Meh, you're far better off sticking to the graphic novel. The adaptation is pretty faithful but they completely muff a few iconic scenes/lines.
Warbler said:
But everyone seems to think it is bad.
I didn't, I thought it was great. Most Batfanatics regard it as one of the best Batman stories of all time. I don't know that I'd go that far but I thought it was a good story.
The showrunner for Daredevil recently came out of the woodwork:
Paste: With Spartacus—and also with Joss’s work—every time you have a battle scene or an action sequence, you have to balance it with emotional character development. From a writing perspective, how do you approach that?
DeKnight: The character stuff is the important part of it. The action part of it, I always feel like anybody can really write action. It’s not that hard you just need a blueprint to tell the stunt team where they’re going, and let them take it from there. The most important part of any action scene, was the question, What are the emotional stakes of the action scene? It’s got to propel the story, and illuminate the characters. That was especially true in Buffy and Angel with the action and the monster of week. It was a metaphor and something to shine a light on what our characters were going through.
Paste: I talked with George Mastras about Breaking Bad, and he said something that could also apply to working on Daredevil—Every time the character wins, he also has to lose a little bit. When you’re handling a superhero, how do you think about his arc?
DeKnight: With this version of Daredevil, we wanted it to be grounded, gritty, as realistic as we could portray. That naturally fits in with the Daredevil character. Matt Murdock, on a regular basis, would get the shit beat out of him. That’s one thing that makes him a great character. He’s not super strong. He’s not invulnerable. In every aspect, he’s a man that’s just pushed himself to the limits, he just has senses that are better than a normal humans. He is human. The other thing that really drew me to this character is that he’s one of the most morally grey of the heroes.
Paste: How so?
DeKnight: He’s a lawyer by day, and he’s taken this oath. But every night he breaks that oath, and goes out and does very violent things. The image that always stuck in my mind was the Frank Miller Elektra run where he’s holding Bullseye over the street, and he lets Bullseye go because he doesn’t want Bullseye to ever kill anyone again. When I read that originally, when I was young, I’d never seen anything like that in comics. Superman scoops up the villain and puts them in jail. This time the hero didn’t do that. It was a morally grey ground that I found absolutely fascinating. There are two sides to this character. He’s literally one bad day away from becoming the The Punisher! Frank Castle went just a little bit further than he did. Daredevil has no qualms about beating the hell out of somebody. He’s not going to tie them up with his webs! He’ll come close to killing somebody. And it’s that fine edge—Why doesn’t he go all the way? I really liked the flawed heroes, the human heroes.
Well I'm intrigued!
unamochilla2 said:
darklordoftech said:
unamochilla2 said:
If the Inquisitors existed during the OT, then where were they this whole time? Why weren't they working with the Empire?
Same place as Thrawn, Mara Jade, and Jerec. If equating not appearing to not existing isn't world shrinkage, I don't know what is.
Well, so far, those characters aren't canon according to Disney and they probably won't be. Inquisitor existing in Rebels and Episode VII would make their existence canon.
Just because they weren't depicted doesn't mean they weren't around.
Oh and apparently your publisher's been trying to contact you.
Carthage said:
During the part where Luke is blasting off in his ship to Bespin, Obi wan is talking to Yoda and says "He's our only hope", Yoda says "No there is another". What exactly did he mean by that? Was he referring to Luke's course of action and how it would change, or that there was another way to do things?
The lines were as follows:
YODA
(sighs) Told you, I did. Reckless is he. Now matters are worse.
BEN
That boy is our last hope.
YODA
(looks up) No. There is another.
The context of this conversation is just after Luke rushed off to help his friends against their advice to stay and finish his training.
Remember Yoda was against his training but Obi-wan insisted. In Obi-wan's eyes Luke was their only hope in defeating the Emperor and Vader. Not knowing Yoda's secret about there being another Skywalker. Which he presumably reveals to Obi-wan offscreen following this scene.
During the writing of ESB, George had originally planned for a nine episode saga that could be stretched out to twelve if the box office was good enough.
Episode VII was originally going to be about Luke going off into the galaxy to find his long lost sister. But, after the stress of the ESB production Lucas decided to just cap the series off after just three. Which is why they shoehorned in the whole Leia is his sister stuff at the last minute.
Jedi Search by Kevin J. Anderson
Ugh, trying to slog my way through this one. The characterizations are really hit and miss. Luke is pretty well developed and sounds authentic. Lando fares pretty well too. But man, Han and Leia are written so terribly in this.
Han acts like Han for the most part but doesn't sound like himself at all. Leia is apparently a terrible mother who banished her children away to some secret planet while she focused on her career. Later when Han disappears she shows no concern whatsoever and is even mad at him for doing so.
Meanwhile, Wedge Antilles the hero of the Rebellion that helped take down both Death Stars is relegated to a demolition crew?!? And then there's the constant references to events from the terrible Dark Empire comics. About the only decent thing that's come out of this is the character Kyp Durron.
I like the premise of the book but the execution leaves a lot wanting. If the book had just focused on Luke's journey to rebuilding the Jedi Order it would have been a lot better off.
zombie! Welcome back man. =)
I think you guys are really underestimating the production team. There's a good chance it'll be dumb but I think it would come in the form of new ideas. I don't think they'd rehash things that heavily.
Anyway, this next bit of news is sourced from that ever reliable bastion of movie news the Latino Review. ;)
Rumor: Episode VII Script 2nd Draft Description
That all sounds disturbingly plausible.
The only important Heather there is, was. ;P
Leonardo said:
Or how about when mexican people complained that Speedy Gonzales had been taken off the air, because white people were worried they might offend mexicans?
Speaking as a Mexican, I'm still upset about this. Speedy was awesome.
Huh.
So the fundraiser Ady linked ended on May 17th 2013, while the one that I had found was launched on May 31st 2013.
The fundraising campaign he started only managed to raise a little over 800 dollars of the 20,000 dollar goal.
I'm not sure about the fate of the film but he did manage to turn the road tour into a documentary. You can watch the trailer for it here.
No idea about the release date for that but I would sure like to see both someday.
It was announced awhile ago that these are original shorts.
I don't even...
From the comments section of this article:
"I highly recommend YOU do some research at SaveStarWars.com and OriginalTrilogy.com before making unfounded claims"
The problem with doing "research" there is that they are just a bit biased on the whole situation. They would have you believe the SE's are vile and substandard and a desecration.
One of the major reasons why the SE's exist is because the film stock FAILED. If the film stock had been stronger then all the restoration they had to do to save it wouldn't have been necessary. In part because it was such a disaster is the reason why the SE's came about. Even then Lucas was only interested in a few fixes at first but spurred by Dennis Muren and FOX's willingness to foot the bill (to get the prequel distribution)many more changes were added.
Of course their is so much misinformation about the SE's and the myth that it was "All CG" which of course is nonsense. It was CG plus models, miniatures, mattes, live action shooting etc. Much of the SE's was restoration going back to the original film elements and recompositing them to match and surpass the originals like the Hoth sequences where the matte lines and see through the frames of the speeders.
I would love for the "original" originals to come out with all their flaws and dated look so that people could see what they really were like. They were great for their time but they are dated and the visual language of film has moved on. I expect that if the theatrical versions ever do come out I expect that they will be akin to official versions of the DE's to make them as people remember them not as they actually were.
Harmy said:
Here's a more polished version of the Introducing the DeEd doc:
http://uloz.to/xDwpUt87/01-introducing-the-deed-wp2-1-mp4I cropped it and resized to 720p to make the file size smaller, as it is still just a demo and the sound is still very much temporary and there may still be some tweaks to the video (I'm still open to suggestions here, guys).
Shaping up great.
The example of the drowned out sound effects isn't very effective. I think it'd be fine to cut that segment out as the Krayt Call example does a good job of demonstrating that the soundtrack has been tampered with.
During the interview segment, I'd recommend either leaving out the scrolling sample of your thesis or waiting until you say thesis on screen before just showing the cover page of it. As it is now the thesis fades in and distracts the viewer as they try to figure out what that is before you first mention the paper.
Lastly, I think that last logo before the end could use sound to give it some punch.
Other than that, I think it's very informative for the layman and I look forward to seeing the rest. =)
Does the forum text suddenly seem smaller to anyone else?
This board sure has a short term memory. =P
A GLIMPSE INTO YOUR NIGHTMARES...
CatBus said:
Which really indicates the need for a term for people who call themselves Star Wars fans, but who aren't in fact fans of the Star Wars trilogy, since the term "Star Wars fan" is already taken by those who are. Too many Star Warses.
What about...Annies?
You could call fans of the trilogy Old Bens. =P
So I've been rummaging through some of my old junk today and stumbled upon the dust cover for the novelization of The Phantom Menace. I thought I'd share the blurb I found on one of the folds:
In barren desert lands and seedy spaceports...in vast underwater cities and in the blackest depths of space...unfolds a tale of good and evil, of myth and magic, of innocence and power. At last the saga that captured the imagination of millions turns back in time to reveal its cloaked origins—the start of a legend—the story of Star Wars.
Based on the screenplay by George Lucas, this novel by master storyteller Terry Brooks probes the depths of one of the greatest tales of our time, providing rich detail and insight into the minds and motives of the characters—and shedding bold new light on Lucas's brilliant creation.
Johnny Ringo said:
Just got back into it. It's good fun but the pacing is very slow and a lot of the story progression requires characters to be complete morons some of the time.
Funny, that's been my experience with THE STRAIN so far. Also based on a book.
Edit: Just saw this week's episode. While the idiotic tendencies of characters was toned down it was still there somewhat.
On the plus side, the pacing seemed improved and it looks like things are about to get a whole lot more interesting.