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Author Topic: Star Wars: The complete saga on BR this Sept. Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-13-2011 12:04 AM                        quote: Chris Slycord I don't think you can assume that lack of discussion automatically means no one was interested. I for one, had found the previous correction list interesting and showed how flawed the book in question was but really had nothing to add, especially since you're known here as the perfectionist-type who gets that kind of stuff absolutely right the first time. Couldn't have said it better. Sometimes people just read and don't respond. A whole string of comments such as "That's great! Thanks for posting" would be useless. The lack of response doesn't mean the item didn't get read.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 11-13-2011 03:23 AM                        Yeah, it's especially true here. We post a new set of pictures or a video in the Warehouse and next to nobody has anything to say about it. It can be pretty discouraging which is why I wanted to post stuff directly to Youtube and forgo the community here. But we do have an idea that would encourage discussion, though it might be a while before it is implemented.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 11-13-2011 10:15 PM                     quote: Ian Parfrey What are we looking for in this frame-grab? What Ian said.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 11-13-2011 11:34 PM                        The lack of radar dish on the ship.  |  IP: Logged Michael Coate Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1904 From: Los Angeles, California Registered: Feb 2001 posted 11-14-2011 01:07 AM                     Yes, posting the frame was indeed to highlight the missing radar dish. (Thanks, Joe, for posting the image.) My issue with the Falcon's radar dish is that after fifteen years of never-ending tweaks made to the movie, I'm surprised it remains unfixed, especially given the numerous other (mostly unnecessary) changes made to other moments in the movie. I can't believe they've chosen not to fix this but instead chose to change the transitional effect at the head of the same scene. (It originally began with a dissolve from the previous scene; it now begins with a straight cut.) Of course, I'd prefer they leave it (and the rest of the movie) the way it was, but in the context of all these changes being made to the movie anyway, it seems silly for them not to fix it. If you want/need background info... the dish was missing in the first place because they only built half of the full-scale model and the dish is on the half they didn't build. The original intent was to add the dish in post by combining that footage with a matte painting (which is how they handled a similar shot in another scene). Wasn't one of the points of doing the Special Edition to fix the things they didn't get right the first time (i.e. "realizing the original vision")? This admittedly minor detail would actually fall into the category of a justified change. Instead, what we got were mostly dumb revisionist changes. Anyway, most of the time I mention this situation to someone they have no idea what I'm talking about, so it's nice to have an image to help explain the situation.  |  IP: Logged Matthew McBride Film Handler Posts: 97 From: Tupelo, MS USA Registered: Oct 2011 posted 11-16-2011 03:23 PM                     I think they may have left the radar off, so that when the next generation of home media players come out, they'll have another reason to re-release the movie again.  |  IP: Logged Tom Petrov Five Guys Lover Posts: 1121 From: El Paso, TX Registered: Jan 2003 posted 01-14-2012 11:11 AM                    So does anyone know? Was BR release of Star Wars a success or a flop? I did not purchase the discs and neither did most of the star wars fans that I know.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-14-2012 01:57 PM                        http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118043276  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-14-2012 04:29 PM                        Text from the link above (which I intended to post earlier but actual work got in the way): Blu-ray sales for 'Star Wars' top $84 million; Nine-disk set sells more than 1 million copies worldwide Consumers were willing to shell out top dollar for the complete "Star Wars" franchise, which bowed on Blu-ray this week, with the collection selling more than 1 million units to break records for the high-definition homevideo format. The nine-disc set generated more than $84 million from worldwide sales, with $38 million collected in the U.S. alone, from 515,000 units in North America. On average, the collection is priced at $79.99. The sales figures made "Star Wars: The Complete Saga" the No. 1 pre-order and catalog title since the launch of Blu-ray in 2006. Lucasfilm and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment have been promoting the release for the past 13 months, with the marketing campaign including Darth Vader and Stormtroopers taking over the Panasonic booth to announce the September release date at January's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and a first look at San Diego Comic-Con. "Once again our fan's enthusiasm to celebrate 'Stars Wars' continues to amaze us," said Kayleen Walters, senior director, marketing at Lucasfilm. "Our goal was to deliver a premium product that they could enjoy with their family and friends and we are thrilled that they are enjoying it as much as we hoped they would." Episodes I-III and IV-VI are also available as separate Blu-ray trilogy collections for $39.99 each. "Star Wars is a franchise with universal stories that resonates as much today as it did 30 years ago," said Mary Daily, executive VP of marketing for Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment and Vincent Marcais, senior VP of international marketing for Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. "With the Blu-ray, audiences can go deeper into the mythology than ever before and reconnect with everything they love about the saga in the best possible quality."The collection includes the six movies on the Blu-ray format for the first time, with deleted, extended and alternate scenes, new documentaries and "Star Wars" spoofs produced over the past three decades. The first pic of the original trilogy didn't bow on DVD until 2004, while the prequels came out sooner, beginning in 2000.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 01-14-2012 05:34 PM                        Oh yeah, this reminds me of something I want to do. I have the box edition pictured in that article but since I've watched all of the extras, I want the two-pack edition. Same movies, just is real Blu-ray cases and no extras. What I want to do is trade the box edition with someone for the two-pack edition straight up. That way I can have normal Blu-ray cases and not some ugly box that not only scratches discs when they are removed or re-inserted, but also make it a physically difficult to remove them.  |  IP: Logged Jesse Skeen Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1517 From: Sacramento, CA Registered: Aug 2000 posted 01-21-2012 09:39 PM                     I just want the ORIGINAL versions of the movies- don't care what kind of cases they come in. I won't buy any Lucas-revised edition, regardless of what his 'creative vision' is.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 01-21-2012 11:05 PM                        Then buy the original LaserDiscs.  |  IP: Logged Jesse Skeen Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1517 From: Sacramento, CA Registered: Aug 2000 posted 01-22-2012 12:32 AM                     Have 'em, but would like them on Blu-Ray in actual hi-def.  |  IP: Logged Shawn Arndt Film Handler Posts: 37 From: South Milwaukee, Wisconsin Registered: Aug 2012 posted 09-10-2012 10:12 AM                        I have this Bluray set and the ONLY thing I enjoyed aside from the extra's discs is the fact that TPM was finally uncropped. Thankfully, I still have a fine laserdisc machine with copies of the "Faces" set, the "Definitive Edition" set and the U.S. & Japan releases of the Special Edition plus Phantom Menace. ALL the original releases & Special Edition discs are far better than their Bluray counterparts. I grew up with the originals and even saw Jedi in 70mm in Milwaukee. George's versions just don't cut it.....Han shot first!!!!  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 06-19-2013 11:06 PM                     BUMP! To add to this post after 9 months: I went to Costco to get my new glasses at the Vision Center and passed the HDTV's which were playing SW:EPIII on these displays from a BR source. Passed by the new Samsung 60 plus inch screen units that now have 240HZ refresh rate and with this high of a refresh rate, it made this Third Episode look like it was shot on video instead of film - just amazingly sharp and clear of an image!  |  IP: Logged

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