NeverarGreat

Jetrell Fo said:

NeverarGreat said:

DominicCobb said:

I think a lot of things fall under the umbrella of “dated.” The question is to what degree it matters. Some of the hair styles in Star Wars are dated but that ultimately doesn’t really affect much and certainly doesn’t make the film as a whole any less timeless.

Something like a “dated” mindset towards perversion could be a bit more of an issue.

I actually just watched The Quiet Man for the first time, and a lot of it is a product of its time and a product of the time it’s set in - the characters in general have a lot of different attitudes than we do currently and that’s okay because that’s the time it’s depicting. But a few moments are more definitely “dated.” In particular, the scene in which John Wayne forcibly and carelessly drags Maureen O’Hara for miles is played in the films for laughs and we aren’t supposed to think any less of Wayne’s character for it. But, watching it now, it’s just pretty fucked up, honestly and not very funny or endearing in the least bit.

During our roadtrip through Ireland, we stopped at the Quiet Man bridge, where the scene was shot. It was a lovely location, and after that I made a point to watch the film. I didn’t care for it. It’s too much a film of its time to resonate with a filthy millennial like me.

On the other hand…
Kong: Skull Island

A delightful monster fest. As my girlfriend said: ‘It was everything I expected it to be - and a little bit more’.

You have a cool girlfriend.

😃

Thanks! (She thinks so as well) 😉

chyron8472 said:

Watched v1.0 the other day. It’s a great start and really does help the second act. One thing I did think about is… if the star is being drained during the X-Wing approach, why is the stream not visible in that shot? I figure the collector is maybe not the same location as the cannon, but you can still see (sunlight on) the planet–so the star should be behind the camera somewhere, meaning the stream ought to have been visible.

The collector was established to be in a different location, but the star was probably in whatever place was best for the lighting of the shot.

Well, there was the R2 map search that I wanted to offer up for consideration, so I’d probably get working on that as well.

😃

It was only ever an idea. Perhaps when I complete my current project and the 3 into 1 Hobbit trilogy fanedit, I’d get around to it.

ETA: 2045

😉

Don’t forget the stabilized final shot!

Was there anything else I needed to submit?

But Ackbar calls for a retreat before Lando talks him out of it.

I always thought that they stayed because they ‘won’t get another chance at this’. If they failed here the Rebellion would be finished.

Darth Lucas said:

Bingowings said:

Maybe Luke’s ROTJ sabre has a green blade because he salvaged a crystal from Yavin space… just suggestin’

Maybe the Empire had processed these crystals to make the Death Star Weapon work so reducing the need for green blades in the prequels

What if the Kyber used by Luke for his ROTJ saber was actually a shard of the big one used to power the Death Star. That’d be an interesting idea to play with I think.

I mean, well beyond the scope of any fanedit, but still interesting to think about.

The Dark Crystal vibes are strong with this idea.

Darth Lucas said:

I’ve always had a problem with the “over-yellow” tatooine corrections that have been done previously. It just always looked so unnatural that I couldn’t fathom it was intentionally on the original film; yet it looks completely natural on the print photos and the mverta screening pics. I think because, in trying to replicate the look, an unintentional side effect is that skintones become jaundice-y, the whites of artoo turn into a milky yellow, and the silver turns green. However, on the photos of the print and the Mverta screening photos, it takes on this yellow look without the unsightly side effects. Skies still look blue, whites are still white, and skintones are still skintones. It’s gorgeous, really. I wonder why it’s so hard to replicate without the unsightly side effects.

I think one of the reasons, for the Blu-ray at least, is that the yellow/blue channel is so deteriorated that the information just isn’t there to make the correction. The Blu-ray masks the blue deficiency by giving everything a blue cast, thus making the skin tones purple in the process. This is also noticeable in the clothes. Often the costumes will be blue/white, rather than their original off-white or tan, and it’s impossible to completely recover this without ruining the highlights.

I notice that the skin tones aboard the Death Star shift between yellow and a more natural pink. The Ben shot and the first Tarkin shot are very yellow, and there are two shots that are much more balanced. I wonder if most of reels 2 and 3 are unintentionally yellow-shifted, since the shots aboard the Falcon when fleeing Tatooine are also extremely yellow.

Keep in mind that Tech prints were supposedly timed to a more yellow projection bulb, so the colors on a print seen in neutral light should be more blue than normal. I have a hard time believing that the extreme yellow is supposed to be shifted even further yellow.

Also good to keep in mind, the complete Tech prints of Star Wars that we have are the result of cobbling and splicing together the leftover bits of prints from the closing of the Technicolor plant in Britain. We have no idea what the quality control looked like, and whether what pieces we have were ever intended to be shown. I’m not trying to discourage anyone, but simply trying to reconcile the look of these frames with the other sources at our disposal, none of which were this yellow.

DuracellEnergizer said:

And that’s why I’m an absurdist.

Rufus Riley: [to Agatha] “I’m sorry for whatever I’m going to do and I swear I didn’t do any of that stuff I did.”

Trump’s ‘ultimatum’ is fairly brilliant in a cynical way. He believes that there aren’t enough votes to pass the massively unpopular bill, so instead of spend the time to craft a decent piece of legislation, he’s hoping the bill will fail so that he can blame Congress for its failure and escape most of the repercussions. This also allows him to get away from the complicated and difficult subject of healthcare where he is completely out of his element and toward more flashy bits of executive showbusiness.

People keep underestimating Trump, saying that he doesn’t know what he’s doing. He absolutely knows when to deflect, distract, blame, defame, and call names. He knows how to play Machiavelli’s lion and fox, and I fear that the media is just going to let him slink away on this one.

^shiny*

*like a treasure from a sunken pirate wreck

SwissArmyTin said:

FanFiltration said:

Man this show is a complete train wreck!

When I first saw this Klingon ship concept I thought immediately of “Stargate: Atlantis”. And that is not a good thing.

The video I link to below is a fair rundown of the situation thus far.
“Star Trek Discovery in Trouble? Rumor Rundown” = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km5qVwZvjm8

What in christ’s sake is that thing

It looks like a trident covered in gothic cathedrals and mosques.

The frames I have include some of the Death Star Walls, which look as green as the ones you have. In my discussion with Mike Verta, he said that the green cast was not really accurate. It certainly wasn’t that green on set. His version was much more of a blue-green, but it’s a tricky thing to get right. My version makes the walls almost gray in the brighter areas, falling off into a greenish blue (slightly more green than blue) in the shadows, as Technicolor tends to do.

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Alderaan said:

TPM was at least shot on film, and didn’t have Yoda flying around like a monkey. That seals it for me.

Plus, the factory sequence. Which I would never remember, if not for RLM, since I only saw the POS once.

I was watching Minority Report the other day, and when I saw the factory scene I immediately thought of AOTC. Minority Report came out the same year as AOTC, and was also scored by Williams. They both feature gravity guns, arm entrapment, and a death fakeout shot, yet the difference in quality between these two scenes is dizzying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7omoVzuynmE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzWyLDQvKng

DominicCobb said:

I think a lot of things fall under the umbrella of “dated.” The question is to what degree it matters. Some of the hair styles in Star Wars are dated but that ultimately doesn’t really affect much and certainly doesn’t make the film as a whole any less timeless.

Something like a “dated” mindset towards perversion could be a bit more of an issue.

I actually just watched The Quiet Man for the first time, and a lot of it is a product of its time and a product of the time it’s set in - the characters in general have a lot of different attitudes than we do currently and that’s okay because that’s the time it’s depicting. But a few moments are more definitely “dated.” In particular, the scene in which John Wayne forcibly and carelessly drags Maureen O’Hara for miles is played in the films for laughs and we aren’t supposed to think any less of Wayne’s character for it. But, watching it now, it’s just pretty fucked up, honestly and not very funny or endearing in the least bit.

During our roadtrip through Ireland, we stopped at the Quiet Man bridge, where the scene was shot. It was a lovely location, and after that I made a point to watch the film. I didn’t care for it. It’s too much a film of its time to resonate with a filthy millennial like me.

On the other hand…
Kong: Skull Island

A delightful monster fest. As my girlfriend said: ‘It was everything I expected it to be - and a little bit more’.

A Mathematician, a Biologist and a Physicist are sitting in a street cafe watching people going in and coming out of the house on the other side of the street. First they see two people going into the house. Time passes. After a while they notice three persons coming out of the house.
The Physicist: “The measurement wasn’t accurate.”.
The Biologist: “They have reproduced”.
The Mathematician: “If now exactly one person enters the house then it will be empty again.”
…
Oh, and USA

SilverWook said:

The version of Insurrection I saw on the SciFi channel a few months back looked like a wax museum!

YOU TAKE THAT BAKKKKKKKKKKKKK
EW

I’ll take ‘all of the above’.

joefavs said:

Incidentally, I think that TPM was the best CGI Jabba ever looked. I don’t understand how the 2004 version is so much worse than the 1999 one.

Time and money.

lovelikewinter said:

I still hate Ezra. Hope he dies soon.

And the days are not full enough
And the nights are not full enough
And life slips by like a field mouse
Not shaking the grass
-Ezra

althor1138 said:

These all looked terrible for me until I downloaded the jpg and viewed it in gimp or photoshop. Does screenshot comparison do some funky stuff when viewing it through the browser? I mean if you look at that snap of luke sitting in the cantina and then download the picture and view it does it look different to anybody else? Perhaps chrome is the culprit, I’m not sure. I just thought I’d throw it out there that downloading the jpg seems to produce better results for me.

BTW, glad to see people tinkering with the laserdisc releases!

Screenshot comparison is usually very good in browser, but I have run into occasional glitches where the saturation is too high, which happened with my Leia on the Tantive comparison. I had to upload a desaturated version because of it, but it just recently reverted to the correct saturation, meaning I had to upload the original jpeg again. Very strange.

Swazzy said:

I’m curious, would there be any advantage of matching the Blu-ray/DEd shot for shot to the GOUT and applying any further alterations to that? Would you be getting more accurate results working with a higher quality source?

The GOUT actually has more color gradients than the Blu-ray in most cases, especially in the blue/yellow range, so the GOUT is probably the highest quality official color source we have.