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Phew, now that the boards are back up I can finally spill all of this out.

Man! So first of all, James Gunn was on a movie podcast I listened to frequently. It was a fantastic interview where Gunn revealed a lot of great stuff about alternate versions and cut scenes.

Turns out James Gunn and myself run on pretty much the same wave length. All of his ideas for what he wanted to do with a space opera were the same as mine. I also had no idea they hired Chris Foss to design their ships! I thought they looked heavily influenced by his work but they actually got the man himself!

So anyway, that podcast got me all fired up to watch all of the making of stuff on the blu-ray. WHAT A TEASE THAT STUFF IS. Gunn talks about some awesome cut stuff in that podcast but none of it is included in the deleted scenes or seen anywhere in the bonus features. There's so much material they held back and I WANT IT NOW!

Not my beautiful thread!

Humbug, Life Day is analogous to Thanksgiving!

They actually celebrate Christmas in the Star Wars universe.

So this awesome BTS footage from STAR WARS was posted to Youtube recently. The video description credits this forum. What thread was this in?

Edit: Wait have I talked about this footage before? It's late and my brain isn't getting the best reception at the moment.

We have an entire thread for that.

I think Tolkein wrote a book called Here and There Again...or something. Don't quote me on that.

I liked Battle of Five Armies. It's exactly what I expected it to be.

That said, I can't wait to watch the inevitable fan-edit that condenses all three films into 1 epic; removing as many Jacksoninsms as possible to try and stay faithful to the book.

HotRod said:

Hal 9000 said:

HotRod said:

Ady, Makingstarwars.net just ripped into you on their latest podcast. 

 Can you say more? I don't want to have to wade through the episode.

 Go to the 2:08 mark. It starts there

 Sounds like they're bagging on Harmy, making fun of someone for watching Despecialized as their first Star Wars experience. And then they start ripping into Revisited.

These guys are a-holes.

DuracellEnergizer said:

I can't wait to see this under a black hood.

Mekka Lekka Hi-Mekka Hiney Ho:

I noticed some really odd flickering on the ground and on the front landing gear. Is that an artifact from some automated clean-up process?

I assume in the restoration process you'll be able to recover the starfields?

I think he might be Mayhew's stand-in. So that would be him in suit and out.

Or as I said before, LUMPY! =P *crosses fingers*

By introducing Lumpy, the new gang could get their own youthful Wookiee companion.

Maybe it's Lumpy all grown up! =D

Ryan McAvoy said:

So is the TFA teaser only playing at iMAX showings of The Hobbit?

 I would guess so since all of the trailers were for IMAX releases.

So I went and saw the new Hobbit at my local full size IMAX.

Just from the first few notes I immediately knew the TFA teaser was starting. It looked GLORIOUS up on that six story tall screen. And it was in 3D! Which looked surprisingly naturalistic.

I have it on good authority that Frink wants to see more slave Leia.

John Carpenter's THE THING (1982)

Still brilliant to this day. Maintains a feeling of suspense throughout the entire running time. Practical effects work was fantastic.

THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD (1951)

A classic. The overlapping dialog technique utilized here was revolutionary and helped to usher in more naturalistic conversations in film. Love this film.

THE THING (2011)

A completely bland prequel. The only aspect of it that could have been redeeming, the practical effects, were completely covered up by horribly subpar slapdash CG. A complete waste of story potential.

I will say I appreciated some of the throwback elements from the 1951 film. Though its complete lack of suspense, interesting characters and original Thing variations outweigh the few positive aspects of the film. Perhaps if the studio hadn't been out to sabotage the project from the start we might have ended up with something decent.

Number of variants for issue #1 has spiked to FIFTY TWO!

Gorgeous.

Bleh. This article...

Someone buy Star Trek from Paramount please...

The Newsroom (2012-2014)

Brilliant show. I loved the whole basing episodes around real events angle. The dynamics between the different characters was terrific, the show was filled with great writing. I'm so sad to see it end and I don't know why Sorkin decided to call it quits so soon.

SilverWook said:

They're going to SE the original comics now? This is as bad as colorizing old movies.

 They kind of hinted at this back in November when they revealed the cover for one of their omnibus volumes that used the original line art from a cover but recolored it:

And I thought the Dark Horse reprints in the 90's had bad coloring.

To be fair, Dark Horse made up for that in the early 2000's when they came out with the A Long Time Ago... anthology reprints. They went to great lengths to try and recreate the comics original coloring. It wasn't absolutely perfect but it was very faithful.

I don't think I'll care for Marvel's new modernized recolorings but at least Dark Horse's compilations are still available for purchase.

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Bleh.

The company that was contracted to do the menus for the 2004 release talked about this at the time. Lowry was still working on the films when they had to have the menus done so they based all of the their work on a different transfer provided to them by Lucasfilm. I'm blanking on the name of the company at the moment.