Chewtobacca

LOL!

Bingowings said:

John Milius' Conan was great in of itself.  His brain (and the he really does have a brain) is a giant meatball of testosterone and therefore ideal for making films of that kind.

Well put!  I was trying to describe Milius to a friend a while back and wish I had thought of a metaphor like that.   I really like the commentary he did with Arnold Schwarzenegger for Conan.  It's one of my favorite commentaries.  I also like his contributions to the documentary that is on the THX 1138 DVD.

There are only so many uber masculine that can knuckle crawl and swagger their way around the circuit (in the eighties you couldn't shift for them).  Arnie fitted that film and The Terminator because it was all about his body and he had the brain to work it in a way that the camera loved.  When he was re-marketed as Roger Moore with muscles he rarely approached that level of artistic success.

Exactly right! 

I miss the eighties...

Natalie Portman is not a bad actress, but she is nowhere near as good as she seems to believe she is and as she is made out to be.  In my opinion, she's simply not up to some of the roles that she is given.  I think the same about Keira Knightley.

I agree with TheBoost.  Each should be judged on its own merits, but I usually end up hating remakes that look (in trailers) as if they have been made because a studio cannot think of anything else to do.

Bingowings said:

I've already plastered my opinion of Star Trek 11 over these boards.  Not the exciting re-imagining of the universe or shot in the arm that it was made out to be and some fans insist it is and not bad enough to raise an eyebrow or burn J.J. Abrams at the stake for as some fans also insist.

That's a fair assessment.  I wouldn't burn Abrams at the stake, but I didn't like where the film went at all, and from now on I won't go to see Star Trek films at the theater without fail as I used to.

dark_jedi said:There is also a remake of Conan coming out I believe this summer, I really don't know how this is going to be, Arnold's Conan The Barbarian was GREAT!

Damn straight!

Brilliant work, DJ! :D

Possessed said: I'm sure it'll come back eventually.  Probably a little in april, and then again over the summer...

Good!  That sounds like enough time to have a nice long break.  Until then, take it easy, mate. :-)

I'm sorry to hear this, Possessed.  I hope you manage to find some new software that does what you want and have another go at this when you feel ready. :-)

Fair enough!  I think it looks a bit better, but I can totally understand your not wanting to re-render.   :-)

^^ If that's the case, why not put the 8% boost that g-force left out back in?  That looked good enough in the first two versions and they pleased most people.

Bingowings said: GB Please change the title of this thread ASAP.

WTFWYT?

I entirely agree.  Ghostbusters, giving a thread such a title is a reprehensbile thing to do, whatever your opinion of Lucas and his work.  The man has adopted and cared for three children and founded an educational foundation.  I too would ask you to reconsider your choice of thread title.

They definitely look better.

I think I agree.  Why not put g-force's original saturation increase in and call it a day?  I think most people agree that that offers some improvement, but few people seem to agree on anything else as far as tweaks to the colors go.

Doctor M said:That was the point with the last tweak.  People were generally happy with the skin tones (which are largely red on the GOUT discs, with not much room for improvement).

I understand, but while a couple of those shots look a bit better, I would rather have the GOUT as it is than that tweak because the compexions still look worse and overall it doesn't seem worth it.  That's just my opinion.

I hate to say it after all the work you've been doing, but I can't see much difference and I prefer the GOUT.

I thought 1 was out.  2 and 3 seemed in sync.  2 seemed a bit better on first viewing, but it's close.  In my opinion, if the audio is one or two frames out it is unlikely to be noticed by most people, but three or more is usually noticed at some point in the film.  I'm usually quite good with synch and often see commercial DVDs that look out of synch, which can be really annoying.

EDIT:  Whoops!  Didn't see that you'd posted the results.  Now no one will believe me lol.

I agree with Moth3r.  If you had an amp it would better to use 5.1, so you could have the LFE; but as you don't, stick with 2.0.

If you decide to buy an amp and use 2.0 speakers or headphones, choose which sounds the best.  In my experience which sounds better depends on how well your amp or player downmixes to 2.0 and on the mixes themselves.

Doctor M said: It seems like everyone like it that red.

Flesh tones can of course legitimately vary from transfer to transfer.  I generally prefer flesh tones to be more towards red than yellow, and you seem to prefer them the other way, which is fine and simply a matter of opinion.  Your shots do not look obviously wrong, but the faces look a little too pale to me.

DJ's shots do look good, but Doctor M's don't look half bad.  Either would be fine with me.

Is there also a difference in sharpness?

EyeShotFirst said:Crushed blacks in HD YAY!!!

Oh, I hope not!  The worst thing about the SE transfer was the crushed blacks because the colors can be improved but the crushed blacks are there for good.  I was hoping that the BD might be better in this respect.

I had some vegetable soup and some white bread.  Couldn't be bothered to cook a proper meal.  Besides, I sometimes like having a light dinner and snacking later on.

Gaffer Tape said:

See, Chewtobacca, I warned you that they'd be coming for your cigar, didn't I?

lol Just saw this!

You certainly did :-)

ray_afraid said: Where can i find these??

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/12/olly-moss-star-wars-mondo/

I couldn't swear to it because I haven't compared both encodings side by side, but all this talk of colors made me look more closely at them this time, and they seemed more vibrant than I remembered g-force's encoding being.  It's probably the 8% boost g-force was talking about earlier.

Funnily enough, I put on dark_jedi's first version the other day and thought the colors looked boosted compared to G-Force's last encoding.  The colors looked quite good actually.

Anchorhead said: It was very moving to me as a kid.  That feeling of being nowhere. Same for when I hear the music to the scene.  One of Williams' finest moments ever.

Exactly!  The feeling that the droids really were in the middle of nowhere was very strong.  I always felt that I was going on an adventure too when I saw this as a child.  It helped keep the film engaging until Luke made an appearance.