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When the current BR boxset gets a big reduction on Amazon, then a new version won't be far behind.

it couldn't afford to spend

DrCrow, please don't requote all of a large image post in the very next post. You keep doing it.

...anyway, I've got the OHMSS Blu-Ray and it looks classy IMO. The rest are of variable quality though.

Another bad one that I own is...

...it even gives away the plot of the film. This vintage poster is quite similar in layout but is clearly superior in every way...

Merry Christmas (and other assorted holidays) to yule all. I've been making merry since about lunchtime (In this order)...

Turkish Coffee Martini
Belgian Cherry Wheatbear
Mulled Wine
Bloody Mary x2
Belgian Cherry Wheatbear (Again)
Vesper
Strong Coffee
Painkillers
Baileys

I'm looking forward to getting some serious drinking done tomorrow :-)

^ The head is okay, but the clothes are a bit uninspired.

I hadn't thought before until you mentioned it, but I guess with today's technology they can 3D scan an actors head and combine that with 3D printing to create a perfect scale replica to plug into the toys. Before it was just down to how much they wanted to pay for a skilled sculptor.

My brother got me this...

...best Christmas card ever!

Is that one on the left the badguy then? Meh. The Boyega/Daisy likenesses are stunning.

At this time of year, these might come in handy...

Tack said:

Ryan McAvoy said:

Tack said:

That's the last movement of the New World Symphony. It's also in the Thief and the Cobbler.

It's one of the perennial copyright-free pieces that John Williams rips off for inspiration.

 Have you cared to search how clearly James Horner is influenced by Profokiev? 

Composers interpolate. Sometimes it works. Other times not.

There's no originallity in music, everyone copies everyone else.

Tack said:

That's the last movement of the New World Symphony. It's also in the Thief and the Cobbler.

It's one of the perennial copyright-free pieces that John Williams rips off for inspiration.

It got mentioned on Kermode/Mayo the other day...

that a kid had just watched and enjoyed 5-Armies and was excited that finally he could watch the LOTR-Trilogy. They commented that that was the way to watch them as he is going to love LOTR even more. Then they used this to refute comparisons to the Star Wars prequels, as they felt watching those first would make a kid not want to watch the OT ;-)

^ Nah, Yeti/Abominable-Snowman legends predate that cartoon by hundreds of years.

adywan said:

That's Tommy Gormley, TFA's associate producer. He works with JJ a lot:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0331166/

Ah, 1stAD on JJ-Trek. I'll have seen him on the bonus-features. Thanks for clearing that up.

Nice BAFTA message from JJ about Tommy

Anchorhead said:

adywan said:

Right at the back of the stage, we can see the same style lights that were in the death star

 The woman drinking the coffee has a funny expression.  Great job too.  The stuff she's already seen would keep us interested for days. 

Who is the guy? ^ I recognise the face but can't put a name to it (Or what films he's been involved with)

^ I would post the "I Care" meme but you're right.

DuracellEnergizer said:

The cover art for the DVD release of Birdman of Alcatraz is the latest to catch my eye.

Oh my days, that ^ is a perfect storm of dreadful.

captainsolo said:

The new one for Strangers on a Train was pretty lackluster

^ That's actually a superbly designed cover. The well chosen creative yet minimalist fonts, the bold use of colour, the inventive, disturbing and intense composition etc. Of course I'm quite happy that my DVD version has the original poster art but I'll be more than happy with that when I eventually upgrade it to HD.

^ This is probably the worst from my collection. The longer you stare at it, the more wrong it gets. Annoyingly the edition with that cover is the best version to buy (Also the best HD version too). But the cover kinda suits the cr*pfest within.

Leonardo said:

QWERTY waffle?

Wasn't she on the Hufflepuff Quidditch team?

One of the deleted scenes features the blue-guard dancing to...

Pilot - Magic

...so I guess that is one extra song that Peter has on his cassette.

To put it bluntly... it sounded like they were high off the smell of their own farts.

To put it less bluntly...

They are annoyed by... Somebody re-editing Star Wars for free without any obligation to watch the results.

They are quite happy with... Somebody editing Star Wars, charging them extra for all the changes, forcing them to watch the changes and also destroying the original film and making them watch only the changed version.

...idiots.

Chanced upon a nice Martin Freeman gif...

generalfrevious said:

 ...designed to piss off all Tolkein fans.

Who is "Tolkein"? and who are these "Tolkein fans" of which you speak?

Harmy said:

Really? I felt like the EEs of the Hobbit were just longer versions of already too long movies and added very little substance (unlike for example TTT EE, which is a very different film from the theatrical version).

Just the Beorn stuff in DOD added plenty of substance for me (I'm hoping the 10 seconds of Beorn in 5 armies will be fleshed out in the EE too), and the remake of the 'Gandalf-Dol-Guldur' sequence was excellent.

On a side note, I felt that a lot of stuff was possibly missing from the end of 5Armies that will be in the EE. I'm putting it down to PJ still stinging from the legions of people who (wrongly) said ROTK had too many endings.

Huh, that actually looked like it might be great. Genuine LOL on the cricket gag, less of a LOL on the cliche-animated-movie-comedy-blackguy-sidekick elf character. Alan Cumming as the baddie, winner!

emanswfan said:

Maybe we'll get Evangeline down to New Zealand, shoot a bunch of stuff, chop it up and put it into a box set.

I'm certain they are joking, but disturbing if they aren't.

He already semi-joked about adding the deleted Sauron-v-Aragorn slugfest back in to ROTK on a future anniversary boxset on that film's commentary years ago.

I say why not?! Unlike Lucas he's already given us the theatrical cuts in HD (They're on my shelf right next to the EE BRs), so anything else is just a bonus, not a replacement. Tauriel in LOTR Super-EE? Sure I'd be down for that.

btw, I don't even want the Theatrical-Cuts of The Hobbit, as so far (I can't speak for 5 Armies yet) they feel like incomplete versions of the "proper" EEs. The shorter LOTR movies were valid versions in their own right with no wierd plot-holes and such.

DuracellEnergizer said:

I can't go back in time to have sex with Late-'80s/'90s Jennifer Connelly. This perturbs me greatly. 

 ^ Fixed it for you ;-) Maybe this GIF will make it up