doubleofive

EyeShotFirst said:

My Mother worked at Wal-mart a year ago and said it was regulation that they card people who appear"Under 40" for alcohol, so it may be law at all establishments.

georgec said:

Well, I have a cool story for you all. I went into Half Price Books today to see if they had used copies of the 2006 LE discs. No dice. Although I bought the 1989/1990 laserdiscs last week for really cheap from another used music/movies store, I figured I'd check out the LD selection at HPB. It's quite small next to the records - maybe 30 or 40 titles.

Yet, upon approaching the section from the side, I saw a thick black box sitting in there. Could it be? I walked closer. Was it really? Sitting in front of one of the rows was the 1993 Definitive Collection. I checked it out, verified the contents, and purchased the damn thing. It was $20 which seems like a great deal - typical price is anywhere from $50 to $200 on ebay, based on condition.

The box is a little dinged up on the corners but that's perfectly fine for me. The book is missing its slipcover but again not a big deal. The previous owner even included what must have been the backside paper slip in the shrink wrap.

So, I'm happy. I still will try to get the dvds, but finding this set was a really pleasant surprise. Hell, who knows if I ever watch them? I don't think I'll be buying a laserdisc player anytime soon. Still, good catch for $20.

Noticed something:



The black rounded corner is not a clone stamp remnant like I thought, but it seems like the actual corner of the film. It looks like the 04 transfer shows too much of the left side of the frame. This corner problem is on all of the live action footage they have of Luke on his Tauntaun. They had to have noticed it when they were fixing the arm, I wonder why they didn't just fix the corner in all of the shots.

Will you do this, Ady?

Seems like a lot of work when they could have just fixed all of the color issues...

Uninformed people make me sad. There's so much wrong with every part of that review.

Harmy said:

Oh and all this made me forget the important question - none, are you sure it's not in the WookieGroomer release? How would that be possible. Is he still around? Maybe he fixed it or something. It couldn't have just disappeared, could it? 

Starting from TPM was always a mistake. There will be only one because who needs to see it in 3D?

Thanks to none's info, I've been flipping back and forth between the two, and since the color of the glows are IDENTICAL, I'm going to say that they rotoscoped brand-new cores onto the existing elements. It helps, but it's still pink.

I'd take a break. I got overloaded rather quickly going straight from 2 to B.

canofhumdingers said:

Ah, now I do remember the thing about the Falcon matte...  Does anyone know what that picture was supposed to be?  I knew that pic in the book was a matte created for ROTJ, but never heard what pic was SUPPOSED to be there instead...

Holy crap. Actual work done. I wonder if these are color changes or rotoscopes. We'll have to see what we can deduce.

The sabers in Empire are still crap though. Sad.

EXACTLY. Thanks!

Notice how Vader's saber is pink and Luke's has an off-color core, with the background being pretty blue...

Maybe the 2004/11 colors are the colors they were supposed to be all along!!!!!

He's doing better. He just needs money now to finish the models and new shots for his continued Revisited edits. He is always taking donations at the Paypal link on the site in my signature.

We are also doing a pledge drive on Facebook, donating a single unit of your currency on September 16th. Some have taken it further and will be donating the money they might have spent on the Blu-ray set that day.

none said:

^ Do you have pics of the Making of SW problems? *EDIT* nevermind see it's part of the same Picassa page.  *EDIT AGAIN* these are just SW have you created ESB book problem pics?

Sounds like they're all in standard definition with on-set audio or no audio at all, and in bad shape at that. Maybe someone will be able to clean them up in an SD edit, but we'll have to continue to wait and see.

TV's Frink said:

coinilius said:
I always did think Jabba had a sex-face going on in that scene...

See, that's some skillful puppetry right there!

I finally remembered what this reminded me of:



It looks very similar to this scene in the Return of the Jedi Pop-Up Book, where you can pull the tab and have them swing at each other. Wish I could find a picture of the page...

Just noticed this. I agree, the main page needs a redesign. I'm not sure about moving the forums, that would be a pain to all of our existing links all across the internet.

But the main page could use some focus. The forums are the major attraction, but they are just a teeny tiny link at the top. I'd be honored to have my Picasa Albums on the front page to help show the changes that have been done, maybe a link to savestarwars.com for explanation why, or, with Zombie's permission, excerpts from the site of the basics.

An explanation of the forum and what it's evolved into would also be useful, so those who get to the main page directly don't immediately think they're in the wrong place.

Not sure how to do any of this, but it should be updated somewhat, at least with a News post that's not 2 years old. ;-)

ray_afraid said:

What the hell is happening here???

Yeah, we weren't going to be watching many games since we don't have satellite anymore, now we really don't know if we'd want to watch them anyway...

Not that I don't think the Colts can't win without Manning, its more that Manning is truly the Team Captain, and if he's off the field we've got some guy who's only been with the team for a couple weeks trying to lead these people. I'm sure he knows their names, but does he know how to communicate with them? What about all of the audible calls?

Not that Painter, who's been there for a while, was any better. He just got demolished.

Keep in mind that I don't read football news at all, this is all gleaned from the scrolling bar at the bottom of the ESPN screens on the HDTVs at Buffalo Wings & Rings.

none said:

http://blogs.starwars.com/jwrinzler/9

P.S. Errata
Unfortunately, The Making of ESB went out with a few mistakes. We hope to fix all of these by the fourth printing. The biggest one-and if it's any consolation to fans, the one that has kept me up at night-is that a double-page matte-painting spread of the Falcon in the book is actually from Return of the Jedi, not Empire; and not painted by McQuarrie but by Michael Pangrazio. A host of strange circumstances went into that error, but I take the blame. Another series of small errors occurred when the publisher replaced my screen grabs from the original ESB version on DVD with screen grabs from the Special Edition DVD; Del Rey regrets the error, too.

We try and minimize all errors by having expert readers go through each of our nonfiction and fiction books, but mistakes happen. It's some sort of cosmic law against perfection.

none said:

Harmy wrote: One of the ESB changes mentioned is "the Falcon Cockpit is no longer zoomed in" can anyone confirm/deny that?

The cockpit is 2004 cropped, ie zoomed in. 

At least the colors are ok?

TV's Frink said:

The hope was that the prequel deleted scenes would carry over but be brought into HD, so that the good ones could be used in fanedits.

ROFLRICK said:

JasonN said:

doubleofive said:

I'll buy them, but I won't be happy about it. (16%, 172 Votes)

It's this group that gets me. I guess Ady, Jambe, etc who are using it for editing or review purposes would buy it but not be happy, but it reads more like people who are forced to buy the movies.

Count me in that group as well...
-_-

However, if those reports turn out to be true and either the new PT deleted scenes are of poor standards or the deleted scenes from the previous DVD release aren't included in this newer BD set, then I'll be cancelling my pre-order with two words for Uncle George.... with the last word being "Off".

I think having no material (save for the commentaries) cross over at all is a good thing. I still have all that material, I don't need it to be repeated elsewhere. I do wonder if LFL could have brought the OT deleted scenes to a level of quality that could match current standards.