Tobar

Because the original Star Wars wasn't packed with explosions....

The Phoenix on the Sword by Robert E. Howard

Interesting way to introduce the character. Even though it was split into five chapters, it felt like just the first in a longer tale.

George is at it again!

Cameron many times throughout the '90s talked about doing T3. So obviously it was always his intention to continue with the series.

The only reason he didn't continue was because he was facing a lot of heat during post-production of Titanic because of the budget. The rights ended up going to auction at that time and he decided to give it up to avoid further scrutiny.

Mondess122 said:

Tobar said:

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 But that's a reporter asking if there will ever be a sequel. That's not the same as the filmmakers deliberately changing the ending so that there will be room for sequels, which I don't think was their intention to begin with - unless someone has a source which states otherwise.

James Cameron said:

Basically, what I did in Terminator 2 is say that everything is meant to be a certain way. At least to that point in time where they're sending somebody back from that future. But can you grab that line of history like it's a rope stretched between two points, and pull it out of the way? If you can pull it just a little bit before it rebounds, and cut it exactly at that moment, then you can change it and go in a different direction. If you do that you get a future that no longer exists at all, except in the memories of the people that are here now.

But there was a sense that, why tie it up with a bow? If the future is changeable, then the battle is something that has to be fought continuously. And you can't do it with a single stroke. That it's the dualism, the dynamic between good and evil that's eternal.

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The Darth Vader comic has officially gone off the rails. Modern Marvel stinks.

Mondess122 said:

What the hell. Talk about the most retconned film franchise of all time; it makes even the retconning in the prequels look mild in comparison. Why piss all over the final lines of T2?

"'The Future is not set, there is no fate but what we make for ourselves'? Flush it down the toilet! We have to make a sequel somehow! Moneyz!"

I can't imagine Genisys going over well.

 Erm, you know they changed the original ending to make it open for sequels....

DuracellEnergizer said:

I've never seen any of the films...

That's okay, I have a backup.

I was not a fan of The Babadook. I really thought they were setting up for a nice twist. All the pieces were there but they didn't follow through with any of them and ended on a meh note.

I don't think the trilogies need to really connect. No real need for a vast saga. Each trilogy should have been pretty much self-contained with characters from the last introducing the next.

Were it up to me, the PT wouldn't have been about the fall of Anakin. He and Obi-wan would have been in them but wouldn't necessarily be the stars. It also definitely would have ended before Vader.

I like the idea of a 30 year gap between each set of trilogies.

Mavimao said:

Harmy had one, but I don't know how to search for it. In short, 35mm prints are copies of copies of copies. Each copy creates degreadation in the form of additional film grain. This grain eats up fine detail with each generation. The bluray, on the other hand, is directly from the film negative. So while its colors might be messed up, you can see the actors' pores, each individial hairs etc. The 35mm prints don't have all of this detail. Yes, there were meant to be shown on big screens, but they weren't meant to be pixel peeped. 

 I'd like to hear your thoughts on this.

Now obviously Legacy is working with the combined information of a number of different scans stacked onto each other. But it still is all based on various later generation prints.

The blu-ray which is supposed to be based from the negative is just awful in comparison.

TV's Frink said:

"William T. Riker"

I am not going to bother asking (or Google-ing) what the "T." stands for... I'm just going to assume it's either "Tiberius" or "The."

Also, that was a 15 second video stretched out to almost two minutes because who knows why.

Uh, actually, the "T" stands for Thomas. As depicted in season six, episode 24 "Second Chances" of Star Trek: The Next Generation. After beaming down to an abandoned science outpost on Nervala IV, it's discovered that due to a transporter malfunction a duplicate of William Riker has been living on the station for the past 8 years. Struggling with his identity, the duplicate Riker adopts his middle name, Thomas, as a new first name.

Riker

Mmmm yeah. See before I was pretty sure the clean up was being done by hand but lately it seems as though it's shifted to using off the shelf automation and that's highly prone to weird artifacting like in that Dagobah clip a while back.

If the team has shrunk over time and the ability to do clean up frame by frame has been lost. I think it would be best to just upload high quality grindhouse-esque versions of the films and let the community work on the clean up as a whole. The more eyes that are on this the less likely errors would slip through.

But of course, that's just based on speculation. A lot of the sample clips have looked spectacular so hopefully it's all being put through a strenuous QA process.

DrCrowTStarwars said:

Interstellar.

Okay I am a huge Nolan fan and I defended both The Dark Knight Rises and Man of Steel.  I also believe Person of Interest is one of the best TV shows ever made, so please remember that.

 Not much of a fan if you're only seeing it now. You didn't get the full experience unless you caught either a 35mm showing or the 70mm IMAX film performance.

Seeing this film on a full sized IMAX screen in 70mm was breathtaking.

Wait, what? Why is Bespin listed as his homeworld?

Secret files reveal police feared that Trekkies could turn on society

John Doom said:

With the AAA videogames companies already struggling with 720p (not even 1080p!) visuals' costs, 4k would bring them to bankrupt if happening too soon :\

 What?

^And that's just consoles. Meanwhile on PC, which is what timdiggerm was referring to.

There was a BIG stink way back during the development of Star Wars Galaxies about whether Trandoshans and Mon Calamari should have breasts. Finally SOE took it up with Lucasfilm and it was decided that since they were not mammals they would not have mammaries.

Then ROTS happened and that was thrown out the window presumably because you know who...

I think we've all moved beyond the Thunderdome. =P

Mad Max (1979)

A lot less depressing than I remember it being. Solid revenge flick.

Mad Max: The Road Warrior (1981)

The definitive post-apocalyptic classic.

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

A modern masterpiece. A glorious spectacle from beginning to end.