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suspiciouscoffee said:

Trailer #2

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

I thought it was ‘mercenary mission’?

Will you be replacing the bowl of frogs with Tic Tacs then?

MalàStrana said:

FrankT said:

have the RLM guys seen the Despecialized Editions?

I think there are old enough to have watched the OT before 1997.

I think he was referring to the fact that they still use Blu-Ray footage in their reviews.

And now, ladies and gentleman, the only video review of this movie that ever mattered:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miVRaoR_8xQ

TV’s Frink said:

I’m not watching that trailer because I don’t have any interest in watching a filmed version of TF.N. 😉

First post, best post.

Can the Plinkett TFA review get its own thread once it finally arrives? Or is this web site already overloaded with opinions on that movie?

DrDre said:

I couldn’t resist 😉. Here’s my attempt at manually grading the frame starting from Williarob’s correction. I took out some of the green:

We’re getting closer to a perfect Despecialized Edition everyday.

Williarob said:

Good news, I may have access to more of these red faded Eastman Star Wars reels, though condition may vary…

Using just the one set of LUTs generated for the shot above (one LUT for balance, the other for Match) I applied them to the whole sample that I have (about half of Reel 5) and saved it as a quick xvid AVI:

https://we.tl/X2CS5GnF61

Generating a separate set of LUTs for each scene would improve things even more, but I’ll wait until I have a better source to play with before I do that.

Jedit: And here is the Before:

https://we.tl/BQzrgH02Eg

Dre: Sorry to keep bumping your thread, if I am able to get hold of more Eastman scans and decide to do something with them then I’ll create a new thread for the project. Just posting this here because I believe it perfectly illustrates just how astounding your tools are. Thank you so much for sharing them with us.

Damn. I gave your corrected sample a little contrast boost, and it still looks better than the GOUT.

In the future I think I’m just going to PM you when I make a thread like this.

Recently discovered a six hour long, comprehensive breakdown on all of this show’s shortcomings and failures:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_DGamgvcXw&list=PLR-Yx2zNLl3m4R42-Z4fwybpdUwb4u-KI

The best part is it’s still ongoing, there’s still one presumably 90 minute long part left.

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What do remember most about Lost? Do you cite it as a failure of a mystery show or a success as a character piece?

(I realize there was probably a thread about this during the show’s run, but Google didn’t show anything)

Something that absoloutely needs to be put back into the film is the reflection of the police car headlights in the puddle, at the very end:

I can forgive most of the changes, but the fact that this is removed truly baffles me. I just don’t understand why you’d even bother adapting the comic if you can’t realize how immensely important this was to the conclusion of the story. They even have Batman tell Gordon the police are on their way in the movie, only for them to never show up…

You could also swap it for a GameCube analog stick. Not authentic, but certainly more comfortable.

Hey there, I’ve been interested in taking on a project like this myself and Id like to see what you’ve got so far. I’ve never uploaded to MySpleen before, but if you make I private vimeo link I’d be happy to check it out. I despise what they’ve done to the source material but I think certain components being present could salvage the movie for me.

I’d be down too.

I definitely don’t doubt that. I think however it’s more likely that he reviewed the scenes that would have to be redone and thought “Eh, too much effort”

I completely missed it. What the hell happened?

yhwx said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

I don’t even know how we got here.

Where do you think we are?

It does kind of baffle me that they did not just try to match the ESB puppet, and instead made him twice as big and goofy looking, with a voice direction that completely matched Grover (whereas at least Frank is going for something more wise and stoic sounding after Phantom, even if it sounds nothing like it should. He gets it much better in those short little Rebels cameos). He’s a completely different character, between the OT and TPM and then TPM and the remaining two films.

DominicCobb said:

That’s from a photoshoot though. The only thing recognizably different about new Chewie is that his hair his lighter and you can see his fingers.

Also ‘eyeliner’

Suddenly this thread has become very diverse

SilverWook said:

Anchorhead said:

For any newer members who may not be familiar with me, I haven’t seen the last two prequel films. With that in mind, this may have been addressed in-universe or on this board somewhere. In the few screen-grabs and pics I’ve seen from the prequels, it looks like his helmet is a significant redesign from the original films. To echo a few others on here, I never noticed the differences from film to film on the OT. However, even for someone like me who isn’t terribly interested in the character, I immediately noticed a difference in the prequel version.

In Star Wars his helmet seemed to have more mass. It had much more visual weight. It was the helmet of a military general and had a used universe look consistent with the film. That seemed a little less so in Empire and Return, but the helmet still had weight.

In the pictures from the prequels, it looks to have less substance and appears more polished. I don’t mean polished as in shiny (it’s that as well), but polished as in being more of a stylized take on Vader as opposed to the actual mask. Maybe it works in motion or on film, but it just looks off to me.

And again, maybe this has been addressed and I’m just missing it. If he does make an appearance in Rogue One, I hope he looks period-correct.

What is looking “off” is it’s perfect symmetry. That photo looks like someone did a mirror job in photoshop, and that’s what the creator of the ROTS helmet essentially did in three dimensions.

I saw on the TFA Blu Ray extras the care and time that was put in to get Chewie looking right, so I think Vader is in good hands for any possible appearance.

Well…there are times in the film Chewie looks right, and times he looks not right at all.

Top center is what I mean, it’s a bit too groomed and polished. Miles better than ROTS, though.

yhwx said:

Mark’s Down On Your Syntax said:

Good grief. Good grief, do I ever despise passive aggressive people. Good grief, good grief, good grief.

I wasn’t trying to be passive aggressive in my post. I apologize for any confusion that that may have caused.

Now I’ve vented, could I suggest the OP make a list of what he or she wants to achieve with this thread (which has apparently become a “discussion”).

Your markdown syntax can make bullet points, it says so in most of HansiG’s posts.

I would like to:

• Discuss ways to increase the diversity of the Original Trilogy forums, and not just with gender
• Discuss the issue in general

How do you plan on doing that if there’s literally no way of knowing what gender/nationality a user is, when all you have to go by is an icon and a screen name?

I don’t mean to be cynical, I am just being realis…actually, for some reason I don’t think that’s the phrasing I’m looking for.