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2018 ***1/2 It's 1986 for some reason, and a team of paranormal investigators are making a big name for themselves all over Scotland. ...
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I’m sure none of you except for JPX knows that I’m a bit of a germ-a-phobic. It’s annoying, but manageable. Though, since I met JPX and list...
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I purchased it but I still don't own a Blu-Ray player. I know, I need help.
I can see Mark Hamill's makeup. I can see the scratches on Threepio's face. I can see the film grain. I am happy.
I'm noticing that the Star Wars costumes are obviously made out of natural fibers. (Whereas Roddenberry was all about crazy velours that reflected the light in different flashy ways.)
You will note, also, the tiny packaging. I like this trend: VHS was all about those damn tapes and boxes that were shaped like those big tapes (and the occasional two-foot-tall "Gone With The Wind" commemorative edition VHS box). Then DVDs were all about the plastic "jewel boxes" and special versions of those, all very pretentious and "completist." Now, a mere ten years later, everything's being released again and the new packaging is, by contrast, very minimalist and small.
I like the new packaging. Did you get to the deleted scenes disc yet? That's the one I'm most curious about!
I started with Sith, watching the opening ten minutes and then jumping around (Obi-Wan vs. Grievous etc.) and then switched to ANH, which I'm just straight-up watching (I just got to the cantina). Then I want to check out the new digital Yoda, which I think is a GREAT idea (Yoda sucked in TPM). The vistas of Coruscant are incredible.
First of all that picture is both hilarious and awesome!
I'm all for the minimalist packaging too. My stupid DVD collection takes up so much space that sometimes I have the urge to throw out all of my cases and put them in books. Why aren't DVD's sold in CD jewel cases again?
Interesting observation about the natural fiber costumes. Now I want to buy a blue ray player! I want to hear about the deleted scenes too!
I've been watching Blu-rays since March and I'm absolutely head-over-heels cuckoo-for-Cocoa-Puffs addicted to them.
"There's seeing it in the theater, there's everything else, and then there's Blu-ray."
My problem is that I have an outdated TV so I won't be able to appreciate the Blu-Ray experience. On the other hand I really want to go through the Star Wars set. I love the original trilogy and I thought Sith was pretty damn good. Did he tweak the prequels at all? I agree that replacing Yoda was key - the Phantom Menace Yoda was an abomination. What about those deleted scenes, man!?
The Blu-ray experience is profound. It's engaging your brain directly in that there is NO home video that lets you see the actors' faces the way you can in the theater, EXCEPT Blu-ray.
Television is all about super-closeups of all the actors. But home video of movies (especially widescreen letterboxed movies) can reduce Michael Corleone's face to a two-inch fuzzy blob. Blu-ray puts you right back in the theater looking at a fucking sharp cinematic image, and the sensation (even with familiar movies) is that you're seeing them again for the first time since attending their theatrical debuts years ago.
Damnit! Even if I purchase a Blu-Ray player it doesn't sound like I will be able to appreciate the Blu-Ray experience without a high definition television. My TV is about 6 years old and weighs 300 pounds. I want it to die so I have an excuse to purchase a modern TV.
I have purchased every version of Star Wars since VHS and I look forward to digging into Blu-Ray. Did Lucas tweak the prequels (Yoda aside)?
JPX, Blu-rays are pointless on ANY television, meaning anything with a picture tube. You need a FULL hd television (1080, not 720).
Look at it this way: somebody scanned the actual celluloid film of the movie. That scan is now playing on my screen, with a real hardware pixel for every pixel of the scanned film, at full twenty-four frames a second. The movie got from point A (the celluloid) to point B (my big Sony screen) by means of a completely digital path, and it never had to pretend to be a television signal, anywhere along the way.
Not sure if the prequels have been altered...
Hoth looks GREAT! Wow
...and Phantom Menace is an absolute revelation on Blu-ray. Opening sequence (right up to the precise moment it starts to suck, which we've discussed) looks sublimely beautiful.
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