Swazzy

Rey has to fend for herself, get by on her own and survive all her life, while Luke sits around, chills with his friends, whines about moisture farm work and plays with model airplanes. They both have completely different backgrounds and mindsets when they get ahold of the force, so it would only be natural that Rey is more of a fast thinker and can catch on to the concept all the more efficiently.

The ‘IOU one backstory’ aspect is lame, but I’m certain VIII will forgive that. Galen Marek from The Force Unleased is likely the most ridiculously overpowered character in the whole damn franchise, and they still found a way to make the player relate to him. The same will be true for Rey, I’m sure Johnson and Kasdan will see to this.

(Also if Rey’s struggle was that much closer to Luke’s, wouldn’t it just be even more of an OT rip off? 😉)

Wait we are back on topic? Damn, guess I can’t use this then.

Max Landis popularized the term, which was taken from some obscure Star Trek fanfic parody. Regardless, pairing a criticism of the first female Main Character in Star Wars with a trope that also takes a woman’s name is rather stupid, if you’re trying not to come off as sexist. And not a great many people respected Landis’ viewpoints until his association with RedLetterMedia came to be.

See, it’s not the Tantive, it’s only mostly the Tantive. There’s a big difference between being mostly Tantive, and all Tantive.

Could it be an earlier, unused iteration of the Lowry restoration? Prior to all the digital crap and sharpening applied?

generalfrevious said:

No it’s Lucas’s contempt of us that is the problem. This has been the biggest problem ever since ROTJ was in production. Name me just ONE franchise where the creators treats their fanbase THIS poorly for THIS long.

Banjo-Kazooie.

Ha! Will do.

Major Fos and mini-Fos. They put the mini-Fos in between the major Fos. And in between the mini-Fos they put the mini-Frinks. And in the between the mini-Frinks they put the Hansi socks, niche debate topics, Mary Sue rhetorics, Lucas apologists, and unwarranted personal attacks…

Star Wars: where you can find a better looking picture quality on a baseball card than on the retail home release.

How does one enlist?

Both a technical and a technicolor marvel.

age said:

Looked at this a number of timed before I realized it wasn’t an edit of the Blu ray.

That’s brilliant! Thank you for this.

Question, for the technically inclined:

Is there a LUT equivalent of boosting/changing the hue of individual colors in Photoshop? I recall Mike mentioning how the red was unreasonably boosted on the BD. Out of curiosity, I was attempting to manually match a shot of R2 on the blu ray to Dre’s 4K77 grade, when I ultimately went to change the individual hue/saturation of the blues and reds:

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/188625

For a still image, it’s a fine solution. But if I were to try and match my edit using the correction tool, the completed model would yield corrupted results. Is there any way to work around that incompatibility?

Somewhere in this thread possibly? I do remember someone mentioning it here.

If I’m recalling correctly, he undid the repurposing later down the line.

Poetic drivel is my forte when I can’t sleep at night 😉

DrDre said:

Here are five more preliminary color grades for the 4K video sample Williarob shared in the first post:

It’s bizarre, how much humanity is unquestionably restored just by maintaining the look of the original photography.

With the '04 master there was this visual suffocation of digital ‘cleanup’ forced onto a picture that very apparently didn’t have it to begin with, crossed with the dreary, crushing dark purple smeared over the whole damn film. It comes of as this sterile, smothered, sort of science experiment in motion.

With this, I can see a set. And actors, and people, and props, and…things. It’s almost like a real movie that actual living beings put love and care into. Simply put, it’s refreshing to see.

I also took a shot at it:

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/188194

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/188195

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl5TUw7sUBs

Had trouble in VLC, but the windows media player runs it fine.

Or it could be that Reliance was working with '97 prints to begin with?

That is a good point. They’re in enough communication where I don’t know why TN1 (or I guess not-TN1) would go through with this if it meant that Mike’s version could also get picked up. Might be overthinking it though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4caGtkt0fQ

I’m assuming this will have a dedicated thread in a short while, but boy is it exciting.

dahmage said:

Swazzy said:

suspiciouscoffee said:

Trailer #2

I don’t understand how you can get that close to Darth Vader and not immediately be dead.

right… how may main characters in the OT did that? almost all of them.

Bait isn’t very effective when it’s dead, neither is killing the guy you’re trying to lure.

If you just stole the plans to the empire’s super weapon and Darth Vader is coming straight at you, you are dead, my friend.

Jedit: Wait…nevermind…