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I figured he was in a factory, and those were always around when I worked in one.
Not mine, sadly. I like the walking usually…but not for the last few days…
This might be more practical and affordable.
Someone at my office had something similar for a while after he broke his foot.
Yeah, that might not be a bad idea actually…
I don’t mean I walk 5-7 miles outside. I work in a factory doing QC testing in the lab. I have to walk to all the production lines to collect samples throughout the day for testing.
Though now that you mention it, I am forklift licensed, and there’s usually one or two not being used during my shift…
Interesting idea, but I think it sets the audience up to expect that to be a focus of the movie when it ends up being minor subtext at best.
Healing. And saying “don’t walk on it” doesn’t help because I can’t afford to miss work, and I walk around 5-7 miles a day at work alone (by necessity, not choice).
I’ve got tomorrow off so I won’t be doing shit but icing it and watching TV. On the plus side I’ll finally be able to watch some fan projects I’ve been putting off and give people feedback…
Anyone have tips for speeding along an Achilles tendon injury/strain?
Oh, right. Duh. I remember making a joke about that to my buddy on the way out the first time I saw it, don’t know how I forgot about it now.
Some of it’s pretty good. I didn’t realize for a while that ALL of the clone troopers are CGI.
But the bad stuff is really bad, and on balance it’s mostly bad stuff.
Which one?
Everybody please try and send some donations Poita’s way. An extremely rare unfaded ESB print has turned up that would be an invaluable resource for the community. ESB is the only one of the theatrical OT that we don’t have a good color reference for, and this print is exactly that.
Stop by his ESB thread in the Preservations section of the forum - there’s a PayPal link in his signature for donations.
I believe so.
I sent some cash your way for it, Poita. Wasn’t able to send too much this time sadly.
This is a really amazing find though, if anyone here has even a buck or two they can donate please do. This print of Empire will be invaluable for many reasons, but color is a huge one - it might even be the only quality complete color reference that has turned up for 1980 theatrical Empire.
I’ll try to send more with my paycheck next Friday, too.
I’m happy with it. We need more stuff between ROTJ and TFA.
Well there’s your problem, try not eating dog for breakfast.
Yeah, dog is more of a lunch meal, really.
I have a thing for knife play, but it doesn’t work if I’m the one cutting myself.
He pronounces Han the way Billy Dee did! I’m re-sold on Glover.
And love that Han calls him out on it.
Just got back from the dentist. Three cavities. Guess I got one for every year I skipped the dentist…
darthrush said:
I’ve got to say that it does sound a bit harsh to deny the opportunity of life to someone who might grow up in hard conditions. Is it better that they never lived or to give them a shot despite the chances of being miserable?One could use that sort of logic to conclude that using birth control is immoral. After all, what if your parents had used birth control? Then you wouldn’t have had a chance at life.
Good point.
I guess it really all comes back to the issue of when does a life truly begin. And to that, I do not know. Any time I define a point along the development of a human, I always feel unsure.
Right. This is why I prefer that laws on this follow scientific opinion rather than religious opinion.
And by science, doesn’t life begin at conception? That’s when the child starts growing anyway, which sounds pretty scientific to me.
“Life” begins long before conception. The unfertilized egg - heck even a red blood cell - is alive, but that doesn’t make it a person. Is it immoral to allow a blood cell to die? Is it immoral to get your hair cut because of the living hair cells that then are killed? The question isn’t whether it is “alive”, the question is at what point does a single fertilized cell become a human being.
Most religions have chosen to define that moment as the time of conception, but that is a wholly spiritual marker, since the only unique marker at that point is DNA - which is present in every cell of our body that we seem to be perfectly ok with when it dies (such as a blood cell or hair cell). In my opinion (and in the opinion of the courts), there are many other more reasonable points along the growth path that are less arbitrary, such as when the brain becomes active for the first time.
This this this.
My fucking creepy old man neighnor just woke me up…
…by throwing tables and chairs down the stairs from the third floor for a solid 30 minutes.
I went out and asked him what the fuck he was doing.
“Moving furniture.”
😡
Having seen 300 I know that Lena Heady isn’t exactly as, shall we say, voluptuous as the double they went with, so I assume it was for consistency. If Heady had done the second scene herself, the sudden loss of a cup size or two might have been more distracting than you think. I dunno.
I do think the second nude scene was unnecessary, especially when they had to go through the trouble of getting the double back and forking over the cash to CGI Lena’s head on her body again. They could easily have just had her, I dunno, wearing a nightgown in that scene instead.
The Walk of Shame nudity was necessary though.
“The Bar Scene”
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Man, that’s awesome! You have no idea how excited I am for this edit.
Okay, maybe you do have some idea. 😉
Another thing that rubs me the wrong way is the idea that I can’t possibly understand how awful it is that females appear nude in film because I’m not a woman that’s sick and tired of the objectification (and by the way there’s plenty of women that don’t feel that way). I may not share the same anatomy with women, but I definitely have more in common with 99% of women in this country than those women have in common with the actresses that appear nude in film. The main thing being that neither of us have or will appear nude in a film. Also, what if I wanted to make a film with nudity in it? (Female nudity of course because that’s more offensive.) Am I supposed to hire an actress for that role and then change or delete the nude scene because she, even though she accepted the role, doesn’t want that to be filmed? I know I’m a male and all, but isn’t it up to the actress? Assuming the actors aren’t mistreated in the process of making the scene, why is it offensive whether the scene is necessary or not? Don’t we respect the bodies and decisions made by women? That’s what I thought we were supposed to do but apparently I’m behind the times.
Many an actress has a nude double. Both the worst and best kept secret in the industry.
That’s also pretty common. I don’t see a problem with that either if they can make it work effectively. In that example I gave, though, sometimes the actor’s face needs to be in frame for it to work, especially if there’s interaction between characters during the scene.
I think there have been a couple instances of digital head replacement in recent years.
Lena Heady on Game of Thrones due to her pregnancy while shooting the Walk of Shame being a recent example, and her brief topless scene the next season with the same body double for consistency.
“The Bar Scene”
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Man, that’s awesome! You have no idea how excited I am for this edit.
One more thought: Since Rey claims that she’s specifically seen the island tree library in her dreams, it might be worth it to put an image of the tree into one of the Force visions.
I really like this idea, and I really like the new stab at the crawl. 😃
Of course not, but I’ve been taken out of a movie when they’re obviously trying to cut around nudity to the point of it looking terrible and stupid.
This is pretty much my feelings about it. If the character is supposed to be naked, and there’s a good reason for it (vulnerability, innocence, etc.) then cutting around it just feels prudish and unnatural.
It’s never wise to ask for something conclusive regarding religion.
I would like your personal views, and what your religions teach.
On the two specific answers, would I know I’ve been separated from God? The ceasing to exist part doesn’t sound like hell, it sounds like the most likely thing that happens to everyone that dies, so that’s a strange way to look at hell IMO.
I don’t belong to a religion fwiw. If one believes in souls and God, ceasing to exist = destruction and not something that happens as a matter of course to everybody. Between eternal paradise and ceasing to exist, it seems a great punishment.
Being separated from God would entail knowledge of it. Spending eternity with no meaning and no escape.
Interesting. I guess to a person who doesn’t believe there is a deity, neither of those sounds like any kind of punishment at all.
I waffle on my belief as to what happens after death, and it really depends on if a “soul” is a real thing.
If there’s no such thing as a soul, then we simply cease to exist, which is no different than not existing before we are born, and I didn’t mind that (because, you know, I didn’t exist).
If the soul is real, then I believe in some variation of reincarnation, though I think it’s random (not “karma” based or whatever) and has to be another human.
The latter means some souls must be created rather than recycled, since the birth rate and death rate aren’t equal, which means I generally tend to believe there is no soul and the reality is the ceasing-to-exist possibility.
