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I watched Blade Runner again recently…and it’s still just meh. I don’t get why everyone loves it so much.
It’s a movie that grew on me with each viewing. I didn’t like it much the first couple times, but now it’s one of my all time favorites.
The DVD versions are four 90-minute long movies. The TV/Hulu versions are sixteen 22-minute long episodes, which are edited differently, with some jokes cut, some added, and new opening credits “tagline” jokes that aren’t in the DVD versions (since they have one opening credit sequence for each film, rather than four for each when they were edited into episodes for syndication).
I haven’t seen all of the episodic versions, so I don’t know what all is different in detail.
“He’s pickling his pythas”
Reported.
I’ll pickle your pythas any day, Frinky-bear. 😘
Sidenote, I used to think he said “He’s pickling his pythas” as a kid. I never knew what a pythas was and was too ashamed of my lack of knowledge about it to ask what it was.
Thankfully at some point I heard the line correctly and never had to have that embarrassing conversation with anyone.
As soon as green was introduced in ROTJ, all other colors should have been up for grabs. It’s actually super irritating to me that all the Jedi in the prequels have blue and green…and then there’s Sam Jackson with his purple glow stick, but no yellows, oranges, whites, or different shades of blue, green, or purple anywhere to be seen.
At least TCW somewhat rectified this by giving Ahsoka a yellow-green one when she upgraded to dual-wielding, and the Temple guards got yellow ones. And then there’s the Darksaber, and Rebels gave Ahsoka white ones.
Still hoping for Rey to get a yellow one in VIII or IX.
I actually hate the RGB lightsaber colour scheme myself. Still, in a trilogy where a limited palette was already established, I would’ve hated to have seen a nobody character played by the worst lightsaber choreographer get his own unique lightsaber colour when more important characters never did.
And I’d personally like to see Rey get a teal or orange lightsaber, myself.
Oh, it would’ve been dumb as fuck for Gillard to be the only one with yellow, just as it’s dumb as fuck for Jackson to be the only one with purple. But it should’ve stayed red and blue only, or been opened up to the whole spectrum.
I’d be cool with teal or orange for Rey, as well, actually. But I have a soft spot for yellow sabers for some reason. Much like Kenner in the 70s and 80s. 😉
As soon as green was introduced in ROTJ, all other colors should have been up for grabs. It’s actually super irritating to me that all the Jedi in the prequels have blue and green…and then there’s Sam Jackson with his purple glow stick, but no yellows, oranges, whites, or different shades of blue, green, or purple anywhere to be seen.
At least TCW somewhat rectified this by giving Ahsoka a yellow-green one when she upgraded to dual-wielding, and the Temple guards got yellow ones. And then there’s the Darksaber, and Rebels gave Ahsoka white ones.
Still hoping for Rey to get a yellow one in VIII or IX.
I think he’s questioning what the hell Trump is trying to say in that tweet. I know that was pretty much my reaction to it.
There’s also multiple instances (first shown, I think, in ROTS when Yoda is chopping up clones outside the Temple) of a character throwing a lightsaber, the blade impaling a victim, and the saber staying in place just like a sword or other physical object would, rather than falling to the ground and partially bisecting the victim.
When watching TFA, during the scene on the bridge, I had the thought about how a normal saber would have just cleanly impaled someone, but Ren’s saber was continually sparking random bits of plasma up inside Han’s torso, burning the rest of his insides as it was held there.
And now I’ll never be able to watch TFA without imaginig hundreds of holes being melted through Han’s organs during that scene…
I listened to that part again and I didn’t hear any dead air, I have ambience running throughout. You may have misheard it or maybe I’m missing it! If you wouldn’t care to double check I would appreciate it. You should hear that locust-like sound all the way through.
I also watched it on my phone, so it’s entirely possible that I’m dead wrong and my phone’s speaker is just shit. I’ll try and give it another listen later on.
As long as this isn’t just a tactic to wait until the backlash dies down so they can reinstate it as it was, then good.
If it’s just cosmetic stuff in the loot boxes when they reinstate the ability to buy in game currency instead of progression-related stuff, then I’ll be happy. I probably still won’t buy the game, but that would at least show that they understand the problem.
I think in this edit they know Galen is building the weapon, but they don’t know that Galen sent Bodhi.
Clips look pretty damn good! There’s some dead air in the “doesn’t sound so bad” line removal that should be filled with ambient environmental audio, though, and there’s some more blending needed to smooth out the audio on some of the lines in the briefing scene. Other than that, it all looks and sounds great!
I’d like to throw in my vote for this feature to be added as well.
Personally, I’d cut all of Saw and Bodhi’s scenes before Jyn and Cassian get to Saw’s group. This way you’d meet Saw with Jyn (you can take the shot of Saw’s legs walking from the scene where he meets Bodhi in the original version to give his meeting with Jyn a more “character introduction” feel) and Bodhi with Cassian. You can tone Bodhi’s post-Bor Gullet confusion down too.
Haven’t gotten a chance to watch your clips yet, but I’m a big fan of the ideas you’ve got for this edit.
(I would definitely cut Artoo and Threepio and Ponda Baba and Evazan’s cameos, though.)
I unlocked Luke the second day I played and I suck at the game. Yes, it would take years to unlock everything, but “everything” includes a lot of meaningless bullshit like emotes and victory poses. You should be able to get all the heroes at least reasonably quickly.
This is good to hear, at least. I figured after the reduction it would be more manageable. And if I got it I’d be sharing the account with my brother, so that’d mean less individual time for each of us before good unlocks.
I usually don’t care about micro transaction stuff and I think the complaints tend to be silly (like who cares about special helmets and shit?), though this seems to be another step and I can’t say I’m not worried.
And I still play the original Battlefront II from time to time, and it’s still great, but it’s not a mystery why a new version would be appreciated.
The issue with Battlefront II is that it’s not just cosmetic crap in the loot crates. That’s stupid, but manageable. It’s that there are straight up stat permanent enhancing cards in there, so if I buy the game and drop 500 bucks on crates and you buy the game and don’t buy any crates, I will very likely crush you in every encounter we have regardless of how much better at the game you are. I played the beta and could see the dark path this game was walking even then.
This is the new model, though, thanks to mobile gaming. But it’s actually even worse because you have to buy the base game for full price in order to then spend apparently up to 2000 dollars (let that number sink in. What does 2000 dollars buy? Can you imagine spending that much on one piece of entertainment?) or 40 hours to painfully grind out the content of the game (which is engineered that way so you’ll give up and pay here and there).
Imagine paying full price for a movie ticket and getting access to the first third of the movie and then having to pay 2000 bucks to see the rest of it. Or you can roll up your sleeves and scrub the floors for 40 hours and see the rest. It’s insanity.
And that’s not even the worst part of it. Let’s pretend for a moment that stat-boosting unlocks were okay in a competitive multiplayer game (they’re not in any way), and let’s say you wanted the Level 4 version of the best card for your favorite unit, but you don’t want to grind it out for hours and hours in a game that doesn’t reward you based on your performance, but based on how long you’re in a match (? what?), so you reason that paying 40 bucks for some crates is worth it. Every crate contains three or four items in it, one of which is guaranteed to be for your favorite class. Now consider that there are over 20 useless emotes, four or five different “action poses” (for your character to have a different pose if you make it onto the VIP list at the end of a round), a chance to get a piddly amount of “scrap” (which you can use in large amounts to “craft” or upgrade the cards you want) if you get a duplicate item, plus the fact that only one item is guaranteed to be for your class while the rest can be for modes you don’t even play or classes or heroes you don’t enjoy, PLUS the fact that who knows what the odds are you’ll get the item you want (could be 3.00 or 0.003 for all we know), and you are literally gambling now. You are pulling the handle on a slot machine and hoping that all the 7s line up so you can make your money’s worth. Maybe you don’t get any items you wanted with your 40 bucks? Maybe the guy you’re playing against now got it in 40, or maybe he spent 2000 and unlocked everything and wipes the floor with you every time you meet on the battlefield? How is that fun?
Then think about how this is a game that is within a franchise that is beloved by children worldwide and suddenly a lot of people under 18 are functionally gambling. That’s a cool thought. It doesn’t help that loot crates have these fancy exciting opening cinematics where it reveals a set of cards laying face down that you then have to turn over to see what you “won” that’s designed to hit all the dopamine centers in your brain. It’s so shady.
Loot crate gambling is one of the most toxic and predatory things to come from the mobile gaming scene and now here it is in premium, full price, AAA games, and not even for just pointless cosmetic content anymore. I paid 60 bucks for Majora’s Mask back in the day and I never had to pay again, and I got a full game with no content locked behind a paywall. Now today I have to pay to get content in the new Zelda game. Now today, I have to dedicate 40 hours of my life (or the low, low price of a couple Gs) to access all the content of a game I already paid full price for. It’s ridiculous.
Don’t buy this game. Don’t support these practices. And none of that “well I only want the story mode so it doesn’t affect me” or “well everyone else is going to buy it so whatever” garbage, either. This is a toxic practice and it will only stop if they see these games don’t succeed.
This. All of this.
I’m really trying to figure out a way to work in a “THE BEES!!!” joke, but I’m drawing a blank…
Ah, so he was JMOW. Called it!
I will be there at the same time I don’t have a car so I can get a ride to the airport on the way home from the gym and then I will be able to make it to the meeting tonight but I will be there at least one of us will be there at work.
Ooh, I think that’s my favorite of the “collage” ones so far. I need that in textless high res ASAP.
Happy birthday, Possessed!
BD25 versions already exist.
Fullmetal Alchemist (particularly the Brotherhood reboot) is pretty great, too. And I like Evangelion, insofar as I can “like” something that makes me cripplingly depressed for a week after watching it.
I think that the force needs to be limited in what it can do. Otherwise certain people, you know who you are, will post things on forums like, “Why didn’t Vader just nab the Death Star plans when he was in that hallway at the end of Rogue One?” when they know full well that while said scene was going on he had a dozen Rebel Fleet Troopers trying to shoot him. You know come to think of it an infinitely better question would be is why didn’t Vader using the force in A New Hope sniff out the Rebel’s hidden fortress? When the force can do anything like corral a ship that has it’s engines on and is moving forward the writers of these movies opens up a can of worms and plot holes.
When has the Force been shown to corral a moving ship in the movies? Honestly I think the Force isn’t depicted as being limitless in power in the films, that’s mainly an EU thing, and even then I can’t recall anything super outrageous in anything I’ve seen/read of the new canon. At least nothing along the lines of the shit from the Force Unleashed games.
Upgraded from a PS4 to a PS4 Pro today to go with my new 4K TV (selling the original to my brother to slightly offset the cost). Fooled around with Skyrim in 4K and Rise of the Tomb Raider in 1080p with enhanced graphics. Both were neat, Skyrim looked nice and sharp.
But I’ve gotta say, the biggest thing I noticed was the difference in HDR color when switching inputs between the standard PS4 (in 1080p HDR) and the Pro (in 4K HDR). I expected both to look about the same color-wise since both were outputting in HDR. I dunno if it’s the Pro hardware versus the standard, or 1080p HDR versus 2160p HDR, but holy shit the Pro looks amazing in HDR while the standard looked…much less amazing. And that’s just the home menu of the system.
I can’t fucking wait to get a UHD BR player and toss in an HDR movie. I really didn’t think it would be that huge of a difference, but I get it now. Hot damn.
When’s that Dark Knight Trilogy 4K remaster coming out again…?
Is Evolution from 2000ish (with David Duchovny, Orlando Jones, Julianne Moore) considered bad?
Because if it is, then Evolution.
