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...I hate to explain parody, because explaining jokes kills jokes, but it's apparently necessary.

I'm not saying the PT is worse than the Holocaust. I was parodying the extremes to which some people go when talking about the PT.  If you've never witnessed some of what goes on in General Star Wars Discussion... well, you won't get the joke, but you're probably better of having never seen it.

The Holocaust was a terrible tragedy and an evil act, right up there in the "Worst 10 Things People Ever Did" list (no, I don't have this list). The Prequels are not good movies, but obviously nothing at all like killing millions of people. I'm not sure why anyone would think I meant that, but there it is anyway - an explanation.

Please note that I was also parodying how much people love ESB and the endless thanks that gets poured out here (not that's it's not deserved). My biggest mistake, really, was the idea that we'd actually get 10 posts on topic.

Now the real trick would be to get real musicians to record the missing bit, for fanedits.

Cue 10 people thanking Ady for all the hard work he's put in to deleting those files, just so he can be sure to do the best movie ever made (ESB, obvs) only after he's had sufficient practice on fixing a travesty worse than the Holocaust (the PT, of course).

Pretty sure it switches to synthesizers - The actual recorded version by Williams & LSO isn't available :(

I wonder if anyone in the Maker Movement has thought about this...

...Seriously, we're making fun of a guy who was in some movies for not being as thin as he was when he was little? Really guys?

Well, you can... not read certain threads... I guess?

In the strictest sense, a preservation of the GOUT would be a rip of the DVD, available online after GOUT discs are no longer available in stores. It would preserve the GOUT release for future viewing, and nothing more. By that very, very strict definition of a preservation, V3 is not a preservation, because it is not an exact copy of the GOUT. It has been resized/cropped so as to appear correctly on widescreen TVs, and the colors have been fixed. Now, I think we all agree that this was a really great idea, because it puts the GOUT looking a whole lot more like the theatrical version, as it should, but it doesn't meet the strictest possibly definition of a preservation.

Thankfully, we're not using that strict of a definition of "preservation" on this forum.

TV's Frink said:

This isn't a preservation project?  It's in the wrong forum if that's the case.

Depends on how you define preservation. Harmy's DEs don't preserve any particular release of the films literally, but they intend to do their best to preserve the content of the original versions in the highest quality they can. It's exactly what most people want in a preservation, even if it isn't really a preservation.

Of course, I guess you could also say that DJ's not preserving any particular release of the films as he's editing the GOUT... from a certain point of view.

Perhaps Harmy's work, as well as Hairy Hen's, are best described as "Recreations".

For the average person (ie not someone who cares about matte lines) visiting this forum for the first time, both DJ's and Harmy's work seem like good options, because they want the original trilogy and they're told those two are the best. They're told to check out both, so a comparison is inevitable. But for those people, Harmy's will probably win, because it's inherently higher resolution (finer detail).

And then they'll say so, because they don't understand the different goals. And then DJ will post, and then Harmy will agree.

I've considered buying those several times, and may if I find them for cheap somewhere. I remember getting them from the library when I was younger (12 years old for art of TPM) and distinctly recall how they inspired me to draw more.

Also, Frink, that may be my favorite post ever. Thank you.

Licence to Kill a Mockingbird

It's a good thing Ady doesn't really care about this thread?

I don't believe so, no.

Just wanted to draw attention to this...

My friend Peter, who was also at the screening and whose photos have been featured on savestarwars.com, just got around to uploading his videos from the screening. He, himself, points out that there are a million problems with them, but so it goes. I'm not sure if they're at all useful, though maybe the entrance into Mos Eisley could help Harmy, and they do a nice job of demonstrating, once again, the quality of the IB print, but they're at least plenty enjoyable for the crowd reactions in certain places. Anyways, they'rre on pages 3 and 4 of his gallery. This link should start you off, I think? http://photos.petergaultney.com/Movies/historic/Star-Wars-at-The-Senator/13089279_chpNjq#948713561_WKZxo

There's never been any problem with Lando being in the palace without an entrance-explanation-scene. Now, true, he wasn't nearly as talkative as Threepio, but I don't see why Threepio can't be pretending to be any old droid working as Jabba's translator. Similarly, when Artoo turns up on the barge, he's undercover. Luke's holomessage to Jabba isn't even necessary.

Maybe find a stopmotion guy to make the stopmotion Jabba head that never was....

Maybe not.

That is, indeed, "NOOOOOOOOOO!" inducing.

Zero said:

a beach party sequel to THX 1138.

Just wanted to point out that this is a fantastic idea.

So...

Luke ignites the saber, sees it works.

Vader emerges from the fog once again, ghost like, in slow motion.

Luke rises, raises his saber, and turns it off as Vader swings.

Just as Vader would make contact, slicing through Luke, he instead fades away, no more than a vision, now conquered.

In his hovel, Yoda smiles.

Eh?

The new Luke shots would all be from behind, thus making it possible to film them with someone who isn't 1983-Mark-Hamill. The Yoda shot... not sure about that.

After some thought, I think that's a better idea. That way, we get to keep the opening scene with the Star Destroyer and all.

That was really great. Glad someone put it together so quickly.

But it's so short, I wonder why it was cut!

So that's what he's holding! His own leg!

Right, I actually think that works. I'm wondering if there's not a good way to restore Vader calling out to Luke (ROTJ Deleted scenes)... but instead of listening on Tatooine, he's on Dagobah, in the hut, leading right into Yoda's death.

zombie84 said:

(and yes--to me, the composite is the effect; a model against bluescreen is not the visual effect, anyone can film that, it was the way they were put together that was pioneering).

I thought a large amount of the innovation was the really good motion control system they built, which relates more to the actual filming of the individual models than it does the compositing?