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#1618900
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The Unpopular Film, TV, Music, Art, Books, Comics, Games, & Technology Opinion Thread (for all you contrarians!)
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The majority of modern comic reprints are dogshit. Even when they’re using “accurate” colours, they’re just slapping those colours onto glossy white paper, which those colours weren’t meant for. Also, the scans they use of the actual lineart are often atrocious, ruining the original inking.

Here’s one example from a more modern comic, Batman #505. First page is from a scanned copy of the original issue, the second’s from one of the Knightfall trade paperbacks published last decade:


Comic reprints should be handled the same way proper film restorations are: copies of the original issues scanned at high resolution, with colour correction applied to compensate for any faded inks/paper discolouration that come with age.

Here’s a video interview of comics colourist José Villarrubia, who provides more and better examples of what I’m talking about on his social media:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6naEdQxTeI

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#1618653
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The <strong>Original Trilogy</strong> Radical Redux Ideas Thread
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Hal 9000 said:

Luke’s line in ANH to Obi-Wan reads as weird, given the world building we’ve seen in other media since in which people seem readily familiar with both the Jedi and the Force. Even in the Kenobi show, the Inquisitor rightly presumed they didn’t need to be introduced and that even the population of Tatooine knew they hunted Jedi.

That line in ANH is simply, “The Force?”

Obviously, it’s to get exposition going. But it seems weird for Luke to be familiar with the Jedi and be baffled by mention of the Force.

Not sure the line could be removed seamlessly, though. Maybe an AI line can give Kenobi’s line about the Force a different on-ramp.

It’s been a spell since I listened to the radio drama, but I recall Hamill’s reading of the line in that version being less questioning, more contemplative. Dunno how well it could be incorporated into the movie, but it might be worth a shot.

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#1618044
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Denis Villeneuve says the Star Wars franchise “derailed” in 1983
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1618044/action/topic#1618044
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timdiggerm said:

And besides, ROTJ has been agreed by most everyone to be the weakest of the OT for some time, and the Ewoks is one of the most commonly cited examples of the problems. I didn’t start this reply thinking I’d bring in my own pet project, but it’s relevant; the storyboards for ROTJ that involve Ewoks are often more compelling and exciting than the actual resulting footage, and I think a lot of it comes down to the fairly inexpressive faces of the Ewok costumes. I do not think they lived up to the intentions of the team making the movie, and Harrison Ford’s goofy tone in those scenes doesn’t help.

An observation I’ve made is that you just can’t cast little persons to play agile arboreal creatures. Changing nothing substantial about the costuming, the Ewoks would’ve worked much better if a combination of child actors/average-height adult actors shot through forced perspective had been used to bring them to life.

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#1617870
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Denis Villeneuve says the Star Wars franchise “derailed” in 1983
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Omni said:

Anyway it’s such a specific opinion that only really people his age have. Those slightly younger than him love all 3, those much younger love all 3 and the prequels, the kids now love all 9, and it goes on…

Not really. I was 11 when TPM was released; I’ve come to share Villeneuve’s opinion (even if I think he’s a mid filmmaker and his Dune adaptation in particular falls light-years short of what it was hyped up to be). Not everyone’s blinded by rose-tinted nostalgia glasses.