Watching Solo on Blu-ray, and have to wonder, what the fuck is up with the alien subtitles?
Are they not the same as in the theatrical version?
What does time on this forum have to do with it?
Quite a bit.
Disagree.
Figures.
Excited to see what you can whip up with this.
Please preserve it, as that’s was the way it was meant to be read.
Maybe you should read the link I posted from someone with actual desert silica experience
Real life anecdotes do not affect how I enjoy fictional entertainment.
But does sarcasm affect how you interact with a discussion formum?
I can never tell who’s serious in this thread.
Maybe you should read the link I posted from someone with actual desert silica experience
Real life anecdotes do not affect how I enjoy fictional entertainment.
JEDIT
Oh, you’re not being serious? This is embarrassing. My bad. Move along.
I’ll throw my two cents in here, though I’m really hesitant to.
Holdo’s character works (for me at least) because her motivations conflict with Poe’s motivations. There needs to be conflict in a story or else there is no story, right? Right.
Poe wants to keep blowing star destroyers up with his X-wing, which could result in the death of the rest of the sqaudron, while Holdo wants to keep the Resistance together and prevent any further causalities. So, they butt heads. And in the end, Poe realizes that she had the best interests of the Resistance at heart.
Sure, she didn’t need to be super vague or rude to Poe, but it was at the service of Poe learning a lesson – follow orders and don’t immediately resort to blowing something up. I’m not the biggest fan of TLJ, but even I can see that her character serves a good purpose in the story.
Another thing, who cares if Star Wars doesn’t follow real life military protocol? It’s Star Wars.
Probably because some of this stuff wasn’t shot in HD (i.e. Holiday Special).
Saw it again tonight. It grows on you for sure.
I also finally pinpointed Moroff. You see him just as the droids and slaves escape the Kessel mines.
And on a more important note, the mix for the score is so incredibly weak. Sometimes you forget it’s even there, but not in a good way. The soundtrack does Powell’s score way more justice.
Wow. That looks beautiful.
Seeing it again tonight. Really hoping it works for me this time.
Not sure if this is just me, but these Disney-era Star Wars film never feel “right” just after the first viewing. It takes repeated viewings to really take it all in and come out with an opinion. For example, I had to see TFA six or seven times before I could honestly say “That was amazing.” Same applies to both RO and TLJ.
The difference between my experiences with the prior films and SOLO is that I was actually entertained with the past three films. From beginning to end, I was not once invested in SOLO – and that is really unfortunate because there’s a lot to like about it.
Has anybody besides Mala said that they liked TLJ and hated Solo? I’m only seeing “liked both”, “hated TLJ but liked Solo”, and “hate everything, why am I even still here”.
I would be one of those people, though I was not explicit about it.
There seems to be a trend here.
If you liked TLJ, you didn’t like SOLO.
If you disliked TLJ, you liked SOLO.
Only a Sith deals in absolutes, of course, so there’s going to be some people who hate and like both, but I’ve a feeling it’s going to mostly correspond with what I’ve posted above.
“How would that work?”
“It works.”
Just some overall thoughts before I give up for the night:
I wish that could’ve been conveyed neater, but I’m too tired to type it all out.
I’m referring the white furry guy. I am like 99.99% certain that he was in Solo in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameo.
Perhaps it was just a member of his particular species. My mistake.
I believe I saw him whenever the robot liberation was happening. That may be the wrong scene, but he was in there. My friend and I talked about it after the showing.
Just got back from seeing it, and I hate to be that guy, but I thought it was awful – though this could be fatigue setting in (yes I do think its possible). The only thing that kept me going was L3 and Powell’s call backs.
So many headaches like “We’ll call you Han Solo, then!” and “Find me on Tatooine. There’s a big-time gangster looking for a crew.” I cringed especially hard at the latter. Whoever put those lines in there needs to think long and hard about subtlety.
I did like Moroff’s cameo, as well as the mention of Scariff. Connecting these standalone films is a great idea.
Maybe it will grow on me the same was Last Jedi did, and I genuinely hope it does. It really sucks not liking a Star Wars movie.
2/5
Will make a new thread when the time comes, but currently, I’ve been talking with another user on this forum who has an X0 and a great video processor – the Lumagen, to be precise.
He has kindly agreed to transfer my discs when the time comes, but we’re not sure when that is, as he’s got many other things to attend to at the moment.
I’ve seen footage of the JSC ANH disc from his X0 player and Lumagen, and it looks f–ing amazing for LaserDisc. This will be the REVENGE OF THE X0, or perhaps THE X0 AWAKENS.
This is awesome. Thank you for your efforts!
Does the JSC have shrinking aspect ratio, or was that only fixed for the Technidisc release?
Bumpin’, but for good reason.
Considering doing a totally non-GOUT LaserDisc based project, except this time it will be DVD res only. Here’s a sample of my EMPIRE capture from the “Special Letterbox Edition,” which has been run through AviSynth with a similar script: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1d2pEwaEOq0neyLg05_F0iKYEm9gMSN2W
Clip was captured with a very low-end CLD-980 running the video through a comb-filter and then converted to S-Video. Footage was then IVTC’d and run through AviSynth!
If there’s enough interest for a project like this, I’ll make a new thread. It’s kinda redundant, considering the 4k scans going on and the digital GOUT releases, but LaserDisc is fun to tool around with…
Solo reactions coming in, all positive so far, which probably means it’s safe to assume people on this site will hate it.
Don’t cut yourself on that edge, pal.
I’m reading that it’s clunky, but finds it way once the main plot kicks in. Excited, but also nervous about it as well.
Listened to the new edition of ROTJ and ANH on Spotify, sounds noticeably clearer that previous editions. Can’t speak for the rest yet.
I can’t find these on Spotify - could you share a link?
Put them all in a playlist (as well as TFA and TLJ): https://open.spotify.com/user/brannontds/playlist/0k7LpNoWUGGPZESWIH1Ti9?si=T-Dl-E5DQgyPUCoHWSHLBw