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#432441
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Star Wars coming to Blu Ray (UPDATE: August 30 2011, No! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!)
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doubleofive said:

 

Tobar said:


Definitely wasn't green.
But still wrong.

 

As Taken from the GOUT:

There were still some oddities. Almost all of the Tie fighter explosions were almost pure white, no color at all. Except notably for the last Tie when the Falcon escapes Tatooine. As opposed to when an X-wing would bite it and then the color of the explosion seemed oversaturated.

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#432403
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Star Wars coming to Blu Ray (UPDATE: August 30 2011, No! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!)
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Well, I guess I'll throw my two cents in. I was there at Celebration and got to see what I'm guessing was a sneak peek at what's going to be coming out on bluray. Every night they would play two films back to back. I wasn't able to attend most of them because the shuttles stopped before the first film would finish. However, on one day because they were throwing a big party they moved the films up so I was able to catch a good chunk of ANH.

They had a big fancy digital projector hooked up that projected to a huge screen. Sorry I can't get into the technical side of things that's not my forte. Anyway, the film looked amazing. It looks like they might have gone and fixed the errors that the DVD release introduced as Luke's lightsaber was actually white again. The colors overall looked a lot better than what I remember of the DVD transfer.

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#429530
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Marvel Star Wars
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Actually Classic Star Wars was a run of reformatted reprints of the newspaper strip that ran from 1979 to 1984. It was originally just the later Al Williamson strips but later on they would go on to reprint the early Russ Manning strips. You can see more by clicking on my sig.

The only Marvel reprints Dark Horse has done as far as I know were first the film adaptions and then later the omnibus books. I believe they plan to do another run soon including some of the british stories that were left out the first round.

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#429329
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I will refuse to buy STAR WARS on bluray!
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It was in a recent forcecast that was linked here not long ago I believe. I'll see if I can track it down again but the gist of it is explained in this excerpt from his site:

Before Revenge of the Sith commenced, Matthew was to supervise the re-mastering of the Star Wars Special Edition Trilogy to DVD 2004. Bringing these films into the modern soundstage of DVD and Dolby EX, Matthew and his crew spent months meticulously reconstructing the soundtracks from their original elements. An absolute labor of love, Matthew got to relive his childhood fantasy and also work his sound expertise on his favorite films.

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#429112
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I will refuse to buy STAR WARS on bluray!
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adywan said:

skyjedi2005 said:

Who cares about the blu ray since it will not have either theatrical versions, the 1977, or 1997 .

It will be total crap.  The new mix being created will suck too since Ben burtt does no longer work for Luca$film. Matthew wood is doing the mix, it will be garbage.

But wasn't it Ben Burtt that did the 2004 mix and look how good that turned out. Ben Burtt was just the sound FX guy and should have stuck to that. When he got his hands on the mix he dialled down the music so low it was inaudible in some sections and the sound effects just drowned everything out

He's credited for it but he mostly just supervised. I was listening to an interview recently with Matt Wood and he was talking about how he and his partner were the ones that actually created the '04 mix.

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#423172
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NIGHTLINE (ABC) "Kiss Your Sister?" segment
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CO said:

I can't believe any of these moron SW fans who dress up can't answer why Luke and Leia kiss, yet they are siblings.  Is every SW fanboy naive to the reality that Lucas was making this up as he was going along? 

Let's hope he was, or if this was planned, that would be creepy as hell!

Not to disparage the man but he and Spielberg did also come up with the idea that Indiana Jones had an affair with Marion when she was between the ages of 12-15. Source

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#422535
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Info: Rare 1980 "Empire Hotline" Recordings Discovered
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Actually someone already did!

Posted by:  akalsey   |   June 28, 2010 2:32 PM
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