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Of course not. Good story telling can be told in many different ways.  Just look at Pixar and the new Disney films. 

It's just a matter of taste to me. I love Toy Story and Finding Nemo but I also love Game of Thrones and Deadwood. I think a darker Star Wars would be refreshing. The prequels needed to be darker given the subject matter. Jedi's should have been hunted down and murdered. Not going darker does not do that story justice. 

I'm not familiar with the new Star Wars stand alone film.

I think there is lots of room for different kinds of Star Wars films from G rated to R rated. As we all get older I personally want darker stories in that universe. I want something more complex and grey.

The prequels tried to go there but George tried to keep it all PG but it needed to go to a really dark place to be good.

I was looking forward to the "Deadwood" style of Star Wars. I hope Disney can produce different styles of content from Star Wars that can appeal to all ages. 

Robot Chicken Star Wars parodies are usually quite fantastic. 

A lot of people worked on Star Wars detours and their work was never seen.  So that just sucks for those people.  I thought it was shelved due to Disney taking over.  Lucas had every intention to release it once someone bought it I thought.

Calling Lucas a complete evil man is so extreme.  If anyone who says that was in his shoes I doubt they would do any better.  Most would do worse. 

I think the success of Star Wars was a fluke.  Many serendipitous things came together to make it what it is and it was hard for him to see what truly made it a success.

...said the blind man

The prophecy spoke of kitt1987.  The one who would restore balance to the Blurays.

I like how the lightsabers are not that saturated in this version.  They have so much color in the new films.  Not to mention there is not a lot of light saber dueling in these films compared to the new ones. 

borisanddoris said:

I must still be a fetus.  

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Man, George was really best when he choose awesome talent.  He's good at that. Copolla is wrong. George isn't a good filmmaker but he's good at recognizing talent. And Kershner was the man. I need to go find all of his films now and watch them.

So how do I start a petition to see Star Wars: Detours? 

Who's with me? C'mon TV's Frink I know you are with me. 

Frink inspires me.

Adobe products are like $50/month now. It's amazing. All your editing, compositing, bluray burning, compressing needs for one low payment a month!

Hey Team Negative One, can you bake me a pecan pie with my bluray file?  Thanks.

Don't forget the whip cream. I know how stingy you guys/gals are.

Having a 4:2:2 colorspace is better if one wants to color grade the content themselves.  I'm guessing that's why they did that.  Anyone can recompress a 4:2:0 version for Bluray compatibility.  Can't they?  I mean a baby could do it.

Humphrey Bogart drank a lot.  It's the romantics view of drinking.  Functional alcoholics. 

I don't know about overcoming alcoholism.  I think they will have to fight the cracked Empire while hungover and old though. 

Do you think the Empire has managed to stay together or did it fall apart after the Emperor and Vader died?

Arrogant are we becoming?

Lucasfilm approved?  I think not.

I think Han and Leia's relationship is merely based on them being in this life and death situation.  I think they are married but don't really talk to each other.  Leia should drink a lot doing political stuff and Han should be off doing his own thing.  He's practically a diplomat now and is extremely bored.  He's sold the Millenium Falcon.  He probably drinks his fair share too.  Then Luke comes out of nowhere with a mission. 

Impressive...most impressive.

Did you guys decide to put this out since the new movies are coming out all cleaned up?  I agree the new releases will look good but will not have the same feeling as this does. This makes me feel young again. 

I think they will make the film from prints if the negatives are damaged.  The colors will be too saturated and the mix will be from the current mix.

There is just something about good old fashioned rotoscoping that makes lightsabers look more dangerous.  They look too saturated in these new films.

The teaser could have did without the VO.  The droid borders on cute/stupid.  The Millennium Falcon stirred up something in me.  Modern film owes half of it's success to John Williams.  The VFX so far look fan generated.  

JJ has an awesome ability to setup a film but he misses the soul of the story. 

Star Trek was all an action movie.  It completely lost the soul of Star Trek which about this optimistic view of humanity and the pure elements of science and exploration.

Super 8 never really nailed down the innocence of childhood.  I mean the movie is called Super 8 and they don't get that film developed until the end of the film? The train should have crashed and the next thing that happens in the story should have been the kids getting that film back and trying to tell people in the town that there is a monster loose.  But of course nobody believes them because they make monster movies!  Then they have to go find the monster and it's ugly but friendly ala ET and they don't get split up and stick together for their adventure ala Goonies. 

So I fear we will see a lot of cool stuff in this new film but it's not going to come together the way Joss Whedon can pull a bunch of story threads together for an awesome story arc and ultimate ending. 

But only time will tell. 

I want to see a lot of Luke Skywalker kicking ass.  I think Mark Hamill is an excellent actor.  It would be fantastic to see him take Luke and really do something awesome with the character.  Han should sacrifice himself in this episode.  Then Luke should in the next film.

Thanks for reading my rant.

Hmmmmmmmmm

35mm film prints are not that sharp.  They are generations down from the original negative.  A local art theater had a presentation when they switched to digital projection.  They screened 35mm prints versus their DCP restorations and the DCPs were quite amazing and clearly sharper.  Too sharp actually.  You could see a lot of flaws in the image that were never meant to be seen.  The Ghostbusters 4k remastered version was super grainy.  I still loved it. 

Very true about EXIF data.  I forgot iphone photos have the GPS location in them.  

I love seeing photos of this stuff too but I completely understand that they might try and be somewhat anonymous. 

It is a privilege.  It would be a real shame if it was taken away.  But I don't think Disney is in danger of losing any money over this stuff.