Yep. Try pushing one on cobblestone roads and then cramming two into a tiny room.
Not fun.
What the...?
They lost the negative?
S_Matt said:
^Except Spielberg also lost his marbles at some point in the last 20 years....
That would be about 1988-after Empire of the Sun.
Zombie is right. EoD wouldn't have been in filmed in HD simply due to the time in which it was made.
The GOUT is essentially what a Star Wars DVD release of the OT would have looked like in 1997/1998.
Is there any working rom for this?
Jaw just hit the floor.
MAME has never worked for me, but this just would be mindblowing.
The simplest answer would be to do a new transfer of George's IB prints that were the base for the 97 restoration. Then simply add the alternate soundtracks and do minor cleanup of any imperfections with the print itself. (no DVNR or anything else) Simple and not the best way, but at least it would be done with everything the way it should be.
Come to think of it since George just likes to dump old things into new formats to appease some fans on the cheap he just might like it.
The pink tint should only be from Ben and Luke overlooking Mos Eisley and the Falcon blasting off. It seems to creep in during the "I want to learn the way of the Force" scene.
The 97s are color timed to match George's Tech IB print. Then the telecines deviate from that. I still prefer this warmer palette to anything 04.
My two cents:
I don't really think the SE trailers were correct enough to base color timing off of.
Despite the added detail from using the broadcast versions of the SE, I still find that motion smearing to be extremely distracting. It's in the Revivax and DJ's test clips. I like the looks of my LD transfer better because of this.
Combining the 97 and 04 isn't a bad idea, but to me they seem like totally different beasts. The end result can look fantastic, but I've wanted something to represent the YCM labs work done instead of the tinkered version. In trying to color match, the LDs will have the detail but can be saturated by different players. The Silver box VHS set is probably the best overall for this but of course has less resolution. In fact, I think it resembles the broadcast versions just in lower resolution and without the motion smearing.
If I worked somewhere like Criterion this would be my definitive breakdown:
Original theatrical releases seamlessly branched with 70mm editions. 97SE trilogy as a Bonus archival version.
SW in original mono, stereo, 70mm mix (4.2 original or upmixed), and 93 mix
ESB in original Dolby stereo, 70mm mix, 93 mix
ROTJ in original Dolby stereo, 70mm mix, 93 mix
The grain shouldn't be touched, the problem is the color timing. Almost every release has variations, so the best representations would be the original masters and the Technicolor IB prints. (are there any for ESB or ROTJ?)
All around I would just want the most untouched release possible-one that matches the original film as much as possible. The only technical gripe I have are the darned garbage mattes.
He does have a good sense of humor about things and isn't the worst guy in the world.
The problem is that he cannot ever heed his own character's advice and let go!
I wonder what the original HD masters look like that came from Lowry before LFL started doing the mucking about.
Conquest was the first Apes movie I saw. I still like it best of the sequels for the ideas presented and bits of verite style. The original ending is much better.
And the new Rise of the Planet of the Apes will definitely suck. I'm not even much of a Apes fan, but it looks like standard end of the world CGI action that just happens to have "Planet of the Apes" in the title. Really infuriating. Well, it can't be worse than the remake...can it?
That would probably be the easiest thing overall.
The thing is, in parts TPM can still feel like an adventure movie, which cannot be said for II and III.
Then again, there was a fight between Anakin and baby Greedo.
Oh dear oh dear.
Anything else is deleted instantly and retconned into proper Lucas text.
Exactly. All the gushing today is getting really ridiculous and idiotic.
We should all link savestarwars.com to the official fb page. See what happens. ;)
The Long Good Friday
Trail of the Pink Panther for the first time in years. the first 40 or so minutes actually work somewhat as a coherent plot, but as soon as the reporter character is introduced all credibility goes out the window.
Anchorhead said:
generalfrevious said:
Bottom line, we will have to wait 20 years for the OOT that should have been in good quality 10 years ago.
I still say this is how we will all experience the 1977 theatrical version - à la Soylent Green.
I just died laughing. Guess this print gets recycled in the Soylent factory into new pressings of the Blu-rays.
Batman Returns.
feeling yummier. Meow.
Killer's Kiss, The Killing, Paths of Glory, Spartacus
Quadrophenia (on my original German LP with the original mix)
greenpenguino said:
Watched The Avengers. Just as bad as I remember.
But it was a lot silly fun..
That it is.
We need the series on Blu!!!
