MalàStrana

towne32 said:
The editing itself is definitely better in III than the previous releases.

yep, smudger9 is getting better with editing tools. There is still the frame-rate issue before and after each wipe transition that is still noticeable.

He has already said that SpiderMaul will be in it, but hopefully not as prominently

It’s only one episode and a half the spiderMaul thing, isn’t it ? So there indeed might not be too much of it in his cut. That being said, I find Maul not very interesting compared to Ventress.

It’s a shitty attack anyway. You only need a lightsaber to dismiss it (or “Force hands”). If Yoda had told Luke about that he might have never thrown away his saber.

DominicCobb said:

MalàStrana said:

Yeah you’re right. I guess the name of the trilogy might have been given by italians (anyway, the french dubbing is far superior than the english dubbing. Connection with the conversation ? None).

Don’t know if that’s true but the English dubbing at least makes logical sense.

Why so? Most of the actors didn’t play in english during shooting.

edit: ah, “logicial” because it’s set in the US I guess.

Yeah you’re right. I guess the name of the trilogy might have been given by italians (anyway, the french dubbing is far superior than the english dubbing. Connection with the conversation ? None).

I wonder if wearing rubber boots could be enough.

So, Episode III- Children of the Force. I’ll be quick with this one: I don’t like it. Mainly because you’ve based most of it on the “children of the force/Bane” subplots, which are among the worst of the series. The first part is okay with the Ryloth material, but everything that involves Bane is so wrong. So he attacks the Senate (during war time…) with a bunch of bounty hunters and gets away with it… and even finds time to heist the Jedi Temple… why did he need a diversion ? It’s never clear since no one working in the holocron vault room/library is affected by the Senate situation… and after that Bane has the ability to fool everyone with cheap tricks… while kidnapping Force sensitive kids around the galaxy to bring them on Mustafar where a Sidious hologram tries to cheer the babies up… on top of that: Anakin giving his saber to Padmé (oh, it’s so heavy) while delivering one of the dumbest lines of the PT (this saber is my life). I can accept some silliness in the PT era (because I’m used to it now) but Bane’s plots are even lower than AOTC (IMHO of course).

Well I’m unfair: it’s just that I don’t like the Bane arcs at all, however your editing is fine and you’ve tried to make something interesting out of this material. I’ll watch your next Episodes anyway (Maul, Ventress, Tarkin, Ahsoka… the last seasons have strong material for very good feature length, so I’m confident you’ll make excellent edits out of these episodes).

MathUser said:

Never taught Vader how to do the lightning? He taught it to Dooku. I don’t know how long he was his apprentice, but surely Vader should have learned it by then. You could argue he can’t do it cause he don’t have hands. But his mechanical hands seem to be fine for force choking and force pushing.

Wouldn’t it be too dangerous for him to learn it ? His parts aren’t plastic if I remember it well.

[and yeah it was a huge mistake - among others - to show Dooku mastering the lightning attack…]

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. Special Edition.
“Bartertown, you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.”

[source: Melvin Seri Zed]

Yeah I got it (I don’t discover it today by the way, it’s quite well known Fett was originally based on Eastwood’s bounty hunter), was just pointing out the poster (which… does not make sense !) with its tagline “Boba Fett, the man with no name !” (it’s funny, that’s all folks !).

TV’s Frink said:

MalàStrana said:

Tyrphanax said:
It just doesn’t make sense to me.

“does make sense”, “does not make sense” are probably the 2 worst sentences I keep reading around. It simply was a RedLetterMedia joke once…

No, the worst sentence is “Daisy Ridley made a squirrel face at the idea of The Force being real and it was stupid.”

But you’ve only read it once or twice, not on every page of every thread (and it wasn’t in those exact terms anyway).

Tyrphanax said:
It just doesn’t make sense to me.

“does make sense”, “does not make sense” are probably the 2 worst sentences I keep reading around. It simply was a RedLetterMedia joke once…

The man with no name who is called Boba Fett. Ok.

[fun fact: the Leone trilogy is also known in France as “la trilogie du dollar” = “the dollar trilogy”, 'cause each installment deals with how getting money]

[There is something truly frightening about the conversation going on…]

The only sport I really follow is football (the european original version - soccer as you call it -, not your weird version that ended up being a very good tvseries and one of the best Oliver Stone’s movies), and I’m lucky enough to be a DFB (german football federation) fan ('cause I’m french with recent german origins), which means this year there are 2 teams I support that have reached the semi-finals so far. Very glad Sweden got rid of USA (best women’s football team with a terrible human being as their goalkeeper) so there might be room for Germany (die “Frauenschaft”) to get Gold for the first time. The same goes with the men’s junior team (only happened once, with DDR, 40 years ago). So far the medal count is very low for France and Germany so I hope “we” will at least get those two medals.

It’s like figure skating olympic grades.

ZkinandBonez said:

MalàStrana said:

ZkinandBonez said:

Ronster said:

Just FYI I watched Zatoichi (well half of it) last night,

Huh? Zatoichi is like 25 films and a whole TV series, how do you watch “half” of it in one evening.

The Kitano remake is simply called “Zatoichi”.

Ah, right. I completely forgot about that version.

And since we’re at it, you mentioned 25 films earlier: don’t forget the 26th episode released in 1989. Still don’t know why Criterion (and Wild Side in France) didn’t release this one (it can however be found as a zone 1 edition).

ZkinandBonez said:

Ronster said:

Just FYI I watched Zatoichi (well half of it) last night,

Huh? Zatoichi is like 25 films and a whole TV series, how do you watch “half” of it in one evening.

The Kitano remake is simply called “Zatoichi”.

In France as a matter of fact. We only use these portmanteaus (prélogie, postlogie). You should do the same.

MathUser said:

Yes, I guess I should have called them Originals, but that sounds weird. 3 originals and none of them are a sequel.

To clarify that for you:
4-5-6: Original trilogy (aka The Trilogy) [OT]
1-2-3: Prequel trilogy (aka The Prelogy) [PT]
7-8-9: Sequel trilogy (aka The Postlogy) [ST]

Ok, second one watched (A new threat). My main criticisms of the first episode remain (little bit too long, too much repetitive action, it doesn’t breathe enough) but on the other hand you’ve improved with this one: the transitions are smoother and the “intercut montage” is more polished. There are the technical same issues with the frame-rate dropping each time there is a new transition that still bug me, but it’s nevertheless better than the first episode. Also during the Council meeting in which you’ve used “CW cartoon” dialogues the sound mix is really wrong, very jarring. About the plot of the “new weapon”, there also is a over-use of basically the same footage (the “firing” shot hommage to ANH Death Star), so I would recommand if you intend to revisit your edits (when every episode finished) to remove them (only keep 2 at most), because it’s really repetitive and it does not serve any purpose since the weapon is shown firing at the very beginning. There might be a few other things to shorten but overall it’s quite good, superior to the tvseries counterpart. Boba is less hesitant in his actions, which is a good thing.

I believe the opening sequence was enough for a PG-13 rating:

• old man being killed (off screen though) ;
• villagers being executed (off screen again but the amount of violence implied is enough) ;
• and there is the dying trooper finger painting blood on Finn’s helmet ;
• not to mention the frighten and desparate alien being arrested by the troopers.

And yeah the first mind probing sequence is cherry on top. You also get three guys (one trooper by Finn, one samurai guy in Rey’s vision, and Indiana Jones) getting saber pierced in front shots.

It’s not as violent as ROTS is, but I can understand the rating… in the US/UK at least.

Feminist humor is like normal humor, except it’s never funny

SilverWook said:

They digitally covered up Natalie Portman for the Your Highness trailer. 😉

I really miss there was no room for a “Slave Padmé” scene in the PT…

Alderaan said:

Saw this again the other day and it’s even worse now. Almost as bad as the prequels as time passes. Absolute garbage. Will not be watching it again.

Nonsense: the prequels are better than TFA. At least in TPM when Anakin meets Obi-Wan he’s not “oh, you’re Obi-Wan, really !” and “No way: Yoda !?! I thought you were a myth !” (with the weird Daisy Ridley squirrel face it’s even worse). At least Lucas tried to do something. He failed, but he tried. JJ failed without even trying to do something.

[I’m really not sure I already said I didn’t like TFA. Did I ?]