Star Wars: The Complete Saga (1977-2005)

[Duffy12]

Originally Posted by Gojhawks

Audio dropouts have cropped up, especially in Episode IV. I had 3 or 4 drops while watching IV, bitstreaming from a Panasonic BD-35 to a Denon 3311. There have been reports switching the BR player to output PCM solves the drops. I have not tried it yet. It is unclear if it is a player, receiver or disc problem.

It seems like every time this is brought up, the poster almost always mentions that they have a Denon receiver.

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[frogmort]

Originally Posted by Beast

You don't need training to simply be force sensitive. Anakin had Jedi abilities long before the training.

Leia also was able to resist mind probes on the Death Star in ANH. So I don't see your point.

Hey Beast, have you watched them all yet, and did you take a little ANH nap in the middle?

[Duffy12]

Did anybody else notice the following?

When Capt. Needa is picked up by the other troopers right after Vader excepts his apology, the scene shifts to a }}}black crush{{{!

It's like someone there flipped off a light switch to one of the overhead lighting fixtures.

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[BaronVH]

Originally Posted by DanzG

I was just thinking the other night watching TPM how much that movie would be improved if they just deleted Jar Jar and the Gungans out of the entire movie. I mean really everything wrong and cringe worthy just about is directly attributed to him. Yeah young "annie" has some cringe worthy lines every now and then but I mean damn he is a kid so he has an excuse and I can easily over look his "yippes" and things I mean when I was his age in the movie I probably said a bunch of dumb s**t to, we all did I am sure but Jar Jar's antics are just ridicules and just distracting from the plot of the movie.

Actually I thought if they just re-recorded his voice with a more serious voice actor, that would improve it immensely. There is one modification I believe everyone would really like.

[poke smot]

Originally Posted by Duffy12

It seems like every time this is brought up, the poster almost always mentions that they have a Denon receiver.

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i had dropouts and i have a denon receiver. i switched the ps3 to lpcm and now im good to go.

[maxmercy]

I'll see if I can switch to LPCM....and hopefully Denon will generate a firmware upgrade....

JSS

[cmaeditor]

Originally Posted by Duffy12

Yea, but they never stood out that much before the 2004 DVDs due to the color re-grade used on that transfer and the BDs.




Yes, it is really distracting now.

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Here's that same frame from the 1977 version on the Ltd Edition DVD

[Beast]

Originally Posted by frogmort

Hey Beast, have you watched them all yet, and did you take a little ANH nap in the middle?

I've only watched TPM, AOTC, ROTS, and Disc 9 so far. I'm not in a rush to start on the OT.

Plus I've been listening to the new Archival Commentaries. Which have been really interesting so far.

[Beast]

Originally Posted by BaronVH

Actually I thought if they just re-recorded his voice with a more serious voice actor, that would improve it immensely. There is one modification I believe everyone would really like.

Ugh. Jar Jar is just fine as he is. He doesn't need removed or redubbed. That's the character Ahmed Best created.

[frogmort]

Originally Posted by Duffy12

Did anybody else notice the following?

When Capt. Needa is picked up by the other troopers right after Vader excepts his apology, the scene shifts to a }}}black crush{{{!

It's like someone there flipped off a light switch to one of the overhead lighting fixtures.

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I just checked it, and it does get really dark, and all of the shadow detail disappears. I've noticed a few place in the OT where this happens, but not anywhere near that bad.

[Duffy12]

Originally Posted by frogmort

I just checked it, and it does get really dark, and all of the shadow detail disappears. I've noticed a few place in the OT where this happens, but not anywhere near that bad.

LOL


Yea, it's like one of the light fixtures blew out and the director failed to yell...CUT!!!!



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[Ernest Rister]

I'm sure I need a new amp. It's an old THX select model, with 6.1 DTS-ES Discrete capabilities. Audio is optical out from the PS3, or optical or coaxial out from the stand alone Sony BR. Never expected the amp to be compatible with modern blu-ray streams, but for some damn reason, it seems to be doing fine, even correctly flagging the 6.1 dts discrete stream from the new SW discs. I know my amp is a piece of crap - I bought it as an open box from Fry's and for all I know, it was a display model, but the old amp has held up over the years. It was certainly a treat to be able to hear the LOTR extended films in discrete 6.1 back in the days of DVD.

Anyway, need a new amp, but I'm proud of the old half-assed THX amp still working and even working with the new SW mixes in 6.1 discrete no less. You did me proud, you old amp.

Maybe I'll find a new home for the old bastard in a future game room.

Anyway...need a new amp.

[rikraq]

I'm really surprised Lucas didn't stick Hayden's burned head under Vader's helmet in Jedi. Also surprised they didn't cut the green dancer's wardrobe malfunction at Jabba's palace. You can still see the wayward boob.

[toddly6666]

Originally Posted by rikraq

Finished Jedi. Stiil hate the Ewoks. Why would the Ewoks have clothes big enough to fit Leia? Leia's memories of her mother really don't fit with the prequels.

After watching all the movies again, I find myself really liking the prequels better than I used to.

On to the bonus discs.

1. Who cares that the Ewoks had human clothes?
2. It's the prequels that don't fit to the original trilogy. Poor writing in the prequels forgot about how Leia remembered her mother.

[BluBonnet]

Originally Posted by BaronVH

Actually I thought if they just re-recorded his voice with a more serious voice actor, that would improve it immensely. There is one modification I believe everyone would really like.

No, no, no, no, no.... as someone else already said, this is the characted Ahmed created. Besides, only the older fans seem to have any problem with him, whatsoever. Most younger viewers I know really seem to like Jar Jar, and so do I (and I grew up watching the OT when it first came out).

There's nothing wrong with Jar Jar, he's exactly the character Lucas wanted to create... and he's very likable, in an oddball kind of way.

[frogmort]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

I'm sure I need a new amp. It's an old THX select model, with 6.1 DTS-ES Discrete capabilities. Audio is optical out from the PS3, or optical or coaxial out from the stand alone Sony BR. Never expected the amp to be compatible with modern blu-ray streams, but for some damn reason, it seems to be doing fine, even correctly flagging the 6.1 dts discrete stream from the new SW discs. I know my amp a piece of shit - I bought it as an open box from Fry's and for all I know, it was a display model, but the old amo and I have become good friends over the years. It was certainly a treat to be able to hear the LOTR extended films in discrete 6.1 back in the days of DVD.

Anyway, need a new amp, but I'm proud of the old half-assed THX amp still working and even working with the new SW mixes in 6.1 discrete no less. You did me proud, you old amp.

Maybe I'll find a new home for the old bastard in a future game room.

Anyway...need a new amp.

From what I've heard, the core lossy DTS from an HD-MA encode is very good and aproaching High Resolution, if not High Definition. I'm sure it sounds pretty dang good, but there is more information in the lossless.

[Mavrick]

Originally Posted by rikraq

I'm really surprised Lucas didn't stick Hayden's burned head under Vader's helmet in Jedi. Also surprised they didn't cut the green dancer's wardrobe malfunction at Jabba's palace. You can still see the wayward boob.

They alrready removed Shaws eyebrows and chaged the colour of his eyes to match Haydens, thats about as much as much as needs to be done to make it more like Hayden.

[beckmen]

Originally Posted by Mavrick

Glad I made sense.

I would have loved to have seen VII-IX I think about it a lot sometimes imagining how much more scope might have been given to the charecters and to the entire Star Wars universe for that matter.

Although I don't think I would like to see a sequal trilogy now, not that there's much chance it would happen.

I think that what they are doing with the Clone Wars series is great (still need to get it on Blu-ray) And I've read various places that he has the scripts written for the long rumored Live Action series. Which I think is probably the better way to go rather than any more films.

But I can't see that happening for many years still. I think once the Clone Wars has come to an end and we have seen how far the 3D re-releases go.

Depending on the success of TPM of course, I think even though now it is often regarded as the worst of the PT if not the Saga, it would still do well enough to warrant the release of AOTC. And I belive even if they didn't end up releasing all 6 theatricaly we would probably end up with a 3D BD release regardless.

Once all thats out of the way, I think he will start to focus all of his time into the live action series. At least thats what I like to think. I do like having hopes for the future

Yeah, I keep fantasizing about how awesome episodes VII_IX would have been. Probably would have been 1986, 1989 and 1992. Imagine how the effects would have evolved in that time.

But the live action series...starting to doubt it will even happen. All they do it delay it, and I don't really thinking they will get to the point where it'll be doable for the budget. AFAIK, special effects are special effects. They don't really get cheaper to produce. Star Trek: TNG seems to have around the same number of FX shots as Stargate Universe. It's not like they reached a point where you can just have as many FX shots as you feel you need.

Originally Posted by bullets

I get a huge laugh out of Qui Gon's initial reaction. He hates him right off the bat.

One of the things I like about TPM. Qui-Gon is legitimately annoyed with him, whereas Obi-Wan finds him amusing. Kind of like how the old and young audiences responded.

I don't get how people are seeing DNR in the OT. I even watched chunks of ANH and ESB zoomed in to fill my entire screen, a 52" Sony that I am about 5 feet away from. Not really seeing it. I see slightly cakey faces, like people are wearing too much makeup. But that's it. It's the exact inverse of my reaction to Jeffrey Kauffman's Big Leboswki review. I can't even conceive how somebody could see such things.

Anybody else disappointed by The Collection feature? Is it just me, or is there a lot of stuff missing? Perhaps things were just lost. Tatooine alone is missing the Tantive IV, Sandcrawler, C3PO, Star Destroyer and Landspeeder. It seems most of the locations are similarly lacking in numerous iconic pieces. Still cool to see what they do have, but I guess I was expecting it to be pretty definitive.

[kemcha]

Originally Posted by Mavrick

Both with slip boxes too.

I'm not used to this word keepcase. What's that? I'm just used to Amaray or just the plain old "plastic box"

Is it as thin as the Firefly set? or the same thickness as the UK set? Because I know a lot of US releases use the slim cases where as we get the same thickness as DVD cases 9 times out of 10 in the UK.

I can confirm that they are the identical cases as the Firefly TV series Blu-ray release. Same thickness since both sets are released by 20th Century Fox.

[frogmort]

Originally Posted by Mavrick

They alrready removed Shaws eyebrows and chaged the colour of his eyes to match Haydens, thats about as much as much as needs to be done to make it more like Hayden.

Really? I didn't know that.