Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Star Wars DVD
Star Wars Trilogy DVD -
Ok, someone put out a hit on George Lucas, "Weesssa Free!!!!!" is now in ROTJ. Actually I find ewoks to be much more tolerable compared to the gunguns. A LOT MORE.
+ cleaned up visuals look amazing. I can only imagine how much better it will look after Lucas releases 23423904 more versions of it (HD-DVD baby!). You've never seen it look this good.
- color balance is wack. Everything is noticably brighter, and I almost had an epileptic attack during the prison corrider shootout. The lights on the spaceships are especially bright.
+ cleaned up the SE work, new CG jabba, new emperor in ESB, erased rancor matte lines.
- ALL THE EXTRA/TWEAKED NEW SCENES. Whatever initial "cool factor" they had has long since departed. Han/Greedo, Jabba scene, numerous inserts of CG whatevers. Had Lucas merely retouched scenes w/ better effects and cleaned up the print, lots of people would be happy. But he had to go on and change and add scenes. I basically hate every additional scene that he added. Especially Vader returning to the Executer in ESB, totally ruining the pace of the final scene. Boooooo
My only hope is that GL will make SE's of the prequel trilogy, ironing out many of the bad scenes and dialog that people hate.
Extras - Only one disc, which pales in comparison to the LOTR packages. Just wait til HD-DVD or Blue-ray dvd, tons of gigs for people to fill up. Anyways, all the features are pretty interesting, especially the Empire of Dreams documentary. I really like the "Return of Darth Vader" featurette on recreating the famous mask and helmet. Obviously a lot more could have been added as there are tons of old material missing. Oh yeah, the menus are nice and in line with the prequel menus. Nice job by Van Ling.
Overall it's a nice set... and good marketing by Lucasfilm to hype the upcoming Episode III. Lucas is smart. He realized that he couldn't wait to miss out on selling millions of DVDs before DVD is phased out.
¶ 11:34 AM
Ok, someone put out a hit on George Lucas, "Weesssa Free!!!!!" is now in ROTJ. Actually I find ewoks to be much more tolerable compared to the gunguns. A LOT MORE.
+ cleaned up visuals look amazing. I can only imagine how much better it will look after Lucas releases 23423904 more versions of it (HD-DVD baby!). You've never seen it look this good.
- color balance is wack. Everything is noticably brighter, and I almost had an epileptic attack during the prison corrider shootout. The lights on the spaceships are especially bright.
+ cleaned up the SE work, new CG jabba, new emperor in ESB, erased rancor matte lines.
- ALL THE EXTRA/TWEAKED NEW SCENES. Whatever initial "cool factor" they had has long since departed. Han/Greedo, Jabba scene, numerous inserts of CG whatevers. Had Lucas merely retouched scenes w/ better effects and cleaned up the print, lots of people would be happy. But he had to go on and change and add scenes. I basically hate every additional scene that he added. Especially Vader returning to the Executer in ESB, totally ruining the pace of the final scene. Boooooo
My only hope is that GL will make SE's of the prequel trilogy, ironing out many of the bad scenes and dialog that people hate.
Extras - Only one disc, which pales in comparison to the LOTR packages. Just wait til HD-DVD or Blue-ray dvd, tons of gigs for people to fill up. Anyways, all the features are pretty interesting, especially the Empire of Dreams documentary. I really like the "Return of Darth Vader" featurette on recreating the famous mask and helmet. Obviously a lot more could have been added as there are tons of old material missing. Oh yeah, the menus are nice and in line with the prequel menus. Nice job by Van Ling.
Overall it's a nice set... and good marketing by Lucasfilm to hype the upcoming Episode III. Lucas is smart. He realized that he couldn't wait to miss out on selling millions of DVDs before DVD is phased out.
¶ 11:34 AM
