Happy 47th birthday Star Trek!
And Happy 40th to The Animated Series, which I first watched on Saturday mornings.
I can recall the world before Star Wars, but I have never known a world without Star Trek in it. I feel a little bit old...
Congrats!
I should have specified video.
I saw Showscan used at the Luxor in Las Vegas many years ago.
Ryan McAvoy said:
GlastoEls said:
We had this with The Rock a couple months back.
Background character, low key, no problem.
Wrong Dug. It's actually this guy...
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Seboca
They didn't even alter the CGI model from AOTC for that shot.
All depends on what sort of character he was to portray. If it's just going to be Riddick in Star Wars, forget it. ;)
Mavimao said:
bkev said:
pittrek said:
- Dan Curry's team was shooting models in 30fps, their movement looks weird in 24fps
AHA! I always KNEW there was something weird about the SFX shots in TNG. The video framerate definitely made me think TNG went CG like DS9 did eventually.
Yeah, Dan Curry did every other episode and the higher frame rate gives it that soap opera look, so that's why some people often mistakingly think the models were shot on video cameras, thus making the restoration impossibly expensive to do.
I think it was a bad idea to choose that frame-rate. I get that it transfers well to NTSC video, but all of the main action was shot at 24 and going from one frame-rate to another is not only jarring, but it makes for poorer conversions to PAL.
He may also be one of those HFR advocates which, in all honesty, I cannot understand one freaking bit. I saw the Hobbit in HFR and it was horrid; absolutely, positively eye-gougeingly horrid. Higher frame-rates are not more realistic. Wave your hand in front of your face very quickly and what do you see? Blur. (end rant)
Was HFR even a thing in the late 80's early 90's?
There must be some arcane technical reason for shooting the models at 30fps.
As all of TNG was edited on NTSC video, any PAL conversion at the time was going to be problematic.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/2002-SPIDERMAN-Twin-Towers-35mm-Trailer-/321198787656?pt=US_Film&hash=item4ac8f08c48
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SPIDERMAN-MOVIE-TRAILER-NEW-UNOPEN-THE-FIRST-/261278521722?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cd569d97a
The same seller has a print of Star Trek The Motion Picture.
Is it just me, or are a lot of interesting films popping up on Ebay these days?
Anchorhead said:
Considering what a pile of shit that film was, good thing for Williams he wasn't part of it.
Compared to the slow boat ride to hell that is Batman and Robin, it's a masterpiece. ;)
Knew I heard it somewhere in Python. Thanks!
Nice to see a little Zardoz love around here. Part of the problem is most people have likely seen the version that used to air on tv. It was pretty hacked up for broadcast standards, and important plot points were lost. I had no idea what happens to Sean's character at the end until I saw it uncut on home video years later.
And I'll take Connery in a pigtail and red undies over Connery in a bear costume any day of the week. I heard there were some brutals prowling around Dragoncon recently.
It makes a great double feature with THX 1138.
Ryan McAvoy said:
SilverWook said:
if an actor is keeping his schedule open for a film they expect to be in, and they get replaced on a whim, they deserve some financial compensation.
The whole production gang behind LOTR seem like a lovely bunch of people. But then there is the story of how Stuart Townshend spent two months of intense training to play Aragorn. Presumably turning down work to do that training and then turning down a sh*t-ton of work to free up the time for the year-long shoot ahead...
...Then they fired him the day before filming began and refused to pay him anything. Of course they replaced him with Viggo Mortensen, one of the best casting decisions of the last two decades but it's stilll a sh*ty way to treat somebody.
btw Viggo would be amazing in EpisodeVII! As a grizzled Republic General "IT'S A TRAP!"
Wow. I hope his agent sued.
CP3S said:
What??? How have you guys never known what the word "bugger" meant? Its even made its way into American pop culture:
"Very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy."
Most people here probably recognize this quote. If not, it is Dr. Evil's speech from the first Austin Powers. I hear Americans quote that all the time. It means his dad really liked engaging in anal sex.
Less antagonistic version of jerk or douchebag??? It is a really crass word. Even Webster's American dictionaries list it as vulgar slang.
I honestly thought it meant thievery or something. Amazing that got past the censors.
Is there more than one meaning? I'm pretty sure I've heard it in Monty Python, but it's one of those things that often sails over the heads of us Yanks. ;)
Yeah it's one of those things that can bloat the budget, but if an actor is keeping his schedule open for a film they expect to be in, and they get replaced on a whim, they deserve some financial compensation.
Would be neat if BDW got to voice Two Face in a future DC animated film someday.
When the old gang signs the contracts for Episode VII, it's going to cover a couple more sequels at least. With the exception of Harrison, as he may only be lured back with the promise of dead Han. ;)
Nice find, but I'd be leery without some screenshots.
Were Bond movies usually dubbed or subtitled theatrically?
.....
Seriously? Is it a non SE print?
Was Billy Dee under contract to play Harvey Dent again? Kind of a shame he wasn't given the chance to portray Two Face.
doubleKO said:
In the Prodigy song "Climbatize" the main drum loop was sampled from "Air Drums from Outer Bongolia" by English electronic duo The Jedi Knights.
Liam Howlett sampled the drums without the group's permission, and The Jedi Knights threatened to sue The Prodigy. However, Howlett already knew that The Jedi Knights themselves had sampled the drums from an older track entitled "Bongolia" by American funk group Incredible Bongo Band without permission.
XL Recordings, the Prodigy's record label, bought the rights to the Incredible Bongo Band track and threatened to sue The Jedi Knights. Media coverage of the event attracted film producer George Lucas, who sued The Jedi Knights for taking their stage name from the Star Wars term "Jedi Knight", which Lucas created.
Yet, he's apparently left the bands Nerf Herder and Droid alone. Go figure.
I still marvel that Lucas actually got a copyright on droid.
Never uttered on screen, but Vader was called a "lord of the Sith" elsewhere back in the day. Every kid knew it, even if they couldn't remember where the heck they heard/read it from. ;)
The new Shout Factory Blu Ray/DVD combo release has the deleted scenes, unfortunately, the quality is pretty awful. It’s like someone fed a VHS tape into one of those late 1990’s Video CD standalone recorders or something.
Even the theatrical trailer looks the same way. And I’ve seen that in better quality on a promotional VHS that was only given to video stores at the time. (It was recut a bit though.)
There may not be much that can be done to salvage the deleted host segments because of this. Even if the footage still exists somewhere, I doubt anyone at Universal is going to pony up for a proper transfer of those elements.
However, in theory, someone could take the DVD of This Island Earth, lift the clean theater silhouettes from the closing credits of the film and composite them?
Your thoughts, gentlemen?
Humor, it is a difficult concept...
I second that idea!
Sounds interesting. I wish we could kickstart that book he was pitching many years ago that Lucasfilm allegedly scuttled.
I hope Peter will be up and walking by the time the sequel gets rolling. I can't imagine Han without Chewie at his side. It's like the Lone Ranger without Tonto!
Congrats on getting that behemoth safely to your humble abode. I would have been a nervous wreck waiting for it to show up! You must give it a proper name now. ;)
Now if I can only find a decent scope print of THX 1138...
