Sadly the animated series hasn%27t been put out on Blu Ray. Hopefully someday. I am quite happy that we at least have the DVDs…In my opinion it is the definitive incarnation of Batman and all the heroes and villains of Gotham city.
Tangled Up In Blue Live from The Rolling Thunder Revue - Bob Dylan
While I have a love and hate relationship with the singing voice of Bob Dylan over the years… I think this concert best represents Bob Dylan at his absolute vocal and songwriting peak. This was a little bit before it started going downhill for me. People were often put off by his Christian themed albums that came in the latter part of the 70s and early 80s…but it is his voice that I do not care for. The voice really changed its tonal qualities around the time Street Legal came out… becoming more nasally and grizzled. Compare the recording of Hurricane to Changing of the Guards… and it is a drastic difference. I am not saying he was a great singer at one time…I just liked his voice from the mid 60s to mid 70s. It suited his singing style.
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^One of my all time favorite Sinatra recordings
Good Times Roll - Cars
It’s been doing it in nearly every thing I post.
No in several places you could use imagery My only beef with Rogue One was the fact that the movie didnt let me care it was still a very well shot movie
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Well%2C if I was going by a definitive version of the saga%2C I wouldn%27t have Leia be Luke%27s sister at all. It felt like a cheap moment for George to be like %22Oh%2C you liked the twist of Darth Vader being Luke%27s dad%3F…ummmmmm Oh yeah%2C Leia%27s his sister%21%21%22 %0D%0A%0D%0AI just think Vader would%27ve seen something in Leia. Luke was a given%2C because he had his name. I don%27t think Leia was intended to be his sister.
Speaking of Adam West%2C I was rewatching the animated series and there was an episode in Season 1 where Adam West played a character called the Gray Ghost%2C who was a character that Bruce Wayne watched as a kid on tv. It was a neat little nod to the past%2C and a real treat to have 2 iconic Batman actors in one show.
Rewatching the duel from ROTS I’ve got an idea of how I would have it play out. Keep in mind I suck at editing, so this is only an idea.
-Duel is much shorter and dialogue is at an absolute minimum
-Anakin has a red saber
-Anakin hardly has any lines, it works better if he says less. He’s got an expressive enough face.
-Music would be replaced…hang me. I love the music from the duel, but I’d like to see the duel with less fanfare. Perhaps even no music. Could be similar to the Empire duel, in that there would be certain cues scattered throughout the sounds of droning machines and wind.
-Obi Wan cuts Anakin legs off, he falls out of frame into the pit scene above.
-Obi Wan says his “You were my brother, I loved you” line and leaves defeated
-We don’t see Anakin after he falls. As far as we are concerned Anakin is dead.
-No Palpatine retrieval scene. No Vader suit scene. No Death Star reveal.
-No Padme death scene. I’d even leave the fate of Luke and Leia ambiguous. We’ll find out their fates in the good films.
-Perhaps end with the birth. Play a music cue (Princess Leia Theme from Star Wars, Brother and Sister from ROTJ" from the OT to end on a positive note. Cut Yoda going to Dagobah. Cut Obi Wan delivering Luke. Less seen, less ruined.
-That way Leia can still kind of remember her mother.
I might come up with other ideas if I watch it again. I just got a quick refresher on Youtube.
Rogue One had a lot of great imagery that could be pulled from for a prequel edit. I made a mockup of what I think would be a more fitting duel location for ROTS, which would still be able to have the lava injury.
Done rather quickly, but you get the point. I also changed Vader’s saber to red, because he’s a proper sith at that point.
Batman and Robin
Batman Begins
This is silly, and I don’t even like Begins.
Well, my reasoning is due to the fact that Batman Begins is a lot of boring origin building that has been shown countless times throughout history. For 80% of the film, he isn’t even Batman. At least Batman and Robin was a Batman movie…as shitty as it was. Plus Arnold singing along to A Year Without A Santa Claus deserved an oscar nom.
Batman (1989) While it’s certainly a product of its age, it’s still a very enjoyable film. Jack Nicholson and Michael Keaton might not be my absolute favorite actors in these roles, their chemistry is the best I’ve seen in a Batman film to date.
The Dark Knight - Ledger is the reason I rank the film as highly as I do. I’ve never liked Bale as Batman, and this film gave me more reason not to like him. Everything about the way he talked ruined it for me. Ledger carried the film. Calling it The Dark Knight was a mistake, because it was Joker’s film.
Batman Returns - Michelle Pfeiffer in latex…That’s all I gotta say. But I will add that I thought Burton improved the overall look this time around. It felt cleaner and less of a product of its time. It had a timeless look to it.
Batman Forever - This film is a turd. There were some things I liked about it, like the score and I thought many of the cast were good choices. I’ve always maintained that Val Kilmer could’ve been one of the best Batmans we ever had, but it’s a lot like Pierce Brosnan in Bond, he just didn’t get a good movie to really prove himself in. Jim Carrey even showed some promise, though I wish we could’ve gotten the real actor I know Jim Carrey is. He’s shown a lot of depth over the years, and to be honest, I think he’s more suited for a Joker.
Batman and Robin - Meh. Funny though, I thought Arnold was entertaining, even though he was nothing like Mr. Freeze.
Batman Begins - This isn’t a Batman movie. It’s a boring Bruce Wayne movie.
Why I didn’t list them
The Dark Knight Rises - Honestly, I saw it, but I didn’t really care enough to give it my full attention. Again, Bale’s Batman is not my cup of tea.
Batman 1966 - Never watched it, so I can’t really be fair. I’ve seen the show at various points, and it seemed a lot of fun, I’m just a child of the darker Batman era.
Animated Universe Batman - Because it’s not fair at all. You get Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill in a Batman project, it’s definitive.
I like Ady’s a lot. The right lighting, and made consistent, it’s going to be great. Aside from that, it’s the only thing in ESB I was ever bothered by, and that was a minor nitpick.
Dire Straits - Dire Straits (1978)
Everything about this album is perfect to me. Some of the finest guitar playing you could ever hope for. Mark Knopfler’s got a tone to his sound, that is so pure, clean, and timeless. He doesn’t sound like any of his contemporaries. Kids, Mark did more than just Money For Nothing or Sultans of Swing. This album, which includes Sultans, also features great anthems that are just as good. As a guitarist, and amateur songwriter, it’s an inspiration to me. Pop it in sometime, go for a drive. Have a drink or just relax. It’s an album I never leave home without. I’ve got it on vinyl, cd, my phone, and a flash drive that I use when I drive.
Yeah, right when Luke grabs the saber, and you see the wampa coming to get a hug. I actually love the look of the wampa that originally attacks Luke.
Yeah, the special edition Wampa was one of the few changes I actually really liked. I just wish they would’ve replaced the really bad hand puppet, that looks more like it’s running to hug Luke, instead of eat him. It reminded me of the original Alien, when it’s the full body shot of the alien, and it opens it’s arms to hug:
I swear, George replaced good effects, and left the stuff that was even bad when it was new. I’ll never understand that.
I really wish it would’ve been done that way. Anakin should be critical of the Jedi. It would’ve been great if Anakin would’ve tried to bring Obi Wan over to the dark side, and when he saw his friend and master wouldn’t leave them, the duel begins. It shouldn’t have been a “I murder children now”. I never got that vibe from Vader in the original trilogy. He felt dignified, even if he was a “bad guy”. Instead, AOTC and ROTS both paint their relationship as rocky. I never once felt like I was watching friends. Hell, Luke and Han don’t share that much screen time together, in all 3 films together…but we know they are friends. We get that vibe from them. Obi Wan and Anakin, not so much.
If it’s similar to adobe photoshop, you might have a blending options or layer options, where you can chose an option for a drop shadow.
Nice work. I quite like the backs you were able to come up with.
Eraserhead is uncomfortable. Lynch doesn’t give you anything pretty to look at. I can’t say why I liked the film, but it stuck with me.
System of a Down is supposed to release a new album this year.
Don’t know if I should be excited or pessimistic. Their last album came out in 2005. That’s an awful long time to be out of the game. Then again, I think if Serj does most of the writing, it will be excellent. I don’t care for Daron’s writing, though I love his riffs.
I had a couple of homemade margaritas.
Forest - System of a Down
Putting them on the shelf for several years, I forgot just how good they were.
Soundgarden was never a band I got deeply invested in, but I always appreciated the songs I’d hear on the radio, and I always considered Cornell to be one of the finest vocalists of all time. I guess now that I can’t see them, it’s time to become invested in the music. Same thing happened with Pantera. I always appreciated hearing their music, but took them for granted, until Dime died.
Anything I posted when I was still a teenager…which is sadly when I was the most active.
Might I suggest making this thread an overall discussion of the series, film, and now the continuation? Spoiler warned of course.
I was so happy to see the first 2 parts last night, and it’s like Lynch is still the same David Lynch I once called “too weird, and incoherent”, to a true master of film. Having just given the Northwest Passage edits a viewing for a good refresher, I’m so thrilled to see it’s still Twin Peaks. This time, it’s Lynch unrestrained. I’ll try not to say too much, but it was like a big family reunion. Though like most family reunions, we notice those who are either gone, or didn’t show up more than anything. I’m excited to see where the show will continue to move. Welcome back, Mr. Lynch.