Octorox

vaderios said:

Hey! you stole my concept!

;)

-Angel

well it was Adywan's concept first with the Death Star interiors :p...but yeah...more or less

The wonders of desaturation!

THis has seriously been bugging me. The only releases Iv’e been able to find via torrent are the Hv encodes and ultra compressed Wookiegroomer DVD releases. Can someone PM me with links? It would really help me with my EP III edit to have some higher quality footage to work with.

I would love some way to obtain any of the German HD Broadcasts that isn't newsgroups. I haven't been abel to find any torrents, It would help me with my Ep III edit.

Hey Puggo, I just wanted to thank you for mentioning me in the special features, I was freakin out! And great job with the transfer btw, the contrast and color look great, shame about it being cut off though.

Ripplin said:

^I'm guessing you're referring to something in the second Robot Chicken special? I haven't seen it yet. Gotta pick up the DVD sometime.

Yeah, It's even funnier than the first :) You gotta see the Sarlacc scene, and the opening, and Dr. Ball....oh man get it right away!

oh_riginal said:

Octorox said:

sorry about the quality

 

Yes, that's the scene I was referring to. Too bad we don't have a video version to watch for how it looks, but as soon as I saw that in the movie I automatically thought "ESB:R!"

007, I don't recall which segment of the movie the scene appears exactly, but I think it is shortly after first seeing the Enterprise for the first time in the movie.

It is actually the scene after Spock resigns when Kirk and co are planning their attack on the Narada. and you can find a streaming version online *google hint hint*

Ripplin said:

I'm calling the police! ;)

hey, I paid to see the movie 4 times, and I will be buying the 3 disc blu-ray as soon as it's released. I think I have the right to post a quick screenshot from a bootleg I found streaming on the internet lol

well that's not exactly true, first time I had a free ticket and the third and fourth times the tickets were at a reduced student price lol

sorry about the quality

Bingowings said:

Sometimes a change creates a difference which is better for some and not for others (there were a few changes in Blade Runner : The Final Cut that some people love and I can't stand).

I have no objection to alternate cuts in principle (cuts which are neither clearly better or worse but just different) it adds variety to the viewing experience but they still have to make sense, I'm not sure that dropping the droids onto the planet and picking up their story in the Sandcrawler does make sense.

Seeing the Jawas at work makes sense of a situation for major characters and losing that to make room for a group of minor characters doing their thing seems to be cutting Peter's nose off to spite Paul.

I very sceptical if the footage could be restored to even VHS quality so it seems a mute point anyway but I'd love to be proved wrong.

I wouldn't really consider Luke a minor character, and he's really who the scenes are about. Sometimes you need scenes that don't advance the plot but just provide characterization. Star Wars editing is very quick, there's not much down time, it would be nice to have some scenes that are just characters talking

Continued from the ANHR thread

A: R2 and 3PO never get that amount of time to themselves anywhere else in the saga, they shouldn't be as important as Luke and Biggs. We can assume they got stranded on what we can clearly see is a "desolate place" and somehow ended up in a garbage dump. We don't really need to see it all play out.

B: The Anchorhead scenes add, character development, something that Star Wars is sorely lacking it in that Empire has in droves.

However, I am suggesting this as an alternate cut, not as necessarily "Better" than the original.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePjESN9pRdg

settled

ChainsawAsh said:

Oh, I totally agree that they add character development - they're not bad scenes by any stretch of the imagination.  They just kill the pacing of the film.  Badly.  They just don't work in the larger context of the film as a whole.

I'm all for seeing the scenes properly restored, but I don't think inserting them into the film itself in any form would improve it at all.

I also feel the Biggs scene on Yavin IV doesn't belong, especially in its SE-truncated form, but not for the same reason.  It just doesn't work very well with the other Biggs scenes removed - it doesn't hurt the pacing of the film too badly, but without the proper context of the Anchorhead scenes, it just feels out of place.

cut everything with the droids between them launching toward the planet and arriving in the Sandcrawler. Then add the Anchorhead scenes back in. I think that would work well. The audience could fill in the blanks.

What bothers me is the super high DOF, everything is in focus, even far into the background.

vaderios said:

Bingowings said:

Lovely work Angel, perhaps the engine glow is a bit too colourful, it might look a bit better shifted to the red side of the spectrum (more Tantive than Star Destroyer).

Id like to see it only white. Really but it would make the shot monochrome.

 

Ady said that vader in ROTS shouldnt cross his hands.

Plus no glass reflections and original palps here.

-Angel

why remove the glass reflections? If anything those should be added to the OT.

yeah. I dont like how Mark ecko fits (very loose) but those are very cool. I liked the Boba Fett one they had a while back.

vaderios said:

doubleofive said:

I'm thinking the moon should be completely dark at this point.

Almost because if its black we lose the sense of space and perspective. Or we can add Endor behind the moon to add depth.

I added some Fleet and vader's ship (where did it go?)

 

-Angel

 

WOW. that is a beautiful shot!

When I set up my printer in my dorm I'll be sure to scan it, and yes, that is the shot.

Mielr said:

Octorox said:

"5.51 In Star Wars: Episode IV--A New Hope, the take-off of the Millenium Falcon was filmed as a model against a blue screen and matted into a shot of a building with imperial stormtroopers firing upward."- Film Art 8th edition

 

The shot they show is a cg shot from the SE doh....The section is about matte work btw

 

 

If I were you I'd contact the publisher and inform them of the error. Maybe they can fix it for the next edition.

 

hmm....do you think they would require that I have some sort of source to back up my claims? (I mean other than the films themselves of course)

ChainsawAsh said:

Damn.  I had that book for Aesthetics of Cinema (or possibly History of Cinema) back in freshman year, and I just looked to see if I still had it ... I don't.

Yeah, I'm a freshman in college and I have the book for my film aesthetics and analysis class and my east west cinema class. I was just skimming it and it actually seems to be a pretty comprehensive book, but that was just a stupid mistake...

“5.51 In Star Wars: Episode IV–A New Hope, the take-off of the Millenium Falcon was filmed as a model against a blue screen and matted into a shot of a building with imperial stormtroopers firing upward.”- Film Art 8th edition

The shot they show is a cg shot from the SE doh…The section is about matte work btw

couldn't he just google him or go on peoplefinder...lol

oh_riginal said:

C3PX said:

G E Predator said:

The reason he asks (in the 2004 DVD version) "how is that possible?" is because he is still a bit astounded that he has a son even though he knew Padme had died.

 

Yeah, Anakin was always quite daft, so I guess it makes sense to change Vader's character a bit to follow suite.

"How is this possible? The man who pulled the wool over the eyes of the galaxy for all those years, and manipulated me and lied to me personally countless times told me she had died, so there is no doubt she had really died. Since galactic technology is pretty low tech and primitive, there is absolutely no way the baby could have been saved by medical means... oh man! I am so confused! Ooooh, my head hurts! Ouch, gotta stop trying to force myself to think so hard! Gotta go meditate on this."

 

 

Nobody listen to Dr. Ball, he's just an old fool!

what is this the bloody dark ages! Why don't you just put some leeches in there!

tried the beta, liked it, but didn't use it extensively.

why not put a blur over the red droid to make it look out of focus?