The Aluminum Falcon

Well, I hate to bump my own thread but I just realized something. Reading the savestarwars.com website, I noticed that this release supposedly had the 1985 remix audio for ESB. Is this confirmed? I'm curious, as I've never heard of it before, but would be happy to transfer it for anyone interested.

zombie84 said:

Behold, I live. And so does the site.

Thanks for the concern though, good to know people will notice if I drop off the face of the earth for two weeks. :p

How about "Star Wars: The Holiday Special-- Frinkified"? Although, it's probably ridiculous enough as is.

Harmy said:

I don't know where you get your delusions laserbrains

You're quite right SilverKey. TPM assumes way too much of the audience, which generally tends to be the problem with prequels: Temple of Doom and the Magician's Nephew book to name some. I think the JarJar/force explanation is better, as it lets the audience know earlier in the movie and makes more narrative sense.

I'd be interested in this, having seen the workprint.

Thumbs up on YouTube if you agree with my comment that "Adywan is an epic winner!!! :-)"

Strange Hoth seems a lot less blue altogether, much like Adywan's color-corrected AVCHD, but I thought it was established that Hoth wasn't white and there was in fact a dark blue (not cyan) tint...

On the other hand, ROTJ seems to have lost a blue tint but acquired a pink one!

TK-949 said:

Fuck that. Take mine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jfHfPr8nY0 ;-)

 

Looks nice, but it's a reconstruction right?

Moth3r said:

What model Toshiba recorder are you using? The RDR-XSxx and RD-KXxx models are reportedly very good.

I'm using the Toshiba DR430. I've not heard of the ones you mentioned.

I agree with the above; you may even find that some of the clipped whites are recoverable (I found this with an LG recorder). I'll take a look at your sample.

Hmm. I didn't no that clipped whites could be recovered... since they seem not to be on my source laserdisc.

Thanks for looking at my sample, Moth3r. I look forward to your thoughts. Remember that the first title is a 1989 ESB Special Widescreen laserdisc and the second is the ESB 1997 Special Edition laserdisc

Eh, he wanted to get more attention by being the forerunner of his own forum and leaving us. It's a shame, since this led to his edit getting less attention than if he just finished it here. The edit does have some admittedly interesting ideas, editing wise; the problem is that his ego is as big as the Hindenburg (and probably will suffer the same fate: blow up). He messed up the narrative in a misguided attempt to make something more complex and original, though it may have been easily remedied by constructive criticism from this website or fanedit.org.

As said before the Jar-Jar removal was interesting technically, as well as Anakin's removal in the latter part of the TPM section. His unwillingness to cut more in the AOTC section is what really drags the film down; it's still filled with awful romance, which other edits have fixed... (yes L8wrtr, I'm looking at you). Furthermore, ROTS is completely convoluted now. He starts with it in the beginning, returns to it in the middle, but never gives the whole thing a proper nod at the flashback at the end... just a random montage.

TV's Frink said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkU8WMoB75U

YES!!! Epic winning...

Not sure if it's been mentioned before but someone made an alternate end to ANH on Youtube here with Vader and the Emperor. The other two parts here and here also have more Vader scenes added to ANH. Has this been mentioned before?

Lucas really seems to want money for improved versions of deleted scenes of all his franchises. Sadly, he'll probably get it since it's better than what we are stuck with for now... jeez

skyjedi2005 said:

same trailer in German.  I believe from a German vhs tape.

Certainly looks like a VHS. The footage is not faded, but it seems the title cards are in German...

skyjedi2005 said:

Hopefully none of the deleted scenes are take from whatever the low res source that was used on the behind the magic cd-rom.

It could be different. At least the Treadwell scene is a later color version; they also seem to run a correct 24 fps and not 12 fps like the cd-rom.

Generally speaking, yes, scanning technology has improved because things are being scanned at higher and higher resolutions compared to 15 year-old scans, 4K and higher being used more often these days, whilst far lower was perfectly acceptable in those days. However, there are exceptions, the 2004 set was apparently scanned at only 1080p resolution, even though it 2K was supposedly used more even 7 years ago. You are right though, the films do age; however, they're stored better these days than before, so there might not be that much loss in the last 15 years. Someone else can probably fill in a lot more...

As for the deleted scenes, I doubt they were scanned at GOUT times... I'm not sure why he would have reason to scan it back then. Mostly he seemed much more focused on restoring the movies when he found out the negative was falling apart. I suppose it's feasible they were scanned during the making of the Special Editions. Still. I doubt Lucas would hold onto those scans for that long and just release it now. Sadly, this could just be the optimist in me, as he's done more than odd things before. :-(

Baronlando said:

skyjedi2005 said:

Actually Luke screams in one of the pre release empire strikes back trailers

He does, but pretty sure it's in a different scene.

As far as the Vivaldi trailer, he screams twice: once when he falls out of the grey chute after jumping off and another time when he is hurled out the window before the "I Am Your Father" confrontation in the Cloud City shaft. Someone recreated it on Youtube here, and someone else uploaded the original on Youtube here, from a faded film print, judging by the looks of it.

Awesome covers!

Yay! Daemon Tools worked for me. I'll be sure to post my thoughts tomorrow.

Thanks for the tip. I was planning on replacing the German audio track with the isolated score from DJ's V3, as I don't speak German.

Just downloaded this, Harmy. I wanted to mux in an alternate audio track so would like it in the form of BDMV and Certificate folders, as the other two movies were. How do I extract these folders from the ISO? I tried using WinRar and Undisker but they both couldn't find anything to extract from the ISO file.

ladyferry said:

A friend of mine who went to Comic Con saw some clips of The Phantom Menace blu ray DVD and said it looked very clear and crisp, and that the pink hue had gone...

Yep.. it seems that it got a new nicer transfer. There's a comparison picture here. Leave it to LFL to make the PT look better videowise...

L8wrtr, you just create an account on his digital fanedits website, and all the links become visible. If you want to endure it, I could send you the links... Just PM me.

I picked my username because I thought it was a pretty funny joke in Robot Chicken and no one (on this forum at least) had it! :-) I got my title from Robot Chicken too...