ChainsawAsh

Cee Lo Green - Fuck You

He made a clean version?!  Aw, that ruins it!  "Fuck You" is one of my favorite songs from recent memory, it's hilarious!

Hey, reldra JediTray:

That's not the way you get let back in.  In fact, I'd say your chances now are even worse than they were before you made this sock account.

This all reminds me way too much of Janskeet...

generalfrevious said:

50 years from now people will think dated 90s CGI was actually from the late 70s.

This is probably what bothers me the most about Lucas' stance on the Special Editions.

As I thought Series 5 was the most enjoyable series of Doctor Who since its return, I'm going to avoid reading that article, as nothing about the series really bothers me at the moment, and I'd rather not give myself anything to be bothered by.

I'm with Bingowings.  I really like River, and I don't have a problem with Amy.  Rory's my favorite companion since 2005, hands down.

I'll give transcoding a shot over Thanksgiving, and if it doesn't work I'll let you know.

How big would it be as an uncompressed AVI?  Would that be too much to deal with?

Alternatively, I can just throw it on a thumb drive and take it home with me over Thanksgiving and transcode it on my brother's computer.  That might be the easiest thing all around.

Okay, the unRARing worked (I just had to change the extension for the first file, as I thought), but I can't seem to be able to view the file.  It appears you used Lagarith, right, DJ?

Does anyone know of a way to get Lagarith to work on a Mac?

Leguman said:

Actually, I really wonder !

Kratos from the God of War games.

And I'm already 2/3 done with your first set of RARs, DJ.  But if they don't work, thanks for posting the new ones - that's the style of split-RARs I'm used to.

--edit--

For the record, I don't think a selectable crawl is a bad idea.  I just think that it adds on even more work for DJ when he's been working his ass off on this project, and I completely understand if he doesn't want to add to that.

dark_jedi said:

ChainsawAsh said:

Why is part 1 an .exe file?

That is just they way winrar rar'd the avi file, it is OK.

So, should I just change the extension to .rar, then?  I'm on a Mac, so .exe is useless to me.

Why is part 1 an .exe file?

I don't have usenet access, unfortunately.

And yeah, it's the PAL DVD set he did, transferred from the PAL LDs.  I just want the first one, for the opening crawl, really.

One of my favorite cinema experiences was seeing the 1927 Nosferatu, at the Chicago Music Box theatre, with live organ accompaniment.  It was a fantastic print, too - all the proper tintings intact, original German intertitles with English subtitles to translate them.

I'm quite sad I missed the new version of Metropolis when they showed it.

I'm still adamant that I won't read any of the books until I see Deathly Hallows, Part 2 twice, the second time being part of a marathon where I watch all 8 movies.  That way, I get to see the entire film series, at least once, as objectively as possible.

Then I'm going to re-read all 7 books, and watch the movies again, so I can watch them the way my mother watches each new one - with an impossibly critical eye, comparing every scene in the movies to every chapter in the books.

I absolutely agree.  Honestly, it wouldn't bother me too much if we never see the gunners themselves, but I'd love to see the guns firing as the Falcon flies around through the battle.

Yeah, the GOUT uses the 1977, pre-Episode IV crawl.  It's the only home video version that does.

For the purposes of this project, I'd absolutely leave it that way.  A selectable crawl would be nice, I suppose, but as DJ said, this is meant to be the best representation of the 1977 theatrical cut as can be had, and using the 1981 crawl would undermine that, in my opinion.

I'd still like to have it for myself, so again, if anyone knows where to find Moth3r's PAL LD preservation, PM me.

TV's Frink said:

The Men Who Stare at Goats

*snore*

Aw, I liked that movie.  :-(

Well, I (and many here) don't, because of everything he's done since 1997.  I don't understand how you can blindly support all his decisions, even when his decisions are as shitty as they have been for the last 13 years.

Come to think of it, if it weren't for Indiana Jones, I wouldn't support anything he did between 1980 and 1997, either.  Empire was the last great Star Wars film - he hasn't made a single good decision about the franchise since it came out.  It's like it was a domino effect that began with Gary Kurtz leaving.

The question thing sounds like trying to watch Lost with my dad.  Or, come to think of it, any Harry Potter movie.

I've walked into the AMC River East in Chicago holding a bottle of Mountain Dew in my hand and a pack of Reese's Pieces sticking out of my pocket.  No one said a word.

Hence why I put it in "quotes."

Most families nowadays don't bat an eye at PG-13, in my experience.  You wouldn't believe the complaints we got when I worked at the theater in my town when Batman Begins came out.

Apparently it's our fault that a 7-year-old wouldn't sleep for a week because her parents took him to see a PG-13 movie, since "Batman is supposed to be a family thing."  Harry Potter would just make that perception even stronger, being that the first few movies were obviously aimed at kids.

Well, no one quoted it, and it's been erased by Jay now.  I didn't save it, and I doubt anyone else did.

First - that picture is not from the movie.

Second - it's not actually Harry and Hermione kissing.  It's a vision shown to Ron by one of Voldemort's Horcruxes essentially to get him pissed off at Harry and Hermione.

In the book, IIRC, he sees them make out for a bit, and the vision ends.

As it's meant to be traumatizing for Ron, it was decided to have them naked in the movie in order to make it even more traumatizing.

However, no actual nudity is seen, from what I understand.  It is, after all, a PG-13 "family" movie.

The gist was that, since Dayv types in all-caps, he deserved to die of cancer.

As bad as that sounds, the way he worded it was even worse.