Mike O

It's terrifying how much time you can waste listening to these things :p!

Anyway, listen to Kermode and Mayo and Elvis Mitchell's The Treatment and iFanboy.

Stephen King's The Stand, Marc Andreyko and Brian Michael Bendis' Torso, Arthur Conan Doyle's The Valley of Fear, and if the damn audiobook comes, The Hunger Games.

AuggieBenDoggie said:

 

Middle of the day on a Friday, so barely anyone attending or running the theater. This time I know the movie is academy going in. I get there during the trailers, and oh man, I immediately know something is wrong. It's the trailer for Drive and the light is spilling onto the top and bottom black curtains which are still set up for scope. I've learned from experience that if something is wrong during the trailers, it's gonna be wrong during the movie. I run out and tell a guy about how they gotta open up the screen in auditorium 7. The guy says "ok," gets out his walkie-talkie and I run back. By the time the movie starts, they still haven't fixed the problem. I run back out to tell the guy again. He gives this frustrated look as he reaches for the walkie-talkie, a look that says "I told them to fix it."

 

Sounds like they had a newbie up in booth that didn't know how to change over the masking. My main complaint with AMC is with the shutter ghosting during the 35mm presentations. I also have big issues with their IMAX presentations regarding the shrill sound at insane levels. I will never watch IMAX at AMC again.

 

Perhaps I'm simply not observant, but I haven't had much trouble with my local AMC theater. The IMAX sound is loud, but I always figured that was just because it was IMAX sound.

It finally works, presumably YouTube themselves fixed it.

I have an iPhone 4S. The app itself doesn't let you do certain things the mobile site does, so I like to use both. It used to work fine, then one day, it didn't work fine. It's....irritating...

...is currently driving me crazy. I tend use their mobile site because for some reason, my YouTube app that comes with my iPhone doesn't load anywhere near as quickly, doesn't let me respond directly to comments, and is generally annoying and poorly designed. Their mobile site, for some reason, is being irritating and isn't letting me load my playlists. It'll show the first set of videos, and when I click "more," it just flashes and shows the same videos again. Peculiarly, it DOES let me see my favorites and cycles through them. Is this just foul-up on YouTube's part that I really can't do anything about and will just have to wait for them to fix, or am I doing something wrong?

So the hope for that was dashed too, huh? Lucas probably really has destroyed every print and there really isn't any way to restore the OOT...

SilverWook said:

CN doesn't hesitate much in killing off shows that don't pull in the numbers, or sell enough toys.

My guess would be this does plenty of both.

I hear that the TCW TV series is doing gangbusters anyway.

Mielr said:

 

DavidBrennan said:

Any people with distaste for the current state of the SW "brand" or LFL in general feel any vindication by the floppage of TPM 3D?

I do. And even if it ends up making a profit, I'll still consider it a "flop" because the standards have been set higher by the franchise, tarnished or not.

As far as the marketing goes, I must be watching the wrong channels because I think I saw a total of ONE tv commercial for TPM3D and only one or two posters at bus stops. :-?

 

Being a year behind on my Wittertainment and hearing Mark pontificate about the "death of the 3-D," the vindictive bastard in me is hoping that the fad will be in its death throes by the end of the AOTC relelease and LFL won't get to the OT and will lose big time. But the realist in me knows that the OT will do gangbusters in the theaters, even with the Amazon backlash and people knowing full well it's not the original film, and will just be another nail in the OOT's coffin.

David Filoni was a director the animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender, which was an excellent TV series which did the kind of fantasy stuff that Lucas used to do very well. I'd love to believe that the Star Wars brand is diluting and that TPM 3-D didn't do very well, but it just feels too much like wishful thinking to me.

1anakin said:

'Star Wars: Phantom Menace' Crosses $1 Billion Mark at Box Office

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/star-wars-episode-i-phantom-menace-box-office-294680

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/

Don't hate the messenger. 

Just another nail in the coffin. RIP OOT.

Look, this forum is NOT condusive to use on a mobile phone, I have to do the best I can with what I have!

I was hoping he'd be able to do the swordfights for The Hobbit to give continuity with the LOTR trilogy. A great contributor to cinema, he will be missed. 

RATLSNAKE said:

greenpenguino said:

I was going through the extras of Gangs of New York, and apparently George Lucas came and visited the set. He kept complaining about why they were building actual sets or something, and he said it should've all been done digitally. Mr Scorsese ignored him.

 

Nothing would please me more than a public statement by his "pals". Marty, Francis, De Palma, etc.

Like off the cuff comments, not intending to be harsh, in an interview about something semi-related, where they just blurt out "...his (Lucas) obsession with digital technology is a little one sided, it's a tool but a tool to use sparingly. He should've released his original movies by now in hi-def, I'm still waiting myself!"

One can dream right? lol I wonder what's the chance Marty said in his mind: "Yeah ok, fuck off now Georgie".

 

I do remember, or perhaps misremember, that when the theatrical version of E.T. was announced to be the one on the Blu-Ray disc, Spielberg talked about how he felt he was done with altering his own films and would look to the future instead of the past. I think he said that he felt that he saw his priorities in this situation as being different from those of Lucas. 

CatBus said:

negative1 said:

i personally try to stay as far away from people as possible, and haven't

had to relate to them in the last several years

"Hell is other people." --Sartre

I work retail, I'll tell you stories.

Mr. Bungle said:

We’re doing 3D versions of all six films, one a year, starting in February of next year. We start with [episode] one and go all the way through six, totally chronological. One a year, if they work. If they don’t, then there will be just one [episode converted to 3D].

-Rick McCallum

I just don't know what constitutes "work".

 

Making money.

doubleofive said:

none said:

Rumor that 3D AotC and RotS to be shifted to 6 month release schedule:

http://twitter.com/#!/CineMeGeek/status/170823038969987072

via: clubjade.net

Yes, when your first 3D release is panned for being a bad conversion, hurry up and get the rest of them out there.

Who cares? People are paying hand over fist for them regardless of what they look like? It say Star Wars, people will go, the SW brand name increases rather than decreases in power as time goes by.

georgec said:

Can't wait for George to blame the fans when they ask for the other movies in 3D and he says that they didn't give him enough money to see Jar Jar get farted on in 3D.

Still can't understand why people would want any of the movies, prequel or original, in 3D. Yes, I realize it's a fad and people like it for the kiddies, but anyone with half a brain should realize that giving George money to sell them the same garbage over and over again is a bad thing.

Yes, apparently not. Like I said, it's a drug, people will pay for anything with the name on it.

darth_ender said:

A should-be, would-be, could-be, or has-been professional movie critic

I wanted to be a film critic, but as I got into college, print media was dying and now that half the people on earth have blog, I don't know if I'll get to achieve my dream job. That's the Internet's fault, not Lucas', but so it goes.

CatBus said:

generalfrevious said:

Well, Lucas is still alive and making money, and Katie is being groomed to take over her father's position. We are still no closer to getting the OOT in an official and presentable release than we were 10 years ago, so getting over it is not really an option right now.

1) OOT

2) Official

3) Presentable

 

Pick any 2.  I will be perfectly satisfied with 1 & 3.  I'm honestly not sure what option 2 gets you, so perhaps you may someday determine it's not that important to you either.

Uh huh, and THX-1138? Fan preservations are for a smal clique of people and aren't going to be remembered down the road. There's a larger issue we have no way of controlling. Unlike the general, it doesn't make me wail with Shakespearean despair, but it does make me realize that we're never, ever getting the OOT properly restored and that in the major public consciousness, Lucas has won the battle and succeeded in what he wants. 

The issue isn't whether the changes improve it or not, the issue is changing things at all and you CAN get the original Hobbit. 

Exactly. This is why our whole endeavor is pointless. The ONLY think that might make Lucas interested in releasing the OOT is lost revenue and if people continue to pay for anything related to Star Wars that'll obviously never happen, and so far Star Wars as a franchise shows no signs of slowing down.

All of the discussion about what fans "Want Star Wars to be is academic amd is part of the continued bad reputation OOT fans keep foisting upon themselves. All that matters is the OOT. Do I like the PT? No, but I don't like Terminator: Salvation either and big deal, I can watch the first two until I'm blue in the face, they haven't been messed with. The OOT is all that's important and all of this just ads fuel to the long burned-out fire. 

CO said:

This interview furthers my opinion that we will NEVER see the OOT fully restored on any format.   I'm sorry, but the guy has comtempt for this part of the fanbase, and seeing his daughters tweets about the OOT fans too, she won't be releasing the OOT either when she inherits Lucasfilm.

 

Agreed. The battle is over. We've lost. This year all of the 3-D stuff and these interviews just salt the wounds. 

zombie84 said:

Yeah, it kind of bothers me that the Hobbit is only available in an edited form. BUT--and this is a big but--the original text is available in the annotated book. Since text is text, it's 100% perfect quality as the original; furthermore, it IS possible to buy ample second-hand copies of the original, again in the highest quality possible because text is text. And also, if LOTR fans were so inclined, one could easily just edit together all the original annotations in the currently-published special book; a kind of fan presentation like how we stitch together sources here. All the resources are there. Since, as far as I am aware, no Tolkien fan has done this, amid all the millions of fans and dozens of Tolkien website and communities, I must conclude that either no one cares enough to do that, or the annotated version or original second-hand copies suffice for the minority interested in the original text.

A situation completely different from the OOT, where only badly-degraded copies are available. It would be like if the original Hobbit had only been published in a photocopy packet with much of the text hard to read and no modern annotated version. Luckily Hobbit fans are fortunate to have the original text, in its original quality, plus older original copies. When Lucas puts all the OOT footage on Blu-Ray in HD as deleted scenes, I would happily shut up and get to work stitching them together into a preservation edit.

That's the thing, restoring text, especially in an age where it literally be stored pretty much anywhere digitally forever, is different from restoring a film.

TheBoost said:

I saw this flick during my little hiatus from this site. Thought I'd share my thoughts.

Didn't like it.

I don't think much of the anger directed at Lucas is fair.

If someone is a weirdo who collects 75 different Darth Vader dolls, or feels he's supposed to, and is angry about it, that's not Lucas's fault. Nor is it his fault if you obsessively collect the EU and don't like it.

If the Prequals aren't to your liking, well, that IS Lucas's fault, but it's not a personal thing. Lots of filmmakers are disapointing sometimes. You don't see "People vs. Ed Burns" for how boring his movies all were.

If the concept of midichlorians offends you somehow, that is also technically Lucas's fault, but again, how pissed can you be about a fictional virus thing?

I don't like that what I see as the only real gripes against Lucas (suppression of the OT, his documented untruths) is grouped in with a lot of (for lack of a better word) silliness.

Actual concern for film preservation and cultural heritage shouldn't be mixed with asshats singing "George Lucas Raped My Childhood."

This is a major part of why OOT fans get such a bad rap, I think, and with all of the things like this, I kind of understand why.