ChainsawAsh

Chris358cp said:

The purple hair is a blatant ignoring of the rules of the Star Wars universe that Lucas has carefully crafted over the course of 35 years.

Think about it. Lucas threw all sorts of weird stuff at us, including spherical space stations, green aliens with horns, 10ft tall slugs, 1000 degree swords and dozens of alien planets, but he never, EVER shoved humans with weird hair colors down our throats.

The Last Jedi payed homage to so many parts of Lucas’ original work, but they completely ruined it by having this one character with a very outstanding characteristic in marked contrast with everything else the series ever had up until then. That was for me the primary reason this character had to go completely. It had nothing to do with her gender, or the fact she didn’t tell Poe the plan (although that was pretty stupid). If she hadn’t had purple hair, I probably would have allowed her to stay in the film with her lightspeed suicide.

Okay, nevermind, you completely fucking lost me there. So no one in the SW universe is allowed to use hair dye? Really?

I didn’t say it defined her character, I said it was a defining characteristic. I don’t see anything wrong with using a physical characteristic as a description when talking about a character whose name you can’t remember. It’s just like saying “you know, the bald dude” if you’re talking about Locke from Lost.

moviefreakedmind said:

Maybe, but getting well slightly sooner (if you’re lucky) isn’t greater than money.

I mean, I guess, but I’ve always been told that 104 and above is legitimate danger level. I’m not a doctor myself, though.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Having to pay to see a doctor about a fever? American health care is fucked up.

You should see how much my best friend still owes for an emergency appendectomy two years ago.

And yes, she had insurance.

Yeah, I’m with MFM on this one.

Not dying > money.

Mocata said:

Anthony Daniels died in Spring 1978 and has been replaced by a Lucasfilm plant ever since.

That’s a pretty limber plant they managed to find.

DominicCobb said:

Collipso said:

The Phantom Menace.

I’m beginning to understand Frink’s pain.

Yeah, that one stung a little…

x5gb said:

kk650, any chance of a distribution by the_magicman of your V2 Once Upon A Time in America regrade, just lost it in a hard drive crash and now only have V1 which is’nt as good. V2 has’nt been available anywhere since the paradoxial place went down unlike most of your other older re-grades.

Thanking you in advance.

I’ll second the request for this one, I had the tehparadox links bookmarked for when I had data cap space to burn and the site died before I got the chance to grab it…

TV’s Frink said:

Hmmm…I’m gonna say that cutting “admiral purple-hair” and calling your edit the “Gender Equalized Cut” does not sound fairly reasonable.

“Admiral purple-hair” isn’t that bad if you just can’t remember her name, it’s a pretty defining characteristic of her character, and at the time he hadn’t made his new thread with that title for the edit.

That title is … not better than the other one.

Sounds like things are headed in the right direction for you, Bingo. I’m glad to hear it. Such drastic change, even if it’s overall a positive change, can still be stressful, but it’ll get better once it starts to become more normal.

Happy to see you around here again, man!

suspiciouscoffee said:

suspiciouscoffee said:

me: wow, just a few more weeks until i graduate high school! i better keep up in class and not get behind or anything.

101° fever: hello

Woke up this morning with the fever now up to 103°. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuccccccccckkkkkk.

Uuuhhhh… Go to the doctor, dude. For real.

OutboundFlight said:

Chris358cp said:

Believe it or not, but I’m actually planning to re-do this edit in HD now that the Blu-Ray is out.

Your cutlist sounds fairly reasonable, make your own thread or put it in the ideas thread. Don’t relate it to this garbage, everyone will hate you and the edit for it.

Seconded.

DominicCobb said:

Saw that DCP in Braille

WIR (and was momentarily very confused by)

Dek Rollins said:

I can’t imagine why the disgusting slob type crowd would be filling a theater to see 2001 in 70mm.

Pretty much this, and true 70mm in a proper theater is something to behold.

Well, that’ll lose quality no matter what, and you’ll need to be sure it keeps Blu-Ray conformity. I think I usually use meGUI for that, but I’m always encoding from a lossless AVI file, never from h264 to slightly smaller h264. Some other members here would probably be more help than myself on that front.

Did over burning not work? I figured at worst you’d lose some of the end credits that way…

I’m still upset there’s no 4K edition of the Target exclusive with the art book and much better cover art…

…aw, who am I kidding, I’m just gonna use the custom cover I already made anyway.

Fair enough. To me version 1 was a good proof of concept, but not perfect. Version 2 is essentially perfect to the point where it’s replaced the official release on my media player’s hard drive (which isn’t the case for any other fan edit - they rest all sit comfortably next to the official release…yes, even the prequels…).

DominicCobb said:

ChainsawAsh said:

Like I said, it’s the only fan edit I’ve seen where I’m 100% okay with seeing it before (or even instead of) the original.

Like I said, it’s a fan edit and it is worse than the original.

That’s not an objective fact. Have you seen it?

That might be the DTS file being too large and/or high bitrate, as I doubt HAL considered that when making the video stream. Earlier versions would only work with one of the AC3 tracks for Cloak of Deceptions, but not both. It’s possible that a single DTS track pushes it just over the BD25 limit. =/

I suppose I could provide ~700Kbps DTS tracks as an alternative to the ~1500Kbps one, but I don’t know that that would be much of an improvement over the 640Kbps AC3.

Seems like way too much expensive, time consuming work for very little gain to me.

I could see replacing Hayden with someone in a Vader suit, though.

Like I said, it’s the only fan edit I’ve seen where I’m 100% okay with seeing it before (or even instead of) the original.

I’d be stunned if they take a year or more off from movies at any point. They just haven’t announced what’s going in the 2020 slot (or later) yet.

I really like that crawl, Neverar. I almost wish I didn’t like it as much as I do so I could offer some constructive criticism.