avoidz

Didn't that guy who worked on the color timing of the 2004 versions also work on The Simpsons at some point?...

He's like a bad penny: he always shows up.

R2D2 said:

Btw: the official Blu-Ray Teaser is now avaiable in 720p:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JLltQkcHZys

Watch official Pinky Lightsabers in HD.

Ugh. I can't stand the sight of it anymore. Especially the classic scenes combined with the prequel trilogy garbage. LFL fanboys are on the offensive too:

HAHA! I love the idiot ramblings of the virgin geeks who complain and? whine to the ends of the earth for no blu-rays then when they get them they? continue to bitch about more irrelevant shit no one but them cares about. Enjoy or shut your gobs. If you think these are inferior to the original theatrical cuts, you are stupid beyond reach.

It's probably just recycled SE footage for a promo trailer. Unless LFL is completely stupid and just uses the same source as the 2004 SE discs.

see you auntie said:

Harmy that photshop of Han and Greedo with walkie talkies is the best thing ever.

Han squawked first.

Harmy said:

Erase garbage mates by correcting the colour levels (they were never visible in cinemas), sure. Erase the out of nowhere appearing ships, no way, they were always there and they should stay because that's what was achieved in 1983 and for optical compositing, it is very close to perfection, tweaking it in a computer makes it much less valuable because computer compositing is soooo easy that 8-year-olds can do it on their toy computers.

Yes, exactly. I could accept minimal corrections, such as the minor tweaks to Raiders during its restoration (although there's still slightly too much red in those Indy DVDs), if they absolutely have to make some changes.

I don't mind a few model or optical errors and mistakes here and there; it's part of the effect from the time; I don't expect perfection. They did incredible work on the originals.

Moth3r said:

What's a BR?

Edit: you probably meant BD.

Nevermind.

It doesn't matter how good these Blus will supposedly look if they are not the original theatrical versions. Erase those garbage mattes and disappearing ships and missing lightsaber rotoscopes, etc., sure, but don't change entire scenes or add effects that weren't there to begin with.

haraldo23 said:

So I just saw the BluRay announcement trailer and - while I don't know if they used the BluRay footage for this - it looks like they haven't changed anything. Just SE in HD. Nothing more.

I'd say the trailer was put together several months ago from pre-existing SE footage to promote the box set of Blu movies.

Ripplin said:

avoidz said:

Very tasteless.

Then stop quoting him, people! ;)

Did so just for relevance, and to remind me of the post while I reply to it. I'll avoid it in future.

generalfrevious said:

In the end, it's all pointless. We are being sold a product that does not contain the product itself.

The only reason we consider the OT good is because we are viewing with nostalgia-colored lenses. If you objectively look at the franchise, SW gets an F based on the PT alone. If you look at the OT itself, it ranges from B+ to D+, depending on your view of ROTJ. LFL is being run by people who should be in a mental hospital; nowadays any DVD they put out is absolute shit. The GOUT is the undisputed champion in having the worst transfer in video history.

I know this may sound tasteless, but maybe GL should have died in that car accident back in '62. We wouldn't have Jar-Jar if that happened.

Very tasteless. The man maybe a shadow of himself these days, but back then he was part of the new wave taking on Hollywood and reshaping it.

And it's not nostalgia; the original movies were great and people loved them at the time, not just years later.

Bingowings said:

It's clearly the real deal, I still find the evidence to the contrary unconvincing, just look at the thing :

Nice try. Just look at the lighting on C-3PO compared to the sunlight on the rocks outside. Fake!

Thanks for the video link. Hamill even qualifies it with reference to other insert scenes shot without him.

Unrelated... But thanks for the link to the Starlog article. I had a whole pile of those mags in the early- mid-1990s.

SilverWook said:

Boba was also among the few SW action figures Elliott showed to E.T., and referred to by name.

...And nobody messes with the shark :)

zombie84 said:

Boba Fett wasn't cool when he killed him in 1983. His cult status came about in the 1990s, at which time Lucas decided to make him the central figure of the entire Clone War plot.

I'd say it was more like just after TESB and in the mid-1980s following ROTJ, since his action figure was a favorite of mine and many of my friends.

TML said:

Probably because I'm one of the youngest users here, the whole "Greedo Shooting First" has never really irked me that much, but I still don't care for it. The first time I really remember seeing the films was the DVD release of the Special Editions, so when I saw the changes, I always thought they were present in the original films.

It's probably the thing that worries me the most long term about the changes to these movies; that the current generation will never know what the originals looked like.

I would change one thing however: who goes into carbon freeze...

I found proof of your real identity. Don't ask me where I got it.

kenkraly2007 said:

You think I am frustraded that the original cuts of the ot are not going to be on blu-ray I am frustraded but I don't complan about it like other fans do.

On a site called originaltrilogy?

"Proof" without provenance is no proof.

It doesn't add to the credibility of your video if you can't at least provide a source for it.

Too late for a Dawson gif?

^^ The first image looks far more natural.

msycamore said:

The old home video versions are Lucas' "restored original cuts", but the original theatrical releases should be preserved anyway IMO. One of the nice things about preservations of different cuts, is that you can study the films history.

Yes, it's one of the things about Blade Runner that's interesting; being able to see the different versions and compare them. Ridley isn't just re-releasing the movie every few years with some minor or major changes and then erasing the preceding version of the film. He realises the place each version has in history.

All these changes and tweaks and color differences boggles the mind.