4-6 for me will always be THE Star Wars but I refuse to slack on the PT. Do they have flaws?? Sure but they have their moments. Most of the lightsaber duels were intense and it had some great sets. In the end I just say for better or worse they gave us the story that preceded the films that we love. Are the Prequels bad? No. Could they be better?? Yes.
Says you.
Mature.
Fox owns the rights, but it’s not as simple as that, and I have no idea why everyone on these forums seems to think Fox can just jump up and say “Yes! It’s time to distribute the OOT on 4K!” anytime they want.
There’s a lot of legal hoops they need to jump through with Disney and Lucasfilm. The digital releases were missing the 20th Century Fox logo or is everyone forgetting that? Oh right but it’s clearly as simple as Fox just deciding to do whatever they want, they must have decided to omit their logo from the beginning of those releases just because they felt like it.For the record Fox retains distribution rights for the original Star Wars, it does not own all the prints for the original Star Wars or the right to scan and/or alter anything without the approval of Lucasfilm and by extension, Disney.
Conflicts of interest and contractual legalities are enough to throw a huge wrench in the works for anything like this. Shutting down discussion that doesn’t align with the hivemind doesn’t change that.
I want a 4K release just as much as anyone but expecting one this year or anytime soon is lunacy and I’ll eat my hat if it happens. Feel free to hold me to that.
I never said Fox can just release it when they want. I was just saying ANH will be distributed through into the foreseeable future provided of course Lucasfilm wants them too. Lucasfilm is really the ones in charge of where the movies are going.
As far as the OOT never being released, I don’t think it’ll be this year but in the future who knows?? Studios always want excuses to resell their shit and simply giving out the same SE everytime is gonna get to a point where that’s not enough of a selling point. But if you are positively, absolutely, truly, undoubtedly, with out a doubt, no second thoughts whatsoever, totally convinced it will never happen well more power to you. But let those who are still holding out hope to their business and dreams, as potentially hopeless as they may be.
I would argue it’s already gotten to that point.
They’ve sold us the same discs three times in a row now.
Plus the digital releases
Says you.
Mature.
Fox owns the rights, but it’s not as simple as that, and I have no idea why everyone on these forums seems to think Fox can just jump up and say “Yes! It’s time to distribute the OOT on 4K!” anytime they want.
There’s a lot of legal hoops they need to jump through with Disney and Lucasfilm. The digital releases were missing the 20th Century Fox logo or is everyone forgetting that? Oh right but it’s clearly as simple as Fox just deciding to do whatever they want, they must have decided to omit their logo from the beginning of those releases just because they felt like it.For the record Fox retains distribution rights for the original Star Wars, it does not own all the prints for the original Star Wars or the right to scan and/or alter anything without the approval of Lucasfilm and by extension, Disney.
Conflicts of interest and contractual legalities are enough to throw a huge wrench in the works for anything like this. Shutting down discussion that doesn’t align with the hivemind doesn’t change that.
I want a 4K release just as much as anyone but expecting one this year or anytime soon is lunacy and I’ll eat my hat if it happens. Feel free to hold me to that.
I never said Fox can just release it when they want. I was just saying ANH will be distributed through Fox into the foreseeable future provided of course Lucasfilm wants them too. Lucasfilm is really the ones in charge of where the movies are going.
As far as the OOT never being released, I don’t think it’ll be this year but in the future who knows?? Studios always want excuses to resell their shit and simply giving out the same SE everytime is gonna get to a point where that’s not enough of a selling point. But if you are positively, absolutely, truly, undoubtedly, with out a doubt, no second thoughts whatsoever, totally convinced it will never happen well more power to you. But let those who are still holding out hope to their business and dreams, as potentially hopeless as they may be.
Um…okay.
I just don’t understand why you have to watch everything that has even the barest of connections to Star Wars, lest you lose your fan card or something.
I never said I did. I said if I did see this new parody movie that would be the reason. That doesn’t imply I will see it.
And trust me I don’t watch everything SW related parody or not. Never seen The Clone Wars (film or series), never saw the Holiday Special in its entirety, never saw Rebels, and still haven’t seen Rogue One yet to name a few.
But only because he’s a Star Wars fan, right?
Frink, unlike a lot of people who get humiliated on this site by you and alike, I ain’t going away.
Are you going to?
Hmmm depends. How kinky is it??
If I see this I’ll likely see it out of loyalty as a SW fan
This makes no sense to me. Did you see the porn parody?
Never knew there was one.
Backtracking a bit here but I don’t know why people keep jumping on the “maybe a 4K release” train, it’s not going to happen this year or any time soon; Disney does not support 4K and they’re not going to suddenly start in the next couple of months with an older Star Wars movie over one of their own animated films or even one of the newer Star Wars films.
As nice as it would be the general consumer has grown up with or gotten used to the SE and a 4K release of the OUT is two niches a billion dollar company is not going to take a gamble on.
Says you. Anyways Fox owns ANH inpertuity (did I say that right??) so if a 4K remaster of that film is done it’ll be distributed by them.
Ehh movie parodies are kinda dead. No doubt the joke of ‘the force’ will be overly used. If I see this I’ll likely see it out of loyalty as a SW fan but not much else. I’d rather have Spaceballs 2 and truthfully it’s kinda pointless for that at this stage.
Call me crazy, but I like the “Nooo!” added in ROTJ.
http://38.media.tumblr.com/a90b591b2f560e4d00f22d17d3057485/tumblr_npxa4ehB7R1s27326o2_r1_540.gif
Slightly off topic but if the National Film Registry included Star Wars among its selected films in 1989, why did Lucasfilm offer the SE print 8 years after the fact??? Was Lucas intending to change the film(s) as early as '89 and wouldn’t submit a print until the film was ‘finished’???
Perhaps to some this is old news but I just noticed something that serves somewhat of a continuity error. During the sequence in the SE of ANH of the Jawas falling off the Ronto in Mos Eisley, if you look closely in the background (you can clearly see it in the original unaltered film) you can see the cantina. The reason I said this serves somewhat of a continuity error is because of the CGI’d Luke speeder added to the shot. However the SE also added a large dome like building in the background among a few other new additions that are not present when they arrive at the cantina even in the SE. So assuming this was meant to be a part of Mos Eisley they had already passed before arriving at the cantina, it also serves a bit of a continuity error in the original as well.
Oh! Oh! I have one! The recomped crawl in Star Wars! Why didn’t they just use the 81 crawl? It’s just as good as the 97.
True. I never really understood why the SW logo had to recede faster in the SE. The only thing I do like that the SE crawl did was begin to roll up before the SW logo faded out. At least that way it fits with the other episodes.
Thanks for the post. I might tinker with those. I’m also considering making a simple DVD sleeve modeled after the box set artwork and have all three discs in the one case. I was also checking out ebay.co.uk incase they had any editions. So I got some work to do.
Technically the GOUT was a special feature. Not exactly a special feature but I remember being super psyched that the 2005 DVD release of Jaws was gonna include the original mono so I no longer had to tire out my VHS copy. It was also that release that I got to see for the first time the two hour doc that was originally produced for the LD.
Nada. He didn’t have them.
Thanks. I’ll shoot him a message!
EyeShotFirst, is there a reason you forgot the image of Yoda on the back cover of ESB?? Also this was discussed in another thread but does anyone by any chance have a logofree version of the ROTJ artwork but with the ‘smaller’ Lando like on the VHS cover?? The only logofree version of that artwork that I can find has ‘larger’ Lando.
Anyone here who can help find that ‘smaller Lando’ print of the ROTJ artwork?? Also does anyone happen to have any large scans of the back covers of these UK covers?? They seem to be the best source for textless or close to textless copies of the '92 back cover collages. Thanks!!
I’d do a third one with the George Lucas message on the back cover.
I saw the SE of ANH in the theatre but I was 4 so I honestly don’t remember it much so my first proper introduction to the OUT in Widescreen was when I got the '92 Letterboxed VHS set off eBay about 14 years ago.
If you had the Pan and Scan version of the SE
No one should have.
What if I had said this?? ‘If you had the Pan and Scan version of the OUT–’
No one should have unless you had no choice.
Which in 2004 if you wanted them on DVD no one did, unless you had bootlegged copies sourced from LDs.
I saw the SE of ANH in the theatre but I was 4 so I honestly don’t remember it much so my first proper introduction to the OUT in Widescreen was when I got the '92 Letterboxed VHS set off eBay about 14 years ago.
If you had the Pan and Scan version of the SE
No one should have.
What if I had said this?? ‘If you had the Pan and Scan version of the OUT–’
Another change I never fully understood was the gas refinery or whatever the hell its called that was added to the outside of Cloud City. If you had the Pan and Scan version of the SE you couldn’t see this anyways.
For the vinyl they did. I think in order to find out when or if the OOT will be released, I’ll get a job at Lucasfilm and quit as soon as I find out.
+1
I’m really hoping they’ll go the RO route and start with the prologue of REY and LUKE on AHCH-TO and then cut to the crawl -
There is no way (or reason) they do this.
Yep
The guide bar for the boulder was also digitally removed.
