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The Social Network.
I'll just copy/paste what I wrote on my Facebook (haha) status about this movie:
Saw "Social Network" tonight. It's a good movie about a bunch of giant assholes screwing each other over. And then it just sort of stops, and the credits roll.
Um, did you mean to send a private message to Ady? This looks like a PM to me.
If you did not, in fact, post a PM to the Off Topic forum by mistake, and you actually meant for this to be a forum post ... why?
The GOUT has a few other weird visual issues, like one green laser that should be red in ROTJ, or the lights in Luke's garage in SW that are the wrong color, or the holograms' scanlines being...well, different, or the binocular HUD being red instead of green (or vice versa?) in ESB.
Check out the Complete Comparison thread if you're interested in these weird issues that no one can quite seem to make sense of.
Who looks at post titles?
And yeah, I believe the only difference was the opening shot of the film was redone to accomodate the new title, including the crawl and the first shot after the pan-down from the crawl. This was done so it would be easy to just take 1977 prints and splice in the new first shots, if I'm not mistaken (ironically, the reverse happened with the GOUT DVD - the original source material was an '81-or-later print, and they spliced in a scan of a '77 print for the original opening shot/crawl).
The only other difference (if I'm not mistaken) is that the 1981 re-release was never shown with the mono mix, just the '77 stereo mix. (I'm also not sure if the '81 version was ever released in 70mm.)
Yeah, you never would have had a problem checking knives or (unloaded) guns on an airplane. You just can't carry them on, and the guns have to be kept in a separate container from any ammunition, which needs to be in a locked container that only you have the key and/or combination to. And you need to declare it when you're checking your bags.
I really like the way it all flows together, it makes the fight more exciting.
A few notes:
- Definitely lose the music, it just doesn't feel right at all. I'd go for something much more subtle than that. Maybe a rendition of the Emperor's Theme?
- I'd highly recommend working with the lightsabers to make them look more like they should be, especially in the shot where they cross in front of the Emperor's face. I know, they're all screwed up on the official DVD, but that doesn't mean they can't look awesome in your edit, right?
- I don't know if this is your plan, but if you put the whole fight in one go like this, it makes it feel very short. I'd cut away to Endor or the space battle after Vader throws his lightsaber, then come back to Vader hunting for Luke a few minutes later. It'll make the fight feel longer.
The last thing I'll say about Force ghosts - you don't have to have Luke look at them at all, just them watching Luke as he says goodbye to his father would be poignant enough.
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And any episode spent watching Kate is not a bad thing :-)
You say that now. Give it a couple seasons.
Having said that, why have me watch all 42 minutes and not tell me what she actually did to get arrested?
Because it's Lost - you're gonna have to get used to shit like that.
(This post makes me sound much more disillusioned with Lost than I actually am. I don't hate the finale, or the last season. I'm just trying to be realistic when it comes to what newcomers to the show should expect, I guess.)
Oh, and you can definitely still see the SE Sarlacc in a couple of wide shots. You did a wonderful, seamless job of cutting Fett out, though, which is nice. I've been a big supporter of a Fett-less Jedi for a long time.
OOOooooh, shit, you're right. My bad.
I wouldn't recommend using uncompressed if you're editing DVD or Blu-Ray material. I'd suggest ProRes 422 (HQ) or ProRes 4444.
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Aaah! You kept Naboo! *gasp*
Is there a way to put the Force ghosts at the funeral pyre scene, at the end? With Sebastian Shaw, of course.
But double-dipping is just economics. It makes the studio more money, so why wouldn't they do that? If consumers buy into it, that's their problem, but I see no reason why it should be illegal.
Wow. It looks like you may have made my ideal ROTJ! I'm quite excited to see how this works...
Yeah, well, "Lucasfilm's digital wizards" did such a good job screwing up what wasn't broken for the 2004 DVDs (and I'm not talking about new SE additions) that I wouldn't have trusted them to try and remove the "blob," either.
I understand that, but it also becomes a more serious issue when captions for the deaf/hard of hearing are considered a "special feature" and not included on rental copies, as was the case with Up.
Oh dear God, I wish that were the case.
That's another thing that's a big gray area when it comes to film, though - with so many people that work on it, who owns the copyright? The director? The screenwriter? The producer? The film studio?
Many of the more recent ones I've rented have not had them at all. Toy Story 3 is one I specifically remember - I was furious because I couldn't watch "Night & Day" (the short that screened before the movie in theaters) without buying the movie.
Well, the original versions on TV and home video were always too bright, which made the "blob" stand out much more. It would have been very difficult to see in a theatrical presentation in either 1983 or 1997, much like garbage mattes.
The 2004 DVDs, however, were too dark, making the blob even harder to see. Plus, on the one shot when it's clearly visible (the 'saber cross in front of the laughing Emperor), the lightsaber cores are all sorts of messed up.
Harmy, in fixing the lightsabers in this shot, had to brighten it up to the point where the blob is, unfortunately, pretty clearly visible once more.
But I'd rather have fixed lightsabers than fix the Emperor's head slug.
Yep. He was in a 1959 adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles and 1984's The Masks of Death. He also apparently replaced Douglas Wilmer in a late 1960s Holmes BBC TV series, but I can't find a page on the series (apparently it was simply called Sherlock Holmes).
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I was wrong, it's not Cushing in that picture.
Mmm...tacos sound good...
Happy birthday! (Mine's on Wednesday!)
He didn't remove said blob, and it's still visible in this version. Just thought you ought to know before you download it, so you're not surprised.
And you are crazy for liking ROTJ that much. ;-)
What about a film that underwent severe cuts due to censorship upon its initial release? By your law, if the studio is able to restore the cuts and release the film uncensored, they would have to include the censored version too, since that's what appeared in theaters on its initial run. That would just cause too many headaches.
What if you've already released the original theatrical cut, then you have a director's cut you want to release? By your law, you'd have to include the theatrical cut with the director's cut, even if the theatrical cut had had a prior release.
The government doesn't need to be involved in everything. A law such as that would cause a lot more headaches than you seem to anticipate.
And a law requiring them to utilize the full capacity of the disc? That's stupid. That limits a lot of what you can do with extra features, commentaries, picture-in-picture commentaries, lossless audio mixes, etc. Plus, most films don't need the full capacity of the disc. Requiring them to use it is wasteful.