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Yeah… what’s been going on guys?

Sounds… not great. Pass until the series is done and maybe I will give Disney another month’s worth. Or not I suppose.

JadedSkywalker said:

American Graffiti is coming to 4K in November. I’m waiting for them to announce the date for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.

Just “Fall” right now, probably after the August 29th streaming date.

But he said there is no Episode VII 😉

Mando is getting a 4k steelbook release so I wonder if they suddenly need cash. And if Australians will have to import.

Well his friends and their cause are two separate things. Until ROTJ anyway.

In the end his friends are irrelevant to the bigger picture. He makes it clear that becoming an agent of evil is the worse scenario.

Business as usual I guess…

Streams are based on a separate ISP quality that can randomly change, which I think is not a great deal. All that other hardware isn’t something I can comment on.

For a second I thought hey cool, OG Lando can be part of the narrative. Like a bookend or something. Then I immediately thought about crappy CGI de-age-ing and weird stuff. Which unfortunately is more likely these days.

The future will probably give them more profit since they can lose places that make discs, the companies who ship them, and the middle-men involved.

Donald Glover and Brother Stephen to Write ‘Lando’ Series at Disney+ as Justin Simien Exits

https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/donald-glover-stephen-write-lando-series-disney-justin-simien-exits-1235681988/

Sideburns of BoShek said:

timdiggerm said:

What is the status with defeating the DRM on D+ anyway? Is that pretty well sorted by now? Hard to pirate without a source.

There is DRM on Disney+?

If there is DRM, it doesn’t stop the content appearing on torrent sites and stream sites just hours after release.

I was gonna say if they have any streaming protection it hasn’t stopped all the fan edits.

So this shocking (not at all shocking) news has been doing the rounds today:
https://www.darkhorizons.com/disney-pulls-physical-media-from-australia/

Which reminded me of another user here discussing the ‘Disney Vault’ recently. Eventually it seems like their whole catalogue will be on a subscription - if Disney even hosts it at all of course. They could easily drop something like Andor into the same hole as Willow due to low demand. People have let it happen because of the ease and convenience. Does anyone think the OOT is ever going to be seen officially at this rate?

Superweapon VII said:
Glad he got the cut. He looks like one of those lame rubber forehead aliens from TNG.

He looks like the Traveller hahah

I watched it recently and it is short but sweet. Anakin’s journey when told visually (the Ventress fight and the cave vision) is good stuff.

As for the CG series I enjoy it best when it’s not about Anakin and Obiwan, so there it is.

“Watch your step, this place can be a little rough” XD

Still looks weirdly low budget to me.

Who is Ray Stevenson playing if he knew Anakin… and how old are these characters exactly?

Greatest by what measure? Body count?

Oh totally, just curious. I’d like to be pleasantly surprised about all of this, but I’ve felt that about a lot of recent LFL projects.

Interesting, as I have no faith in a movie released today being as good as that.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone rank TLC that low, never mind two of you in a row. What’s the problem, the re-hashed elements or all the ‘here’s where the whip came from’ stuff?

LOL it’s still awful. I wonder why they kept it looking like a TV broadcast with the frame rate, is that more authentic?

UK Royal Mint to issue new coins for ROTJ Anniversary. Make your own jokes about Lucasfilm printing their own money I guess.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crg3yyyzev5o

Oddly images used are clearly not from the right movie, possibly TFA? With a little Tatooine twin suns thing on the top from SW?

Edit: it is TFA as the background of this promo video shows https://youtu.be/eQx4h-CaAFQ Weird.

timdiggerm said:

I’ve still never seen Temple of Doom. Maybe someday.

People have two main complaints about it, but even considering those I think it’s a spectacular action film in terms of set pieces and gags and weird fantasy stuff.

Anyway it goes:
Raiders 5/5
Temple of Doom 4/5
Last Crusade 4/5

Skull 2/5

The latter parts of the original trilogy are interchangeable in general quality for me, and are still amongst the greatest movie experiences. But I think Crusade while having some all time laughs in it has odd pacing problems in the first act. There’s also some weird moments in the finale like the ‘kneel before God’ thing. It’s clearly kneel and roll or lose your shins! Or that leap of faith which uhh… somehow never collected any dirt until Indy throws some on it.

Crystal Skull… eh. It’s toothless and dull. Even with fan edits. The effects are awful despite the occasional moments of old magic. They should have leaned into mythology and ancient art more when portraying the aliens. They should have fed someone into that tree cutter. They should have used Short-Round instead of introducing this other ‘son’. It should be the last good Speilberg movie but it’s the start of the end.

As for the new one, I will catch it later on streaming. If I want to see an action movie on the big screen with the kind of thrills the franchise offered back in the day there’s not much out here beyond the M:I series.