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#369483
Topic
Episode II: Shroud of the Dark Side (the TM edit) (Released)
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Josh said:

Zomg! THAK YOU. Although I thought it would be a download but whatever lol. There are some new additions since the last time I saw it, like that weird alien smoking, wheres that from, not from blade runner. Ya, if this baby had its color correction refined, it would be amazing.

Now, who thinks it feels OT

Oh and heres you cookie   

 

I think the alien is from Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

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#368553
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Ideas Thread: for Transformers 2...
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This movie was a ridiculous bloated mess, but I felt there were some redeemable parts scattered throughout. I felt that if the majority of the distracting crap could be cut, then we could have a pretty good action movie on our hands. Preliminary thoughts:

Skids and Mudflap have GOT TO GO! I just cringed every time they were on screen.

I actually thought the little deception was kind of funny, but I’m probably in the minority here.

Cut out most of the goofy humor

The final action sequence went on WAY to long. I really stop caring about what was going on pretty quickly

Sam and his Dad’s interaction late in the film was actually one of the only touching moments in the film. I thought it gave the character some real depth.

Devastator scrotum has to go

use of Green Day’s 21 guns was totally out of place in such a gung-ho, campy action movie. The whole song is about “laying down your arms” and “giving up the fight” which doesn’t fit at all.

CUT CUT CUT. WHole scenes can go that had no story relevance. Also the whole part about the Deceptions having to kill Sam and get the shards made no sense. It ended up being about the matrix and The railguns anyway.

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#368259
Topic
Star Wars: The Trilogy **PROJECT STALLED DUE TO HARD DRIVE FAILURE**
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ChainsawAsh said:
Octorox said:

I think your going to have to work from the AVCHD rather than the GOUT for those extra frames. The GOUT frames stick out too much. You could use the AVCHD for everything you want to put back that's in the SE but not Revisited and the GOUT for everything that's only in the OOT

That's exactly what I was planning to do, but the problem is that I can't do anything with the AVCHD disc - it's sitting on my hard drive taking up space.  If you know of a way to convert it to a usable format on a Mac, please let me know!

And yeah, I know the GOUT video stands out way too much - at the moment it's just a placeholder.  I'll most likely end up replacing the entire shot if a few frames are missing from Revisited, since even adding the individual frames back in will cause issues (I'm mainly thinking of the repainted Revisited lasers versus the non-repainted AVCHD ones).

I take it you didn't notice the sped-up shot?  Excellent ... *insert Mr. Burns hand gesture*

And DJ, I don't need any specific shots at the moment - honestly, I won't know what portions of your cleaned-up GOUT I'm going to need until I've finished the rough assembly.  At the moment, I think the main things I'll need are Mos Eisley, the establishing shot of Ben's hut, the establishing shot of Artoo in the valley (I may keep the Revisited version, though), the Alderaan explosion ...

If you want to just PM me your address, I'll send you the three dual-layer discs so you can send me the full versions of all three, since I really won't know what I'll need until I get to the point when I need it.

 

 Handbrake will do it, but only into an mkv or something and not losslessly. You might have to convert it again after that

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#364983
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Wookie Groomer's 1080p Star Wars Saga project (Released)
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sketchrob said:
Octorox said:

I think Wookie's is higher quality (it's compressed on a freakin BD-50, Ady's is DVD9) but Ady's has better color correction judging by those screenshots.

This is a ridiculous statement, all WG did as up the bitrate when recompressing the GermanHD transfers, and seeing as how there is no DTS to draw from I'll assume he did the same for the audio. Just cause its 45 gigs doens't make it 1080p its an upscale convert, I could jack up the bitrate on any video and get a 100 gig file doens;t mean theres any more detail to be had. If you feel the need to have a BD with DVD quality detail to go on ahead but 45gigs is crazy talk for this download.

dlbsyst said:

It looks liike he is releasing a final version.

From the abhdtv.net forum.

Wookie Groomer:

"I am building the final Bluray ISO that is about 45GB and has a nice little 10 minute TriScreen vignette feature showing the differences between the color adjustments and the original. Plan on seeing that final release in the next couple days. This is the final and is the bluray template I will be using for the remaining trilogy".

-Will

Got time for a 10 minute vignette but not screenshots? or a sample clip? oh wait I forgot... we suck. :p

 

well the original was 16gb. this is compressed to 50gb and ady's was compressed to about 8gb. Of course the quality is going to be better, however a BD25 definetely would have been enough

Plus the german broadcasts are 1080p, not DVD quality

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#363724
Topic
Star Wars: The Trilogy **PROJECT STALLED DUE TO HARD DRIVE FAILURE**
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Bingowings said:

In a universe where Luke and Leia aren't twins it opens up the possibility that the other is Anakin himself.

Which sort of lets Ben and Yoda seem less like patricide keen gits.

They have an intuitively know that Anakin might turn back at the last minute, if Luke can keep from turning but can't interfere in the process for reasons best known to Jedi.

 

never thought of that....great idea!

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#363666
Topic
Star Wars: The Trilogy **PROJECT STALLED DUE TO HARD DRIVE FAILURE**
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JediMasterFisher said:

Luke loves Leia and is not physically attracted to her. Same with Leia. They both realize why this is because they are twins. 

Han loves Leia and Leia loves Han and both are attacted to eachother. They get married and have kids.

 

Its a weird triangle.

Yeah but if Luke and Leia aren't related, how can it be resolved?

 

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#363573
Topic
Star Wars: The Trilogy **PROJECT STALLED DUE TO HARD DRIVE FAILURE**
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ChainsawAsh said:

Actually, what I've seen of JasonN's ROTJ edit ("Last of the Jedi"), it seems that he's got a lot of the same ideas I do.  He's also managed to do quite a good job with that very scene simply by removing the "sister" comment, making it seem as if Luke is in love with Leia in the same way that Han is.  In fact, I may scrap this project altogether if JasonN's edit turns out as good as I think it might.

Then again, he's not rearranging the opening like I plan on doing ...

 

 But then how do you plan to solve the love triangle? Something has to happen and somebody has to get pissed at some point

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#362891
Topic
recast the prequels
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AxiaEuxine said:
Octorox said:

Okay I may just be high on Star Trek right now but....

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I think this could have worked. Some things about Pine's performance as Kirk actually reminded me a lot of Hammil, particularly his laugh, but he can also be sort of a Han Solo badass without losing the Lukeish charm of a young Jedi trainee. I think Pine's Kirk is a lot closer to how Anakin should have been played than how Hayden played it as kind of a dark, foreboding, moody, angsty teenager. Of course at this point, I'm not sure if I'd want to see Kirk and Anakin as the same actor...

 

P.S. I also hated Ewan's Jedi Mullet

 

 NO FUCKING WAY!!!! Fuck Pine, Fuck Abrahms and Fuck that pile of shit movie!

rly 0_o. I liked it. And so did 95% of critics and a lot of other people looking at the box office. But I was never really a Star Trek fan so maybe ther's something about the movie that kept Trekkies from liking it....

 

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#362819
Topic
how did u pronounce the character's names?
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C3PX said:
DarkFather said:

I sense ageism.

From me? No, wasn't ageism. It is just that there used to be a bunch of us Tolkien fans who really enjoyed his writing, it was always kind of cool to run into someone else who was a Lord of the Rings fans. Then the movies came out, and everyone and their brother we not only LOTR fans, but they were downright obsessed with it, but only the movies. Most of them had zero interest in reading the book. Nothing wrong with this, but it is a lot like OT fans and PT fans. Seemingly the same fan base, but literally fans of two entirely different things. 

Wow, I really hijacked this thread. Sorry about that.

 

Well, I was obsessed with fantasy novels when I was younger so maybe I'll give them a go. I read the Hobbit and enjoyed that.

I guess you'll also find it strange that I saw the prequels first (but I prefer the OT), and the JJ's Trek was my first Trek movie. ;)

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#362767
Topic
how did u pronounce the character's names?
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C3PX said:

Whoa, it is so weird to hear from people whose first experience of The Lord of the Rings were the movies. It blows my mind. Almost like a long time SW fan meeting someone who was first introduced to Star Wars through the Clone Wars tv show.

Sorry, back to the topic now.

 

 I was too....still haven't read the books. Will get around to it at some point...

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#362763
Topic
Video Games Soundtrack & gameplay Discussion (Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, Donkey Kong Country, Zelda A Link To The Past, Mario Kart Double Dash, and Super Metroid
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C3PX said:

I am pretty sure Nintendo didn't actually owned Rare. Rae was a third party developer with a good deal of loyalty toward Nintendo. Hands down, the best games of the N64 era game from Rare. Microsoft bought them out, which effectively cut off the relationship with Nintendo. Nintendo had nothing to do with this move. Before the buy out, Rare was big stuff. Now I never even hear that name anymore. Guess they just made a new game in the Banjo series, but that is the first time I heard their name for a long time.

Shadow of the Colossus does have a very impressive score, it really works with the gameplay increasing the overall experience of the game (which is brilliant).

 

 No, Rare was 2nd party, like Retro Studios, I think Nintendo owned about 50% of Rare when they sold them to Microsoft.

 

And I LOVED Paper Mario: TTYD. Best Game Ever

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#362745
Topic
The Prequel Radical Redux Ideas Thread
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vaderios said:

I sense a plot to destroy the jedi..

I could agree more with james franco rather with kirk.

And i dont think so IMO always that Kirk's character fit to anapimp's personality.

I like to see Anapimp more like Bruce wayne. lol. He doesnt knew nothing and live with a fear of losing his mother. then he trained to the jedi arts to learn to let go this fear and......why so serious?

 

-Angel

I don't know, maybe it's just that Pine reminds me of Hamill, but the whole idea that he's very likable and can play young likable trainee/cadet and edgy trebel simultaneously

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#362739
Topic
The Prequel Radical Redux Ideas Thread
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mrbenja0618 said:
Octorox said:

Anyway we can replace Hayden with Chris Pine and remove Ewan's mullet? (jk) But seriously I thought Pine as Kirk was way closer to what Anakin should have been.

 

I was actually thinking the same thing.... I thought to myself, if George died tomorrow, then someone could reshoot the prequels and use Pine as Anakin.....Oh, and a completely re-written trilogy would be nice....But yes, he would be an ideal Anakin.  He even had that Mark Hamill gaze to me.

 

I noticed that he has kind of a Mark Hamill sarcastic laugh too, but he can definetely pull off an edgier, darker character than Hamill