skyjedi2005

Well there has been good Indiana Jones and Star Wars after 1989 just not by Lucas.

The worst parts of Indiana Jones IV were his invention.  I know had Spielberg been allowed to make a good film he would have.  Instead he was stuck with a temple of bad scripts and a backseat director.

There are genuine Indiana Jones scenes in that film , but they are few and far between, and i give the success of such scenes to Spielberg, not Lucas who thinks kiddy jokes are so great like nuked fridges and prairie dogs, not to mention jar jar stepping in shit.  Or alien saucers.

The whole thing was just like a bad fanfiction.

After reading all the previous scripts and how awful they were Koepp should be commended for making the movie work on any level at all.

Seeing Jim Henson behind the scenes does not ruin my childhood, but i was devastated when he died being a huge Muppets fan and dark crystal fan. To me he was Kermit the Frog, there is no Kermit without his voice.

Quackula said:

Episode I: The Double Lightsaber

Episode II: The Purple Lightsaber

Episode III: ULTIMATEEE POWERRR

Episode 1 the Double Lightsaber or hey look i stole an idea from Cam Kennedy and Kevin J Anderson.

Episode 2 or hey look i stole another idea from Kevin J anderson.

Any ripped off ideas in 3 other than Quilan Vos ?

Are we sure this was not purposelessly done to pretend the cgi was  Lucas original vision.

I am none too trusting of LFL and Del Rey these days.

Episode 1: Jar Jar Begins.

Episode 2:Jar Jar Returns.

Episode 3: Jar Jar's Revenge

Never heard of an existing source for the attack of the Clones Imax cut.

Or the scenes from that ben burrt documentary redone from a new hope in imax by ILM, done in 70mm using a special camera by Dennis Muren.

Also no source for the 70mm version of Empire strikes back.

The technidisc for Jedi would most likely still have the picture missframed because all released before the definitive collection were that way.

I suppose someone who owns it can check to see if the picture is not corrected.

Moth3r as far as i know the japan special collection for star wars does not have the incredible shrinking ratio problem, but i could be wrong.

If it is not screwed up like the US pressing you could buy a copy of the japan laserdisc, if you don't mind the picture being shifted way up in the frame and burnt in subtitles.  Also is in CAV format and not CLV.

Episodes 1-3.  One time screening event.  A 6 Hour video game commercial.

LOL.

Episode 1 the phantom plot movie

episode 2 attack of the wooden romance.

episode 3 I want a refund this is JUNK.

Its more than offensive when you consider before Lucas godhood he would sign fan items for free.  Same with Spielberg and both were very approachable.

I got an item a starlog magazine he signed on star wars 10th anniversary.

It is real and authentic as the writer of the article for the magazine sold it to me.

This was right after Lucas had done the classic star wars trilogy,and the first two Indiana Jones pictures.  At the height of his powers before he destroyed star wars and indiana jones in a 9 year span of time from 1999-2008.

The pre CGI is king Lucas.  When he was a good filmmaker and not pissing off fans of the oot.

You cannot piss off your most vocal and ardent supporters and the ones who supported you from day one and get anything but flack in the fan community.  And all he had to do to alleviate it was release a decent anamorphic release of the oot on DVD, but no.

While Modern fans are at the height of excitement over the blu ray release, my fan interest in star wars is at its lowest ebb in my history with star wars as a avid fan.

TFN fans will be ecstatic at the messed up colors and crushed blacks and poor audio mixes.  They will love the fact that these were not even scanned at 2003-4 HD ceiling on resolution, no indeed only 1080P when they were doing 2-4k scans back then.  And now they do 6-8 k and up, with much better tech advanced in seven years.

The 2004 master is at an obsolete resolution, and not even up to release print 35mm quality.

Its an outrage.

Lucas its good enough and cheap enough approach it will get passing grades and high marks despite not being a demonstration quality blu ray release, and it won';t look film-like.

Really a joke when you consider they spent a record amount of money in 1994-1997 to restore the original elements to make the special edition, which Lucas did not pay for Fox did.

Nope they had long since dropped the special edition name and were advertising it as the original trilogy proper.  The boxset i bought even had 1977, 1980, and 1983 as the dates instead of 2004.

I know plenty of people returned their sets as false advertising to best buy.

Obviously just a few of the oot fans or this set would not have broken records in sales.  Sadly that helped pave the way for burying the originals.

The bu ray set will probably be the best selling blu ray item ever.

Sadly i now have zero hope of ever seeing a restored oot.

I have my 2006 Gout and have to be satisfied with that i guess.

The writer claims Hermann wrote and scored Bride of Frankenstein.

Also makes an unsourced claim on his psycho score for star wars, i can clearly hear the influence myself, but there is no proof for this assertion.

The article while thematically correct did not have any fact checking done, which makes it poor journalism. 

haljordan28 said:

Finally  something to look forward too. Qui-gon is my  3rd best character of all 6 films  right behind Luke and vader.

 

 About this causing yet another plot hole. I am sure it will. Lucas and clearly shown he  does not care if something causes a plot hole. One more in his mind won't hurt anything.

As much as I hate the PT films  I suggest anyone who has yet to watch the clone wars show to do so. Especially the last two seasons. They are everything the PT films should have been in regards to the anakin skywalker character. He is likable and he  behaves like a respectable jedi knight.

I agree despite the rough patches caused by Lucas meddling the cartoons are still good because he is just an executive producer and idea man, as should have been the case on the prequels. 

Okay so maybe he would have had to lay it all out and write episode I and Direct it, but there is no good reason he could not have broight in better writers and directors on II and III.

The only thing that can be said is that he probably started to believe the yes men, that he was infallible and some great auteur artist. The outcome of the prequels which could have been some of the best written sci fi films of the new millennium is the final act of hubris, after burying the real versions of the original star wars trilogy.

The jump in animation quality from the wooden stick figures in the movie to the high quality of season 3 is just amazing. The writing and Directing get better with time as well.  All Misgivings about messing up the Canon aside.

The article is sort of interesting if inaacurate in parts.

I think i like the liner notes on the RCA special edition set of star wars better.

Hate the special edition but that CD was at least mixed properly and the liner notes were great.

I never had any problem with Goldwave or audacity.  What i did have a problem with was a crappy soundcard, easy to fix just get a better one, or 6o cycles hum a real bitch to deal with.

Then i needed a hum eliminator and they work but sometimes can give undesirable results.

The only 5.1 mix was done for the 1997 special editions.

The only star wars laserdisc besides the phantom meance in ac3.

Phantom was of course Dolby digital ex though, and not just plain vanilla 5.1.

The original films never had any real quality audio release on home video until the Definitive collection and the PCM tracks on those were really nice.  Though i hated the added sounds on star wars.

Also the digital audio releases were rather late in the game even in japan.  Late eighties, Jedi being the first in Digital on laserdisc i believe.

I think they considered testing digital mixing on empire but it was not a proven thing yet, and the THX system had not been created yet by Tom Holman.

The first digital mix was star wars done in 1985 in stereo for home video, but did not make it to laserdisc in the states until 1989 at the earliest.  japan got it in 85 or 86 in the japan special collection, and also the pan and scan digital release predating the 1992 issue of star wars in the USA.

Howard the Duck.

Quackula said:

skyjedi2005 said:

They totally missed the boat on that one.  No prequel images, no jar jar, no hayden, no nuked fridge and shia in indiana jones, or aliens.  What were they thinking.

I didn't know that the Star Wars prequels and Indy 4 were part of your childhood...

I disagree i think they would be very relevent conisdering the oot is buried, star wars has been sullied and destroyed.  Lucas has tarnished his legacy.

The page was on images that would destroy your childhood pretty much the same as Indiana Jones IV and the Prequels.  Not the behind the scenes stuff like the Rinzler book that made me love the oot version of empire even more and made me even angrier that it is ruined by Lucas and not restored.

Who Could Uncle Owen hand a  serious bare knuckle beating to.

Jar Jar definitely or whiny Hayden Anakin.

They totally missed the boat on that one.  No prequel images, no jar jar, no hayden, no nuked fridge and shia in indiana jones, or aliens.  What were they thinking.

Who would pay thousands of dollars for the autograph of the man that destroyed star wars ?

I mean if the proceeds go to charity i guess its an okay but dumb purchase, if you intend to throw it in the trash.

I know TFN fans with probably get it for other reasons however, they are quite worshipful of the maker,lol.

Well you could make a no image only posts rule but then Professor Fink would have to follow his own rule,lol.

Of course the scores on the editdroid are low quality, most likely equivalent to a mp3.  You cannot fit a full bitrate PCM on there and keep the video quality as well, and have multiple audio tracks in lossless unless you are creating a blu ray disc.

From what i am aware of You cannot fit the gout video and the 1993 audio PCM even with the menus and lego thing stripped out, and fit it on a DVD9.

With no compression, much less fit on on a DVD5.

Well they already crapped all over the franchise with bad comics and video games so a fourth movie cannot do worse, or could It ?

I mean its not like he would be the only one doing remakes, how many night of the living dead remakes or sequels do we really need.

The zombie thing has been way over done.  I mean is there any new idea or twist they can do with the genre ?

The craze of the last decade has all but killed the genre, even though the studios figure there is still money to be made.  I mean its like how many freddy or jason movies do you really need.

Next thing they will remake Poltergeist but with CGI and a bad director.

With all the jerks and asses on this thread i would not blame focuspuller for never releasing this.

Does anyone have the files for Episode IV ?