NeverarGreat

darth_ender said:

Anyone else think this site and fanedit.org make people scrutinize movies too much and suck the fun out of escapist diversion?

P.S. I love it here, but seriously, that aspect of the culture, it just…

As long as people go beyond simple ‘I don’t like X’ and dig deeper to find the real issues with movies, then I think these sites are important. There are a lot of projects that aren’t too interesting from this standpoint, since they seek merely to remove elements from films deemed ‘childish’, ‘slapstick’, ‘boring’, etc. I find these edits less interesting because I often mentally edit these things out of films anyway, and going to the trouble of actually removing them doesn’t significantly alter the experience.

But edits that seek to craft whole new narratives, like some of the more ambitious Phantom Menace edits, can be viewed as different films entirely. Similarly, something like TFA Restructured can be viewed like an experiment to see how much of a difference one (major) change can have on an entire film. And of course edits which make substantial changes to the effects (Adywan) make the films quite different indeed.

darthrush said:

Everyone should also know that the free program “Megadownloader” bypasses the 5 GB limit quite easily. Just plug the mega link into the program, choose your download location, and your on your way!

According to this, you now have to use a VPN to get around the 5gb limit, and this works with the unofficial program Megadownloader and the official app MegaSync. Is this right?

Anyway, I just finished watching this edit, and it’s quite good!
There are some audio level issues, such as when it goes quiet at around the halfway mark and returns after Vader dies. Other than that, very nice!

Thank you!

I’m working on getting a full comparison gallery uploaded, but there’s 3 more reels to go. Each frame selected shows more than basic color correction, and usually this mean that I’ve used another source for color or detail. When a similar fix is applied to multiple shots in a scene, only a representative sample of the fixed shots are included. Here’s the gallery so far:

Downloadable Comparison Gallery

I don’t need to be stoned to have great ideas about our purpose in the universe, which is why I’ve never touched the stuff. I expect it would just make it worse.

TV’s Frink said:

Canadians are weird.

While this is good wholesome entertainment for Americans, this would be considered good wholesome entertainment by Canadians.

Sickening.

I’m not that dark!

You know, I completely forgot about that.
😛
Well in any case, it would be good to change the Mega link.

My Avatar is now appropriately dark and orange.

Valheru_84 said:

NeverarGreat said:

It would be nice to have a <5gb or multipart file option so that Mega would work.

Shouldn’t you just be able to use winzip, winrar or 7zip to split it up into multiple files? This might help also in producing a larger video file if darthrush has the ability to produce a higher quality one (having read earlier that the quality seems a bit lacking when compared to other edits)?

.Val

What I’m saying is that with Mega’s new (since August) 5gb cap, any file larger than that is unavailable unless you’re a paying customer. I just wanted to let him know so he might split the file into parts, since I’d be unable to get this edit otherwise.

It would be nice to have a <5gb or multipart file option so that Mega would work.

Sometimes I listen to “Your Father Would be Proud” on repeat.

Glad you’re feeling better!

It sounds like ‘real stuff’ to me. When you’re more able to type, do you know why you’re getting these migraines? I know someone who got them all the time until they cut caffeine out of their diet, and now just gets them when storms roll in.

Guess I’m just more OCD than normal. But I already knew that.

DuracellEnergizer said:

^This.

Don’t you just hate it when you decide not to quote someone then your response is shunted to the next page?

Ray, if you need to talk to anyone, please tell us here or send me a PM. I must admit I’m a bit worried right now.

TV’s Frink said:

Neverar is gonna be crushed.

To answer the decade old question, yes, I can disregard Leia as Luke’s sister, for the simple reason that there’s no real proof that they’re related. Ben merely says ‘Your insight serves you well’ in response to Luke’s intuition. He’s already known to lie when it serves his purposes, so he could merely have been allowing Luke to believe that Leia was his sister to make sure that the real twin stayed ‘safely anonymous’.

The hint of Leia’s Force sensitivity only appeared after Luke basically said that she should be terrifyingly powerful with the Force, and this tracks in my mind to how the Force should really work - if you believe in it, you can become strong in it. Even The Force Awakens doesn’t ruin this idea, since she would have had 30 years to develop some real Force ability and Ben junior would have grown up believing that he was destined for greatness.

Glad to hear it’s not entirely bad news!

There are plenty of people who appreciate at least some of the Special Edition changes, so I’d definitely like to see that happen if it didn’t distract from the work on the originals. The SE shots in the official blu-ray are often more degraded (color loss, detail loss) than the unaltered shots for whatever reason, so even if you were to get just the SE shots scanned it would be an important contribution.

ray_afraid said:

If tonight was your last night, is there anything special you would do?

I hope the question is entirely theoretical.

I’d stay up all night outside looking up at the stars and talking to the people I love.

Jackpumpkinhead said:

Ha!

Have you ever had a dream that you, um, you had, your, you- you could, you’ll do, you- you wants, you, you could do so, you- you’ll do, you could- you, you want, you want them to do you so much you could do anything?

TV’s Frink said:

I can’t believe so many people are so gullible, and by “so many people” I mean “anyone.”

Your haughty rejection of gullible people means that you’re secretly gullible yourself. I, on the other hand, embrace my gullibility.

It’s okay to be looking forward to this edit, Frink.

DuracellEnergizer said:

What a strange website. I found this though.