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bkev said:

The Hub aired the series in full...

Not quite.  They never aired one pair of episodes - "An Egg Grows In Gotham/The Yegg Foes In Gotham".  No official explanation why but the theory is that the episode featured "stereotypical" portrayals of Native Americans and Hub didn't want to risk any kind of backlash over it.  The eps are part of the TV Land rips though.

doubleofive said:

Heck, I don't even know. ;-)

Sure you don't.  The wink at the end suggests otherwise.

http://www.ralphmcquarrie.com/index.html

The news on his official site.

http://www.facebook.com/#!/RalphMcQuarrie/posts/361483070541650

We are sad to report that Ralph McQuarrie has passed away today at his home at the age of 82.

captainsolo said:

Ziz said:

And Felicia Day is cute.

x1,000

I enjoyed it for what it was. That said, I was pleasantly surprised how much I genuinely laughed. Then via this I stumbled onto The Guild. Then the laughs went overboard.

And don't forget about Do You Wanna Date My Avatar?.  Felicia at her sexiest, IMHO.

And Felicia Day is cute.

adywan said:

Well it looks like ANH had the Great Flipper debate, ESB has the Great Blue TIE debate and i hate to think what the Great Debate fro ROTJ will be. ;)

I heard there was a stray bit of grass that got stuck in Wicket's ear.

adywan said:

ctlw83 said:

Hey, for those who are "in the know" so to speak, I'm just curious about something.  In the ESB revisit, how many effect shots have been re-done/enhanced with new models, new people, etc?  Basically, how much "new" footage has been needed to correct the mistakes of old and/or to enhance existing scenes?

Personally, I have always been interested in videography but, just don't have much time/money to pursue it anymore.

I would hate to start counting them just yet, but you will be able to see just how many have been replaced with the visual changes guide that will be on the blu-ray and DVD

On a related note - will there be a running text commentary track like on ANH:R or, better yet, an audio commentary track?

We don't hate Star Wars.  We hate what Lucas has turned it into.

TheBoost said:

I heard once that Henson wanted the Skeksys to speak a foreign language, and we'd just have to make inferences as to what they were saying, but the studio balked.

There's footage of that on all the releases of the films - single DVD, 2 disc DVD and BluRay.  The BD also has an introduction by the writer explaining that when they decided the foreign language idea wasn't working, he spent an entire weekend with Henson going through the film making notes as to mouth movements and timings of the Skeksis scenes so they could figure out new English language dialogue that would sync up.

Side note - only the single DVD edition includes an isolated music track.  What's a simple freeware program that can rip the audio track so I can make myself a soundtrack CD?

Posted this in another SOPA/PIPA thread someone started in General SW...

I find it strange that industries that are obsessed with making obscene amounts of money have forgotten about basic economics 101.

Part of the reason piracy and illegal downloads exist in the first place is because of the general public feeling they're being price gouged trying to buy the content legally and wanting a cheaper alternative.

So, if MPAA/RIAA would learn that they can still make a profit at 800% markup instead of 1600% - basically make their prices cheaper - then more people will be inclined to buy the legal product rather than seek out pirated copies.  If more people buy the legal version because it's more affordable, they make the same money in the end AND combat piracy by making the pirates efforts worthless.

I majored in film production in college over 20 years ago and had the same problem.  I call it "Chicken and Egg syndrome" - no one will hire you because you don't have any experience but you can't get any experience because no one will hire you.

Current job market doesn't make things any easier.  There's an average of 5 applications for any single job opening, so right off the bat you're down to 20% odds before they even think about talking to you.

Corporations have evolved to the point where they want employees who are just smart enough to do what they're told and just dumb enough to not want to do anything else because any employee with intelligence and ambition is viewed as a potential threat to the higher ups who want to sit on their thrones for the rest of their lives instead of making room for new talent.

I was on unemployment for the past couple of years after losing a job with a local small business (about 20 people from president to receptionist, plus warehouse guys and installers) because business dropped off to where they couldn't afford me anymore.  I had evolved to more of a management position and had things running so smoothly that I effectively "efficiencied" myself out of a job.

While on unemployment, I took career training for Medical Billing & Coding.  I figured that was a more or less recession-proof industry, and in theory it is, providing you can get into it in the first place.  See "Chicken and Egg syndrome".

So, while I had all this free time being on unemployment, I started to develop a home business designing conversion parts for Star Trek model kits.  I'm now just on the verge of being able to live off of it full time but not quite so I found a local minimum wage job to fill in the financial blanks (and because unemployment benefits ran out) until I get it fully up to speed.  Hindsight being 20/20, I would have focused on the model business more from day one, not bothered with the MBC training and might be fully self supportive by now.  Either way, I'm still developing the business so hopefully I'll be able to say I'm truly self-employed later this year.

Find some way to use your talents, knowledge and experience to develop your own business.  Then you don't have to worry about someone else deciding whether you continue to get a paycheck next week.

Cobra Kai said:

csl said:

The blood is supposed to be there. The entire scene is a homage to a scene in Kurosawa's Yojimbo (which plays out almost identically), which also cuts to a shot of a bloody arm.

If anyone has a copy of Yojimbo and didn't catch it when watching it or haven't watched it yet, it happens about 19 minutes in.

Interesting - i didn't know that.  Yojimbo is a great movie.  Definitely a must-see for anyone that hasn't seen it.   

I don't know if it's this exact scene as I haven't seen Yojimbo in its entirety but...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb6RRuiFVbc

This struck me as the most ironic part of that CBS article...

In a statement, former Sen. Chris Dodd, who is now chairman and CEO of the MPAA, called the blackout day a "gimmick."

"It's a dangerous and troubling development when the platforms that serve as gateways to information intentionally skew the facts to incite their users in order to further their corporate interests," Dodd said.

Yeah, because politicians never intentionally skew any information in their favor.   ,':-/

...telephone rings...
"Hello Kettle?  This is Pot.  You're black."

Remember that lighting style and camera lenses of the time also come into play regarding image quality.

Lucas doesn't hate all his fans.  He just hates the ones that don't kiss his ass.

Guys, we're talking about the master of misdirection here, remember?  How many times did he lie and say he was done modifying the films?  How many times did he say the OT would never be released on DVD in any form?  How many times has he retconned his own personal history of the making of the films?

To that end, how do we know he hasn't already had better scans done of everything we want and is holding out for future releases?  He's sticking with his "2K scan" story for now because that's the limit of what current home technology can deliver.  If he released better versions now, he wouldn't be able to infinity-dip later on by selling it to us again as yet another "improved" version.

That link just led to a Google+ page - no real download links.

MaximRecoil said:

Okay, how does this look - link?

I've never made a DVD sleeve before, and I don't know if that will print out nicely or not (I'm waiting for some blank sleeves in the mail to try it for myself). I'm open to comments/suggestions/criticisms.

The next two (TESB and ROTJ) won't be as tedious as that one, because a lot of the graphics/text is reused on all three boxes.

Just use legal size paper.  Or, if your printer can do "full bleed" photo printing, you might be able to squeeze it onto letter size paper.

.rar is the same as a ZIP file.  Use whatever you use to open those kinds of files.

The shape I'm in, I could donate my body to science fiction.

If Ady or someone really wants to focus on the ship stripe colors then do it for the same reason that Vader's TIE has bent wings - so that the audience can easily remember which character is in which ship.  Originally, Vader was going to be flying a regular TIE just like his wingmen until someone suggested his should be different to make it easier for the audience.  Apply the same logic to the speeders - Luke's should have the orange stripes so it stands out as him being the squad leader.  Everyone else has gray or no stripes.

That's all I was looking for, Harmy, general directions on what to change and how.  I realize the exact amounts will vary depending on TV set, lighting conditions in the room and so on.  I just wanted a starting point.

Turns out they didn't get me the set for Xmas but I've been debating it more and more as the prices start to come down now that the initial release frenzy has past.