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#612833
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Star Trek Into Darkness
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DominicCobb said:

skyjedi2005 said:

Did not the screenwriters say a couple of years ago this would be more dark like the Dark Knight, comparing the first film to Batman Begins as an origin story.

That made me as worried as the idea of a Dark Superman ripoff of the Batman Nolan movies.  Now i hope i am wrong about Man of Steel and Star Trek Into Darkness, but its a wait and see thing.

Hopefully the villain in the new trek film is not another Khan ripoff like Shinzon or Nero.  Or worse a Dark Clone of Kirk. Like a remake of Nemesis.

As for Man of Steel, it's produced by Christopher Nolan so I wouldn't worry about that being a TDK rip-off.

And I don't think there's anything to worry about here with STID. Didn't you say that they compared ST to BB? So what's wrong with STID being compared to TDK? Yeah, TDK was darker, so that just means that STID will be darker than ST. It doesn't mean that it will be TDK level dark. Just darker.

So I think darker is a good thing. Why? Let me recall another sci-fi franchise you might have heard of, whose second part was darker. What was its name? 

Beats me.

I'm more worried about the fact Superman has lost his little red swimming trunks. What the heck were they thinking? ;)

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#612713
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Info Wanted: Trying to understand film preservation... perhaps a stupid question, but shouldn't digital masters be struck from theatrical prints?
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I don't think there were issues with the look of the film, but rather the ethics of erasing the wires.

There is still supposed to be a bit of Judy's dialog that was accidentally deleted several years before. An error that has carried over to the original mono mix on the Blu Ray.

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#612697
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Rick McCallum Exits Lucasfilm!
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I thought it had more to do with the high cost of the series? They weren't filming these on the backlot at Universal!

Some episodes were pretty good, (Indy caught up in WW1 spy intrigue) others were about as dry as an old history textbook. IIRC, one whole episode was Indy wrestling with the decision to enlist and nothing else. Not exactly an action packed episode. I couldn't make it through any of the kid Indy episodes.

The show did continue on cable tv as a series of tv movies though.

Funny how really old Indy has ended up on the cutting room floor next to Sebastian Shaw's Anakin.

I thought the episode where Harrison came back to do the wraparound story was good. Kind of like that final episode of Galactica 1980 with Starbuck, it came too late.