Swagmas… was responding to me, and I knew what the acklay was. Because I read the AOTC visual dictionary. Yeah, the visual dictionaries are the extent of my horizon expansion. Just because more crap exists, doesn’t mean everyone should eat it. I’m sorry, but when people say that “there’s more than just the movies”, I just shake my head.
Though there weren’t any environments CG’d in it, the dinos in Jurassic Park were about 5 years ahead of the PT. The PT wasn’t good for its time, most movies just didn’t/don’t spend enough time and money on the CG to make it any good (proven by Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy). The PT probably suffered from having to make so much CGI, not allowing for more time and money to be spent on each shot, but who’s fault was that?
The movies were never the best part of Trek, and I like those three the best.
I also think Enterprise is just as good the other shows, especially season 4.
The (good) movies were probably the best part of Star Trek. TMP, ST II, ST III, ST VI, and First Contact (sort of) were fantastic. They all have flaws, but they have more pros to outweigh those. Nemesis and Enterprise were just crap. Nemesis was just ST trying to be SW. Enterprise was the Trek equivalent of the PT. It constantly contradicts TOS. Archer did everything Kirk did first before Kirk did it. Seriously? These are not good things. I don’t care if Patrick Stewart loves driving dune buggies, it doesn’t belong in Star Trek.
Look at it this way. Do you like movies looking like bad video games?
EDIT: And yes, Frink is right.
Has anyone posted the bad lip readings for Star Wars yet? I’ve had Yoda’s song stuck in my head since Thursday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiCGkzwW_S8
Yoda’s song is the best part of those, with lando’s lines coming in second. I want a full version of that song so much, like they did with “bushes of love” and are doing with the indian C3PO song.
Rockin’
Rockin’ and Rollin’…
This movie rots.
Greenscreen=/=Lazy
The director just does his thing whereever the shoot is. Doesn’t matter to him. Building sets and doing strenuous activity wouldn’t fall to the director in any scenario.
Eyelines are all fine in ROTS.Oh, they really aren’t. There isn’t as much interaction with Cg characters as with the previous films, where both the actor and CG character are in the same shot, but when they are it is not good. Bail Organa when he goes to the Temple is one example. When he is supposed to be looking at the trooper he is talking to, he is looking right through him.
And you clearly know nothing about film making. The Director certainly doesn’t just do “his thing wherever the shoot is” at all.
And no matter whether you think it’s stupid and pointless or not (an argument could be made), The Ring Theory proves that George went to insane lengths to have the different episodes form a structure of echoes and mirrors.
Oh no, not another “Ring Theory” argument. A ridiculous theory created by a prequel supporter that makes so much crap up in an attempt to prove that george is a genius and the prequels are masterpieces, while omitting things like FACTS that would disprove the theory. He makes assumptions that no one else was involved in creating the films, especially the OT and uses the “it was all planned out” myth, which we all know it wasn’t. George made this shit up as he went along. The whole “rhyming” argument was something george came up with while filming the prequels. Not ONCE had he ever said anything like this prior to this. More like an excuse to copy stuff from the previous films. The whole theory is a stretch of reality.
Thankyou! I hate it when I see people say that “he had the whole saga planned out from the start”. You mean the 11 sequels he planned? He had tons of ideas for the future of SW after the production and success of the first film, non of which had anything to do with the PT until like 1992-ish. I think I made a post a couple weeks ago or so, talking about the real reason George used the Ep. V and VI titles, because some people actually do use this as a reason to believe such nonsense.
Yes, George was lazy. Finishing a first draft of the script half way through shooting shows extreme laziness and procrastination on his part. He may have been the director, but he was also the main production consultant, the main design consultant, and the main writer. Add that to the fact that everything in the films had to be passed by him, so pretty much everything falls on his shoulders.
A film to a videro game is like a novel to a “choose your own adventure” book.
Agreed…although I’ve never played a videro game so maybe I don’t have full knowledge of the situation…
The PT was pretty much just George playing around with his new toys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt9zSfinwFA&feature=youtu.be&t=1m54s
These are the best i found online. If you got better ones, throw them here, everyone including myself would cheer.
The better ones are the ones with text, those or just ugly and unusable.
Um… the poster art for just about any movie can be found textless in high-res. You know, because the titles were usually put on after it was painted. Blu-Ray.com has a whole lot of high-res textless poster art. And also, the only ones that seem horribly affected by any photoshop antics are the DVD covers, and those were just photoshop messes to start with. Most of the other ones seem like fine original artwork without text, though the ESB Advanced one looks kind of weird and may have been shopped. I can’t tell looking at my moniter right now.
You should watch it. It’s great. Also, if you do watch it, I would suggest looking up Patrick McGoohan’s preferred episode order. It’s yet another show that was aired in an odd order.
EDIT: I’ll try and find the order list and will post it if I’m successful.
I am not a number…
…I am a free man!
A film to a videro game is like a novel to a “choose your own adventure” book.
Who cares? Canon is what you say it is, not what a corporation says it is.
Wait… didn’t you get all up about “you can’t pretend it didn’t happen, your parents did have…” before? Though, I completely agree with this statement, it just seemed kind of weird.
Forgive me if this has been answered, but are these going to be using theatrical reconstructions, or is it just the BDs.
But… The 1997 version was the original Special Edition. And it was just called the Special Edition. Just call it that.
The Buu Saga is just ridiculous. Too long, and quite boring. My personal preference with Dragon Ball, is to just watch the whole TV series (DB-DBZ, in Japanese with English Sub; no movies), and stop after the Namek Arc ends (Ep. 107). The rest of the series just ruins everything that happened beforehand for me. Handing out Super Saiyans like candy, Goku isn’t special anymore, villains surpass the boundary of ridiculous, art style becomes quite ugly IMO, etc. But I guess that’s probably just me.
Comparing film to a novel isn’t really fair under some circumstances, though. In a book, you have a narrator, and he/she tells you what happens. Whether it’s first person, third person limited, or third person omniscient, can have a great impact on what can be portrayed in a film. For instance, a first person novel is very difficult to do without having a constant main character voice-over to display his thoughts and emotions, and we all know that voice-overs don’t work well all the time. Then you have things that just aren’t plausible or practical to show in a film. Visual adaptations of literature aren’t ever going to please everybody because most descriptions are left to interpretation of the reader. Though, the best way to go is obviously to get the original author to co-write the script/screenplay, and to give his word on aesthetic designs, etc.
^He’s saying that the version heard in the film isn’t on the soundtracks, and I can’t confirm that he’s correct, but it’s definitely not anything that hasn’t happened before. Same with Gonna Fly in Rocky, the (superior, IMO) version from the film isn’t included in the soundtrack, being replaced with a different recording.
EDIT: You beat me to the punch SplikaBilka. I guess I typed too much.😃
I honestly don’t see why people hate book-movies when they aren’t 100% accurate. I mean, I would prefer that a directly based film should be as accurate as possible, but not everything in a book can be properly portrayed in film, and if someone wants to adapt it then they’ll have to accommodate. Then you have adaptations that are only loosely based and aren’t supposed to be connected to the source material very much. When a film isn’t as good as the original book, I just read the book. Think of MASH. I think the book is a lot better than the film, but there are certain things that the film brings with it that make it a comparably enjoyable experience.
EDIT: I really need to stop making such long posts.
^^Well I guess it just so happened that the only RT scores that I remembered at that moment were the latter two. And I thought that Dune was regarded as a classic, albeit straying from the novel.
I would say the film wasn’t accurate because every single thing in the past has used that setup, EU or not.
David Lynch’s “Dune”
“Big Trouble in Little China”
“Casino Royale” (1967)
“HEAD” (Staring The Monkees)
I know this post is almost a month old, but since when were these considered bad. I love all of these movies. HEAD is a favorite of mine in particular, fantastic film.
