skyjedi2005

If they want Doctor Who to be a villain they chose the right guy.

Capaldi is great at playing villains.

How they hell did this turn out so great?

The guy who directed this wrote three horrible scripts the two scooby doo movies and the dawn of the dead remake.

So people would be happy with a 2k scan of the IP Criterion style with grain management like The Hidden Fortress?

Or do people really want an 8k scan like the Wizard of OZ straight off the negative. 

What resolution does VistaVision come close to anyway?

Supposedly Dysktra tested 65mm neg for the effects but found  it would be too expensive and unwieldy.

I also wonder what CBS plans are.  They seem to have no interest in a new Star Trek tv series.  I imagine they will do Deep Space Nine and Voyager HD before even considering it at all.

Anybody else worried that the next Trek film won't  meet its target date of 2016?

No confirmed director.  And only the first draft of the screenplay was finished on August the 18th 2014 reportedly.  As Orci claimed anyhow.

No news on whether the budget is hugely scaled back because they did not make as much as they wanted on into darkness, etc.

Ever since  Star Wars episode VII was announced with JJ at the helm the next trek has been given little fanfare.

Even the new Bond film seems to get more attention.

Maybe its the lack of news i don't know.  Even Wesley himself Wil Wheaton noted the lack of enthusiasm for the next trek film.  He called it star trek afterthought.

Better editing, a better cinematographer. 

Different directors for each movie.

If Lucas had to write and direct the first prequel he should have collaborated like he did on Star Wars '77 with other writers.

He needed someone to argue over the scripts and the plot and general direction.

Should not have set up the crew like he was making a video game for lucasarts, i swear the making of looks like a computer game production  not a film production because of how much is put into the cgi component.

I understand but was not that the original aim of the special edition to just fix a couple of bad shots.  Clean up the soundtrack and picture.

Then when Lucas got Fox to pay for the whole thing he used it as an excuse to play with his computers as free r&d for the prequels.

Ruining 3 classic films in the process and then deciding the other version had to quietly disappear.

Does Disney ever release a catalog title unaltered?

As to a Faux theatrical version not interested, scan an IP or whatever and get it out there unless a massive restoration is necessary to save the films.

Does starting from the negatives anyway produce a much different product than the original theatrical release print even if nothing is altered?

Why cannot Disney have an archival version of the films as they were,  and also do their own version if they want. 

Or does competing versions not work? 

I mean the 2011 version is what is Canon going forward i assume. 

Unless the sequel trilogy films are made in such a way that any version is okay.

Disney loves DVNR as much as Lucasfilm in the past has.  I doubt if this ever happens it will be untouched with all the filmic glory it deserves.

It would look like video and be pristine for HD like people apparently want.

So its the EU then that created the only illegal hunter killer droids like the one from Kotor are modified to kill.

There is far too much EU minutia to unlearn, before the new movies.

None of that stuff was ever Canon, thanks Lucas story group.  Now all i have to do is forget everything including the original marvel comics.

Am i the only one who hates the terms youngling, padawan etc.

I hate them almost as much as the word Midiclorian

I always thought Obi Wan apprenticed under the tutelage of Yoda like Empire says he did.

Originally Obi Wan was already a Jedi in the Phantom Menace, Lucas changed the script and added Qui Gon. 

The Astromech blew away a tie fighter and killed a human being,lol.

Well that certainly violates Asimov's 3 laws of Robotics that George borrowed from.

Or was that just an EU thing that only illegally programmed droids could kill people?

I mean other than the stupid prequel robots who don't seem to be sentient  droids like artoo and threepio.

Star Wars 1977/Flash Gordon 1980

Robin "Holy Smokes Batman! the Penguin Must be behind the price of this blu ray set."

 Batman "At 200 dollars, no this is not a trick Robin or I'd wager the Joker was behind it."

But that was as Lucas explained to Spielberg was where the stormtroopers came from.  He had to create a backstory where the robot armies are not so good so they are replaced with clones.

Reminds me of the 1990's every action figure and background character had to have a backstory.

The prequels themselves are a backstory created in 1994 out of pretty much whole cloth.

They would make him a Jedi and not another Han Clone.

I mean who wants another Usagi Yojimbo.

It would also make the Jaxxon the Jedi Bunny internet thing finally true.

I mean because everybody has a lightsaber even mickey mouse.

Bingowings said:

Darth Vader vs Obi-Wan Kenobi over the edge of a volcano.

 You mean after he killed Skywalker that was the original concept.

Vader was a separate character and not Luke's father.

It was in 78 or 79 he decided on making Vader the father. 

Yeah imagine a star wars where Luke and Leia and Darth are not related.  You pretty much can only watch the first movie.

Something like the world devastators or even bigger star destroyers seen in dark empire.

Death Star III.  Sun crusher, prototype death star etc. 

darklordoftech said:

skyjedi2005 said:

Boba was always a Mando as far back as when Joe Johnston created him they just did not have a name for the super soldier.

That's just not true. Boba was just a bounty hunter who wore Mando armor.

 That is certainly true in current Canon continuity since its the BS Lucas came up with nearly 30 years after Empire's original theatrical release.

And its the Canon going forward along with the special editions, the prequels and of course the above mentioned clone wars.

The original original trilogy is probably in the same boat as legends if not worse.

I know it is too stupid to happen but Jar Jar's son as a Jedi apprentice in Luke's Jedi Academy. 

Luke having a long lost half sibling, Kenobi's daughter, all like bad fan fiction.

In Zahn it would have been President of the Republic not Chancellor.  I guess Lucas wanted the Hitler parallels so chose chancellor.

All the way down to the Emperor  being Democratically elected amongst a throng of applause.

Boba was always a Mando as far back as when Joe Johnston created him they just did not have a name for the super soldier.

Only Lucas later on made the decision that Boba is not a Mando, and is a clone of some stupid prequelism named Jango.

I don't want a scene describing that there is no light side or dark side its really only how the living interpret the force, aka the difference between the living force and the cosmic force.

Nor do i want Palpatine in episode VII having cheated death through some Sith trick taught by his master.

"Luke Skywalker did not kill me i manipulated midi chlorians to survive."

The clip i saw was dumb and unoriginal. Could have been lifted straight out of Return of the Jedi . 

Now i know they are clips and not finished episodes so i will wait to review or judge the show, but so far i am not sold on the series.

Anyway the bizarre mash up of Aladdin and Return of the Jedi cannot be the entire show, i hope.

SkySnake said:

skyjedi2005 said:

SkySnake said:

Does anyone have this Japanese Laseridsc of My Neighbor the Totoro?

http://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/161/

This is suppose to contain the best available version of the original streamline English dub. A dub that has been abandon ever since the Disney dub came out. Needless to say, I would love to sync this to the latest Blu Ray release :)

 It is only in monaural and is on the second audio channel.

The best laserdisc source would be the much rarer US release which does not contain the Japanese soundtrack and is chopped to be in the 4:3 full frame format.

Honestly the best i have ever heard the track was on the Japanese region 2 dvd.  Yeah its not lossless but this is a dual monaural track anyway.  Not even sure if this was ever in true stereo.

 I did not know there was US Laserdisc. Here it is on lddb,

http://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/05818/4276-80/My-Neighbor-Totoro-%281988%29

As for being in mono, is that really an issue? As far as I know, there was never a true stereo release of this dub. All DVD's claiming to be in stereo are just dual monaural. This includes the official FOX DVD.
Something tells me this dub was never in real stereo so a lossless mono would be the best one could possibly get for this dub.

 What is the standard quality for LPCM single channel monaural?