ChainsawAsh

Matt.F said:

The larger problem with the deleted scene is that it pre-empts and diminishes the already perfect introduction to the Falcon. The music swells Ben and Luke enter the Falcon hangar, then the music drops for Luke to deliver his classic “What a piece of junk!”.

Plus, I don’t think the deleted Jabba scene gives us anything we didn’t already have as viewers. It doesn’t show us a new environment, the extra plot about Han’s debt is extraneous and covered more efficiently in other scenes, the CGI execution is very poor, and Han’s dialogue “you’re a wonderful human being” doesn’t make sense with the eventual non-human rendition of Jabba.

I think the scene is an interesting extra curio but the film is better without it.

All of this is exactly why the scene was cut in the first place. Let’s not forget that the dialogue in the Greedo scene was altered (including lifting two of Han’s lines wholesale from the audio track of the Jabba scene) to cover what little was lost by cutting this scene … and wasn’t changed back when the scene was reinserted for the SE.

DuracellEnergizer said:

snooker said:

Watchmen (2009)

5/10

Had a lot of pretty good moments but a tasteless sex scene and overly edgy main character brought it down.

Zach Snyder & Alan Moore are a bad combination.

I rather like the “Midnight” fan edit of the Ultimate Cut.

I think he meant having it on a single line.

Check out phildesfr’s Mega link - it includes resource files such as logos, including the SW one unstacked as seen on the spine of his SW cover.

I could be wrong, but I believe the plan is for Poita’s scan to be used as the basis for 4K80, but the scanning itself/Poita’s work on it and 4K80 are separate projects.

The Bib Fortuna idea could be feasible…if we had a clean HD copy of the original deleted scene, sans CGI.

I’d donate if my financial situation wasn’t so tight right now…too bad the new job doesn’t start til next week…

You’re probably thinking of the mono mix for Star Wars, which was used on some TV broadcasts in the early 80s. It’s been restored by the community and is available as an optional audio track on several projects, such as Harmy’s Despecialized and 4K77.

NeverarGreat said:

Anakin Starkiller said:

Why complain about the flawless CG Leia rather than the admirable, but could use improvement CG Tarkin?

OutboundFlight said:

Leia showing up at all was pure fan service, and really makes no sense if you think about it. What was a senator doing at the Attack in Scariff? Strategically speaking all she was was a liability. If she was captured, Alderaan would be proven guilty of rebellion. She wasn’t fighting nor did she have any expertise, and the plan was to escape via the big ship (as per Raddus’s orders) not the freighter. Why is she there?

Or, you know, they put her there for continuity?

Her cover story to Vader in ANH relies on him not knowing that she (or her ship) was involved on Scarif. If she knew that Vader watched the Tantive IV fly away with the plans, it makes her story kinda stupid.

It’s her trying to save face in the only way she can because she knows she’s fucked anyway.

But I agree, they shouldn’t have had her or the Tantive IV at Scarif at all, that was a mistake. Not doing that would have made this particular handwave unnecessary.

Man, I can’t keep up with this thread with how sporadic my forum time has been lately, but…

Chewielewis said:

I don’t think I would call TPM well crafted.

I never said it was well-crafted, I said it was more well-crafted than AOTC or ROTS, which is a pretty low bar.

John_ said:

Star Wars 9 Adds Dominic Monaghan To Its Cast

Awesome! I’ve always been a fan of Monaghan; he was great in LOTR and Lost.

Hell yeah! Always happy to see Dom in more stuff, super excited about this news!

chyron8472 said:

So, there are people here who say TPM is the best PT film?
…but its plot is completely pointless, as the only relevant bits are summed up by character dialogue in AOTC. The very fact that you can watch Star Wars in machete order (4-5-2-3-6) and cut out TPM altogether without missing anything says something.

I don’t care that it’s “pointless” because it’s a more well-crafted film than AOTC (which is also 90% “pointless”) and ROTS (which is just a checklist of shit that should have been spread across three films crammed into one, which makes it less “pointless” by necessity, but also makes it a worse film).

So it is a Game of Thrones crossover! I knew it!

It would be very difficult, honestly. Once the sound mix is done, it’s very hard, if not impossible, to separate the mixed elements. If we had a complete score soundtrack release, it might be doable, but I don’t think The Expanse has such a release to work from.

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

IIRC, I mixed it with ginger ale (bourbon being the proper spirit to complement that mixer 😛)

I mean, you should really be using ginger beer, but ginger ale works in a pinch, I suppose.

Handman said:

Does it have a Windows browser, and does it perform just as well? I’m kind of sick of Firefox’s bloat.

EDIT: Read up more on its ad scheme. Sounds dirty.

All that is opt-in for now, not a thing on mobile at all yet, and it seems like an attempt to compromise between “no ads” and “sites need to make money to stay alive.” We’ll see what happens with their cryptocurrency thing and how paying both the user seeing the ads and the site owner using the ads actually works. Plus I like the idea of ads seen when you opt-in being vetted by the browser creators, and using the data from the user’s browser itself instead of from third party data mining companies to target the ads seen by the user.

Really it boils down to who you want having control over ads you see - tons of random third party services chosen by the websites you visit that track your shit, or just the company that makes the browser you use, who already track your shit, and only on sites that have partnered with them to share the revenue.

Of course, it’s entirely possible I’m not fully understanding some aspects of the way they intend this all to work, or that they could be obfuscating some things. But for now, I’m only using it on mobile, where all ads are still blocked and you can’t opt in to seeing Brave approved ads at all.

Started using Brave as my phone’s web browser. Chrome had been frequently crashing on my on Reddit, so I switched to Firefox, which generally makes websites look like crap on mobile, but allowed me to use ublock to ditch ads, which I got used to.

Learned about Brave today, which looks and behaves mostly like Chrome but doesn’t crash on me, and has a built in ad blocker. No problems so far. I think I’m sold. Adios, Chrome & Firefox.

DuracellEnergizer said:

What’re your feelings on mixing bourbon & gin?

You monster…

Octorox said:

Sorry about this. I had to take my edits off Google Drive due to copyright issues and I currently don’t have another solution for hosting them (besides myspleen). If someone would be able to help me with hosting them elsewhere, please PM me and I’d be willing to work it out. Until then I can’t really provide the edits to anyone who doesn’t have myspleen access.

Emphasis added.

Collipso said:

is Jerry the villain of Tom and Jerry?

Youth is believing that Tom is the villain.

Maturity is knowing that Jerry is.

Finished the (half) season. It gets much better in the last 3 episodes, as the show actually has ongoing story arcs and things finally converge toward the end. I’m hoping the show finds its footing now and the back half of the season (and any potential future seasons) can hit the ground running.

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

Salamander

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ChainsawAsh said:

Possessed said:

Octopus

Salamander

Disenchantment, Matt Groening’s new show on Netflix.

Not quite done with the half-season, but I’m enjoying it a lot so far.

Possessed said:

Octopus

Salamander

Ostrich

Rikter! Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time…

Glad to see you back around, and I’m excited to see what you’ve got cooking with this project!