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Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Just got back from the theater. It was fantastic. I can't speak for the audio because I'm currently battling an ear infection so my hearing is rather muffled at the moment. I quite enjoyed the picture though. It was definitely the original cliff shot. There were a couple odd things though. First I saw some kind of weird artifacting or....something that would appear around some of the opening titles. It wasn't aliasing, more like specks that would sputter around them randomly. It was very brief and something that most probably didn't notice. They did remove Indy's reflection but oddly left the reflection of the Cobra in the glass when Marion fell. Lastly, the weirdest thing happened pretty early in the film. Suddenly Alfred Molina's face started to.....bulge. It was so odd and then when they cut to the full body shot of him covered in spiders he started to bulge all over. It was quite bizarre.

*waves hand in front of BingoWings*

These are the panels you were looking for.

ANH Vader is the best Vader. Altering him would be a CRIME. Anyway, if this discussion continues I think we should move it over to the ANH:R thread.

It never ends!

DARTH VADER MEETS THE WOLFMAN

Baronlando said:

Sure, but I was thinking less of history awareness and more of the douchey sentiment from cardboard-saber guy (whether he's literal about the cardboard or not) that an old movie ought to just simply be upgraded, and how that's considered an actual legitimate thing to do now, an idea cultivated almost entirely by Star Wars '97. 

Except that's not what he said. He mentions cardboard lightsabers (just the prop with no rotoscoped blades) and no effects in general. That would suggest he thought Wolfman wanted to see the movie without special effects. In other words he has no idea there are different versions of the films. Let alone that the originals have been suppressed.

Baronlando said:

Wolfman said:

The original versions of the original trilogy before George altered them, says I.

"Wha ? You mean you want to see them with cardboard lightsabers and no effects"?

Ha, the cartoonishly hacky sales douche. This is a good thing, at this point only the types of guys with the really shitty personalities that nobody likes are out there actively in favor of this revisionist bullshit.

Well that's rather harsh. It just seems to me that he, like many, aren't aware of what's happened to Star Wars. Which is a sad state of affairs that should compel us to enlighten the uninformed, not berate them.

darth_ender said:

It has great humor, fun action, and interesting niche in the sci-fi and Western genres...and far too much sexuality.  Yes, you all probably think I'm a prude, but it gets tiresome.  The most interesting stuff has been the cleanest so far. 

That's the same problem I had with the show.

From what I remember they played them pretty late. I wasn't able to stay because the shuttles to and from the hotels stopped after a certain time. I just couldn't believe they treated the things that brought us all there with such little fanfare.

Having attended the last two Celebrations I can attest to the fact that the majority of people who attend don't care at all about the preservation of the OT. Questioning random people I encountered while there I found most were completely ignorant on the subject. While also running into a few "they're HIS movies!" types.

The most bizarre aspect about the whole thing to me was that when they'd screen the films at night almost no one would bother showing up. It would get at most a quarter full and then there'd just be a stream of random people entering and leaving throughout the presentation.

Yeah, I believe I recall either Seth or George once saying the show was supposed to be like a kind of Star Wars Looney Tunes. But it seems as if instead of classic Looney Tunes they went with the Looney Tunes Show.

SilverWook said:

Is this what SW has devolved into, self parody? It's one thing when Robot Chicken does it, but this show is from Lucasfilm, right?

George enjoyed the Robot Chicken specials so much he gave Seth Green permission to develop his own series. This is the result.

Here's the actual trailer for the show by the way.

So it looks like I was right. Unfortunately, it doesn't look very good either. =/

#1 - Steel/Emperor/Vader

#2 - Han/Chewie

#3 - Princess Leia/Decoys/Dexter

It's cool that they got Billy Dee though.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Some people are already discussing it. A number of fans on TFN are afraid this series will disregard previous canon and go off on its own course.

 

I know I'm concerned. They better not dare step on Archie's toes!

Even the '30s work of Willis O'Brien still looks fantastic. Could the color film stock that Harryhausen had to work with later on be the culprit?

So, besides the week long Raiders they're also doing a one day marathon of all four films. Here's the list of participating theaters.

Davnes007 said:

AND then, just to piss off everyone, they didn't show the one thing... or should I say the three things... everyone wanted to see in their full naked goodness.

At least I didn't have to pay $12 to watch it. Yay to teh interwebz!

O_o Uh...all three were there at the midnight premiere.

Check it out!

King Kong (1933)

Gojira (1954)

The Towering Inferno (1974)

georgec said:

Looks like a railed, linear shooter.

Ô_o

Here’s the BBFC’s listing of the deleted scenes included on the upcoming home entertainment release, complete with runtimes.

00:02:31:16 (ARRIVAL OF THE ENGINEERS) (DELETED SCENE)

00:00:58:05 (T’IS THE SEASON) (DELETED SCENE)

00:00:42:08 (OUR FIRST ALIEN) (DELETED SCENE)

00:00:42:14 (SKIN) (DELETED SCENE)

00:01:22:01 (WE’RE NOT ALONE ANYMORE) (DELETED SCENE)

00:02:57:01 (STRANGE BEDFELLOWS) (DELETED SCENE)

00:01:25:04 (HOLLOWAY HUNGOVER) (DELETED SCENE)

00:00:23:12 (DAVID’S OBJECTIVE) (DELETED SCENE)

00:03:27:07 (JANEK FILLS VICKERS IN) (DELETED SCENE)

00:03:40:12 (A KING HAS HIS REIGN) (DELETED SCENE)

00:02:01:24 (FITFIELD ATTACKS) (DELETED SCENE)

00:04:06:06 (THE ENGINEER SPEAKS) (DELETED SCENE)

00:05:30:04 (FINAL BATTLE) (DELETED SCENE)

00:05:05:19 (PARADISE) (DELETED SCENE)

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DominicCobb said:

Anchorhead said:

Joseph Gordon-Levitt was outstanding.  I loved the nod that he was Robin the whole time, without actually being the traditional Robin. He was Bruce's partner, without a costume.  Fucking genius.

YES! Someone gets it!

Ooooo.

That caution is justified. We had a series of flashlights turned into improvised explosives that were left all around the city. They were mostly left around donation centers and when someone would pick them up they'd go off. No deaths as far as I know but a number of people were seriously injured.

That was both interesting and informative though I could have done without the expletive heavy Plinkett with a dash of Peter Griffin impersonation. =P