Tobar

Blahhhhhhhh, Temuera voice. =(

Do your kids not own any Artoos either?

It actually pushed Black Panther forward to February so we're now getting THREE Marvel films in 2018:

• Black Panther - February 16th
• The Avengers: Infinity War - Part I - May 4th
• Ant-Man and the Wasp - July 6th

Oh and as for the Ant-Man news:

hairy_hen said:

The reason it sounds wrong is because the tone of the voice for that line has no similarity at all to the rest of the stormtrooper dialog.  It breaks the sense of continuity and immersion, and jars you right out of the scene.

 Couldn't disagree more. There are tons of stormtroopers running around and they're not clones so they shouldn't all have the same voices. It's one of my favorite gags in the entire film and I'm always jarred out of the scene when it's missing.

They're really pumping these things out:

All in a Day's Work

NYCC Posters:

PLEASE tell me that was Don-Wan Kihotay! =P

John Doom said:

DominicCobb said:

You do not have to stay true to the source. There's no rule that says that. There are plenty of films that have succeeded by not staying true to the source.

 That's true: Tim Burton's Batman movies come to mind, in a way.

 Burton's films were heavily inspired by the darker toned '80s Batman comics of the time.

I really wanted to like Super 8. Abrams did a valiant effort trying to capture the feel of those Amblin films but a large part of their charm is in the writing. Something Abrams has never understood. Most of the characters in Super 8 were either bland or obnoxious. It lacked that lighthearted wholesome charm that marked the films he so badly wanted to emulate.

Abrams is a master of pacing. All of his films move at a satisfying speed but the story always suffers due to sloppy writing.

Which is a fate I hope TFA can avoid with Kasdan on board.

Sadly, I'd have to say the only good thing about the Prequels is that they spawned the following:

Star Wars Episode I: Jedi Power Battles

Star Wars: Episode I Racer

Star Wars: Republic

Star Wars: Republic Commando

Genndy Tartakovsky's Clone Wars

Star Wars: The Dark Times

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Cool. Story was pretty decent, it worked as a nice intro to the character. HOWEVER, the inking was just awful. Felt really cheap. You get what you pay for I guess. =P

No one's mentioned cut-off Michael Dorn yet? Poor Worf...

Star Tours also legitimized Ady's placement of the shield generator in relationship to the Hoth base from what I recall...

Lord Haseo said:

Tobar said:

Hire good writers.

If you scroll up there are notable examples that there are good writers due to certain novels getting universal praise. So the whole "make it better" response doesn't necessarily equate to the entirety of the nuEU

 Don't hire crap writers.

Here's a round up of all of the Jessica Jones teasers to date:

Premiere Announcement

Good Morning

Nightcap

Evening Stroll

That last one looks a bit familiar, eh?

All in a Day's Work

Hire good writers.

Funnily enough, it's been within the last few years that the Trek novels have started their own general canon of agreed upon events. Probably as a response to the death/abandonment of the prime timeline to JJTrek.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Cancel all the ongoing Star Wars comic series and replace them with a single SW series -- an anthology series containing multiple stories per issue focused on a wide variety of characters from various timeframes. 

 Ever read Dark Horses Star Wars Tales line? It was precisely this.

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THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS.

Mmmm....I saw Jurassic Park in 35mm back in the day. I don't recall it ever being that dark.

So, anyone else catch the premiere of season 3 this past week? I thought it was pretty spectacular!

Bleh, I hate the new trend of all Lego games having dialog. The silent pantomime was charming, now they just rip dialog straight out of the film and it's boring. Not to mention weird when you have silly stuff going on and then SUPER SERIOUS DIALOG.

Marvel Comics ‘Damage Control’ Adapted As Comedy TV Series By ABC

Sometimes the most important super heroes are the ones behind the scene. Marvel Television is heading to the half-hour live-action comedy arena with Damage Control, a single-camera comedy project based on the Marvel Comics books, which has received a put pilot commitment from ABC.

Developed for TV by former Daily Show and Colbert Report executive producer Ben Karlin, Damage Control follows the overworked, underpaid, clean up crew of the Marvel Universe. Specializing in dealing with the aftermath of the unique fallout from superhero conflicts, they’re the ones who are in charge of returning lost ray guns to their rightful owners, help to reschedule a wedding venue after it has been vaporized in a superhero battle, or even track down a missing prize African parrot that’s been turned to stone or goo.

Introduced in 1988 and getting their first storyline the next year in Marvel Comics Presents, Damage Control has a recurring presence on the pages of Marvel Comics, and has been the subject of four limited series to date. Dwayne McDuffie and Ernie Colón created the concept. Notably, the outfit played a key role in the events of the 2006-2007 “Civil War” crossover,though they’re not featured in the upcoming Captain America: Civil War, loosely based on that arc.

Source

I quite enjoyed the episode of Ultimate Spider-man that featured this crew. I think it has a lot of potential. I'm curious if it'll actually be connected with the MCU like the other shows.

The Seventh Sister Unmasked

He don't know us very well, do he?

Mike O said:

Nothing, perhaps, but why spend the tons of money and time on a restoration of a version with a tiny existing interested group of purchasers when the existing versions, for which they already have HD masters, are selling like heroine?

This is disproven every time news crops up of a release. Everywhere news is reported the comments section of whatever article or video is bombarded by people demanding the OOT.

It's pure purchase fatigue. There is zero incentive for anyone that already owns the films to buy them YET AGAIN, unless they're the minority of collectors that has to have every release for their collection.

The reason every release up to now kept adding more changes was that George knew he could combat the fatigue with the promise of something new each time.

Now that he's out of the picture, the only thing they can do is the one thing they haven't yet and that's release a properly restored OOT. It's either that or tinker with the films themselves and I doubt they'd risk that as that would set off a firestorm with the TFNers and their worship of Lucas' "original vision."

thorr said:

Can this fix that problem if you have a publicity still that isn't doused in Windex?

This is an example of Windex: http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/images/reviews/197/full/1371158749_1.png

 You'd be surprised how much color information is still in any individual frame.

I was able to knock this out in Photoshop in a couple minutes. Of course, proper color timing is a different process of which I know nothing about. =P