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Johnny Ringo said:
ChainsawAsh said:
"Kids" by moe.
Yeah, I listen to hippie music. What of it?
Get a haircut, that's what of it ;)
Looking back through the thread, this statement is even funnier now that you can see what my hair actually looks like.
Anyway:
Dr. Dog - "Shadow People"
The Aluminum Falcon said:
Wait. I never saw your Ash avatar. Out of curiosity, how did it look?
It was Ash during his "boomstick" speech in AoD.
Haha, no I don't care. I haven't used Bruce Campbell-Ash as my avatar in years. Honestly, if it weren't for the fact that it'd confuse the hell out of a lot of people here, I'd have changed my username a while ago.
The Aluminum Falcon said:
Look at my avatar, now. I told you I'm not Alfred Hitchcock!
Hey! That's not you, that's the other me!
Sluggo said:
BloodnoseThePirate said:
I guess I'm not as embarrassed to admit that I'm 16 now.
*High Five*
Many of us that are older were 16 at one time. Youth is nothing to be ashamed of.
Not me. I've always been 22.
*shifty eyes*
Sorry man, but I've got to agree with xhonzi on this one. If it's related to the official PT, I have zero interest.
Perhaps others on the forum might disagree, but I doubt those folks venture into this section much.
Looks like your TV's overscan is a bit more than mine. And there's a lot more room on the left and right of the subs than you see on either one of your images posted.
I'm looking into the other issue you mentioned right now.
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Yep, that's the layer break. It doesn't show up on the player in my bedroom, but it does show up on the one in the living room. It's pretty awkward, actually - it's smack in the middle of Vader's line ("Rebellion").
I think that imgburn, or whichever program you used, just slapped the layer break in the exact middle of the film, instead of preserving the actual GOUT layer break (which is immediately after Tarkin's "one swift stroke" line, IIRC).
Thanks! I was very upset to lose them, as I spent quite a bit of time on them.
Besides, if you do keep the scene in the movie, you have to do what GL never did - revert Greedo's dialogue more or less back to the 4th draft (pre-revision) script. That would avoid much of the redundancy of the scenes, especially since one (two?) of Han's lines in the Greedo scene is directly lifted from the Jabba scene!
I started thinking about this again a few days ago, and started jotting down notes in TextEdit. It deals almost exclusively with Anakin, Obi-Wan, and the Darth Vader situation - Anakin's mistress and the Clone Wars are to be fleshed out later. Here's what I wrote down (I hope this doesn't screw up the thread):
-A little background: Obi-Wan already has an apprentice who isn't Anakin at the beginning of Episode I. Also, Yoda is never seen in my prequels, only talked about with great reverence and admiration - it's understood that Yoda telepathically guides certain young potential Jedi to Dagobah to train them himself, which is how Obi-Wan became a Jedi. He then joined the order of the Jedi Knights, a more organized branch of the Jedi that focuses on using the Force to fight for the Republic, which some non-Knight Jedi take exception to.
Episode I
Obi-Wan's apprentice in Episode I turns out to be a Sith Lord, who attempted to infiltrate the Jedi Knights. He calls himself "Darth Vader" (he uses a different name before he is discovered as a Sith Lord). He and Obi-Wan fight at the end of Episode I, and Vader is gravely injured.
Obi-Wan meets Anakin Skywalker during the course of Episode I (we learn of the Force, the Jedi, and the Jedi Knights through Obi-Wan's conversations with Anakin). Anakin requests to be taught by Obi-Wan, who refuses on the grounds that he already has an apprentice. He offers to take Anakin to Yoda, the great, reclusive Jedi Master.
After Vader escapes at the end of Episode I, Obi-Wan decides that he will train Anakin instead of Yoda.
Episode II
In Episode II, we see Vader slowly get his armor - first, a mask (without the eye pieces), breathing apparatus, and an artificial arm; then, the eye pieces to replace his real eyes; then a helmet when he sustains severe head trauma. By the end of the film, he dons the full suit.
Anakin has become a fully-fledged Jedi Knight by this point, and is fighting alongside Obi-Wan in the Second Clone War (I'll elaborate on this at some point in the future).
Meanwhile, Vader begins to hunt down the Jedi Knights one by one, as revenge for the destruction of the Sith long ago. Anakin, having gained the support of Palpatine, the Prime Minister, is sent by the Republic leader to find Vader, as Anakin is the only one strong enough to stop him.
When Anakin finds Vader, Vader tells him that he's been working for Palpatine all along, and that Palpatine is simply trying to use Anakin to take his place, as he thinks Anakin is stronger than Vader. Feeling betrayed, Anakin doesn't know what to do. Vader tells Anakin that he will join with him to take down Palpatine, so they can take over the Republic and rule the galaxy together with an iron fist. Anakin agrees, after much wrestling with his emotions.
Anakin secretly reports back to Obi-Wan, telling him what happened, saying that he'll defeat Vader after Palpatine is dealt with, then turn control over to the next in line of succession after Palpatine. Obi-Wan doesn't like the plan, feeling it's too risky, but Anakin goes along with it anyway. Before he leaves, he gives Obi-Wan the first lightsaber he'd made (he has a newer one now), telling him to give it to his (then-unborn) son if he didn't make it back.
Vader and Anakin confront the Emperor, who immediately knows what they're doing. He admits to wanting Anakin to replace Vader at his side, and insists that he'll still get his wish. Almost immediately, Anakin attacks, only to be prevented from attacking by Palpatine, who claims that he can control the darkness inside Anakin (note that this is a mind-control thing, not a Force lightning or lightsaber thing - Anakin begins to strike, but physically can't, as the Emperor is controlling his mind).
At this point, Obi-Wan arrives. Vader attacks him almost immediately, and they duel as Palpatine talks to a captive Anakin. Obi-Wan screams at Anakin to help, then realizes what's happening.
Palpatine then turns Anakin on the dueling Jedi and Sith Lord. Anakin pleads with Obi-Wan to leave before he kills him. Obi-Wan refuses, and Anakin joins the duel ... but he's attacking both Vader and Obi-Wan.
Obi-Wan, realizing that he can't fight both at once, flees, leaving Anakin to fend for himself. We don't see the rest of the duel, and Episode II ends with the audience in the dark as to what happened to Anakin and Vader.
Episode III
Episode III sees the return of Vader, in full armor. It's really Anakin now, but we don't know that - the audience assumes that Vader killed Anakin, not that Anakin has become Vader.
Vader slowly hunts down and exterminates the Jedi and the Jedi Knights. Palpatine solidifies his power, demonizes the Jedi, and creates the Empire.
Most of this film sees Obi-Wan trying to hunt down Vader to stop him, as well as the birth of the resistance movement that will later be known as the Rebel Alliance.
In the last act of the film, Obi-Wan and Vader confront one another. During the duel, Obi-Wan cuts off Vader's right arm, noting that it's not artificial. Vader simply retrieves his lightsaber from his disembodied arm, and fights with his left.
The two duel until, finally, they're in some sort of power plant. Obi-Wan slowly drives Vader into a power generator, finally giving him a hard kick in the controls on his chest, damaging his life support. The kick forces Vader off-balance, and he falls backward into the power generator, his head colliding first. Enormous amounts of electricity arc through his body (similar to the Force lightning at the end of Jedi), and the top of his helmet is blown off (this is how the back of his head is scarred).
With Vader collapsed on the ground, Obi-Wan holds his lightsaber to his throat, then bends down to remove the mask. We never see the mask removed, and we don't know what Obi-Wan and Vader talk about. The last thing we see before the mask is removed is Vader pressing a button on his belt.
The button is a distress beacon that now-Emperor Palpatine receives. He orders a group of stormtroopers to find Vader and return him to Coruscant.
The end of the movie sees Vader being fitted with new armor (the ANH armor) and a mechanical right arm, while Obi-Wan brings Anakin's son into exile with him on Tatooine. (In my view, Beru is Obi-Wan's sister, and Anakin has never been to Tatooine, so not looking for Luke there makes a little bit of sense.)
You should really be thanking a buddy of mine (who doesn't post here, so I guess you can't). I'd given him a 16GB thumb drive in exchange for some ganja when I was dry a few months ago. I was at his apartment yesterday and went to use the thumb drive to pop a movie on it to watch in the Xbox, and lo and behold, he hadn't even touched a damn thing on it ... including those covers!
Blind, dumb luck.
I think it's just implied that Luke figures it out on his own. Which, I must admit, is an improvement in my mind (as someone who's dead set against keeping the brother/sister subplot in any of the movies).
Nice!
You still have Ben's disembodied voice guiding Luke at the end of Star Wars.
Ah, you're right. I guess I'm behind on my Evil Dead news.
Oh, duh. I knew the Ashley J. Williams name, I don't know why it slipped my mind.
Raimi is currently working on a remake of the first movie, I believe. He's said that it will be in a separate continuity, and the existence of the remake does not mean that a proper Evil Dead 4 won't be made.
Speaking of which, is that the accepted official name for the character, or just a joke that Sam Raimi and/or Bruce Campbell like to say?
Sluggo said:
I wonder if I legally changed my name to Sluggo, would it help me get the babes?
I doubt changing my name to Ash would help me any.
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Changed my avatar because A) turns out Photobooth mirrors the pictures it takes for some reason, and B) I figured I should show you guys my face without a sandwich in my mouth.
I was 15 when I first joined the site. Doesn't feel like that long ago...
Hey, look what I found!
I've been making the sandwich I'm eating in my current avatar* almost every day since I first made it a week or two ago:
Roast beef, two slices of sharp cheddar cheese, lettuce, four slices of a tomato, several crinkle-cut sandwich pickles, and possibly some mayo depending on if I'm in the mood for it, all on a hoagie roll.
The hoagie roll is what makes it.
*as it's no longer my current avatar, said image is reproduced below:
TML, how old are you, if you don't mind my asking? I'm going to guess 16 based on your picture.
Mielr said:
dark_jedi said:
I tried to put them where they are on the GOUT, but I am limited to what IMGBurn will do, when I watched them they were not even noticed on my player when the layer changed, I really don't know why this question is always brought up, new players should play right through smoothly.
The reason I ask is because all of my players (except my computer) pause at the point of the layer breaks, on every DL DVD I play. That's 1 old Sony, 1 new Sony and my new Panasonic Blu-Ray player (BD65).
Guess it's just me (?) :-/
I was kind of under the impression that the only players out there that played DL DVDs seamlessly were Oppos.
I'm using a crappy $40 Sony DVD player from Target, and it plays through layer breaks seamlessly every time.
Problem is, that's pretty much impossible with prequel footage. It only works on a complete prequel re-write.
But yeah, that's my preferred way - Obi-Wan has an apprentice before Anakin, and by the end of the PT, we assume that Anakin is dead and his first apprentice is Vader.
Ah, I see. That's disappointing. I'll check out eac3to, thanks for the suggestion.