic immunity here, but it would be a stretch.
Spaced Ranger said:
Short of actual, nonfaded 1960's 70mm film, a confident conclusion is that the Criterion Collection laserdisc release is the only (consumer) release with the true look of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
That is, of course, assuming that Kubrick actually color-timed the Criterion edition according to what the film looked like when it had been released twenty years earlier. Kubrick wasn't above home video revisionism (e.g. the variable aspect ratio of Dr. Strangelove).
Slurs can demonstrate where there are prejudices in society, how relatively acceptable they are, and what form they take. In sci-fi and fantasy, slurs are often used to show how the depicted society thinks; “clankers,” “skin jobs,” “pecks,” “mudbloods,” “prawns,” etc. are all marginalized in the worlds they occupy, with the terms themselves giving a clue as to where the cracks are in the societies they are showing.
Midi-chlorians will be revealed to be from the planet Zeist.
There was nothing about Khan that tied him to India on the screen in the old continuity.
…you mean aside from the fact that he was a Sikh named “Khan Noonien Singh?”
The Force in the original trilogy is essentially California-style, avocado-flavored magic. Midi-chlorians were clearly Lucas' attempt to bring the Force into the science-fiction fold. It was also a way for him to explain a “virgin birth.”
If midi-chlorians were only a metric by which Force strength is measured, it wouldn't have been an issue. Unfortunately, the explanation of midi-chlorians make the Force lose some of its mystical quality, and the “virgin birth” is not only pulled by the hair in TPM, but doesn't pay off in ROTS in any meaningful way.
The Force could have stayed supernatural and nobody would have minded, and Shmi was a slave, that's all the backstory she needed for having a child and not knowing who the father was. But I think Lucas considers sex to be icky or something, so he managed to come up with a way that she could have a child without spreading her cooties, or whatever it is he thinks women do.
Benecio Del Toro would have been a better visual fit for young Ricardo Montalban, I guess.
I think the problem with their portrayal of Khan was twofold; the first is the obvious racial issues, the second is that nothing he does in this story is in any way consistent with the iconic character we already knew.
I was also annoyed that when everybody guessed that Sherlock would be playing Khan, and they denied it to the press — they lied about it because they didn't fool anybody.
I liked the first JJ Trek for what I realize now were mostly nostalgic reasons, but the complete inconsistent mess that second one confirmed what people who didn't like the first one were saying all along. It definitely soured me completely on the direction of the franchise, and certainly instilled no confidence in me with respect to JJ's Star Wars movie.
Star Trek was always better on television anyway, where they could tell more character or idea-oriented stories, and don't always have to save the world and have hand-to-hand combat with the villain at the end.
Hopefully both cuts will be preserved in HD… there are a lot of differences not only to the picture cut but Bob Dylan's music as well.
TK-949 said:
Leonardo said:
Ok, but who's on first base?
Yes.
I don't know.
DuracellEnergizer said:
But Satan and Santa are one in the same as well.
http://brentwhite.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/church_lady.jpg
unamochilla2 said:
Another question is... will the Holiday Special see a Blu-ray release at some point? Would be another "For the first time ever!" for Disney.
Assuming it's not another generic, safe, corporate designed consumer product like National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure.
This “medley” is the “Finale” from The Empire Strikes Back.
Well done post production, and beautifully performed, but the description is not accurate.
“Improved CGIs” is part of the problem. The original effects didn't have any CGI… it didn't exist yet.
The original effects as seen in 1977, 1980, and 1983 respectively were ground-breaking for their era. Nobody had seen anything like what these movies were showing them before, and they played a significant role in the world-building of the Star Wars.
You can argue that some of the revisions are good ones, but they are not the effects that changed what cinema looked like.
I wish for the best of luck for anyone wishing to pursue this, but I know from the torturous saga of the people trying to release the soundtrack album that the actual owners of the rights of this film don't care about it.
A good quality widescreen HD release would be nice, but the original elements may be long gone.
darklordoftech said:
One version of the ROTJ screenplay has Luke say "I am a Jedi, like my father before me and his father before him." This means that Anakin wasn't intended to be virgin-born in 1983.
“These men have taken a supreme vow of celibacy, like their fathers, and their fathers before them.”
— Topper Harley
Hot Shots: Part Deux
That would be beyond the scope of this project. This is a high def reconstruction of the original version from the best possible sources, warts and all.
Plus, now that we have the La-La Land release of the music, a high quality isolated score track is now possible.
Just sayin'.