Anyone seen a list of theaters that will be playing Return of the Jedi for the 40th Anniversary release? I have used the google machine and am coming up empty.
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One of the few DVDs I will hold on to forever are my Star Wars Special Editions where they had the late-90s remaster on the first disc but on the Special Features disc you can see the un-altered version of the movie.
My old avatar was a laserdisc and what got me started down that path in the early 00s was the best commercial media release of the theatrical cut. (before amazing bluray bootlegs existed that in part used footage captured from from elite rare LD players). I actually had Phantom Menace from Japan on laserdisc too just because I think it's funny laserdisc still existed in Japan then. I sold that one years back.
I used to be so into this stuff and now the memory gets hazy...but even on those I seem to remember the AV nerds being upset that they weren't anamorphic or something else about the quality was substandard even for DVDs of the time.
It's just crazy to me they don't keep them going as a dual thing. I mean the theatrical versions are cinema history and they could always sell both or use both as a way to pimp their subscription service.
I picked up this set some years back. Got a free player way back and these are the only LDs I own.
I have those too. I think I even have the pre-SE VHS copies somewhere.
You know, I liked some of the original Special Editions updates. The graphical cleanups were nice and making Cloud City look more open was cool. The Greedo now shooting was stupid, but whatever. However adding "Jedi Rocks" to RotJ was where I just about lost it.
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I picked up this set some years back. Got a free player way back and these are the only LDs I own.
Even though those are the oldest widescreen releases, I find the picture quality to actually be my favorite. The sound is supposedly not as good pre THX but I'm no audiophile and they all sound identical to me. Plus coolest cover art.
The big box set I keep just as a collector but it's the CAV 30 minute per side format that has incredible forward/pause/reverse that not streaming and 4k could never do but after the original wow factor I never use it and not worth the disc flipping.
If I actually watch them it's this set or the faces set.
Agree it's a mixed bag. I could have selected half the changes and just rolled with it. The other thing is the digital effects in LOTR just a few years later made most of it look far more dated than the original traditional effects. Original band looks way more real than the new fake band, then the fake band goes and breaks the 4th wall visually.
Cloud city is the most objective "improvement", even as a kid in the late 80s with my VHS copies I thought Cloud City was the part of where I could tell a lot of it was paintings and small sets. ROTJ really didn't need any edits, it's one of the most perfect traditional effects movies of all time. ROTJ should have just been a modern film restoration no different than Lawrence of Arabia or something. The Jabba scene should have just been left in the extras without the CG Jabba.
Outside of the the matte painting of the Falcon in the background of the prep scene right before heading off to Endor, there is almost nothing in RotJ I would have even touched beyond cleaning up any fuzziness. The effects still look good compared to a lot of things today.
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Anybody know where this fits in the canon?
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Anybody know where this fits in the canon?
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I think it’s Axe. They found beskar on the ship Gideon was broken out of. So there’s gotta be some mandalorian working with him.
I was just assuming that was just beskar from his troopers
