Comments on: Star Wars Blu-ray Release Announced, New Deleted Scene Revealed

By: James

James — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 05:48:00 +0000

Brenden, you may be thinking of Star Wars Revisted which color corrects the 2004 versions back to their proper timing. And actually improves a lot of the effects as well as removing the really bad alterations.

Petition for the original versions restored properly:
http://originaltrilogy.com/petition/

And LFL will say highest quality possible but that’s what they said about 2004 and totally F***ed up the video and audio. How can you possibly meddle with the contrast, give it a blue tint and call that a restoration?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH4OO8lofy4

By: Master David Goodmen

Master David Goodmen — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 21:20:19 +0000

I saw the original three films, the middle of the trilogy (seems 7, 8, and 9 are never coming), in seventy-millimeter film with six-track sound. Blu-ray? Who CAREs?

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:10:24 +0000

“@Jonny Lucas already said that there will be only the Special Editions of the original three movies in the box because it would be “too expensive” to remaster the original prints in order to get a good picture quality. So that’s for that.”

Too expensive?? Lucas is one of the richest men in the world. How dare he say ANYthing is too expensive. I’m glad I’m not a fan of his or his movies. I can live peacefully knowing I’ve never, nor ever will, contributed to his wealth.

By: Nic Lipelli

Nic Lipelli — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:10:46 +0000

In time, it will probably go the way of The Star Wars Christmas Special. Maybe spread from person to person in back alley (or subnet) transactions, only without the Nth generation VHS copy artifacts.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:59:57 +0000

@Nic Lipelli: Nice article about the restoration (I didn’t read it all yet, it is pretty lengthy).
There was a website I ran across several years ago where a guy was doing his own Star Wars remastering of the theatrical version of the film. He was working off of the laserdisc version, which was apparently remastered, unlike the original versions Lucas made available on DVD in 2006. The guy was also color correcting the laserdisc version scene by scene, and showed how the Special Editions had pretty inconsistent color and poorly matched effects.
I used to have his site bookmarked to see how his progress was going, but I deleted it a while ago, since he didn’t update very often. I’m not sure if he ever finished it, but it would be interesting to know if he, or anyone else managed to create a high quality version of the theatrical cut.

By: Nic Lipelli

Nic Lipelli — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 23:05:42 +0000

Good slashdot comment and long as hell blog post about the past treatment and currently available prints and masters of Episodes 4-6.

http://entertainment.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1754592&cid=33256074

http://secrethistoryofstarwars.com/savingstarwars.html

By: Steini

Steini — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:30:09 +0000

@Jonny Lucas already said that there will be only the Special Editions of the original three movies in the box because it would be “too expensive” to remaster the original prints in order to get a good picture quality. So that’s for that.

By: Jonny Ashley

Jonny Ashley — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:21:37 +0000

“highest possible picture and audio presentation”

Coming from Lucas, I’m sure he’s going to replace the REST of the original trilogy with cg too. Pessimism aside, I really hope this means they’re restoring the original trilogy to its formerly undigital self. But I highly doubt it.

By: El Ultimo Hombre

El Ultimo Hombre — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:18:20 +0000

If he released the non-special editions of the original trilogy I would happily buy them along with a blu-ray player, which I don’t own. As it is, I have to watch my crappy DVD laserdisc copies. But it’s always worth it to hear the original ewok song and not have to see that stupid Jabba scene in Episode IV.

By: Mason

Mason — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:53:55 +0000

Great news! I’ve been waiting years for the hexology in high-density. I can wait one more.

By: Stormy

Stormy — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:40:17 +0000

Nope. I’ll rent the OT, but I’m done giving Lucas more money every couple of years, especially since he seems bound and determined to alienate the fans who made him what he is.

By: Ryan M.

Ryan M. — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:18:57 +0000

“in a combined box set”

Fuck that.