YodaFan67

ChainsawAsh said:

Yeah, definitely. He’d need to be recolored or erased.

I also think this would flow better with the scene of Leia turning in Chewie, even though I agree with a lot of what has been said about the scene itself. Though I do kind of like the idea of revealing Jabba for the first time when Han is unfrozen. I’m just not sure how well the pacing works at the moment.

What did you think of my half-assed approach to “fixing” the rebel briefing scene? I think it could work pretty well with a little more polish. It cuts out pretty much all of the cheesy #### if nothing else.

Sorry I’m so late to replying. I usually don’t get around to checking this site often.

The rebel fix works well, I think. It suffers from the disease of “I remember what happened in the original film”, so any edits are immediately noticeable. So a couple cuts jumped out to me. The concept is there but it needs more smoothing over. Nice work though.

if british= core worlds, does this mean Rey is from there?

Luke beings Leia’s sister always made a lot of sense to me.

Jeebus said:

How would you guys feel about ranges where you can rent some of the more eccentric guns/attachments, shoot them for a bit, turn them in, and leave? I think this is a decent compromise between the “they’re just fun to shoot” side, and the “nobody should own fully automatic rifles (or whatever else)” side.

I think that sounds like a pretty good idea.

Yay! Good for him.

I just read Ender’s Game for the first time…wow! It’s a pretty well known book so I won’t give a review, just say that I enjoyed it. I connected with it like I haven’t connected with a novel in a while. And besides, the political and military angles to it were just fascinating .

I like audiobooks in the car.
I have an uncle who depends on them. In medical school he would read his books aloud, then listen to the recordings. I guess everyone learns differently.

(Post transplant)
I just read “Rebel Rising” about Jyn Erso. Not horrible, it kind of helped make some of the characterizations in R1 make sense.
The first half was much better than the second half. It wasn’t much of a YA book except for the fact that Jyn is a young adult.
Also–was Jyn supposed to be 18 in rogue one? She looked older than that.

darthrush said:

I hate to say it, but Return of the Jedi plain sucks. Not as bad as the prequels but definitely a bad movie. The entire Jabba section feels like a separate movie, the Ewoks ruin endor, everyone besides Luke has almost nothing to do of any importance. The spunky, headstrong Leia and cocky, cool headed Han are nowhere to be seen in this film. Leia is weak as hell in the movie, and Harrison couldn’t be phoning it in any more.

The main reason it sucks though is that the only thing of any importance in this film is the confrontation with Luke, the Emperor and Vader. They tie up the haning plot threads left by the Empire Strikes Back in the first section of the film, then it completely departs into a whole new section where we get the Luke and Vader stuff, which is packed side by side with a ton of pointless filler.

Normally, one will painfully bear through most of the film (which is filler) and wait for throne room scenes which are the most important when looking at this movie as the final chapter of a trilogy. And even that stuff sucks.

Remastered made ROTJ pretty good!

Tuesdays are interesting. I wonder if they’ve got away with who they are because of their close proximity to Mondays.

moviefreakedmind said:

YodaFan67 said:

Christopher Columbus

That hack could set out to direct a film in India and end up filming it in the Caribbean Isles.

LOL!

TV’s Frink said:

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TV’s Frink said:

I’ve never seen lots of movies.

Reported.

Fuck ur.

Schizophrenia is a serious issue. I suggest you get help.

Gosh, I hate phone customer support. People complain about the DMV?

SilverWook said:

I can only think of one or two from the 80’s versus how many we’ve had in the space of two years?

I see your point but with all due respect I feel that you are missing the underlying issue. Gun violence has gone down in recent years. That is a fact.

These mass shootings are committed by people with major mental issues. Adam Lanza spent his time locked in his room on deep web boards talking about school shootings. The VA tech guy had become obsessed with violent porn and violent video games, even going so far as to buy armour so he could dress up like the killers in the games he played. The Orlando guy was a radicalized Muslim who was also apparently quite confused about his sexuality (which was in obvious contradiction with his extremist beliefs). This guy we don’t know much about yet, but it seems he was likely an obsessive gambler, and his father apparently had run-ins with the FBI. Mental health is what causes these atrocities to be committed.

This is just my opinion, but I think the fact that these shootings have become so common is evidence of how sick our culture has become. The deep web is littered with horrible child abuse and torture videos. Person-to-person interaction is decreasing daily. Social Media leads people further into loneliness. The first world is safer and richer than it’s ever been, and yet people seem paranoid of ISIS, global warming, illegal aliens, etc. Granted these things are problems, but nothing to loose sleep over.

Can we change this? I don’t think so. I actually think we’ve entered a state where life is too easy, so easy in fact that it messes with our natural instincts. The hardest things in our lives are traffic on the way home, not having enough money to upgrade to a 4KTV, etc.

Yet for some reason politics is more desperate than it’s ever been. Socialism, the altright, and various fringe groups are gaining popularity. They all have in common a sense of paranoia about our mostly uneventful western world.

It seems there are no heroes anymore that we can all rally behind…but perhaps that is because there are no more villains?

^what yhwx said. The constitution (as far as I can tell, I’m certainly no legal expert) is essentially saying, “the right to self protection, coming from the people specifically, is important.”

The idea of popular sovereignty–that people are at the top of the governmental pyramid, is basically the foundational idea of the constitution. The idea that people can take care of themselves and not need a nanny state. Most of the founders would probably be disappointed by our ginormous military and bloated central government (Hamilton being an exceptions)

SilverWook said:

What was the state of the art in firearms when the second amendment was written? A musket?

Yes, exactly. This is why we need common sense regulations on firearms.

DuracellEnergizer said:

I can’t help but believe Alderaan’s avatar should be changed to a debris field in his absence.

beat me to it

TV’s Frink said:

http://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1113224

http://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1113659

http://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1113694

http://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1113697

“A voice cried out in troll-ness, and was suddenly silenced”

yhwx said:

What is the right time to have this conversation, if not after shootings, where people are most engaged in the issue?

Mass shootings are rare and not a good example of gun violence on average, that’s why it’s not a good time.

TV’s Frink said:

What does “firearms we are allowed to have as a natural right” mean?

Also the NRA is evil. That doesn’t change depending on if it’s the day of a shooting, the week after a shooting, or two months after a shooting.

We are allowed to have firearms as per the second amendment. Not sure how that’s hard to understand.
Everyone knows that lobbyists are evil.

hold on…did Alderaan get banned? Where have I been?

As a conservative leaning guy, I don’t get the GOP’s wacky stance on the gun rights issue. The 2nd amendment says:
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
This means the right to state militias, and, more broadly, the allowance of regular citizens to own guns. It does not mean that things like bans on assault rifles are somehow illegal.

That being said, this emotional political response to incidents like these are wrong. Here are some facts on violence:

“‘From 1993 to 2015, the rate of violent crime
declined from 79.8 to 18.6 victimizations per 1,000 persons age 12 or older’, says the Bureau of Justice Statistics in its most recent comprehensive report (published last October, using data through 2015). ‘Over the same period, rates for crimes using guns dropped from 7.3 per 1,000 people to 1.1 per 1,000 people. The homicide rate is down from 7.4 to 4.9.’”

As the son of a VA tech shooting survivor, I find it deeply offensive when people try to politicize these emotional events. We should all repudiate people who make blanket statements like “all gunz stockpile them now!” and “guns must be banned now now now stop the killing !nra bad!”. We need leaders with common sense, who can pass common sense laws that can sensibly regulate the firearms we are allowed to have as a natural right. We should stop listening to politicians who try to emotionally bait people into supporting them.

I just read “Rebel Rising” about Jyn Erso. Not horrible, it kind of helped make some of the characterizations in R1 make sense.

yhwx said:

imperialscum said:

Cedric T Sealion said:

I think you need to invest in a dictionary.

I am the dictionary.

And the Senate?

ha lol!

ChainsawAsh said:

Okay, here’s my quick and dirty proof of concept edit.

I went with my initial sequence of events but decided to try cutting the Chewie/Boushh scene as discussed by others.

I did this very quickly before going to work. It finished rendering, I copied it to my phone, then left for work. (I mooched the work WiFi to upload it.) As such, there are areas I might have worked on more given more time.

So bear in mind:

• The crawl is unchanged. Just imagine it’s different, because it has to be to sell this.
• Threepio is still there when Han wakes up, but I cut his line and closeup. He’d need to be painted/cropped out or recolored to make it work.
• The deleted scene is in worse shape than I remembered, but visually I think it could be polished to be acceptable (though never as good as the surrounding footage). The audio is a different story.
• Obi-Wan’s ghost is gone.
• I did a quick cut of the rebel briefing - this is one area I’d like to have worked on more. It’s iffy at best now.
• This is only the first 45 minutes of the movie, as everything after the Tydirium exits hyperspace is unchanged.
• I moved the Vader/Emperor scene after the rebel briefing to earlier, but I’m not convinced it works, particularly because there’s now no buffer between the briefing, Han giving Lando the Falcon, and the “fly casual” sequence.

And again, this is intended as proof of concept only. I also have not had time to watch it in one go yet, so it might play worse than I think it does (and I say that as someone who’s still not 100% convinced this is doable anyway).

So, here you go. Password is Restructure (the capital R is necessary).

vimeo.com/235482114

Just watched it. pretty good! The only real problem I see is that it’s pretty obvious 3po is 3P0. Not sure how this could be changed easily.