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.
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.
Why do foreign countries always get the best covers?
Check out the new cover for the Brazilian Heir to the Empire Legends reprint:
walking_carpet said:
DOS flirted with mediocrity...and was saved by...Barrel Sequence
DuracellEnergizer said:
The Jewel of the Nile (1985)
It certainly is funny what tricks the mind can play on you. When I watched this movie back as a kid, I distinctly remember there being a literal jewel in it -- a large, fist-sized ruby. Yet watching it again last night, there wasn't a literal fist-sized jewel -- ruby or otherwise -- in it at all. The closest the film ever gets to one is the jewel-encrusted dagger the Sufis give to DeVito's character at the end.
You're probably confusing it with the first film in the series, Romancing the Stone, which did have a large jewel:
canofhumdingers said:
This thread is interesting in that the Godzilla message board I frequent just went through this SAME experience of the Godzilla (2014) 2d vs 3d bluray differences with people being very upset that the 2d version was noticeably darker.
But what a lot of people don't seem to realize is that 3d copies are almost ALWAYS a bit brighter in order to compensate for the fact that 3d glasses have a slight tint to them. You can't compare a raw 3d screenshot to a 2d screenshot. To make the comparison fair, you'd need to send the 3d shot through a filter equivalent to viewing it through the 3d glasses. And I'd be willing to bet that if you do that, they will look awfully similar.
Yes, yes, to canofhumdingers you listen!
I just finished a full viewing of the 2D blu-ray. The tint isn't really noticeable at all.
I think the more naturalistic color timing in the 3D version has something to do with making for a more comfortable stereoscopic experience.
The fact that there are differences like that lens flare is a pretty clear sign that we're dealing with two distinct cuts of the film.
As such, I would imagine the 2D color timing is exactly how Gunn wanted the final film and isn't a mistake.
Actually, I readily see the green tint stretch is referring to in 005's comparison above. Is the 2D screengab from the 2D version in the 3D release?
So does that mean the tint is in all of the 2D blu-ray transfers?