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#321012
Topic
Max_Rebo's '97 SE superset' preservation (* unfinished project *)
Time
OK small update.

Adywan has kindly supplied me with 5.1 rips from the laserdiscs so I have begun the process of syncing those up to the existing stereo tracks, although progress is slow at the moment.

Russs15 has supplied me with both the 'Flunk' and the 'Reivax' versions of ANH, and from initial impressions the flunk is far superior to all the other sources although it does suffer from a few section with corrupt frames, again the GKAR version has more frames than any of the other versions so it looks like ANH will mainly be taken from the Flunk with a few frames of GKAR thrown in here and there.

Also I'm working on a colour correction pluggin for avisynth because I'm not really happy with the options currently available, but first I need to learn C++ so I'm probably at least a week away from having anything useful.

I'll post a few comparison pictures from ANH soon.
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#320513
Topic
GOUT image stabilization - Released
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Kyp said:

Tnx Moth3r for the reply... really have enjoyed learning from your anti-aliasing and sharpening techniques.

I did IFO rips... don't recall my "force film" setting. Upon review I was incorrect in my steps.... I didn't have Womble so I was just using DGIndex against the raw M2Vs.

Is not doing the Womble step the cause? If so is there any freeware that achieves what it is doing in this step (minus the 30 day trial)? Also, since I bypassed this step, I also didn't reencode the M2Vs in TmpEnc.

To the best of my knowledge the only side-effect I've come across not reencoding the M2Vs is this frame number matchup with the scripts you guys create. Everything else seems fine on video enhancements and audio sync.


womble is used to correct the time code in the m2v but this is only needed if you demux with DVDdecrypter, I tend to rip a single un-split vob file with DVDdecrypter and then demux with VOBrator, this way you don't get any issues with the timecode and both programs are freeware. (actually these days I usually just use DGIndex directly on the VOB but as Moth3r said can give you a different frame count)

I've never used a 'force film' setting but I'm always using PAL sources so I doubt it matters for me.
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#320386
Topic
Indiana Jones IV
Time
lordjedi said:

How do you guys even enjoy movies anymore? You nitpick over every little thing, down to the possibility of a pick up shot looking out of place. It's no wonder you haven't seen a movie you've liked in the past 10 years.

To quote Charlie Brown "Good grief".


I didn't like the 'joke' anyway, all I'm saying is that it looked bad, I'm not sure why but it did. In the end this could have been a fully CG film or it could have been a completely non CG film it would still be rubbish because of the script, the plot had massive holes and the dialogue wasn't great.

I didn't set out to nitpick this film, I really wanted to like it, but I just can't go to the cinema and turn my brain off, if things don't make sense I notice that and it makes it harder to enjoy the film, I can ignore a few little problems but when you have huge problems with the plot as well as a load of other little problems it adds up to a bad film.

my point about the CG is just that it shows that the filmmakers kept taking the easy way, they obviously didn't care if it ended up looking like crap, and with the budget and resources they had there is no reason the film should look this bad.

and for the record I've seen loads of films I liked in the last 10 years, some I absolutely love, I'm not saying none of them have problems but what they all have is a plot that works which means I can ignore the little problems, the fact is I do not enjoy a film unless it has a good plot and a good script. It's hard to believe that there have been at least 5 writers for Indy 4 and ~15 years of script development and this is the best they could come up with, I had low expectations for the film but the least I was expecting was the wonderful script we had been promised.
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#320383
Topic
30i to 24p to 25p to 24p?
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mcfly89 said:

dark_jedi said:

is it the Waterworld from JT?

if it is I will take a look at it sometime today or tomorrow.
what framerate are you wanting in the end?

DJ


Yeah, it's the Waterworld Theatrical from Jaiman Tuckuh (Not the Extended). I want it to be 24p in the end. The thing is, once I IVTC it from 30i to 24p, it's 24p AS FAR AS AVISYNTH IS CONCERNED. So I can't convert it to 24p becuase I don't know how to tell AviSynth that it's actually 25p PAL.



in this situation you could use assumeFPS(25).convertFPS(24), which is basically telling avisynth that it is 25 FPS and to convert it to 24 FPS.

However the situation you describe 24p -> 25p -> 30i seems very unlikely and this certainly wouldn't account for a 74% change in speed.

if what Jaiman said is true it sounds like some odd pulldown was applied to go from 24FPS to 30 FPS, but that still wouldn't explain why your getting such a difference in playback speed. maybe you output video is still playing at 30FPS after the IVTC try just adding assumeFPS(24) at the end of your script.
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#320351
Topic
Indiana Jones IV
Time
I agree a lot of the first half of the film looked OK and the bike chase was definitely my favourite part of the film, the second half was a lot more CG heavy it probably wasn't as bad as a lot of recent films in terms of the abundance of CG, it's just the pointless CG that bugs me.

with regard to the statue, it may not have been an actual CG model but it was definitely a composite shot, it just didn't look real, it's almost like they just added it in post production and did a pick-up shot of the head falling in the guys lap, it just seemed so out of place.
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#320333
Topic
Indiana Jones IV
Time
Yoda Is Your Father said:

Anchorhead said:

ChainsawAsh said:

... the vast majority of the film was shot on sets and locations. .... The rest certainly had the on-set/on-location feel to it,


+1


You're kidding right? Take the sky during the scenes outside the warehouse at the start of the film - very fake looking. Yeah, it was a nice sunset or whatever but I don't understand why they couldn't just film outside a warehouse with a real sky.

Everybody is entitled to their opinion but sometimes I wonder if I was watching the same film as everyone else.



I was definitely watching the same film as you, that sunset shot looked horrible, not to mention the head falling off the statue, why in god's name do you need to CG an object falling by gravity? it would have been so easy to do it practically and it could have looked real, not that I think it was a very good joke anyway.

A lot of the film didn't look to bad but it seemed that whenever they could they took the easy route, the 'Lord of the rings' films are sometimes criticized as being to CG heavy but at least when they wanted shots of a sunrise they just got up early in the morning and filmed actors against real scenery with a real sunrise. I just don't understand why filmmakers chose to fake things that they could do for real.
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#320300
Topic
Methods for colour matching/colour grading
Time
This is something I've been looking at for my '97 SE project, I found the same problems with colourlike i.e. the grainy result, and like you realised I would need to approximate values for a smooth curve.

another way to improve the results (you may already be doing this but I know some people don't) is making sure your two sample histograms are taken from exactly the same frames from each source.

I tried to implement the method from the paper Laserman mentioned by rotating the colourspace in avisynth and using repeated iterations of colourlike, but this resulted in further problems because the rotations had to be normalized to 255 which lead to further graininess when it was rotated back. (am I making any sense?)

In the end I decided the only way I would get suitable results was to write a new Avisynth pluggin based on the paper Laserman mentioned and using a method similar to colourlike but smoothing out the target histogram and including several random colour-space rotations within the pluggin. Basically you'll never get a really good result without considering multiple colour-spaces as there is a problem with crosstalk between the colour channels (which is something the author of colourlike was willing to admit)

Therefore I am currently learning C++ (I have previous programming experience but not in anything C based) hopefully I'll have something useful in a couple of weeks.

However, considering the limitations of colourlike your results are already quite good.
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#320016
Topic
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: The InfoDroid Edit (Released)
Time
DarkGryphon2048 said:

ToD taken place in 1934 instead of 1935


I'm curious why does it matter what year it takes place in? why does it have to be 2 years between each one? why does this bother you?

DarkGryphon2048 said:

This seems like a very poor "fan-edit" as it is and seems more personal compared to an actual one. Not interested in the slightest.


Like you I love ToD just the way it is and therefore have little interest in this edit, but I wouldn't call it a "very poor edit" just because I'm not interested, yes it's done to Indodroid's personal taste but aren't all fan edits primarily for the editor? what would be the point in doing an edit if it wasn't what the editor wanted?

DarkGryphon2048 said:

If anything, I'm waiting for someone to take the playthroughs of Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, both the Team and Wits Path, combine them and make one fat mini-series. Of course using the CD-ROM talkie version.


That sound quite interesting, why don't you do it?
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#319780
Topic
An interview with Spielberg and Lucas, from a few weeks ago.
Time
That makes for interesting reading, but I'm not sure that Lucas really understands what he's talking about

Anchorhead said:


LUCAS: We wrote complete scripts on other MacGuffins [for the third film]. And finally I said, look, let's just try the Holy Grail. [Adopting another voice] ''Ohhh, it's too cerebral, we'll never make it work....'' So we turned it into a tangible magic cup with healing powers, instead of an intellectual thing. It wasn't until the idea of introducing the father came along that we kind of pulled [the third movie] out of the fire. Because it then shifted from being about the MacGuffin.


A lose deffinition of a MacGuffin from Wikipedia: "The MacGuffin is common in films, especially thrillers. Commonly, though not always, the MacGuffin is the central focus of the film in the first act, and later declines in importance as the struggles and motivations of characters play out. Sometimes the MacGuffin is all but forgotten by the end of the film."

By saying that the introduction of Indy's farther meant it was no longer about the MacGuffin (i.e. the holy grail) what he fails to realize is this means the holy grail is no longer the MacGuffin, Henry's Grail diary becomes the MacGuffin as Indy has no interest in the Grail itself but is interested in finding his Farther. Indy's rooms are broken into to find the diary, the diary leads him to Venice, his room is broken into again to find the diary, the diary is taken from him at the castle, and they go to Berlin to retrieve it, and once everyone knows where the grail is the diary is still important.

The same could be said about Raiders because the search for the headpiece of the staff is a lot more important in getting the story going and establishing the characters motives.

and in Crystal skull the letter that Mutt delivers to Indy at the beginning serves as the MacGuffin, the letter is sent to Mutt, Mutt takes it to Indy, the Russians follow the trail of the letter and the letter leads them to Peru, Indy is never even looking for the crystal skull.

Anchorhead said:


But ultimately, these are supernatural mysteries. They aren't action adventures. Everybody thinks they're action-adventure films, but that's just the genre we hang them on.
SPIELBERG: There's not one that hasn't been supernatural.


I just think this is rubbish, the original Indy films are clearly action-adventure films, in Raiders and Last Crusade nothing supernatural happens until the climax of the film, they may be searching for supernatural objects but that doesn't make them "supernatural mysteries", temple of Doom has a bit more supernatural stuff i.e. ripping out hearts and voodoo dolls, but it's no mystery!

I think this is just George's excuse for having so much supernatural in the latest film with so little explanation, therefore it is 'mysterious'
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#319463
Topic
Indiana Jones IV
Time
End Credits said:

Max_Rebo said:

but anyway 13 skeletons merge to form 1 alien what's that about?


Well, in some religions, many deities can be considered aspects of one god. I believe Hinduism is like this. I don't know about the Inca or Nazca religions, but since they worshiped what turned out to be aliens, it could have been something like that.

fsb


Maybe, but this is what I'm saying why do we have to explain it for ourselves? yes they has a hive mind but why do their skeletons merge into one being? the original films weren't like this there was actually very little supernatural content and we always knew what was going on i.e.:

Raiders - the Ark emits the wrath of god, but we saw a picture of that right at the beginning of the film so we understand what's happening.

Temple of doom - the stones heat up and burn through the bag, we knew they reacted to being close to each other from earlier in the film, there's a voodoo doll which needs no explanation and the guy can rip out hearts because he prays to an evil god but he'd already done this once so it made sense when he tried it later.

Last Crusade - the Holy grail heals people and grants long life - this is established very early on in the film so it comes as no surprise at the end.

Crystal Skull - up until the end of the film all we know is there are aliens that have magnetic skulls, the inter-dimensional portals the 13 -> 1 morphing and the 'army of the dead' are all completely unexplained.
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#319458
Topic
Indiana Jones IV
Time
Johnny Ringo said:

zombie84 said:

Max_Rebo said:

has he made a single good film in the last 10 years?


Have you been alseep for the last decade?

Saving Private Ryan
The Terminal
Catch Me If You Can
Munich
I thought War of the Worlds was awesome, and am always surprised to find some people didn't like it. A.I. is the only real clunker he's had but its a very interesting film, and Minority Report is quite good too. I'd say the latest batch of films are among the best he has ever done.


I guess it's just down to personal tastes. I quite liked AI but HATED War of the worlds and Saving private Ryan.


I'll admit I haven't seen all his films but 'The Terminal' and 'Catch me if you can' were OK but not great, 'A.I.' had some potential but had a some terrible acting and a terrible ending, 'Minority Report' was fairly dull and I don't have one good thing to say about 'War of the Worlds', but maybe 'Munich' was good. But still this is Spielberg and when it comes down to it the last Spielberg film I liked enough to buy on DVD was Jurassic Park (Well I have Jurassic Park 2 but in no way do I think that's a great film).

This man is a God of the movie industry who could make almost any film he wants and could probably get a larger budget than anyone else in Hollywood, but now we are putting up with bad scripts, bad effects and lazy film making. The really annoying thing is this could so easily have been a good film there's only a couple of big things wrong and then there's loads of little things, I really find it hard to believe they went through at least 5 writers and this is the best they got.

Surely no one thinks Indy 4 is one of the highlights of Spielberg's Career, it's not even the best film he's done in the last 10 years, of all the films you listed I would say Indy 4 only beats War of the Worlds, which was another nonsense Sci-fi script which didn't hold up to inspection and wasted so much potential.

Basically what I'm saying is share the blame, it's not just George's fault this film was bad.
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#319435
Topic
Indiana Jones IV
Time
OK so I saw this last night and here are my thoughts (spoilers obviously):

first off all I knew going into the film was:
Mutt was Indy's son
there were some aliens in it
and there was some bad CGI

My expectations were pretty low for this film but I really wanted to enjoy it.

The one thing I was really expecting to hate was Shia LaBeouf but to my surprise I actually thought he was quite good and the character worked fairly well.

Generally I thought the first half of the film was quite good but the gunpowder thing makes no sense and that skull is really inconsistent in how magnetic it is! I'm not so sure about the whole Nuclear explosion bit, at the time it amused me but it didn't make a whole lot of sense, why was there no running water in the house but outside there was? why was the TV on? and more to the point how did he not die or at least get seriously injured?

The bike chase was excellent and felt like classic Indy, I didn't like the bit where the statues head fell off, but basically I enjoyed from when Indy met Mutt up to them finding the crystal skull, although I wasn't sure why those guys in skull masks attacked them, who were they? it was just like they thought they'd gone too long without an action scene or something.

After they were captured I thought them having the Alien body just laid out on the table was just stupid not that I like the alien idea anyway but surely it should have been left and revealed at the end, and then you got the mess of CGI that was the jungle fight sequence, some of it was good, some was terrible I just wish they'd taken more effort to make it look good, but I did like the ants.

so then after they've passed the waterfalls they go though the ruins and suddenly a load of natives break out of the walls and start chasing them, I can only assume these aren't actual natives who spend there days hiding in the walls in case someone walks past so these must be the "living dead" who guard the city but if that's the case how do the Russians manage to kill them?? that is by far the worst undead army I've ever seen! either way it seemed like another excuse for a brief action sequence which had absolutely no consequence to the plot.

then we get to the ending when they were in the room full of treasures from all over the world I thought that would be a great time for someone to mention Atlantis which frequently comes up in the crystal skull myths and would of tied in nicely with the whole higher civilisation thing.. but no just Aliens, but wait not Aliens they're "Pan dimensional beings" from "the space between spaces" what the hell? if you're going to have aliens just have aliens.

but anyway 13 skeletons merge to form 1 alien what's that about? basically the whole second half of the film was one long action sequence which explained nothing I mean I could work out my own explanations for everything but if I have to do that why bother going to see the film? and then they are "inter dimensional beings" but they still have a flying saucer!

Obviously by this point I'd given up on this film, and then he not only gets his job back but he get promoted, why??? and the wedding, what rubbish! and then the worst line from LaBoeuf at the end of the wedding Ox says "well done henry" and Mutt and Indy say "thanks" why would Mutt think he's being congratulated on someone else's wedding day?


Sorry this turned into more of a rant than I expected, basically if it wasn't bad enough that there are aliens in an Indiana Jones film there was a whole load of other crap as well.

But although I blame Lucas for his influence on the terrible effects I think the real blame lies with Spielberg who was just too lazy to do a proper job, he didn't bother leaving the U.S. to do location shooting and he went back on his promise to do it old school, and worst of all he accepted a rubbish script. When did Spielberg last make a good film anyway? '93 had 'Jurassic Park' and 'Shindler's list', '98 'Saving Private Ryan'(I've not actually seen this but people say it's good so I'll give him the benefit of the doubt), has he made a single good film in the last 10 years?
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#319220
Topic
Max_Rebo's '97 SE superset' preservation (* unfinished project *)
Time
Number20 said:

Looking forward to seeing this set. You said that you've synced this to a stereo mix. Do you have the 5.1 mix from the LD?


I should be receiving the 5.1 tracks for all 3 films within the next week or so, hopefully it shouldn't take too long to sync them up to the existing stereo tracks and there should be enough space to fit both tracks on the final DVDs (but if not I will obviously sacrifice the stereo track)

I don't think I have any further news at the moment, I've been a bit distracted by another project.
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#319001
Topic
Max_Rebo's '97 SE superset' preservation (* unfinished project *)
Time
I have been doing a bit of work on this over the last week so I can post a bit of an update.

I have synced up the two sources for ROTJ and for this film the GKAR is a much better transfer (see screenshots) and the TB has missing frames again.

http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/9849/rotj2ou2.jpg
http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/8499/rotj3ne2.jpg
http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/9591/rotj1jm3.jpg


So a quick summary of where I am at the moment:

ESB is mainly taken from the TB with about 17 frames taken from the GKAR to fill in the few missing/corrupt frames. This is currently synced with a 256kbps AC3 English stereo track.

ROTJ is mainly taken from the GKAR except for the title crawl and all the shots which had Hard German subs in the GKAR which have all been replaced with the corresponding frames from the TB. This is also synced with a 256kbps AC3 English stereo track.

ANH at the moment looks like it will be based mainly on the GKAR with the TB used to replace the title crawl and subtitled scenes, but I'm still hoping to get some other sources which might prove to be a bit better.


As mentioned in the first post the starfields on these transfers are not good, and I have tried a few things to fix them but I can't improve them without introducing other problems so I think I will leave them as they are, then at least we have a version as close to the source as possible.

I'm still fiddling with the colour correction on the replacement frames, I was trying to use the 'Colourlike' plugin for Avisynth but the results are not as good as I hoped so I'm going to write my own plugin along similar lines but doing things slightly differently, which will hopefully give a better match.

I think that's it for now but I'll keep you all informed.


Molly said:

Hm. Anyone got sources for the underlying videos?

I might attempt a best of breed raw/ntsc anamorphic myself, but I recall torrents of these rips (e.g., G'kar, Reivax) aren't exactly easy to come by.


I don't know if these versions have ever had torrents, I got the GKAR and TB in trades a couple of years ago but the flunk and Reivax are even harder to come by.
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#318517
Topic
STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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gavin77 said:

So does anyone have the skill to add the extended Alderan scene to the actual movie, and re-post this on the newsgroups, etc for download?


I don't think many people are that interested in seeing it and I'm not sure Ady would want another alternate version uploaded at this point, it would probably lead to confusion, but if you want to do it it really isn't that difficult just follow the guide here: http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/ADigitalMans-Guide-to-MPEG2-AC3-Editing/topic/3444/
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#318068
Topic
Oh yeah!!! Lucas...clueless as ever.
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thecolorsblend2 said:


And I think some of you have some really screwy ideas about CGI. It's a tool to achieve a certain illusion, same as any other from the filmmaking trade. If it's a choice between something looking exactly the way the director wants via CGI or else a hackjob, bastardized shadow of how he originally envisioned, I'll take CGI everytime.


I think really the issue is not with CGI but with what CGI has come to represent, I think it's summed up rather nicely by this quote. "your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should." by which I mean CG is just so easy now that people don't think twice before using it.

In 1977 George wanted to have storm troopers riding big lizards but it would have been difficult and expensive to do and since it wasn't very important they were relegated to the background, in 2005 George want Obi-wan riding a big lizard and it's easy to do and he can afford it so he does it, but is it any more important to the story?

I think the problem is that until recently it was rarely possible for the 'Directors original vision' to make it to the screen because there were always budget issues or time issues or quality issues that mean things had to be change and that forced people to think about what they were doing and often they thought of something better or got rid of something that was not working.

look at 'Raiders' the guy pulls out a sword and Indy shoots him, that was not part of the 'original vision' it was done because Ford couldn't film the sword fight that day, these days it could have been done with CG but even if that was completely photo-realistic and undetectable as CG the film may have been worse because it stuck to the 'original vision'

another example is 'Empire' the Wampa subplot didn't work for technical reasons so they cut it, but now they could easily go back and do it with CG and restore the 'original vision' but would that make the film better?

In reality the original trilogy do not represent the 'original vision' whereas the prequel trilogy maybe do, but I think the prequels would have been better if they had less budget and had to think about every effect shot and decide which ones were worth keeping or which ones could be achieved in another way, that's how film making used to work a script would be refined during production (sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse) but now that is less true, everything written on the page can be visualized but that doesn't mean it's all worth seeing.

These days you can make anything you want with cheap CGI, but you can just as easily make a crap film without CGI.

thecolorsblend2 said:


Esp since all effects (rubber masks, miniatures, CGI, whatever) all look fake to me anyway so why split hairs over which looks faker?


Really? you've never been fooled by a special effect? maybe you think you haven't because you think they're all so obvious but it's just the good ones are so good you don't notice them. When it comes down to it anything can look fake, but if it's done well it can all look real, it's just a matter of how much care is taken during production.

the worst effect in the prequels for me was the clone troopers, they were 100% CGI because it was easy, it would have looked better and probably been cheaper to produce 50 costumes and employ 50 extras, I just hate the shots in ROTS of Obi-Wan interacting with CG troopers they look so fake, but this is not a matter of a necessary use of CGI to complete the directors vision, it just shows a lack of care in the production because this isn't a choice of "which looks faker" it's a choice between real and fake.
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#317684
Topic
Koyaanisqatsi - IRE Fullscreen Version (MORE IMAGE!) (Released)
Time
S45 said:

I've been serching Koyaanisqatsi font for a long time. I'm making movie opening similar to Koyaanisqatsi and can't finish it without this font. Rapidshare link don't work anymore, please send it to me.


Welcome to the forum,

I've got the font saved on my computer, send me a PM with your e-mail address and I'll send it to you.
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#317360
Topic
Info &amp; Ideas: ESB and ROTJ Wishlist
Time
teharri said:


We also have the opprotunity to change the colors of a force ghost. Does anyone else think it is weird that both force ghosts and holograms are both blue? Kind of confusing for kids.


really? I don't remember ever being confused by it, and I've never known anyone else to say it was confusing. I don't think you give kids enough credit, they don't need everything spelled out for them. I think this would fall under the heading of 'changing things just because you can'

I'm not trying to start a fight I just think you need to have a really good reason before you change something in an already great film, I feel the same about the light saber is there any reason to make it blue? or would you just do it because you can?
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#317352
Topic
Max_Rebo's '97 SE superset' preservation (* unfinished project *)
Time
Dunedain said:

Max_Rebo: Any update on how things are going? :) This is one of the best looking Star Wars preservation projects ever, really looking forward to watching these. :)


Unfortunately there isn't much going on at the moment, real life is really getting in the way, I don't think it will take me too long I just need to find some time to get some more done.

It is still at the top of my to do list so I'll let you all know when I do make some progress.

Cheers
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#317290
Topic
Info &amp; Ideas: ESB and ROTJ Wishlist
Time
teharri said:

I had an idea the other day while I was watching ROTJ. I think that there are numerous times where Luke deactivates his saber. I think that this is avoidable. The entire duel with Vader his saber should stay ignited. He can still be unwise to have lowered his defenses without the saber being deactivated.


but he didn't want to fight! and for at least part of it he was hiding, seems to me he deactivates his saber for good reasons.
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#315698
Topic
Doctor Who
Time
Nanner Split said:


I actually really liked Paul McGann as the Doctor. Would've been nice to have seen more of him.


McGann is probably my favorite, but then I was 13 when the TV Movie was made so he was the first Doctor I really remember seeing, but his Big Finnish audio stuff is also pretty good.

I probably prefer Eccleston from the new series, but that is largely due to the more consistent writing in the first series, series 3 was so inconsistent it mixed some of the very best episodes (blink, Human Nature, family of blood) with some of the very worst (dalek two parter and final 2 episodes). I'm just hopping for some improvement in series 4, although to me signs do not look good, but at least Moffat is writing a two parter, his episodes are always good.
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#315126
Topic
Ideas Wanted: How would you alter Star Trek 10? [Possible 56k warning // Images]
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Johnny Ringo said:


And while on that note, what's the go with Geordi? I thought his eyes were healed back in the Briar patch? Why is he back to implants?


I watched Insurrection the other day and when Geordi is watching the sunset he says that Dr Crusher didn't know if the effect would last, so he may have needed to go back to implants, I would have preferred it if his eyes had stayed healed, but that is the least of the problems with Nemesis.

C3PX said:


I think the removal of the E-2 (that was his name right?) would be a good place to start. It just didn't fit. We already met Data's brother before in the TV series and it was done much better back then. I think it was pretty lame they found another one of Data's brothers without so much as a mention of Lore. That whole plot line ought to be removed starting with the stupid dune buggy scene.


I agree that B-4 was a huge problem but he is surprisingly important to the plot, I'd love to see him go but I'm not sure if it would be possible, he is the reason they end up in Romulan space and the reason Data was able to rescue Picard, but I really wish Data actually died at the end the whole Memory transfer thing was such crap.

One thing that would instantly improve this film (for me anyway) is to reinstate some of the extended ending scenes
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#312851
Topic
Idea: Darkly Dawns the Duck - Original Broadcast Version - a preservation?
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I was just thinking about this today, I'd love to get a copy of this, I was thinking about getting the VHS off ebay but I have a few too many projects on at the moment, still I'll get around to it if no-one else does.

On a related note I recently found a download for the uncut Talespin pilot "Plunder & Lightning" it's split into 4 250MB XVIDs so the quality is quite good, if anyone is interested PM me for the link, one day I might try and clean it up a bit and stick it on DVD.
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STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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Originally posted by: Moth3r
Originally posted by: Rebel Scum
Originally posted by: cbaka
hy everyone , i can't find ity anywhere in A.B Starwars, can someone help THANKS.


cbaka,

I don't know who provides your Usenet access - however I had the same problem going through my ISP's (Virgin Media) newsgroup access. But on checking through Astraweb - who I also use (pre-pay) and the files are there.
It doesn't show up on Virgin Media because Ady posted to a.b.dvdr, and crossposted to a.b.starwars. Since the free service offered by VM doesn't carry the high traffic groups (a.b.dvdr being one of them) the posts were dropped.

@Ady: as a VirginMedia customer myself, I'd be grateful if, when you post the DVD9, you put a.b.starwars first in the group list.


as another VirginMedia customer I'd like to second this request, I'm not so bothered about the DVD5 as long as I can get the DVD9 on the newsgroups.

Love the disc art.

Cheers