I like the red on the two viewscreens above Anakin, but I think everything else [that is lit red here] should be white.
Okay, a few minor updates...
Having taken scissors [not literally] to each film, the combined total runtime is around 2 hours, 20 minutes. Although I do need to add a few things back in.
once that's done I'll spend some time fiddling with the audio. Then make sure it actually makes a lick of sense with all the cuts, and if all is well I'll start going through and making sure it's picture perfect, shot by shot.
:)
While tinkering with that I've been messing with photoshop on the side, First off here's some colour corrected scenes circa the final battle with the Queen in the snow...
http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/7943/ruffcolourcorrectionfor.jpg
and here's a quick and dirty scar removal - the scene where she gets it is difinitely on the cutting room floor.
http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/7589/noscar.jpg
and here I'm still tinkering with colouring ideas for the Prologue sequence - I'm aiming for something of a retro look while still looking somewhat creepy...
http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/2316/flashbackavp.jpg
I'm also playing with ideas like boosting the gamma during a lot of AVP:R so we can actually see what's going on. Granted, a lot of AVP:R is getting the 'snip snip' treatment.
I say go for it.
Looks a lot more interesting if you can get the right angles and lighting.
I dig the concept.
Great stuff. Loving the cell reflections.
Although i agree that the shot looks great - I think Tarkin looks a little bit too pale in this.
Also, the meeting room chairs looks well wicked.
For those that have played both, how does the second L4D compare to the first? - I'm considering getting them since they've suddenly become very cheap.
That's the one film where I actually didn't mind all the colour tinting and bleaching...might have to watch it again.
Inception...I think I need to see it again...
If you must know, what I did was, I wrote a Roast that was simply too radical, too unconventional, too mould-breaking for you to accept.
Okay, I've talked with the original Fan editor [Wraith] about this and he's given his blessings to take his ideas and go even deeper. He's a bit too busy too work on revisiting the edit himself but has given me free reign to tackle it myself.
This doesn't mean I definitely will, I'm here to gauge what other people think and decide if I can pull it off. Here are a few concepts to get the ball rolling...
http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/9141/bigpage.jpg
the first and third column are some reworking by Wraith, and the second and fourth column are some [conceptual] refinements by myself.
For those that don't know the edit was an attempt to combine both AVP and AVP:R into one continuous storyline.
I know some people are probably sick of these films and some probably choose to pretend they don't exist, which is fine, however I feel that the film/s in edited form come quite close to decent without quite getting there...
On the whole, the edits needs more focus on bringing the story lines together and that's what I'll be looking into for the most part. I will try for the most part to stay true to what Wraith already did and all credit will go where it's due. This is intended as a refinement more than a complete re-do.
What makes Wraith's edit great is that he cut all the pointless over exposition and goofy character moments leaving a more streamlined story that is more enjoyable.
What let me down was that the events from AVP:R still felt like they chugged along, and this isn't Wraith's fault, he did a lot of work here to try and make it flow, it's just a crap movie to begin with.
There were also some noticeable errors in Wraith's edit sprung from some scene re-ordering, I'll be looking at ways to fix these.
Bearing that in mind I sat down and thought about how to realistically rework the plot in a way that worked. It feels like the film makers just came at the story from the wrong angle, being that Predators are heroic and should be admired, where really these guys are monsters and villains.
So [some of] the main changes planned for AVP include -
[note some of this stuff was already covered in Wraith's edit.]
And for AVP:R
So now let's hear your biggest disappointments / annoyances with the films...
Last movie seen = Public Enemies.
Very disappointed, I was expecting a movie about John Dillinger to be exciting...I was wrong. Some will like it but although I stuck around til the end I became incredibly bored with it.
Next movie seen = Inception.
:)
doubleofive said:
"Could that guy be Frink?"
Only by night. By day he's a mild mannered reporter for a daily metropolitan newspaper.
<blockquote><p><strong>Warbler</strong> said:</p><p>I saw Apocalypse Now a few years ago on AMC. It was too confusing for me.</p></blockquote><p> </p>
The army sends a guy into the jungle to assasinate a special forces Colonel who's gone rogue, Weird shit happens along the way. That's about it.
Although there are some moments that can put a smile on your face like a squadron of helicopters cruising along blasting "Ride of the valkyries."
Come to think of it, my favourite scenes in the film have nothing to do with the main plot, Willard stealing a surfboard, guys getting chased by a tiger...
Last movie seen = Cloverfield.
Last movie i haven't seen = Inception.
Can we just pretend there is only one Die Hard movie?
As a side note, since Lama-Su is being redubbed, I'll take this opportunity to ask how you like the name "Marcus Fett" as opposed to "Jango Fett." I remember a couple of people saying that it was jarring, and too different because they knew the character from AOTC. How about Jacob Fett? I just don't like the sound of "Jango"...
Boba Fett. Cloning issues aside, it is common on the real world for father and son to share the same name.
PREDATORS.
All in all it could have been better but it pushes all the right buttons so I'm quite satisfied.
It only took 23 years to get a sequel that doesn't suck :). - And don't try to tell me that Predator 2 was a better or equal movie to Predator because it just isn't so.
As cool as that looks, the game wont be anything like that.
HotRod said:
I take it I'm the only twat here with a PS3 then????
Right here, although I didn't buy it for gaming so I'm probably not a twat like you ;)
i have TF2, but I don't really play it. Just picked up orange box to play through Portal again [originally on 360 / borrowed.]
Might fire it up at some point but I can already tell it's probably not really my cup of tea.
Took me a little while to figure out STEAM - i feel like such a noob.
Loving the light / darkness mockup.
The only issue I have is that they come in waving sabers around and claim they aren't actually threatening him. just wondering if there's anything further you could do to the dialogue there?
Borderlands is fun with other people, but yeah.
Any suggestions on all of this. Boarderlands, worth it or not? The DLC for RE5, any good? Shadow Complex, really as great as everyone says?
Maybe just hold your money and wait for a bit? - there's a bunch of new stuff coming out in the next few months.
EyeShotFirst said:
Watched Legion. I actually enjoyed it. Nothing really shocking about it, but it had it's cool moments.
Really? - even the trailers make it look crap IMO. Might take a look.
It's still pretty early on in terms of the whole thing coming together. Right now I'm looking at the story as a whole and removing any scenes or shots that add little to the plot - then deciding whether such scenes include anything that makes them worth keeping.
For example: the helicopter scene - It just gives us exposition we don't really need. And I can still get a decent implication of the passage of time cutting right from the end of the Bunk room scene to the elevator doors opening in the AUC facility.
On top of that there are a few areas where i need to go one way or another with an idea so i've still got a few hard choices to make.
If anyone's got an idea on how to add a Cyberdemon to the film, I'm all ears...
True. Just keep in mind this is still kind of early in Batman's career.
I think they all look good.
I liked thirteenth floor but agree it could have been a lot better.
last I saw was 'The thing from another world' [1951]
Starts well but the monster is pretty cheesy. the music was also pretty bad - in that it's speaker shattering load when certain things happen - like you see the monster, yet non existent in other places.