TMBTM

Well, I did not actualy made the "vocal twice as loud as before". This is just something that could be done, in theory, IF the mixes are exactly the same.

I still did not find a way to remove languages, or even to get the music free of vocals, even if we have two exact same mixes (minus different languages). But of course it would make it easier to do experiences and maybe find a way.

EDIT: by the way if someone knows a DVD of a movie where two mixes are exactly 100%  the same frequencies, only with different languages I'd be interested to know about it.

A little line from Saoirse's interview could be interesting:

"You know what? Even if I don’t get it, I had so much fun auditioning, pretending to take out a lightsaber – out of a bag, kind of inspect it and not know what it is. That was… that was great. A lightsaber! Star Wars!”

So, depending on who her character is, it could means that there is no Jedi order in command at the beginning of Episode 7. Because unless she's really cluless, almost everybody in the galaxy shoud know what a what a lightsaber is (if there is some kind of Jedi order).

EDIT: of course this is assuming that her part for the audition have something to do with the final story.

Saoirse Ronan confirmed... that she has auditioned for EP 7 "like everyone else", she added.

I'm reading The Jedi Academy Trilogy by Kevin J. Anderson and I must say that it is more entertaining than The Thrawn Trilogy... BUT it feels more like watching a cool TV series than a trilogy of movies in the sens that the story feels more scattered, less focused. That's the strenght and the weakness of those books, IMO.

Let's say that if one had to adapt one of those trilogy on the big screen, The Thrawn trilogy would be easier to do (stronger characters, more focused story) but on paper I prefer the Jedi Academy.

IMO, a 6 hours cut means 4 more hours of unfinished special effects shots of people talking and walking in corridors.

We know Lucas was very concerned with the use of his money during the making of the prequels. He always said his goal was to make the most visualy amazing movie with the less possible money. There is no way there is a 6 hours cut of TPM around with plenty of finished special effects scenes. Well, I doubt it anyway.

I'm waiting for Papatine's origine story, where we'll learn how a funny and smart little boy he was, before a Jedi accidentally killed his father during a fight against a Sith Lord.

Poor little Palpy will then learn the way of the Force to destroy the Jedi. "All of them!!!". So it will rhyme when he says that in TPM. It'll be like poetry.

He will learn his powers from Darth Plagueis who, at one point, will see that Palpy is getting stronger than him. So he'll ask the help of the Jedi. A union between a Sith Lord and the Jedi against young Palpy. But Palpy found out about this betrayal and killed his master during his sleep. (poetry again!)

But then Palpy is killed at the end. But wait, no! It created a clone of himself before. So the Palpatine we see in the OT is actulay already a clone of the REAL Palpatine that we finaly see in this origine story. So that movie really brings some new perspective to the overall story....

Or not.

cain spaans said:

now back to SW:POO

Is english your first language?

He strangely looks like Terrence Stamp's Valorum in that picture.

A good documentary is also not just a compilation of rare videos. It should provide new little behind the scene stories no one knows, or at least a new point of view on well known stories. You can also make a good documentary without anything really new if you have some interesting, personal thoughts about the movies, their creation, the people who worked on it. Watching a documentary is a bit like reading a book: the audience needs the feel to have learned something or to understand a point of view in the end.

Ryan McAvoy said:

No never heard of them. Love the deadpan humour and his voice sounds like Steven Wright.

http://redlettermedia.com/plinkett/star-wars/star-wars-episode-1-the-phantom-menace/

http://redlettermedia.com/plinkett/star-wars/star-wars-episode-ii-attack-of-the-clones/

http://redlettermedia.com/plinkett/star-wars/star-wars-episode-iii-revenge-of-the-sith/

Also watch their "Half in the bags" and "best of the worst" videos.

One of the most funny videos of them (IMO) is the Resident Evil movies review:

http://redlettermedia.com/half-in-the-bag-the-resident-evil-series/

Usualy I'm against grain removal. But in certain case, when not overused, it could be okay. Like for the Aliens bluray. Cameron said that he used cheap film stock to make the budget smaller (or because it was all he had) (IIRC) so when the time for the bluray has come he tried to diminish the grain with great care. He still let some of it because it was how the movie looked but it was not the way he would have shot the movie back then. So, all in all, it all depends on who does the job and with what intention in mind and with what result... You could also say that if you don't want to do wrong: don't use grain removal. ;)

TV's Frink said:

TMBTM said:

Call me old school, but giving birth should never be "a job".

Tell that to people who can't have children any other way.

When making babies becomes a business, you bet I'll continue to tell that. I'm not someone who think money should buy everything. Sometime you can't have something. That's does not mean you should have the right to get it by any possible method. When rich people will have the right to buy the womb of a woman from a poor country who needs that money to survive, someone will also come to say "listen the poor women needs money, the rich have some! Everyone's happy? So what?" I'm sorry, giving birth is not job, that's would be the ultimate oppression of money above poverty. If someone can't see the uglyness of that way of thinking, I'll be there to tell him.

Call me old school, but giving birth should never be "a job".

Congratulations anyway, I guess.

SilverWook said:

Lucas got the name of Coruscant from the EU,

I may be wrong but wasn't the name Coruscant in the 1977 original novelisation of Star Wars? One could say that it is some kind of "EU" but not really, IMO.

When asked at the convention about a role in Episode 7, Ian said that it is unlikely, however he agreed to say that a spin off about the Emperor would be interesting.

So that casting rumor could be about one of the spin off movies that Kasdan and co. are working on. (by the Kasdan is not working on Episode 7, right? Is he?) (EDIT: IMDB: Kasdan: creative consultant. nevermind)

SilverWook said:

Stay on topic...

Also, the latest rumor to pull hair out over?

http://www.jedinews.co.uk/news/news.aspx?newsID=12985

So, as a Force ghost? That would be sweet for me to do a "War of the Stars III", lol, but other than that I don't know if I'm pleased with this rumor. It sounds cheap to bring back the Emperor. On the other hand, Ian was one of the only actors who seemed to fully enjoy playing in the prequels and some scenes with him are part of the few redeeming points of the PT.

Could just be a cameo in an old hologram anyway. Not sure that the casting of Ian would ever be known if the return of the Emperor is a key point of the plot. They would keep it as secret as possible.

On the subject of Doug Chiang, here's an interview from last month's celebration where he talks VERY kindly of Lucas and working with him on the prequels:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCswvnWOzAg&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Jaitea said:

TMBTM said:

An evil Jedi is not a Sith. 

There could be many evil Jedi (Jedi turning bad), but two Sith at a time, according to Yoda (who is in fact George Lucas here...)

But an evil Jedi can become a Sith (or not. He can just stay an evil Jedi).

I know but right from the start in all the merchandising & promotion in 1977 Darth Vader was known as 'Dark Lord of the Sith'......I had a T-shirt with that on it in '77

Sith wasn't mentioned on film till episode 1 in '99, but between '77 and then, if you were into SW you knew a Jedi gone bad was a Sith,...and back then you could probably have a whole host of them

J

Yep, retrospectively that's very true. "Sith" is even in the novelisation of SW, IIRC. So Sith always were, and still are the opposite of the Jedi. But "the rule of two" comes in the way when it comes to think about the future of the Sith for the sequel trilogy. Since both last Sith died in ROTJ you can't have Sith anymore, only evil Jedi, or evil users of the Force. Unless some Sith were carbon frozen somewhere in the galaxy or cloned...

EDIT: but thinking about it, even the clone of a Sith would not be a Sith without the teaching of a Master... (in the prequels they established cloning as being creating babies, who then are growing fast. Not a direct adult clone of someone with full memory of his past.)

Unless those new evil users of the Force just call themselve "Sith" in hommage to the ancient Sith... Brain explodes.

An evil Jedi is not a Sith. 

There could be many evil Jedi (Jedi turning bad), but two Sith at a time, according to Yoda (who is in fact George Lucas here...)

But an evil Jedi can become a Sith (or not. He can just stay an evil Jedi).

Jonno said:

TMBTM said:

So, we can't complain about Alien 3 but we are allowed to complain about Alien 4? Nice. But I already made a fanedit of Alien 4, I'm in peace with this movie now.

Sorry, I should have been more clear. I haven't heard anyone say that Alien 3 is a bad film (yet)... It's the Hicks and Newt thing that I'd have thought people would have come to terms with by now. I can understand it coming as a shock in 1992, but with the proper perspective it can be seen as emblematic of the series as a whole: in this battle, everyone loses.

Oh well, if you're still not happy about I guess you could fanedit that too.

Maybe one day I could fanedit Alien 3, but Prometheus first, haha! ;)  Like I said: I liked Alien 3 (but I heard many people saying they don't like it), and yes, the Newt/Hicks thing still bother me. But also the fact that the story did not evolve into something else than another moody movie trying to recreate the suspens of the first after Cameron left the ground covered of Alien bodies. But it's a great looking movie. It has a point. It's rather bold. I usualy like bold decisions in movies. But this time I guess I wanted a little more fan service, lol.

Jonno said:

If you want something to complain about, just look at the genuine balls-up that is Alien Resurrection (which makes the critical error of insisting that the series is all about Ripley, against all logic and good taste).

So, we can't complain about Alien 3 but we are allowed to complain about Alien 4? Nice. But I already made a fanedit of Alien 4, I'm in peace with this movie now.

I think Bingo is right about the "soap Skywalker storyline" of Star Wars being a weakness of the saga, but that's also what makes the 6 movies a "saga". So it's both a weakness and a strenght, IMO. Had the movies been better it would only be a strenght I guess. (I always wished the Alien movies could have a more structured storyline between them, other than just Ripley/creature in a different place each time. Anyway move along))

Bingowings said:

Better killing them all off in one off screen moment to set the mood of the film really seeing as Ripley herself was going to die.

 

Still not convinced that there were not other alternatives. :) 

Let's see how that could be: Ripley wakes up in a medical chamber; She finds out that they crashed on a prison planet with Hicks and Newt. Few days before, Newt was sent in a place for lost Children on another planet, after verification of her identity . They don't understand why they are still kept in this prison but they discover that Weyland Yutani paid the prison's boss to keep them locked, the time for them to send a ship. Hicks is sick. Alien burst from him at key moment. Movie plays more or less as the original Alien 3 from that moment. Not sure that it sets the mood as well as the original Alien 3 (you're right about that) but at least it would have given descent ends to two beloved character from the previous movie.

Jonno said:

TMBTM said:

Beginning the ST with the Empire still controling the galaxy would be like killing Newt and Hicks in the opening scene of Alien 3, IMO.

As in, dramatically justified and probably resulting in a better film? Interesting point.

No, as in: making completely pointless half of the previous movie (I like Alien 3 for what it is, but I it was a mistake to begin the movie that way, IMO). That's why if it somehow "must be" an evil Empire controling the galaxy at the beginning of the ST (as someone proposed in the previous page of this thread)  I suggested it to be a kind of decadent New republic rather than the same old bad guys still in charge.

To say the truth, even if I liked some of the EU novels, having the Empire being the baddies (even just fighting against the New republic) would be just okay and not very interesting to me. The problem is that the bad guys being Sith Lords would be even more whatever (unless there is a very clever plot). That's why in another thread I suggested something completely different for the threat. What if the Force itself becomes "out of control"? What if, once the "balance" achieved (by the end of ROTJ), the Force is spreading across the galaxy and everyone with very few training can now have special powers? Should the New republic be pleased of this power now being offered to the people by "the Force" itself? Or should it be controled by the New Republic? Okay... that probably sounds "smart" on paper but would maybe become another political boredom if not handle well on screen. Harf, I don't know. Give me a new cool designed Sith after all, I guess!

Beginning the ST with the Empire still controling the galaxy would be like killing Newt and Hicks in the opening scene of Alien 3, IMO. Unless of course this Empire IS the New Republic now controled by evil people.

SilverWook said:

Would be neat to see Lando's ship Lady Luck on the big screen. It appeared in a level of Jedi Outcast and it's luxurious on the inside, befitting it's owner.

 

 

Wow, I think I never saw a picture of this ship, and yet, this looks almost exately like I imagined it.