Tobar

Hal 9000 said:

Tobar said:

They were shot in 1080p.

 Holy carp! I had heard about them existing in a 1080p master, but that's crazy!

Did they just suppose the resolution of their monitors was the maximum the films would need to be for posterity? Who does that?

 There was an article years ago with George saying that 1080p is good enough. That it about matches quality wise what you'd see from a projected 35mm image. I wish I could find that article.

They were shot in 1080p.

Motion Control is still utilized every now and again. I saw a special feature a while ago for the last Night at the Museum movie where they built a large miniature of the main hall and had a motion controlled camera move through it to create some zany flying sequence.

Update: It was also used for Tron Legacy.

I wish they had just taken the next step and actually refilmed models for all of the replacement space shots.

Asaki said:

I feel like I need to go buy like twenty Tobors.

 WHO HATH SUMMONED ME?

I'm still bothered about how the Holiday Special is always classified as a Christmas special. It aired squarely in the Thanksgiving zone.

Larry Kasdan's writing so it will at the very least have good dialog.

Just finished NuGalactica.

It got pretty wobbly after season 3 but I think they righted themselves by the end. Still have to watch Caprica and Blood & Chrome. I also just found out there are additional webisodes out there that no one talks about.

RicOlie_2 said:

There are Doctor Who novels?!

Don't forget his other adventures!

darklordoftech said:

One thing the EU does wrong is that everybody who disagrees with the prequel trilogy Jedi in any little way becomes a Sith.

Kyle Katarn

Jolee Bindo

Mrebo said:

I would however point out that Anakin was from Tatooine. That Yoda wears hermit clothes while living as a hermit doesn't inform very much. And what of Luke wearing all black in ROTJ while asserting his Jedi-hood? If it were so established, wouldn't they have stuck him in "Jedi robes"?

LUKE

But I need your help. I've come back to complete the training.

YODA

No more training do you require. Already know you that which you need.

Yoda sighs, and lies back on his bed.

LUKE

Then I am a Jedi?

YODA (shakes his head)

Ohhh. Not yet. One thing remains: Vader. You must confront Vader. Then, only then, a Jedi will you be. And confront him you will.

He's not a Jedi until the end of the film.

Similar but not identical. No one else in Star Wars wore an identical outfit to Old Ben.

I'm of two minds on the whole Tatooine robes thing.

Old Ben's outfit is very similar to Owen Lars:

So does that mean Yoda is wearing a Tatooine robe?

It would seem they'd made up their mind about the robes by Return of the Jedi:

Well, well....

Seven lost episodes of Doctor Who 1964 series Marco Polo filmed by fan to be unveiled next month

*Actually enjoys the Holiday Special and only ever watches it in full*

I'm done with Force users in general. We need more non-Jedi content. It's a big galaxy out there.

Han tells Luke that he's sticking him in the Tauntaun to keep him warm until he can build the shelter. I figure the mound of snow we see in front of the beacon is the tent that was snowed over during the night. There's a whole scene that takes place inside the shelter in the radio play.

THOR: The Dark World (2013)

Didn't go into this one expecting much. The first THOR was decent at best. Man. This movie is one heck of a ride. Filled with lots of great action and humor. A very fun film. Also, strangely very Starwarsy.

They really needed to work the queen's speech into the ending somehow. As it was, you could tell everyone in my theater was confused at the end. They were left wondering why Ender suddenly became an idiot and was trying to save this species that almost wiped humanity out of existence.

UPDATE:

If you're a fan of the books you're going to want to watch this.

So there's a third version of the ebooks?

J.J. Abrams Responds to 4 Rules to Make STAR WARS Great Again Video

"I would say that [the video conveys] a feeling that we share very much. I loved how Star Wars had that sense of a world far beyond the borders of what you can see and have been told. It's one of the things it did so brilliantly. If you watch the first movie, you don't actually know exactly what the Empire is trying to do. They're going to rule by fear - but you don't know what their end game is. The beauty of that movie was that it was an unfamiliar world, and yet you wanted to see it expand and to see where it went."

I enjoyed it as well. Though I think they really botched the ending.

Harmy said:

Have you seen Toy Story 3? Or Little Miss Sunshine? Anrdt seems to be a great character writer, which may be just what the new SW needs.

My thoughts exactly.