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Yeah, Apple loves their proprietary "You can't tamper with anything! You have to take it to us to get it fixed! And no using hardware we didn't sell you!" stuff.
Though I have to say, every single time I've had to go to the Apple store to get something fixed, they've done it for free, even when my hardware was out of warranty.
Johnny,
Yeah, that's much more accurate. The real Bane is incredibly intelligent as well as being muscular. He was raised in a prison, training himself physically as well as mentally through his childhood and teenage years, until he was selected to be a test subject for a mysterious drug that had killed all the prior recipients. The drug exponentially increased his strength, but he has to take it every 12 hours to avoid side effects.
His obsession with Batman began with him hearing tales of the Bat in prison. He was fascinated with the fact that Batman rules Gotham City through fear, much like a warden runs a prison through fear. He basically decides, "Hey, I can do that," so he escapes from prison, goes to Gotham, and tries to take out Batman.
In the "Knightfall" arc, he lets all the Arkham inmates loose to wear Batman down. After Batman finally rounds up everyone else, Bane - having discovered that Bruce Wayne is Batman - is waiting for him when he returns to Wayne Manor. The two fight in the Batcave, ending in Bane breaking Batman's back.
The rest of the story gets a little weird, with someone else taking over for Batman while Bane takes control of the city. The faux-Batman gets increasingly violent, until he and Bane finally meet, and faux-Batman cuts off Bane's constant drug supply, leaving him in intense withdrawal as he's taken into custody. I don't remember how Batman recovers, or what happens with the fake Batman.
Anyway, both Begins and TDK were clearly inspired by Batman comic arcs without being direct adaptations, so I'm intrigued to see what twist Nolan puts on the "Knightfall" story (since, really, what other good material can he draw on for Bane?).
Hairy_Hen finished a "purist" version of the ESB and ROTJ 5.1 mixes recently, if I remember correctly. As in, no changes to the content of the mixes (his initial ones had added music). So, assuming Dark_Jedi uses these (which I'd recommend), the audio content on each disc will be:
Star Wars
- Hairy_Hen's 1977 5.1 70mm Six-Track Reconstruction
- 1977 Theatrical Stereo
- 1977 Theatrical Mono
- 1985 Home Video Stereo
- 1993 Home Video Stereo
Empire
- Hairy_Hen's "Purist" 5.1
- 1980 Theatrical Stereo
- 1993 Home Video Stereo
Jedi
- Hairy_Hen's "Purist" 5.1
- 1983 Theatrical Stereo
- 1993 Home Video Stereo
It's been established that the "1985 mixes" for Empire and Jedi are identical to their theatrical mixes, and I don't think it's been confirmed if there are any significant differences between Jedi's 83 and 93 mixes. The Star Wars mixes are all different, though, and Hairy_Hen's ESB and ROTJ are essentially the theatrical and 1993 mixes combined to sound as good as possible, upmixed to 5.1 with a custom LFE (subwoofer) track taken from the 1997 and 2004 5.1 mixes, plus some occasions where the bass was lifted from the 1993 mix.
If any of this is wrong, please correct me, this is just what I remember being decided.
I'd like to note, for those that don't know, that there's a lot more to Bane than was portrayed in Batman & Robin. Check out his Wikipedia article if you're interested.
I'm not sure, I don't have the files on my computer anymore.
That doesn't make sense. The frame count should be the same as the GOUT, right? The '77 stereo doesn't go out of sync for me at all.
He's just talking about the color correction sample videos that are on the last page.
I haven't downloaded them yet, I will later today, DJ.
Yeah, that's the DVNR smearing. That's one of the problems the X0 project was going to try to solve, IIRC.
Well, if that's the case, I take back what I said.
I'd like to add that this doesn't mean the matted version is wrong. James Cameron, for instance, acknowledges that while Terminator 2 and Titanic (both shot on Super 35) were both framed for and intended to be viewed in widescreen, he prefers the fullscreen versions (which have a bit of cropping on the sides, but have a lot more information on top and bottom).
So it's possible that Reggio shot and always meant for the film to be shown matted, but he liked the way it looked unmatted, too.
Either way, if the director approved the unmatted transfer, I guess I can't say shit!
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I do think it's important for people to be educated about apsect ratio, as a big part of convincing the layman that widescreen is better is telling them that it has more picture information, when this isn't always the case.
Equally difficult is getting people to understand that sometimes "fullscreen" is better for a film than widescreen - The Evil Dead comes to mind (shot and intended for fullscreen, cropped to widescreen by Sam Raimi for a re-issue DVD and Blu-Ray release).
What I said earlier still stands (though it doesn't really apply to this film now) - it's not about "more" or "less" image, it's about the right image.
Not directed at you, I just think it's important for viewers to be educated about framing and aspect ratios.
When it comes to aspect ratio, "more picture" or "less picture" is not the issue. The right picture is.
And do you have any proof that the director approved any fullscreen release? (I haven't read through this entire thread, so I apologize if I missed something.)
Something I remember hearing in an interview somewhere was that Lucas (or someone) decided that the sounds of the lightsabers themselves should be the "music" for the duel scene. That's also why the music was cut from the ESB duel.
It's not that we're happy with the ANH and ROTJ GOUT (I, at least, am unhappy with all three, but can live with them, especially after DJ's V3 set is out). It's that Adywan did such a great job with his ESB reconstruction that it blows any GOUT-sourced project out of the water, unless you're a super-duper-purist and can't have any SE changes, no matter how insignificant.
Also, Harmy has just released a similar reconstruction for ROTJ, which is absolutely fantastic as well.
The reason why it's called Dark Jedi's "V3" is that V1 and V2 have been out and available for quite some time. Though everything I've seen tells me V3 will be substantially better than V1/V2.
I'll second the recommendation for Ady's ESB and Harmy's ROTJ reconstructions.
I thought Black Magic was able to take the DC and JSC captures and combine them to make those shots?
I remember Christopher Lee saying that he'd be willing to do it if they shot in the UK, but that he doesn't want to fly all the way to New Zealand at his age.
I don't like the idea of the Frodo "framing" story, but that's because I feel The Hobbit as a film should be able to be viewed before The Lord of the Rings trilogy without spoiling anything. But that's just me. I can deal. And if I can't, I can fan edit later.
I'm curious exactly HOW Galadriel and Saruman will fit in. Tolkien DOES have a place for them in the wider tale, so it's not like it's mindless fanwank, but it's not in the book exactly.
This is why I don't have a problem with a lot of the LOTR actors that don't appear in the book The Hobbit being in the movie. It seems that most of their stuff will be stuff Jackson drew directly from Tolkien's other writings about stuff that happened during The Hobbit, so I'm willing to give PJ the benefit of the doubt.
I don't have anything against remakes or re-boots as an idea. The problem arises when more new movies are remakes than original ideas.
But seriously, for as many terrrrible remakes as there are, some of my favorite movies are remakes. The Thing, the '78 Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Hitchcock's second The Man Who Knew Too Much.
And there have been some great reboots, as well. Battlestar, as has been mentioned. The new Star Trek (I don't care how many "Trekkies" hated it). Batman Begins.
Then there are remakes that just get under my skin, like Quarantine (Americans don't like foreign movies, so we have to remake [REC] a year after it comes out! Right? Right?), any of the recent horror movie remakes (Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween), Clash of the Titans, Death at a Funeral (let's use the same script and the same midget actor as that British movie that came out a year ago, only let's cast a bunch of black actors and ghetto it up first!) ... the list goes on.
So, while I'm not against remakes in general, I acknowledge that the good remakes are rare, and the terrible ones I can just pretend don't exist.
Seriously? Stan Winston died in 2008, dude.
Not to be a dick, but I noticed a video glitch in the dancer-killed-by-the-Rancor scene. The screen goes black for a split second right before the shot of Threepio turning away in horror.
Note that while I haven't watched it the whole way through, that was the only issue I've noticed (well, that and the subtitles not quite being what I'd prefer, but that I can live with), and everything else I've seen so far looks absolutely, utterly fantastic!
Yeah, the Japanese BR of T2 is pretty great. I don't have it, but I've seen screenshot comparisons. I believe it also has one full disc devoted to each cut of the film (so, one disc for the theatrical cut, one disc for the extended cut), unlike the "Skynet Edition," which has both cuts on one disc seamlessly-branched.
I remember a lot of people bitching about how "bad" the Ghostbusters Blu-Ray looked. I own it, and I think it looks absolutely perfect, grain and all. One of my favorite BR's, actually, for that reason - it looks exactly like I imagine it did in theaters during its original run.
Oh, and Sky - Back to the Future wasn't shot on Super 35, it was regular, open-matte 35mm. Same for parts 2 and 3.
I know that The Professional is the cut US version of the movie. Never seen it. I believe it's around ~15 minutes that was cut?
Léon is the international version, with the ~15 minutes intact.
Léon: The Professional is the title on the DVD box of the US release of Léon, which is identical to the international version.
I'm asking what was cut from Léon (which I've seen and love) to make The Professional (which I haven't seen, and don't really plan to).
Though I guess I could just Google it...
First, my 2007 MacBook Pro natively displays 1920x1200 resolution, which is slightly higher than 1080p, at a 16:10 aspect ratio instead of 16:9 (slightly taller, hence the extra 120 lines of resolution). So that's not true.
The software he uses (Vegas) does not, in fact, run on a Mac. However, Avid (Windows/Mac) and Final Cut Pro (Mac only) are substantially more powerful than Vegas (though Vegas is still very good).
I believe he's referring to iMacs and Mac laptops when he says "you are stuck with the very small amount of available components." This is simply not true with the Mac Pro desktops, which is what the majority of professional film editors/CG artists work on.
I don't know why he thinks Macs aren't as fast as PC's. Possibly he's saying you can get a faster PC for cheaper than a slower Mac, which is true. But you can get very fast Macs - my laptop has a dual-core 2.6 GHz processor, 4GB of RAM, and a 256MB video card (admittedly, the video card is quite outdated now). You can get even better specs with a current-gen Mac.
I've only ever run into trouble with video work on my laptop when I'm working with too many layers of 1080p video. Straight editing, color correction, audio design/mixing, and effects work pose no problem.
The Skynet Edition looks like garbage. It's almost as bad as the "Ultimate Hunter Edition" of Predator.
Haven't seen any T1 Blu-Rays, so I don't know how they look.
I rarely buy new from a store unless there's a sale going on, or it's something I have to have right away (very rare - Blade Runner and Apocalypse Now are the only two that I've done this for so far). I get the majority of my movies from the used section at FYE, or from Reckless Records (all used).
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It's my understanding that Laserman was the only one who ever had access to the software, and, well...