Bumbles bounce! And maul you, and kill your Tauntaun...
Sad to say I've encountered variations on that mindset in my life. When I was very young, some fellow Star Trek fans actually turned on me because I dared to like Space 1999. For them, to watch or like any other franchise was somehow tearing down Trek. Had there been internet back then, there probably would have been a lot of mindless bashing like we have now.
This craziness even manifested itself again into people picketing in front of theaters showing Star Wars at one point. IIRC, no less than Gene Roddenberry told these fans to knock it off.
I don't see the fascination in the rantings of this person. He's spouting the same old talking points we've all heard a hundred times over with little variation. Rational arguments about film preservation and access just don't work with these guys.
People like this want the entire fandom to agree 100 percent with their narrow point of view, and that's not going to happen. Therefore, they can never be happy. It certainly can't be healthy to be that angry like that all the time. ;)
It's the people who don't realize what's going on with these movies who might still have an open mind these days.
Been experiencing longer times for pages to finish loading up at the bottom the past week or so. (You can't scroll to the bottom of the page or see the newest posts while it's "hung up".) I thought it was just image heavy threads and those video banner ads at first, but it's happening all the time now.
Anybody else having this issue?
Colorized movies in the 80's really looked like crap. They couldn't deal with complex scenes very well. I saw crowds splashed all with one color, or as in the case of "The Nutty Professor", left in B&W while the foreground characters were in color. Note the background in the NOTLD VHS shot isn't colored in at all.
It's a tad better now in that it looks like some weird faded real color at times. The only place where I've seen it really work well is in old cartoons. Warners had a bunch of early Looney Tunes shorts colorized, but they don't seem to play on Cartoon Network these days.
Colorization has been used to restore bits of a Doctor Who episode where the color couldn't be recovered with the other methods they've used, so I no longer regard the process as a tool of the devil as much as I used to. ;)
Just like that pesky thermal exhaust port, eh? ;)
Tobar said:
stretch009 said:
The series should have ended in 1989, everything else just taints it.
The film series perhaps but there have been some pretty good Indy stories told in novels and comics. Not to mention the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles was pretty sweet when they got into the war years.
You'd think someone at Lucasfilm would have thought about having Sean Patrick Flanery play Indy again in a prequel film. He's about Harrison's age in Raiders now.
George can't be that crazy about Indy as an old guy since really old Indy was cut out of the home video release of the series. ;)
russs15 said:
Myself and a few others here got a nice "Cease and Desist" email a few years ago about a project on this site which proves that LucasFilm know about this site and the things taking place here.
Honest to goodness email or a PM?
This fellow isn't worth losing any sleep over, and it seems like the majority of posters in that thread don't care for all the ranting either.
On a related note, I've discovered one hour photo processing is starting to vanish from drug stores. They outsource any rolls people bring in, but for how much longer? And there's no longer a pro camera shop in my town. A pain in the butt if you have tons of old family photos or slides you want to preserve.
It's getting harder to keep using my trusty old SLR, and not go digital for good.
I somehow doubt that is the actual forum icon this fellow is using...
All I recall is saying the audio off the 704 is probably the best track. It may not matter all that much with a mono soundtrack of this vintage. Sorry to hear this is still giving you headaches. :/
How long is the glitchy sequence? I could try recapturing it.
About damn time! I'm not getting any younger! ;)
TV's Frink said:
SilverWook said:
The bit with the Tuskens seems different. Might be funny if the saber cutting into the tent makes a lot of noise and they don't hear it. Since their heads are wrapped too tight. ;)
BTW, I have the longer version of Smooth Criminal on Laserdisc if you need it for anything.
The suggestion on FE was to put in some saber sfx to make it obvious that the Raiders see him and just don't care. I never would have come up with your interpretation!
Not sure why I'd need the longer version, incidentally.
I have a weird sense of humor if you haven't noticed yet. ;)
Between the bits of dialog and that weird part in the middle, there's more instrumental passages in the Moonwalker version. (I thought the instrumental might work over Annie's break in.) It's out there on youtube thing if you want to check it out.
If you want to make the Tuskens indifference really obvious, lift some audio off the two Tuskens arguing in SW, and have "yeah...whatever" for a subtitle, or "not my problem"? Or "I see nothing!"
The bit with the Tuskens seems different. Might be funny if the saber cutting into the tent makes a lot of noise and they don't hear it. Since their heads are wrapped too tight. ;)
BTW, I have the longer version of Smooth Criminal on Laserdisc if you need it for anything.
No problem, and hooray!
I think you need the Maul Speeder in there. It's a pretty somber scene that's hard to make funny otherwise. It's also one of those sight gags that enhances this surreal loony universe you're creating.
Plus, you can use it again in Episode III. ;)
A stack of empty shot glasses in front of Obi Wan would be great.
Exploding R5 is still going to be in right? I thought bobgarcia74's use of "Mr. Sandman" was hilarious too.
http://www.theforce.net/latestnews/story/spike_tv_to_air_all_6_star_wars_films_112393.asp
Apparently, it was a six year deal begun in 2008...
Puggo, did you capture any audio from Rsortor's print?
I thought by 1980 the technical gremlins with Dolby stereo being played back in mono had been solved, eliminating the need for a mono mix?
Either way, this is an interesting discovery.
I know someone who worked at a college campus movie theater in the 80's, and it was all 16mm. AFAIK, prints were still made for that sub market into the early 2000's.
Interesting, as Spike TV paid millions for exclusive rights to all six movies.
Maybe that deal is expiring now?
Mavimao said:
bilditup1 said:
Mavimao said:
The christmas special was shot on 70's era studio video cameras. (think soap operas). It's on magnetic tape not film.
Hmm, what kind of magnetic tape?
Perhaps 3/4 inch according to this site
http://www.cbc.ca/archives/about/equipment.html
3/4 inch or "U-matic" as Sony called it, was barely broadcast standard. (Sony initially tried marketing it as a home video format a few years before they tried Betamax!) I used it in high school and college. It was popular because it was affordable for small tv stations and other budget minded institutions.
CBS and Fox could afford more expensive formats.
Given that the HS was shown overseas, it's not impossible a kinescope type version exists on film. NTSC video conversion to other tv standards wasn't very good back then.
Unfortunately, except for that one Ebay scammer several years ago, nothing real has ever popped up.
DuracellEnergizer said:
Equinox (1970)
This film is a prime candidate for a movie that should be remade. The ideas are all good, but the film is betrayed by a poor cast and sloppy writing. Still, it is enjoyable, for the unintentional goofiness and the interesting similarities with The Evil Dead if nothing more.
6/10
You do know the history of that particular film, right? It's literally a amateur film Dennis Muren made that somehow managed to get theatrical distribution. Much like how John Carpenter's Dark Star made the leap from film school project to feature film.