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#267039
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Good-Bye
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I always thought these kind of threads where for little cry baby kiddie lurkers who had no intention of leaving, but just wanted a little attention. GOOD BYE! AND GOOD Riddance. Go to whatever teeny bopper little kiddie site you want maybe TFN?

Quote "an easy solution would have been for him simply not to open the beautiful women thread"

even a moron knows this so why all the grief ?

What was the big offender that someone said he must be gay?
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#267031
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//Star Wars Begins\\: HD Version Now on Vimeo
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I have plenty of ideas for this after watching deleted magic and seeing what was skipped over.

-TATOOINE SUNSET with original composed track as alternate from the bonus track on the special edition 2 cd set.
- hopefully the restored mono mix will be ready by the time you do this so you can use the line ocpmovie did'nt "blast it wedge where are you!"
- the original sound mixes used not the 2004 and possibly as much of the 2006 original star wars trilogy release or better color correction than deleted magic.
- the comic books of the movie and the pictures from star wars insider on the lost cut.

one of the things i really did'nt like about deleted magic was how it was'nt covering the entire movie, I mean with the released deleted scenes it could have been longer than the theatrical cut not shorter.

you have all three original 1977 sound mixes to work with.

use more radio drama stuff if possible and use the story of star wars album.

world war II dogfight footage used as temp effects for "the Star wars" and how about the temp track music as in Holst the planets mars theme and Erich Wolfgang Korngold stuff as well as MIklos Rosza Ben Hur.

Ralph McQuarrie production artwork and commentary from laserdisc supplement.

david west reynolds commentary from a documentary?

-American Cinematographer JULY 1977

- Bantha tracks issues 1-4

-the making of star wars (coming out sometime this year)

-star wars storyboards

- Lucas a&e biography as well as the directors episode .

-the star wars album official collector's edition ballantine books

Clips form some of the materials that insipred star wars ? like Flash gordon serials and comics buck rogers comics and serials tarzan etc. Errol Flynn films. The mark of Zorro. republic serials. stagecoach form john wayne and jonh ford.

- books to research while you have to sort out what is true and false:

-Empire Building
-Skywalking
- the creative impulse
-The cinema of George Lucas
-Mythmaker

websites:

starwarz.com starkiller page for early script drafts as well as reading Laurent Bouzereau's annotated screenplays.

star wars origins ( some of the info there is correct some speculation and some intirely false)

Things True of that site as far as I know : dune by frank herbert true influence on star wars as well as the lensman novels by e.e. doc smith, and the martian novels of edgar rice burroughs but especially a princess of mars, The gods of mars, and the warlord of mars as well as thuvia maid of mars and john carter of mars. Lensman novels Triplanetary, galactic patrol and gray lensman. Foundation trilogy and I robot as well as empire trilogy by Isaac Asimov.

the planet Korrel is taken from either the second or third foundation novel. Korrel/ Correlia. as well as imperial center also known as trantor/ had abbadon from revenge of the jedi/ coruscant.

one of the things that is entirely overlooked is that mr. lucas was a fan of the original star trek series that was on television when he was a graduate student at USC. His favorite episode was the Corbomite maneuver.

His favorite science fiction film also was forbidden planet. J.R.R. Tolkien and Joseph campbell's influences on the star wars movies cannot be underestimated. The Hero with a thousand faces, the masks of god 4 volume set, the flight of the wild gander and the inner reaches of outer space all by campbell. the hobbit and The Lord of the Rings and the silmarillion by Tolkien. although the silmarillion also came out in early 1977 before star wars release. Aldaron Lord of forests/the planet Alderaan
Yavanna queen of the Valar/ the planet Yavin.

George lucas visited Frank frazetta at his studio and wanted him to do a poster for star wars release. there is a picture in the book frank frazetta testament. Frazetta declined but the first tom Jung poster was a direct swipe of the painting frank did for the science fiction book club edition of a princess of mars.

the swing across scene in star wars is a direct swipe from a panel in alex Raymond's flash gordon sunday strips, as well as obi wan vs. vader and later luke versus vader ripping off directly his pages of flash gordon fighing ming sword to sword. He also used the e.c. comics weird science and weird fantasy by his second favorite artist al willaimson as well as williamson's own flash gordon comics work for king features.

For a title I suggest: STAR WARS: THE ADVENTURE BEGINS....

ONCE UPON A GALAXY: THE STAR WARS

the making of a galaxy From the adventures of LUKE SKYWALKER

A NEW HOPE for Filmaking: the making of star wars

making STAR WARS
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#266617
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Info & Help Wanted: Super Space Fortress Macross LD Preservation
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there is a very rare laserdisc release english dub produced only for japanese consumption, but I have read at least one review that cited their english was not very good.

It was released under the title super space fortress macross.

I have only seen it pop up on ebay once so it is a rare title indeed I don't think it is even in the laserdisc database.

A guy named takabe 55 had one on ebay but he sold it to someone for like 400.00 bucks! way too pricey for me .

I would prefer if it was ever released in the united states to have a english dub but that will likely never happen, even an official release with subtitles in japanese uncut for region 1.

there is another title not offcially released on dvd that has been disowned for supposedly being crap I've never seen it though. Robotech the movie: the untold story was released in theaters and shown on canadian television and even a rare pal vhs tape was released in the u.k. I guess it uses footages from megazone 23 and genesis climber.
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#265440
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Info & Help Wanted: Super Space Fortress Macross LD Preservation
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could'nt you create an english dub using either robotech or the new adv english dub?

The best possible source for macross do you remember love is the japan region 2 dvd release.

that does not have english subtitles but I am sure there are good fansubs out there somewhere.

the only problem with the japan release is it could cost you up to 90.00 us dollars. but it is anamorphic

the official korean release go for something like 20.00 + on yesasia.

the best possible letterbox source is the perfect collection laserdisc.
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#262832
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R.I.P. Joe Barbera
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Tom and Jerry was more Chuck jones than hanna barbera. they were the release company. you can see similarity's between them and the road runner/ wild e Cayote cartoons from warners.

And yes animation is a dying art form mostly outsourced now at least in japan if not the u.s. as of yet. hand drawn cell animation is nearly dead as well, being replaced by computers. Which makes it all the more important for these classics to be restored for posterity and be left uncut and not censored Like disney and warners have done before.

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#262777
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question about synching the gout with the mono mix
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I do not know whether or not this question has been already addressed.

how do you go about synching up to the gout of star wars with the mono mix?

I downloaded someone's ntsc conversion of the pal audio to go with RIW star wars, but I wondered if it would synch properly with the gout of star wars ?

Or should i wait for belbecus restoration efforts?
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#262714
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Info Wanted: Akira Criterion - has anyone done a preservation of this?
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the highest quality source you will ever find for the streamline dub is the akira criterion special edition CAV release. I watched it recently and was suprised at the quality of the pcm stereo track.

according to the criterion jacket the sound was taken from a dolby surround encoded PCM 1630 digital audio master tape. It does not say it in the jacket notes but when listening to it, it certainly sounded like it was full bit rate audio. I thought it sounded even better than the dolby 5.1 and new dts mix since those were half bitrate as dvd is capable of. the sound effects and dialogue also sound more natural and less processed than the new english
dub from 2001.

Until the new anamorphic transfer on the pioneer special edition 2001 dvd was undertaken the best looking transfer was the criterion release. But the sharpness of the newer transfer certainly trumps that now.

I can confirm as someone already said the region 4 australian release from madman entertainment contains the old dub but it is sampled at half the bitrate of the criterion laserdisc and is lame dolby 2.0

both the pal and ntsc masters of the new special editions as of 2001 and on were based on a new HD telecine transfer which was downconverted to dvd. If it ever comes to HD DVD or blu ray it will be at full HD resolution as that original source as well as probalbly having both a dolby 5.1 and dts tracks at full bit rate.
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#262631
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Info: James Bond - Laserdisc Preservations: 1962-1971
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too bad there are not any rare commentary tracks like the banned bond CAV criterion releases, there is nothing available like that on laserdisc or dvd as far as I know for thunderball.

I wish criterion has been allowed to do thunderball for a deluxe CAV release on laserdisc so that we could have had a candid commentary by Terrence Young about the making of the movie.

It would have also been cool to see what they could've done with You only Live Twice or Diamonds are forever.

one would also wonder what excellent trearment they would've done for On her Majesty's secret service with George Lazenby, or the roger moore and timothy dalton films.
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#262629
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//RETURNING TO JEDI\\: NTSC & PAL DVD
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has anyone thought of using the revenge of the jedi poster to create a cover for this release,

or even some of the rarer japanese artwork for return of the jedi posters.

Were not there some rare art in the star wars poster book by sansweet?

I have always loved ralph mcquarrie's artwork and also wondered why more people don't use it to make dvd covers or dvd menus. Is it because It is overly used?

I love his production artwork for return of the jedi and there is some stuff he did that did not make it into the final film as well as Joe johnston's stuff too. Some of it ultimetely was reused in phantom menace and revenge of the sith.
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#262557
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Transformers: The Movie
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forget about the 2007 movie and pick up the new 2 disc sony release 20th anniversary of the real transformers movie. the animated one from 1980.

There is also the pal recononstruction edition and of course the superior full frame release from rhino.

I think at one point they made a t.v. movie edited together out of the five faces of darkness,

They edited the pilot episodes into a movie for t.v., as well as the return of optimus prime.

None of the t.v. edits including the t.v. edit of transformers the movie with the narration or the original mono mix episodes have been preserved to date.

My nephew happens to be extremely excited about the live action movie.

the only good thing about the new movie is the original optimus returning in the voice overs at least.

I know this is utter blamphemy but I like Simon furrman's comic series storyline. I read the entire series back to back after the cancellation of the show here in the u.s. including the short lived generation 2 comics.

I never got to read the u.k. series but heard it was quite good, indeed several of the japan transformers shows that aired in japan after the u.s. cancellation are good too. Scramble city pilot, the headmaster series and transformers victory.

The newer batch are crap they look a tad too much like pokemon and they look cheap also the animation is crap, and low budget. The new storylines are okay if only for a show that is one long television commecial for toys, but are bearable. The voice over work is awful too. Some of the work they did on beast wars and beast machines was a step in a new direction but ultimetely failed just like the new voltron.

Why can't they produce a darker transformers cartoon or animated series of movies truly inspired by the newest of the new filmaking techniques and anime. well of course they could not because it has to be for children to buy toys and cannot be violent or serious.

and of course let's not forget that the new live action movie is a two hour commericial of a new toyline that will come out based on it, in all likelyhood. The same was true with the g1 cartoons, though they had some good plots and action and sci fi for kids who were not looking for more than fun and enjoyment as well as cool transforming robots.

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#262115
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Info Wanted: Akira Criterion - has anyone done a preservation of this?
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some of those early streamline dubs by Carl Macek are on the ghibli ga ippai box set of laserdiscs in english mono.

There is a full frame u.s. Laserdisc release Of Totoro that has a full bitrate soundtrack I've been told, it's the same as that on the fox release dvd except less compressed. The japan region 2 dvd release also has the original streamline dub and it rivals the picture quality of the new u.s. dvd release by disney.

there are other strealine dubs I think worthy of at least capturing the audio off of.

we have already mentioned akira and the miyazaki films, but the dirty pair series and movies was also redubbed on dvd and does not have the original streamline dub.

I actually like the newer dub on kiki's delivery service because of the wonderful job phil hartman did as jiji the cat, and kirten dunst is great in it too. However I did not like the new totoro dub as great as the old dub because I'm already used to the old one.

I have to give credit to disney and the people at pixar for having absolute respect over mr. miyazaki's work, and the hewett's who take such great care in the translating of the films.

They have had some huge talents in some of their english dubs too. Patrick Stewart and mark hamill, anna paquin, christian bale and billy crystal among others.

here is the info from the laserdisc database on the ghibli ga ippai box set:

Short listing of contents:
Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind (Kaze no tani no NAUSICAA - 1984)
TKLO-50180-1 2 sides 116min Japanese Analog Mono 24 chapters

Laputa, the Castle in the Sky (Tenkou no Shirou LAPUTA - 1986)
TKLO-50180-2 3 sides 124min Japanese Surround/English Mono 26 chapters
(original aspect ratio of 1.85:1)

My Neighbor Totoro (Tonari no TOTORO - 1988)
TKLO-50180-3 2 sides 86min Japanese Surround/English Mono 18 chapters

Grave of the Fireflies (Hotaru no Haka - 1988)
TKLO-50180~4 2 sides 88min Japanese Surround Mono 19 chapters

Kiki's Delivery Service (Mojou no Takkyubin - 1989)
TKLO-50180-5 2 sides 102min Japanese Surround/English Mono 22 chapters

Only Yesterday (Omoide Poroporo - 1991)
TKLO-50180-6 2 sides 119min Japanese Surround 24 chapters

Porco Rosso (Kurenai no Buta - 1992)
TKLO-50180-7 2 sides 93min Japanese Surround/English Mono 18 chapters

Umi ga Kikoeru (1993)
TKLO-50180-8 2 sides 72min Japanese Stereo 15 chapters

Heisei Tanuki Gassen PomPoko (1994)
TKLO-50180-9 2 sides 119min Japanese Surround 24 chapters

Whisper of the Heart (Mimi wo sumaseba - 1995)
TKLO-50180-10 2 sides 111min Japanese Mono/Stereo/AC-3 23 chapters

On Your Mark (1995)
TKLO-50180-11 2 sides 101min Japanese Mono/Surround/AC-3

Making of "Omoide Poroporo"
Miyazaki and Kurosawa Interview
TKLO-50180-12 2 sides 102min Japanese Stereo
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#261727
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Info: James Bond - Laserdisc Preservations: 1962-1971
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fanfiltration sorry to hear your hardrive crashed and you have to practically start from scratch. That really sucks.

anyway since you seem to be one of the resident bond experts here I thought I would ask a question.

How come criterion never did a release of thunderball?

did it have to do with the fight they were having with eon over the commentary tracks they wanted censored?

I think thunderball is superior to goldfinger but that's because I like terrence young's work. Dr.no, from russia with love and thunderball have to be my favorite bond films.

there was a laserdisc release of thunderball that had a ton of supplements are those on the new ultimate edition dvd?

Do you have a screenshot showing the diffrence between the 1993 connery collection thunderball and the 2:35:1 ratio of later releases?

what about the fact that audio commentary on an official bond dvd says it was shot in cinemascope and was the first bond film to be so as well as being the first showing of connery in the gunbarrel sequence. I was under the impression that cinemascope was an anamorphic process yielding a wider image of a 2:35:1 ratio.

The ultimate edition releases are being released in their correct and theatrical aspect ratios for the first time according to publicity and thunderball is 2:35:1 on the dvd.

The line "the things I do for england" was recycled for a view to a kill but ultimetely cut and is on the u.e. dvd. It was also used as a parody in the movie XXX with vin diesel when he says "the things i'm gonna do for my country"
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#261716
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Favorite Character
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Luke Skywalker is my favorite character from the films.

Mara Jade in the original Zahn trilogy is my favorite EU character.

as for villains I like Vader and Fett from the oot. forget the prequels they turned fett and vader into wimps and took out the mystery of their backstories.

the fact that they redubbed fett in the 2004 edit of empire was enough to make me want to throw the frigggin dvd in the trash.

Empire made Han Solo into a great character and jedi pretty much went ahead and ruined that.

His cynicism and world wearyness make him a believable character , and more identifiable to me now. I identified more with Luke as a child and a young teenager.
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#261286
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Remembering an edited broadcast of ANH
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when fox t.v. showed a new hope the special edition along with phantom menace and attack of the clones they did some rediculous trims for time. A lot of threepio scenes were trimmed in between commercials , and it was the 1997 edition and this was before revenge of the sith was in theaters even before the 2004 box set. I think it was in 2003 ? or 2004? they showed the story of star wars bit with threepio and artoo relating the story of anakin skywalker . It was the premiere of attack of the clones i think for t.v. when they showed a marathon of these films. Oddly enough they showed empire on a different showing but not return of the jedi amd empire was uncut version from 1997.

i remember let the wookie win being cut for time during this broadcast as well as some lines from threepio in the desert before captured by the jawas, and sold to uncle owen and luke.

I do not think the edits had anything to do with offensive dialogue or scenes but more to do with allowing space for advertisements. The average viewer probalbly would not have noticed.

I find this to be odd because I have on tape a television station edit of the undiscovered country star trek 6 that does similar trims.