Well, no one on Chud is really paying attention (most of the discussion in the thread I posted to involves defining what "ANAMORPHIC" even is) and Quint hasn't looked at his email, so there's no guarantee that info IS going to be posted in his article.
It's a movie news website. I also emailed Quint at aintitcool (he's already vented about this anamorphic thing once) and asked him to stick that contact info in his current news story on the front page of the site.
Also, from what I can understand, you can also reach Sansweet at that number.
I would honestly cut that to just the last paragraph. That gets at exactly what you want without the preamble.
it was well written.
I'd call, too, just because. And also--if anyone can dig up Steve Sansweet's contact information--since he's head of fan relations, he might be a good person to yell at.
That's sorta cold man. I'm pretty unhappy at the possibility of this being non-anamorphic, but saying "i'll probably only be happy when he's dead" is some cold shit.
Again,
Jim Ward, Senior Vice President Lucasfilm Ltd. 5858 Lucas Valley Rd. Nicasio, CA 94946 Phone: 415-662-1800 Fax: 415-448-2495
Yeah, don't think this deserved it's own thread, but while you're at it--email him and ask him to exhort his 30 or 40 readers to call or snail mail Jim Ward about this:
Jim Ward, Senior Vice President Lucasfilm Ltd. 5858 Lucas Valley Rd. Nicasio, CA 94946 Phone: 415-662-1800 Fax: 415-448-2495
I dunno..if you have an account at TFN, post this info there in a thread or something. Or whatever other Star Wars forum you visit. Or regular movie forum. Do as Neil (and to a lesser extent, I as well) does: Just wallpaper the internet forums. Movie boards, geek boards, game boards, anything like that. If you visit somewhere and you know people like to talk Star Wars there, Say "Here's his contact info--leave him a voicemail telling him the LD transfer idea is stupid and we want an anamorphic transfer."
You'd be surprised how many people will get a look at this. The ideal is to get this on the front page here and have Bill Hunt at Digital Bits post the number himself and ask his readers to also call and/or mail.
He's also senior Vice President of Lucasfilm. Since he's the one making the announcements on this set, he IS the one to ask for. Contact that guy, and let him know. Going after George isn't going to work.
it doesn't hurt to send them a letter or drop a voicemail at this point. if Hunt is wrong (which he rarely is, I can only think of once) then all these calls and emails will simply be reinforcement that going anamorphic was the right decision.
but if Hunt is RIGHT, then this is the window to get that changed. It's a pretty small window. Sitting and waiting just means the window is closed and our opportunity to seriously alter the outcome has passed by.
I'm not saying they need to mail Lucasfilm flaming bags of dogshit. But a letter or a call to the offices stating that putting this thing out non-anamorphic is not a good decision isn't going to hurt.
I gotta find them bastards. When Neil went on his rampage at the HTF in 2004, I dug up a couple contacts that I found then. I gotta find em again, crap.
I'm with you, I just posted about it in the other thread. I know there's another address, and it'd probably be better to address it to Jim Ward, VP of Marketing, than it would be Lucas.
Oh good lord, great. So I say to wait for confirmation. I get confirmation. CONFIRMATION THE WRONG FUCKING WAY, LUCASFILM.
So, I've emailed Jay about the front page. here's my thinking: Last time there was a huge fuckup on the Lucasfilm part that Neil ended up getting right, a few of us at the HTF set about digging up Lucasfilm contact info: Snail Mail addresses, phone numbers, the whole shlemiel. We found them, and we posted them, and we exhorted people to contact the company DIRECTLY about it.
This needs to happen again. I don't have that info on me right now, I'm at work, but I'm thinking we get that info, we slap it on the front page of this site, and we urge people to write a letter, email, call em, and let em know, because in the face of First's latest post, it doesn't sound like we have much time to at least get this thing 16x9.
Sure, bitching about it on the net (and there's gonna be PLENTY of fucking bitching if Hunt isn't wrong, which he rarely is) is going to feel good, but with such a small window where we can actually EXERT some sort of influence, however small, it'd be a crime not to.
70,000 people got us this far--we can try just a little bit harder to do this justice, right?
AND IF Bill does end up being wrong--then this will simply be reinforcement to them that they made the right choice in going anamorphic. But if Bill's not wrong, we need to give em an earful. Not a messageboard earful, but a REAL earful. Phone messages and tangible letters.
Yeah, I always thought that was funny: In the making of the Special Edition documentaries on the VHS, they pointed to the Snowspeeder scene and the Rancor scenes as examples of how they removed matte lines and opacity problems--and then when you watched the films, there were still opacity problems and a thick line around the rancor.
as a matter of fact, I think in the 04 special edition of Empire, you can STILL see through a part of the cockpit. And I don't mean the windows
Yeah, but Gaffer--I'm not entirely sure the reach of the goals you're attributing to him actually exist anywhere but in beleaugured fans' heads, yunno?
I'm surprised how rapidly this is circling the internet recently--it's been around for like 2 or 3 years now. one of the kids got hired by Lucasarts to do some editing on a variety of their games a year or so ago, based on the work in this video.
No, you were correct...the Lord of the Rings DOES have six parts. There are six books. two per novel. The story is broken up into six distinct books. Really, all the divisions are sort of superficial, as Tolkien always intended for it to be released as one part. the three novel division was sorta arbitrary, although the splitting of the story into 6 different books was always there.
I know I'm splitting hairs unbelievably, since there weren't SIX MOVIES of the Lord of the Rings, but I'm just trying to give you an out