SW EP III: Revenge of Sith on Hi-def HBO
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SW EP III: Revenge of Sith on Hi-def HBO
Anybody catch this tonight premiering on Hi-Def HBO channels?
Looked GREAT! So if the hi-def version is mastered and ready to go does that mean its coming out on BluRay or HD-DVD soon?
Which one would it be?
I have to say, watching this movie alone with some pizza, a comfortable recliner and my own kickass home theater system really made me appreciate it a whole lot more. I highly recommend it for anyone who has the option available. I might even rewatch the first 2 again.
Looked GREAT! So if the hi-def version is mastered and ready to go does that mean its coming out on BluRay or HD-DVD soon?
Which one would it be?
I have to say, watching this movie alone with some pizza, a comfortable recliner and my own kickass home theater system really made me appreciate it a whole lot more. I highly recommend it for anyone who has the option available. I might even rewatch the first 2 again.
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Originally Posted by Doughboy
I'm assuming they cropped it to 16:9 like they did with Episode II? Not that it matters anyway. ROTS was a major disappointment.
Too bad you were disappointed by it. I think it's the third best of the series behind ANH and ESB.
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Originally Posted by DVD Josh
Too bad you were disappointed by it. I think it's the third best of the series behind ANH and ESB.
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Originally Posted by Fielding Mellish
Hate to disagree, but having seen it for the very first time last night... I gotta say it's just as bad as the other prequels. Yecch.
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Originally Posted by davenyl
Surprisingly, HBO showed it in 2.35:1 on their high def channel. Looked and sounded amazing.
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Originally Posted by maingon
i agree, everyone was saying how good the last one was but it ws pretty bad. going pretty much pure CGI wrecked the star wars movie, theres no texture or anything that makes the world feel real. Everything was too shiny and clean.
Funny you should say that. Because when Jimmy Smits started tooling around in a "Blockade Runner", the first thing that came to my mind was:
"Damn, that ship looked a lot more impressive when it was a little plastic model."
Eh, at least I can say I finally got around to watching it.
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I knew it was on, but I'm going to record it just to check it out. Same with Batman Begins.
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I agree it looked great (especially on my 50" panny plasma). The comcast feed got weird a few times and the image froze for a frame or two. This happened a few times. I was taping it using my dvr, so perhaps that was why. Anyone else have any issues?
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Yeah, I was impressed...Toy Story was on ABC last night and didnt look near as good. I sat and watched the whole thing. If this is what it will look like on HD or BR then maybe I will be buying these again someday .
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Originally Posted by Dr. DVD
When's the replay in HD?
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Watched it and thought it looked pretty damn incredible...even some of the CG work looked better since it was sharper...a few Yoda scenes I was blown away by in comparison to the DVD version. I've seen the movie half a dozen times but watched it because the HD feed was great.
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Originally Posted by Fielding Mellish
Hate to disagree, but having seen it for the very first time last night... I gotta say it's just as bad as the other prequels. Yecch.
Star Wars has a tough legacy to live up to. However, for what it's worth, a guy at my office saw all the prequels before ever seeing the OT, and he feels very strongly that 4-6 are much worse than 1-3.
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Originally Posted by DVD Josh
I'm no Star Wars geek, but really? You think it's as bad as TPM? I find that very hard to believe.
But ROTS is arguably the most disappointing one for me. It was easily the most pivotal film storywise. It had to connect the first 2 prequels to the Holy Trilogy, and it had to finally answer the question everyone had been asking since Empire revealed that Vader and Anakin were one and the same. Namely how did Anakin become Darth Vader(both figuratively and literally)?
And with so much riding on this film, Lucas couldn't have dropped the ball anymore if he tried. Anakin's turn was almost an afterthought, as if Lucas knew he had to get to the Jedi Purge and "the duel", so he just flipped a switch. Instead of developing the characters or actually focusing on relevant parts of the plot, he devoted a lot of screentime to a superfluous and poorly realized CG character like General Grievous(I don't care if he was cool in the cartoons, he sucked in the movie).
And he completely disregarded a lot of things Episode II(a movie I actually enjoyed) had set up. Like the deletion of Kamino from the archives, the murder of Sifo-Dyas, the ordering of the clone army, and what motivated Count Dooku to leave the Jedi Order and join with Sidious/Palpatine.
Sure, I could harp on the crappy acting, cartoonish CGI, boring and redundant lightsaber duels, the infamous "NOOOOOO!" scene, and the dullest space battle I've seen since....well, TPM, but where I had always defended Lucas was in his abilities as a storyteller(even if he did a lousy job directing and scripting those stories). But ROTS was an unmitigated disaster in that area. Much like Anakin Skywalker, George Lucas' fall was complete.
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yea, all I wanted to know was if and when it will be released on HD-DVD or Blu-Ray.
who CARES about what some fanboy thinks about how the flicks fit into their idea of what Star Wars should have been just because you saw Return of the Jedi when you were 12 years old and it changed your life forever! God, you don't see me ranting about Pete's Dragon or For The Love Of Benji.
If you don't like it, write a script and see how easy it is to get your story out there.
who CARES about what some fanboy thinks about how the flicks fit into their idea of what Star Wars should have been just because you saw Return of the Jedi when you were 12 years old and it changed your life forever! God, you don't see me ranting about Pete's Dragon or For The Love Of Benji.
If you don't like it, write a script and see how easy it is to get your story out there.
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Originally Posted by bluesix
yea, all I wanted to know was if and when it will be released on HD-DVD or Blu-Ray.
Also, it has been mentioned on the forum that the SW films won't be on an HD format until one of them is dead. It may be a while.