SilverWook

Has the original trilogy even ever played in China? Rogue One kind of requires you’ve seen the original film more so than TFA.

psychic squidward said:

what are your thoughts on this disaster?

You’re not a true fan unless you’ve watched it all the way through, and you must be sober. 😉

flametitan said:

It was a '70’s variety show based on Star Wars.

I bet you there’s many worse variety shows from the 70’s that people don’t even remember.

You kids know nothing of 70’s hell. 😉

TV’s Frink said:

I still haven’t seen it. I’ve seen bits and pieces thanks to YouTube but I haven’t seen anything that has made me even want to hate-watch it.

Rifftrax?

I think that’s the same as the bloopers on that 1993 VHS I captured. One never forgets Gorn karaoke night. 😉

Is there something preventing you from communicating with Jay via email? Your beef is with him, not the staff.

Try Vimeo next time. They are lower profile.

Starlog magazine did an article or two on the blooper reels back in the 80’s, with lots of photos. Those issues should be up on archive.org these days.

Still looking for my DVD copies.

All these cover variants had better be leading up to the return of a certain meat eating rabbit.

It was a temp ban, but you’ve probably shot yourself in the foot now with this little stunt. And you think creating six more socks in reserve is going to help your argument?

The TFA thread is that a way.

DuracellEnergizer said:

I was actually referring to “The Naked Time”. The Enterprise ends up three days into the past by the end of the episode, and the topic of two identical ships with two identical crews co-existing in the same time frame is never ever brought up, so we’re left to assume they just silently replaced their past versions.

I used to think the three days past Enterprise was still on it’s way to the planet, and it was best not to interfere with that. (Like Marty seeing himself go back in time, or Arthur Dent being advised not to phone up his past self.) Maybe they should have just parked the ship somewhere for three days? 😉

fmalover said:

Finally saw Rogue One. I enjoyed it way more than I expected and way more than TFA (seriously, f*ck J.J. Abrams). My expectations were pretty low after the sour taste in my mouth left by TFA, plus the fact that this movie was directed by Gareth Edwards whose 2014 Godzilla I hate, but once the credits started rolling I felt something I never expected which was feeling pumped about the first Star Wars movie. Almost everything worked flawlessly, the pacing, the music, the story, the characters… it all just clicked. This is hands down the best SW since the OT.

Find a more eloquent way to express your displeasure at Mr. Abrams directorial skills in the future.

Dek Rollins said:

The ships were described essentially as submarines in space. Cramped and such. I doubt they had visual communication between ships like that. It doesn’t matter either way, I just think it would make more sense and be aesthetically better that way.

But it would be out of place now, as we’ve had real world visual communications with spacecraft since the Moon landings.
Enterprise should have had more imperfect communications though. Static, snow and garbled audio.

I think that line is misconstrued a tad. Neither side in the Romulan war saw each other. That doesn’t mean visual communication tech didn’t exist at all.

Ha! I just watched that story a few weeks ago! 😃

There is the very slight possibility it slipped out in some foreign markets. I knew someone in the early 2000’s who swore he owned an official VHS copy sans Episode IV as a kid. (I presume it was a Spanish dub.) Unfortunately, when they returned to the family home in Puerto Rico and went through their old stuff, the tape had been eaten by mold. Tropical climes are murder on videotape.

Interesting. But have they really researched the issue? Sounds like a legal CYA clause to me, so nobody can sue if little Timmy ends up with Marty Feldman eyes. 😉

FanFiltration said:

So I’ve been watching the 4th season of “Enterprise” for the first time and these episodes have been consistently better then what I’ve seen in the previous three. But the show still suffers from a poor cast. There is also something very off about this show that I still can’t put my finger on. That little Enterprise seems to be way over powered for one. The characters just don’t seem to act they way they should be. It’s like they are too comfortable in all these first encounter situations. Just seems more phony then all the other series.

It will all make sense in the final episode. 😉

That’s still no reason for CBS to kneecap everyone else that didn’t cross that line.

MathUser said:

If they make glasses free 3d theatres they might have to give out glasses that make it 2d cause I heard 3d can be bad for kids vision. That’s why they made the 2ds and marketed it for kids.

Anything can be bad if you don’t take a break, even staring at a computer monitor all day. I fail to see how it could possibly cause more eyestrain than a flat film. Unless they go with a goofy high frame rate or something. We had plenty of 3D stuff when I was a kid, from Viewmaster to moving 3D lenticular photos. Nobody ended up cross eyed or anything.

Also, the universe around us is in three dimensions to begin with. If you’re stuck in the second or fourth dimensions, I don’t know what to tell you. 😉

Some people aren’t going to like wearing goggles any more than they like donning 3D specs now. Remember all that crazy talk in the 90’s that we would all soon be wearing virtual reality suits? (Not to mention cybersexing like rabbits in them.) I really don’t want to strap a smartphone to my skull either.

Glasses free 3D tech is coming. When we actually see it at a theater is anyone’s guess.

dahmage said:

DominicCobb said:

suspiciouscoffee said:

I remember the tip of a Star Destroyer popping out well in TFA (saw it 3D simply because it was earlier than the 2D show… and souvenir glasses).

Yeah there’s that one shot

because of the telephoto lens you don’t think much of in 2D but in 3D it looks like the tip is going to stab you in the eye. I remember gasps in the theater when I saw that shot in 3D.

it is things like this (and what i derisively call gimmicks) that make me dislike 3D films. I feel like it makes the whole movie viewing experience take on a ‘wrong’ perspective to have parts of the screen come out at you. added depth i am OK with, but not the other way.

You wouldn’t have enjoyed the 50’s 3D wave very much then. 😉

And everything from color to sound to widescreen has been dismissed as gimmicks. And the wheel has turned such that when the rare black and white or 1.33 aspect film is made, it’s scoffed as a gimmick now.

GOTG turned out to be a good conversion and they actually played with things busting out of the widescreen frame. Most conversions and even true stereoscopic films made today are unwilling to do that. The great 3D flicks of the 50’s were not afraid to throw things at the audience. The 3D projection technology today could give those classics new life, (free of the technical glitches that plagued them originally) but the studios aren’t reviving them like they should.

I sadly can’t recall any great pop out moments in Rogue One.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Tyrphanax said:

I never saw any of those things in those movies.

Of course you didn’t. You’re not a latent pervert.

What’s hilarious is people were seeing these things watching the VHS on a tiny analog tv screen. And even if it really said SEX, were little Timmy and Suzie (not their real names) going to become deviated preverts as a result?