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O_O Wow

Although I have to admit, ESB is not the film I was expecting. Not that I'm complaining!

doubleofive said:

 

It looks like its actually a rough cut of the HD version, as Ady has seemed to shy away from some of those changes as of late.

 

Oh I hope not. :(

As much as I agree with the idea that menus are annoying and unnecessary, I think the fancy menus on ANHR, which match the style of the official DVD menus so well, do wonders in terms of legitimizing the Revisited Edits in the eyes of most people (i.e. those folks who might not be so comfortable with fan edits, etc).

I'm thinking the third one is best, 4th 2nd.

TV's Frink said:

Which part? 

His whole line around 0:09 on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBRTHoItyD0

I think he's saying "Don't be a coward" but it comes out more like "Donbeubbacoward".

What was QG saying? I can't understand him. The audio is too muddled/jumpy.

20th Century Mark said:

Are these DVDs available yet?

I'd just like to second this question.

Do you think some pitch bending or something would help Ric's lines flow better? As much as I love his ridiculous stabilizer-centric dialogue, the jumps in audio are too harsh and really distract from the humor.

TML said:

WhatsMyName said:

 First of all, Darth Maul was the greatest Sith out of all the movies.

 

Yeah! Don't you love when he, umm.... What did he do again?

He did do some fancy flips and stuff. That was kinda cool.

It's all been downhill since The Adventures of Lando Calrissian anyway...

Sadly Frink, it only took me two tries to remember his name: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Ki_Adi_Mundi

Right, but that doesn't mean all puppet Yodas are bad. It just means that, in their attempts to make a slightly younger looking Yoda, they did an awful job. I think that replacing him with a CG Yoda for the Blu-rays is a great idea.

But, just like the Clones, that doesn't mean it wouldn't be appropriate to sometimes replace him with a good looking puppet. I'm just not sure it's feasible.

To the folks who want to see the "No, I am your father" surprise properly preserved:

What do you do with Vader referring to Obi-wan as his former master, knowing the feeling, that tremor in the force, and their conversation during the duel on the Death Star? I assume that you can do away with the post-lava scenes in ROTS, but even excising those doesn't solve the problem.

I suspect this requires a lot of time and money and professionals, however...

Replacing CG Yoda with a real puppet?

Jaitea said:

Try to resist......

Well that's my point. I shouldn't have to struggle to focus on the intended focus of the scene.

Jaitea, as much as I like the concept of those, they're so visually busy once in motion that my eyes are strongly drawn to them, rather than to the focus of the scenes.

I think, for this to make sense and look right, you're going to have to have the thing rotate towards the fleet as it passes behind Palpatine.

Also, it just sort of looks too crisp?

The music when Vader is dying is incredible. I can't remember that scene feeling so emotional til now - but it ought to. The rest of the ending still feels a little rushed, but not too bad.

Oh, also, I never realized until now just how perfect the line "Nothing can stop that now" concerning Vader's death is, in light of his reasons for choosing the Sith in ROTS.

I think the transition back to the present happens far too late. It's a flashback, which means its narrative shouldn't have anything other than R2 and maybe 3P0. The stuff with Vader and Leia really feels out of place in that context.

The new shot of the escape pod leaving might need work, but I love the concept of it!

The Purist seems to be available on The Pirate Bay

adywan said:

It will now only have a general "thanks to everyone at OT.com....etc" sort of thing.

Oh good. IMHO you should do this for all three films... the long long long long credits of forum-names on ANH:R is pretty ridiculous.

I know that Ady hasn't done any work at all on the audio yet, all audio in clips is temp, etc. That being said...

I've been watching Building Empire (currently on part 13 on youtube), and there have been several moments of "Restored Score", where portions of Williams' score were excised the final cut of ESB. I suppose that's director's choice, but I quite like some of them. Any word on Ady's thoughts on restoring some of the missing bits of the fantastic score?

I am so excited for this edit, I could write 888 pages of posts talking only about how excited I am!

Make it a multi-part rar, not a zip, and upload it in parts somewhere.

ChainsawAsh said:

I doubt you'll find anything close to sounding as good as ABC's Empire score for SW and Jedi.  The only way to do that is to take one of ABC's SW or Jedi score restorations and make your own isolated score track with it.

Hang on - Wrong thread, I guess, but ABC did score restorations for the other films?! I did not even know!