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Excessive DNR and oversharpening resulting in heavy edge enhancement halos in the 35mm scenes, which was also an issue for the original IMAX prints if I remember right.
Either theatrical or Director’s Cut. The Special Edition has a studio-mandated extended ending that’s garbage - it was forced on Spielberg as a condition for giving him the budget to shoot new scenes.
The theatrical cut is still good, but feels slightly incomplete. The Director’s Cut is the best, most balanced version IMO, taking the new material shot from the Special Edition, restoring some theatrical scenes that were cut in the SE, and restoring the theatrical cut ending. But it’s not like the material missing from the theatrical cut completely cripples the movie the way it does in something like Kingdom of Heaven, for instance.
And yet people still whine about the ST being “SJW” this and “Feminazi” that. Just like people are bitching about DW having an “agenda” now.
and I am sure that every single person that is upset with the ST is upset for only one reason: a female lead. Yeah, right.
Also, neither Leia nor Padme were the leads in their trilogies.
come on, both were major stars in their trilogies. One can argue that Leia outranked both Luke and Han in the Rebellion. Padme was the leader of a whole planet and a Senator.
Similarly to how DW has had strong female characters for decades in companions like Barbara, Liz Shaw, Sarah Jane, Ace, Amy Pond, and so on and so forth, but God forbid you cast a woman in the lead role…
They didn’t just cast a women, they turned a character that had been make for over 50 years into a female. They didn’t do it for the sake of the show, they did it for PC reasons
Likely it was done for both reasons simultaneously…it appears the newest obsession is the temptation to rewrite much of history (pardon, herstory 😉) so as to be ritualistically inclusive of the modern narrative…though this is not all negative, it does have a tendency to becomes particularly grating when it appears to be overtly obvious.
A female lead is refreshing in many instances and can be quite satisfying to watch, but it can also be remarkably distasteful when the reason for it coming about appears to be the result of a cynical attempt to woo a modern audience with the now dully expected gender-reversal reveal. This is not novel–it was preordained…and in being so it loses its effect. It appears more of a trite pandering and devalued attempt to ride the subset of a particular sentiment rather than a truly insightful opportunity to portray a woman in a dominant role.
It would have been a vastly improved position to have given a more realistic phasing out of the old male doctor in favour of this new preeminent character rather than this sudden forced overtaking of another’s position. This is because it would then have allowed the woman in question to have shown her proper qualifications for being so chosen and respected…it would have allowed her to essentially arrive as her own person, with as strong and independent a stride and mannerism as she should desire…whereas currently it appears merely as though she might have been placed in full force through an obvious propping up, as though affirmative action might be considered the only possible means of providing a proper central role for a woman in these circumstances…unnecessarily cheapening the experience for many, rather than providing a healthy and welcome change…
I don’t understand this at all. The show has eased audiences into the idea of a female Doctor by having other Time Lord characters swap genders when regenerating over the past few years. And the nature of how actor changes happen in the show means it has to be sudden - the Doctor is dying and must regenerate to survive. I don’t know how you’d go about “easing” any new actor into the Doctor role, let alone a woman. You can’t just introduce a female actor and then have them take over the Doctor role. That’s not how the show (or the character) works.
Capaldi is fantastic, but most of his stories rely somewhat heavily on knowledge of earlier episodes, especially in his better seasons (9 and 10).
I’d probably recommend Mummy on the Orient Express as a Capaldi episode for a newcomer, though it is pretty heavy on Clara arc stuff. Listen is another excellent one but, again, a bit Clara arc heavy, and also a little reliant on overall series lore.
I don’t like recommending Blink to people as a first episode because it’s a Doctor-lite episode, and as such doesn’t really represent the show as a whole. But it is an amazing episode.
^ What Dom said.
I was wondering who was holding the camera…
It also looks like something I would have created.
Those are both bad things.
Man you have children
I spent more than 10 seconds on that though.
Citation needed.
What, he didn’t send you the tape?
You realize he was just parodying you when you say you aren’t going to engage with insert poster right?
Yes, this upcoming season is the first time the Doctor will be female. Until the Master regenerated into a female, no Timelord had ever switched genders in the history of the show.
Yeah I understand that but is there any legitimate reason why it shouldn’t be besides that it hasn’t before? I mean if there’s a new doctor all the time why can’t it be female? It’s not like a regular character switching gender.
There’s no legitimate reason why it shouldn’t be, no. See me above post (that I seem to have posted at the same time you posted this one).
You realize he was just parodying you when you say you aren’t going to engage with insert poster right?
While this is mostly true, I did also mean it.
Also I must admit my understanding of DW is very limited, but HAS it always been a male? I thought it was kinda like a trill. Sure it always HAS been a male, but does it HAVE to be? I mean it’s not like Luke was suddenly a woman in the ST or anything, doesn’t the very gimmick of the series enable the doctor to be a woman sometimes?
There’s been no reason why the Doctor can’t regenerate as a female. There have been references peppered into the show since 2005 (the Ninth Doctor explaining that he might even look like a different species after he regenerates was taken to imply he could change genders, then in 2010 the Eleventh Doctor thought he was a girl until he felt his Adam’s apple, Eleven explicitly said that the Corsair had been a woman in one regeneration in 2011, Missy was revealed to be a female regeneration of the Master in 2014, and we see an on-screen male-to-female regeneration in 2015). It was also considered many times in the 1980s.
Yet it’s “ruining the show” or something now that the Doctor is a female, just because (s)he never has been before.
(because I’m a pig)
You said it, not me.
And before you go whine to the mods like they’re your mommy and daddy once again, I’m done and will not be engaging on this (or probably any other) topic with you from now on.
And yet people still whine about the ST being “SJW” this and “Feminazi” that. Just like people are bitching about DW having an “agenda” now.
Also, neither Leia nor Padme were the leads in their trilogies. Luke and Anakin were (at least I think Anakin was the lead in the PT). Similarly to how DW has had strong female characters for decades in companions like Barbara, Liz Shaw, Sarah Jane, Ace, Amy Pond, and so on and so forth, but God forbid you cast a woman in the lead role…
Yeah, shit’s gonna suck until the novelty of a female Doctor blows over. Just like the Star Wars fandom sucked until people got used to a female lead in the sequel trilogy.
Wait … shit.
Well, first, he saw a print that would’ve been made back on 2008, not a digital copy. Second, Christopher Nolan doesn’t like digital, so he tries to keep his stuff film-based as much as possible. Third, the original BR release of TDK had a lot of problems, and color was one of them; the recent 4K UHD restoration (which went back to the negatives, meaning the color would have to be retimed) didn’t come with a 1080p copy of the new restoration, and there is, of course, controversy in the film community about the color timing choices of the UHD restoration anyway.
Also:
There is no genre of space fantasy. It doesn’t exist.
Says who? Is there an official list of genres that is set in stone for all eternity? Who made the list and why did they decide to add cyberpunk to it in the 1980s, but space fantasy is apparently strictly forbidden?
Inb4 someone quotes Clarke’s Third Law…
Oh? It’s been so long since I’ve forced myself through Battle. I just remembered the “worship the atom bomb” part from Beneath.
Yeah, seriously. It starts with a reworded version of “Once upon a time;” an evil wizard-knight who’s also a Lord kidnaps a princess while the princess tries to contact a good wizard-knight to help fight evil; the good wizard takes a lowly farmboy yearning for adventure under his wing and starts training him to be a knight; the pair recruit a rogue and his beastly sidekick to help them on their journey; the group infiltrates the evil castle to rescue the princess; the wizard-knights duel with swords…
…yep, no fantasy whatsoever in there.
I think that would be an entirely separate project from this with different goals.
I think Escape from the planet of the Apes is underrated.
It’s certainly the best of the sequels. As in the only one that’s watchable. But it is good.
But… Conquest…
Is that the one wear the apes and people are living in peace in the jungle on the edge of NYC until the radicals mount a war? and then at the end the two people decide to worship the Atom bomb?
Uh, no. You’re thinking of Beneath Battle.
Conquest is the one after Escape, set in the 1990s, about the initial ape uprising.
Escape is both a sequel to Beneath and a prequel to the original, thanks to time travel. Conquest, likewise, is a sequel to Escape and a prequel to the original.
For my money:
I’m not including the Burton one or the reboot series since they’re all so distinctive from the original series, but reboot films (especially the first one) take a lot from Conquest.
Best source to use to blend a bit better with the deleted scenes would be something like the Silver Screen Edition. Both versions of 4K77 are too clean IMO, even the non-DNR version, to match without doing extensive cleanup work on the deleted scenes. Unless you want to artificially “dirty” up 4K77 or Despecialized, but I don’t see the point when you’ve got the SSE available.
Grindhouse for ESB would provide an equivalent source for that. For ROTJ, though, you probably will need to dirty up one of your primary sources to match the deleted scenes, but the ROTJ Grindhouse would be your best bet to start off with. It’s much cleaner than the SSE or ESB Grindhouse, though.
Holy hell, I love those Tech-inspired regrades! Would love to see the movie with a LUT like this applied, even though I really don’t have any issue with the original colors.
And from the screenshots I’ve seen of the BR, Solo is in desperate need of exactly this style of regrade, too.
Damn. Figured it was a bit of a long shot, but still - it’s bugged me ever since it was pointed out to me.
I’m actually pretty sure all Imperial officers have the same rank insignia in Jedi. I’d love to see that fixed as well.
I’ve considered watching Dr. Who. I have no idea where to start. Can someone point me in the right direction? Should I just watch the best episodes to see if I like the concept? Should I start with a certain series? Does it matter? I’d like to know because I think it’s daunting.
If you’re looking for a “litmus test” episode to see if you like the concept, I’d recommend “The Girl in the Fireplace” from series 2, the “Silence in the Library”/“Forest of the Dead” two-parter from Series 4, or “Vincent and the Doctor” from series 5.
If you’re looking for a jumping on point to start from and continue on, I’d recommend starting with Series 5 (The Eleventh Hour is the first episode), which was the first episode with a new head writer, production team, and entirely fresh cast. It purposefully doesn’t rely on knowledge of earlier seasons and was designed as a jumping on point, but it has more modern production values than 2005’s Series 1, which is still a bit early-00s cheesy.
You could start with Series 8 (first Twelfth Doctor episode) or Series 10 (first episode with the most recent companion, also designed to be a jumping on point), but both of those start to rely on knowledge of earlier seasons much more quickly.
The new season (Series 11), like Series 5, has an entirely new cast and new production team, so it’ll likely be an excellent starting point, too.
I think Escape from the planet of the Apes is underrated.
It’s certainly the best of the sequels. As in the only one that’s watchable. But it is good.
But… Conquest…