SilverWook

*facepalm*

Major character spoiler. Don't click if you don't want to know!

http://i.imgur.com/mK4QxEr.jpg

Texas. It figures. Even Sauron wouldn't want to rule them all. ;)

And yeah, we all probably did and said things innocently when we were young that would cause school administrators to soil themselves today. My best friend in high school had "making explosives" listed as a hobby in a yearbook, (it was a joke) and we had a prop time bomb kicking around the drama classroom for a while. (It was ludicrously fake looking though.) I suddenly miss the 80's...

Kind of unfair to yank it with only a couple days left. I think it was up to $1200 last night?

generalfrevious said:

Man of Steel could be one example; you have a mopey violent protagonist (Anakin), excessively long action sequences and hamisted political allegory, trailers that end up better than the movie, and pushing in films no one wants to see but will make hundreds of millions of dollars anyways. 

 That has more to do with the Nolan Batman films. (Which may have been a reaction to the over the top wackiness of Joel Schumacher's Batman And Robin.) The new Fantastic Four trailer is probably the latest example of all the fun of a superhero tale being sucked out with a long straw, because superheroes have to be all dark, ponderous, and serious now.

Unless you're a Disney owned Marvel property, of course. ;)

First of an epic trilogy has been a gimmick on the covers of fantasy novels for decades now. I blame that Tolkien guy. ;)

If a movie is based on the first of a book series, it's a no brainer they would use the same hook. As with the "blockbuster mentality" of the 70's, Lucas gets blamed for stuff, because he's George Lucas.

DuracellEnergizer said:

I finished reading DC Comics' second Star Trek series.

I'm sorry to say that, unlike DC's first crack at TOS, this one left me rather cold. The first twelve issues were pretty good, but after that the series became rather meh, with only a couple storylines scattered here and there standing out to me.

I suppose my two main gripes with this series are:

1. Too few stories focused on characters other than Kirk, Spock, and McCoy.

2. The lack of original recurring characters (I blame Paramount for this rather than the writers, though, as they're the ones who imposed this stupid rule on DC.).

 Someone gave me a softcover collection of the DC run as a get well soon present once that had some great stories in it. Probably was a "best of". The Trial of Capt. Kirk storyline brought back a number of characters from various TOS episodes as witnesses.

I liked that TAS characters like M'ress appeared in the DC era, and there was a Horta crewmember at one point. Although I think the artist got them confused with the Tholians.

Works for me! I was thinking Grevious' eyes in the closeups were at odds with him being a total robot, and not a cyborg, but then again he wants Obi Wan's skin. :P

I never noticed the clone at :26 that just smacks a battle droid upside his head who's already dying. That has got to be against the rules. ;)

When Obi Wan changes the recall signal in the Jedi Temple into a warning to stay away, it could be a musical gag...

http://youtu.be/aari42a3YLU

Can't think of a song that says "come home, everything's fine" though.

There's also plenty of room to tell stories that happen between the existing films. Indy and Sallah must have had some adventures together before Raiders. And there's Indy's WWII exploits alluded to in KOTCS.

Interesting. The V8000 was supposed to be a pretty good industrial model.

If only Pioneer still had a player in their product line.

Unless, they want a young Indy, I'd be cool with Sean Patrick Flanery returning.

It's not the years, honey, it's the mileage...

Oh no! Is Steve going to be a ghost now? ;)

You might be able to sneak in a cartoony fall/explosion offscreen as Steve's bike lands.

http://youtu.be/XCDKJQ3Z8bU

"Falkor" could say something as he's left behind?

I like the idea of an animated Indy. They could structure the episodes like the old cliffhanger serials that inspired Raiders. Heck, they could premiere them in front of other Disney movies, so you have to come back next week if you don't want to wait for them to hit tv or video.

And Perry King can always do the voice if Harrison isn't on board. ;)

AntcuFaalb said:

Spaced Ranger said:

I had looked around for a plug-in to handle "ringing" or, more accurately, "edge-enhancement haloing" (that's sharpening done the wrong way).

Try anything you find on this monster. :-D

 That is the coolest test pattern, ever! Where did you find it?

stretch009 said:

NeonBible said:

Why was the Warner logo replaced with the one from the Blu-Ray?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the one from the Blu-Ray is the actual original logo or the one from the 1978 Restored Cut.  (Kinney logo)

 That is correct. It's the original logo from 1971. :)

_,,,^..^,,,_ said:

digitalfreaknyc said:

SilverWook said:

Must have been a really cheapo DVD recorder, as I've not had those kind of issues.

There were problems with the laserdisc, not the recorder.

The disc itself could have some dropouts, but using an high quality laserdisc player, like X0 or X9, AND a pc with a good capture card, should improve the quality a lot!

 I've collected LD's since 1986, and have never seen dropouts that look like that. And I've had defective discs with everything from mild speckling, to rot so bad the player starts clacking loudly trying to compensate before the video image is totally lost, and it just stops playback.

If I didn't know better, I would think the disc was transferred to tape before it was recorded to DVD.

Too bad they don't have shots from the Criterion Laserdisc in there.

Mythbusters took this on in a Star Wars special, but I've not seen the whole episode to see how it turned out.

We need to throw a party when this is done. ;)

Okay.

And wow, I forget how long you have been working on this sometimes! ;)

Except for the lip sync at the very end, it's good. And nice tease of the main Steve/Obi Wan chase. ;)

Wouldn't be that hard to ask someone at Lucasfilm whether such a scene was planned or shot. There's a lot of stuff from the cutting room floor we didn't even get to see until the digital versions of the Rinzler books came out.

Bantha Tracks was the official newsletter of the original Star Wars fan club run by Lucasfilm, not a third party, so that they would print misinformation makes no sense to me. Star Wars Poster Monthly made up a lot of in universe background stuff that probably wasn't scrutinized closely in the early days though.

Hooray!

And Jaxxon swears he did not get fur on the print. ;)

Must have been a really cheapo DVD recorder, as I've not had those kind of issues.

I've never seen LD video with issues like that. It's more like tape dropouts. Would Lucasfilm just slap a videotape of the footage onto a disc, warts and all? Especially a trade show demo disc?

And are we going to try and pool resources on this?