Handman

DominicCobb said:

Star Trek has always been “politically correct.”

Not really.

Maybe he’s using the Ebert scale.

Online gaming never appealed to me, I don’t know why it’s such a big deal.

That certain person may still be reading the thread, as I’m sure breaks are not permanent.

Warbler said:

Well, I just always thought a date automatically included romantic interest or it wasn’t a actual date.

You’d think. I did too, until it wasn’t. I don’t get it either, but that’s the way the world is right now.

Wazzles said:

Robert Harris is quoted as saying the entire restoration of films like My Fair Lady took less than one year.

That also isn’t as nearly a high-profile a restoration that requires careful timing and consideration.

Eh… just because the masses don’t necessarily pay attention doesn’t make it any less valuable or careful. That restoration was pretty high-profile.

Robert Harris said:
“They knew they needed to bring me back in, because this is by far the most valuable of their feature-film assets.”

Alderaan said:

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

Five years is the cutoff? So you have experience as a professional film restorer and seasoned, profit-driven studio executive then?

No, five years is way past the cutoff. Anyone who gave them five years was more than generous or, more likely, just plain delusional. Robert Harris is quoted as saying the entire restoration of films like My Fair Lady took less than one year. He called that “a lot of time”. And sure, that is a lot of time and hard work, but it’s less than a year.

I can’t help but read your post in Larry David’s voice. We know they have a 4k source somewhere, it’s just a matter of when Disney feels like the timing is right and when they want to spend the money to send out and promote the release, not to mention the legal hoops they have to jump through.

Huh, I’m not sure where I read that, then.

To be fair, the one time I thought they were joking they actually were confused.

Living Daylights is pretty great. Dalton’s movies were ahead of their time.

Les Miserables (1958)

French, Technicolor, faithful to the source material. Pretty good. Not sure if it’s the best adaptation, but it was effective.

I believe the term ‘lightsaber’ came from Alec Guinness, while George always wanted it to be a ‘laser sword’. I see it as contempt.

The fact that it’s a prequel to the original show and will have a Klingon Captain confuses me greatly. It seems like this is going to be one of those “Look how progressive we are!” patting-themselves-on-the-back kind of deals, like early TNG. We’ll see…

Congratulations, darthrush.

Now that you mention it, I don’t remember it being this bad for the other partially animated stories I have, and those are NTSC.

I’ve only seen two parts of it, and also noticed the jaggies. I just assumed it was a shoddy downscale from the HD footage, but a shoddy PAL conversion could also explain it.

When it comes to Nintendo racers, I prefer F-Zero, which on the harder difficulties is very similar to how you describe Super Mario Kart. Not to knock Mario Kart, since they’re both good games, but I get more excited when I do well in F-Zero.

I played Mario Kart 64 so often it became boringly easy. Sucks because the people I play with are worse than the computer. It is very possible to get back in the lead even if you’re in last place.

Sougouk said:
I had some friend over yesterday,

Some friend that is.

Warbler said:

I am willing to play again, this time as black. If you wish.

I’ll wait a bit before starting another game. If anybody else wants to play, go ahead.

I’ll save us both time and say if you put your Queen at d7, that’s checkmate. I accept defeat. In my defense, this was the first chess game I’ve played in about three years.

Victory is imminent.
Ke6

f6

Bb4

This is looking bad.
Ke7