ChainsawAsh

xhonzi said:

It could use more Baldwin, but he's still good on the show.  I've really been enjoying Dalton, however.  This and Hot Fuzz almost make up for License to Kill... from time to time.

Hey, Licence to Kill is substantially better than most people make it out to be.  It's definitely better than any of the Roger Moore films.

And Dalton will always be the best Bond to me.

Watch out for this.

skyjedi, you seem to have missed out on a lot of new information in the past few months.

They never advertised it as anything but "The Star Wars Trilogy," IIRC, but they did acknowledge in interviews/press releases that it would be the Special Editions and not the originals.

HOWEVER, I don't think they ever said that additional changes were being made.  When the Hayden-in-ROTJ shot was leaked a few weeks early, most people thought it was a fake, and that Lucas would never do something like that.  Obviously, they were wrong.

And despite me being a purist, I hate the idea of bringing the "law" into it, especially as in your last paragraph which is just ridiculous.

hairy_hen said:

Johnny Ringo said:

Now in the middle of Buffy season 2.  Even though there are great episodes later that exceed it

Surely you jest?

Well, the season 4 finale 'Restless' comes to mind, and 'Once More With Feeling' from season 6, but generally the best of later years tend to be individual episodes, while season 2 was the most consistently well written and watchable as a whole.

Agreed, with Season 3 as a close second (though season 6 is my second-favorite season, I acknowledge that it's definitely not the second-best).

And outside of "Restless" and OMWF, you've also got "The Body," "Conversations with Dead People," "The Zeppo," "Hush," "Fool for Love," "Tabula Rasa," and a few others that are definitely better individually than any one episode in Season 2.

The last half hour or so of [REC] is the only thing movie-wise that's legitimately scared me in about five or six years.

Yeah, they finally finished the "Workprint" cut of 3 for the Blu-Ray.  You don't feel like you're watching half a movie anymore - it could have been released in theaters that way in 1992.

Anyway, my vote is and always shall be for Alien.

Alien - 5
Aliens - 5

(as Frink was the last one to post a vote, I'm using his 4-5 count.  I agree that MJPollard's votes don't count.)

doubleofive said:

Finished BSG (again) the other night. Still haven't watched "The Plan" TV movie, so I've got a couple hours left with the fleet.

I wouldn't watch it.  A lot of people really hated the finale and thought it was "offensive" in some way (quoting my Science Fiction Studies prof here), but I thought "The Plan" was substantially worse and more "offensive" than the series finale.

I don't think the 4-disc set released in 2004 is in print, but the 6-disc set that includes both the 2004 DVDs and the GOUT is definitely still in print, as well as the individual GOUT releases, which include the 2004 DVDs as disc 1 in each set.

I doubt you'll find anything close to sounding as good as ABC's Empire score for SW and Jedi.  The only way to do that is to take one of ABC's SW or Jedi score restorations and make your own isolated score track with it.

What is your source for that statement, LTDIF?  The article you linked to certainly doesn't indicate one way or the other.

DJ and ABC's Empire score-only edition is pretty fantastic.  It's not as cool if you don't watch the film in black-and-white with it, but it still sounds brilliant either way.

Not sure about any particularly good SW or ROTJ score-only tracks.

Oh yeah, that 720p version looks absolutely fantastic.  So much better than the YouTube one.

The Evil Dead is okay, but not amazing.  It's more for hardcore Bruce Campbell or horror fans than anything.

Evil Dead II, however, is absolutely fucking hilarious, amazing, and one of my favorite films of all time.

Army of Darkness is just campy fun all around.

So, which style are they going to go with for the remake/reboot/whatthefuckever?

Well, sorry guys, but I still haven't been able to find those '90s VHS-style covers.

Did anyone else happen to save them, perchance?

This thread almost made my brain explode.  And I didn't even look at pages 2 and 3.

Dude, seriously, if you're going to show off your work, you are going to get people telling you what they think of it.  If you don't like that people might not agree with some of the choices you made in creating said work, then don't post work in a public forum for people to criticize!

I remember that HH had some issues with Ady's sound mix, mainly caused by the fact that he combined the '97 SE front channels with the '04 SE rear channels.  I thought it sounded great, but that's just me.

I don't think they will until more people have Blu-Ray players than DVD players.

They said the GOUT set would be "limited" and would be pulled from stores after a certain amount of time.  That was five years ago, and I still see them on the shelf at Target all the time.  Not to mention the "trilogy" box set that includes them.

ThrowgnCpr said:

yeah, don't know about BD-RB, but I'm also using meGUI on win7 64bit with no problems

DJ, another handy tool for MKV creation is mkvMerge.  It comes with the mkvtoolnix pack.  Its nice for muxing audio files into the mkv (like adding all the audio tracks you are working on).

mkvtoonix is fantastic - that's what I used to add all the PCM tracks I had to the MKVs I made of your V1 set, DJ.

adywan said:

I'm not sure if you can output an anamorphic mkv because there are a lot of players that don't recognise the anamorphic flag so would diplay it at the incorrect ratio.

For the record, my player can read the anamorphic flag correctly.  I don't know how common this is, though, so I'd probably follow Ady's advice.

Dude, Leonardo DiCaprio is one of my favorite actors working today!  He's been consistently good in everything he's done in about the past decade.  For proof, see:

• Catch Me if You Can
• Gangs of New York
• The Aviator
• Blood Diamond (though I'm not a giant fan of the movie itself)
• The Departed
• Revolutionary Road
• Shutter Island
• And, of course ... Inception

Kurgan said:

ChainsawAsh said:

It seems like every time you post a new clip, someone has an issue with the audio, and you have to remind them that you won't work on audio until the video is completely done.  People have such short attention spans! ;-)

Sorry, what?

Just put "RTFM" in your signature or write a FAQ, I suppose. Not everyone spends every day on these forums.

Or you could, you know, read the YouTube video description.  But that's another thing no one ever seems to do.

DJ, I don't know about a lossless AVI.  I always use HandBrake myself, but I don't think I've ever encoded an MKV from a lossless codec before.

I thought the whole point of making an MKV version was to be able to do it at the best possible quality without being forced into disc space requirements.  It really bugs me when I see people upload 1080p MKVs ... that are 4.3 GB.  They invariably look like shit, but hey, it can fit on a DVD-5, right?

I know it's not exactly the same thing with this (being that this won't be HD), but it would sadden me to think that the MKV's video quality was compromised just because some people burn their MKVs to DVD.

In fact, that seems especially pointless to me in this case.  If you're doing that, why not just download the DVD?!

It seems like every time you post a new clip, someone has an issue with the audio, and you have to remind them that you won't work on audio until the video is completely done.  People have such short attention spans! ;-)