It’s done well, but also you could watch any of the many other cuts quite easily at one time (this edition seems to be out of print).
It is and therefore not as easy as it once was.
JadedSkywalker said:
Oh, we can always watch 4k77, 4k80 and 4k80 to try and recapture the experience. But i’m sick of the decades of gaslighting and being told all the changes don’t change the flavor of the movie. Or alter their place in the year in which they were released. The effects should reflect the time the films came out. Actors from the prequels should not be in them if they weren’t born yet or were 2 years old. Watching them 1-3, 4-6 ruins the experience. The 2004 edit ruins the Vader reveal in Empire.
One alternate cut that does this well is Blade Runner The Final Cut. It had digital changes done to it but they were tastefully done to at least stay true to the time the film was made. It still looks and feels of it’s time. The Star Wars Special Editions not so much.
Thankfully while Lucas can call Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost art is hasn’t been changed in the film. I refuse to call it that. Just like to me Star Wars, is well Star Wars.
Huh that reminds me how I often joke that the best Indiana Jones film is the one without Indiana Jones in the title.
Only one I vividly remember was Austin Powers Spy Who Shagged Me.
Yeah highly doubt they’re gonna screen a non-anamorphic transfer that’s below DVD quality on a big screen.
Roku has loads of apps that show films for free. Legality is definitely in question.
Not the GOUT. It’s 16:9, different color timing, different sound mix. Looks like DeSpecialized. While it does suffer from poor compression, it’s looks too clean to be 4K77.
The new 4K of The Terminator digitally adds a blade in the shots during the eye surgery scene where there clearly wasn’t one.
Certain streaming platforms used the mono mix with the 4K master
Oh which ones?!
The one I rented on YouTube a year or so back had the OG audio.
For what it’s worth the upcoming 4K release will apparently include the mono.
“The special editions were not that bad, but people insult them because after the release of the VHS/LaserDisc/DVD of the 1997 Special Edition”
Well ,the 97 Special Edition was never released on DVD , but even further changes were made to the movies in 2004 for the DVD debut of the OT , and then again in 2011 for the blu ray , and again in 2019 for D+
" people realised the original versions will never be re-released again."…you got that right , its the reason this here site exists .
and the 2006 DVDs were a slap in the face
The Special editon was released on DVD, but not many have the DVDs of them.
^ Ummm…no . The 1997 Special editions were never officially released on DVD .There are bootlegs floating around out there that look like official product , but they are just that…bootlegs , mostly using the 97 special edition laser discs as a source .
Yeah those “Five Star Collection” DVDs that even put “Anamorphic Widecreen” on the front covers even though they were using NON-anamorphic wisdescreen LD versions.
Very sad news to hear. Underrated actor with a voice and presence that immediately captivated you. He will be missed. RIP.
Has anyone got the DVD audio I’d like to sync it to the new 4k
Which DVD?? The original Goodtimes DVD or either the 2003 or 2015 DVDs by Universal??
Even the whole transparency fix in the snow battle isn’t “fixed” it’s just reduced enough that the transparency is far less detectable. It’s still there though.
I wanna say he was referring to the 2006 DVDs which used the Laserdisc transfers for their source but you never know with this man. It’s sad yet unsurprising that he uses everyone’s disappointment of the actual TRANSFERS as justification that the original versions of the movies were in fact inferior/incomplete films.
If those LD masters had been upgraded to 16:9 with a bit of upscaling I guarantee 60%-70% of the complaints people had with those DVDs wouldn’t have happened. Sure the 1993 masters weren’t perfect. Coloring was off at times, some poor DNR applied but with some minor enhancements and upgrading to modern video proportions they could’ve been acceptable in 2006.
It’s just sad that he’s so convinced the SE’s were better because people were upset with those 2006 DVDs (again I’m assuming that’s what he meant) when it was the transfers people were upset with not the films! He clearly feels “if they aren’t happy with those versions in a older outdated video master that isn’t even upscaled for modern viewing than it’s clear the films were bad”. (Sighs)
By most accounts there aren’t any surviving prints of the film with the epilogue intact. What little has survived is not enough for a full restoration. This is why the epilogue is only shown in brief clips in the documentary on the DVD/BD.
When Beihn first shoots Arnold, you could hear the original mono shotgun sound effect layered underneath the 5.1 version. I kinda heard it the second time (before Arnold goes through the window). Arnie’s uzi still sounds like the 5.1 mix.
Which IMO only makes it worse and inconsistent. It just sounds odd having an effect that goes BLAM played under an effect going poof. What makes it even more strange is during the parking garage shootout in the remix both the Terminator and Reese’s guns make different sounds despite both being the same model shotgun. Yes Reese’s has an extended magazine tube but it’s the same shotgun.
No I do not.
Making of Star Wars
Even though I prefer the original versions, the SE era was special to me since that was more or less the time of my Star Wars upbringing (I wasn’t around during the original run). I saw the SE of ANH in theaters (still have the ticket somewhere actually) but I was still pretty young so I can’t remember much of it but the POTF 2 figures, Micro Machine sets, and all sorts of late 90s Star Wars paraphernalia has definitely stayed with me. The ‘95 set was the first time I owned them on video and naturally didn’t really know especially at that age the true meaning and impact the words “One Last Time” actually had. It was an exciting time but bittersweet too in retrospect.
Don’t look at me I’m one crazy mofo! I had to pop a cop cause he wasn’t giving me my props in Oaktown!
Umm….
I am surprised that in all the releases no attempt was made to correct the brief shots in the Obi-Wan/Vader duel where the blade colors switch.
On top of that, they even still sported the “Limited Edition” tag on the front when they were slimmed down for the 2008 DVD set.
Luke would probably never have thought about leaving if a single port was so busy. There’s probably a thriving metropolis nearby if all that traffic came and went. Even the little CGI creatures ruin the idea that it’s a barren wasteland.
I was about to make a comment along those lines. Expanding Mos Eisley definitely contradicts the notion Luke’s sets about Tatooine with his earlier remarks. A buzzing spaceport with scurrying creatures, various alien life, and speeders galore definitely doesn’t fit the idea of Tatooine being the planet the farthest from the “bright center of the universe”.