My 13 year old nephew has been learning about video editing. A Christmas or so ago I gave him a portable hard drive with an assortment of music and sound FX on it to use in his projects. First thing he asked me was "Is that funny scream on there?" When I told him it was, he cheered.
This may be getting into EU retconning, but who's to say Vader doesn't have multiple spare helmets? Maybe different ones are designed differently internally and that particular day in TESB he just happened to be using a "one piece" helmet, or a "two piece" version that one day in ROTJ. Maybe he started with the two-piece in ROTS, changed to the one-piece somewhere along the way and then went back to the two-piece somewhere after-ESB/before ROTJ.
Of course, the real reason is that ESB is the first time we see him without his helmet so they hadn't fully thought through how his helmet would break apart - they just did what worked for the scene - then re-designed the concept when they got to ROTJ.
Not that I have blind faith that the OT will be fixed, but the theory about the BD trailer having new TPM shots but old OT shots could theoretically make sense...from a certain point of view.
Since they have to do new transfers of all six films, logically they started with the Prequels since those are the newer films and will require less effort to transfer, especially with AOTC and ROTS already having been filmed digitally in the first place. Maybe they're done transferring the PT but are still working on transferring the OT, so all they had available for the trailer were the original DVD versions.
Plus, putting aside image quality, the editing of the entire piece looks like it was done more for advertising purposes rather than an actual demonstration of the BD transfer. Watch it from a strict marketing perspective - the shots they chose are the ones you'd expect to see in a promotional piece - action sequences and iconic imagery.
Again, not saying I expect the OT to look better but until more info comes out, there's still a grey area (blue area? :-)p ) in the final treatment of the OT.
Does it matter? Sky, Hal and Ken are each fun-house mirror versions of the other two to some degree.
Radi0n said:
What's up with Vader's shining knight armor on his right leg?
Actually you've got it backwards. The one from his left leg is missing. Any pic of the full costume will confirm it.
IF - not an issue. Look at the front shot after Vader is on the platform - it's illuminated from below - that means the platform is a little higher up than it appears to be. Now look at the side shot - all you can see is the chamfered edge of the platform - the illumination is out of frame. That means the edge of the meditation chamber steps are below frame also.
And even if they weren't below frame, it looks like there's a good four feet between the bottom step and the platform, so the bottom step could also be just out of frame on the left.
Knowing that crowd, they're debating adding "OOT", "OUT", "GOUT", "Revisited" and "Adywan" to the dirty word filter.
muddyknees2000 said:
Ady...noticed on the ESB:R facebook page that you were contemplating moving release to the end of 2011...did you ever make a decision on that?
He's just giving himself "wiggle room" to deal with any more potential problems as well as time to deal with family issues - dad being sick and all.
Lucas and McFarlane are connected thru Fox. The RC guys exist on their own.
I'm sure this has come up earlier in this thread but I'll ask again anyway - is anyone working on a Definitive Restoration from all the available versions? I'd attempt it if I had the time and resources, but I don't.
What I would do if I could would be to start with whatever the best overall version is and then swap in specific shots from other versions to eliminate station IDs and technical problems, maybe even swap in some of the FX shots that were re-used from ANH and "down filter" them to make the video quality more on par with the surrounding footage.
rpvee said:
3. When Yoda says "Judge me by my size, do you?", his eyes move to look at Luke half way through the line. But shouldn't he be looking at Luke the whole line (and the ones in that angle before then, too)? Why would he be staring off into nothingness while directly talking to Luke until the eye movement?
No, it works as is.
"Size matters not. Look at me." - he's looking straight and raising his head up in pride as he says the line.
"Judge me by my size, do you?" - as he looks at Luke in a questioning manner.
I saw a subliminal advertisement the other day...but just for a second.
Not to mention the fact that adding that lighting effect would mean it would need to be added to every shot of the bridge, not only in this film but in ROTJ:R as well. Too much work to solve a problem that didn't exist in the first place.
It was just on a few hours ago, 5PM Eastern time, so I guess that would be "Through a Windshield Darkly"
Ah, so this could have been post-SW release? Never thought of that but again, considering the clothing and hair styles, it does look 70's rather than the 60's context the TV show placed it in.
OK, looking for a little reconnaissance info here. A friend told me to record this show on HD Theater about hot rods because he noticed something familiar in it.
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5161/5244628345_238cce7a50_b.jpg
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5250/5244628647_a6b114668b_b.jpg
In the show, they were talking about a SEMA show that took place in the 1960's. SEMA's web site has pics from a show in 1967 that has all the other pics from this TV show in it except for this one. Judging from the clothing and hair styles, these pics above look like they're from the early 70's.
Logically, considering the timeline, Lucas went to one of these SEMA shows (it's a known fact that he was into car racing before becoming a film maker) and saw this thing on the show floor. He then probably took pictures of it, made sketches or even got in touch with whoever built it and ultimately used it as the basis for R2.
Anyone got any more info on this? Anyone know exactly when & where it's from or who would know more about it?
Mine is a portion of my last name. Real first name is John. In high school, we had about four Johns in the class so everyone - including ourselves - took to calling us by our last names or some variation thereof, mostly out of necessity to avoid confusion over who someone was talking to or about. It stuck.
Ripplin said:
I was just thinking about the "I know" scene and how it was much longer and sappier than that originally. Did they film it in the original incarnation? I can't remember.
I'm pretty sure that version was filmed because there's commentary or interview somewhere of Kersh saying that they filmed it a few times with the sappier dialogue and none of them - Kersh, Ford or Fisher - felt like it was working. That was when Kersh told Ford "Don't think about what to say, just go with your gut" (or something to that effect) and that's when Ford came up with "I know".
I think Ady mentioned once that it was some kind of timing thing that happened in between the DVD5 and DVD9. I have both and on the 5 "That's me!" is in the correct spot. When he made the 9, he made some minor change to something that affected the timing by a second or so but didn't adjust the text commentary track along with it.
I don't know how much you believe in holistic medicine and self-healing but you might want to look into it. There's a well known story out there about Dirk Benedict - the original Starbuck from Battlestar Galactica - curing his prostate cancer by changing his diet. The theory is that different types of cancer "feed" on different nutrients, enzymes and such found in different parts of your bloodstream and organs. By changing your diet, you change the balance and availability of those elements and effectively "starve" the cancer away.
http://home.planet.nl/~marte163/DirkHealth.htm
Will it work for you? Who knows, but it's better than doing nothing.
Bingowings said:
My Godson dropped me an e-mail (in bright green comic-sans) informing me that he has now seen ANH:R "tonnes of times".
He thinks that the changes may be somewhere near the end (bless).
I sent him a link to the comparison page and he loves spot the difference books so hopefully that will keep him occupied for 15 nanoseconds.
Teach him how to turn on the text commentary track.
I have a feeling it will show up as a bonus feature in the SW BluRay box set. "Empire Of Dreams" aired on A&E/History/Biography just before the '04 box set came out and there's a doc about Pixar on the Short Films disc that aired on Encore a few months before that disc came out.
I think part of the reason we only get six episodes at a time and then a break that seems to last forever is because the idiots at "SyFy" (probably the same ones that thought of changing the name) are so damn non-committal and afraid to take chances. They want to give themselves "outs" at every possible opportunity, so when they do decide to cancel a show mid-stream it gives them time to invent some bullshit reason to deflect blame away from their own stupidity.
ChainsawAsh said:
Note that, while I say the Joker would be the "big bad" of season 1, that doesn't mean that individual episodes wouldn't have their own villains, or that there wouldn't be multi-episode arcs for certain villains
Joker is to Batman what Q is to Captain Picard - Don't use him very often but when you do, go BIG.
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Bill Amend - writer/creator of "Foxtrot" - chimes in on the issue.