TM2YC

This was new to me. Harrison Ford gets asked about Episode VII on Jimmy Kimmel...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XoAEeF61hQ

Hey, it's me. said:

Ryan McAvoy said:

To celebrate I made this...

6-4 7-6 6-1

 

Lets hope so. I've got money on him to win it ;)

Collected your winnings yet?

Ryan McAvoy said:

To celebrate I made this...

6-4 7-6 6-1

 

As I said before! Legend

So many things logicaly wrong with the Naboo Starfighter and the hanger. Like it is physicaly impossible for them to land back into those gaps down the side, but of course it is also impossible for them to land full stop.

But the design is so godamn beautiful that I don't care. Call me crazy but I'd have one of those over an X-Wing anyday. High-five if you built this kit back in the day...

It's like a beautiful vintage American car...

Check out this fanmade hand-animated AvP film done with action figures. It's better shot, edited, directed and acted than most Hollywood blockbusters!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXky2PgWnA4

Check out the exchange at 47.21

OrangeMonster said:

Yeah, i have the limited edition DVDs of the originals, and would love for them to be simply remastered.  Then again, there is something about watching those movies, warts and all, with the graininess and shakiness.  It's how my four year old eyes first saw them.

^ I doubt your 4 year old eyes saw what I see on the GOUT DVDs... unless you had cataracts ;-)

Role on Fan Preservations projects!

TK421138 said:

TMTYC,

Greetings, I just wanted to say first of all that your rough cut or "work print" of Star Wars is fantastic. it really captures the feeling of what that initial viewing must have been like in the Spring of '77 months before it was released in its final form.

Thanks for the detailed feedback TK421138. Sorry I've taken so long to reply, when I first read it I didn't have time to write a response then I forgot. duh.

TK421138 said:

While I like the whole old film look with the flicker, I would suggest tempering it just a bit.

I played around with this for a long time. Some of the deleted material is scratched to hell, so I didn't want the rest of the film to look overly clean in comparison but also not excessively damaged. I think I've struck the right balance IMO.

TK421138 said:

The blue milk scene with Aunt Beru, while i do love this scene, it seems that you forgot to run the very same effect on it, so it is looks a bit out of place.

I haven't applied any degrading filters to the deleted material. Maybe I need to add a little hint, with the beru footage as it is actually pretty decent quality.

TK421138 said:

Jump cuts or wipes as you may call them, either keep them all in the film or take them out.

Yes, they are meant to ALL be removed. Thanks for pointing that one out, clearly I've missed some, including a fade I've just spotted at 24.34. Sometimes it's easy to miss them because I end up enjoying watching ANH so much that I forget to watch it for errors ;-)

TK421138 said:

 Have you thought about using any alternate music cues in any of the scenes, or perhaps music that had originally been placed in the temp track?

Yes I have, as has been discussed before in the thread. With the first cut of this I'm going to be mainting and then extending the theatrical soundtrack. I'm changing every visual so I want it to at least sound like SW. Once I've got a final version of this I'll be considering a second version with a whole new soundtrack. This would require reconstructing the sound FX before I could even get to layering on the temp music (e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJwa9mX0bxA)

TK421138 said:

splice in the actual actor's voices before dubbing.

If I've got a whole performance, then I'll use the pre-dub. e.g. Camp-English-Greedo and Cockney-Cantina-Denizens. But If it's Vader where I've only got a few fragment of Prowse I'm gonna leave in JEJ. In fact I've created new JEJ dialogue for Vader (With help from others on the thread). So no Mayhew either. But Antony Daniels' onset dialogue is an option, if it is legible through the mask.

TK421138 said:

Is there any sharper video for the scenes with the WWII battleship/Star Destroyer? I know it's stock footage, but it doesn't quite measure up or fit with the rest of the footage. Speaking of better quality footage, I know the Jabba scene is edited heavily from bits and pieces of footage, but is there any chance of finding the complete scene in a consistent quality?

I'm constantly changing, swapping and upgrading the temp footage. So if I can find a better source I'll use it but the documentary battleship footage is the best I've got at present. Idealy I'd like to replace that footage with alternate sci-fi footage but I've not found any yet that would work better than a WW2 battleship to represent a DS. No the Jabba footage does not exist in better quality than that... maybe GL has a copy hidden somewhere ;-)

TK421138 said:

  The cantina scene, while nicely done, could use some work my friend.

Yes others have said that. I spent hours and days getting it to that stage. I've had a breather now, so I'll be revisting that and try to match the sound better. I will be keeping the music, as otherwise the scene has no flavour for me. Before I lower the levels I need to do more work on constructing some bar-room sound FX. Their absence isn't noticable at present because of the music covering it.

TK421138 said:

 I liked the added scene with Darth Vader and  Bast's speech. I thought this little scene added a lot to the overall flow. However strong the editing of the audio is, at the end when Vader says "I shall not fail..." that line needs to be clearer and a bit louder so we can understand what is being said.

Yes, I (And others) have been back and forth trying to get that one right. Will keep working on it.

TK421138 said:

As Alderaan get's blown to smithereens, there is a bit of footage of Princess Leia standing there after the destruction of her planet where she says "And you call yourselves humans!"

Great idea. After I finish with the first draught of the edit I've always planned to review things like SWB, the radio dramas, DVD featurettes etc to hunt out anything else I could work in. There are lots of little clips from SWB that I plan to use.

TK421138 said:

 You might do yourself a favor and read the fantastic Making Of Star Wars book by J.W. Rinzler.

On my Xmas list. But I have an online copy of the revised Fourth Draft of the script, from January 15, 1976 that I've been working from for scene placement.

TK421138 said:

Now to end with a silly question, the end your current cut fades out right before they enter the asteroid field/remains of Alderaan system. I noticed there was nothing representing the asteroids, rather just a fade to black. My question is, this was intentional right? This will obviously start part two then? 

I will not be replacing the in-cockpit Asteroid shots as I'm going with the explanation that these were back projected on set (Which they actually did do, but went with blue-screen instead). So yes the fade to black is where part one runs out and part two awaits.

Again thanks for the feedback and in future if you happen to be watching a WW2 film or pre '77 Scfi-Fi film and spot something useful post it below!

^ Hint, I need a shot of a B-17 Flying Fortress doing this from somewhere??!?!?

Anybody noticed this interesting bit of design detail from the Theed Palace hanger bay before?

Got it. One for the SW Punks out there...

"Darkside calling to the faraway towns, Star Wars is declared, let battle come down"

TV's Frink said:

Another movie I'm not interested in owning :p

TDKR does have a few issues, like Batman should have worn this...

"Alfred! Bring my shuttle"

muddyknees2000 said:

Ronster said:

What is the main motivation for replacing the canyon shot... Is it just the background Matte?

Well for one thing...the explosion is horrible......not sure if that's the ONLY motivation....but it's definitely one of them.

^ If you mean Ady will be replacing this shot...

... then hallelujah! (Cries tears of joy).

That shoddy looking FX shot has bugged me since I was about 5 years old. Capturing that screenshot reminded me of just how wonderfully action packed and fast paced ESB is. ^That sequence is only 40 minutes in!

Tom Hardy's bane as Vader? The exchange could change from...


Darth Sidious: [Vader's new mechanical body arises from the steam] Lord Vader... can you hear me?
Darth Vader: Yes, Master.
Darth Vader: [Vader looks at Sidious] Where is Padme? Is she safe? Is she all right?
Darth Sidious: It seems in your anger, you killed her.
Darth Vader: I...? I couldn't have! She was alive... I felt it!
[Vader growls, and his Dark Side strength crushes everything around him in the room. He frees himself from the metal stretcher, and steps off. Palpatine has a smirk on his face]
Darth Vader: Nooooooooooooooooooo!


CHANGED TO...


Darth Sidious: [Vader's new mechanical body arises from the steam] Lord Vader... can you hear me?
Darth Vader: Speak of the devil and he shall appear.
Darth Vader: [Vader looks at Sidious] Why are you here?
Darth Sidious: It seems in your anger, you killed Padme.
Darth Vader:  It would be extremely painful
[Vader growls, and his Dark Side strength crushes everything around him in the room. He frees himself from the metal stretcher, and steps off. Palpatine has a smirk on his face]
Darth Vader: No one cared who I was until I put on the mask

Pleased with this if I do say so myelf...

"Tarkin care of business"

Anybody know of a shot of an angry Jedi, Paul Simonon style?

^ This meme is working for me on at least 3 levels.

"90 minuets" in a Star Wars movie, now that I'd pay to see! ;-)

But again seriously, I've been hearing this idea of splitting ROTS in two alot recently and I'm eager to see how that pans out.

When do you plain to have this fished again? ;-)

But seriously, the new scene ideas sound very interesting,

How long will the episodes be?

I think the Empire get off on butch names for their hardware.

Stardestroyer - Avenger, Executor, Devastator and Tyrant plus Stormtroopers is pretty evil. Death Star sounds evil but I imagine that was the point when they designed a weapon of mass genocide on an almost unimaginable scale.

Hey, it's me. said:

Lol. Ahem. Go to the Off Topic part of the forum, and you'll see a thread called 'Last movie seen' the last post (from me) has a link to a Jaws/Star Wars Grindhouse style trailer. Watch it and see what you think? It's brilliant! 

Fantastic trailer, the voice is very well done too. Captures the GH spirit perfectly. Then again hard to make a bad trailer when it's cut to Rodriguez's 'Planet Terror Theme'. One of myall time favourite pieces of music. You kind of want to hate a man with that much talent but you just can't lol

He does a great line in food-porn too...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGOQ_npS4pI

Probably been posted before, but this fanmade Anime is just about the best original thing to happen to Star Wars in about two decades...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tBM2ZfncoU

^ In full HD and even 3D!

Hey, it's me. said:

Ryan, check out the link I posted in the 'Last Movie Seen' thread of the Grindhouse trailer. It's brilliant.

^ No matter how many times I re-read that, I've no idea what you are saying lol

Wow, I take it all back. That link you posted ^ shows the actual text plus lovely illustrations. The video clip doesn't do it justice. The guy has got old Bill down perfectly.

http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2013/07/04/amazing-book-of-the-week-william-shakespeares-star-wars/

Worth buying for "Exeunt Stormtroopers" alone lol

Hmmm not convinced. Shakespeare is about the poetic flow of his text, the wordplay, the poetry... it isn't just inserting "Thee" and adding "est" to the end of a few random words.

Alow me time dear sirs, to read from the great Bard's oft quoted Tragedie 'Taxi Driver'...

"Art thou conversing withst mine person?
Verily, I pray you answer!
To whomst art thou addressing?
For truth I am alone before thee,
So I conclude thus, that indeed,
Thou must assuredly be espying mine countenance."

Wow that was easy, can I have a book deal please?

The video clip is funny though... more laughing at it than with, but still a giggle.

muddyknees2000 said:

Johannus said:

Sure a lot of existing footage would require a lot of work to remove Yoda completely, but maybe send Liam Neeson an early copy of ESB:R or something with a persuasive note suggesting you may need him to film a few new scenes. 

He's "Taken 3" desperate....not "unpaid fan-edit" desperate...

^ Not beyond the realms of possibility. Stars do funny skits, voiceovers and whatnot sometimes. They get bored and fancy a giggle like the rest of us. A-listers work for free sometimes just because they want to be involved in something. Not sure that Neeson would want to revisit SW (He nearly quit acting he hated TPM so much) but I could see Sam Jackson being up for PT:Revisted.

He does movies all the time for lower pay just for fun. He did Snakes On a Plane for the hell of it and did Deep Blue Sea just so he could die. He's a big Star Wars geek like the rest of us so it might be worth posting him a copy of OT:Revisted. You'd have to work round his schedule to make it super easy.

You could do alot of fixing with him onboard to film scenes.

Also Ewan strikes me as the sort of bloke who'd do something like Revisted just for the story to tell.