Re: Han Solo (May 25th, 2018)
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Re: Han Solo (May 25th, 2018)
Seein' or hearin' fans sayin' stuff like this makes Star Wars feel like an obscure TV show from the past...
Re: Han Solo (May 25th, 2018)
For an entire generation who grew up watching this 70mm epic on their crappy CRT tubes and poor quality VHS, it basically is.
Seein' or hearin' fans sayin' stuff like this makes Star Wars feel like an obscure TV show from the past...
For an entire generation who grew up watching this 70mm epic on their crappy CRT tubes and poor quality VHS, it basically is.
Re: Han Solo (May 25th, 2018)
Yep and the SE's proved to be a mixed bag at best. The last time I saw "STAR WARS" on the big screen was a 15th anniversary screening at Seattle Cinerama in 1992. If you didn't catch it by then you never really got to experience anything approaching a true OT theatrical experience. That's probably why there's so many bitter Batman and Terminator fans. They love those movies but they can't let go of the nagging frustration that they never got the life defining theatrical experience that only SW can provide.
Next best thing is LOTR obviously but even though those films are arguably superior they just never became that true cultural phenomenon.
Of course kids today have the likes of RO so their cinematic well-being is being properly cultivated.
Yep and the SE's proved to be a mixed bag at best. The last time I saw "STAR WARS" on the big screen was a 15th anniversary screening at Seattle Cinerama in 1992. If you didn't catch it by then you never really got to experience anything approaching a true OT theatrical experience. That's probably why there's so many bitter Batman and Terminator fans. They love those movies but they can't let go of the nagging frustration that they never got the life defining theatrical experience that only SW can provide.
Next best thing is LOTR obviously but even though those films are arguably superior they just never became that true cultural phenomenon.
Of course kids today have the likes of RO so their cinematic well-being is being properly cultivated.
Re: Han Solo (May 25th, 2018)
Last time I saw Star Wars on the big screen was December of 2016.
(it counts if it was Harmy in my friends huge home theater, right?)
Last time I saw Star Wars on the big screen was December of 2016.
(it counts if it was Harmy in my friends huge home theater, right?)
Re: Han Solo (May 25th, 2018)
30 foot screen is not "the big screen".
30 foot screen is not "the big screen".
Re: Han Solo (May 25th, 2018)
It's just too bad that Spielberg classics like Jaws, E.T., Close Encounters and Indy and pretty much every other 70's/80's genre classic get pretty regular theatrical re-releases every few years while arguably the #1 films in all of cinema that SHOULD be in constant theatrical rotation (theatrical SW OT) are dead and buried.
I see that even a cult classic like John Carpenter's The Thing is getting a big screen release in downtown Minneapolis next month. Halloween gets a re-release every year. ALIEN, ALIENS, Batman 89, Back to the Future, Ferris Bueller, all of those are getting constant re-releases near me.
Come on Disney. Make things right with the SW OT.
It's just too bad that Spielberg classics like Jaws, E.T., Close Encounters and Indy and pretty much every other 70's/80's genre classic get pretty regular theatrical re-releases every few years while arguably the #1 films in all of cinema that SHOULD be in constant theatrical rotation (theatrical SW OT) are dead and buried.
I see that even a cult classic like John Carpenter's The Thing is getting a big screen release in downtown Minneapolis next month. Halloween gets a re-release every year. ALIEN, ALIENS, Batman 89, Back to the Future, Ferris Bueller, all of those are getting constant re-releases near me.
Come on Disney. Make things right with the SW OT.
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Re: Han Solo (May 25th, 2018)
Lucas had planned to release them all in upgraded 3-D at one time not long ago, right? That plan failed after TPM. Why the heck would you start with TPM? Anyway, not shocking it didn't pan out.
Unlikely Disney will revive it. Do they ever revive their old classics? I think they just put everything in "the vault"... which is the threat they used to use to con kids into re-buying their VHS tapes in the 90's before "they're gone forever"...
Lucas had planned to release them all in upgraded 3-D at one time not long ago, right? That plan failed after TPM. Why the heck would you start with TPM? Anyway, not shocking it didn't pan out.
Unlikely Disney will revive it. Do they ever revive their old classics? I think they just put everything in "the vault"... which is the threat they used to use to con kids into re-buying their VHS tapes in the 90's before "they're gone forever"...
Re: Han Solo (May 25th, 2018)
The 1991 Beauty and the Beast is in theaters as we speak. Lion King was playing at AMC last month. When I was a kid they used to constantly re-release all their classics (hell I even got to see Song of the South on the big screen) but they've really slowed down on such re-releases the last decade or so.
I actually think that the animated works of Hayao Miyazaki are even more timeless than early Disney so at least those seem to get ample theatrical releases for the time being.
The 1991 Beauty and the Beast is in theaters as we speak. Lion King was playing at AMC last month. When I was a kid they used to constantly re-release all their classics (hell I even got to see Song of the South on the big screen) but they've really slowed down on such re-releases the last decade or so.
I actually think that the animated works of Hayao Miyazaki are even more timeless than early Disney so at least those seem to get ample theatrical releases for the time being.
Re: Han Solo (May 25th, 2018)
Really? I guess I'm just not aware that those old Disney cartoons are playing.
Where the hell did you live that they re-released "Song of the South" in theaters?
But with Disney releasing a new Star Wars movie every year, I doesn't seem wise to saturate an already tired market with more -- and better -- films. But we'll see. When I think of restraint I don't usually think of Disney.
Really? I guess I'm just not aware that those old Disney cartoons are playing.
Where the hell did you live that they re-released "Song of the South" in theaters?
But with Disney releasing a new Star Wars movie every year, I doesn't seem wise to saturate an already tired market with more -- and better -- films. But we'll see. When I think of restraint I don't usually think of Disney.
Re: Han Solo (May 25th, 2018)
True. At the very least they could offer one day marathons which I believe they've done with their Marvel movies in the past. I can't remember which ones since I didn't go but IIRC when Civil War came out the previous Thursday they'd also show Cap:TFA/TWS or something. Or maybe they did that with The Avengers/AOU.
It doesn't have to be a huge Special Edition level marketing extravaganza just a quiet little day or two or re-releases for people who really want the full experience. I remember catching the original Terminator on the big screen just a couple years ago a week or two before Genisys came out. Something like that.
True. At the very least they could offer one day marathons which I believe they've done with their Marvel movies in the past. I can't remember which ones since I didn't go but IIRC when Civil War came out the previous Thursday they'd also show Cap:TFA/TWS or something. Or maybe they did that with The Avengers/AOU.
It doesn't have to be a huge Special Edition level marketing extravaganza just a quiet little day or two or re-releases for people who really want the full experience. I remember catching the original Terminator on the big screen just a couple years ago a week or two before Genisys came out. Something like that.
Re: Han Solo (May 25th, 2018)
Maybe I'd go see Empire in the cinema again, otherwise I'm not too arsed.
Maybe I'd go see Empire in the cinema again, otherwise I'm not too arsed.
Re: Han Solo (May 25th, 2018)
See the SE's ruined the OT for you.
At least theatrical T2 can finally be crossed off your bucket list.
See the SE's ruined the OT for you.
At least theatrical T2 can finally be crossed off your bucket list.
Re: Han Solo (May 25th, 2018)
The PT and Hasbro pretty much killing off the 3.75 line drastically reduced my Star Wars fandom.
The PT and Hasbro pretty much killing off the 3.75 line drastically reduced my Star Wars fandom.
Re: Han Solo (May 25th, 2018)
Maybe once Disney is finished with its trilogy and has only the Han Solo sequel and Fett movies to worry about, they will release the original films for a week or something. In the 2020's.
Seems like they'd make more money just releasing boxed sets of the blu-rays... and the 4k versions... you know, the old Lucas repackaging trick of the 90's. How many times did Lucas go to the well with his VHS movies? I think I had at least 4 different boxed sets myself.
Maybe once Disney is finished with its trilogy and has only the Han Solo sequel and Fett movies to worry about, they will release the original films for a week or something. In the 2020's.
Seems like they'd make more money just releasing boxed sets of the blu-rays... and the 4k versions... you know, the old Lucas repackaging trick of the 90's. How many times did Lucas go to the well with his VHS movies? I think I had at least 4 different boxed sets myself.
Re: Han Solo (May 25th, 2018)
I had awful trouble with the initial Special Edition releases - they had all manner of problems - crackling sounds and lines popping up on the screen like as though they were old, worn tapes. We returned them a few times over and they were all the same. Eventually we just settled. DVD couldn't come soon enough.
Around the same time I remember buying an Alien trilogy box set that had a making of Alien Resurrection tape with it. I preferred the look of the pan and scan set. Alas I regretted not buying them in widescreen. Didn't even occur to me to go buy that aswell
I had awful trouble with the initial Special Edition releases - they had all manner of problems - crackling sounds and lines popping up on the screen like as though they were old, worn tapes. We returned them a few times over and they were all the same. Eventually we just settled. DVD couldn't come soon enough.
Around the same time I remember buying an Alien trilogy box set that had a making of Alien Resurrection tape with it. I preferred the look of the pan and scan set. Alas I regretted not buying them in widescreen. Didn't even occur to me to go buy that aswell
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Re: Han Solo (May 25th, 2018)
I wish I had one though. Even a 70 inch would do.
I wish I had one though. Even a 70 inch would do.
jye4ever
Broke and happy
Re: Han Solo (May 25th, 2018)
There are a few around here who have a Liemax for their home theater.
There are a few around here who have a Liemax for their home theater.
Kamandi
Super Freak
Re: Han Solo (May 25th, 2018)
The theater where I saw Star Wars as a kid (in '77) was the Indian Hills Cinerama in Omaha, NE. It stretched 35 feet high and 105 feet long in a 146-degree curve. It made IMAX look like a joke.
Unfortunately they couldn't compete with 20 screen theater chains. A nearby nursing local school had it demolished in 2001 for a parkinglot. Then they moved three years later. f-----rs.
The theater where I saw Star Wars as a kid (in '77) was the Indian Hills Cinerama in Omaha, NE. It stretched 35 feet high and 105 feet long in a 146-degree curve. It made IMAX look like a joke.
Unfortunately they couldn't compete with 20 screen theater chains. A nearby nursing local school had it demolished in 2001 for a parkinglot. Then they moved three years later. f-----rs.
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