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#154923
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<strong>The &quot;ADigitalMan Special Editions&quot; DVD Info and Feedback Thread</strong> (Released)
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Hal 9000 hit the nail on the head. I actually used these wipes some in Austin Powers where I could get away with it, but they look worse than hard cuts for something like Star Wars. But you are right, Doc, in that it will just re-encode the regions of video where change has been applied. It's always sensible to cut just the changed frames into their own region as a result, limiting the re-encoding to the smallest amount possible.
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#154722
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<strong>The &quot;ADigitalMan Special Editions&quot; DVD Info and Feedback Thread</strong> (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/154722/action/topic#154722
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It's mostly due to an inability to do them with the software I use. My purpose in using Womble is to not re-encode the video, though I'd definitely like to do soft wipes if I had the ability. After all, there are the rare spots where I perform a fade of one sort or another. (There's in in AVITF; look for one in ROTS as well).

I figure when I make the super-mondo version in hi-def MPEG-4 (whenever that screwed-up set eventually releases), I'll make the point of figuring out the soft wipes. By then the encoding technology should be so much better that it won't noticibly degrade the video quality on re-encoded sections.

Meanwhile, feel free to "wipe-em" if you can do it. I'd love to know how to do it myself.
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#154358
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Moustapha Akkad killed...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/154358/action/topic#154358
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I saw Halloween when I was way too young on broadcast TV. Scared the pants off me then, and it still does now. Not being a slasher fan, it's the only film in the genre I own, and yet I can rarely bring myself to watch it because I'm creeped out for days afterward. But it's more Psycho than Nightmare on Elm Street, leaving the vast majority of the fear to your imagination.

Edit: But this isn't a thread about Halloween, it's a thread about the man who brought us the entire series, and his tragic loss. I have to respect the man.
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#154357
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Watching in order 1-6 is screwing up the original SW for newcomers!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/154357/action/topic#154357
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Originally posted by: MeBeJedi
Responding to someone's post line by line? I seem to recall that being someone's pet peeve as well. Interesting.


There's an actual term for this. "Fisking." wikipedia definition is here for anybody interested.

I'm going to refrain from making judgements on it, as I'm often guilty of it myself.

It is nice to see an intellectual SW thread again.
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#154010
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Return of the Jedi + Revenge of the Sith = one amazing movie!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/154010/action/topic#154010
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Originally posted by: Invader Jenny

Yeah, I was watching ESB the other day with my aunt and she asked "So how does Luke feel that Dagobah is familar since he's never been there."


See, I never had a problem with this line. Luke got a familiar feeling right as Yoda was right behind him for the first time since he was a baby. Some of you are fishing for plot holes where they don't exist.
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#153939
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Election Day.
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/153939/action/topic#153939
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Who says the New Republic is left wing? They pretty much have a state religion (the Jedi) and are more a collection of local governments than a powerful central government. The entire story of Star Wars is about getting rid of a corrupt central government and moving to one that DOESN'T try and control what people think.


Wait, I'm confused. The right wing isn't building up record government spending and isn't trying to control what people think?
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#153935
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What the Hell is Going on in France?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/153935/action/topic#153935
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Have we forgotten our more recent bout of looting and rioting in the U.S. ... the aftermath of Katrina? While there is no excuse for a man without power stealing a HD television, it was equally insane for N.O. police to be opening fire on those stealing perishables and diapers. It is no solution to say "zero tolerance" and "open fire" against rioting civillians and ignore the root causes of the problem.

The situation in France is very similar to what happened in New Orleans. Classism and poverty have stretched the lower end of the spectrum to its breaking point. Whether it is a hurricane or the electrocution of two kids dumb enough to hide in a substation is irrelevant. Using New Orleans as a metaphor, when the levees of social justice are strained, just the right pressure is all that's needed to break them and flood the city with violence and unrest.
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#153924
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Recreating the crawling text..
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/153924/action/topic#153924
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Darth Editous did a really cool thing with the one he did for me. Since I wanted to go with a pan down after the crawl, he took the background frame and slowly flipped it, pixel by pixel, during the crawl. The star fields therefore matched the title card positioning at the start and the pan down positioning at the end. Funny thing is, you don't see it when it runs in real time, but if you speed up to 4 x, then you notice what's happening.

Don't know if this is applicable to what you're doing Rebel Scumb.
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#153735
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Help: looking for... The Missing 'Raiders of The Lost Ark' Scene...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/153735/action/topic#153735
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Heh ... me too. Just like Star Wars. Too funny!

Of course, that means I just skip the Indiana Jones prequel and go straight to the O-IJ. Sadly, I just don't watch Temple. I did when I got the box, just out of obligation to the purchase. But the movie is not the dark, ESB-like middle chapter as Lucas purports. It's more of the Beverly Hills Cop 3 of the trilogy.

Years ago I used to joke that they needed to make another Indiana Jones movie so they could finally have a trilogy.
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#153704
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spider-man 3
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/153704/action/topic#153704
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Originally posted by: GundarkHunter

No way! If they replace Tobey, go with Jake Gyllenhall.


I have yet to understand the draw to Jake. I think he's this generation's equivalent of Powers Boothe in terms of acting ability.

Now, if you want a real Doppelganger for Tobey, get James McAvoy. He played Leto II in Children of Dune and will be in Narnia. I first saw him in Band of Brothers. Now THIS guy can act, dare I say much better than Tobey. Here's his IMDB pic.

edit: Friggin IMDB and their dynamic img tags.

Here's his imdb profile then.
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#153665
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Watching in order 1-6 is screwing up the original SW for newcomers!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/153665/action/topic#153665
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I've thought long and hard about this issue since ROTS came out. In my opinion, a first timer should watch the movies in the order they were released. After that, the "shock" value is gone and there is no harm watching the movies in story order. I think the movies do play out interestingly in story order. Vader's character is quite different when we first see him, though I'm quickly immersed in "the old Vader" by the time of Capt. Antilles' death.

Where is The Emperor, he is the star of the prequels, and he is mentioned in one line in the movie?

I would love nothing more than if Lucas had a chance to see my edit and, specifically, what I did after the credits in ANH. Re-using what I deleted from ESB (because of incongruity introduced within the movie itself) here also allows us to see Palpatine in the movie in a way that doesn't disrupt the movie as we know it.

Where is the inner thoughts of Vader about his loss of his wife, and why is the whole movie really not about him?

Here's what bothers me most about the up-and-coming generation, and what Lucas has been saying. No matter which way you order the saga, the PT is about Anakin, Padme and Obi Wan. The OT is about Luke, Leia and Han. Those who can't make the mental separation between the focus of the two story lines concern me more than those who complain about FX. At this point, 20 years have passed. Vader has had a chance to consume Anakin almost completely. While he undoubtedly thinks about her, he probably didn't brood on her any more. In fact, his old emotions didn't start to resurface until Obi-Wan came onto the Death Star.

Why is the lightsaber battle so slow, and really nothing comparable to the prequels?


Quite simply, Obi-Wan is old, and Vader is practically a robot. They just aren't agile any more. Lord Tyrannus' acrobatics in ROTS actually undermine the OT in this respect.

edit: Not to mention the fact that Obi-Wan tells Luke "I'm getting too old for this sort of thing" and Vader actually says "Your powers are weak, old man." Lucas was right in the PT to make the saber duels "faster, more intense." than the OT. Newbies need to understand this was by design and for a good reason.

Why when they go to hyperspace, do they not go into that circle, and then go to hyperspace like the prequels?

Other than Jedi starfighters, no other ships do this. To the kids who ask this question, I answer them to pay better attention to the prequels themselves.

Why does ObiWan call him Darth Vader in Episode IV, and when he called him Anakin throughout the Duel in Episode III, when he was clearly Darth Vader by then?


MBJ answered this perfectly in an earlier post when he said: "Because he didn't realize how truly far gone Anakin was at that point."