Dek Rollins

Bad wood. Tear out bad wood. Put in good wood.

I don’t need to get the specific reference anyway, because I still found it a funny gag. Unless there wasn’t a specific reference, and it was just a generalized parody. Then I guess I got the whole joke.

I apologize if I ruined the thread for anyone (which is pretty hard to believe). It was sarcasm. I actually quite like this. Interested in reading the final chapter.

I can’t believe someone would show the prequels to their children. I mean, they’re too young to understand all of the in-depth story elements, the political struggles, and the complex characters.

The problem is, said tracker is even harder to get into than the spleen is. I’m still trying to figure out how to get an invite.

Thanks?

Apollo, what’s a colar?!?!?!

I’m betting on '90s.

What? The point wasn’t that they didn’t know it was a parody, you made that clear, the point was that you claimed you explained the joke when all you did was tell us a joke existed and we just had to try figure it out, even though we don’t know what it’s referencing.

EDIT: Oh, you were replying to the last sentence in my post rather than the part that mattered. That doesn’t help the discussion at all.

TV’s Frink said:

Perfect example. See, it’s funny because he hates his wife and his kids and his life. So funny!

By your apparent standards, I wouldn’t say that your very funny most of time either. I mean, it’s not joke of the year, and it’s certainly not very clever, but it’s not appallingly unfunny. I’d expect it from your average '70s to '80s sit-com.

TV’s Frink said:

Oh FFS. It’s a parody thread. Several people did not understand it was a parody thread, despite my declaration of such in the third post of the thread. Now we’re having a fucking argument about whether or not I properly explained it…so somehow it’s my fault you guys misunderstood, and I’m not even the one who posted it.

That still doesn’t explain what it was parodying. And I wasn’t blaming you for anything, just saying that Neglify was correct in saying that you didn’t really explain it. “It’s a parody thread” is just as good as “you didn’t get the joke”. We still don’t get it.

TV’s Frink said:

IT’S A FUCKING PARODY THREAD

Better?

The point is that you didn’t say what specifically was being parodied.

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That just stinks. I really wish I could help out, but I’m not in a position to do anything, and what’s lost is lost. This stuff happening just makes me afraid that I’ll lose all of my files in a system failure of some sort. Best of luck to you, Poita.

^PM Sent.

Oh, smart guessing is always the next best thing to knowing, and it was a good guess. If I had no knowledge of it, I probably wouldn’t have made as good of a guess.

The trench shot in question was not simply two takes that were fused. The “first half”, before the laser flash, was a still image, and that was transitioned to a model shot with the flash to cover up the change. This is why the black levels are different, and the color in the SSE just does a better job of covering it.

EDIT: For the record, this is my second favorite shot in the scene, right behind the first person shot of Wedge’s X-Wing flying toward the TIE firing. Oh, and the still image is easy to see if you look at the warping at the edges of the frame that occurs.

On the recent note of people not liking the contrast/black crush stuff that 35mm prints end up with, I thought I’d mention that I personally like 35mm contrast more than the flat, “every detail is seen it perfect light” stuff that home video generally has. Detail existing doesn’t mean it was meant to be seen in full. Oh, and Harmy, I like that you’ve pointed out the importance of retaining theatrical contrast, because what you don’t see is just as important as what you do see.

I actually prefer TPM’s score to ROTS. Different tastes are different tastes. Though, I think we can all agree that even having discussions like this is giving the PT too much credit, since they’re all crap, regardless of which one of the three is better.

I would have to say that ROTS is definitely not the most watchable prequel IMO. TPM at least looks nice 1/3 of the time. Also, I can ignore Jar Jar’s antics to an extent, what I can’t is the ever present dialogue, the ever present ugly environments, and of course, “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO”.

imperialscum said:

Kids are much closer to animals than adults are and are not nearly as good at suppressing the basic nature for the sake of social norms.

Not true.

If I were a sock I would smell a lot worse. Unless those two have extremely clean feet that don’t sweat.

Sorry, Frink, everything LexX said seems spot on to me.

peeks out from behind the wall
“Mommy, is the scary link gone yet?”

I though this argument was settled. Why are you still going, impscum?