star wars blu ray?
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I don't think they've been released on blu-ray without the awful recent CGI additions. I'm not even sure there are DVD releases without them. If this is the case, I say go for the original trilogy if you must. The prequel movies do not count. Anyone who says they do is wrong.
Lucasfilm released a limited edition run of "unaltered" Star Wars original trilogy DVDs about a year after the "special edition." Pretty much the only reason why they did it was because the fans raised such a fuss over it. Unfortunately they apparently couldn't use the original copies of the films (apparently they wore out over time), so they had to use a laserdisk version. This has resulted in some rough edges that I don't remember on my old VHS copy. For example, during the Millennium Falcon turret scene there's these weird grey boxes around the Tie Fighters.Klumpfot said:
It's still better than the "special edition," though.
Star Wars will definitely be on Blu-Ray (I can't fathom George Lucas passing up a marketing opportunity like that), though I don't think they're going to release the "unaltered" original trilogy this time unless the fans storm Skywalker Ranch.
Personally I'd recommend that you only get the original trilogy (even with the "special edition" bullcrap). Then again I'm an "old school" Star Wars fan, so I admit my opinion is biased. Still, the prequels are widely regarded as inferior to the originals. Personally I can't stand the wooden acting, stilted dialogue, facepalm-inducing romance scenes, and how it utterly shits on previously established canon in the original trilogy. There are some good battle scenes, however...but that doesn't make up for much in my book.
On the other hand, I'd highly recommend the Clone Wars series. It's definitely worth tracking down.
...no, I'm not talking about the current CGI one. I'm talking about the awesome animated one in 2003 by Genndy Tartakovsky (the guy who also made Samurai Jack and Dextor's Laboratory).
It's not on Blu-Ray yet, though.
I heard its coming out in September and I'll definitely be getting the original three. I hold no hope out for him putting in the original versions of the original three (because I heavily doubt it will happen) however I do hope that he cleans up or re-makes some of the CG scenes he put in because they haven't aged well at all. Prefer if they were taken out completely but its not going to happen.
There actually is a DVD version which has the original cut of the movies. The problem is, it's a bonus disc on the 2006 re-release of the 2004 DVDs, it's the Laserdisc master, it's non-anamorphic, and it's been DNR'd into oblivion -- in layman's terms, the films could look a lot better than they do, and it's due less to problems with the source than with problems in they way they were put on DVD.Klumpfot said:
OT: As far as I know, they Blurays are indeed the special editions, probably yet another tweak on them in the vein of the 2004 DVDs. That said, whether to buy the complete set or just get the original trilogy is up to you. If you enjoyed the prequels, I don't see any reason not to get them on Bluray; Star Wars has always been a visual treat, and looking ugly is one of the few things you can't accuse the prequels of.
The grey boxes you were talking about were actually a problem with the laserdisc master being better than the old VHS master. They're garbage mattes -- artifacts caused by the way the space scenes were composited -- and the higher resolution of the Laserdisc and DVD versions made them more noticeable than they were on VHS. The problems with the DVD version are that DVDs are slightly higher res than laserdiscs, making a laserdisc master slightly sub-optimal, but more importantly, they used a lot of DNR (Digital Noise Reduction, basically smearing the image around so the fine detail -- including film grain and dirt -- is less noticeable) and the fact that it's not an anamorphic transfer, meaning the effective resolution of the DVD is lower than it could be, and making it look terrible on a big screen HDTV.Neverhoodian said:Lucasfilm released a limited edition run of "unaltered" Star Wars original trilogy DVDs about a year after the "special edition." Pretty much the only reason why they did it was because the fans raised such a fuss over it. Unfortunately they apparently couldn't use the original copies of the films (apparently they wore out over time), so they had to use a laserdisk version. This has resulted in some rough edges that I don't remember on my old VHS copy. For example, during the Millennium Falcon turret scene there's these weird grey boxes around the Tie Fighters.Klumpfot said:
It's still better than the "special edition," though.
Star Wars will definitely be on Blu-Ray (I can't fathom George Lucas passing up a marketing opportunity like that), though I don't think they're going to release the "unaltered" original trilogy this time unless the fans storm Skywalker Ranch.
Personally I'd recommend that you only get the original trilogy (even with the "special edition" bullcrap). Then again I'm an "old school" Star Wars fan, so I admit my opinion is biased. Still, the prequels are widely regarded as inferior to the originals. Personally I can't stand the wooden acting, stilted dialogue, facepalm-inducing romance scenes, and how it utterly shits on previously established canon in the original trilogy. There are some good battle scenes, however...but that doesn't make up for much in my book.
On the other hand, I'd highly recommend the Clone Wars series. It's definitely worth tracking down.
...no, I'm not talking about the current CGI one. I'm talking about the awesome animated one in 2003 by Genndy Tartakovsky (the guy who also made Samurai Jack and Dextor's Laboratory).
It's not on Blu-Ray yet, though.