How would a 3 second disclaimer make it harder for people to get these?
I do agree however that the acquisition process could be streamlined.
Spoiler warning: They’re actually the weird alien dudes from Star Trek: Beyond, only pretending to be Klingons.
Perhaps if there was a message at the beginning and end of the films ala what Hal 9000 does on his projects stating that fan projects are not to be bought and sold. An enterprising ebay-er would remove these, but they would have to re-encode the project and some of them might think it’s not worth the hassle. Other than that I don’t see what else to do.
Although we never see him teach anyone else, it is established that Jedi Masters do teach larger classes at the Jedi Temple, as illustrated by Yoda in Episode 2. Since Obi-wan is a master, it is logical to assume that he has such a duty as well which he could have been doing briefly right before Episode 3:
Episode III
Revenge of the Sith
As the Clone Wars ravage the galaxy, Anakin has returned home from his long campaign to Coruscant to become a Jedi Master.
Now without an apprentice, Master Obi-wan has become a teacher at the Jedi Temple, but he is eager to return to battle and end the war.
So when the Droid Leader General Grievous attacks Coruscant and captures the Chancellor, the two Jedi gladly embark on one last mission…
Since he’s teaching a large class of pupils and doesn’t care for the job, it’s somewhat understandable that we don’t see or hear anything about this in the movie proper - it’s a largely unwanted and uninteresting duty that he’s happy to ignore if he can. If he had a second apprentice on the other hand, that would need to be established in at least one scene.
In this edit Anakin is much more of a hero, since he wouldn’t slaughter Sand People or be suspicious of the Jedi. With these scenes removed, I think that he would play as a tortured yet ultimately heroic figure, and since there are no scenes of what happens to Anakin in the Jedi Temple, in the moment the overriding assumption would be that Anakin was killed through some means that is intended to be secret. Then in ANH, Obi-wan reveals that it was in fact one of his pupils in the Jedi Temple who betrayed and murdered Anakin, which makes complete sense in setting up a sequel where they need a secondary villain with a relationship to the hero. His apparent abandonment of these pupils in the beginning of Episode 3 has come back to haunt him, it seems. I think it’s as reasonable an assumption as the idea that Anakin fell to the dark side and immediately turned on the Jedi who practically raised him.
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Could you link to this individual so that we could report him as well?
JEDIT: I assume it’s this guy.
While I was at it, I went ahead and reported these douchenozzles as well:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Star-Wars-Despecialized-Trilogy-3-Disc-Blu-Ray-Set-/182551738580?hash=item2a80ee78d4:g:P6EAAOSwB-1Y2V-L
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Star-Wars-Despecialized-Trilogy-Complete-Edition-/182551739142?hash=item2a80ee7b06:g:~EcAAOSwA29Y5aFY
http://www.ebay.com/itm/STAR-WARS-TRILIOGY-DESPECIALIZED-BLU-RAY-THE-ONLY-WAY-TO-WATCH-/222499885871?hash=item33ce06d32f:g:MfAAAOSwjqVZC95A
This revblazjohn jerk has grossed 9,400 dollars on just the two auctions he has up at the moment.
Very good! That’s one less problem to deal with. Of course, their discussion of his new apprentice would need to be cut, but that’s no big deal.
On a related note, Revenge of the Sith: Reborn claims to preserve the revelation that Anakin is Darth Vader, but as the reviewer states, it’s not exactly a dramatic twist to reveal that the guy who turned to the Dark Side in this movie is actually the masked evil guy in the next movie.
Then your sauce is truly dead.
People who put sugar in spaghetti sauce are monsters.
It’s funny how they put love last, like it was some sort of startling revelation and the tagline was supposed to be clever.
It could have been clever if the movie convinced us of the reasoning behind such a Jedi rule, and sold us on the romance that abrogated it.
Made myself some spaghetti for supper since no one wanted to cook and I wasn’t in the mood for leftover turkey.
The sauce was bitter.
Adding a spoonful of sugar makes the spaghetti sauce go down.
Yep 😃
I’ve noticed that the 1997 changes are often the most degraded shots in the film, which is strange because, as they are much more recent than the 1977 film, they should be in better shape. But more often than not I’m having to repair the color. I guess these additions were even more shoddily preserved than the original elements.
Emperor: "Now, young Skywalker…you will die."
Vader: "I don’t think so. No one can kill a Jedi."
Luke (Writhing in pain): “I wish that were so.”
https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/36082
This John Podesta email has been verified as authentic. As it reads, it may be the reason the murder of Seth Rich is being looked at more closely than before. Not to mention, Seth Rich’s computer has gone missing. The FBI and DC Police keep referring the investigator back and forth between each other and no answers are ever provided.
Seth Rich and his family deserve justice.
Is murder really the first thing people jump to when they read this email chain? Because the first thing I assumed was that the Hillary campaign would consider firing someone whom they suspected of leaking info. That would be the next step up from ‘internal discipline’, I assume.
Also, from the NYT concerning the detective and Fox News commentator Wheeler:
The Rich family regrets hiring Mr. Wheeler and has objected to his many public comments.
Mr. Bauman, a communications professional who often represents Democratic causes and has worked as a pro bono spokesman for the family since last summer, said Wednesday afternoon that the family was asking that Fox News and the Fox affiliate retract their reports and apologize for damaging their sons legacy.
Mr. Bauman said that the Riches had retained Mr. Wheeler on the advice of Ed Butowsky, a Dallas businessman and conservative commentator who offered to pay for the investigator’s services.
Aaron Rich, Mr. Rich’s brother, said in an email Wednesday that Mr. Wheeler had “discredited himself as an objective investigator” and had lost the confidence of the family. He said that the politicization of his brother’s death had been “painful” and “debilitating.”
“Why everyone feels the need to use his death for their own motives is beyond us,” he wrote. “We simply want to find his killers and grieve. Instead, we are stuck having to constantly fight against non-facts, baseless allegations, and general stupidity to defend my brother’s name and legacy.”
He continued, “This only prevents us from moving forward in our grieving and distracts from answering the only question that matters — Who murdered my brother and my parents’ son, Seth?”
This transition gave me some headaches:
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/210167
Status Update:
Reel 1: Preliminary Grade 100% - Finalized 100%
Reel 2: Preliminary Grade 90% - Finalized 60%
Reel 3: Preliminary Grade 100% - Finalized 90%
Reel 4: Preliminary Grade 100% - Finalized 100%
Reel 5: Preliminary Grade 100% - Finalized 93%
Reel 6: Preliminary Grade 85% - Finalized 85%
Total Preliminary: 95.8% - Finalized 88%
I had been getting burned out on this lately, so I worked on other projects for a while. But it’s inching closer, and I’m determined to finish soon. 😃
-R2 will continue hiding behind rocks for the entirety of the Saga.
I really disagree with that analysis. During Watergate, 2/3 of the Republican members of the Judiciary Committee voted against all impeachment charges. And that’s after there was an actual audio recording of the President committing the crimes he was charged with. Direct evidence like that is very rare, even in normal criminal cases–usually convictions hinge upon a pile-up of circumstantial evidence that can’t be explained away by any other plausible scenario (i.e. “beyond reasonable doubt”). That’s much more likely to be the case here.
So if the case against Trump never gets as bulletproof as the case against Nixon, I’d say well over 2/3 of the Republican members of the relevant committees will avoid taking any action at all. Which is more than enough to ensure nothing happens. And Republicans won’t see any blowback regardless of how big the scandal becomes. As long as Trump’s approval stays above ~32%, they keep the Senate–with no real risk of losing it until 2022. The House is theirs until 2022 even if voters overwhelmingly prefer Democrats–and it’ll likely remain theirs after 2022 if they keep control of the redistricting process. What other changes may happen to our election system before 2022 is also worth considering.
If the scandals keep going at their current rate (major scandal every 12 hours or so, no actual video footage of Trump eating the puppy, just twelve witnesses), I think we’re looking at a second Trump term. That’s not doomed.
I think there are some additional factors to take into consideration here. One of them is that Trump has already made quite a few enemies in Congress, and he’s proving to be an embarrassment in terms of policy. Nixon was at least a savvy politician. There is also the matter of the crime. The Russia collusion has the potential to be much bigger than Watergate, if any hard evidence surfaces. Of course, there has been an erosion of values in Congress leading them to look the other way even when faced with wrongdoing, so perhaps these factors cancel out. But I don’t think that he is in a better position than Nixon at this point in his presidency.
Although ‘a mixed bag’ sometimes refers to a plastic bag that has been stirred in a bowl, more often it is used to describe a situation that has both good parts and bad parts. For example, if a promotional image for a television show starred Michelle Yeoh but also looks like it was greenscreened despite being apparently shot on location.
-Lemony Snicket, The Ersatz Elevator
Seriously? Sequel in name only, or is anyone from the first one involved? And what movies did they steal footage and music from this time?
It’s an official sequel, but they had a budget this time, so they didn’t have to pilfer better movies for SFX and music. Yet in spire of that, it’s actually worse than the original.
Sometimes a bigger budget elevates a so-bad-it’s-good movie to the level of it’s-just-bad. That happened with the latest movie I made with my friends.
I think subtlety is a valiant expectation for the posters on this thread.
The sequels went more heavily into the ‘cool’ greens than the first film, so it was a deliberate creative decision going forward (and seemingly, going back). http://www.dvdactive.com/editorial/articles/the-matrix-visual-comparison.html
The way I interpret the color shift from the first to the second film is that in the first one, the Matrix seems real from Neo’s point of view up until the end where he sees the green code running through the walls. The later films would then be heavily green because Neo sees that world as a computer simulation and his worldview has biased itself towards Zion and away from the Matrix.
Looking at the 35mm scan, there are many scenes that are still too yellow, and in particular the skin tones tend towards yellow even in the Nebuchadnezzar. Some scenes in the Matrix have a subtle green tint particularly in later scenes, but it’s far more subtle than even the DVD. I think this is accurate despite the uneven grading of this particular print, since I don’t see much evidence of the greenish-brown tint so prevalent in the DVD. “Deliberate Creative Decisions” were made for both the DVD and Blu-ray.
Indeed, the attempt to remove all the green was really just for fun, but there is some purpose in that all indications are that the green tint in the original Matrix film was more subtle than later installments, and the Blu-ray absolutely overdid this. So the actual look would be between this and the Blu-ray.
I just used online screencaps for this comparison, so hopefully the blu-ray will have more shadow detail.
