Originally posted by: PaulisDead2221GOD DAMN! I hate it when everything turns into this depressing bullshit! You are all such Debbie Downers I want to blow my brains out! Now if we and all you Negative Nancies can take nothing else from this letter, it's that if Lucasfilm will not, for some reason, from strange excuses to outlandish conspiracies, will not release the best movie ever in a proper format for the classic fans as those who come to this forum, we'll just have to show a little ingenuity. Of course in this letter, he's clearly talking about making your own damn movie, to go out there like he did as a young man and get in the dirt and come up with something new (yeah he probably not even be talking about fan films dawg), but we can take so much more from this. The technology today can do so much more than what it could do when he was a kid (although it's a few thousand pixels short of the same quality) in terms of both power and distribution. Dammit, we have everything we need. We have the 2004 DVDs, we have HD broadcasts, we have a laserdisc master tape on DVD, we have the mono mix, we have the stereo mix, we have an isolated score, God dammit we even have the back channels of the 2004 DVD mixed properly, we have avisynth, we have insert generic expensive editing program (and failing that, we have software piracy), we have everything that we need to do what we need them to do. Why is it that OCP's Classic Editions are the only DE-SEing projects in existence???!!! I thought with time that is all I would see on these forums! Put down your PT DVDs!!! Stop fan editing them! They're not good! They have no souls!
If Lucasfilm won't give Star Wars what it needs, then we'll just have to.
I'm sorry, it's just when you watch your own DE-SEing project with a friend of yours on his HD television, with the real Fett speaking right now cue, and everything with a place and everything in its place, when you leave your disc there for your friend to have, and print out for him the cover art you yourself created, and when you give it to him he's all "Dude sweet!", and when days later he's watching the film yet again with the isolated score, and all this you yourself put together, and have everything you need to do it two more times (three times cause you're convinced you could still do better with the one that's done!), and have everything you need to give it to the whole world with an internet connection, well fuck.
No, it won't be perfect, it won't be perfect until Lucasfilm does a proper transfer from the original negatives once again. And if he's actually taped over his copy, then another can be easily salvaged from deep within the safe, secure, environment-controlled vaults of the British Film Institute or the American Film Institute. Now come on people, cheer the fuck up.
