Damn, Boost. I very nearly did a spit-take. Well done.
Frink, sorry I missed your reply. For the record, I logged on and checked in on you guys while I was out there. Yeah, that's right - vacation modding. ;-)
reave said:
SilverWook said:
Wish I still had a copy of this. Would make for a great cover?
That would make a great cover. If a high res can't be found, it wouldn't be too hard to replicate.
Need a preservation to wrap it around first though :)
I sent the owner of that magazine a letter asking him if he'd consider giving us a high-res scan to use as a DVD case insert. I'll let you guys know if and how he responds.
Warbler said:
Anchorhead said:
Complacency cost the Yankees. They believed their own press.
I fear the same thing is happening to the Phillies.
It's crossed my mind a few times as well. They don't have the arrogant swagger that the Yankees have, but the complacency still may be there a little. I don't know how closely you guys follow the game when it's not being played (baseball-only radio shows, blogs, etc), but it's nearly all I listen to and read all year long.
Since the start of Spring Training all we've heard is Yankees vs Phillies in the World Series, the rest is just filler. Hell, even I was starting to believe it and I know better. The message has been constant all season long. It became hard to tune out.
For the record, Warb; There's certainly a let down after losing in the playoffs, but I'll take a first round exit over a 106 loss, ownership limbo, rebuild season any day.
Tonight, I shall pull for Arizona and the Phillies.
Complacency cost the Yankees. They believed their own press.
This, by the way, is what I meant by surreal. We didn't just lose a few good players or fan favorites. We lost guys who are so good, or so consistent, or made such an impact on their new teams, that they have become the MLB logo picture for the Division Series.
TV's Frink said:
If he goes along with it, he has compromised his beliefs.
I agree. Burtt continues to be a part of it, so he condones it. Kurtz and others left because they didn't agree with Lucas' practices.
Warbler said:
I suggest you get rid of your general manager. Trust me, I know from experience, he sucks.
As an occasional poster on the Astros forum, I can tell you - you'd be hard pressed to find a Houstonian that disagrees with you. To say he's disliked here would be an understatement. As is evident by this 85-page, 1,500-posts thread;
http://www.forums.mlb.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?tsn=1&nav=messages&webtag=ml-astros&tid=71674
It has certainly been a surreal couple of weeks with Pence, Bourn, Roy O, Berkman, Keppinger, and a few others all trying to get a spot in the playoffs. It's not uncommon in Houston to joke that the Astros are the AAA team for the majors, but this year has really felt that way. Weird.
I'm pulling for the Phillies in the National. I'd like to see Pence on the big stage.
Beyond that, I hope they fall to Texas if it gets that far.
Jay said:
Does it include the unrated cut of Conquest also?
No, that's Blu-ray only. I'll end up getting the Blu-ray set eventually too.
Warbler said:
But why didn't you get the pota set on blu ray?
A few reasons; I want to be able to watch them at work on my lunch break, I want to rip the audio to MP3s so I can listen to them while commuting, and I wanted the extended version of Battle.
You are correct sir. Good eye. It's an interesting read. Plenty of it made its way into the film. Some of it it is very different, however. The idea and the message are still very much the same. As much as I dislike the Burton version, he does work in one aspect of the book that is interesting. Of course, he had to Burtonise it and muddy the message.
After years of proclaiming I was a one Apes film owner and just watching the others on cable whenever they came on (which is more often than you might think), I decided to embrace my true inner fan and get the box set.
I smell a marathon.
;-)
theprequelsrule said:
zombie84 said:
Its the copyright ones.
Fun fact: apparently, they were moved to storage and their status was changed to protected in order to save them because of savestarwars.com. The people at LoC are SW fans and are trying to do their best with what they have to work with, it seems.
Well done Zombie!
I honestly believe Michael Kaminski will eventually be the catalyst who gets the originals properly released.
bkev said:
I'm going to play devil's advocate here and say that Lucas was against colorization .....Making that speech is 100% consistent with Lucas' insistence that movie studios are completely awful. It's not as hypocritical as one might think,
You might want to research that a little more;
http://savestarwars.com/lucasspeechagainstspecialedition.html
Lucas said:
more advanced technology will be able to replace actors with "fresher faces," or alter dialogue and change the movement of the actor's lips to match. It will soon be possible to create a new "original" negative with whatever changes or alterations the copyright holder of the moment desires......This would be a great loss to our society. Our cultural history must not be allowed to be rewritten
Gaffer Tape said:
The lengths Lucas apologists will go to...the quotes I provided from Lucas's speech to Congress were dismissed as not applying to him or his films
Maddening for sure, but easier to take when you realize they're doing it out of insecurity and fear of not being right. A point you nailed perfectly with this comment;
I just find it so amusing how threatened apologists are just because we don't share their opinion, and how they feel compelled to try to shut anyone down...
In our culture of yelling down your opponent e.g. any political radio or TV talk show, the internet provides everyone with the loudest voice. They're safe and correct (and arrogant) behind their keyboard. If we were all in a room together, the conversations would be very different.
Also, a great many of those apologists are too young to understand loss. Every film they love is essentially the same as it was the first time they went to the theater to see it. A tweak or two by the time it's released on DVD isn't an issue because it's still now - not unlike the title crawl change for my generation. Thirty years from now, when they still can't get the theatrical versions of Dark Knight or Avatar, they'll understand.
Fortunately for me after I fell to 4th place the first month of the season, I made a few trades that got me back to 4th place. Then I made some more changes to the line-up by paying closer attention to away vs home stats - and climbed into 4th.
A pitching trade the next month, and I was into 4th. When I saw the momentum I was building, I really got aggressive and went with SABRmetrics - and quickly jumped up to 4th.
For the last month of the season I finally landed the catcher I wanted and it was smooth sailing right into 4th.
All I can say is - I thank God that Warb slept through the first three rounds of the draft. ;-)
I still enjoyed the hell out of it. I'm in next year.
zombie84 said:
The yellow looked a bit too garish, but putting that in white helps I think.
The Godfatherland
How about changing the color of the highlighted figures with regard to the volume of changes - "200 shots", "277 changes just to Star wars", etc. Maybe the same yellow as the home page? Something to catch people's attention, give them a reason to look into the issue.
SilverWook said:
On the flip side of the same coin, wasn't she also posting tweets that could be interpreted as baiting angry fanboys?
That's been my only real problem with her. As an official spokesperson for LFL she should be handling herself more professionally, regardless of her relationship to the owner.
see you auntie said:
Since it appears this thread has become about the quality of the blu-ray artwork (solid first post Anchorhead) this is the artist who created it*:
Maybe, if one was so inclined, someone could contact him and ask if he was given instructions on where to place certain characters both OT and PT in the collage or it was simply random.
*The new artwork, not the stuff featured in the Star Wars Visions collection.
I wouldn't be surprised to see him get some Red Tails work for the home video packaging.
Not that it's news to anyone, but Lucas has come across many times as trying to steer or alter the cultural impact of Star Wars. The current BR packaging is a perfect example. The three main characters from the first film - arguably the main characters in all of the franchise - are small, relegated to a corner, and even covered when the accompanying booklet is in place. There is no way that was an oversight.
His continued forcing of prequel into the original films comes across, to me anyway, as a desperate attempt to make the prequel trilogy more culturally significant than it ever ended up becoming. In fact, I'd go as far as arguing that the prequel trilogy is becoming less revered as time goes on. Particularly after this current release of revisions to the OT and the uproar in the media and fanbase.
The cultural phenomenon that was Star Wars circa the 1970s was authentic. It was organic, not manufactured. I don't think Lucas has ever been able to understand why it happened, or handle it (ever-changing Original Vision story), or repeat it (prequel tie-ins to the OT).
Below is a screengrab for a current MLB promotion. If you buy tickets for a certain game, the team donates the money to the Stand Up To Cancer foundation and you get a chance to win the BRs at the game that night.
34 years later - the instantly recognizable symbol of Star Wars is still a picture from the first film.
xhonzi said:
By 'usual fervor' I didn't mean anyone would complain that TPM was being mistreated. Just that money was being spent/movies were being marketed but not to/for us and how we still don't have what we really want*.
(*Real Estate)
Outstanding Charlie Brown reference. Nicely done, sir.
