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#1213601
Topic
Most Baffling Complaint of a Star Wars Movie
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The evil lord Darth Vader, obsessed…

‘lord’ here isn’t being used as a title but rather a descriptor. He is a ‘lord,’ and is called Darth Vader.

It’s the same as if you were to say:

The valiant knight Sir Arthur…

edit: if it were being used as a title, it would be capitalized.
edit: also crucial here is the definite article “The.”

“Lord Vader” vs the “THE evil lord Darth Vader”

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#1213189
Topic
New 4K releases - but are they any good?
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TV’s Frink said:

NeverarGreat said:

TV’s Frink said:

towne32 said:

TV’s Frink said:

I clearly don’t remember the theatrical look (oh wait I never saw it in theaters) but when the article says “less green” shouldn’t it say “no green?” I see no green in those pictures at all. Of course you can’t trust pictures like that, it might just be my monitor’s fault. Regardless I think color issues are way overblown, people are always trying to “fix” stuff here that doesn’t need fixing, and basically meh.

There’s still green in the new Matrix images I’ve seen.

I agree with you that sometimes, especially here, color issues can be overstated. And there have been a lot of projects here that seem to want to do away with the idea of grading itself, wanting everything to look as it might in real life. But the Matrix Bluray grading was really really over the top green. From what I’ve seen, the new images look like a nice improvement.

In this case, it’s possible that my baseline is “incorrect” being that as I said I never saw the movie in theaters. So possibly for me, it’s down to personal preference, what I’m used to basically.

With that said I barely see any green in the images shown in that review.

Really? I see a lot of green, for example this shot from the UHD release:
Green

To answer this one, it’s an extremely muted green, to the point where it’s hard to tell it’s actually green. It almost looks more grey to me.

Keep in mind it could be HDR not displaying on a computer monitor/phone.

(Correct me if I’m wrong. I don’t completely understand HDR and what displays can reproduce it.)

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#1211886
Topic
Last movie seen
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moviefreakedmind said:

suspiciouscoffee said:

moviefreakedmind said:

suspiciouscoffee said:
I’m glad many of you seem to like it so much.

Why is that? I usually get angry when people like things I don’t like or dislike things that I like.

Idk, I’m glad that something harmless like a space adventure flick gave people some amount of enjoyment or happiness.

Hm. That feeling is foreign to me.

You’re the outlier here, not Coffee.

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#1211473
Topic
Ranking the Star Wars films
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DominicCobb said:

The one true objectively correct ranking, of which any disagreements are undebatably wrong:

  1. Star Wars
  2. The Empire Strikes Back
  3. The Last Jedi
  4. The Force Awakens
  5. Return of the Jedi
  6. Solo
  7. Rogue One
  8. Revenge of the Sith
  9. The Phantom Menace
  10. Attack of the Clones

I would flip Revenge and Menace. And I haven’t seen Solo. Otherwise, who are you and what have you done with me?

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#1209700
Topic
Ranking the Star Wars films
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TV’s Frink said:

darthrush said:

The quality of Rogue One has only gone down for me. The lifeless characters and boring story direction they took sours the experience of an otherwise visually impressive film.

That’s funny because I had the exact opposite reaction. In theaters I couldn’t remember anyone’s name and didn’t find anything compelling about anyone other than Chirrut, Baze, and sort of Krennic. Since then I’ve grown much more attached to the other characters.

I like RO more and more each time I see it. And I loved it in the theater. TFA was the same way at first, though it found a peak and leveled out a little below that peak. My assessment of TLJ hasn’t changed with subsequent viewings.