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I just posted this in the NOOO thread but since they spend a good amount of time discussing the topic of this thread I thought I'd share it in here as well:

Plinkett has a sit down with the director of the People vs. George Lucas

Plinkett has a sit down with the director of the People vs. George Lucas

fishmanlee said:

http://www.youtube.com/user/BetterThanHollywood9#p/a/u/0/ryqbQE2JF8I

Luke training with a lightsaber, no sound though ;(

Fixed that for you.

ThiefCobbler4ever said:

I do like the Expanded Universe. The different kind of stories, characters, droids, locations, ships (the designs of those are pretty cool), really make the EU worth wild. :)

Thank you for using the correct term. I twitch every time I read this thread's title. =P

I'm not a fan of DH's reprints. It's great that Williamson was so involved with it and contributed new art to assist with reformatting to fit the comic book format but his art just looks best without color.

Their later work on reprinting Russ Manning's stuff was terrible. They never used any of the Sunday strips. I'm not even sure they had access to them given how wildly different their colors were compared to the Sunday originals. That plus the fact that they never reprinted any of the Sunday exclusive stories. Save for a very hard to find exclusive of the Constancia Affair for KB Toys. No, for me the best way to read the strips is in their original format.

O_o I'd probably agree with you about the comics in the '90s but today's Dark Horse comics are pretty fantastic. They're not written for kids except for maybe the Adventures line. But comics like Legacy and Dark Times are definitely for adults. The books however.... They just aren't good any more for the most part. I think they were pretty decent back in the Bantam days but I think Del Rey is really dropping the ball. They've turned Star Wars into a scifi-fantasy soap opera.

SilverWook said:

The Brian Daley Han Solo trilogy, the Lando trilogy, Splinter of the Mind's Eye, and the old Marvel comics are all the EU I require. ;)

Aww, no love for the strips? Most of them were written by Archie Goodwin the man responsible for almost half of the old Marvel comics.

Conan reveals an alternate audio track.

Hmm. I've never read any of Drew's Star Wars work. Probably won't be getting to anything he's done in a long time as I've decided to start reading the Star Wars novels by publication order. I have read two of his Mass Effect novels and I liked those.

I've been trying to get my local independent theater to play it. The owner was all for it and has been working on booking it. Hopefully that'll come together but if not I'll just wait until the DVD release. I've just been really looking forward to seeing it.

Woah that last one. Was Grevious originally supposed to be Maul brought back from the brink?

Penny Serenade (1941)

The other night I got it in my head it was time to watch another old classic film. For some reason the title Penny Serenade kept ringing in my head, I would see it on occasion while scrolling through instant netflix. So I started it up expecting it to be a standard old school romantic comedy and was not expecting what I saw at all.

It's a story told through flash backs triggered by the female lead listening to her various records for one last time. The flashbacks get longer and longer until you forget that that's what they are at all. All the while you're following the lives of the two leads as they meet and fall in love and then later on their struggle to have a child and how it's affecting their relationship. Turned out to be a pretty good film that definitely knows how to tug at your heart strings.

Just another fan's blog from the looks of it. I don't think the blogger is anyone well known but I thought he wrote a pretty informative if misguided article.

Looks like Bill Hunt is being attacked. Originaltrilogy.com is also mentioned toward the beginning. I'm still trying to figure this out:

How you can be an advocate for quality cinema while at the same time telling an artist that he MUST release earlier versions of his films he no longer supports is a contradiction.

Eww, do your ears a favor and stay male shep. I hate fem shep's voice, she just sounds angry all the time. It's very off putting. As for the Arrival, the gameplay and setting isn't anything extraordinary but it directly sets up the story for when you start ME3. I'd say after beating 2, you'd definitely be thrown for a loop at the start of 3 if you didn't know what happened in Arrival. Though I'm sure they'll set it up fine for those that didn't play it.

Well they said a while back they'll be packing the DVDs with tons of things they had to cut.

If you still have your saves from 1 then yes! Mass Effect 2 is fantastic! Also, getting to continue your own story from 1 into 2 is awesome. I don't think I've ever been as invested in a video game character than I am with my Shepard. 2 takes the series into a lot of great places and really turns things up in terms of action and scale. The DLC is definitely worth it as well, at the very least Shadow Broker is a MUST.

RedFive said:

I think he's saying that when he sees Harmy's avatar out of the corner of his eye he mistakes it for Jim Carrey as the Cable Guy

*gives RedFive a gold star*

I couldn't believe only bkev noticed the new avatar when I posted the first pic. =P With this second pic, I shouldn't have set the wait time so long. Still, it led to some pretty funny unintentional results. =P

TV's Frink said:

I see what you did there...

Apparently not. =P

...see this out of the corner of their eye when browsing the forum?

(Question trailed off for Frink =P)

Why has no one talked about this? I haven't even seen Jambe mention it anywhere, or have I completely missed it?

Hmm, well I was there at Celebration IV, there probably were screenings but I don't remember them or going to any of them. Celebration V last year had the digital projection screenings I mentioned in my other post. Celebration I was in 1999, II in 2002, III in 2005, IV in 2007 and then V was last year. I was surprised to hear the announcement about the next one in 2012, wasn't expecting it so soon.

The Celebration screenings were last year actually.

Eh, well I think back at Celebration V they used the '04 master. Yes it was at a convention but it was projected in HD using professional equipment on a gigantic screen. Fantastic resolution, you could see their pores. I'm still not sure where that video was from though, unfortunately they held their screenings late at night so I couldn't stay to watch them as walking back to our hotel would have been a nightmare. But I did catch a bit of ANH and I swear Luke's blade was white on the Falcon.

Awesome, congrats and good luck!

There is no fuss with the DVD Lazerdisc transfers, people just hating. Ok, it's technologically imperfect, or something...resolution is bad or something. I can't imagine the actual original is any better or worse, but apparently it is.