Dek Rollins

I don’t get these threads. Why are they here? Are they supposed to be funny? I DON’T GET IT!

Do you like any superheros?

1. Alien

That’s the only one I care about.
Aliens was an '80s action movie, and it’s another sequel that ruins the first film.
AVP was just plain bad.
Fortunately, I haven’t seen any other ones, so I can’t rate them.

1. Superman: The Movie
2. Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut Redux (It’s not technically one of the films, but it’s my preferred version of SII.)
3. Fleischer shorts (Do these count?)
4. Superman II (Theatrical)
5. Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
6. Superman Returns
7. Superman III
8. Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

1. Batman (1989) - It’s the best aspects of the comics portrayed almost perfectly on the big screen.
2. Batman Returns (1992) - Almost as good as Batman, but just comes short in some areas.
3. Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero (1998) - Too bad this fantastic animated film had to be straight-to-video.
   (It’s a continuation of Mr. Freeze’s plot from Batman: TAS)
4. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993) - Great way to bring Batman: TAS to theaters.
5. The Dark Knight (2008) - It feels like these ones try to be too realistic, but this one pulls through well.
6. Batman: The Movie (1966) - It’s so bad it’s good.
7. The Dark Knight Rises (2012) - It’s kind of confusing plot-wise, and Bane was a wasted opportunity for a great villain.
8. Batman & Robin (1997) - It’s almost so bad it’s good, but a lot of it is intolerable.
9. Batman Begins (2005) - It’s just kind of… dull.
10. Batman Forever (1994) - It’s not so bad it’s good.

EDIT: Well, I guess this part of Batman Forever is so bad it’s good, but nothing else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBEz-wfq8Ew

John Doom said:

P.S.: Dek Rollins, your avatar is pretty old-school, I like it 😉

Thanks. I like Red.

I was referring to the poor CGI work done on them, not the characters themselves. Though, I didn’t like their characters very much anyway.

^^Have you seen what he claims to be “good” CGI?

I dislike TFA for reasons other than the presence of reality. I actually liked that. I’m certain Swagma… loves how Maz and Snoke look.

What kind of thing are you trying to do.

“Digital” itself isn’t a problem, it’s the fact that it looks digital, as in, out of place and fake.

I loved the first two prequels growing up, but when I saw this one I was sorely disappointed. That was before I realized how terrible they all were. But, to say “what I didn’t like about ROTS”, it would have to be the fact that this is better than all of the PT combined:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njPK4UKisQc

The problem is that while the posters should look digital, the rest of the shot also looks digital.

So what? You keep using that one shot, even though it looks almost just as artificial as the rest of movie.
(I’m debating whether or not I should call AOTC and ROTS “films”)

^I totally forgot about Dinosaur. Man, that movie.

More examples of computer generated beauty.
(kind of getting off topic, but I’m not starting a new thread for these)

^Agreed!

The T-Rex in JP looks A LOT better than the things in AOTC. Also, about the being in the dark thing, that’s called “the filmmakers being intelligent and using techniques to hide special effects”, like framing, color timing, grain structure, softness of image, contrast, light/dark in image, etc. And I’d like to add that my personal preference for watching JP is the 35mm print scan, because it includes all of the previously mentioned aspects of the film, which are not present on the home video releases (obviously).

EDIT: Here’s what that JP shot is supposed to look like.

Dek Rollins said:

The preview is amazing! Looks so good. I do have a question, though. Why is the image so squished? I run it in VLC and set aspect ratio to 2.35, and it seems wider than it should be. It’s definitely wider than the SSE, as I pulled them both up and looked at them together. They’re both set to the same ratio, but the tech preview is stretched horizontally. Setting to 2.21 almost helps, but it’s ever so slightly too tall then.

This is an old post I wrote, and for any people that care, I have compared the preview to Despecialized, and when set to 2.35:1 AR in VLC, in matches spot on. Though a couple of wide shots are slightly different. Anyway, seems that it must be the SSE that’s too tall. I have no idea what is supposedly correct, though.

I don’t mean to clog the thread, but on the recent subject of spleen invites, I was lucky enough to get an account during a couple of months that they had free registration going. This was after I had been lurking here and was so confused as to what the whole invite thing was, and just went to the website.

DuracellEnergizer said:

swagmasta69 said:

The Final Frontier is at least better than Search For Spock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b1a-hqvGNI

So have I!

Ryan McAvoy said:

swagmasta69 said:

The giant-crab-mantis-thingy-from-AOTC looks better than the JP dinos.

I couldn’t have said it better myself. And I wish I could have. I’m terribly uncreative with on the spot thoughts.

Tim Burton’s “Batman” is way better than The Dark Knight. Though Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2 are amazing.

But the movies are all that matters! If I just wrote a novel titled “Star Trek: The Crap Planet”, and somehow got it licensed as a ST novel and published it, that doesn’t mean it matters. It’s just a glorified fanfiction.

If you really think so. My only complaints about ST III is that they got a different actress for Savek, and a couple of SFX shots are kind of bleh.