ChainsawAsh

Morning, unless I get home from work excessively dirty.

I don’t remember any of my US sets having squished crawls they were all P&S. I had the late 80s/early 90s set with the yellow logos, and then the 95 Faces set after that.

Ha, I didn’t pay for it. Bought a ticket to something else (can’t remember what) and went to see DT instead. Figured if it turned out to be somewhat acceptable I’d come back later and buy a ticket to support the movie, but if it was as awful as I expected I didn’t want to support it at all.

It was as awful as I expected.

doubleofive said:

ChainsawAsh said:

SilverWook said:

ChainsawAsh said:

The Dark Tower, while far from perfect, is one of my favorite book series of all time. I’m so gutted at how they ruined the film adaptation. I’ve read the 2014 draft of the script and, while it wasn’t amazing, I wouldn’t have hated it and it would’ve been an okay foundation for a film series that followed books 2+ more closely.

But no, they cut that script to the bone and butchered both Roland’s motivation and the ending.

Here’s hoping the TV series that’s supposedly still going ahead is, in fact, a complete reboot as has been suggested instead of taking place within the universe of the film…

Has King complained about Dark Tower the way he does about Kubrick’s version of The Shining? 😉

No, he’s cooled off on complaining about adaptations and has become warmer about Kubrick’s film in recent years, too.

Besides, he was hyping up the DT movie during the run-up to its release, so if he does have a problem with it it’ll probably be a while before he’ll open up about it.

I hope he feels the same way about it that I do. A straight adaptation would have been a disaster. Take the base elements of the universe and make a movie out of it, not an adaptation of the books.

That’s pretty much what the 2014 draft of the script was. Then they cut the budget and hacked it to bits and made a giant pile of dogshit that showed zero respect to the source material.

I believe it has been established by some of the users here (like hairy_hen) going through all the home video mixes and comparing them that ESB and ROTJ use the same mix on all pre-1993 releases, which is assumed to be their theatrical mixes. I think there was also some debate about whether the 1993 ROTJ is a different mix or not, but that the consensus ended up being that it was a new mix.

I could be mistaken, a lot of that happened while I was gone and just lurked occasionally.

SilverWook said:

ChainsawAsh said:

The Dark Tower, while far from perfect, is one of my favorite book series of all time. I’m so gutted at how they ruined the film adaptation. I’ve read the 2014 draft of the script and, while it wasn’t amazing, I wouldn’t have hated it and it would’ve been an okay foundation for a film series that followed books 2+ more closely.

But no, they cut that script to the bone and butchered both Roland’s motivation and the ending.

Here’s hoping the TV series that’s supposedly still going ahead is, in fact, a complete reboot as has been suggested instead of taking place within the universe of the film…

Has King complained about Dark Tower the way he does about Kubrick’s version of The Shining? 😉

No, he’s cooled off on complaining about adaptations and has become warmer about Kubrick’s film in recent years, too.

Besides, he was hyping up the DT movie during the run-up to its release, so if he does have a problem with it it’ll probably be a while before he’ll open up about it.

The Dark Tower, while far from perfect, is one of my favorite book series of all time. I’m so gutted at how they ruined the film adaptation. I’ve read the 2014 draft of the script and, while it wasn’t amazing, I wouldn’t have hated it and it would’ve been an okay foundation for a film series that followed books 2+ more closely.

But no, they cut that script to the bone and butchered both Roland’s motivation and the ending.

Here’s hoping the TV series that’s supposedly still going ahead is, in fact, a complete reboot as has been suggested instead of taking place within the universe of the film…

poita said:

The print has arrived, I’ll take some pictures tonight.

Awesome news!

Wonder Woman, finally. I very much enjoyed it. Definitely the best of the DCEU so far by a wide margin, and I say that as someone who mostly loved Man of Steel and genuinely enjoyed the director’s cut of BvS.

Honestly, at times it felt like a superior version of the first Captain America movie, except this one didn’t relegate the most interesting part of the narrative to a montage.

Cautiously optimistic for Justice League…

I find Luceno to be a dry writer overall. Although I loved Catalyst and thought Tarkin wasn’t bad, they have their slow parts, especially Tarkin (seriously, the whole first chapter is Tarkin designing the Imperial officer’s uniform).

TV’s Frink said:

Ok, first of all, that’s not my name

That reminds me, someone keeps spelling my name wrong in work emails when they have to spell it correctly to even send me an email in the first place and I don’t fucking understand it and it’s slowly driving me insane.

Sounds good, and the dawn idea still works fine. At this point I’d say go with it just because it’s your edit and the timeline of when Poe wakes up from the crash was bugging you, and the change doesn’t really hurt anything.

I feel like I’m a pretty “take him or leave him” kind of guy.

Ah yeah, forgot to point out the sound mixes. ANH got a remix for home video in 1985 (mostly the same as theatrical stereo but with a wider stereo field and an added Threepio line), and as Possessed said, all three got brand new mixes in 1993.

All VHS editions use the 1981 A New Hope crawl and opening shot instead of the 1977 version, and there’s some debate about whether the Artoo canyon sequence was brightened for home video or not.

Can’t think of anything else off the top of my head.

suspiciouscoffee said:

suspiciouscoffee said:

So I failed a calculus test yesterday. It’s just one test, and I can retake it too, so it shouldn’t be a big deal. Well I almost immediately sprung into a suicidal mood. I began thinking that I’m going to stay behind in the class and fail everything after this and get depressed about that that I start failing my other classes and kill myself by next semester.

Grade for the test retake came in. I got a C. Still not good, but at least I passed this time.

Congrats!

Depends if you’re talking camera negative, interpositive, internegative, or release prints. Each one is a step down generationally and each one will have less detail to be captured than the last.

So in theory, camera negative is the way to go, as it has the most detail. But then you have no color timing information - you’ll have to go the interpositive or internegative from which the release prints were struck for that, and boom, you’ve lost two-three generations of detail. Or you could scan the o-neg and match the color grading to a reference print (interpositive or release print), but that still opens the door to revisionist color timing.

Frank your Majesty said:

In the case of BTTF1, I have to disagree. Every time Marty comes close to altering the timeline in such a way that he would not be born, he starts to vanish. This means, that there is only one timeline.

That’s a very good point, actually. I always preferred BTTF1 by a wide margin because of seemingly random-ass things that suddenly appear in the sequels (the “chicken” thing, any new character related to Marty in another time is suddenly played by Michael J. Fox, a couple other things), and you pointing that out just adds another example of the dissonance between 1 and 2/3 that I hadn’t noticed before. Huh.

Looks good to me, and I like the proposed sequence of events, too.

Wasn’t something I thought needed addressing myself, but the regrade looks natural and it doesn’t hurt anything, so I don’t see why not.

Not sure about the Apocalypse TIE shot though, seems like an awkward and unnecessary insert to me as you currently have it. But then again I never had much of a problem with that shot’s placement in the film as it stands.

If it doesn’t make sense to you, I don’t know how I can explain it in a more clear manner, so I’ll do my best to leave it alone.

But everything official about ST09 says that the Kelvin timeline is a separate entity that exists alongside the prime timeline, and it’s somewhat exasperating to me that you espouse strict adherence to official canon on the one hand while blatantly ignoring official canon in favor of your personal interpretation on the other (albeit for a different fictional universe).

But at this point I don’t think we’re going to get anywhere by continuing to discuss it.

That was literally the whole point of her tearing up the photo (JEDIT: to bring attention to it because it wasn’t widely known yet), but no one listened to her because everyone loved the Pope.

Warbler said:

ChainsawAsh said:

He says in that scene that they created an alternate 1985 and can’t go back to the original timeline without undoing the very creation of the alternate timeline.

Why can’t you, if both timelines exist?

Because they have a time machine, not a universe-hopping machine. They’re stuck in a particular timeline, and if they create a divergent one, they get stuck in the new one until they can undo what caused the creation of the new one. If they had a portal gun like Rick from Rick and Morty, they could just say “Ah, fuck it, too much work” and hop back to the original timeline.

Think of it like train tracks. When they create a divergence, they create a switch on the tracks to a new railway, but they don’t have the tools to simply move the switch back to the original railway to get back to it. They have to dismantle the switch altogether, which means going back slightly further than the creation of the switch and preventing its creation.

Another fun thing to think about: they’re not even trying to go back to the original timeline, since Marty created a new one in BTTF1 when he went back to 1955 and got hit by the car instead of his dad. The timeline created in BTTF2 is actually the third timeline. They’re trying to get back to the second timeline. Which raises the ethical question of, what about the original timeline? Do that version of Marty’s parents think their son went missing/was kidnapped by Lybian nationalists? And what happened to the Marty from timeline 2, the one who remembers growing up with his “fixed” parents? When he went back, did he change something else and wind up coming back to a fourth timeline? Did he get stuck in 1955 while timeline 1 Marty got to go back to the future? Is there a timeline where two, or three, or four Martys show up on 1955 Doc’s doorstep?

Time travel is confusing and tough to write, man.

He says in that scene that they created an alternate 1985 and can’t go back to the original timeline without undoing the very creation of the alternate timeline. BTTF is actually a pretty good example of this exact topic.

There’s another recent example but due to the nature of your post and the example itself, it would be a spoiler, so I’m not sure I should mention it…

I use DVDFab to rip the Blu-Ray files to the hard drive (full, untouched BD50s, no recompressing or anything), then I make an MKV out of the video and demux the audio into mono WAV files (that part’s more for editing purposes than color correction purposes). I make a simple Avisynth script to open the movie-only MKV in VirtualDub, then use VirtualDub to render out an AVI in the lossless Lagarith codec. This Lagarith AVI is what I load into my editing program to work with.

I don’t recommend the Handbrake route, as that will result in a lossy video stream in h264, which isn’t great for editing/color correcting purposes due to the way the codec works (h264 doesn’t contain every frame as its own image as I understand it).

There’ll be more detailed info in the “how-to’s” section of the forum (to where this thread should probably be moved), and some nice detailed guides at the fanedit.org forums, too.

I do seem to have an issue with either the VirtualDub or audio side of things where the audio tracks end up slightly off sync-wise (either VD cuts off some frames at the beginning of the video or something else is happening with the audio), but these problems are deal-with-able in Premiere for me (as long as I can find a good sync spot - I would like to get that issue sorted out before I tackle anything big again).