Trekkie313

Insurrection, Nemesis and most of Voyager never happened.

I can live with pretty much everything else though.

The Netflix streaming version had great PQ for an SD stream, and the sound wasn't bad either.

To most consumers and movie fans, they wouldn't know about the changes or question why it looks different than previous home video iterations.

Hey, Kirk Thatcher that "punk on the bus"!

Also if David Fincher had friends at ILM, why in the world didn't he ask them to work on Alien3? No disrespect to Richard Edlund, but they could've made the effects so much better.

I just watched SW on VHS, it moves along much faster than I remembered. 

Carrie Fisher had some lousy lines...

The Matrix Trilogy comes close, however SW:OT is an oddball when it comes to film franchises. It takes inspiration from so many other great works more so than most movies.

If ILM didn't revolutionize the special effects industry, I doubt that Star Wars would've made it past 200 million at the box office or be nearly as memorable.

I miss the days when stuff like this was actually released on CD or DVD.

I'd love a directors cut or extended cut, so much good material was cut from the film. Hope a company like SHOUT or OLIVE get ahold of it.

Yes,  but the newer correct versions are not widely available. Amazon and Best Buy seem to be the only places that carry them.

Dear Lesbians,

WHY YOU SO SCARY?

I do, the worst changes being the "mutant monkeys" are barely noticeable to me. Lots of people bitch and moan about it, but they're not onscreen that long and sure aren't up in your face like the CGI Jabba and Jedi Rocks sequence.

The story and characters are more important than a few cosmetic changes and rearrangements.

Add The French Connection and Ghostbusters to the list.

Drunken Jedi Master said:

TK-949 said:

Favorite: removing Matte lines.
Least favorite: everything else.

 

this

If the original version was widely available for public consumption. Most of us wouldn't care so much about the "other version" except for people like me who prefer that some dodgy F/X and wonky mattes are corrected. Plus Mos Eisley seriously needed more buildings/people to fit its description of a "spaceport".

dvdmike said:

I would love to know who submitted the Star Treks to the LDDB as I am 100% sure they do not exist 

I hope they do, the Blu-ray transfers are scrubbed of detail.

Didn't people working on the NOTLD 90 restoration use a VUDU copy?

^See it in IMAX, it's incredible.

poita said:

In simple terms the sensor is triggered via a laser that counts sprockets and the light source flashes in synch with the sensor basically. The length of the flash is adjustable, as is the LUT used depending on the density of the film.

The film transport is sprocketless and the film tension is adjustable in real time via software. Anyway, I don't want to derail the thread further, but that it the overview of how it works.

As the links from Mike show, IB prints can transfer beautifully as long as you know what you are doing.

 

Check out the Battle of Britain DVD if you want to see how an IB transfer looks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ-2X609LRE

It's on NETFLIX in HD too. Looks better than Battle Of The Bulge or A Bridge Too Far.

http://ladymanson.com/galleries/movies/MoviesRS/thumbnails.php?album=21

Nearly the whole movie is screencapped, more than a few Boba's there.

timdiggerm said:

SilverWook said:

How is Starfleet more militaristic than in any of the older films?

See: Any film where they're in the red uniforms, but especially the central conflict of ST:VI:TUC

Starfleet never actually engaged the Klingon's as a whole, only Enterprise/Excelsior fought a rogue General and prevented an assassination. 

Also someone on the IMDB board noticed something strange. When Kirk and Spock are discussing being assigned as diplomats, there is a woman sitting in the background.

My theory is that it was Valeris in disguise, it's the only way she would've known about Kirk wanting the Klingons dead. Of course this may have been a mistake, but it explains a lot.

dvdmike said:

Death.Becomes.Her.1992.720p.HDTV.x264-OCTAGON

Death Becomes Her (1992) 1080i HDTV DD2.0 MPEG2-TrollHD.nzb

This supposed to be a link?

Death Becomes Her and Dr. Giggles are guilty pleasures of mine, however neither movie has gotten much love on the home video market. I place the blame squarely on Universal for neglecting these two horror/comedies.

DBH on DVD in the U.S. is Fullscreen and muddy looking, but the U.K. has a rip from the WS LaserDisc much like the Star Wars Theatrical Editions. There is an HD copy somewhere because I saw it on Netflix instant two years ago.

Dr. Giggles is on Blu-ray, but the transfer is weak and not OAR. Somehow Warner Brothers acquired the rights for the film from Universal.

The current DVDs are not anamorphic or in their OAR and I own both on LaserDisc solely for that reasons.

I myself cannot do a preservation , would anyone be interested in helping me preserving these movies? I doubt they will get the a proper release anytime soon.

Wasn't Sphere like the only other at the time?

When Abyss was announced lots of similar films about "underwater creatures" came out before it did. The best being Leviathan.

*wish I could delete*

8 times in order of acquisition.

1. Special Edition Trilogy   -VHS-
2. Star Wars Trilogy   -DVD-
3. "Faces" Trilogy   -VHS-
4. 1990 Trilogy  -VHS-
5. WS "Faces" Trilogy  -VHS-
6. Special Edition Trilogy  -LaserDisc-
7. Limited Edition Theatrical Trilogy  -DVD-
8. Star Wars  -LaserDisc-

Number 8 is the original LD release of Star Wars and is still sealed, I never intend to open it.

Owning the Special Edition Trilogy on LaserDisc was an accident. I made a list of things I wanted for X-Mas and my father bid on the wrong set,  he was supposed to get the Definitive Collection.

TV's Frink said:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/How-many-times-have-you-bought-the-movies/topic/11865/

There are no new ideas on this forum. :p

If only search was available *mutters*.