Star Wars 7 shit talk

you kids and your aspect-ratio problems

Shakey, what I meant was the PURE, unfucked-with-by-GL original-release versions are not unavailable unless you have some videotapes from the '90s.

― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius

http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Two-Disc-Widescreen-Theatrical/dp/B000FQJAIW

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.

http://instagram.com/p/wAacTQRhRe/

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

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.

Yep. They look TERRIBLE. Like one-fourth the size of whatever screen you view them on, blurry, just awful.

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."

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

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

i'm not even the biggest SW fan or anything but this shit is pretty infuriating:

http://originaltrilogy.com/Lucasfilm_PR_response.cfm

* lightsaber lit *

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?

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

special Vacu-Droid w/laser cannon iirc

xxpost Nah, he's a practical effect this time around. A marionette, I believe.

max has written a thing:

http://defamer.gawker.com/i-will-see-all-the-star-wars-movies-because-i-am-a-hope-1665238831

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

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!

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

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.

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

Bantha poodoo.

omg leaked photo of Adam Driver's character

http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20081126192732/starwars/images/4/4a/Nien_Nunb_JKTCG.jpg

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

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Dual-phase_lightsaber

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

as I've said before, I want to shoot geeks out of a cannon when i hear "canon"

Any other reaction wouldn't be Morbs canon.

I so want that cute rolling droid to be worse than Jar Jar for the sake of that tattoo owner.

http://www.theverge.com/tldr/2014/11/28/7302383/lets-talk-about-the-new-lightsaber-ouch-hands

I want to believe that the lightsaber is called Ouch-Hands.

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/B3imX92IcAAtka_.png

Having to wait a whole year for this is making me IA

some nerd made it into a big fuck off version

http://i.imgur.com/1STDEa3.gif

Looks kinda like Ichigo's zangetsu

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

ugh he/s gotta point about those excess 'magenta tones' wtf man.

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

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.

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.

TPM was my first experience with heartbreak ever (which is why I'm kinda incredulous at Shakey's "everybody loved them at first")

some nerd made it into a big fuck off version

http://i.imgur.com/1STDEa3.gif

Dark Souls: The Movie

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

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 that
my 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

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!"

lol

http://i.imgur.com/mR2EWDc.gif

Does the dude stuff himself in?