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Topic: RETURN OF THE JEDI feature FYI
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted April 08, 2013 07:18 PM
OK, I offer this info with a little caution, as I know that there are folks out there on the forum who don't like negative comments about auctions ...
however ...
This is the second feature that I got for this fellow about a year ago (the first was STAR WARS), and I'm glad he got a decent price for STAR WARS, but I was more than a little pissed off when I got this for him in the mail from Germany, as this print HAS to be a bad print.
Yes, it is from Derann. Wonderfully sharp, but excessively bluish. I really wanted to send the print back to Germany and try to retrieve the gentleman's money, but I didn't and I felt really bad about that for a while afterwards.
However, please be advised that this print is excessively bluish, so much so that the "Endor" sequences, which should have lovely greens, are nearly a bluish mess. Very inaccurate colors. If you can live with a bluish print, then this is your auction.
I have nothing against the seller, to be sure, but I don't want to see someone perhaps bid this up and have another person be screwed with a lack-lustre print, but if you do bid it up, please be advised that you have been warned. It's out of concern for my fellow forum members that I mention this.
Sincerely
OSI
-------------------- "All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted April 09, 2013 07:03 PM
es, it was your print Oemer. Thanks for that extra info as to how much was watched as, the extra bluishness didn't show up on the first reels as, of course, it's desert. The first reels didn't suffer from the bluishness but boy, that last half of the film really was poor.
I was caught between a rock and a hard place. The fellow I bought it for was getting ancy about a number of things, (securing a projector was the biggie, and I had suggested the projector person to him, and that person is also a good friend in my opinion. Everything that could seem to go wrong did, and most of it was from "mis-communication"), so I wanted to make sure that he got his "Jedi" print ASAP. When I got it, though I didn't watch it, (I didn't think that would be fair, as I felt it would be like taking a "free ride" at someone elses expense) ... I DID, once I saw at the beginning of one of the Endor reels looking so poor, went through every couple of minutes or so of the print to give it a thorough inspection and as stated before, I was rather apalled at that color.
I don't blame you Oemer, as you didn't know either. That's not too uncommon, especially with STAR WARS series film prints. A Lot of people (perhaps you as well) will buy one more for the "prestiege" of owning one, than to actually screen them.
So, I had to get that print to the fellow who bought it and I mailed it off two days after I got it, hoping that the fellow wouldn't be as choosey of a person as myself. I never heard from him, even if he had gotten it, as he was supposed to write me an e-mail to confirm that it arrived, (even with delivery confirmation, as I have heard that occasionally a print will be stated as having arrived, and will not have. I went through that myself once), but he never wrote me back. At least, through this auction, I know he got it.
I never contacted you Oemer, but your a good person and you probably would have returned the money, in fact, I'm sure you would have.
But my earlier post stands correct, that is the condition of the print. Very bluish.
-------------------- "All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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