IIRC, for those "special feature" reissues of the untouched OG trilogy, George Lucas pretty much just played some of his old Betamax copies on a shitty TV and videotaped the results.
― Your Soup Is Inside Me (Old Lunch), Monday, 1 December 2014 19:47 (nine years ago) link
http://instagram.com/p/wAacTQRhRe/
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 1 December 2014 19:47 (nine years ago) link
http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Two-Disc-Widescreen-Theatrical/product-reviews/B000FQJAIW/ref=cm_cr_dp_qt_hist_one?ie=UTF8&filterBy=addOneStar&showViewpoints=0
― ✓ out this insane nakh yall (gr8080), Monday, 1 December 2014 19:48 (nine years ago) link
Yep. They look TERRIBLE. Like one-fourth the size of whatever screen you view them on, blurry, just awful.
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 1 December 2014 19:52 (nine years ago) link
In a Reddit interview with fans, when asked who shot first, Harrison Ford's reply was simply, "I don't know and I don't care." In a 2014 photo posted by Industrial Light and Magic's Twitter feed, the actor is shown holding a piece of paper that reads "I shot first."
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Monday, 1 December 2014 19:53 (nine years ago) link
been covered in this thread many times but anyone who cares abt this stuff need only search for "star wars despecialized" in the right parts of town
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 1 December 2014 19:54 (nine years ago) link
rewatched Empire last night
thank god for this thread - you guys, it turns out this movie BLOWS! my whole life i never knew
mind=blown
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 1 December 2014 19:56 (nine years ago) link
i'm not even the biggest SW fan or anything but this shit is pretty infuriating:
http://originaltrilogy.com/Lucasfilm_PR_response.cfm
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 1 December 2014 19:58 (nine years ago) link
* lightsaber lit *
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 1 December 2014 19:58 (nine years ago) link
The Empire Strikes Back is first-rate and the only reason the SW universe has any mythos or shows of feeling.
I think VG is trolling but ya never know.
btw are they gonna manage to get digitally resurrected Alec Guinness into this one?
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Monday, 1 December 2014 20:00 (nine years ago) link
As you may know, an enormous amount of effort was put into digitally restoring the negatives for the Special Editions. In one scene alone, nearly 1 million pieces of dirt had to be removed
i want to know their methodology for counting the number of pieces of dirt
― ya'll are the ones who don't know things (Karl Malone), Monday, 1 December 2014 20:01 (nine years ago) link
special Vacu-Droid w/laser cannon iirc
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 1 December 2014 20:02 (nine years ago) link
xxpost Nah, he's a practical effect this time around. A marionette, I believe.
― Your Soup Is Inside Me (Old Lunch), Monday, 1 December 2014 20:02 (nine years ago) link
max has written a thing:
http://defamer.gawker.com/i-will-see-all-the-star-wars-movies-because-i-am-a-hope-1665238831
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 1 December 2014 20:10 (nine years ago) link
Good piece
The thing that is gonna be weird for me is that I basically grew up with the SW extended canon before even watching the movies
Like one of the first SW books I read (after ADF's novelizations) was Timothy Zahn's the Last Command which itself was the final part of a three part series
― 龜, Monday, 1 December 2014 20:12 (nine years ago) link
Well it probably would've been less time and energy to just clean off the dirt instead of stopping to count all of the pieces!
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 1 December 2014 20:13 (nine years ago) link
Goddammit Karl Malone beat me to the joke.
I had probably put away 5-6 books + spent about 50 hours on X-Wing's first mission that I could never beat before even getting a chance to buy and see the series on VHS (Can quite clearly remember the morning I finally watched SW)
It's gonna be hard to just point my finger at that stuff and say "that's not canon" and accept the new movies as overwriting them
O well
― 龜, Monday, 1 December 2014 20:13 (nine years ago) link
It's kinda like the Marvel movies. I just accept that they're a variation of the stories I'm used to. Which is cool as long as the movies bring it.
― Your Soup Is Inside Me (Old Lunch), Monday, 1 December 2014 20:16 (nine years ago) link
I will probably lose my fucking shit and start bawling like a child in the theater if Grand Admiral Thrawn makes even a small cameo
― 龜, Monday, 1 December 2014 20:17 (nine years ago) link
Bantha poodoo.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 1 December 2014 20:17 (nine years ago) link
omg leaked photo of Adam Driver's character
http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20081126192732/starwars/images/4/4a/Nien_Nunb_JKTCG.jpg
― Kooki-Wan Tanooki (Hurting 2), Monday, 1 December 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link
You know, the best way to describe this new lightsaber is that it looks like something Kevin J. Andersen would have come up with
That fucker
― 龜, Monday, 1 December 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Dual-phase_lightsaber
― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Monday, 1 December 2014 20:27 (nine years ago) link
Records from circa 400 BBY indicate that Keiran Halcyon constructed a special dual phase lightsaber that could go from the standard 1.3 meters to a length of three meters with flick of a switch.
And he didn't even have to take any pills or learn any special exercises
― 龜, Monday, 1 December 2014 20:29 (nine years ago) link
as I've said before, I want to shoot geeks out of a cannon when i hear "canon"
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Monday, 1 December 2014 20:44 (nine years ago) link
Any other reaction wouldn't be Morbs canon.
― Your Soup Is Inside Me (Old Lunch), Monday, 1 December 2014 20:49 (nine years ago) link
I so want that cute rolling droid to be worse than Jar Jar for the sake of that tattoo owner.
― joygoat, Monday, 1 December 2014 20:51 (nine years ago) link
http://www.theverge.com/tldr/2014/11/28/7302383/lets-talk-about-the-new-lightsaber-ouch-hands
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 1 December 2014 21:01 (nine years ago) link
I want to believe that the lightsaber is called Ouch-Hands.
― Your Soup Is Inside Me (Old Lunch), Monday, 1 December 2014 21:02 (nine years ago) link
http://pbs.twimg.com/media/B3imX92IcAAtka_.png
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 1 December 2014 21:03 (nine years ago) link
Having to wait a whole year for this is making me IA
― Kooki-Wan Tanooki (Hurting 2), Monday, 1 December 2014 21:11 (nine years ago) link
some nerd made it into a big fuck off version
http://i.imgur.com/1STDEa3.gif
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Monday, 1 December 2014 21:19 (nine years ago) link
Looks kinda like Ichigo's zangetsu
― 龜, Monday, 1 December 2014 21:21 (nine years ago) link
If anyone cares, the Despecialized Editions (on P!r@t3 B@y) are pretty sweet HD re-creations of the original SW movies. For example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHfLX_TMduY
― schwantz, Monday, 1 December 2014 21:26 (nine years ago) link
ugh he/s gotta point about those excess 'magenta tones' wtf man.
― piscesx, Monday, 1 December 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link
I think it's been shrugged off by Lucas, but his ex-wife had some strong contributions to script editing and not just film editing.
This is a really good read:
http://secrethistoryofstarwars.com/marcialucas.html
― nate woolls, Monday, 1 December 2014 21:56 (nine years ago) link
Re: dirt removal, it reminds me of the digital clean up filter that they ran Kind of Blue through, which erased a lot of the brushed snare, which the computer thought was hiss and noise. Special Editions are movie equivalents to that.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 1 December 2014 22:13 (nine years ago) link
there was still tempered excitement about the second and third prequels (i was in high school/college) because people kept thinking some cool stuff had to happen eventually. it was a fun thing to think about. i saw ROTS at midnight on opening day and still remember the total silence as the end credits started, and the palpable deflated feeling in the audience as the light came up.
― slam dunk, Monday, 1 December 2014 22:41 (nine years ago) link
TPM was my first experience with heartbreak ever (which is why I'm kinda incredulous at Shakey's "everybody loved them at first")
― the most painstaking, humorless people in the world (lukas), Monday, 1 December 2014 22:42 (nine years ago) link
Dark Souls: The Movie
― festival culture (Jordan), Monday, 1 December 2014 22:46 (nine years ago) link
I had a lot of arguments about TPM, everybody seemed to want to make excuses for it ("it's for kids!", "but ______ was cool!" etc.)
xp
― Οὖτις, Monday, 1 December 2014 22:46 (nine years ago) link
yeah Mr Veg & I both were flipping out over the early TPM teasers & that cool poster of Anakin with Darth's shadow & Darth Maul looking all badass
and then we saw it & i clearly remember both of us going ok what the fuck was thatmy clearest memory was how annoying that fkin anakin kid was & how darth maul was like the world's biggest merch con
i am not even rewriting history when i say my disappointment was palpable
ep2 really hammered that home weeee trade federationzzzzzz
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 1 December 2014 23:22 (nine years ago) link
I had a friend call me after an early screening of Episode 2. "You've got to see it!" he proclaimed. "Why," I asked, "is it good?" "No!" he answered. "It's terrible! It actually begins with people walking off a ship and saying, phew, that was a close one, and then the ship blows up! And then it gets worse!"
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 1 December 2014 23:26 (nine years ago) link
lol
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 1 December 2014 23:29 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/mR2EWDc.gif
― Evan, Monday, 1 December 2014 23:35 (nine years ago) link
Does the dude stuff himself in?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 1 December 2014 23:57 (nine years ago) link
spent entire showing of Ep 2 doing Mystery Science Theater commentary with friend.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 1 December 2014 23:58 (nine years ago) link
i am not even rewriting history when i say my disappointment was palpatine
― dr bronner's new and improved peppermint (soda), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 00:30 (nine years ago) link