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We're working on the bartender character. We think he's an automated droid-bartender that can't talk, and communicates in whirrs, gear-shift sounds, bubbles, and clicks.

Might be funny to sit and confide in a bartender that can't talk. Also, since it's an audio drama, it seems a good creative choice to have a character defined by sound. Variety and what not.

Current name: B-005.

PM SENT.

Havne't seen it yet (firewall at work) but can I assume it's awesome and badass with lots of stabbings and harsh lighting?

Saw an interview with a Disney animtor from "Snow White" the other day. He did this whole cute sequence over the course of 8 months about the dwarfs eating soup. In the end Walt cut it because "they needed to get back to the witch."

Dramatic pacing is also very important. Tension needs to be maintained

I've been watching a lot of film noir lately and one of their key appeals to me is the bare-bones running time. Many are around an hour.  I feel a lot of films i see these days are just bloated.

I think "I Love You, Man" was an absolutely hilarious 80 minute movie. Pity it was two hours long. "POTC3" was downright corpulent in its length.

Obviously it depends on the type of movie. I can't imagine David Lynch should ever cut a scence because it doesn't move the plot forward enough, but a scene in "Fast and the Furiouser 6" that dwells on Vin Diesel's childhood lonliness may not be needed.

A fun example is the EE of the LOTR movies. Plainly that extra time wasn't needed to tell the story in a strictly narrative sense. We can debate how much adding it back in enriched the films (I rather like it) but ultimately it comes down to how invested the audience is into the story.

xhonzi said:

Rocky III: As sequals go, this one was decent, nowhere near as bad as Rocky V.

RU.08 is TheBoost's sock CONFIRMED!

 I would never name my sock after the morning after pill.

captainsolo said:

 

And Super 8 is merely a bad quasi horror film by JJ Abrams that rehashes way too much of Close Encounters. Ooooh how completely not interesting.

 While I agree 90 minutes of watching the old school X-Men console would make a smashing movie, I cant help but be taken aback by how much we're all tripping over ourselves to explain why we already hate a movie we don't know that much about.

theprequelsrule said:

It just seems weird that there are people on this forum who are defending CGI as "just another tool" when it seems to me that this "tool" is largely responsible for our current dilemma; no proper release of the OOT.

With all the CGI in the world, I have a great release of "Casablanca" sitting on my shelf.

There's only one 'tool' I blame for not having a OOT.

xhonzi said:

How do the storebought White Castle burgers compare to the drive-thru's?  I've never had either...

White Castle's are real?! I thought they were made up for that movie.

theprequelsrule said:

The medium is the message. If you don't think that CGI have a negative effect on how filmmakers approach the creation of a film you have your head up your ass. Does anyone here think that the great epic blockbusters of the pre-CGI era are not superior in nearly every way to the modern garbage we are fed? Yes, I am including overrated mediocrities like LOTR and Avatar as "modern garbage"

A tool is never just a tool. If you don't recognize that you end up like Mr. Lucas.

I don't think CGI has a 'negative effect' in the slightest. Crap is crap. It's always been made. I don't think there's much more of it now than there ever has been. I think we've been "fed" as much garbage since the advent of cinema.

Perhaps from the vantage of your glorious high-horse you can better define what you mean by "great epics" and "modern garbage." Or is this just another fine example of '...kids today... crap... off my lawn... grrrr.... Jar Jar... grrrrr....' 

The 1963 classic Jason and the Argonauts is a series of special effects sequences strung together with the slimmest of plots and no ending. Are you counting it as a classic epic? Many do. Perhaps if they hadn't been so obsessed with stop-motion they would have given the story an ending. Or are you comparing Lawrence of Arabia to Attack of the Clones? 

TV's Frink said:

TheBoost said:

greenpenguino said:

Revenge of the sith????

 

NO SERENITY???

 

 What are you talking about?

You edited your post, making me look like I was taking a jab at Serenity.

 

BOO-URNS!!!!

 Pics or it didn't happen.

Other than being a mediocre filmmaker gliding on the talent of his stars and franchises, I had no opinion of the man until today. Now he's clearly a huge tool.

...comparing his crap-fest "X-Men 3" to the slightly less successful (although still #1) and less reviled "X-Men First Class."

What a douchebag!

http://www.themarysue.com/ratner-vs-vaughn-xmen/

CO said:

T2 and The Abyss are perfect movies where CGI makes them better, but does not overtake the movie.

The Prequels are loaded with CG and just looks like an animated movie (Episode I isn't that bad as that actually has real environments)  Episode II & III are just animated movies with real life characters and wont age well 20 years from now.

Who ever complained Mary Poppins had matte-work overtaking the movie? Does the fact the penguins are plainly 2D animated pen-and-ink figures date that movie terribly? Do the obviously stop-motion skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts overtake the movie?  Or is this simply anti-CG bias.

Acting as if the opening minutes of Ep. III aren't simply spectacular use of CGI, and that the Mustafar duel isn't a breathtaking accomplishment is just denying the overwhelming quality of the work.

If we're under the impression that the special effects in the OT have aged with amazing grace, take a look at the nits being picked in the fan-edit forum. And that's some of the best work with models, matte-paintings, puppets, and stop motion ever done. Take a gander at the middle of the pack special effects from 20-30 years ago.

"I care."

xhonzi said:

skyjedi2005 said:

Kind of sad though that the abridged recordings [of the Thrawn Trilogy] from audio-cassette are not being reissued on CD.

 But the abridgments are terrible.

 QFT.

none said:

Garth Marenghi's Darkplace

Watched several shows with members of this cast (Ayoade, Berry), yet even though it's aired on places i've watched, just missed it.

 Have you caught BC/AD, the rock opera with most of those IT/Boosh guys. It's FREAKING GENIUS!

I was born and raised in the deserts of Southern California... kind of like Tatooine meets Arrakis without the cool monsters. Never mowed a lawn in my 30 years of life.

Go Spielberg!

Really, it's good that someone important is saying things like this. The fact he's Lucas's peer only makes it more poignant.

My sister in law has never seen the prequals.

So to her a WHOLE lot of the ride (she went three times with a preview pass) was totally new and original. And without context she thought it all ruled.

How I hate her.

Almost 20 years after first playing the text-based thriller game "THE PRESIDENT IS MISSING" I looked up the solution online.

Turns out there isn't one. Not only that, but the game is supposed to come with an audio tape of clues that was not included in the discount rack version I bought. Also an instruction manual that says once you think you've figured it out, please write it all down and mail it to the company that no longer exists.

What a load of crap. I cant imagine how many hours I played that hopeless dead end of a game. Grrrrrrrrrr.

Although I consider the sequal "Presumed Guilty" to be one of the best computer game experiences I ever had. Go figure.

I find his TV persona to be nigh unwatchable, but I got a huge kick out of Daniel Tosh's standup.

I also dig Mike Birbiglia of "my public secret journal.'

doubleofive said:

 

Does it mention the events of the Daley Trilogy?!

 

IIRC (its been a few years) there's a bit where they say, "Han went off to the Corporate Sector for a while, but he's back now."

I've ignored Vbangle for so long I had forgotten he even posts. Glad to see I'm still not missing anything worthwhile.

For what it's worth, it seems to me one has to be a MAJOR dick to get banned around here. MAJOR.

Still plugging away on part 2 script.

I'll PM 005 seeing if he minds his name for a droid. Perhaps the bartender character, who's not very interesting right now could be more fun if he was a  droid.

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

We found our main theme music. This will be the main title theme, and we hope to use some less iconic tracks from the movies and Shadows of the Empire soundtrack to round out the music.

EDIT: Besides Casablanca, which was very much on our minds when we wrote it, this script is developing more than a little hint of Canadian sitcom "Corner Gas" which is very funny and I highly reccomend it.

TV's Frink said:

#1 and #4 go hand in hand in my experience.  I juggle a full-time job and two kids,

Yeah but sitting on the porch yelling at the ice-cream man is the sort of job you can take time off... and I imagine both your kids are in their 40s, so they aren't too much hastle.

;-)