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DuracellEnergizer said:

I’ve been considering seeing Star Trek Beyond, as I’ve heard its more in the mold of classic Trek than ST ‘09 & STID. Now, I still haven’t seen the prior two movies and still don’t plan to. Can this movie be viewed as a standalone film, or is it too mired in the continuity of Abrams’ films?

Everything you need to know going into this one is established in Trek '09. IMO, if you can’t stomach watching that film, you shouldn’t bother with Beyond.

My dog doesn’t even play keep-away. After attacking the ball, he then drops it out of sudden boredom and wanders back for a treat.

TV’s Frink said:

This is an apt summation of the macrocosmic universal mind at work.

Fang Zei said:

I actually don’t mind so long as it’s not Tatooine again for a very long time, and even then I’d want a damn good reason to go back. It was pointless enough having Luke go back there in RotJ other than Lucas checking off “the hero returns home” from his Joseph Campbell cheat sheet.

If it was Tatooine then people would complain that it’s reusing a familar location for nostalgia value, and if it was another desert planet people would complain that it’s just a Tatooine clone like Jakku. I believe in the internet’s ability to make this a problem.

The film strip scanning idea is interesting, and would help to determine how to color grade the film. I have this widescreen version and filmstrip somewhere. Perhaps if enough people had frames we could mail them to someone (Dr Dre, Poita, etc) for proper scanning and color calibration, and this would be better than relying on promotional images.

Going slightly athwart topic here, but I recently finished reading The Dictator’s Handbook after putting it down for months (this had less to do with the writing and more to do with the fact that I wanted time to digest the implications of said writing).

It’s a fascinating read and its cynical yet illuminating interpretation of government fits the current political climate like a glove. Highly recommended.

thejediknighthusezni said:

ALIEN: COVENANT

SSSSHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAA… where to start.

As is typical of the Scott brand, the mood and atmosphere and universe building were outstanding. Fassbender was terrific and the rest of the cast did the best that could have been done with what they were given.

SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS

From the same crowd that gave us LOST, TOMORROWLAND…

Lesseee… We’ve got black-clad clean-shaven monkish Borgish tall dark-eyed statuesque time-jumping super-beings with Romanesque noses that are totally not the idealized image of the Jesuits, we’ve got another duality with a WASPy rapey-heterosexual insane “Davidic” would-be creator god and an Americany tool of the dimwit crew who tries to do the “right” thing according to programming, we’ve got the far-too-stupid to survive mostly white sloppy wildly-irresponsible dimwit crew with their moronic-and-evil-because-he-tries-to-be-Christian leader and their “asleep” cargo of presumably dimwit colonists unworthy of entrance into the great TOMORROWLAND…um…I mean TOMORROWWORLD…

The tall Not-Jesuits have created rapey impregnating aliens and bio-weapons for their INFERNO on Earth to help “cleanse” their planet of all they consider unworthy. It sure would be unfortunate if there was any blow-back onto the coadjutor families and lesser tools of the not-Jesuits, and they wouldn’t want any too-stupid-to-live useless-eaters surviving and learning it was they who did it. Luckily, The WASPy hetero-rapey Davidic would-be god intervenes and makes it very clear that he is solely responsible and anyone who blames the not-Jesuit group is TOTAL EVIL AND MUST SUFFER AND DDDIIIIIEEEEEEEEE!!! No, it is would-be David-god who is SOLEY responsible for bringing in and unleashing the hordes of rapey aliens and super-infectious pathogens.

Americany tool might have a change of heart after the thesis-antithesis wrestle at THE END and then merge their programming into the great synthesis.

END SPOILERS

It’s a good thing these are all just sychronicities sent through time by the great Jesuit-Borg OMEGA POINT to let us know the best possible path and it’s totally NOT a little gang of PURELY DEPRAVED SADISTIC AND INSANE PSYCHOPATHS using their control of Hollywood to advance their COSMICALLY CRUEL and BERZERKLY STUPID program.

Are you using a single setting to adjust these frames? They look good.

CarboniteSolo said:

You know, I’m sure Mark Hamill had his vision of what Episode VII was, and it wasn’t even close to what he probably wanted. The same goes for George Lucas, a totally different version than what we got on the screen. You ask anybody, and we all had different versions play out in our heads, that didn’t even come close to what we thought it would be like. You can’t make everyone happy, it’s impossible. I think Mark was just pointing this out to everyone, and it’s true what he said.

It’s not only that. I’d say that most people probably had multiple ideas of what a prequel/sequel trilogy would look like, and these contradictory and ever-evolving figments were sublime precisely because each one satisfied an aspect of the subconscious; no single vision could possibly coalesce these figments into a perfect story.

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joefavs said:

Meh, the quality of the impression wasn’t what made me cringe so much as his overall vibe. He seemed really unduly pleased with himself. Anyway, to address the difference between impressions and acting, can you imagine if Chris Pine had done a Shatner impression for his Kirk? That’s what Ingruber as Han would amount to.

This Han Solo exists in same timeline as OT and is not a reboot of the entire franchise.

So that means that a young version needs to be an imitation?

I’m with joe. No thanks.

No, it is a generally bad idea to recast this character period.

Whoops my bad. Yeah they should have got Ford to play him with the CGI that de-aged Leia so convincingly.

Or I guess they shouldn’t have made the movie at all because there’s no possibility whatsoever that anyone could ever make a good Han - Solo movie period.

Not even one in a million?

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During a long car ride, I listened to several episodes of The Last Podcast on the Left. http://cavecomedyradio.com/pod-series/last-podcast-on-the-left/
It was pretty good.

In case someone on Earth hasn’t seen this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuCn8ux2gbs

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Jeebus said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Might be a tad NSFW, so. . . .

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/76/d6/96/76d696cc39dfab9e836baaf1389e015d.jpg

I’m pretty confident I know how this picture will be received.

Obviously it will be spurned by the artistic bourgeois of this forum for misinterpreting the hemispherical trench on the Starkiller Base as fully circumferential, at which point they will rush to interpretation and judgement, wholly failing to appreciate the confluence of elements which comprise the finished piece.

I for one welcome a Lando who defies expectations in order to establish a character arc.

DuracellEnergizer said:

I’d like to participate in this thread, but I suck at making anagrams, so I’ll pass.

Luckily this little website exists:
http://wordsmith.org/anagram/advanced.html

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Handman said:

I had a dream that The Last Jedi suffered from severe censorship and Disney tried to appeal to everyone, including Flat Earthers, so they scribbled out anytime the curvature of a planet was on screen. Harrison Ford made an appearance, looking for his whip from Indiana Jones for some reason. The film was completely incoherent and I ended up hating it more than Attack of the Clones.

I hope this isn’t a premonition.

I had several dreams of this nature before TFA opened. One of them involved characters in the movie wandering around several locations such as a giant department store stocked floor to ceiling with Star Wars merchandise, or a street vendor on Jakku hocking Star Wars merchandise.

There was a theme.

DrDre said:

Here’s what the Conference room scene looks like on the print (gamma correction based on correction by age):

Edit: updated gamma correction

That’s interesting. There’s a notable color shift from the first images to the last image, which has more blue and generally more balanced tones. Which color cast would you say is more prevalent in these scenes?

DuracellEnergizer said:

My “objectively bad” comment was sarcastic snark directed at the anti-anime posters around here. I don’t really think it was bad at all.

This is why the internet is such a horrible place to live, bereft of sarcasm and snark detectors.

In related news, season 2 is being aired, and I’ll make a report when I finish it 😃

I hope this gains some traction, though perhaps the best course is to use the short form and leave this one on the front page.

JEDIT: Is there a way to navigate to the front page anymore, or are the forums the new front page? This is most confusing.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Watched the first season of an objectively bad anime called Attack on Titan, but gleaned some measure of enjoyment (as hard as that is to conceive) out of it. It could’ve done with less padding, though; the plot didn’t justify twenty-five episodes.

I very much enjoyed Attack on Titan, and wouldn’t call it “objectively bad”. It is very much aimed at the Shonen (young males) demographic, which means that it’s often over the top, but it’s a fascinating world. Most of it is very well-paced in my opinion except for the two ‘Eve of the Counterattack’ episodes. They could have been removed with little problem.

Fisher completed her part in Episode VIII late last summer, when principal photography on the film wrapped. “She was having a blast,” said Kennedy. “The minute she finished, she grabbed me and said, ‘I’d better be at the forefront of IX!’ Because Harrison was front and center on VII, and Mark is front and center on VIII. She thought IX would be her movie. And it would have been.”

Bingowings said:

Bingowings said:

Broccoli spag with flat leaf parsley, garlic, crushed chilies, pine nuts and cheese.

^This but now we grow the chilies as well as the parsley, garlic and broccoli. Can’t yet grow the pine nuts, cheese or spag. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVo_wkxH9dU

We’ve recently been making ‘noodles’ out of zucchini with the Spiralizer. It’s a bit trickier to cook since just a little too long and it becomes mushy. However, I’ve found it’s quite good with regular spaghetti sauce.