Interesting though a visible decapitation probably wouldn't have fared well in a PG Movie. I always found it interesting that the Lost Cut had the right arm on the floor but then they changed it for the final cut... Has it ever been revealed why?
Yes. It's available on myspleen.
Sluggo said:
I thought the EOD doc was the best thing LFL released in a LONG time.
Well yeah... I just didn't want to oversell it; however, it is worthwhile viewing. You get to see the original Star Wars crawl as well as non-2004 footage... The interviews are quite nice to and you even see an ANH deleted scene. On the whole, it's very candid.
JayArgonaut said:
What did you think of the Hitler parody?
T'was quite humorous.
doubleofive said:
The HD redo is going to try to have the option to let you choose between music or no.
Didn't know that... That sounds like fantastic news. I'll be interested in checking that out when it comes out that is.
That means you got this set and not the original 2004 one. I actually ended up getting that set too because I wasn't sure if it had more alterations and wanted to see... I actually thought the documentary was pretty informative; you could probably pick it up on eBay.
JayArgonaut said:
Something like this?
Er... yes that's the video whose link I posted earlier in this thread that I was talking to skyjedi about. Personally though it is interesting to have Luke be the hero; it somewhat ruins Vader.
The Aluminum Falcon said: ...perhaps "make Luke the main hero."
Ah got it Sluggo. I've just been wondering for a while and you've answered my question. It is horrendous cover art though...
Works now. Thank you, Harmy.
Speaking of Target, a few months ago, I picked up an edition of ANH that had the cover of the '04 DVD and not the '06 set. Were they ever selling the DVDs of the '04 individually or is it just a wrongly packaged '06 disc? I haven't opened it yet.
The cover looked like this:
When I click the link, it says "Sorry, this page was not found." The new ROTJ comparisons also don't show up on your Album Page, Harmy; is this a problem on my end?
dark_jedi said:
You are always posting LD screens, can you post some of what you are seeing, so the rest of us can see if we see it on our captures?
I would be interested to see a capture as well.
skyjedi2005 said:
Luke is the main hero of the original trilogy...
I do understand the point of the video.
Yes, I would agree that Luke is the main hero of the OT, but honestly does not do much in ROTJ; however, out of curiosity, would you like ROTJ better if it had an alteration of that magnitude by Lucas? Vader loses redemption but the main hero saves the day.
On a side note, I actually do think that the videos I posted are made well, but, if actually put in a "Special Edition," the backlash could be unbelievable.
Indeed. I agree with Ziz. If you don't like the Prequel music, then the Purist Edition is definitely for you. There's more information about it here.
I'm honestly surprised more things aren't being phased out from DVD, with it being killed off by a combination of streamed movies and Blu-Rays.
As for the Star Trek set, I didn't know they were phasing out the DVDs, but they also had the original effects on the Blu-Ray through seamless branching. I'm not sure if they redid the crossfading between episodes though.
Hmm... new Yoda looks to be half past decent, in comparison to that awful TPM puppet. I've always wondered why they just didn't use the original ESB and ROTJ Yoda puppet, which beat any CGI... :P
Are there any changes to AOTC and ROTS on the Blu-Ray?
Wait. Really? I printed your Star Wars Original Trilogy cover and it looked fine on my Blu-Ray case. Perfectly centered. Thanks for the update though.
Strangely, I have not been banned yet... Eh.
Ah yes there was a Season 5 but it had lower quality animation and, IMHO, was actually downright awful. Some voice actors also did not return to re-voice their characters. It's available in the US on DVD.
Watching some of Star Wars on SpikeTV, I noticed that they're showing some clips of the Blu-Ray Special Features. The most recent one I saw was about why they decided to have Leia wear a bikini in ROTJ... I've not been watching long. Has SpikeTV shown any other interesting Special Features?
Ha! Love Simon Pegg's comments on Twitter; I'm glad he's not one of those celebrity Star Wars fans who doesn't care. I'm actually watching Spaced right now on Hulu, and you guys are absolutely right. It's a fantastic show! I haven't laughed this hard in awhile.
Klingon_Jedi said:
The SE is just so half-assed.
You pretty much hit it on the head with this comment Klingon_Jedi. The problem with the SE is often the changes are not thought completely through or done thoroughly enough to eliminate continuity errors. This is why fan edits, like Revisited, are so much better... It would be nice if in the actual Special Editions: changes were completely carried out (i.e. new rock does not appear then disappear).
Karyudo said:
In what way did it not give acceptable results? I've never actually tried it, myself.
I'd be interested in whether this could work or not... as said before, it could be promising.
(Heh: guess we're sort of hijacking this thread.)
Well, I don't suppose it really matters if he's permanently banned and the thread title "Legacy" is pretty vague..
Whoa! I've never seen that photo before, Baronlando. Maybe it was a last minute reshoot and Marquand, with less experience with FX, thought it was convincing enough. An alternative is that Lucas may have wanted to show the Falcon to make more clear that they were talking about Lando taking it. In any case, I always did think it was somewhat of a cheap shot considering the high standard that SW and ESB set.
Karyudo said:
In other words, if you averaged a part of the JSC where there was no picture information (all black), with the part of the 2004 DVD where there *is* picture information, then all you'd get back is the 2004 DVD picture. And I'd be inclined to think you'd then see the edge pretty clearly.
You're right and there's no discernible edge to that photo... About how quickly he purported to do this, the "fake" theory looks more and more convincing. I will try to find the time tomorrow to take caps of SF/DJ's JSC and the V8, see if the extra picture information is actually there...
On a vaguely-related topic one experiment I've never tried is to use ColourLike() to give an HD target the same colour palette as the JSC.
I wonder how that will like. That would definitely a project I'd be interested. The JSC's color timing is really unique. In fact, I'm actually curious if it's more theatrically accurate than the GOUT; it does seem more vibrant on the whole, especially scenes in ESB and ROTJ. I still am honestly surprised that it was pretty much abandoned as a color source.