NeverarGreat

Editroid said:

Anakin was Obi-Wan’s padawan. It’s natural that he would be younger than him, and not necessarily his “contemporary.”

It always struck me more as a brotherhood rather than a father/son relationship, so the 16 year age difference in the prequels always strained credulity for me. But having an 82 year-old play someone who is supposed to be 45 is really stretching it, even granted the terrible deformities and rough life.

What would make the prequels and the OT play nice is if there was a 24 year gap between the PT and OT.
Alec Guinness was 62 in ANH. With a canonical age of 38 in ROTS, this makes him perfectly cast in terms of age, and is more in keeping with the ‘old fossil’ talk in the movie.
Mark Hamill was 25 in ANH. This de-ages him by only one year.
Carrie Fisher was 20 in ANH. This ages her by 4 years, but since she acts older than her age anyway, it’s quite believable.
Phil Brown (Owen) was 60 in ANH. With Joel Edgerton in ROTS being 30, he would be de-aged by 6 years. The years have not been kind for him.
Shelagh Fraser (Beru) was 56 in ANH. With Bonnie Piesse being 22 in ROTS, she would be de-aged by 10 years. The years really haven’t been kind.
Sebastian Shaw was 82 in ROTJ. Hayden Christensen was 25 in ROTS (canonically 23), this would make him 51-53 in ROTJ, a de-aging of about 30 years. It’s an extreme aging, but at least he’s beyond middle age at this point.

doubleofive said:

Why do we keep talking about the Prowse documentary being a possibility? David Prowse is 82 years old. How would that be better then Shaw in any way?

Because we’re not using the prequel timeline? Phil Brown was 60 when he played Uncle Owen, Shelagh Fraser (Beru) was 56, Alec Guinness was 62. For Anakin to be a contemporary of these people, it would make sense that he would be in his 60’s or 70’s, and he would probably look older than that anyway.

Angly said:

I’m sure there will be suggestions aplenty in this thread, so let me just say that your (relatively) few substantial, well considered changes are worth more than many hundreds of small cosmetic alterations. I’m glad that this edit seems focused on those big changes. Don’t sweat the small stuff.

Couldn’t agree more, Cut and Paste Bot.

Holy shit.

Death Note.

Having seen the Anime and now the Netflix movie, I’ve gotta say it is a real step down from the anime.

The main character goes from being a privileged kid playing out a power fantasy (in the anime) to being a guy who has a genuine motivation for killing people due to his difficult family history and bullying at school (the movie). I know this makes it seem like the movie did it better, but much of the power of the anime is that Light begins killing because of latent nihilism and savior complex endemic of most adolescents, and giving him such a troubled past obliterates this subtle yet powerful impetus and serves only to alienate him from much of the audience. The rough acting doesn’t help matters.

At the outset, L is a casualty of the accelerated pace of the movie. We have no time for his though processes, no cat-and-mouse game with Light. Instead he is supercharged with an intense desire for justice which occasionally manifests in violent outbursts, and by the end he becomes the best thing about the movie. The acting was excellent, and in the hands of a more competent writer and director he would have surpassed the L of the anime.

Ryuk and Mia were as expected, merely functional.

One thing which surprised me was the (unintentional?) comedy of the action, which grew throughout until the climactic action setpiece. It is impossible to take it seriously, but at least it’s so over-the-top that it’s memorable.

Recommendation: Don’t watch this unless you’ve first seen the anime and want to laugh at some amusing ineptitude. At least then it will be a fun time.

I propose starting any non health related statement about him like so: “While his health remains unchanged, John Williams…”

My heart skipped a beat before I got to the end of the line. Damn you SilverWook!

CatBus said:

Warbler said:

What do you mean Republicans are saying the name of their party wrong?

“Their” in that context meaning the Democratic Party, not the Republican Party. As an exercise, go through any official Republican press release, speech by a Republican national candidate, or opinion piece by a Republican political operative, for the past ten years, and see if you can find even one saying the words “Democratic Party” when talking about their opposition. Just one reference using the actual name of a major US political party in the age of the Internet when anyone can look anything up, shouldn’t be a problem, right? Yeah, not so much. Now go back thirty years, and the same exercise is easy.

They once got it right every single time, and then suddenly they all got it wrong every single time. Staying on message is one thing the Republicans tend to do very well, even for petty name-calling. Shit, look at Freedom Fries or Death Taxes or whatnot. They even rode with Homicide Bombers for a week or so when even their own people couldn’t bear how stupid it sounded from the get-go. They practically have their own Newspeak division.

Although calling them the ‘Democrat Party’ was an insult by Republicans, it has been so ingrained in their speech patterns that they probably think theirs is the ‘proper’ way of saying it. There’s some sense to that after all. The Republicans and the Republican party are the same word, so it makes sense that the Democrats and the Democrat party would follow the same rule. It’s stupid, sure. But at least there’s some consistency in that thought.

Editroid said:

NeverarGreat said:

He’s in the background of the ‘Transports in the Hoth hangar’ matte replacement.

Is he that tiny astromech in the distance that was welding those crates?

Yep.

Damn, Duracell, you’re prolific! I also really like your Episode 1 poster sketch. Very Struzan.

Apart from Duracell’s work, this thread has been gutted by Photobucket’s general crappiness. The broken links make me sad. Hopefully Deviantart will be better - I just made an account in order to re-upload what was my original avatar in 2012:

This was right after buying a graphics tablet, and was trying to get a feel for the medium. It’s sort of an alternate universe Vader. I only wish his head had turned out better.

He’s in the background of the ‘Transports in the Hoth hangar’ matte replacement.

Troy said:

NeverarGreat said:

Troy said:

Get Dave Prowse & reshoot the end of RotJ with HIM! Right the original wrong. Shaw yeah fine, better than nothing but Dave earned that reveal big time.

Someone did this already. The problem would be getting the go-ahead to release the footage.

How do you mean?

It’s in a documentary on Netflix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbExdNBjOfQ

The guy shot the footage, and the behind the scenes stuff is in the documentary, but for legal reasons he couldn’t release the actual scene.

Here’s the link 😃

Having recently watched ANH Revisited as well as (of course) ESB-R, the look of ANH-R is very different than the Technicolor look of my project. For example, the Death Star walls and exterior surfaces are various shades of blue/green in my project, whereas Adywan has gone with a neutral gray. I wouldn’t suggest changing the look of ANH-R, since ESB-R follows the same look and I think it really works in modernizing the feel of the films, rather than romanticizing them as I have tried to do.

I guess what I’m trying to say is that Ady would have to start from scratch with the color no matter what. Though with all of the gradient and detail fixes in my project (hundreds of them at least), it would probably be worth it to work from that, even with the different look.

Troy said:

Get Dave Prowse & reshoot the end of RotJ with HIM! Right the original wrong. Shaw yeah fine, better than nothing but Dave earned that reveal big time.

Someone did this already. The problem would be getting the go-ahead to release the footage.

Good luck on this most massive endeavor!

I’m sure there will be suggestions aplenty in this thread, so let me just say that your (relatively) few substantial, well considered changes are worth more than many hundreds of small cosmetic alterations. I’m glad that this edit seems focused on those big changes. Don’t sweat the small stuff. 😃

I hope their reveal is handled similarly to ESB. The Republic recon guy is looking through the binoculars and sees a giant foot hit the ground.
Pan out, and it’s an AT-ST.
Then a giant foot hits the ground in front of the AT-ST.
Pan out, and it’s an AT-AT.
A giant claw hand thing hits the ground in front of the AT-AT…

Wouldn’t you feel like ending it all if someone sliced off the tips of your fingers?

It’s certainly a step up from Stuffed Crust Dreadnought.

Hey y’all, 'member The Empire Strikes Back?

But yeah, underwhelmed is a good word for it. My brain automatically comes up with rationalizations like ‘I’m sure the callbacks are merely visual, while the story boldly subverts audience expectations’. Please be right, brain.

TV’s Frink said:

Possessed said:

TV’s Frink said:

That image appears to be asking what if Zelda was a girl drawn by a horny boy.

THAT’S NOT ZELDA.

Nerd alert.

Missed the joke alert.

Possessed said:

Some people actually don’t like cats without having an allergy to them.

I’m among them. At the moment the roommate’s cat has leaped onto the bed, awakening my girlfriend. Now she (the cat, not the girlfriend) is rubbing herself on every corner of the apartment. Earlier tonight she threw up all over the stairs.

So yeah, not a fan.

Eat that, North Korea!

It had (will have had) some funny moments, but on the whole it was (will have been) too long.

“Yeah, there it is R2…the newsreel. I’m not reading any grammar or typography…there’s something plot related down there.”

An alternative idea (or in addition to, if the snoring works also) is to edit Luke’s lips so that he now whispers “Sleep” when he applies the Force on the first guard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5sQnfHDNRg