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The problem i have is that he did compromise, he made basic errors with the CGI and with the alterations when creating the special editions, errors that still exist, if you are going to change things using CGI because you want to update your films then at least do it right, as an example i give...

That's true but look at how long it took them to release Star Wars on blu ray, what are the chances of an UHD release anytime in the next few years, i would say slim to none, i'm not even convinced the studio's have much interest in UHD but we'll see how many titles are released next year and...

Same transfers just different packaging, not sure why people would buy these, let me know when they do new scans and put some work into it and i'll re-buy 4 of them, the first three plus The Phantom Menace if they leave the film grain and detail intact, no point re-purchasing Episodes 2 and 3...

I loathe that newspaper with it's anti-Scottish articles, just read the Simon Heffer nonsense and blood is boiling, they also get it wrong and say George directed six Star Wars films, i'm pretty sure he was in the editing room but wasn't directing Empire.

I dunno, the scenes set on Tatooine, with all that sand, look pretty gritty to me.

In the UK Beneath The Planet Of The Apes was always cut to achieve a PG rating, it's only in recent times been restored to uncut status and deemed suitable for 15 years old and older, i would never call that sequel a kids film, as in aimed specifically at young children, i'm not even sure what...

He was concentrating on killing Luke, torturing him, then killing him, a nooooooooo would alert him of Vader's intentions but the silent way they did it works great, you can feel the emotion in Vader as he turns away from the darkside, that's despite not seeing his face. The nooooooo adds...

I bet you a backup negative was struck to preserve things, it would be far too short sighted of them not to do that.

I'm European too, unless of course Scotland is bought by some USA trillionaire and shipped over to the states brick by brick, tree by tree, really it just makes me wince because i have a sister too and the thought of kissing her is like yuck. :D

He was a smaller slug back then, i guess later on he ate too much at his brothers place, Pizza the Hutt.

:EDIT: Somehow it double posted. :lol: Thank goodness for the edit button.

They should have had Luke call the ghostbusters after that conversation to sort Obi Wan out. :D

When Luke questions him about it, the force ghost of Obi Wan says something about from a certain viewpoint he told the truth, that view being that once Anakin went to the dark side he became Vader and stopped being the man he once knew.

He later revised that stance to read Yoda is just a puppet. :lol: Yeah i agree regarding Luke and Leia, there is no way he planned to make them twins until the script for Return Of The Jedi, it's very close to incestous when you consider how much Luke fancied her in the first Star Wars and got...

Maybe tank is the wrong word to use in my post above, i should have checked first, after checking i see it made $43m dollars for it's 3D re-release, i think it got it's money back for that conversion,* i recall reading reviews that the conversion wasn't great. *That's just domestically in the...

I disagree, i think it tanked at the box office because it was a poor 3D conversion, simple as that. People do care for the prequels, i wish you would stop repeating that they don't, just say you don't and i'd be fine with that.

Phantom was also shot on film which is why i find it very strange that the blu ray is degrained yet the prequels shot with digital cameras have dither/fake grain added back in to make them look like film, they look superb, especially Revenge Of The Sith. They should add the film grain back in...

That should be true but i believe when they did The Phantom Menace for blu ray they would have used the new film scan for the 3D conversion but, for some reason they used the scan after it had been degrained for the 3D process and it's why that title lacks finer detail and also has selected edge...

The FX sequences were done at 2:1 and i cannot watch a cropped film, so though i have it in 3D i will always watch the 2D edition.

I sure hope 3D conversions are not planned, bloody total degraining, remove fine detail then release in 2.5D, no thanks. My opinion is that The Phantom Menace looks the way it does on blu ray because they degrained for the 3D comversion and not because they wanted it to look like the prequels...

Don't get me started on glasses free 3D TV. :D

Nah. :D

Here is an example, going back to the silent era, they would often make copies onto 16mm film that would find their way into the public's hands, this person wants to use Kickstarter to get the titles out, now i bring this up merely to point out that i bet there are other films from that era...

In the case of Star Wars the simple and easiest thing to do to stop all that is to just release a quality version of the original trilogy unaltered on blu ray, a minimum 2K scan from an Interpositive would suffice for this. Of course it would stop nothing because there would still be people...

You have to wonder then about the professionals who worked on The King and I with regards to colour timing. :D This is what Gareth Edwards the director of the low budget film Monsters has to say about things, now he made that film from home using Adobe After Effects and it was a big hit, would...

I think you know that i said that, at the time it was an hypothesis* based on how professional the work looked, i also recall you saying you didn't want to discuss it anymore and we should move on, it's funny how the world works, when a discussion doesn't go someone's way people generally want...

I love classic cinema but i just have very little time for Citizen Kane, i can appreciate many of the technical aspects of it but the film never really grabs my emotions or makes me feel anything, thus to me it is overrated, i know that to even say that is sacriledge but i just feel that way...

Don't be too sure, i think Citizen Kane is one of the most overrated films ever made and i'm sure i am not alone with that view.

I don't recall seeing edge enhancement halo's at the cinema.

I guess we will have to disagree, they were very well made, you can argue about the scripts, although i liked them, but the production of each was top quality, you can also argue about the CGI and performances but once again they were state of the art at the time they were made and i thought the...