Erik Pancakes

I made some mockups for the new title in a more traditional style. Note that all I did was resize stuff from the existing title treatment - nothing in these mockups was taken from the title treatment for any of the other films, and I tried to keep the title as much like the officially-released one as possible.

First up, we have the title on one line, exactly as Disney/LFL released it, but with the more traditional bars on top and bottom:

I think it's too wide myself, but it works.

Next up is possibly my favorite. It's stacked instead of all on one line, but I did no resizing of the letters at all. This may work better with an Empire-style border all the way around instead of simple bars on top and bottom. I may mess with that later on. But for now, I like this a lot:

And finally, the same as the second, but with Awakens resized to match the width of The Force (that sounds weird). Less a huge fan of this, but it works with the top-and-bottom bars a little better:

What do you guys think? I might try and make more mockups after work tonight (maybe resizing The, maybe with an all-around border instead of just bars, maybe recoloring the bars to white or the title text to yellow), but with these three I was just trying to "classic-ize" the logo as given to us as much as I could while changing very little.

My uncle told me once that he was confused. Then he was confused again when he first got the original on VHS, and convinced himself that it had always had Episode IV: A New Hope in the crawl and he'd just forgotten until the 2006 DVD came out with the pre-ANH crawl.

Everyone I know calls the OT by their proper titles (including Star Wars - I only have one friend who calls that one A New Hope, but he still calls it A New Hope and not Episode IV), but the prequels "Episode I," "II," and "III." I try to use their proper titles, but generally end up saying "Episode _" instead just out of habit.

That's what happens when you make the episode number twice the size of the title on every poster and trailer.

I'm interested to see if the title treatment will change to a more "OT" logo (with The Force Awakens larger than Star Wars), or if it's going to stay like that...

I actually don't think so. We don't call The Empire Strikes Back "Episode V," or Return of the Jedi "Episode VI."

In fact, the only reason I think people still call the prequels "Episode I" and so on is because the "Episode _" was so prominent in the advertising. Based on the title treatment released today, I don't think we'll see "Episode VII" much, if at all, on posters and trailers and the like.

I never had an issue with Thor 2. I liked it better than the first.

RicOlie_2 said:

I still haven't seen the second Captain America or the second Thor movie--or, for that matter, any post-Avengers Marvel movies aside from Iron Man 3. Hopefully I'll get around to seeing them within the next couple years.

DEFINITELY watch Captain America 2 before you see Avengers: Age of Ultron.

I have no idea how relevant Thor 2 will be, but Cap 2 is an absolute necessity. Unless you don't mind having some huge Cap 2 events spoiled in Avengers 2.

Yeah, all I see is a photo taken from a different angle. The prop itself looks like an extremely faithful recreation. The only thing that looks even slightly different to me is his holo-projector.

Wait, seriously? That R2 looks IDENTICAL to any iteration of R2 I've ever seen. You're just looking for something to be wrong with this movie at this point, aren't you?

Be sure you're clicking the right download link on PirateBay. Or just install Adblock and you won't see the fake download links anymore.

(Are they still there? I haven't visited TPB without Adblock in years, so I don't know if they've gotten rid of them since then.)

Ryan McAvoy said:

it looks like the actress is going to be a great character/villain, even if it's not really the proper Master character that we know from Delgado and Ainley (Simm wasn't The Master either).

Upon rewatching Dark Water, she already feels more like Delgado's Master to me than either Ainley or Simm ever did. (Beevers on audio still comes closest to Delgado, though.)

I just hope we're done with the stupid "drums" now. And I really hope they secretly shot a Simm>Gomez regeneration scene that we'll see on Saturday.

So far, for me: Delgado > Beevers (audio) > Gomez > Macqueen > Jacobi > Ainley > Beevers (TV) > Roberts > Pratt > Simm

Obviously, that could change next week. And Macqueen could be higher, but I've only heard him in Dark Eyes 2 (haven't gotten to UNIT: Dominion yet).

Really? Interesting. I haven't had a problem with them on any of my Samsungs or my cheap Seiki.

Check out the sources doc for some insight into how Harmy did - it's pretty intensive stuff!

dclarkg said:

Erik Pancakes said:

As for burning to a BD-R, just use tsmuxer to turn the MKV into a Blu-Ray folder, and imgburn to burn the folder to a BD-R.

 No mkv here, that's why I asked :p

Well, the ROTJ v1.0 is already in AVCHD format, so all you need to do is burn it onto a DVD-DL (or, I guess, BD-R if you want to waste one just to have it on an actual BR) and it's playable in any BR player.

Apparently I'm in the minority for liking our new Master...

As for burning to a BD-R, just use tsmuxer to turn the MKV into a Blu-Ray folder, and imgburn to burn the folder to a BD-R.

But hey - no spoilers!

I'm still kind of annoyed that the Series 8 box set is coming out before Christmas - assuming Series 9 starts around the same time 8 did, why would you pair this year's Christmas special with the Series 9 box set instead of 8? And don't even get me started on what they did with the 50th Anniversary Special and Time of the Doctor ... I still don't have those on Blu-Ray, and at this rate I don't think I ever will ...

Two episodes, not three. Sorry.

Series 8 is 12 episodes instead of the usual 13. Possibly because A) the running time for a 13th episode is split between the extra time for Deep Breath and the extra time for the 12th episode, and/or B) the Christmas special is only a month and half after the finale, so they didn't have much of a break between filming the series and filming the special.

Of course, episode 12 could end on a cliffhanger that's resolved in the Christmas special, but I don't think that's very likely myself.

Would there be a filter that one could use on the Blu-Ray to make it look more like it was filmed at 24fps instead of 48? Like a subtle motion blur or something?

I don't understand though why people bother searching TPB when the Spleen is superior.

Because not everyone has a MySpleen account, and frankly I don't think it's a good idea to hand out an invite to everyone who asks.

Yeah, it's more or less easy to find on Pirate Bay.

A search for "harmy" on TPB comes up with both the AVCHD and MKV Empire v2.0 releases, while a search for "Star Wars despecialized" comes up with the MKV of Star Wars v2.5, and ~7GB MKVs of the v1.0's of all three.

The AVCHDs of all three v1.0's and Star Wars v2.5 are hard to track down on TPB, though a poorly-seeded v2.1 AVCHD is there.

The key problem is splitting it into three movies. Two was stretching it already. The Hobbit, even with some of the new stuff (White Council, Dol Guldur) added in, shouldn't be longer than 3 and a half hours. Nine hours is far too long.

The over-reliance on CGI and desire to push boundaries (48fps; 3D necessitating new ways of shooting the differently-sized cast) - two things the prequels fell victim to - don't help much, but the main problem was splitting up such a thin story over multiple films.

I think any theatrical restoration should use the laserdisc theatrical 5.1, which is supposed to be significantly better than the DVD 5.1. I don't know how the BR DTS-HD sounds, but it's probably a remix, so I don't think it should be considered for a preservation project.

And the Vimeo link works. That clip seems to have a bit of pink- or red-shift to it too, but it's certainly better than the DVD or BR.

"Ain't No Mountain High Enough" plays after Quill puts Vol. 2 in, and "I Want You Back" plays after that, but there's no real indication that "I Want You Back" is on either tape since it's non-diegetic (well, until the Dancing Groot bit at the end, anyway).

doubleofive said:

Erik Pancakes said:

Well, "Spirit in the Sky" was meant to be in the movie, but the scene it played over was cut. I think Gunn said it'd appear on the DVD/BR in the deleted scenes section.

Where did he say that? When I saw him in Atlanta, he said that he hand-picked all of the songs but the one that plays over the trailer and isn't in the movie.

 I can't find it now for the life of me, but I could've sworn he said it played during the scene where Quill sees Gamora changing, which features in almost every trailer but ended up being cut from the movie. If I find it, I'll post a link.