The Aluminum Falcon

Film Grain, of course!

Pulp Fiction or Reservoir Dogs?

TV's Frink said:

It appears to still be available on fanedit.info.

Unfortunately, the links posted on fanedit.info do no longer work. I was actually able to download the first VOB from a torrent but not the rest...

George Lucas.

Evil Dead 2 or Army of Darkness?

Just voted and I'm glad we're in the lead!

Triple posting is definitely preferable to a new topic every time. It's fine in your case; after all, you are the MySpleen Ambassador. It's good to know that the Star Wars category is up. Hopefully, some of those could be reactivated; I know I'd be interested in a reseed of Darth Editous's ANH edit...

DuracellEnergizer said:

The Jedi apparently aren't celibate according to Lucas.

 

I do find this exceedingly creepy. I actually gained a bit of respect for the prequels since they never mentioned this specifically. Jeez... what life styles for characters in what Lucas calls a "Kids' movie."

Honestly, I wish that we could find the original version of Darth Maul's death where he didn't break apart. It would have had a healthy amount of ambiguity and also would look less fake.

McFly89 made an Extended Edition, reintegrating the TV scenes on fanedit.org. You can see information about it here and obtain information to get it from Rapidshare on fanedit.info.

Hmm... another forum member named Puggo believes they had that scene in theaters also; however, there has yet to be a confirmation. Even the theatrical bootlegs and 16mm prints show none of that scene.

Out of curiosity, is the DVD-5 version of this still up? I couldn't really get it to download from uloz.to.

Marty.McFly said:

Any advise? Thanks! :D

You can join MySpleen by invite only. I just sent you a PM so you can join. Hope you like the DeSpecialized Editions...

Johnny Ringo said:

I wonder how things would have played out if Marquand / Kershner had decided to do special editions of their own.

 

I definitely agree about how expensive it is. The Seasons are way overpriced! It almost seems as if Lucas doesn't want people to get them...

So would you consider doing a project like you suggested with permission from the original Appendix creators? Your familiarity with MultiAVCHD is a good start.

Cool. Thanks for answering.

Oh... if only that were true. It would be nice to actually respect Lucas as a filmmaker again... I cannot fathom some of his decisions; although, the seeds are somewhat evident all the way back to "From Star Wars to Jedi," when he was talking about being able to make a much better "Star Wars" with all his experience...*sigh*

Zion said:

don't be acting all DanielB or AdamwanKenobi in here or I'll be forced to go all ocpmovie on your ass.

LOL at the ot.com self-referential humor. So, I suppose now the list of moderators are Moth3r, Jay, Zion, and now Anchorhead; out of sheer curiosity, where there ever any other moderators from when the website was really brand new?

Yes; I downloaded the fan edit I referred to on fanedit.info without hassle just a few weeks ago. As said before, this isn't Fanfiltration's actual set, but it probably has similar uses...

Wow; I never realized how many posts you had, Frink. Do you have the most posts on this website?

Wow. I can't believe that literally a day after Off Topic is officially unmoderated that this happens. In any case, I'm glad that member was banned. Wonder if PSYCHODAYV himself saw this...

FremenDar, if you're still curious, here are the comments about the 720p upscale on the Newsgroups.

I see what you're trying to do. As far as actually doing it, you could probably use the program MultiAVCHD. It can make Blu-Rays and half-decent custom menus.

Knightmessenger said:

Is there any consensus on what the best fan made dvd from the 2006 discs is?

The general consensus is that Harmy's Despecialized and Dark Jedi's V3 are the best.

Harmy's Despecialized is an ultra detailed restoration of the theatrical versions by combining the 2004 HD Broadcast with a plethora of many other sources. It is currently available online on tehparadox and myspleen in HD, so you may want to check this out.

Alternatively, there are Dark Jedi's V3s which are amazing upscales of the GOUT and have every audio track ever released on them in fantastic quality. These are available on myspleen.

Unfortunately, the DVDs are not really available more. There are active links for DVD 2 and DVD 5 on tehparadox. For the others, there are some torrents, but they are not really seeded; I was only able to get to 94% on them a few months ago.

You might be interested in this though. It's a fan edit which uses the extended scenes from FanFiltration's set and even adds a couple more. It's in chronological order and quite good quality with the non-deleted scenes being in 16:9 widescreen from the Coppola Restoration. You can get it from fanedit.info.

That's exactly how I felt Tyrphanax. After all these years, it's cool to see deleted scenes, but.. yeah, you get the vibe of why they were cut. I'll give it one thing though, it does add romantic tension. My guess is that early in the ESB editing phase, it was decided to make this a tad less mature by softening the love triangle, ie. deleted scene between Luke and Leia alone in a hallway.

Ziggy Stardust said:

Oh yeah...

Well, most people know anyway, so there's really no point in suppressing it.

Still, icepick time! :D

(Just Kidding)