Darth Id

Here's hoping, but I still think the earliest they will see blu would be 2017, as a 40th Anniversary thing.

The joke where Quiggly John tries to hypnotize Wattle and Wattle says something like, "Whaddaya think yer some kinda jedi?"

Totally meaningless if that's your first exposure to the universe.

georgec said:

 Garbage Pail Kid: Bratty BOBA

I admit that when I watched the Random Premise Blu-ray a couple weeks ago I laughed in a derisive manner and made unkind remarks whenever the young Mr. Lloyd delivered a line.

nightstalkerpoet said:

The amusing thing here is that the title of this is actually partially true. The BluRay set includes the THX Optimizer, which (in the future) will communicate with THX Optimized TVs, Players, and Recievers to alter your home viewing experience to exactly what George intends it to be...

 And down the rabbit-hole we go...

TV's Frink said:

Australian?  Well done, dude.

Anyway...

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Boba-Fett/post/565759/#TopicPost565759

http://vimeo.com/37042514

Make sense now?

 Uhh....

No!  WTF?

But anyway: is it possible that what I mistook for a phoned-in, bored-sounding Australian is actually a vibrant, nuanced and energetic Kiwi accent?  Maybe the switch improved ESB after all!?!?!?

(PS- I assure all that my mistake was in no way influenced by exposure to any cartoon regarding 'The Clone Wars'.)

TV's Frink said:

Mike O said:

Spielbergentioked 

Uh...

 That's where schpilckus is most commonly contracted.

TV's Frink said:

Darth Id said:

none said:

Seen it three times so far.  Messa in big dudu this time!

 The fact that I get that joke...

makes me wish I'd just get the Boba Fett treatment once and for all.

You want Chris R to pull a gun on you too?

 I don't know what that means, but I think it was perfectly obvious that I meant I want my voice to be supplanted by a lifeless Australian drone.

Frinkin' duh, dude.

none said:

Seen it three times so far.  Messa in big dudu this time!

 The fact that I get that joke...

makes me wish I'd just get the Boba Fett treatment once and for all.

This thread makes me wish I had an online alterego anywhere near half as clever as one of TV's Frink's dozen cyber-surrogates.

The fact that even ONE person went to see THIS movie in the theater like two months after the blu-ray came out on home video...

makes me wish the Earth would just get the Alderaan treatment now and get it over with.

georgec said:

 

Hehe I forgot about kenkraly. I feel kind of bad for giving him some shit. I think he's a sincere, nice guy but horribly malformed.

 Fixed.  You're welcome, you insensitive clod.

Sayeth Silverwook:

 

 

...the myth of the red and blue 3D glasses remains...

As does the myth, started by the opening sequence of Lupin III, regarding the effectiveness of crotch-based extendo-punch attacks.

Tobar said:

 Damn is that art shitty.  Life must have been unbearable before VCRs.

SilverWook said:

Where's George? Can you find him? ;)

 Guy in the robot suit, right?

What do I win?

PS- looks like I'llBombYa in the Buck Rodgers robot dome helmet back there.  Bonus points?

Circa 1983 one could kinda make somewhat-plausible sense out of it.

But once Lucas made Annakin a Tattooine native, it all turns to rotten, fetid SHIT, oozing puss and floating in a stagnant puddle of concentrated PISS on a bed of jumbled GARBAGE, swarming with shit-eating flies and writhing filthy maggots. 

(Sorry for the vitriol, but I'm currently in the midst of a masochistic revisitation of the so-called "prequels" rented via Netflix.  And I've given up alcohol for the month as a New Year's resolution.  So it's hard to deal.)

I sure hope he's working on that long-promised revised 'Secret History'.

Lots to add what with the deleted scenes, further revisions and revisionism, etc.

generalfrevious said:

SW; it's no longer a movie, it's a drug.

 No, drugs actually make people feel good.

SW is more like..church.

none said:

generalfrevious' was human centipede raped by Hitler's childhood who lent it to George Lucas and that became Willow.  True Story.

 Damn.  Well done.

TV's Frink said:

Why?  My SW world consists of the six movies and a few episodes of the Clone Wars cartoons.  I don't even care that Boba Fett is a Mandaronian or whatever.  To me he's a dude in a suit.

 I find your SW world offensively overinclusive.

I remember being really disappointed by how much staircasing I could see on the Lucasfilm logo (you know, the newfangled decorative font version) at the beginning of AotC, which was the first movie I saw on digital projection.  And I was in the back row of the theater.

Moth3r said:

 

This is incorrect as well. The centre speaker is the most important speaker in a 5.1 set-up - it accounts for 50% of the soundtrack, as well as nearly all dialogue. It would not make sense to have the centre lesser specified than the front L & R speakers.

 Fair enough, yet it's pretty typical to see people's set-ups sporting a crappy plastic center from a theater-in-a-box, flanked by enormous wood-housed three-way towers.

The Network and All the President's Men blu-rays feature the original mono mixes. 

I just played catch-up on this thread--best discussion ever!--and just want to add that I've always found directionality, be it 2-ch or multi-, to be far more distracting than immersive.  Plus those old '60s albums sound so thin and empty in the "stereo" versions.

"Stereo" is of course the most abused misnomer in audio, when really it's all just 2-channel, except for a very obscure group of genuinely stereophonic curiosities. 

As for multi-channel, that shit is just more cargo!  What a waste of money and space!

It was cool that it was cited in that "Chewbacca was stolen" article, which overall took a very similar methodological approach to the topic.  It almost felt like a companion piece.

And BTW Zombie, I recently watched the 2008 "Incredible Hulk," and I always sit through the credits.  Were you a "camera trainee" on that, or could that have been a different Michael Kaminski?

TV's Frink said:

It's part of my charm.

Actually, it constitutes the entirety of said 'charm'.

CP3S said:When I was a kid, I did think that line, along with "Laugh it up, Fuzzball" was pretty funny. But as I got older it began to bother me because it seemed out of place for Leia. SW Leia was royalty and a stuck up, selfish, spoiled snob. In that context the line fit. However, trilogy Leia evolved into something much more than that, and it makes her seemingly racist comment seem out of place for her character.

 Han said 'Laugh it up, fuzzball,' not Leia.  Therefore, this psychoanalysis is as pointless as it is fanboyish.