Star Wars: The Complete Saga (1977-2005)

[gallandro]

Originally Posted by octagon

He was only off by two...

Well I'll give the original poster Never Say Never Again, but that was primarily due to Connery (of course) and the always brilliant Klaus Maria Brandauer. Otherwise it's not terribly good... the action sequences are competent, but Kim Bassinger is awful and Michael Legrand's score is deplorable.

Robocop 2 is Le bad cinema. I used to think it was really good. I saw it in theaters twice and even once actually declared it to be better than the original. I revisited the film about 5 or 6 years ago and I have to confess I don't know what the hell I was thinking. It's just bad.... like Running Man bad, or Cobra bad.


Yancy

[Breather]

Originally Posted by phansson

The most noticeable thing to me was the overblown blue in ANH. According to Adywan it is still there in the Blu Ray release. The black crush is pretty bad.

Yep, the films had a blue cast in 2004. It stuck out like a sore thumb. Adywan also made a post a while back showing the unfixed lightsabers in ESB. It seemed to go unnoticed by most.

[Inspector Toschi]

Originally Posted by HylianBowcaster

Ha! I did the same thing today at Best Buy. I got that little pointless film cell, which is kind of neat I guess.

I have a feeling a lot of the "pre-order cancelled" folks will be doing that. My favorite though are the odd posts that say "No unaltered trilogy = no sale. Pre-order cancelled." Which means, despite knowing for a year that the BDs would be the SEs, the person pre-ordered anyway!?!? Hmm....

[Cook]

Originally Posted by 22soultaker

WTF so the disc are blank in the US version?

Usually that would bother me, but the UK disc art is random as hell.

[octagon]

Originally Posted by Cook

Usually that qould bother me, but the UK disc art is random as hell.

I had the exact same 'this certainly could have been worse' reaction to the plain US discs.

[phansson]

Originally Posted by Cook

Usually that would bother me, but the UK disc art is random as hell.

Maybe this guy should have been on a disc, Willrow Hood.

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[22soultaker]

Originally Posted by Cook

Usually that would bother me, but the UK disc art is random as hell.

Yea but common blank? Really? And who know there might be art on the slim BLu ray cases. I like the U.K version, i hate the fact of pulling the discs outta the awkward book.

[Breather]

Originally Posted by toddly6666

On release date, go to your local video stores and hide all the Star Wars blu-rays within the store. It's not illegal and it's a good way to decrease sales. Find good hiding places.

Not really related but this brought back some memories. When we were in elementary school back in the late 70's-early 80's, anytime one of us(myself and two of my friends) found a hard-to-find Star Wars figure, we'd buy ourselves one and then hide another one somewhere in the store so the other friend wouldn't miss out. Then, we'd get home and call the other and let them know where to find it. I'm talking under bath towels, in the women's clothing areas, hardware, electronics, etc.

[22soultaker]

Originally Posted by Cook

Usually that would bother me, but the UK disc art is random as hell.

Yoda, Chewy, C-3po, R2D2, Obi wan, Darth Vader.... Not to random i dont think.

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by phansson

Maybe this guy should have been on a disc, Willrow Hood.

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Well, he certainly didn't need to leave his ice cream maker behind.

[Agent Bond]

3) What was changed with Obi Wan? What did the original dragon call sound like?

Star Wars The Changes Part 1: Episode IV - YouTube

Skip to 2:02

Original version: He actually sounded like a dragon.

2004 DVD Change: He sounded like a bird.

2011 Blu-Ray Change: He sounds like an old, drunk fool now.

[NexusVerbal]

Originally Posted by phansson

maybe this guy should have been on a disc, willrow hood.

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the ice cream machine man!

[Breather]

I can't believe they still didn't fix these lightsabers. After everything they said and it has been seven years. It's odd that they can add rocks and reflections and enlarge doors, but can't be bothered with the lightsaber issues from 2004.

Originally Posted by adywan

Empire seems to be the one that has hardly been touched at all. While they did brighten up the lightsabre cores in a few shots in ROTJ and a couple in ANH, they have completely left the problems in ESB alone. The colour is the same as 2004 with an almost minuscule colour shift that is probably down to encoding, but certainly not due to any form of colour correction, and the lightsabres still look terrible. Now these are full 1080 size

[Show spoiler]

So far it looks like they have altered just 2 shots in ESB, but shots that people would have probably never noticed, while leaving such glaring errors caused by the 2004 transfer alone. Two alterations; the Wampa puppet arm and they added reflections to the window in Cloud City

[Show spoiler]

I just don't understand what they were thinking when they worked on these. Would it have been better to fix all the errors with colour etc, that were only caused by the 2004 master, first before making alterations and adding stuff? Surely that would have made more sense?

Now i've seen that when anyone complains that Lucasfilm are supposed to have fixed the problems with the lightsabres that you get someone coming back and saying stuff like "they never said they were fixing all of the lightsabres only select shots", well that isn't true. These people seem to quote an email KenKraly is supposed to have got from Lucasfilm. During the promotional day at the Ranch here is what was actually said:



Source: http://www.hometheaterforum.com/t/31...t#post_3842951

Not one place was it ever mentioned that they only did this in "select" or "a few" shots. That quote implies that they fixed the problems with the cores, but the Blu-Ray rips prove otherwise. Nowhere in ESB have they done that. The sabres are the same way they were in 2004.

[phansson]

Originally Posted by NexusVerbal

the ice cream machine man!

I never even knew this guy existed. So I have at least learned SOMETHING from this thread!

[gallandro]

Originally Posted by Agent Bond

Star Wars The Changes Part 1: Episode IV - YouTube

Skip to 2:02

Original version: He actually sounded like a stock Hanna-Barbera dinosaur (which is where the sound came from).

2004 DVD Change: He sounded like a bird.

2011 Blu-Ray Change: He sounds like an old, drunk fool now.

There corrected that for you.

Yancy

[Canada]

If Lucas screws with the Star Wars saga any more we won't be able to recognize it and we the fans should make him change the name of the saga.

[nathan_393]

Lightsabers I can deal with - they never bothered me until I read this thread to begin with. But the movies always looked too dark. I really can't tell from the screen shots so far if this trend will continue or not, and I feel like they only needed to adjust the films' gamma levels to fix it. (I'm sure I'm wrong about that, but how hard would it have been to fix?)

[BMM]

Originally Posted by Breather

I can't believe they still didn't fix these lightsabers. After everything they said and it has been seven years. It's odd that they can add rocks and reflections and enlarge doors, but can't be bothered with the lightsaber issues from 2004.

Haven't you heard that Lucas thought it looked much more menacing for Vader to be holding a long stick of pink Bubble Yum than a red Sith lightsaber? Who can argue with great decision making like that?

[frogmort]

no.

The world will look up and shout 'save us.' And I'll whisper 'no'.

[Petyr_Baelish]

Originally Posted by frogmort

no.

The world will look up and shout 'save us.' And I'll whisper 'no'.

Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. A clock without a craftsman. It's too late. Always has been, always will be...too late.