Chewielewis

Shadows can be any color they want.

Perhaps you should go back and watch the bluray before posting.

It would be nicer if Anakin showed even a hint of remorse or inner conflict for the rest of the film.

I had a thought the other day that you could replace Anakin with Rick Olie and it would be a much more compelling film. A younger Rick Ollie, the only pilot left in Theed, has to help the Queen leave Naboo, but during so he makes a mistake that damages the ships hyperdrive, they land on Tattooine and out of desperation they enter the Podrace using Wattos podracer. His performance in the Podrace leads quigon to think that he has force powers and takes him infront of the Jedi council. In the third act, Rick joins the pilots taking on the droid control ship and using the techniques learnt in the podrace he flies into the heart of the ship and blows it up.

I don’t think I would call TPM well crafted. There’s very little story in it. No identifiable protagonist. Nothing means anything. AOTC and ROTS are trash but they have actual protagonists who make decisions that affect the outcome of the film. Both these films explore themes and ideas and have a central conflict that is present from begining to end.

And apart from the very impressive visual effects the rest of the direction is piss poor at best. Many scenes with as much tension and energy as a table read. TPMs saving grace is that it doesn’t try and do too much story stuff. The plot is simple and easy to follow. The stakes are so remarkably low that its all too easy to just sit back and enjoy the fireworks.

AOTC fails to make its romance connect with the audience and ROTS has a character turn that is so abrupt and underwritten that it ruins Darth Vader. But both these films show significantly more craft in writing and directing.

AOTC and ROTS have conflict, TPM has none. TPM is the worst prequel.

Export prores and encode again in handbreak. I’ve found Adobe Media encoder to be very sub standard when it comes to large H264s.

Perhaps Valorum could have asked the Jedi that he sent. Was that not the point?

Do you have a source for that?

1080p 25fps can be stored as 1080i50 in psf mode

TPM is boring and has no protagonist worth caring about.
AOTC has an unconvincing love story.
ROTS has Anakin going from simply wanting to keep Palpatine alive to slaughtering children with no resistance or conflict about it.

I can’t say which is worse, they are all bad in very different ways.

60i (or more accuratly 59.94i) basically means 60 frames of motion crammed into a 30fps signal. The odd lines are recorded first then half a frame later the even lines are recorded and so on and so forth. thanks to magic science stuff that was worked out back in the 50s.

Interlacing doesn’t work well on web video so upscaling a 60i to a 60p preserves all 60 half frames of motion as full frames, giving that nice smooth motion effect. This is what it would have looked like on CRT TVs back in the day.

Ugh, why do they put politics in my space Nazi movie.

But seriously this looks cool. I wonder if there are Official guidelines for fanfilms to follow in order to stay legal. Calling something “A Star Wars Story” would likely run afowl of those rules.

The information missing from the sides is because it’s a crop from 1.9:1 to 1.78:1

Not exactly IMAX ratio, cropped on the left and right.

44rh1n said:

Chewielewis said:

Hardcoded in the TE bluray but not the EE bluray, I believe there are EE only scenes that are softsubs only, IIRC.

My EE Blu-ray collection has hardcoded Elvish subs.

Interesting, seems like the NA release has hardsubs but other reigons do not.

Hardcoded in the TE bluray but not the EE bluray, I believe there are EE only scenes that are softsubs only, IIRC.

The fact is more obscure films have been recovered from a worse state. So no matter what the condition or how much effort has to be put into this, there is enough money and resources to do it.

How many prints have been scanned but not processed yet?

exitzero said:
He got his ass handed to him by a stormtrooper with a crowd-control staff. If Lando was in a gunfight, you wouldn’t take away his blaster and give him a lightsaber. For some reason Maz had faith Finn could use the Jedi weapon, or she’s got a weird sense of humor.

I don’t get why this is a problem. Finn could use the saber but he was not as skiled as that stormtrooper or Kylo, that much is clear. This all makes sense.

Would this make you happier?

Finn “I need a weapon”
Maz “Ok, hang on, ill find you a blaster. There’s one around here somewhere.”

I don’t see what the problem is. Finn, like that stormtrooper he faces in TFA, has hand to hand combat training, that staff that the stormtrooper uses is like a lightsaber, I don’t see anything wrong with him being able to use it. Its not like hes deflecting blaster bolts with it.

exitzero said:
Grievous was trained by Dooku.

And Finn was trained in hand to hand combat as a stormtrooper. Its not as if you need force powers to use a lightsaber.

Because non Jedi can use lightsabers too. Remember a guy called General Grievous?

NeverarGreat said:

Except that TFA makes a big point of saying how Finn doesn’t know how to drive, and in ANH Han is skeptical that either Luke or Obi-wan could fly his spaceship. So maybe piloting is like flying a plane and takes some training, moreso than a car.

Well I can drive a car, but I cant drive a 18 wheeler truck or a Racecar or a Motorbike. Also I know plenty of adults who never learned to drive so that’s not unheard of. Analogies are never perfect but I think this one gets the idea across.

Hardcore Legend said:
What evidence? It isn’t that she knew about Luke because he was a Jedi, it was that she knew the stories of the Rebel Alliance. She was just as much a fangirl of Han Solo. Can we deduce she knew how to fix/fly the Falcon bc she knew everything about Han Solo, back to front? If so, no wonder Owen never told Luke stories about his father. He’d have become the best star pilot in the galaxy and a cunning warrior right there on the ground in the desert.

She knew Luke skywalker and she knew about the Jedi. This exchange from TFA.

          HAN
      There're a lot of rumors. Stories.
      The people who knew him the best
      think he went looking for the first
      Jedi temple.

                     REY
      The Jedi were real?

                     HAN
      I used to wonder that myself. Thought
      it was a bunch of mumbo-jumbo --
      magical power holding together good,
      evil, the dark side and the light.

                     (BEAT)
      'Crazy thing is, it's true. The
      Force, the Jedi, all of it. It's
      all true.

So it’s implied that Rey has heard these crazy stories too. Which we can safely assume would include Jedi using Mind tricks. In her world the Jedi are a myth, magical wizards who can move rocks and fuck with peoples minds.

But I never said thats How she could do the mind trick. She was able to do the mind trick because she gained that knowlege thorugh that Kylo mind meld. How does that work? The same way throwing a child into the deep end teaches them how to swim. You could say THE FORCE AWAKENED in her.

Rey knows how to fly because shes been around ships all her life, she knows the falcon because Unkar Putt owns it and shes probably been in it many times. In Star Wars, knowing how to fly is basically knowing how to drive.

I think the films can definitely square up.

ROTJ Luke learns how to be a Jedi, makes his Jedi academy to work as he sees fit. Doesn’t even read the Jedi Texts. This much we can deduce.

Snoke comes along, creates the FO by rekindling the ashes of the Empire. Starts working his influence over Lukes pupils. Where does Snoke come from? We likely know as much as the characters do.

Luke notices something odd in Ben, he reaches out and feels the dark side, the emperor, vader, everything he fought in the past but stronger than he ever encounterd. He freaks out, grabs his lightsaber. Why? because fear leads to hate ect ect. Its a moment of weakness where he lets his guard down and let the darkside drive his actions (and if you think this is out of character, you need to rewatch ROTJ, fear is exactly what makes hm go a darkside against his father).

So after making a catastrophic mistake he flies to the island and becomes a recluse, realising that his own ways were not good enough to fight the dark side. Just like Yoda and Obi-wan. Not making much attempt to stop the Empire/FO on their own are they.

I really don’t see any conflict here, it all makes narrative sense to me.

If you’re looking for reasons why it doesn’t work then you’re going to have to go all the way back to 77 because the whole thing asks for a whopping great big heap of suspension of disbelieve to believe any of it.