Ziz

iRantanplan said:

Ziz said:

The best lifespan of a human is pushing 90.

More like 120.

 

 

Johnny Ringo said:

There's nothing to say that others of his kind don't live much longer.

"Sick have I become, old and weak"

Point is, there's somewhere around a 10-1 ratio between Yoda's age and human age, which means that visual changes in that age would be similarly proportional, so my analogy stands.

Younger and older is a relative term with Yoda.  The best lifespan of a human is pushing 90.  Yoda is upwards of 900 in ROTJ ("When 900 years old you reach, look as good you will not."), which means that "Yoda years" is kind of like "dog years" - 1 human year=10 Yoda years.

Assuming he's exactly 900 in ROTJ, his equivalent human age is 90 at that point.  That makes him somewhere in the 850 to 880 range over the course of the PT, which puts his equivalent human age at 85 to 88.  Can you really tell the difference between an 85 year old man, an 88 year old man and a 90 year old man?

HotRod said:

DGC General X said:

WHAT IS THIS DAMN SNOWFLAKE PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT?

 

No idea!!

It's a running joke about how anal retentive some people get over tiny details that don't matter in the grand scheme of things.

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Star-Wars-is-so-gay-nowadays/topic/9783/

JediBorota said:

@Ady,

 

I have been reading this thread for a while, but didn't think that I had anything to contribute until I remembered one thing...

On the AT-ATs...there are the poles that were used by the model makers to position them. I was wondering if you were going to try and get rid of them... I know it would be a ton of work, so it might not be worth it, but I thought I would mention it just in case you weren't aware of it.

 

 

You mean those poles on the insides of the ankles?  No, those are supposed to be there, they're part of the design.

There is one shot though where an AT-AT tips over sideways, you can see the pole poking up through the ground under one of the feet to get the tip over started.

A week or so ago I saw a friend that I don't see very often but is a big SW fan.  I described it to him as a strange contradiction - if you know the original film intimately, frame for frame, moment for moment, it's a whole different experience.  If, on the other hand, you've seen SW in passing but don't know all the tiny details, you'd think it was the same old film.  I have yet to give him a copy of it, but in showing him a few minutes of it, he was amazed how different-yet-the-same it was.

lordjedi said:

PSYCHO_DAYV said:

RIGHT NOW THERE IS RUMOR THAT FOX WAS CANCEL THE SHOW DUE TO LACKLUSTER RATINGS.  THEY ARE AFRAID THAT THE SHOW IS ALSO PULLING DOWN THE RATING FOR PRISON BREAK.  THE FACT IS EVERY FOX SHOW HAS BEEN DOWN IN THE RATING FOR THE MOST PART.  FOX WILL FIRST TRY TO SHUFFLE THEIR SHOW SCHEDULES BEFORE CANCELING TSCC.  OF COURSE, THIS IS JUST RUMOR.

Yeah, they'll probably try to shuffle it and then hope it fails.  Unfortunately for them, in an age of TiVo and DVR's, it doesn't matter the date and time that the show airs, it'll still get watched.

Fox just doesn't seem to like Sci-Fi shows.

 

Problem is the networks and Nielsens don't see it that way.  They want to know that you're watching the show WHEN THEY TELL YOU to watch it.  You're not allowed to have a life when the TV is off, remember?

It's the SW version of an iPod.  He's watching a movie while he's chasing the Falcon.  :-)p

Adding the electric lightsaber effect to the torture droid's needle in SW:R.

Chewy72 said:

This show just doesn't have any tension cause you know John Connor survives, you know where it is going, so there is nothing suspensful .

So?  You knew the crew was always going to solve the problem of the week on any of the various Star Trek series but you watched anyway (you=figuratively, not literally).  It's not about IF they succeed or survive, it's about HOW they succeed or survive.

It's the journey, not the destination.

If you mean the ion cannon on Hoth, that would work.  The regular troop blasters don't need any extra blast animation.

C3PX said:

It may be a space saving feature, but why do you need to save space when the case is still the same size?

For standard movies that come in regular sized cases, no it doesn't save space.  But there are a lot more TV series coming out on DVD now than a few years ago when double sided discs were in use more.  A box of any given TV show season can be anywhere from 5 to 8 discs.  Hell, the "Young Indy" box sets were 10 and 12 discs per box, and there's three of those.  That's over 30 discs.  Star Trek is 6 to 7 discs per season, and there's 28 seasons among the five series, plus 10 movies, each of them being a 2 disc set.  That's well over 200 discs if you're a completist.  Doing those as double sided adds up to a considerable space savings.

The Vader shuttle line/visuals isn't just a matter of whether or not to show the shuttle, it's a pacing issue with the editing and music.  It slows down the flow of the entire sequence.

As for Ady's latest clip - was that new graphics on the sides of the binocular shot?  :-)

DF Shadow said:

Aside from the obvious things like removal of the emperor's "slugs" (how many years have we been asking for this one? lol)

That's not really something that needs to be removed, just an issue of color/brightness/contrast adjustment.

The only versions that NEED to be available are the OOT/OUT and whatever the current incarnation of SE is at the time.  All those other versions people are listing are minor in-between steps that only die-hards like us would be able to tell the difference.  Joe Q. Public is going to wonder why there's 6 versions of the same film.

vbangle said:

Darth Yub Nub said:Okay..can we get another kiss scene with Luke and Leia..maybe modernize it up a bit. Maybe cgi some tongues, maybe Leia sucking on Lukes tongue or some thing.. Leia could be Lukes little snow bunny, they could laugh and play on Hoth, have snow fights, maybe build a snow man or roll around in the snow like Padme and Anakin do in the field http://images.wikia.com/starwars/images/thumb/1/1c/Leia_luke_kiss.jpg/375px-Leia_luke_kiss.jpg another scene that was cut of Luke and Leia kissing?

 

You're not very funny.

We really need a [sarcasm] tag around here for times like this.

All this talk of the end of ROTJ should go in the "ESB and ROTJ wishlist" thread.  Or someone start a "Return Of The Jedi: Revisited" thread now and keep it alive until Ady starts on ROTJ:R sometime in 2010.

Can we get back onto "Empire" for the time being?

At least you know what the problem is and it's an easy fix.  It's just a matter of scheduling and finances, now.

Yoda Is Your Father said:

Looking at that picture the problem is the helmet is too big for the body... not dissing Hayden but Prowse was a bodybuilder - a big guy.  They should have gotten somebody bigger to play vader at the end of ROTS.  But like auntie said, who can blame Hayden?

Definitley looks wrong though.  And don't get me started on the Emperor... geez.

Or the REALLY creative way to go, since they had to build a new costume for Hayden anyway, would have been to downsize the entire thing proportional to the size difference between Hayden and Prowse - in essence, scale down the costume proportional to the body, like the way they make smaller versions of halloween costumes for kids.

I was thinking that all the visuals would have to be edited and flipped so that Luke attacks DSII and fails but creates enough problems that Yavin is saved (as astromech described) and Lando and the fleet attack DS1.

I'm starting to think kenkraly is either schizophrenic or a spy from LFL.

Which proves my point - people chose fashion over function.

And, double sided discs aren't lame, it's a space saving feature.  And how is a DS disc more prone to damage from someone tossing it on top of the player?  More than likely, if someone is in that much of a rush or is that careless that they would put a disc down anywhere other than its case, they're not going to be careful enough to flip it over to put it label side down.  They're going to put it label side up so they can see what disc it is, which means the underside is still getting damaged either way.

I gotta go with A-M...compare Blu discs to standard on price-vs-content, not whether you're getting one or two or however many physical discs.  Clarity aside, BD's other claim to the throne is capacity.  The 10 disc Ultimate Matrix collection is only 4 or 5 discs on HD and BD (coming on 10/14), but they retail for the same basic price range.

And yes, everyone wants the player prices to come down, and yes eventually they will, but when to spend that money is a different decision for everyone.  To use the standard "car" analogy - would you rather have a cheap car that's expensive to insure (yes, they do exist) or spend a little more for a car that has lower insurance?  I was actually faced with a decision like that when I bought a new car a few years ago, so I know it's possible and not just theoretical.

Corollary to the "disc count" issue - one of the things I hate about 2 disc releases - 1 film/1 supplement - is that they use the extra disc as a reason to jack up the price.  Early on, discs were dual sided instead of 2 disc sets.  Know why they stopped doing it?  Because people complained that they had to actually read the disc core to figure out which side to play.  They wanted something idiot-proof like artwork on two separate discs so that they wouldn't have to think about which side of the disc is which.  ',:-\

"The problem with the quest to make the world idiot-proof is that it challenges the universe to create better idiots."

Ripplin said:

Yoda is no longer radioactive! Heh.

P.S. For those asking for other formats, you should try VLC. It's plays just about anything, including mkv.

VLC plays it but my machine is old and was choking trying to do it.  Got enough that I could see the difference though.

http://www.videolan.org

http://fanedit.org/517/

Choose one of the Rapidshare links and download it that way.  Those are all full DVDs.

First choice would be the DL version.  SL version is the same except for the lack of a few bonus materials.