Octorox

I was a HUGE fan of Pokemon as a kid. I mean a HUGE fan. I had the cards, the games, the toys, I went to the movies and watched the show religiously, I even went to a Pokemon musical (which was really cheesy even then). I still enjoy the video games and bust out the cards occasionally, but I haven’t viewed the anime in forever, dismissing it as uncool quite a long time ago. However, I think I’d like to see it again, just for kicks, nostalgia if you will.

However, I found out that the DVD sets suck. They are supposedly 4KIDS English only, no extras, no banned episodes, cuts everywhere and VHS Quality video. While this is how I watched them as a kid, I thought that they might get better treatment on DVD. I was wondering how the Japanese DVDs are, and if there were any preservation projects for Pokemon. I know there are probably tons of other projects much deserving…but Pokemon was a cultural icon, and I think versions with Japanese video and choice of English or Japanese with subtitles would be nice 😄. I was even wondering about the movies. particularly the first 2 or 3. I think they were pan and scanned for the English DVD releases which is annoying. Thanks if any of you can help (why am I asking this on a star wars board again?)

bkev said:

 

Darth Venal said:

 

Great, let's flood Jedi with lots of completely distracting lens flares! Even when there aren't any lights off camera to cause them.

AWESOME!

He was poking fun at JJ Abrams. xP

 

You guys are going to shoot me for this but I legitimately LOVE how it looks with the lense flares....okay shoot...

EyeShotFirst said:

The biggest problem with making a prequel is when the casting director goes for who looks the most like the character in the original. They don't care at all as long as they look enough like the character. In the beginning of the movie Braveheart there was a young actor playing William Wallace. He didn't look at all like Mel Gibson but he practiced his mannerisms and got them down perfect so the seams met in a way that made the film seamless. Then you have a movie like Star Trek with that horrible Chris Pine. He didn't even bother to try to be William Shatner. He had the look fairly close but really didn't capture the essence of William Shatner's performance (it isn't that hard LOL). 

Most people would prefer seeing somebody who looks like the original character, but a true fan of any original film would like to see somebody who convinces them that they are the same character without looking extremely close to the original.

 

My biggest problem with the dialogue in the prequels is they say some of the same shit they do in the originals. Amidala talking about "discussing this in a committee" a classic Han line. All the damn aliens call people Bantha Fodder.

And why does every sith say "Search your feelings and you will know it to be true." Darth Vader said it first in ESB then after that everybody says it.

It was like George Lucas had a hat full of lines. He pulls one out every time a character says something and sticks it in the script.

I have to 100% disagree with you on Chris Pine. I thought his performance was excellent. It think it's important to note that he was trying to be a young Kirk, not Shatner. I think he captured the essence of the character, just not the actor, which is good because Shatner's performance is cheesy by today's standards. remember that this Kirk doesn't quite grow up into Shatner anyway, he lives a different life. I believe Pine tried some Shatnerisms and inflections but decided they didn't work.

Bingowings said:

Not bad, he looks enough like him to get the idea across and he is a fun actor who could have given the role the necessary coldness.

Nobody seems to care that Ewan doesn't look or even sound exactly like a younger Sir Alec.

If they were serious about putting Tarkin in the prequels they should of written a role for him and hired someone like Nighy who could have played him without OTT make-up.

you have to admit Ewan wasn't a bad match though

Photoshopped Nighy as Tarkin for Bingo

Source Image:

Yes, I did play with the Jawbone, eyebrows ect. but it's pretty much the equivalent of what makeup could do.

You guys do know that big budget hollywood films aren't the only thing out there...right? I just saw Moon at a local independent cinema and it was a fantastic science fiction film. If we're talking Hollywood Inglorious Basterds was also great and I haven't seen District 9 yet but I'm looking forward to seeing it. And if your'e not looking for a popcorn movie there are tons of independent and quasi-independent dramas and documentaries with engaging stories and characters more based in the real world, you know, those Oscar movies that nobody watches?.

Honestly guys it was movies like Star Wars that started the trend of the "shallow hollywood blockbuster". Star Wars was really the catalyst that shifted sci-fi from "Thinking man's sci-fi" such as 2001: A Space Odyssey to "fantasy/action/western set among futuristic backdrops."

Darth Venal said:

Well it is kind of important considering that vote is the reason behind the entire opening of the movie. But anyway, what about The Phantom Menace, how are you getting the Jedi from the forest to Theed? Just having them hitch all the way on the transport and cutting the entire sequence with Jar Jar and the Gungans? I'm asking out of interest, not challenging you.

If someone could matte Theed in the distance in some of the wider forest shots one could imply that it wasn't improbably far

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.