That reminds me, I haven't watched 'Purple Rain' in at least a couple of months ;-)
But I did have the album on in the car the other week :-)
DuracellEnergizer said:
This song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8WZ-Ba-gps
has to be the worst '80s song I've ever heard.
Technically, there are worse songs out there -- almost all mainstream music made in the last two decades immediately comes to mind -- but the component elements of this song just come together in a way that is just embarrasingly, epically bad. The instrumentation is beyond godawful and the lyrics are freshly squeezed shit.
Ironically, I'd probably hate this song less if the singer herself was horrible, but she's actually pretty good, which just makes the suck surrounding her stand out that much more.
You need to listen to more 80s music if you think thats the worst LOL. It's written by living-genius Prince by the way. Any song that has a lady inviting the listener to "Come inside my sugar walls" can't be all bad ;-)
Tobar said:
Thanks to all of you who saw (and are seeing) Guardians of the Galaxy this weekend, from the bottom of my heart. The Guardians are a group of oddballs, outcasts, and geeks. The movie is for anyone who ever felt cast aside, left out, or different. It’s for all of us who don’t belong. This movie belongs to you. And, today, I think we’re doing okay.
I am of course happy with all the film has accomplished box-office-wise. But what touches me the most is that the film I told the folks at Marvel I wanted to make two years ago is the film that you’re seeing in theaters today – it’s that so many of you seem to be directly EXPERIENCING the film I INTENDED. The cast, the producers, the crew, and I felt like we were making something special while we were making it. But it is very rare that a director’s INTENTIONS in creating a film, or a scene, or a character, or a line of dialogue are, seemingly, specifically what is experienced by an audience (not to mention critics!), and that seems to be what has happened here. You have allowed a talking raccoon – for a moment, a minute, or a day – to make you a little more human. And for that, I am profoundly grateful.
If I relied on myself to implement these intentions, the film would be a shambling mess. But instead, I had a wonderful cast, genius producers, an incredibly brave studio, sublimely talented visual effects artists, great editors, and the best damn crew of mostly-British bastards to actually implement these intentions for me. Where I had a good idea they would, through alchemy, transform it into a great one. Many of you involved are friends of mine on Facebook. Many of you will read this somewhere else. I love you all.
You may remember me posting here a couple weeks ago how sad I was to be finishing up the film, that I was having trouble letting go of Rocket, and that I was going to miss him. But seeing him (and Groot, and the rest of the team) embraced by the world like they have been, to be UNDERSTOOD, makes it a wonderful letting go. It’s like giving a foster pet up for adoption to the most wonderful parents in the world.
And, of course, I’m not really saying goodbye as, while many of you have been enjoying the film, I’ve spent this weekend hard at work on the sequel. I couldn’t help myself! The results are nice but it’s really the creative process I love and that keeps me going. I’m on fire with this thing! The Guardians have so many hardships and heartaches and triumphs ahead of them, and I can’t wait to share them with all of you.
Onto week two…
Love, James
Well he was already one of my favourite new Directors but that letter has put him at the top. Great job Mr Gunn!
Couple more updates...
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Thanks to the always impressive skills of mr Rogue-theX who kindly did the crawl text for me, here is the lastest opening to the edit...
https://vimeo.com/102714773
(Password: fanedit.org)
- The pan down is still a work-in-progress. Animating it so it smoothly pans down in just the right way is waaaay harder than I thought it would be
- Added newly created "The Star Wars" logo
- Replaced the "Far, far away" title
- Includes the two new Tatooine mattes I made
- Reworked the score a little
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I was watching 'Machete Kills' for the first time and was fairly surprised to see that he stages a getaway from Mel Gibson's headquarters in what is more-or-less Luke's Landspeeder!?! Knowing that this edit was missing a shot of Luke arriving at Anchorhead I decided to have a play around and see if I could use the footage.
Turned out the shot of Machete pulling a skid-stop in the "Landspeeder" didn't work out the way I wanted. But an overhead shot of him driving down a dirt road worked quite nicely once I'd matted-out/erased the motorcycles that were chasing him (The B&W also helped by hiding any green colouring to the foliage). While I was at it, I animated a new shot of Luke pulling up to Anchorhead. The new sequence turned out not half bad...
https://vimeo.com/102758754
(Password: fanedit.org)
Still need to do some smoothing of the proverbial edges though.
I never thought of it before but you're right HAL, it doesn't make much sense that a Fighter-Pilot fanboy like Luke would have never heard of the greatest pilot who ever lived.
It would be like a kid called 'Luke Senna' growing up living, sleeping and breathing motor-racing and nobody ever says "It's funny you should like cars and motor racing because there was this world famous Ayrton Senna dude!? He was the best driver ever". Then Luke replies "Oh really?? That's odd because my dad was called 'Ayrton Senna' too but he was just a bus driver".
Even on a backwater like Tatooine this unlikely what with Luke probably hanging round Anchorhead talking to pilots and hearing tales of far off worlds. If Luke had spent his whole life dreaming of being a moisture farmer then fair enough. If he'd spent his childhood reading 'Moisture Farmer Monthly', glueing together model Vaporators and collecting 'Moisture Farming Bubblegum Cards', then I could believe that he'd have never come across this famous pilot with the same name as him.
^^ Genius x-D
^ That's more like it ;-)
Leonardo said:
Ryan McAvoy said:
Leonardo said:
Bingowings said:
1980's gay stereotype.
beard, glasses and flannel?
I taking a moment to enjoy the extra layer of humour to your comment that perhaps you didn't intend ;-)
beard?
Quite. Although according to Urban Dictionary "flannel" has other meanings too but almost everything does on UD ;-)
Mike O said:
Lagaan- Once Upon A Time India- Another Bollywood flick. I don't know anything about Cricket, and wow is it long, but it's the kind of thing Arthur Freed would've loved-lavishly colorful with fun musical numbers and old Hollywood glamor.
I must admit I've seen very few Bollywood films but 'Lagaan' was fantastic. It is very long but in that nice 'Spartacus' kind of way.
Johnny Ringo said:
Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan.
quite good.
Burn the heretic! ;-)
TMBTM said:
As a kid I did not even know it was called the clone wars because I'm french and the french version talk about a "black war", they did not use the word "clone" at all... Later I heard about the clone wars and when I finaly saw the original audio version I just thought, "oh, ok. So the black war is in fact the clone wars. Sounds cool". But I never really thought about more than this.
Side note: the first death star in french is also called the black star (the death star in Jedi is called the deah star too in french)
LOL the "Black War" sounds much better or "Guerre Noire" isn't it? and...
A new contender for this thread...
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
All kinds of Star Wars fun to be had including Chris Pratt pulling off that Han Solo-esque charming scoundrel who secretly has a heart thing.
SilverWook said:
We should be thanking the maker the Stormtroopers aren't merely being stunned. Disney easily could have mandated a 1980's G.I. Joe level of ridiculousness with regards to the battles.
Very good point, this is a minor miracle in and of itself. Hopefully Ezra will upgrade his catapult to a chain-sword in due course.
Leonardo said:
Bingowings said:
1980's gay stereotype.
beard, glasses and flannel?
I taking a moment to enjoy the extra layer of humour to your comment that perhaps you didn't intend ;-)
Harmy said:
EDIT:
Here you are.
Wow thanks! Harmy > Disney
The soundmix was weak and sounded incomplete, the animation was amateur and badly executed but damn it had me at the awesome Speeder Bike chase!
btw So Disney are making a kids show where the heroes are terrorists then? ;-)
DuracellEnergizer said:
So Ezra's basically a younger version of Aladdin.
I wonder why I failed to notice that before; the facial features of the two characters are almost identical.
You hit the nail on the head right there and being Disney they can't sue themselves.
emanswfan said:
First look at Rebels pilot.
Translation = "Disney would like to extend a big middle finger to all the SW fans in the UK" :-(
Checkout these 1970s adverts from UK comic 2000AD...
^ Characters with the proper names like "Walrus Man" and not this "Ponda Baba" EU s**t!.
^ Even at 95p that looked like a ripoff.
^ The Mighty Thargg declares SW the best film ever.
^ Walter the Wobot interviews R2.
SW was always an ITV thing wasn't it? I found this...
Bingowings said:
I'd make George dress like an 1880's gay stereotype instead of a 1980's gay stereotype.
Yeah, that's doable...
It's a good look on GL.
My curiosity got the better of me.
Wrong thread LOL
The point where I gave up on V3 of this project was editing together the multiple sources of additional footage for the 'Hanger Shootout' sequence. It was such a nightmare to piece together that it was as good a reason as any to give up. So I'm super excited that today I managed to finish that sequence for V4...
https://vimeo.com/102543969
(Password: fanedit.org)
The audio is a bit of a mess as it's unfinished (as usual) and there are 32 edits in 104 seconds (An edit about every 3 seconds). I'm loving the way Luke now caps the last Stormtropper while he's running out like a badass! So glad to get that bit done and onto the bit I've been waiting to play around with 'The battle of Yavin'.
I also made a teaser poster...
(The "Coming 2015" bit is an aim, not a promise LOL)
ATMachine said:
Interesting thing that occurs to me: Thranduil's burned Phantom of the Opera face in The Hobbit is likely an idea Peter Jackson cribbed from George Lucas.
Lucas wanted to feature a disfigured Elf back in Willow--in the early story concept Sorsha was a blonde half-Elf, and she lost an eye in the film's final battle.
You could also compare the Elf version of Sorsha with PJ's invented character, the Elf warrior Tauriel. Given Tauriel's likely fate in the next film, Sorsha losing an eye suddenly doesn't look so bad.
This isn't the first time somebody else borrowed from Lucas's unused concepts for Willow, either. There was an idea Lucas had for a nude scene where Sorsha wears only a fabulously beautiful Elven necklace--a scene that ended up being recycled by James Cameron for Titanic.
If you haven't seen that 'Room 237' Kubrick doc you really should ;-)
DuracellEnergizer said:
I'd make him faster, more intense.
That's what she said.
I'd give him one those inflatable throats like Dexter Jettster.
A new test featuring the chase through the Death Star and the Duel, all rearranged and extended with alternate footage...
Death Star chase and Duel Test
(Password: fanedit.org)
I'm really pleased with the way I've recut the Duel and changed it about a bit. As per usual the audio is unmixed, the new score is missing and the film-degrading FX haven't been done yet but you get the idea about the new way the scenes work.
darklordoftech said:
This discussion about R2 flying in AOTC and ROTS.
http://boards.theforce.net/threads/c-3po-and-r2-d2-part-of-the-main-cast-in-the-sequels.50018235/page-6
^ Brilliant stuff :-)
Might have to check back on that one. Keep fighting the good fight JediKnightWax! ;-)