I would not necessarily say the timing is wrong but the color timing of the anime film Akira is different on the blu ray from the Criterion collection laserdisc.
Obviously they are not both from the o-neg only the blu ray is.
And i wonder if that is why the colors are so different.
darklordoftech said:
generalfrevious said:
Plus, why should I be mad at George if Disney owns the Sw franchise? It's a buried hatchet.
I can't wait for the rise of the Disney bashers. If Disney doesn't ever release the OOT, it's bound to happen.
I think its far more likely the haters will go after Abrams. Like they did Lucas.
Or perhaps the fans will be split like on Abrams star trek. You know the divide between absolute loathing of Abrams, or outright worship or maybe like the average joes not give a damn and fall somewhere in the middle. Like i don't care as long as their is plenty of action and plenty of stuff blowing up and woman walking around in their underwear, the last part unlikely in a children's film.
Some so called Star Trek fans have used the same term about Abrams destroying their childhood, so why not star wars. And i suppose hot waffles will bring their song out again and replace Lucas name with Abrams.
JJ Abrams blanked our childhood.
If its DVD only i am not interested. Blu ray or nothing. Ten years ago DVD might have been acceptable not when 1080P and Blu are the current standard.
A phoned in DVD only release from existing broadcast masters might make some bite.
I loved Lincoln but some of his modern stuff is hit or miss.
Crystal Skull is an aberration really though and its not as bad as i thought back in 2008. Its still the worst of the 4 films.
Can Kathy be forgiven for KOTCS yeah i think so as long as Star Wars VII at least hits its mark. Makes tons of money but a critical failure like episodes I and II i cannot see happening. Nor can i see total box office bomb like john carter or lone ranger. The critics can get it wrong they mostly loved Indiana Jones IV and Star Wars episode III. So if episode VII is even in the level of quality of those it will do well.
But from a money standpoint its brilliant marketing keep changing the films so people continue to watch the product.
If he let them alone they would be stuck in the time they were made, perhaps Lucas worried the would and cease to be relevant.
Would people have paid tons of cash in 1997 to see non restored not cgi versions of the films. Would just as many people have bought the dvd's and blu rays if they were simply the theatrical films untouched?
I wish the answer would be yes but i don't know. Its possible the majority prefer the newer cuts with all the bells and whistles and its borne out really by how much the blu rays have sold.
I've been told by those in the department stores selling the blu rays no one wants the terrible old versions with the bad effects and models on wires.
Mark, Carrie and Harrison have yet to be officially announced as being in the film though.
If Luke's the central hero again and its was Kasdan's idea i really cannot judge until i see the film.
There is already a lot of ageism going on even without a single bit of footage yet shot.
And i take the rumors with a grain of salt, Kenobi's granddaughter. Ridiculous sort of thing like some of the early prequel ones.
Kind of like Gantoris having a purple lightsaber in KJA trilogy.
And everyone hates KJA.
Lucas expressly stated that the good guys only have green or blue, and that the bad guys are red only.
I remember Kotor had 3 colors and they were by class like an RPG thing. the only one besides blue and green was yellow.
Kotor II allowed your past lightsaber and lightsaber build to be multiple colors but in both Kotor I and II red is pretty much a Sith color.
That is what i thought.
So i got my memory a little mixed up because i read both originally around the same time. Have not read Dark Empire in over ten years and am afraid it would be too jarring to read again as i think it has probably not aged well. Loved it in the 90's.
I bet i would be super critical of dark empire II and Empire's end as well. Probably better left in memory only.
Also if i am not mistaken Zahn, Veitch and Anderson tried to have some kind of overlapping continuity if not successful in execution they had the idea for the stories to intersect.
Worst thing about the Jedi Academy trilogy for me was Mara and Luke not being together. But apparently that was a decision that came from LFL and they did not relent til vision of the future and union were published.
Throw in Barbara Hambly not being on the same page and creating Callista its sort of a mess.
Asaki said:
skyjedi2005 said:
But most people cannot agree they either love the voice acting or hate it.
I wouldn't even call it "voice acting". They're not voice actors, they're just big-name celebrities using their regular voices =|
I do remember people being incensed that Dana Scully's voice was in the movie. Gillian's an actress. Your stuck on her playing a single role too bad.
Anyway that is what i said to one of my friends who hated that she was in the movie. Watch the DVD with the Japanese dialogue track with subtitles then.
Or were they dubtitles. I cannot exactly remember been ages since i saw the DVD.
Yeah for some reason Hayden was chosen specifically because he was sullen like James Dean or something.
Sullen and wooden. And its not just star wars he is horrible in everything else i have seen him in and unbearable.
And Natalie Portman possibly most overrated actress in modern times.
Not as bad in Thor but still wallpaper. And could easily have been replaced with almost any other actress.
Sadly only a few complained and the 2004 set was a huge success, and pretty much the same thing happened with the blu rays.
Just owning the films regardless of what was changed is what average joe's cared about.
The 2006 set with the non anamorphic bonus dvd was a non event really and did not sell as well as the 2004 set. Or the Blu rays.
The claims are that it sold poorly because the original was not restored and was from a 1993 master, Lucasfilm seems to think it sold poorly because no one is interested in the originals.
They lost me with Man of Steel.
The movie was sterile and without any humanity. Except for Jonathan Kent.
One of Daleys novels in the trilogy had an almost Indiana Jones type feeling to it. I think the third book.
How Many Han Solo type clone characters are there or multiple versions of copies of the Millennium Falcon?
The EU made them dime a dozen.
I sort of hate them but i understand why they exist.
Even when they are not specifically the same thing and not a Corellian YVT freighter.
Han Solo first became a template. Its like Boba being the template for all the later Bounty Hunter character ripoffs.
Was Zahn the one that had the Emperor keep slain Jedi's lightsabers as a trophy. Or was that Dark Empire.
Or was that specifically just Luke's lightsaber stored at mount tantiss along with his hand in the vault?
That seems to me the kind of conceit the Emperor would have like when he refers to Vader as Kenobi's star pupil in the Return of the Jedi novelization.
The Disney one is Michael Keaton on Porco Rosso. The laserdisc i have is some other actor.
But i also believe like all the older dub's except for Kiki it was released on DVD prior to being excluded on the blu ray.
Note i only mentioned Kiki because Warriors of the Wind is a cut version of Nausicaa and only available on vhs. And never in Japan.
The English script for Princess Mononoke is quite good, its Neil Gaiman. But most people cannot agree they either love the voice acting or hate it.
darklordoftech said:
Did Lucas intend the Jedi to be so stupid in the prequels or is Lucas himself actually as stupid as they are?
They come off as stupid. But i think its to show how dogmatic they are and set in their ways like religious fanatics.
Morally superior and arrogant to the core.
If i did not know any better i would think it was a nod to certain Christians of the right wing political persuasion in our own country.
After all Anakin quotes Bush.
What i said in another thread.
No reference to midi- clorians, no Sith rule of two, no prophecy.
darklordoftech said:
Was Palpatine supposed to have a lightsaber when ROTJ was made? I ask because Kasdan asked Lucas if Palpatine was a Jedi and Lucas responded by saying that anybody can use The Force.
Not as far as i know he only ever had a cane like Yoda. And then both have lightsabers in the prequels which is rubbish.
darklordoftech said:
Does anybody remember those theories about Palpatine being a clone of Sidious? TFN is definitely reminding me of them.
A TFN fanfic from a fever dream after reading too much Dark Empire.
Mielr said:
ElectricTriangle said:
Crapple said:
Also does the 97 have digital smearing
Yes.
IIRC the only masters with "digital smearing" were the ones used for the DC/Faces/GOUT because the notorious "dirt concealment" method was used.
That would mean the '97 is smear-free.
Only real problem would be its from an analog video disc from 1997-98.
Unless of course the DVB were used, you would have to ask Team Blu.
Anyway the DVB have their own issues as well.
Well for me having Hayden's ghost converse with Mark Hamill would be a deal breaker.
But hey i am probably one of the few who really hated him being added to return of the jedi.
I wish the sequel trilogy was built upon the original canon. I mean the original 3 films from 1977, 1980 and 1983.
Not the 1997 version, not the 2004 version or the 2011 version.
They won't match anyway no matter which versions. A 2015 cgi laden film is not going to match a film made in 1983.
Tack said:
TheBoost said:
This started Mr. Lucas on the long trend of combining characters for narrative efficiency that eventually gave us (General Vader+Prince Valorum+Starkiller=Darth Vader) and Leia as Luke's sister.
You know, I think I just realized the fundamental problem with the prequels...
The rushed time frames the scripts were produced in.
You need to have time for rewrites, because you need to get the script to that level of quality that comes when you revise it from the script.
You don't start the script in pre-production, you start pre-production once you've finished the script.
(for the record, I'm in the middle of a massive rewrite of my own script right now, and it's rather cleansing)
That is only true on episode II and III which really began in the art department. Episode I was started in nov 1994.
On the originals Lucas had other writers, people who contributed ideas and criticism.
He had no such collaboration on the prequels unless Jonathan Hales had a great deal of influence over episode II.
People talk about JJ and lens flares what about the lens flares in episode III.
Never noticed til recently while flipping through the channels and saw Spike TV airing Revenge of the Sith. The lightsaber scene at the end has an obscene amount of lens flares.
It happens every time Kenobi and Hayden Vader cross blades.