I resent the implication Wookiees are sticky and smelly. ;)
In any case, I think the figure is a good attempt at capturing the original look.
Fur is probably a tricky thing to scale down to action figure size.
This is going to be one of those great unsolved mysteries I guess?
Puggo, were those band tapes made simply to record the performances, or were they used as a teaching tool?
Wow! That certainly beats the pants off Kenner/Hasbro's previous attempt at a Chewie with fur.
This didn't even have a body, it was bendable wire underneath like an old Gumby figure!
The less said about Hasbro's tree trunk Chewie, the better...
Let's drop the format name abbreviation argument, or move it to off topic, please?
Looks and sounds good! Where did you get the tailor line from?
I fail to comprehend how those glasses are supposed to conceal her identity? Glasses only work if you're Superman. ;)
1971 Plymouth Barracuda. Made immortal by my favorite horror film series...
Knowing Hollywood, there will be a Taken 4. They never know when to stop. I still fully expect a Die Hard sequel set on the moon. ;)
By his species' standards, he's actually quite the petite size. ;)
Nice to see the movie being used for educational purposes. I learned a thing or two about editing playing with the CAV LD back in college on my own.
Can one really call the FX analog, when a computer controlled camera was used, and some of the tactical displays are early CGI?
The shot of the assembled Separatist leaders seated at a curved table might be a good time for a call back to the Legion of Doom gag from TRM.
RicOlie_2 said:
I thought it was supposed to be the dragon's feet hitting the ground? :P
Doh! I guess you're right. Needs more coconuts. ;)
RicOlie_2 said:
TV's Frink said:
*cough* *cough* This scene, despite the censoring, might make the movie, uh...slightly less watchable with some members of my family. :P
Ah, well. I can't expect you to remove it for the benefit of one viewer.
However, some of those censor boxes could stand being extended along the bottom a little. ;) Perhaps you could add more and more black boxes as the scene progresses until you've blacked out the whole frame...
All the other videos that you've posted since are great, though. I love the one with Anakin and Padmé (the one with them together, not the song), and I love Obi-Wan's luck dragon. :)
Oh, come on! I've seen racier stuff than that on tv in the daytime even.
Anakin can slaughter little kids in cold blood, but if some nice repressed ladies want to give him a hot bath, that's going too far! ;)
TV's Frink said:
Great use of Falkor, but what is that clicking noise?
How about the No Side? ;)
IIRC, Palpatine is looking at the same hologram display before Mace and his posse walk in.
It's barely perceptible. Vector graphics of the era are a little jumpy to begin with. I wouldn't even be able to see it if you hadn't pointed it out.
Are you going to put in a different game for the other scene?
DJW said:
Ok I've been biting my tongue with you but can't anymore durawhatever "Do they call you anything besides STUPID ?"
Of Corse the books are still around but WHO WANTS TO READ THE SAME BOOKS OVER & OVER AGAIN you twit ? The EU story has ended and was erased and is DONE, FINISHED, OVER. Because that's what King George decided after taking the money from the books profit for years.
No Timothy Zahn "CAN NOT" wright more new books in the Star WARS EU galaxy ! There's a little thing called licensing "you have to have permission". If he dose it without permission his ass will be in court faster than a Manhattan minute trust me.
DUH REALLY !! Their Fiction ????? We all thought it was REAL . My God you really need to put the crack pipe down!!!!!!!!!
It dose mean a "goddamn thing" because as I said before the EU story as we knew it ended with out a end of some sorts, right in the middle of the story. The last Book the "Crucible by Troy Denning" left us hanging and that's how it will be, its DONE. Its like when they end a TV series without ending it, it sucks !! Will we live and move on "of course we will" but we still feel cheated after supporting them after all these years with our hard earned money & time.
Not sure how old you are durawhatever but maybe someday when you grow up you might just comprehend why it pisses us off. I've already moved on, but I just couldn't take the fu#$ing stupid shit you were saying anymore you dumb shit !!!
Hey Pancakes told you ! ;) Now I'm done and "I feel much better" LOL
I got my answer and I'm gone. I'm sure that makes durawhatever happy LMAO
Unfortunately, it's time to review the rules around here again.
Consider yourself warned.
And it's not hard to find the individual Blu Rays cheap on Ebay these days.
The main issue is until digital projection came along, most theater chains were incapable of projecting films in the old Academy ratio. I was pretty amazed I saw Singin' In The Rain projected properly a couple years back, as this was in an 80's era mulitplex.
When they ran a 35mm print of The Shining, it was open matte, but zoomed in, with the extra picture information barely visible on the curtains above and below the screen.
Disney theatrical reissues were routinely cropping the likes of Snow White, until Roger Ebert criticized the practice. The print I saw of Pinocchio in the early 90's was windowboxed on the sides in a 1.85 frame. Not sure if the theater forgot to close the curtains a little more to hide the sidebars, as they did Fantasia right.
The recent film The Grand Budapest Hotel used multiple aspect ratios (including 1.33) to represent different eras.
What is the origin and history of that bunny skyscraper image?
I think you were supposed to be able to see the Ewoks. It's called hiding in plain sight.
It's been so long since I've watched a pan and scanned film in it's entirety, it's hard to recall a specific shot that looks better that way. Many scope films from the 80's onward were composed with a "safe area" to make them more home video/HBO friendly. Actors standing closer together with a lot of empty space on either side of the frame is usually a dead giveaway.
I suspect that had the effect of making the pan and scan version of such a film to look more "tight" in it's shot composition.
I do like some movies open matte. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid looks more like the film noir mysteries it's gently spoofing in 1.33.1.
Weird Al's UHF looks overcropped to me on DVD for some reason, so I tend to prefer the Laserdisc better. The LD actually has the tv sequences shot on video from video as opposed to film. (The "full frame" version on the DVD is cropped on all four sides to allow a sight gag with the commentary track to work.) Haven't seen the Blu Ray yet.
I suspect when I saw it in a theater back in '89, the aperture plate in the projector wasn't in place. This particular theater screwed up fairly often at the time. ;)
I'm not seeing the glitch?
Hal 9000 said:
What are you all planning to do about spoilers?
It will be the acid test for our new Spoiler policy. I fully expect idiots will randomly post spoilers on other sites I frequent. People used to pop in and yell Harry Potter spoilers in chat rooms, for example.
I've already been avoiding those alleged plot leaks elsewhere.
As a moderator on a Star Wars website, it's going to be pretty much impossible to avoid this thread completely, therefore, I'm boned. ;)
Ryan McAvoy said:
SilverWook said:
I can move the thread if you like?
Yes please.
Ebay have a copy that (so far) is a lot cheaper and nicer looking than that Japanese version. This one...
http://www.lddb.com/ced/01055/02009/Lord-of-the-Rings-The-%281978%29
CED's do not age well, (I tinkered with them for a while in the 90's, and they are prone to scratches and skipping like records) and I'm not sure who has a working player around here these days. Early CED titles are mono, even if the movie was stereo originally.
If had a nickel for every Ebay seller who couldn't tell the difference between a CED and an LD. ;)