Hal 9000

I think the 3.0 thing came up when Harmy linked to the PDE thread from two years ago about the "rontoscoping" term. After that post in that older thread, there was talk about a 3.0 of the "partly" despecialized edition. I saw a post that I made where I mention a version 3.0 (in early 2011) and was confused until I saw it was the PDE thread. 

Dinosaur

Since October, I just figured, "What have we got to lose?"

The current plan is to open The Hobbit standalone film with "modern day" Bilbo beginning his memoirs. We never see his face, and he narrates to us his "concerning hobbits" section. But that's two years off yet.

As always, we love suggestions or ideas. 

We've been working on them, and are mostly finished with FOTR and TTT. We're holding out for the EE of An Unexpected Journey to see if there will be any helpful Narsil footage. 

It's progressing, and I think the result will be much better than my previous attempts. This is Kerr we're talking about, after all. Kerr is doing all of the actual editing this time, for which I am very thankful. I'm serving in a creative consultant role. These versions will be, in many ways, less puristy than either my or his previous edits. But I think the story that will be told in these edits will be better off for it. FOTR is shaping up to be around 3 hours.

The real fun will begin when all three hobbit films are out, and we try to pair them down to a single purist-minded edit of comporable running time to a single LOTR film.

Starting with FOTR, it will likely be close to the end of the year before these will be released, due to waiting for AUJ:EE. 

That, and it seems like we always have new ideas after we take a break and return to the task. If we just put these out months ago, they wouldn't have been as good. 

Just wanted to throw my two cents onto the congratulations pile. 

Even just flipping through v. 2.1 it is obvious that it is superior even to v. 2.0. Mos Eisley looks fantastic, and the whole film looks unbelievably seamless. I'd never have guessed OT.com could have come this close to presenting the film like this. 

Tremendous work! It really comes across as if Lucasfilm remastered the original version to a high standard and then only released it over Netflix at 720p. (That's meant as a compliment.)

Are you planning to give all of the prequel footage this treatment, for potential use in fan edits? (As opposed to cutting the film, then only working on the bits you keep.)

If Shatner doesn't approve, do you think they'll still let J.J. Abrams direct Star Wars VII: The Creeping Fear?

One of my threads is on the list. I approve of this thread. Not just that part, but all of it. 

She's my mother!

I think I need to go pray.

TV's Frink said:

ALLOL

What is that? "All lol'd?" Everybody lol'd?

TheBoost said:

Founder of the LDS Church Joseph Smith. 

I know that Christianity at large (though a very wide spread) has differing opinions about Darwinian evolution. Some insist that it has no place, others are willing to integrate it. 

Does the LDS Church have an official position on evolution, or a majority voice? 

Think in terms of the lowest common denominator. 1080p would make the GOUT-sourced bits, among other things, more noticeable. 720p turns out to be a better end product because it blends together better. 

Luke and Leia didn't seem to be twins at all, and then suddenly they were. 

And I don't see how R2 could have gotten behind those rocks on his own. I mean, it's obvious the production crew had to get him back there, and it's no coincidence we don't see him navigate his way out of there on his own. We just cut away and then back, and suddenly he's out. 

I agree that this shouldn't have been made into a trilogy. I did enjoy it, but like the LOTR films, there was plenty of added or altered things I didn't. 

I'm excited for it too. I'm happy Kerr is doing the actual editing this time; he's much better at it than I am.

Torrents are the best way, and I'm unsure if the filesharing links from fanedit.org are still working. I did not set those up to begin with. 

However, Kerr and I are collaborating on a thoroughly improved version of both our prior edits. There will be a successor to Kerr's 6-part book cut as well as a 3-film style version. The plan is to release it at 720p, because Kerr is doing some re-cropping and other fx work. 

It might be a way off, but I'd be surprised if FOTR isn't done by the time the next Hobbit film comes out. 

Hey, what is this?

A three-hour big-event film in 3D and new 48FPS format sounds like a grueling way to spend the first three hours after midnight. I might stand in line for the conventional format, then let the gimmicky version make my eventual second viewing more novel. 

He was never actually there; it was his clone surrogate. 

The Lars homestead might not have gotten a droid that fits the bill, but they wouldn't have been murdered. They probably would have had a less-than-stellar harvest, Owen would have been cranky, and Leia would have put the Death Star plans into that silver 3PO droid. That droid was an imperial spy. Leia gets executed, but the Death Star never finds the rebel base. The films go on, without Luke or Leia, or anything. 

WHAT IT IS, MY DOGE?