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Okay here's a question for those who have seen these Blu Rays:

In TPM, after Obi Wan has finished off Darth Maul and is standing over the chasm, is his lightsabre reflection still missing from the shiny floor?

I noticed this the first time I saw TPM in the theatre and it's bothered me every time I watched it since.

havoline said:

proving the point that ILM is not passionate about Star Wars, the very reason they exist is because of Star Wars.  If the personel were wanting to do it they would have done the work for free, dont you think?

 

ANH (Lukes lightsaber was green somehow in 2004 DVD release) I rest my case.

I was under the impression that Lowry Digital did the restoration and colour-correcting for the 2004 DVDs, and were given one month per movie.

Nice ship comparisons there.  I assume the Blockade Runner in the second picture is meant to be 150m, not 120 as stated :)

I'm all in favour of keeping the end sequence of ESB pretty much as it is.

This scene is IMO about as close to a Binary Sunset moment that ESB gets, and the galaxy shot has become fairly iconic of the mood.  Change the visual too much, and the original mood is lost.  As for astronomic accuracy, we must remember Star Wars is Science Fantasy, not Science Fiction.  We don't need Star Trek style explanations for every technology and phenomenon, and that IMO is one of the great differences between the two universes.  Whether we're looking at a star formation, the local galaxy viewed from the outer edge (rim?), bright matter circling an occluded black hole or a nearby galaxy viewed through some lensing effect of interstellar dust it doesn't really matter.  Though I'll freely admit I am rather fond of the Rishi Maze explanation (I feel it ties in with AOTC rather well on a subtle level, and is still plenty big for a fleet to 'hide' in). 

If we do start down the dark path of fixing things that are implausible to current science, then even the Binary Sunset shot, where two nearby stars appear the same size and in close proximity from an orbiting planet, is in trouble.

And as for the Nebulon B medical ship, well ditto for the whole plausibility thing, and I guess to a lesser extent it's a bit of an icon in its own right.  Plus it looks kind of like a toy pistol, in a good way.  Fine if the point where it docks to the Falcon needs fixing, but that's just continuity.

I have a feeling in the Revisited Battle of Endor the vulnerability of that narrow bridge may become apparent :)

Monroville said:

Just watch RETURNING TO JEDI; you actually have Harrison Ford doing a commentary during both the Sarlaac pit scene and the end battle at Endor saying that Lando was supposed to die at either location (no doubt the Sarlaac death was an earlier draft).

One thing that always bugged me even as a kid (after the 10th time watching JEDI naturally, when you get over the WOW! effect and start to really watch the movie) was: how is it that the reactor just exploded and it takes the Death Star like 10 minutes to actually explode?  As soon as that thing crashed and exploded behind the Falcon - BLAM!  WHITE LIGHT!  OUTSIDE SHOT OF DS EXPLODING!

You never had a 10 minute build-up (with the Death Star explosion) in ANH (remember the time factor was the torpedo travelling down the shaft to reach the reactor - once it hit, the whole thing blew up), so what they did in JEDI just seemed like these characters just CAN'T be killed no matter what happens - not even PHYSICS can kill them!  So on top of the teddy bears, the constant "FREEZE, Rebel scum!... Wait a minute, the rebels aren't telling US to freeze... they just SHOOT us!" moments and everything else, how can we possibly take this seriously, regardless of Lando dying or not?

That's never really bothered me, though I've been concious of the discrepancy.  Remember the first Death Star was complete and most likely fully pressurised as a sealed unit.  My impression was that DS2 had very few habitable parts, and much of it was somewhat open to space.

The comparison I draw is igniting a small pile of gunpowder in a pill box, then igniting the same quantity packed into a bullet casing.

Gidday,

I wouldn't feel too bad about the NTSC version.  I live in a PAL region and opted for the NTSC SW:R for one reason alone: sound.  I own pretty much every (official) PAL Star Wars DVD out there, and the 4% pitch rise is quite annoying.  It makes the voices squeaky and the music is just... wrong, being out by a semitone.  Some movies have attempted to correct for this by pitch shifting but I've never seen it done convincingly.

I'd rather not have the 3:2 jitter and low resolution of the NTSC version, but at least to me it still looks (and sounds) gorgeous.

This is also why I'm looking forward to Blu-Ray and the like - 24fps content played back at the correct rate.  Any idea if Adywan is planning a Blu-Ray release?