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#276785
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Info: The NEW 007 DVD's
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they made sigificant color changes without so much as a by your leave from the original cinematographers, that being said i still find it to be a spectacular release with more bond bonuses than have ever been assembled on tv discs a piece.

The major problems I have are the unnatural look of the digital processing over the original color timing and film shot by Terrence Young and his crew on From Russia with Love, dr. no, and thunderball.

Since terrence is dead the only director approved editions are the criterion CAV releases later pulled by Eon because of the commentary and since resurrected by the awesome work of fanfiltration.

as for there being diffrences in the cropping or framing these editions are the first that are supposed to be correct since they are taken from the original camera negatives, the hardest restoration work done by Lowry was the opticals. They have a nice little restoration demonstration on disc 2 of dr. no called license to restore.

The colors and fine detail on goldeneye are absolutely gorgeous, reminds me of how good it was in the theater but the first dvd release was a very dirty print.

My biggest annoyance with this release, the auto correction they do digitally removed the film grain so they added fake digital film grain and this is really annoying drawback to the enhanced image. That and Lowry or dts digital as they are now called have a reputation for turning up the blues, and the contrast in older films to try to make them modern, worse botches ever star wars trilogy and from russia with love. I did not notice the contrast issue quite as visible on the ntsc release but the pal release of frwl was overly bright and blue during the hedge maze.

the dumbest thing as far as i'm concerned is that if Lowry did a 5k per frame scan of the original negatives in High Definition why is there no HD-DVD or Blu Ray release? i mean they can release a turd imho like Casino Royale but none of the good bonds.
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#276784
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//Star Wars Begins\\: HD Version Now on Vimeo
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the stars of star wars has been offcially released on dvd in the u.s. but not unauthorized star wars story which is only on vhs, but there is an official dvd release for those who live in pal land.

I like unauthorized because it has mark hamill talking about the sequel trilogy before the prequels were made, and of course it has Charlie Lippincott who is a real nice guy and has some interesting things to say. They should have let Mr Lippincott finish his making of star wars book, instead of that guy who did the prequels books.

I don't want a making of star wars book by anyone involved in the making of the special editions or prequels, just the guy who conducted the interviews and such when it was an unkown item simply called star wars.

Mr. Charles Lippincott, as well as George Lucas and Donald F Glutt all shared a common love for flash gordon and the movie serials of buster Crabbe as well as comic books.

I believe Donald F. Glutt was also asked to pen the novelization for star wars but turned it down, and alan dean foster stepped in and wrote it.

would sci fi fans have heard of star wars if not for mr lippincott's presentation at the world science fiction convention , i highly doubt it. he with the help of Roy Thomas also sold the movie as a comic to stan Lee, as well as got it out as a novelization under the then new ballantine imprint del rey, who's first book published was terry brooks sword of shannara.
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#276783
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Help: looking for... Star Wars Documentaries
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I believe they are intended to be a future release of babyhum but do not quote me on it, ask him.

Unless you want the ones without the japanese subs that rikter put out ask him.

Babyhum is doing the japanese laserdisc remasters from 1995 af far as i am aware, Dr. Gonzo not (drgonzo369) also did a release of the japanese sub versions with better qaulity than vhs sourced.

I know tellan has done the pal tapes as part of his project.

as far as I know know no one has yet to capture the superior picture qaulity of the very rare betamax releases which have no japanese language subs.

I have a betamax ntsc tape The making of star wars/ and spfx the empire strikes back do not have a deck or a way of capturing it, it is an offiical release and not a bootleg. must be in slp to fit two docs on one tape however, so if anyone has the slow play speed single release from 1978-1985 it would be nice if they put those out there.

I have heard of only one review of the pal tapes over at amazon's uk site and they complain about the grainyness of the image. not surprising since 16mm was the film source.

The best way to watch these documetaries is if you have a non faded 16mm film print, since that is out of most people's price range however if you have a vcr i suggest you pick up a set of the tapes on the cheap. unfortunetely every tape except from star wars to jedi is hard to find and considered rare, or a collector's item.

the only real hope for these gems is if George Lucas would put up the money to have some restoration done on these documentaries, and present them in a special box set. no one really seems to know who owns the negatives for these documentaries, as far as i can ascertain lucafilm only has film prints in there archives. does the bcc, french television, or pbs own the original camera negs what about the guy who made all four?
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#275143
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//Star Wars Begins\\: HD Version Now on Vimeo
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/275143/action/topic#275143
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I believe disc three of the lancer project has making of star wars pal.

did you get the unsung heroes pal yet?

somebody on these forums must have it.

was the THX official demonstration disc ever released in pal in the uk? if not someone's going to have to do a conversion. the laserdisc ntsc rip is not as good quality as i've heard of the real dvd.

not sure if the links work on the wayback machine, but issues 1-4 of bantha tracks from artoo's news cover the making of star wars, in pdf form no less.

they have the original american cinematographer articles up here under star wars episode IV just above the posting for the special editions. http://www.theasc.com/magazine/starwars/index.html

the biggest wealth of info for the making of star wars is going to be in the making of book, unfortunetely it's 75.00 dollars. another book that will be impossible to get is only being printed as a limited edition, the ralph mcquarrie book. there is no cinefex for star wars becuase they did not exist then. they only did two issues for empire issues 2 and 3, and 13 for jedi i believe .

some of the art behind the making of the film has been posted on the official hyperspace site, but cannot be used because of this sites rules. they have some of Alex Tavoularis production sketches some of which appear in the magic of myth, the art of star wars, and the best of the lucasfilm archives. not sure about the star wars chronicles as i don't own that one. some of the prototype storyboards are available to the public, i know because i have some of them for star wars but they are very bad photocopies sold on ebay. I also have the empire ones not the jedi one's. some of the IVor beddoes sketches have also been published in various places. I know the trade paperback for the special edition release of return of the jedi from dark horse has some sketch of ben kenobi versus vader.

link to jedi bendu script shooting script revised. http://www.starwarz.com/starkiller/scripts/thestarwars_revised_fourth_draft_mar.htm
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#275140
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What is a big fat ass dinosaur doing in my ANH?
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i have no problems with the special editions as long as they are seen as an alternate version or cut of the movie, i do hate them because they have been used to bury the oot. whenever a theater or fan event want's to show the movies they can't show the originals , lucas has them blocked from doing so. I even heard he's as much as tracked down existing copies of the old cuts and had them destoryed or pulled out of circulation.

Film Libraries and renters can only loan out the '97 or '04 versions or they get Lucas attorney's after them.

as for the ronto the animation looks fairly rushed and does not stand up to similar stuff in the original JP. it's like something that did not make the cut of JP.

I remember articles years ago about indiana jones trilogy special editions lucas wanted to do. supposedly steven adamently said no, but he did redo e.t.
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#275137
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How much does it cost Lucasfilm to make a DVD?
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i believe mastering a regular dvd costs 5,000 american dollars. mastering high def costs 40,000. per title

this is if you have the digital video masters all ready to go.

it does not take into account digital restoration, color correction, additional effects or fixes costs, as well as the elements being transfered from film. Supposedly fox put up the twenty plus million dollars to restore the special editions from scratch starting with the original negative, and of course most of that restoration was done by hand along with the re-comps of original opticals being done with modern computer technology as well as the final digital scanning.

YCM Labs did the restoration.

then it was further restored by Lowry in 0'4, take in the cost to also restored the sound elements and dialogue tracks the sky is the limit on how much they actually spent. If it is that expensive may be why he is reluctant to spend his own money on restoring the oot. On top of that the original negative was altered. that is the best source for a restoration, being a first generation or no generation copy of the film coming right from the camera. that is what they used to restore the bond films by lowry the o-neg. sure Lucas must still have the interpositives or selected takes of those scenes on film rolls but the quality is at least 1 to 2 generations older than the o-neg.
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#275133
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Star Wars: The Force Unleashed?
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does anyone think this will be the first major game for the ps3 and i question whether or not it's going to be good. i want that wii lightsaber game, and of course have been waiting years for 360 outing of kotor 3 to see what happened to Revan.

to me as a star wars fan KOTOR III is a thousand times more preferable to HALO 3, being of course that i like rpg better than fps.

George Lucas wrote the script and story for the force unleashed as well as the new indiana jones next gen game, and is personally overseeing and approving things. does this make any one else suspicious of the quality?

I know the animation with be tops it's lucasarts, ilm etc. but we know what happened on the prequels. i also have a great deal of trepidation and doubt over indiana jones IV and the 3d star wars cartoon and live action series. I also don't like where the EU is heading in the books and comics, they have way too much connection to the darkness of the prequels and are nothing like the real original star wars.

this game is just another way for lucas to crap all over the originals and also the original EU continuity. Vader had no need for an apprentice as he was focusing his energy on exterminating the rest of the jedi. Plus his desire was to has his son as his apprentice not some joe schmo character lucas cooked up after the prequels. Yeah i know, supposedly he did not know about luke's existance at this point.

there were many imperial agents vader could use for information. he was powerfull enough to do his own dirty work unlike the emperor he was the physical embodyment of the evil empire. even as mostly machine he was more than a match for the rebels. or any jedi. the only threat to him would be his own offspring.

this game will also be considered canon as lucas came up with it, and may even factor into the live action tv series.

this may be the first time a piece of the EU is considered to be canon, rather than professional fan fiction.

the Kyle katarn saga was one of my favorites of the EU. i would like for there to be some novels or even comics fleshing out this part of the sw universe. The star wars tales piece was awesome, set during the NJO. i also liked him being included in the NJO order series even just as an aside to the fans. similar to how Zahn put Stacy from Pink Five in Allegiance without even mentioning her name.
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#275129
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Goodbye for Good
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good riddance if i had to read another one of his bootleg posts about officially buying star wars because he wanted to know if it was o.k. to have illegal copies without owning the gout, i would need a barf bag seriously. LOL

Plus he wanted the versions of thief that are commercially available from mirramax and disney, without actaully owning them. he should've had the official version anyway according to site rules to even have recobbled cut.

plus he admits in his top post on this page to being INGOsucks, the person who started new threads just to beg for fan edits, preservations and bootlegs.

Is it just me or is this guy about as mature as AdamWanKenobi, if not as bad.

Plus he contributed nothing whatsoever to this site, no fan edits, preservations, or even ideas.

just another lurker with sock accounts who should be permanently banned.
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#274783
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//RETURNING TO JEDI\\: NTSC & PAL DVD
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does anyone know who shadoweyes on yahoo auctions is?

the reason i am asking is this person is selling returning to jedi as part of a supplemental star wars set. he's also selling digitalfreaknyc's 4 disc indy special features docs, and his newest item is dark jedi's howard the duck this guy needs to be banned from selling these items.

over a hundred customers so far and at 20.00 + a pop, this guy must me raking it in which is bad for all of us and this site because it's jeopardise's the fan edit and preservation community. Once it comes to profit benefiting through piracy the studios will be breathing down our necks.

I don't care who it is the person deserves a beatdown, what an sob.
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#274677
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The Children of Hurin
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/274677/action/topic#274677
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simon's mom faith is the one who sculpted and made the bust of j.r.r. tolkien that resides at Oxford university.

His writings are not in a genre i'm really into, to bad he could'nt write fantasy fiction.

Christopher Tolkien was his father's son being both an english professor at oxford university, and an amateur philologist. as well as having the keenest understanding of middle earth out of anyone alive.

Michael Tolkien was a writer as well too bad he died so abrubtly.

John Tolkien is a priest in the catholic church of rome.

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#274301
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The Children of Hurin
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i think bewoulf was blocked because the tolkien estate itself wants to publish it themselves somewhere down the line, or it could simply be a copyright, rights issue with the university of oxford. since michael drout was not to specific in his blog and would not tell me the reason via e-mail because he was affraid of the tolkien estate, and there lawyers manches and co from bretahing down his neck.

it's really a shame because the book beowulf and the critics only wets your appetite further.

i still wonder why all mr tolkien's academic journals and pieces still have yet to be reprinted, yeah they are specialized knowledge for philogists but should be made to the general public rather than existing only as collector's items. I've been lobbying the original publisher for instance and the tolkien estate to republish the old english exodus as it's a book so scarce my library cannot get a copy.

two or three articles by J.R.R. Tolkien have been released by Oxford university as electronic journals, but unless you belong to a specific university that subscribes to it, or pay money for private use downloads you'll never be able to read them.

Fortunetely i know of a tolkien book collector who was able to make photo copies of sigelwara land parts 1&2 from the journal of medieval studies Medium Aevum. too bad the legibility of some of the article is lost in the black and white photo copy. If i had the money i would go to the university of wisconsin where the majority of his manuscripts are stored, they only allow limited access however and note taking, and will only supply photocopies if you have the prior written consent of the tolkien estate, and you might even have to sign a release waiver claiming you will not share the material or publish it in any form.

I would like to see fascimile editions of the first edition's of the lord of the rings and especially the hobbit before the revisions or alterations were made to the text.

i'm suprised there is no fan preservation project by electronic scanning and pdf, but they are probably affraid of the wrath of the tolkien estate.
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#274153
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Lucas @ The Oscars
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to me it is the biggest travesty in the history of motion pictures that star wars lost to annie hall in 1977, it should have won best picture and best director, as well as best screenplay it was nominated for all three.


Scorcese definetely deserve this award several times over, even though the departed can't come close to the greatness of raging bull and taxi driver.

when i saw lucas in the audience i had an immediate tipoff that scorcese was going to win the award, and i felt for certain when three of his best friends took center stage.

where were lucas other famous friends, i did'nt see DePalma, Ron Howard, or Robert Zemechis.

by the way i was thrilled that another ilm exployee won a techinical award Jon Knoll for dead man's chest. though they did'nt mention ILM, but it was ILM that did the effects for that film. so score another one for mr. lucas effects department.

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#274151
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The Children of Hurin
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it is the story of Turin the dragon slayer. and his sister Nienor. who are the son and daughter of Hurin the steadfast. so the book is called "the Children of hurin". it is one of the two great tales of the silmarillion the other being the tale of beren and luthien.

hopefully if this book is sucessfull chistopher will publish the longer version of beren and luthien, that was never finished. neither was this tale there are many versions and alternates of passages so this book will certainly be working out a complete text from them just like he did with the silmarillion.

I would like to read the original manuscripts, what tolkien actually wrote, readers of the history of middle earth only get a small amount of this. the only thing published in it's complete form are the book of lost tales, and the lays of belerriand as well as the early sketch of the mythology and the annals.

the most interesting volumes to me are morgoth's ring, and the war of the jewels. being the final version of the silmarillion tolkien worked on until his death, albeit in very compressed form with lots of notes.

then there is that other book coming out about the history of the hobbit, in 2 volumes not written or edited by christopher tolkien but sanctioned by the tolkien estate.

the one book they blocked from being published that i very much wanted to read was Tolkien's translations of the epic old english poem beowulf in prose and verse edited with tolkien's original notes by michael d.c. drout professor of wheaton college massachusetts.

by the the way there is an illustrated hardback edition by alan lee coming out, and i think he does the cover art as well.
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#274148
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Spider-Man 2.1 - Extended Cut
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/274148/action/topic#274148
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it comes out in the u.s. on april 17, 2007 and is only 8 minutes longer than the theatrical cut. it is the same extended cut as the tv version but it is widescreen not fullscreen like the tv extended cut.

it also has a new short featurette on the extended cut.

but like you said it really is another way to sell spidey 3, as it has a preview of it on the dvd.
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#274141
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New: Making of Star Wars Book - Preview
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/274141/action/topic#274141
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too bad the hardcover edition has exclusive material as it goes for 75.00 dollars, what a ripoff. sure not as expensive as star wars chronicles but is it worth that expense.

the only really interesting thing is i read on starwars.com that they used the material from what was supposed to be the original making of book in 77 that was never published, because the Charles Lippincott had literally 50 interviews and thousands of pages of documents.

according to the official site "four boxes of Lippincott's interview transcripts literally thousands of pages of material" was available

i'd be much more interested in the raw material from the archives than the book being produced because you know it is gonna be special edition's crap and revisionism rather than a true behind the scenes of 1977.

I like Charlie Lippincott too bad they could'nt actually help him finish his original book with a bit of editorial assistance, i spent years trying to track this book down because there was an isbn for it on amazon.com, i found out later it was never published.

You know there gonna edit the crap out of it to, so george does'nt contradict his current self. the interiview he gave back then probalbly said there were twelve films. plus he needs to keep his original vision crap to be protected, so they will erase any mention of what the true vision for star wars was, and it certainly was not darth vaders story 1-6 crap.
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#273518
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To Catch A Predator
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the last one i saw they went to an assistant disrict attorney's house who was a gay guy/pedophile and he capped himself in the head, the coward killed himself to avade justice.

then his sister in court says the police force murdered him for a reality show or something to that effect.

the amount of children abused and sexual assualted in the world daily, makes you think the system simply is not working and too many kids fall through the cracks.

sometimes makes you wish that there was a hero/vigilante type that tracked down and killed the fuckers so our kids would be safe. only that is impossible in a civilized society governed by laws. still it does bring to mind that in the country where i live, the u.s.a. the criminal has more rights than the victim, and the crooked lawyers who get rich by keeping muderers and pedophiles out of prison, i hope they burn in hell.

one of my fave episodes of boston legal is when william shatner beats the ever living crap out of the guy who he's reperesenting in a jail cell, when he finds out he's a predator of children.

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#273504
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Info: The LID Project: Laserdisc is dead.
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this thread is absolutely retarded. laserdisc is obviously not dead, a lot of them go for big bucks on ebay. lots of titles not on dvd, or uncut versions of films/theatrical cuts.

since i do not own a high def television set, i still use laserdiscs and regular dvd. the audio on the laserdiscs i own blow the dvd versions clear put of the water.

for example the laserdisc dts versions of goldeneye, and tomorrow never dies blow the new dts tracks away. why is that? well the picture quality is not as good, but the laserdisc is at full bitrate not so for the dvd's.

laserdisc is still a very fine source for some films, until those favorites of mine appear on blu ray or hd-dvd, and the cost of a full rez 1080P television is affordable.