Anchorhead

CP3S said:

Anchorhead said:

A few years later a sequel came out that I also liked, but not at the same level.  It looked different, it felt different, the characters had changed, and the story had changed.  Because of that, I wasn't all-in (as they say these days).  A few years after that, a second sequel - which I hated.

Dude! If you don't like Empire or Jedi you can just f-off! What are you even doing at a site like this anyway if you don't even care about 5/6th of Star Wars?

Geez, some people will hate anything!

;)

 

Hehehe! Sorry, I haven't heard anyone get hostile on you for a while and felt an uncontrollable urge to be a dork.

 

Yell all you want, man.  You're responsible for my Star Wars world being where it is - NPR and the Daley novels.  Which in turn led to my EU growth.  Truth is, I left the one film I like even further behind because of you.

And for that, sir  -  I thank you.  ;-)

You're right though.  It has been a while since I was forced to explain to someone how much I love the first film - while defending how much I love the first film - by giving examples of how much I love the first film.
 

TV's Frink said:

Ventilated feet are cool feet.

Yes, they are indeed.

My version is the 5.1.  I don't have surround in my viewing room, so it's two-channel stereo for me. Sounds fantastic.  No loss of the layers and subtleties. Same for my audio rip.

Tyrphanax said:

I find it mind-boggling that some people, Anchorhead, for example, would limit their Star Wars universe so severely when I think that ESB was a masterpiece

I don't expect someone who came on after the trilogy was a completed entity to understand my level of fandom.  I saw Star Wars in 1977.  Loved it. Greatest film I'd ever seen.  A few years later a sequel came out that I also liked, but not at the same level.  It looked different, it felt different, the characters had changed, and the story had changed.  Because of that, I wasn't all-in (as they say these days).  A few years after that, a second sequel - which I hated.

That's not some sort of "Are you fucking serious?" situation.  Plenty of films have sub-par sequels, or even terrible sequels.  If someone doesn't continue to follow a franchise because of it, it shouldn't be mind-boggling.

The twenty-somethings who came into Star Wars after it was a finished entity are no different than the twenty-somethings who discovered Indiana Jones after the original three were a completed entity.  The experience of (and the reaction to) a story that took some of us eight years to watch, is going to be inherently different than it is for someone seeing all of it in just six hours. 

For us, there were several years between films.  Those years were full of life experiences - new friends, new schools, driving, girls, jobs, first apartments, new films to discover, etc, etc. We went into each film as a different person than we were three or four years earlier.

To the twenty-somethings seeing it all at once and for the first time, ten years after it's completed, they bring a single view point into that initial experience.  That view point is who they are that day, not who they were becoming over the course of a decade.

I don't expect you to understand that process beyond just imagining it.  You can't truly understand a journey unless you were actually on that journey.  It's that way for a great many things.

For the record;   I want to make one thing very clear.  My above explanation isn't a dig on newer fans.  Far from it. I have absolutely nothing against any age group coming into the fandom at any time. You get here when you get here.  All are welcome.

and that there's a ton of really great EU out there.

I've started to remedy my limited EU experience.  It's going quite well, by the way.

canofhumdingers said:

 Based on what I know from your posts here, I think you might throw out the 2006 "GOUT" disc & have Harmy's Despecialized version become your go-to version of Star Wars.  I'd strongly encourage you to check it out!  I don't want to derail this thread too much, so maybe pm's would be better, but I'd be happy to help you get a copy if you need assisstance (I know I needed help when I first started checking out fan preservations).

From the looks of things, the fan base will ultimately be what saves Star Wars77.  If I decide to go that route, I'll PM you.  I'm ok for now because I've all but abandoned the film version.

Thanks for the offer, by the way.

msycamore said:

I take Walter Murch's "The Conversation"...over...

 

I know that my comparisons of films wasn't the best ;)

I have to disagree. 

Your film comparison wipes the floor with anything else I can think of.  The Conversation is an audio masterpiece.  There are layers and nuances that have to be heard to to even come close to understanding. 

It's been a favorite of mine ever since I first saw it in the 70s.  It's also one of my absolute favorites to listen to the full audio rip of.  Which, by the way, is something I do regularly every November, December, and January - weekly, and only on rainy days.

Later in the week, Sunday maybe. Sunday definitely.

Ziggy Stardust said:

Pink Floyd The Wall.

This movie is amazing. Watch it.

NOW.

Did did did did you see the frightened ones?

Man, talk about taking me back.  A weekly staple at the midnight movies -  and a perfect album to have on the charts my senior year in high school a couple of years earlier.

canofhumdingers said:

Anchorhead said:

I want the film I grew up with in a high quality presentation. 

 Have you seen the Despecialized Edition HD by Harmy?  I think you might love it (like pretty much everyone else who's seen it, myself included)!

I've never seen any fan-made transfers.  No reason in particular, just haven't.  The screen grabs I've seen of some of them look very nice though.

zombie84 said:

http://www.savestarwars.com/doasisay.html

Inspired by a recent thread here, Lucas Hypocrisy Strikes Again. I think this collection could be a powerful tool in silencing critics that Lucas has the right to do what he wants, and demonstrating how hollow and hypocritical his stance is.

Personally, that page best demonstrates my real reason for having sought out you guys and this site many years ago.  I want the film I grew up with in a high quality presentation.  I have zero tolerance for what I know for a fact (from personal history\experience) are lies told by Lucas. 

I was on board at the start of the journey in 1977.  I know what I saw, heard, and read.  It was nothing like the history Lucas tries regularly to revise.

I'm not here for colors, garbage mattes, sound mixes, 35mm, 70mm, or any other thing that should and can be discussed & desired for a potential release (all very worthy, by the way).

I'm here for the 1977 film and the truth surrounding its history and its current state of suppression.  Zombie's years of work as well as this community are indispensable in that regard.

Bingowings said:

Very yes.

Thanks.

Man, you're getting angrier and angrier with each passing day.  And what's up with that Nehru jacket, and the gloves? 

CP3S said:

But now Lego fans are gonna thing we're pretty cool!  Score!

Actual LOL.

You realize, of course, we're doomed now.  When someone hears about this site & our goal, then comes over to see what we're all about, and sees that our avatars are a bunch of Lego toys, a singing cowboy, and an office chair - we'll lose what little credibility we've managed to carve out for ourselves. 

;-)

There is another woman who jumps out at me as beautiful.  Don't know her name or anything about her.  Her skin, her hair, her voice, the suit?  I don't know what it is, but she's gorgeous.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUlHS_uhVdQ

I'm in the don't have an issue camp.  They seem fine to me and as others have mentioned, very much like a 70mm theater experience. I'll go with it being a settings issue also.

That said, I do have one qualifier to my view on any home release and maybe this is also what some people are mistaking for Bluray looking wrong.  If the film has been cleansed of grain or had the contrast & color pushed, it looks bad to me in general.  Bluray makes it even worse.  It could be that the studio made the film look wrong, not the player or the TV.

If I haven't ever mentioned it before, I'll do so now.  I have every episode of Columbo on DVD.  Huge fan.  It was my nickname back when i was a LAN\WAN admin.

Not a good day.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume this won't come as a shock to anyone. 

I saw Alien when it was first in the theaters in 1979 and loved it. 

I went to see it weekly (like Star Wars), wore out the soundtrack (one of only two pieces of vinyl I still own), immersed myself into everything Alien I could, it was the very first VHS I ever had, also one of the first Laserdiscs, ripped the audio to cassette in the 80s and MP3 these days, etc, etc.  In short - I'm a huge nerd, as much as Star Wars77.

The sequels - I've never seen them.  Alien was a complete, awesome story and I have zero interest in the story-as-franchise. 

I agree with Kev and Bingo.  It's not selfish and you're not here on borrowed time.  You're here. 

Here's THE woman who really sends me.

Amy Adams

If it isn't already obvious,  I'm a sucker for big watery eyes and freckles.

For the record,  intelligence and humility are absolute musts. Particularly humility.  Even a hint of conceit and they're off the radar permanently.

While I'm on the subject, I should probably take this opportunity to go on record. 

As you can see in the picture above, Amy has a natural, pale skin color that shows what some people might call imperfections.  Personally,  I see them as perfections  ;-)  Truthfully,  being able to see a woman's skin texture, coloring, blemishes, unevenness, her realness - there aren't words for how that moves me.  *swoon*

Her naturalness (for lack of a better term) is easily visible on nearly every undoctored photo of her I've ever seen from professional photo shoots.  To me, that makes her even more perfect, as does her desire to be photographed that way. 

In fact, she's fairly outspoken on how too much importance is placed on physical perfection in our society.  In an interview I saw where she discussed the film Doubt, she said she particularly enjoyed the fact that she didn't have to worry about her appearance.  How vanity was eliminated in her character and nice it was to be able to let go of it.

I don't watch everything she's ever made, seek out every appearance on a talk show, or have a collection of photos, DVDs, etc. (I only have one film of hers).  I see her when I see her.  However, there's no two ways about it -  to me, she's the most beautiful woman there is.

High-res version of above pic to better illustrate her perfection.

http://i1127.photobucket.com/albums/l634/Anchorhead/5397/HQ_0024.jpg

doubleofive said:

LEGO Ferris vs LEGO Anchorhead!

FIGHT!

We're fellow Texans.  We don't do that.

Well, plus he carries a gun and all.  ;-)

DuracellEnergizer said:

I kinda liked "Soup's On". :shrug:

There may be an interesting character in there or an interesting story, but it was too much work trying to pick the story out of her style. Maybe it's her attempt to make the reader not realize they may be the victim or feel some sort of suspense. 

Whatever it is, to me it's the written equivalent of two-image-a-second editing or shaky-cam films.  It's work - and I won't do that to experience a story. I'm the customer.

Ziggy Stardust said:

Anchorhead said:

Elizabeth Montgomery

I agree. I just posted her a couple pages back.

I didn't see that.  Good stuff.

Oh man, and when she was in her traditional witch garb and mad at Darren - she wrecked me.  ;-)

No doubt about it, whatever it is that makes a muse is as mysterious an emotion as there is. I always find it interesting to see who is moved by whom. In no particular order and for no reason other than something strikes me as beautiful about these women, here are the first four who came to mind. 

Elizabeth Montgomery

Christina Applegate

Zooey Deschanel

Marcia Strassman

ray_afraid said:

if Lucas just "can't afford" to restore and release the OUT, how 'bout saving money instead of wasting it on drawn-out animations of cgi lightsabers carving the bluray logo into concrete walls?

Because he knows his target audience...

Soup's On: The Pipe Smoker's Tale, by Jennifer Roberson

For effect (good or bad), I'll write my review in the style of her story.

Story, cantina, smoking a pipe, his name is Dannick. Quiet. Alone. Mos Eisley. Very dangerous, very distant.
-soup's on-
I had a hard time following, understanding, comprehending, struggling, wondering. I'm fine with giving someone the benefit of the doubt, but this was too much of a headache.
-style over substance-
I read at night to unwind after the stresses of the day, not to work, struggle, wonder, be confused.  After only a few pages, I lost interest. I lasted about five pages and moved on to next story.
-skipped-
Corellian, smuggler, not Solo. Like it so far.  Review.  Soon.

Ziggy Stardust said:

Ripplin, did Bob Ross ask for one and you didn't tell us about it?

;-)

That is damn hilarious, man.  I used to occasionally watch the show in the early 80s, back when there were only six TV channels. It was on PBS here.  For all his laid-back delivery and silliness, he was interesting to watch.