We could do worse than Katie Lucas. She's written some good Clone Wars episodes.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Katie_Lucas
SW blu-rays have changes to the films again
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We could do worse than Katie Lucas. She's written some good Clone Wars episodes.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Katie_Lucas
One of his daughters is an MMA fighter I believe. I doubt he'd drop total control of the 'franchise' upon either kid unless they wanted it.
I would'nt want to be on her dark side.
What they should do is have Greedo's shot at least graze Han's shoulder or something. Like in an old Western shootout. Han lets the guy shoot first, takes a laser "bullet" ... then blasts his rival into oblivion.Eh...letting Greedo fire the first shot shows Han as even more of a bad-ass, because even if you get the first shot off, Han still lives and you still die
Yeah.
Why not CGI Han talking Greedo out of trying to collect a bounty on him? That way, it will encourage children to solve their problems nonviolently.
Exactly.
All he has to do is take the original versions, take them through the process every movies goes through when it makes a good transfer between one format to another and then make them available. on the DVD.
The LD-quality versions available in the most recent box-set are not good enough as they're still pretty low quality compared to what DVD is capable of displaying.
It's simple. Lucas doesn't want the Theatrical releases available. He's said why countless times. Agree or disagree, but that's why.
The theatrical versions were relased a while back, but not in the best quality. They were on a second dvd and considered bonus features. But they were limited and currently sold out on places like Amazon. I bought them because a store was offering bonus SW posters with purchase.
The only theatrical version that I prefer over the SE is ANH. It has much better pacing in terms of editing over the SE. I prefer the SE of ESB and ROTJ over the originals since most of the new CGI added to the movies instead of being too distracting like ANH.
The theatrical versions were relased a while back, but not in the best quality. They were on a second dvd and considered bonus features. But they were limited and currently sold out on places like Amazon. I bought them because a store was offering bonus SW posters with purchase.
The only theatrical version that I prefer over the SE is ANH. It has much better pacing in terms of editing over the SE. I prefer the SE of ESB and ROTJ over the originals since most of the new CGI added to the movies instead of being too distracting like ANH.
But THAT release isn't good enough for some people. Lucas tried to compromise. People wanted more.
I take it that the theatrical cuts are, in fact, available in sufficient resolution for a blu-ray (or even 16x9 standard definition) release?
The quality is ... noticeably wanting.
The lack of a decent HD TV.
Plus I have twin one year olds, so currently have no cash whatsoever.
Probably because of the low quality. If I want the original original trilogy at VHS quality or even at LD quality I can get that. I want the OT in true BD, and now BD, quality without CGI bullshit added in.
MLB strictly speaking the original film versions of the movie are of infinite resolution and quality since it's on an analogue medium, i.e. film. Digitizing it to disc simply sharpens it and cleans it. So, yes, if there's film versions of the movies there's enough quality there to make them on DVD, Blu-Ray, Ultra-violate Ray or X-Ray Ray.
It's been claimed sometimes that in order to make the SE editions of the movies the originals had to be destroyed which doesn't wash with me since to "remaster" them all they have to do is take the original film, copy it into a computer and then do the work. There's no machine that's going to copy film into a machine while also destroying the original. If he wanted to put the original movies out in the best format possible he could.
There's nothing stopping him beyond his own ignorant ego.
If those versions had been the first versions of Star Wars released on dvd in 1999, people would have been a satisfied with them at the time. When dvds were first being released many of them were on-anamorphic as well. We just expect way more these days.
I'm just glad I got them since they ended up being limited editions after all. Happy I can watch the original verison of ANH. That version looks okay on a regular tv.
If those versions had been the first versions of Star Wars released on dvd in 1999, people would have been a satisfied with them at the time. When dvds were first being released many of them were on-anamorphic as well. We just expect way more these days.
I'm just glad I got them since they ended up being limited editions after all. Happy I can watch the original verison of ANH. That version looks okay on a regular tv.
No, it doesn't look fine at all. Colors which should remain constant flutter from frame to frame. Also, there are extensive stretches that look like a UHF TV slightly out of tune. About all I can say is that it's better than nothing.
The theatrical versions were relased a while back, but not in the best quality. They were on a second dvd and considered bonus features. But they were limited and currently sold out on places like Amazon. I bought them because a store was offering bonus SW posters with purchase.
The only theatrical version that I prefer over the SE is ANH. It has much better pacing in terms of editing over the SE. I prefer the SE of ESB and ROTJ over the originals since most of the new CGI added to the movies instead of being too distracting like ANH.
But THAT release isn't good enough for some people. Lucas tried to compromise. People wanted more.
Yeah, I'm convinced that if Lucas gave these people everything they wanted, they would still run to the internet boards and trash him. Then they'd complain that the original films were one pixel off or something. Sometimes it's just complaining for the sake of complaining.
I don't see why they would be upset with any changes made to TPM. They've spent 12 years posting about how much they hated the film so what does it matter if GL changes it?
My issue with the Han/Greedo thing is Lucas's claim that he didn't want Han "murdering someone in cold blood" doesn't make sense. Han DID kill Greedo in self-defense. One someone points a gun (or blaster) at you and basically tells you he's going to kill you, it's completely justifiable to take action to protect yourself. It's probably more justifiable in the SW galaxy.
Also, it's odd that GL makes such a committment to getting the FX to be correct but allows a horribly fake and manipulated scene like Greedo firing and Han moving out of the way to be in the film. It just looks awful and fake.
And even if they were, there are still preserved copies of the films around. Even if they were noticeably lacking compared to the master, a restoration of the originals could use the Special Editions for the primary source, and then dip into the lower-quality copy whenever the changes couldn't be removed. Kind of like what happened with "The Cage" where footage from "The Menagerie" is used for most of it, and crossfades into a workprint for the parts that weren't reused.
That's because on one cares about TPM that much to complain. As far as I know the movie has no rabid fanboys like the OT has. In fact I've come across many posts mentioning that ILM finally replacing that stupid looking puppet in the movie with CGI is nothing but good news.
Also I really doubt Lucas will ever replace the puppet Yoda in the OT with a CGI. I remember reading in articles that he really lobbied for Frank Oz to get an Academy Award for his preformance.
This is the same reason Lucas has mostly left the music untouched in OT for the SE except for a few new pieces of music from John Williams. The music is one of things he considers getting completely right the first time around.
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