SilverWook

Let no one here complain about how much space their video collection takes up ever again. ;)

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/trending-now/internet-archive-to-preserve-woman-s-collection-of-40-000-vhs-and-betamax-tapes-174441508.html?vp=1

Well, how many super secret projects would he be associated with? There was some Bigfoot movie he was supposed to be in that turned into a silly thread around here a while back.

In any case, you can't just stick anybody in the suit and expect it to be the same. I would want Peter to coach the new guy if it comes to that. Maybe they could get the fellow who played Tarfful in ROTS?

And an unmasked cameo is long overdue. I think just about every other character performer has gotten one except Frank Oz.

Could Captain Majors on the 1978 Godzilla cartoon series have been modeled on George?

Don't blame me! I voted Sith...

There is a teeny tiny amount of CGI in the OOT.

I can't recall if the targeting displays were actual CGI or back lit cel animation though.

http://screenrant.com/star-wars-episode-7-chewbacca-actor/

I'd like to go all angry Wookiee on some of the idiotic comments though. >_<

That's it! The animators drew it right down to the camera connector in the lower right corner of the unit. Curious they chose an old top loader.

I wonder how Ahmed Best in the Jar Jar suit they spent millions(!) on, augmented by CGI facial expressions would have looked. The Narnia films used this approach for several creatures, and it seemed to work really well.

What freaks me out about that episode of Cowboy Bebop, is that I actually used to own a Sony Beta exactly like the one they eventually scrounge up.

Found mine in a thrift store as opposed to a abandoned ruin. All the buttons and indicators were in Japanese. How it ran on U.S. current without an adapter I'll never know! I wish I had kept it sometimes, but who knew I'd be tinkering with dead formats twenty years later? ;)

Star Wars in it's rough state is far more watchable though. No amount of editing can save a movie if you don't have a good story to begin with.

DuracellEnergizer said:

^I'd like to say that was the reaction I had to the debacle that was that movie, but it was too underwhelming to get even that much from me.

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Slipstream (1989) - 6/10

The Dark Crystal (1982) - 7/10

 It's still the movie that put composer James Horner on the map, and some kid named Jim Cameron worked on the FX.

Roger Corman reused the music and effects footage so many times in other productions, he was able to afford the large jacuzzi!

I should send the Garthim after you for anything less than a nine for TDC. ;)

Sadako said:

^ Same thing goes for the Prequels. Oh hey, look at that, back on topic! 

Seriously, though, there are scriptwriting classes and seminars even at community colleges. It's not like it's this lost art, some sort of deep magic that was only known to the druids who used it to build Stonehenge. Learning how to write a decent script is totally possible, even for Lucas and Shyamalan.

 Lucas has often said how much he hates writing.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Highlander: The Search for Vengeance (2007)

While I liked the flashback parts of the movie, the rest of the film was ... iffy; mutants, cyborgs, and robots do not belong in a Highlander movie, animated or not.

Suffice it to say, I wasn't very taken with the movie; I even started nodding off before I got halfway through the movie -- that's how unengaging the main story was.

The animation was pretty good, though.

6.5/10

Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)

This movie sucked, plain and simple. The plot was paper-thin, the characters were complete cyphers, the "action" scenes were overlong and boring, and the movie was just too damn long for such a meagre storyline.

The worst thing about this movie by far, though, is that John Saxon sucked. John Saxon sucked! Lord above, I've seen him in some dire movies, and he still gave a great performance in them! The director must be some black magician to coax such an underwhelming performance out of the man!

5/10 (If it weren't for the (mostly) decent effects, it would be a 4/10) 

Will we be seeing any screenshots of the 16mm anytime soon?

^Third.

Pity The Third Gathers seems to have vanished after suffering the wrath of Youtube. His dubbed version of Backstroke was sheer genius.

I stand corrected. Hollywood has botched more than a few adaptations of animated shows the past decade or so. The Dragonball movie for starters.

Aren't films like TLA more like work for hire where M. Night is concerned? He hasn't made anything like his signature films for a while.

In spite of his peripheral involvement, Lucas is forever associated with Howard the Duck.

Second shaker in a month. I won't be sleeping easy anytime soon.

Thanks a lot, Ryan. I need to bleach out my brain now...

Tack said:

I wonder if Rick McCallum is in real life like he is in the interviews or if he's just trying to save his job by not saying the truth of what he thinks.

 I'd bet years down the line, when the fear of reprisal from Lucasfilm has lessened, (because Disney won't care) he writes a tell all book. ;)

IIRC, it was from a proposal for an animated Who that never materialized.

I still wonder what George was thinking when the prototype for that came across his desk.

Speaking of perverse uses for Jar Jar merchandise. ;)

http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news0899/jar.html

I still say that Doctor looks like an older Egon from the Ghostbusters cartoon...

Other movies were shooting in digital, and released before AOTC. Jason X for one.

Now, Hollywood is flirting with 4K, and Lucas' experiments are forever locked at 1080.

http://autos.yahoo.com/news/female-engineer-invents-traffic-robocops--video-005208762.html

I, for one, welcome the first generation of our new robot overlords.