Tobar said:
I'm still saddened by the fact that we'll never get another Sky Captain. =(
We should have a thread on movies that deserved sequels, and movies that inexplicably did get sequels.
DrCrowTStarwars said:
DominicCobb said:
Little room for a review battle. 17% on Rotten Tomatoes and 32 on Metacritic.
I would consider checking it out if it weren't three hours long. I do enjoy some good robo action and Marky Mark funky bunching. But I take my popcorn in bits. Anything longer than 100 minutes for a movie like this is way too long for me. I can handle stupidity but only for so long.
That is one thing I liked about the last Mummy movie(Which I am going to get around to giving my thoughts on at some point)and Sky Captain,they were both under two hours long. We need more light adventure fair like that. Some times less is more.
If a movie is really really good, you often don't notice the running time. A bad ninety minute flick can seem like years. ;)
Interesting how the tendency of studios putting scissors to a movie to shorten it's running time, so theaters can cram in more showings per day, seems to have reversed in recent years.
I have a copy of that too. I'm pretty sure it inspired this later publication.
Do special one shot movie magazines like that even come out anymore?
With early LD titles, Digital isn't an option. Thanks to the idiosyncrasies of the studios, some analog sound only titles were still being released as late as 1991! Commentary and isolated score tracks are almost always put on the analogs as well.
The Beatles remasters sounded pretty darn good to these old ears.
Still waiting on the postman to deliver my Teac recorder.
Awesome. I thought they were unused prequel designs or new props for second there. ;)
38th anniversary of the Bicentennial. Best 4th ever. ;)
Octopussy came out two weeks after Return of the Jedi, so this has happened before.
Makes sense now. I don't think they were shown in production order when I was a kid, so it just seemed all over the place.
Star Trek reruns seemed even more randomly ordered in the 70's, although this created the impression the bridge crew rotated more often.
Yoda's back is probably killing him after going all Sonic The Hedgehog on Duke Dooku, not to mention saving Obi Wan and Anakin from being crushed, so he gets a pass from me.
Obi Wan using The Force to close a compartment door in ROTS mere inches away from him is pushing it though. It's also a tad hypocritical, as Anakin gets scolded for those kinds of parlor tricks, when he's not putting the moves on a hot young senator from Naboo.
Even as a kid, when those long side shots of Spidey swinging along came up, where the only buildings are far in the background, I'd wonder where the heck the webbing was attached to.
Wasn't it the later episodes that got heavy into the recycled footage? Even the style of the show changed a bit by then. The backgrounds got more acid trippy.
I still dig the jazzy musical scores.
There are probably lots of planets/systems or local governments that had it good under the Empire, and would still have sympathies for what's left of it.
Only Ben Burtt knows for sure!
That's what I do. It's just been murky to me if capturing digital LD audio through the analog outputs is audibly inferior to an all digital transfer. You have to process it anyway to make it DVD and Blu Ray compatible.
However I want to try doing it the "right" way if I can.
Verboten said:
Yeah, I'd assume that if the senate was brought back that they would just use a lot of the Empire's infrastructure. Especially if Luke hasn't established a new Jedi Order, which is sounding likely from the rumors.
The Empire likely even had craft almost finished in shipyards that could be put into service, much like China bought an old, nearly complete Soviet era aircraft carrier and fitted her out.
DuracellEnergizer said:
I'd like to see stormtroopers with black armour make an appearance in the ST, perhaps as agents or members of the fabled "Jedi hunters".
I guess the real downfall of the Empire was the endless supply of jelly doughnuts for fleet officers...
I guess we would then know what tentacle pron withdrawal symptoms look like? ;)
Why can't people wait until it's actually the fourth of July to set off fireworks? I've been hearing stuff go boom for weeks, and tonight is no exception.
I also saw potentially illegal brush burning going on in the area, and we're in the middle of a freaking drought. One ember and a little breeze is all it takes.
Do they think they're going to win people over by evasion? If they show the SE, it's grounds to ask for a refund. Politely, of course. ;)
I only have a laptop these days, and haven't seen an external sound card in stores recently.
I've been able to do excellent captures of analog LD tracks with my DVD recorder, as some people who've used what I've sent them can attest to.
Wow. A reply worthy of Chancellor Palpatine. ;)
I suggested a while back we might see a Star Destroyer with a Rebel Alliance logo painted on the hull. Imagine seeing that in the opening shot! It would instantly communicate how things have changed sine ROTJ.
FanFiltration, your images are broken.
So, did anyone have an official rubber Jaws shark as a kid, and have it eat your action figures? ;)
I'm sure the trooper armor will reflect it's lineage, but also 30 years of change. If they went back to McQuarrie's original designs, I might cry out of joy too!
unamochilla2 said:
I'm confused by this quote: “I’m really excited and you know, people keep saying that I liked the last trilogy and I did. I liked 1, 2 and 3. But I liked them as an adult, when I watched them they didn’t give me the same feeling I had when I was seven watching them for the first time and that’s fine."
Is referring to the OT as the last trilogy? The wording is confusing. I can't tell if he's talking about the OT or PT and then talks about liking them as an adult, but didn't have the same feeling when he first saw them? Doesn't really matter in the long run, but it just confused me.
I wonder what made him cry specifically? The Falcon set perhaps?
That same door that got Harrison dropped on him? It's evil! ;)
