pittrek

Actually it looks interesting

Finally seen it. I wasn’t a huge fan of the first 3 seasons, they were OK but much worse than Clone Wars, but the 4th season was the best one. And the last bunch of episodes, absolutely beautiful.

I have a non-spoiler question - is the bearded guy in Return of the Jedi actually Rex?
Also it’s pretty obvious what will the new show be about 😃 I can’t wait!

By the way nobody noticed that the company in the title is LucasFlim? People used to complain about these things

NeverarGreat said:

There’s something about Filoni’s Star Wars sensibility that rubs me the wrong way. Having watched Rebels, it feels remarkably sterile, existing in this purgatory between epic adventure and serialized drama.

Before I have seen the 4th season of Rebels, I would agree with you. But after finally having the chance to see the (almost complete) 4th season, I think that it’s getting better and better. And don’t forget - he is the main reason why Clone Wars was as good as possible.

I said that as a joke when George said he’s making Kennedy a new head of the company. Now, after seeing the 3 movies she is responsible for, I say absolutely seriously “please, let Kennedy take care of the business side of things but make Filoni the creative boss”. She was a great producer, and a good business woman, but please give the franchise to the hands of a guy with a vision.

Different order of shots in 2 scenes, removed speeders in one scene etc.

I’d love to see something set between episodes 6 and 7, explaining how did we get from the victory of the Rebellion and the defeat of the Empire, to the New Order and the new Rebellion. Preferably with Mark Hamill voicing Luke

The allegations are things like going naked in his own house or similar nonsense. Nothing Weinstein-y, unless I missed some new allegations. Hope he gets better soon, in his age every pneumonia can be his last.

It’s an OK movie, maybe even above average, the villain is surely above the MCU standards, the story is average, and most of the CGI effects are just horrible. To be honest I have seen it last week and if you asked me about any plot details, I would have problems remembering them, similar to highly forgettable movies like Age of Ultron or the Thor sequels. The fact that a group of people who doesn’t in reality care about superhero movies is trying to make it political, is just sad. It’s just a superhero movie

Thanks. My old login is no longer working unfortunately, but jDownloader was able to download a stop-motion version of it 😃

A completely off-topic question - does anybody know if there is a chance how to get the bits where William Shatner appeared as James T. Kirk in uniform at the Oscars with Seth McFarlane? I remember it was on youtube years ago, but I can’t find it, probably for copyright reasons. Or was it released officially or something?

Mrebo said:

doubleofive said:

I’m really proud this thread isn’t a giant bitch session about how Discovery Changed Things Now It Sucks. We may be growing up as a forum.

checks the TLJ thread

Oh, never mind.

Didn’t Trek already change things enough times and disappoint enough times that STD doesn’t move the scale that much?

Actually not really. They have done some minor makeup changes through the years, but they were surprisingly pretty consistent over the years, with not really that many inconsistencies.

Handman said:

Is Discovery even worth watching? I haven’t taken a look at it but I suspect the worst.

The best thing I can say is that 99.99% of the visual effects look great. And I like one character, maybe even 2 and after seeing each episode twice I remember the names of at least a third of the characters.

You probably are not a fan of Queen, right? Their 1986 Budapest concert was released on VHS/LD in 4:3, and in 16:9 on Blu-ray. I always thought it would be great to see a combination of those two, but I never found time to do it myself : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8_lPABIQDI

Discovery is the worst Star Trek show so far (imho). Let’s just hope it will be like TNG, where the first season was pretty bad, but it got slightly better during the second season, and really great during the third one

Finally I’ve seen the episodes. I don’t really understand why some of you are surprised that how they handled “him”. I thought everybody knew how the series will end.

Oh God, I remember that version 😃 One of the bootleg VHS tapes which I had before the first official VHS release. I’m glad that the times of voiceover dubs is long gone and I hope it will never come back.

History? Well that would need a bigger history lesson. Short version - we (Czechoslovakia) used to be a typical communist country, a satellite of the USSR. Between the end of the second world war and 1968 we were officially a communist country, but at the same time we were pretty “open”, In 1968 we were invaded, sorry, I meant “rescued from the contrarevolution” by our friends (mostly Soviets) who were so kind and left her “protective armed forces” in our country to steal our property and rape our women, sorry I meant “to protect us”. Our regime changed into a full tyranny, but started to be more open during the 80’s, thanks to Gorbi’s perestroika. From a cultural point of view it meant that suddenly we could watch ideologically correct American movies, but only if they were approved by a censorship commission. For example we could watch Raiders of the Lost Ark, because Indy fought the Nazis, but at the same time every, and I mean EVERY religious reference was taken out, which left us with a totally nonsensical plot, but at the same time we couldn’t watch movies like Star Wars, I guess the censors didn’t like a story about a group of rebels fighting a dictatorship. In the late 80’s I had a pretty nice collection of bootleg VHS tapes of American movies, and all of them had the voiceover, so called “rychlodabing”, usually done by one person only, or one man doing all men characters and one woman doing all women characters. This was kind of “semi-legal”, I mean it was pretty often done by people who already were or later became known actors but you won’t find any information about that work on their official bios.
Communism fell (at least officially) in November 1989, and we started to transform to capitalism (and to splitting into 2 countries in 1993), which means that first private TV stations appeared. These TV stations needed stuff to air, so they bought cheap “western” movies and TV shows and because they needed it quickly, they pretty often used “rychlodabing”, this was of course official and the era was something like 1990-1995 if I remember correctly. Because most of the people hated it, the TV stations started to do “proper” dubbing very soon, it was pretty normal to see the same movie first with the voiceover dub and 6 months - 1 year later the same movie on the same station with a normal dub.
By the way dubbing was in 90’s normal on VHS tapes, but not included on DVDs of the same movies, I think the first Star Wars release with czech and slovak dubs was the release of ROTJ.

And yes, there are different fora where people search for these voiceover dubs, but only as a historical curiosity

Wow, the show continues? Good to know, I hate the concept of winter breaks

So, I re-watched all of the MCU movies as a preparation for BP.

1. Iron Man 8/10
2. The Incredible Hulk 4/10
3. Iron Man 2 6/10
4. Thor 7/10
5. Captain America: The First Avenger 8/10
6. The Avengers 9/10
7. Iron Man 3 5/10
8. Thor: The Dark World 4/10
9. Captain America: The Winter Soldier 10/10
10. Guardians of the Galaxy 7/10
11. Avengers: Age of Ultron 2/10
12. Ant-man 7/10
13. Captain America: Civil War 8/10
14. Doctor Strange 7/10
15. Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2 6/10
16. Spiderman Homecoming 6/10
17. Thor Ragnarok 5/10
18. Black Panther 6/10

There is a review from a Chinese guy who claims that it’s clearly the special special special edition. It would be nice if Amazon would hire people who actually know what they’re talking about

I’d love to see a Star Wars story, which doesn’t include or even reference

• any Skywalker
• any Kenobi
• Darth Vader or any cheap imitation like Kylo Ren
• Emperor Palpatine or any cheap imitation like Snoke
• Death Star or Death Star II or any cheap imitation like the Starkiller base
• any left wing or right wing agenda, make it just a good old “good vs evil” story

Out of the 9 canon live action Star Wars movies we have seen so far,

• 8 movies had a Skywalker
• 6 had a Death Star or a similar “ball of death”
• 9 had Darth Vader or a cheap imitation of Darth Vader
• 6 had Yoda

I want something completely different, for example a historical piece about the fight between the Jedi and the Sith and the formation of the Republic, or go to the far future. Or do some crazy time travel story. Or some story where somebody from their universe ends up on Earth. Or some small personal story about a group of Clone Troopers during the clone wars, you could even take many of the cartoon multi-part arcs and adapt them into great movies. Just do something DIFFERENT and stop remaking and referencing the original trilogy

OK, just asking 😃

towne32 said:

pittrek said:

Hey Harmy, any chance you would (could) restore the very first / opening day or whatever we call it version of Star Wars in 720p? The one which has the differently composited 3 optical shots and closing credits? If it’s actually possible, since the only source is probably the laserdiscs

Could you go into more detail about this? I’m mildly startled that I have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about. 😃

I’m talking about the very early 77 version, check these threads
http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Print-variations-in-77-Star-Wars/id/14705
http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Credits-and-Leaders-Thread/id/12960

Yotsuya did a SD restoration : http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Yotsuyas-Saga-Preservation-and-Restoration/id/55257

I was wondering if there is a chance that the few scenes could be re-done or upscaled.

(sorry, wrong thread, please ignore)

Hey Harmy, any chance you would (could) restore the very first / opening day or whatever we call it version of Star Wars in 720p? The one which has the differently composited 3 optical shots and closing credits? If it’s actually possible, since the only source is probably the laserdiscs