skyjedi2005

would love to see someone do the first restoration for blu ray of the theatrical trilogy.

You would of course need to start with the original ts files for the german broadcasts probably, add the english title scroll back on from either the uk or us broadcast.  Color correct the whole thing to match the gout footage and upscale the gout footage,lol.

Add on all the audio mixes for the films, keeping off 1997 and 2004 mixes and using the 97 to create a faux version of the original 70mm mixes.

Fix the garbage mattes, lightsabers and things that were just glossed over because lucas and ilm ran out  time, what the 20th anniversary edition should have been not adding cartoons cgi to the movies.

The garbage mattes around the tie fighters in what is now called A new hope will look like shit on the official blu ray unless ilm digitally masks them out, paints them out.  They shoud not even be there if they did what they claimed they did on the restoration documentary of recompositing the elements for those shots digitally.

Galaxy Express 999 is officially available in japan on dvd currently and the films are being released later this year in japan on blu ray if you don't mind spending 90 dollars a film,lol.

Now i would gladly pay that for the space battleship yamato films on blu ray.

The only HD nega telecine i am aware of was done for season 1 of space battleship yamato and released on dvd only in japan.  Which kind of defeats the whole purpose.  Other than being color corrected to match the original cels and being cleaner video its still limited to dvd resolution.  Except one transfer came from a 16mm dupe negative produced for television and the other came straight from the first generation or gen zero 35mm negative which was photographed directly off the animation cels.

There have of course been other HD transfers put out on dvd, the Dirty Pair movies, Lupin III,which just used that same master for blu ray, the original neon genesis evangelion features in anamorphic DVD only what a bummer.  They put out the cgi on blu ray but gainax won't pay for what is perceived as an obselete version on blu ray, which i think is superior looking because it uses hand drawn animation and was photographed on 35mm motion picture film.

Very few anime features were crafted for a 70mm six track presentation in mind, though AKIRA was.

The original japanese audio  six track master was the basis for the HD master audio on the blu ray.

Would have been a perfect release if they had told the retard doing the telecine to keep his hands off the dvnr controls,lol.

It is on the 1985/86? CAV full frame laserdisc in analog form only.

I could source this track from the dark jedi preservation disc but it is only 286kbps.

I already have the lossless belbecus of a new hope both the reference level and the patched version done for dvd use.

I would give almost anything to get my hands on the 70mm mixes for empire and jedi but that is unlikely ever to surface get leaked online.

The only place you can find some of the bits and pieces of those as far as i’m aware are the 8mm film empire strikes back, the story of empire strikes back and the story of return of the jedi LP’s.

Any fan release ever use a widescreen laserdisc source like the special widescreen version pre definitive collection, and then add both the restored mono mix and the patched 35mm for star wars?

I always thought it would be neat to use my dvd remote and switch between the mono and stereo mixes during watching the film.

TheBoost said:

skyjedi2005 said:

I would have had Kasden write the screenplay, had gary kurtz produce and Kershner direct.

Lucas only as a story consultant and executive producer to make sure  the film does not go over budget.

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The French New wave of autuer theory of filmaking, and USC taught him to be proficient in making films that were uniquely his films.  Thus Lucasfilm.  The plots stories and direction of the films were not determined by the hollywood banker types and shysters lucas found it distateful to work with.

Pardon me if I misunderstand, but on one hand you seem to be praising Lucas for his autuer-ness, and on the other saying he should step back and just be a businessman and let other people make 'his' films.

 

 It was Lucas himself who said making star wars almost killed him, and that he hated directing.  Maybe i'm the only one who believes this, but Lucas at the height of his powers in the 1980's could have directed Empire and Jedi imho.  He could have directed all 9 episodes as he had originally planned or at least all six as we have them now.

The toll star wars had on his personal life was enormous it reportedly cost him his marriage.

Being a diabetic and working around the clock without proper rest, nutrition etc was dangerous to his health.  His doctor told him to slow down.  Otherwise a dude that hates to relinquish any control would have been on the empire set every day and directing it himself.

I think lucas back then was a brilliant editor and new what shots to scrap and what to keep.  The editing and pacings all wrong on the prequels, i bet george would have edited them himself if he could. 

If i was hollywood i would never hire ben burtt as an editor, as a sound designer yes, editor no.

David tatterstall was not up to par either.

A better cinematographer and editor despite the weak script and weak direction would have lifted the films considerably.

Lucas has a great broad scope in visuals that much can be admitted by the cgi vistas the prequels show.  He has a lot of good ideas, and sometimes some not so good ones.  Meaning he is a fallible human being and not a god, even so he is the most successful film maker in the history of the medium.  He not only changed cinema forever and brought the technologies forward that are still advancing, but wrote the rules of the blockbuster,and dare i say it he made films fun again a long time ago in 1977.

Anybody even have this program?

It was televised in 1983 and had Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher interviewed.

I have seen some jpeg screen caps on someone's site other than that nothing in google for the video.

No Youtube, and the show is not even listed on imdb.

But it is listed on the bfi site.

What is the quality of the PAL videos you can purchase off of amazon uk's marketplace or ebay?

I know the US only got a couple of tapes in the 80's

I mean official tapes have  to be better than the bootleg taped off the sci fi channel broadcasts in very low quality almost unwatchable.

If you are really lucky someone out there hopefully taped the first broadcasts in Betamax SP mode on a quality tape, as the vhs recordings done in the late 90's really suck.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Droids-Great-Heep-Anthony-Daniels/dp/B00008T6DH/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=video&qid=1250693007&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Droids-1-VHS-Anthony-Daniels/dp/B00008T6DD/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=video&qid=1250693007&sr=1-3

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Droids-Vol-VHS-Anthony-Daniels/dp/B00008T6DF/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=video&qid=1250693007&sr=1-2

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Droids-3-VHS-Anthony-Daniels/dp/B00008T6DG/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=video&qid=1250693007&sr=1-4

They all seem to say copyright 1985.  I had hoped maybe they had remastered re-issues in the 90's like the making of material for the star wars trilogy, looks like i remembered wrongly.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars_TV_home_video_releases

This wiki covers at least the english releases in pal and ntsc, nothing on foreign beyond the uk i'm afraid.

SilverWook said:

Do the elements exist to recreate the original "Ewoks Droids Adventure Hour" format?

Yes in the vaults at skywalker ranch which is really the whole problem,lol.

Well i don't know that for certain, the masters could have been lost in canada somewhere because Nelvana produced them.

Not sure about rights issues either regarding the theme songs to the shows, and who owns the copyright to all the episodes.

It can't be because of having to pay hefty royalties to Anthony Daniels. Who probably was paid a one time fee for the voice work.

I would have had Kasden write the screenplay, had gary kurtz produce and Kershner direct.

Lucas only as a story consultant and executive producer to make sure  the film does not go over budget.

How Different would the history of the franchise be today if the problems on empire did not prevent Lucas from getting steven spielberg when he was at his collaborative best to direct jedi.

Lynch would  have never taken the job, as he would have resented Lucas always being over his shoulder and the word had already gotten out that Lucas was controlling and impossible to work with, reports obviously over stated and exaggerated.  Of course Lucas was worried he was an independent funding the whole show himself and could have lost the ranch.

Lucas as a self made man was used to doing everything himself and this came out of the spirit of American Zoetrope, i think he usually is greatly misunderstood.  It does not help that he is shy, introverted and quiet.

I think that Lucas is an admirable guy, and as usually as it is with all artists his strength is drawn out of his weaknesses.

The French New wave of autuer theory of filmaking, and USC taught him to be proficient in making films that were uniquely his films.  Thus Lucasfilm.  The plots stories and direction of the films were not determined by the hollywood banker types and shysters lucas found it distateful to work with.

I'm just happy you did not pull a Lucas and dvnr the crap out of it.

I can't wait to see what kind of damage the lowry process did on the 2004 once its out on blu ray, like if its whole fine grain structure has been smoothed away to  give it an HD video look like Attack of the clones or revenge of the sith.

I had no problems with the dumb moments inthe original trilogy mostly because despite that they were still good films, well except temple of doom but even that has some fun parts.

Crystal Skull. the Whole movie is unbelievable even in the fictional sense of the indiana jones franchise.  I mean fucking Aliens in an indiana jones film, this is not star wars for crying out loud.

At least the original star wars and indiana jones trilogies had their own in universe set up laws and make believe set of Logic. 

But the star wars prequels and crystal skull pretty much are a farce of a once great series, and they throw their own in universe logic and laws out the window because now that we have cgi we can do anything.

The lack of solid characters, a plot or story can be forgotten as long as you can wow people with the effects and confuse them enough and take them off on a nonsensical tangent so your plot looks elaborate, like palpatine pulling the strings. When it is just a cover up of lazy movie making.

If you don't believe me look for the raiders story transcript online.  Where Spielberg and Lucas talk about selling the movie as believable.  Like when Lucas made star wars and empire the idea was for selling the stories as believble and not as camp.  Then that all was thrown out the window in temple of doom or return of the jedi.  By the time they made Last Crusade despite it being a fun action adventure, it was brought to the level of farce and not taking itself seriously.  Despite all that Jedi, Temple. and Crusade were still real craftsmen made films and not cgi pieces of shit.

sean wookie said:

I seen most of this series so far on my HDTV and I thought it was excellant!

They are releasing DragonBall KAI in Blu RAY in japan sometime this year. 

I imagine that since DragonBall was hand animated on cels and shot on film that is the reason it can be on blu ray.  So they most likely went back to the original negative or First generation IP.

Not sure if DragonBall was shot on 16mm or 35mm. 

Now in the new version they changed the coloring right, did new edits and voice work and new cgi?

I personally being a purist would prefer the original version uncut on blu ray in 4:3 and not fake widescreen.

I also wish the harmony gold dub would surface in someones collection no matter how bad it is,lol.

rsortor said:

Wow!  Puggo GRANDE was everything I'd hoped it would be!  The 16:9 snafu was easy to fix.  It seems a bit bass-ackward, but I set the player to display 4:3 with my Sanyo Z3000 1080p projector still set at "full" and it filled my 92" screen beautifully!  Puggo's right about the unique optical sound from 16mm film prints.  There's nothing like it.  Somebody may take the time to marry this version with a surround track, but it just wouldn't fit the picture.  It was so great not to be distracted with LFE during "I find your lack of faith disturbing" for instance!  The force rumble is there but it's more subtle, and to me, more effective.  My hat's off to Puggo for an awesome job!   Adywan worked wonders on his SW REVISITED, but in the future when I get a hankerin' for Episode IV, it'll be the Puggo GRAND that gets played!  A thousand thanks, Puggo!!!

The Mono Mix was the latest mix in star wars 1977 release and was the third mix.  So it was the most finished. The 70MM six track and the 35mm are derived from the same 4 track master, of course the 70MM came out first and the 35mm second.  Very few people got to see or hear the 70mm version.  As not all theaters were equipped for stereo presentation at the time people most likely heard the mono mix, or the 35mm if the theater owner paid to have his theater decked out in Dolby Stereo.

SilverWook said:

Nothing wrong with it at all! It's my favorite. I just fear it will be edited to remove remarks Lucas made in 1979 that contradict what he says now. (The whole nine movie saga thing, "Revenge" of the Jedi, etc.)

Not to mention any trace of tension or chaos on the set.

You mean like the part where Lucas takes the film away from Kersh and does his own cut that is faster and more intense? 

The irony of course being Lucas having his films taken away from him and recut against his wishes like THX 1138 and American Graffiti.  Was it written into the deal memo for star wars that he would get final cut?

Thankfully that never ended up in theaters, Empire is a masterpiece because of Kasden, Kershner, and Kurtz.  Along with the cinematography and the music of john williams and the magic of ilm. 

When Lucas came to his senses he realized the film worked better as Kershner had it cut but made some suggestions for changes and some notes for scenes to be reshot on pickups.  Lucas works best when he is part of a collarborative team.

For Jedi he chose a director who had a background in making documentaries like he himself did, and who would direct the film as if Lucas himself had directed it.  I think it would have been far more interesting to have a different style and director for all three films. 

I wish Marquand put his own stamp so to speak on Return of Jedi.  What we ended up with was very much a remake of star wars 77 but not as good or original, as much as i love rotj i have to admit this is true.

Just as had Lucas stuck to his original plan he would have directed Episode 1 and hired different directors for episode II and III.

If i recall the reason he had to write and direct all three prequels himself as not being able to get Steven Spielberg for Return of the Jedi was because he resigned from the wga and the dga.  So he could not get any people who were union to do the films supposedly.

So are these just lower quality broadcasts of the HD masters Lucasfilm sent to Lowry and harddrives and had them clean up?

What difference does the PAL broadcast make when it comes to the quality of the image.

Why is there still HD broadcasts in NTSC and PAL when i thought HDTV's and Blu RAY players had the ability to play back 24fps? Which made the idea of pal and ntsc moot, as i have been told.

The only difference now is what region locked content in the players,  when will broadcast standards catch up.

Was Stargate remastered under the supervision of the director?

Sometimes even the directors don't know any better and ask for dvnr on their films.

A lot of these earlier HD scans made years ago are only know being found at once released on blu ray at full resolution that the degraining caused lack of fine detail that DVD quality would mask or could not show.

So the studios either need to do a new scan of the negatives, prints or ip or just dump the master they already have on blu ray.

If you cannot get a fucked up dvnr'ed release on blu ray for cheap, don't even bother.  Sometimes they look marginally better than the dvd or a lot better but not film like.  The only reason to buy the star trek set for instance is you can get it for so cheap.  The only real restoration in that set is 2, the rest are all previous HD masters.  Me peronally i don't want to give Paramount my money for a set they obviously rushed out in time for JJ's action spectacle.

I hope when Lawrence of Arabia comes to Blu RAY the transfer is supervised by Robert Harris who did the original restoration, because i know just what these studios like to do with over zealous use of digital noise reduction. 

These computer programs,like the one Lowry's employees wrote the code for are algorithms that do an automated process that sometimes or a lot of the time can' t tell video noise and dupe grain from film grain that is supposed to be there.

You see dupe grain on older films was printed in with each generation of the  processed opticals or printed in at the stage when release prints were struck.  Hair dirt and grime were also printed in when labs were not exactly as clean and careful as they were supposed to be.

The more popular a film the worse its original elements will be.  Star Wars o-neg and ips were used so many times to stike re-release prints and the film  stock used on the opticals and live action phototography was so unstable as to almost make the film a lost cause.

At least older films have the advantage of being on film to make them future proof and blu ready.

Later films that were made with non HD resolution cgi need the effects to be either mathmatically upscaled or re rendered.  Some films use so many effects this redoing of the effects would not  be cost efficient, or would almost be like remaking the whole film except for the live action photography.

TV series where the effects were done on standard def video or the final edit and conform was done on standard def video are a problem when making them ready for blu ray.  Nevermind shows shot on video before the age of HD or independants.

Star Trek the next generation the tv show intance was shot on 4:3 35mm PANAVision but the effects and final broadcast edits were done on standard definition video which would have been up to the broadcast standards of the time.  For a show like that to be on Blu RAY not only do the effects need to be redone but the show has to be re-edited from scratch using the broadcast master tapes as a guide when recutting the 35mm live action footage.  The original series had the fortune of to have been both shot and edited on 35mm motion picture technicolor film as well as the special effects, even so they redid the effects in cgi.

I am really looking forward to the end of the year to see the cgi animated Space Battleship Yamato, the often stalled sequel to final yamato and formerly called rebirth.  Its too bad it won't be traditionally animated.  Leiji Matsumoto is not involved either.  But its about fucking time a new Yamato film or tv series was made.

Most Americans know of this under its american chopped up version starblazers.  Their is little hope the west will see this film released here with subtitles or dubbed.

Just like as far as i'm aware Kadokawa USA passed on Haruhi season 2.  And it most likely won't be dubbed by the same studio.  The first season sold not enough dvd's thanks to pirates and their fansubs.  Also because of the current world economy and the times we know live in Anime is in real trouble in japan, especially in the usa.

Ponyo won't be released in theaters where i live which pisses me off, and so does the fact that evangelion 1.0 english dub is not getting a wide release though it is being shown at an Arthouse cinema in boston close to me as i can possibly attend it, the dvd does not come out til next year.  Evangelion 2.0 for some unknown reason is not being shown at any film festivals subbed.  Be a long time before the official dvd comes out and someone posts a sub script.

As for Haruhi we got only 3 real new episodes 7 were mostly repeats even with some new animation being drawn.  the Endless Eight Arc has probably cost Kyoani any fans it has left after the constant cancellization and teasing.trolling on a second season.   Then they do the animation in lower quality than before with a different director who left/was fired and went on to do Kannagi. 

They spend all their best staff time and money on K-on instead of haruhi, after all their trolling they continued to do other projects which would make them money like the 2 Clannad seasons.  Don't get me wrong i enjoyed the first clannad season but since they promised a second haruhi season they have done 4 or 5 other shows since 2006.  Now its three almost four years later and they have the idea to put the first episode of the new season on dvd .  1 episode and charge 50 dollars for it.

I'll probably buy it since i really liked Bamboo Rhapsody.  And i want to see it in better quality than their broadcast.  But they really should have spent the time and expense this time to render haruhi in HD for a possible future HD release on Blu.  Not doing so leaves haruhi in dvd resolution forever and is unthinkable.

Sean what did you think of Evangelion 2.0?  From what i saw of the movie so far it is better than 1.0.  And that was a kickass flick in my own opinion.

Miyazaki doing a hans chirstian anderson fairy tale like the little mermaid is interesting as is his spin on the story i'm sure.  Though everyone will probably be comparing it to the disney version, which is unfair.  I also believe it may have already been an anime long before disney ever made one.  But i would have to research that more. 

This Miyzaki film is more of kind of a kids film than he usually makes, except perhaps my neighbor totoro.  Its almost the kind of film disney used to make.  Maybe they will make films like that again now that Lasseter is in charge, we shall see. I heard/read that ponyo was 100% hand animated just like the upcoming disney film the frog princess.  What film was the last for disney to actually draw by hand on cels?

I'm still waiting for the korean produced Astro Boy cgi film to come out before i can say if i think its good or bad.

I kind of agree with the japanese sesibility of comics and animation.  Animation is animation and comics are comics, or in japan they would say anime is anime and manga is manga.  Which does not mean Japan made only.  Being an animation fan of all types worldwide has its advantages.   The narrow mindset american only or japan only is kind of a joke to me at least.  That line has been narrowed significantly too seeing as most american animation is outsourced to japan, korea and singapore, malaysia.  Or had an an impact on the style of current american animation.  Most 80's cartoons were either japan cartoons recut and redubbed to make them more palatable to westerners or were animated in japan anyway.  Early American Animation especially Disney Influenced Tezuka whose style became the forerunner of all modern japan anime.

Ziz said:

Going to see it Sunday with my friends, but I'm now looking at it with a more critical eye.  Ever see Alien Nation?

Exactly someone told me about seeing the trailer in theaters and explained the premise to me.  And i explained it sounded an awful lot like Alien Nation.

Well except district 9 is not a very well veiled allegory on racism and the treatment of black people in general by whites.  its just easier to make it science fiction.  And all the more relevent as far as marketing goes to put it in theaters when Obama is president.

But it is in the true science fiction tradition of star trek and gene roddenberry to talk of such subjects under the guise of science fiction.  Imagine that another sci fi movie talks about something relevent in the same year that star trek was reborn as a dumb action movie for fratboys, and american football watchers.

I will keep my Super NES and super star wars trilogy games.

At least the supernes was not shovelware and worthy of the nintendo name.

Wii i don't own that gimmicky piece of hardware that does not do HD games, have a real controller etc.

Its really a shame because i owned both the n64 and cube and both had few good games.

i'm probably the only person who thinks the gamecube twilight princess is better because you don't have to fiddle with a nonsensical remote control that runs on batteries or the sensor being all screwry and wanting to smash something.

I do like the wii and the wii mote but there are some things i wish nintendo had tested better, worked on before putting the system out.  NO Hi RES rendered graphics or upgrade to HD down the line is a joke.  Nintendo used to be on top of the gaming world, not always in terms of graphics and technology but in terms of gameplay.  Gameplay and sales i would say they still have in spades, but the 360 and PS3 are far better in terms of technology.  Even the 360 is stuck in the past with being limited to dvd, only sony ps3 is future proof at least as long as blu ray lasts.

Have the star wars games at least lilke most of the wii channel games been remastered in 480P instead of 480i?

If the gout was any indication of lucas level quality back in the days of the super nes these games would have been released on the atari 2600,lol.

"You know that you're a Star Wars fan when..."

You hate that the true star wars films are destroyed and buried.

And replaced with something that is utter shit.  That people who claim to be star wars fans insist is better because Lord Lucas says so,lol.

The one and only star wars saga is and always will be 1977-1980-1983. Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi.

The prequels were a nice way to set up a trust fund for Lucas kids but beyond that i don't know what else to think of them.  I could acknowledge that they may have furthered cgi effects and digital cinema.  But that is a sorry excuse for the great and once legendary star wars legacy.

I would really like to be proven wrong that a good movie can be based on a video game.

I remember a very long time ago the talking of a possibilty of a live action Zelda movie.  But the failure of super mario ended that real quick.

Only to Fans years later clamoring for such a movie, because of the lord of the rings films were sucessful.

But to me Zelda would like te Eragon movie probalbly be a bad remake of star wars 77's plot.

If you compare the harry potter films that were sucessful, the first narnia movie, or lord of the rings to every other dime a dozen bad fantasy movie made since the 70's and 80's it gets obvious real quick only a few were good films.  A scarce handful of them.

Though is possible for a movie to have a well written script, good direction and still be a financial failure but a good film all the same in theory.

The Good Sci Fi and fantasy films are followed by imitations or cash ins.  The Indiana Jones and Star Wars films have been remade rather poorly under different names by different directors who never gave Lucas a dime for their outright theft. Lucas somehow got his revenge at least for indiana jones to the detriment of the character by copying the copies with the 4th film.  Even if entire effects sequences were lifted from the work ilm did for said rip offs like the mummy 2.

To be sure people know what i am talking about i mean the original star wars and indiana jones trilogies.  Not the later stuff.  It is even worse when someone makes a pastiche work of their early work without the same soul or caring put in for the characters.

I would be Like Robert Z. doing a prequel back to the future trilogy all in cgi, poorly written and destroys the characters from the other films.  Or Steven Spielberg doing a prequel trilogy of indiana jones, wait Lucas already did that prequel without Spielbergs involvement, as a tv series set up as a history class for kids.  Without the action and adventure of the films or John Williams,lol.

A bioshock movie would be really great. Except that they might screw it up.

It might get a R rating, and the killing of children might get it banned.  You know when people harvest the little girls in the game from those robot bigdaddy things.

You know like Jake Gyllenhal playing a persian character kind of awful.

God of war and Prince of persia will probably suck as movies.

Not to mention they will probably ruin Metal Gear.

I just read that link Steven Spielberg and the words halo prequel don't sit very well with me.

Especially since the canon prequel has already been made and it is an rts game called halo wars.

I would hope the fans would say

"Adapt the fucking game trilogy or i won't pay to see this in theaters."

A movie that has Master Chief before he was the character he was in the Games.  Thats like saying lets make a movie of bond before he was the bond we know, or lets do a movie where captain kirk is a punk teenager.

Good god hollywood, no more prequels is not it enough that prequels ruined star wars, sullied Roddenberry's star trek and destroyed the fun that was Bond James Bond.

Sadly i think there are enough HALO fanatics that will buy anything with the halo name slapped on it, kind of like these modern day star wars fans interesting.  Quality is meaningless right?

We already got a bad cheesy Marines in outer space movie called Starship Troopers which almost had nothing to do with the Heinlein novel but the name.  They turned the main character into a white dude when he was not in the novel.  

Despite the fact that videogames make really poor movies. Was not that the reason why bill gates originally pulled the plug on the halo movie as well as the budget?

Reminds me of the fact that they are making world of warcraft into a movie series another horrible idea, as much as the idea that some studios might make mass effect into films and completely ruin it.

I saw the Super Mario bros movie, possibly the worst film i have ever seen and worst film ever made.

DO we really need another 90% cgi and 10% real crappy cgi action fest?   Did'nt people already have their fill from this summers offering of awful films?

If Peter Jackson directed it and Weta did the effects i would be interested, but Steven Spielberg being involved makes me very nervous. Anbody that had anything to do with those attrocious transformers films or Indiana Jones IV will clearly ruin HALO.

What can't hollywood ruin?

Spielberg is also attached as producer to a live action americanization/bastardization of a favorite animated film called Ghost in The Shell.  Which no doubt will be an abomination just like the live action Akira they are preparing, anyone ever see such great films such as Dragonball or Speed Racer?, lol.

I thought a Halo movie had as much chance of being made as the Live action Neon Genesis Evangelion film that Peter Jackson's studio was attached to, but i would like to be proven wrong.

I would just as soon have Microsoft and Bungie make a 4th Halo game to show what happened to Master chief.

These non Bungie games being made are an absolute joke even if their cut scenes look better due to the benefit of time.

Speaking of Halo Karen Traviss left writing star wars books to write halo books,lol.

Supposedly it had something to do with the new animated show throwing a wrench into continuity, way to go lucash.

I wonder if the quality would be worth it seeing as beta was better than vhs in picture quality.

I know someone asked a similar question about CED transfers.

You know what would be the most expensive to do would be the VHD releases that came out only in japan.

The quality would not be worth it and the burned in subtitles over fullscreen transfers could not be removed.

Since Transformers 2 has been reviewed as the worst film of the summer and quite possibly worst film ever made according to the critics, i wonder how a Wayans brother Gi Joe film gets trashed by them.

A GI Joe film could have been cool, if it was not so pathetically handled, excelorator suits wtf?

Bad one liners.  Everything you would expect from a Michael Bay film except it was not directed by him or written by  Orci as far as i know.

We all know anything you liked as a kid or teenager is no longer sacred, hollywood has destroyed probably everything i ever liked or will destroy anything thats left.  But they will make money and that is the whole point.  They are legally required and beholden to their stock and shareholders to make money.  Fandom is useless unless it nets a profit.

Nobody cares about a film that is critically acclaimed but makes ten cents and is not marketable to the lowest common denominator of the clueless and illeterate american audience.  Dark Knight might be an exeption to the rules because the movie is smarter than a comic book movie usually is.  But even that film uses the concept of mayhem to entertain the masses.

You know hollywood has really sunk so low when the best film of 2009 is JJ Abrams Brianless action flick star trek.  This film is stands above the others such as wolverine, transformers 2, T4 etc.  At least according to the critics who i stopped listening to years ago.  The Same Critics who said Revenge of the Sith and Crystal Skull were good movies.  I shudder to think Where the standards for what makes a good film these days lies.