Did they fix the fucked up framing and incorrect aspect ratio on Goldeneye if not they get no money from me for that crappy tv print they incorrectly used.
I saw it in a theater on an actual screen designed for wide movies not films composed at 1:78:1. And it clearly was not shot at the ratio.
I want a reboot handled by someone other than fox after film two it all went off the rails.
Nevermind.
John Carter, 2 stars in my opinion not a turkey but not worth the 250 million it cost to make or the 200 million dollar write down it cost Disney.
Yeah the films the Burroughs books inspired are far better films though, especially that 4 star masterpiece from 1977 known as star wars that cost a paltry 10 million to make and no cartoon cgi or shooting on video was needed.
They took all the badass superhuman coolness of John Carter and tried to make him a reluctant hero who refuses to fight.
John Carter the greatest swordsman of 3 worlds refuses to fight,lol.
Far worse than the butcher job they did with Tolkien's writing in peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings, which still was closer in spirit to those books than John Carter was to A Princess Of Mars.
Because of Disney's hatchet job the Venus Series will now never be made into films, the rest of the martian series won't either, and a faithful tarzan as far as possible minus the racism of the time is now out of the question.
yeah but remember Oshii pulled Lucas with Ghost in the Shell 2.0 and that too was passed off as a "restoration".
The difference being that the older version is on blu ray but looks upscaled and not taken from the pristine master negative.
How about the remaster of Evangelion tv for DVD They added new scenes and dropped the old stereo audio in both the japan and English releases in favor of a newly recorded 5.1.
And discontinued the old cuts audio. So those sets get collectors prices.
And also with Robotech although that was a hacked version of Macross they still replaced sound effects and music and a bad new 5.1 mix when the old one is on the out of print laserdiscs and dvd.
There is also the mobile suit gundam trilogy which usa release did not include the original mixes and only the incorrect new 5.1 mix, even with the multiple reissues. They left off the original japan monaural tracks and even the english dub, bogus release even if the dub stunk.
Plus Rhino home video also released transfromers with a bad 5.1 mix back in the day. The current studio took the monaural and made a fake stereo mix out of it, still better than the 5.1 even if i would have preferred the mono untouched.
LOL. That essay takes these films way too seriously they are and were for entertainment and making money.
The essay was far more pretentious than inception and dkr combined.
The theater i saw Ghostbusters and Return of the Jedi and Gremlins at is no longer standing. It was a small theater near where Jordan Marsh used to be.
I think Star Wars was screened in my home town as a double feature with the Wizard of Oz.
This had to be in 78 i think.
The place was called the strand theater. Only had 2 movie screens.
Mark Hamill was nominated for a Tony Award for the play Amadeus playing Mozart.
That Hayden Christensen guy is the terrible actor not Mark.
I don't pay ticket prices to watch videos. I can do that at home on dvd and blu ray well enough.
I watch films shot on film. If at all possible and try to stay away from most of the over used cgi pieces of crap, which now tends to be all movies.
Sorry i meant an upload of the audio file only and not an actual dvd/blu ray custom.
Is not that Camera just the A Camera for the live action photography on star wars 1977, not the VISTAVISION rig used for the effects.
IS that the same camera that Gil Taylor used the same parts and everything not replaced, if i was the rich person who bought it i would make sure.
The Silmarillion much of which was in existence in the years even before 1920, it was written before the Hobbit even existed, much less the lord of the rings. It was the basis for the other two works.
Yes the chapter riddles in the dark was rewritten to better reflect the lord of the rings and the published version of the silmarillion needed two editors to bring it even slightly in alinement with the finished versions of those books.
There is a closeness in Tolkien being a niggler as he called himself and never really being happy or satisfied wholly with his writings, he much preferred language and his lit was just a backdrop for that. And Lucas with his constant changes guess is a niggler too but Tolkien never tried to erase the old version of the Hobbit or pull it out of circulation.
Allan and Unwin could have easily have reprinted the first edition and they could have had competing editions. They only did the corrections in later editions to keep the author happy.
With the later edition of the annotated hobbit and the two volume history of the hobbit books it is very easy to reconstruct the first edition of the book. Why there has been no facsimile first edition is anyone's guess, maybe not to annoy the collectors?
Tolkien allowed both versions of the Riddles in the Dark chapter to be true.
Both are canon in the Published LOTR.
First version Bilbo's diary from an unreliable narrator.
Second version what actually happened.
The so called Hobbit revision that would have made it completely in line with lotr was never finished and only saw publication in the history of the hobbit. The language being changed to reflect the more serious tone of its sequel, the children's nursery tale narrator voice gone, the asides and authorial parental intrusion into the story Tolkien later came to regret and found to be wrong.
He came to believe the censored fairy tales were actually harmful to children. The original uncut grimms was better.
Gandalf having the whole thing planned as a greater design in the hobbit, actually was printed only as a small footnote or paragraph in the appendices of the lord of the rings. And the longer account in unfinished tales. But not necessarily canon with the finished work. Than were any or all drafts of the Silmarillion pre 1977 first printing, the Hobbit or the Lord of the Rings. Only what became fixed in print. That the first edition of the Hobbit was allowed to go out of print is very telling however as is that the version read by Tolkien on tape was the revised version. The version from the early fifties to today has always been the revised version.
If you have a 1930's or 40's printing you might have the original riddles in the dark chapter.
Kind of funny that George pretty much had tried to not give Gary any credit or Marcia either and they have pretty much been erased from "official GL Star Wars history" except for the mentions in the Rinzler books.
Or Gary appearing in that fluff documentary that was on the 2004 bonus disc.
Is he even in the archival commentary tracks on the blu ray? I don't own it so i cannot comment.
Is the Jedi Techidisc available never seen it mentioned On ebay or laserdisc database as a separate release.
It is hard to find the techidisc pressing for the other 2 as well except under the comments section on those 3 films on the LD database.
Or are they considered to be just later pressing of the SWE Trilogy under mint markings?
Even though its been pointed out that the star wars technidisc is a different print source and telecine job.
And Empire as well going by the copy Aluminum Falcon has.
The Widescreen Jedi was supposedly of common origin before the THX releases starting in 1993 correct? All the same transfer on the VHS tape, the US release laserdisc and japan special collection. And according to the screengrabs in this thread the tecnidisc is the same as well.
As a collector i would still like a Jedi tecnidisc Laserdisc used, if the price was reasonable on these things. Or is it entirely random what print run you get. How common is the mitsubishi run or the other company?
I think mine is Mitsubishi. The only USA release i have that i can confirm is from Japan is SWE us version disc made and jacket from japan. And the trilogy faces set from 1995. The US pressing of the faces set having rot problems and mine has zero rot because its a japan pressing.
So will the audio files only be uploaded Jetrell? I was there in 1997 and the theatrical 5.1 was thrilling in both dolby and sdds. Never saw any of the three films in THX certified theater or dts though.
I think they had a 70mm presentation somewhere in the country with dts but never got to see it as it was not my state.
I think it was a sony theater i saw star wars in so the presentation i saw was probably sdds.
Which had no problems because it was first run on the second performance of the film in that theater chain. Otherwise i am sure the sdds problems would have been apparent.
Do Japanese subtitles step all over the picture if you are using the japan laserdiscs?
I assume the show would be in 4:3 format so the answer would be yes. If its subbed.
I thought except for that one small dropout because of the rot on the DVD, that the Flunk was the best version of the 1997 special edition of anh.
Might have something to do with being from a digibeta station master and not overly compressed its on a dual layer blank from the guy who posted it.
I have compared it to the reivex and they almost look identical except flunk has english title scroll on the rollup, and reivex is much more compressed but both exhibit similar color too dark in some scenes.
Wonder if that had something to do with how badly faded the negative was only so much correction and color restore could be done. There is no way it looked better than the actual original release as Lucas claimed.
Though most people probably saw a somewhat faded copy anyway before LPP because all eastman prints were shit until then.
That is why the Technicolor print of star wars is such a big deal. It would never fade if stored correctly.
Even the 1985 release prints if they were new would have had fade because of the negative much more prominently there than on the 77 issue, even if the filmstock was stable. The master used for the film would not be. So you would have a faded star wars printed onto LPP than would not fade further but would not exhibit the same colors as it had in 1977 before the negative started to fade.
Harmy said:
I see your point none but if we start demanding the "original" version of the end credits, while the other one was also made in 77 and is pretty much the same and definitely doesn't effectively change the film in any way, we would be totally playing into the cards of those who claim we are lunatics.
I actually believe that if there were two different versions during the original theatrical run, the most true original is the one that was most widely seen.
So would that be the 77 version and its release in foreign markets, or the 1981 version released many more times than the original before the 1997 changes were made.
They are identical except for the roll up being different and the starfield replacement as far as i know, i don't count minor fixes/changes to the credits as a change in the films story or soundtrack.
The 81 version is for all intents and purposes the same film, unless you are a greater nitpicker than me.
Lucasfilms made a virtual 77 DVD by editing the original crawl onto the existing gout video. The sourced footage looks like better condition than the rest of the movie.
The 1993 mix is fairly close to the 77 stereo mix but not close enough for me. Then put on the dvd in poor 2.0 dolby instead of PCM as the laserdiscs,lol.
Too bad the japan and german dvd's of gout are out of print i am really interested especially in the japan version of star wars.
The japan dub would match the us gout dvd exactly i believe because it was ntsc and from the same source. I think the Euro gout had a different source for Jedi or was that just the uk? Anyway the Euro versions were pal.
Nice dig at Fink wonder what his comeback will be.
Though to be fair he has done more than me he has released a fanedit of something star wars, even though i don't care for fanedits.
Except in the rare case of Adywan's edits. Which i enjoy in the same manner as a alternate version, like say the 1997 special edition.
Though i don't hate his edit because he is not Lucas and replaced the original real version circa 1977, with the alternate fanmade versions.
I have this tape and it still has not gone to tape rot.
The laserdisc's of the 1982, 1983 or 1985 pan and scan however all have different levels of laserot.
Interesting enough my 1982 LD is almost unaffected only minor rot with an X-0 player you would probably get a pristine transfer out of it.
The 1983 though is so badly gone i won't run it in my laserdisc player for fear of breaking it.
The 1982 print looks almost new and sharp in comparison to the 1985 version which by that time was badly color shifted. By the time they looked at existing masters or the negatives in 1993-1994 the amount of color loss must have been considerable.
The CRE stock used in the optical effects is completely gone as far as i know that is why the effects had to be recomped or recreated in 1997.
Like the Al Williamson stuff. I have the black and white limited newspaper 3 hardback set.
First fire George Lucas from having any decision over the EU since the eu is not G canon and George dictating to the eu therefore is pointless.
Having overall guidelines is one thing, not violating the canon of the oot etc, but then Lucas himself rewrote the universe from scratch starting in 1994 and tried to re-edit the older movies to fit his new vision.
With the Clone wars cartoon he has basically destroyed any sense of continuity in the EU or the film universe. Since he just makes crap up as he goes.
She was involved on Crystal Skull people, i see no optimism in her being chosen.
Does this mean no Indiana Jones V. Thank the Maker!
Been trying to get a rot free copy of the laserdisc for years at a reasonable price, along with x-men and the world is not enough.
I collect those obsolete laserdiscs.