Okay I have to say at least the artwork is a lot better in that book then it is in most comics I have seen from the 60s and 70s that were tie ins to TV shows or movies. In fact it looks like standard art work from decent comic at the time.
Well that’s a pretty unfair assessment of the era. There was a lot of good licensed comic art at the time:
I’d be up for it if you’re still looking for more sets of eyes.
New article: The Force Returns
Provides detailed breakdowns of certain effects with accompanying videos.
Are barbershops even real? You practically never see them in films. How can we be sure they’re really a thing?
The kindle editions have boring covers though.
It’s the same with everything else these days. No one wants to pay real artists anymore. 😦
Edit: I looked up the series original cover artist, Richard Hescox. He’s still active so it looks like there’s no real excuse for breaking tradition with the cover art.
Jury is out on Chibnall for me. His Who episodes weren’t amazing nor were they offensive. He apparently set the tone for Torchwood and seeing as I actively despise that series, that’s a definite knock. BUT, he also wrote this scene. So it’s a real toss up for me.
O_o I would refute the notion that most movies use or elude to restrooms but I’d rather not waste my time coming up with examples.
Anyway, yes, they’re called refreshers in the Star Wars galaxy. The most memorable thing I recall about them in this context is that apparently on Coruscant dianogas have been known to snake their way up through the plumbing in people’s apartments. =|
Hey, this brought back memories, thanks! 😃
My pleasure! They had it on NETFLIX for a while but it looks like its gone now. Thankfully it’s out on DVD.
You’re right! I saw a picture before and could have sworn he had pointy ears. Yeah, the Tom Paris thing always bugged me.
Ooo, that’s a great one.
Charles Lippincott the original Marketing Director for Star Wars has shared a link to the project on his Facebook page.
If you haven’t gotten to the night club scene yet then yes.
I’ll give you that Tintin was better paced than KotCS. My point still stands though that he’s forgotten what made his first films great. The Indiana Jones franchise has always been somewhat realistic when it comes to their action set pieces. Even if some of what he does isn’t possible in real life the films make you believe that someone could do that. A lot of the time Indy falls flat on his face or just barely makes it out alive. There’s a charm to that. Now his action films are filled with ridiculous cartoon antics.
Anyway, I never said it was garbage. There was a lot to like but it went too far for me.
Tintin is not at all a good example to use. I love the Tintin books and I wanted to love that movie but it was so hard. That movie couldn’t decide on which side of the line it wanted to be on. They went through a lot of trouble to make the characters look hyper realistic and mocapped the actors performances and then the next second they had them running around getting into Looney Tunes level antics. Captain Haddock getting caught up in the plane’s propeller being the best example of this.
One of the best things about the book series is that they feel authentic. The characters were always treated like real people and not cartoon characters. They sometimes got into some fantastical adventures but it always felt grounded. The movie did not. It was basically a continuation of the zany antics that started in the KotCS.
For my money, this is the ultimate Tintin experience to be had outside of the books.
There were also weird editing choices in that film. This being the best example.
Added videos:
DP/30: Star Wars: The Force Awakens - The On-Set FX Supervisors
DP/30: Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Lucasfilm VFX Supervisors
You guys are putting far too much stock into such a baseless rumor. There’ve been no official reports and none of the movie news sites I follow have made a peep about it.
You mean the non-ending where the old woman explains everything that was supposed to happen before they ran out of budget?
Of course then they went the AU route with Voyager and TNG movies. The Voyager episode with the Tuvok flash back where it turns out he just happened to serve under Captain Sulu back in the day has to be an all time low point for this sort of thing.
Um, Tuvok’s first appearance was in the opening scene of Star Trek Generations where he’s shown serving aboard the Enterprise B. Years before Voyager was a thing. They’re supposedly two separate but identical characters, but come on. Same with Tom Paris, he’s literally playing the same character from that episode of TNG where Wesley is nearly kicked out of the Academy. But they didn’t want to pay residuals to the writer of that episode so they changed his name for Voyager.
Don’t forget, you could always catch it at the dollar theater! I love that they brought back Alan Dean Foster to write the TFA novelization. He wrote the novelization for the original film as well as Splinter of the Mind’s Eye.
Uh…the Director’s cut doesn’t add that ending back in.
Not in all scenes. Some scenes are actually cropped and resized, and it’s they’re clearly recognizable.
It’s a hazard that comes with doing this kind of work on older shows. Most of the negative is there but there are always those troublesome shots every once in a while that go missing. Star Trek: The Next Generation had the same issue. In those situations you just have to make do with what you have. The X-Files has the added complication of using old stock footage. I think the restoration house that handled this did quite the commendable job. The only real issue I have are the fonts but the new ones they used are quite pleasing to the eye and pretty close approximations.
Shadowlands (1993)
I stumbled upon this on a lark. I’m quite glad I did. Beautiful film.
