If you could only watch one zombie film in your life, it should be Dawn of the Dead (1978). It's the entire sub-genre in one film, and as Bingo said, the length/monotony is part of the experience.
If you had to watch two, it would be Dawn and Shaun.
You know what has no reason to exist? The word "overrated".
I wouldn't be at all fine with cloaking technology making an appearance in Star Wars. It's just not necessary and would stick out like a sore thumb.
And it doesn't do anything to make Boba more fearsome. What's more fearsome is a hunter who uses his cunning, not some fancy technology. Anyone with money these days can buy camo and an expensive blind, and hire a guide, and bag a deer or a bear with a little bit of patience. That doesn't make you a fearsome hunter. Boba Fett is the kind of bounty hunter who would say, "cloaks are for pussies."
Fett hides, he stalks at a distance, he uses his cunning to determine where Solo is going. Simple, effective, fearsome. I have several private investigators in my family and this is what they do, and they're damn good at it.
Like I said, adywan already handled this. Slave 1 waits longer to follow. The Falcon doesn't have rearview mirrors, and Slave 1 has sensor- and radar-jamming capabilities. The MF's hyperdrive wasn't working so they had to take the long way to Cloud City.
It's a non-issue.
Wasn't this already handled by adywan? I seem to remember ady posting a clip last year that showed Boba Fett waiting longer to leave the field of garbage so Slave 1 wasn't following so closely behind the Falcon.
I like the delay in Ford's line, actually, but not at the expense of C3P0's "excuse me ma'am". Personally, I'll take a minor continuity issue over losing a piece of dialogue.
You can imagine that some scanner high up on top of the MF swept the crater, found the tunnel, and did a blinky-alerty thingy on a screen only Solo can see. :)
True. I know sometimes to fix a shot adywan has had to move a wipe a few frames forward, things like that might affect the run-time by a few seconds as you said, but not to the same extent as an entirely new shot or sequence.
Right. As I understand it, the run-time of the film will remain exactly the same, as it should. I think that pacing is as important to the overall effect as any acting performance, piece of score, or special effect. Even one new shot upsets that balance, like the SE shot of Vader walking to his shuttle that ady's removing. ESB's pace is perfect as it is.
muddyknees2000 said:
.Mac. said:
muddyknees2000 said:
.Mac. said:
True, seeing Vader's landing shuttle isn't truly needed...
well said
but muddyknees, that wasn't my only reason for this idea. That would indeed be one of the highlights, but it'd be more than just that.
lol, I was being sarcastic.
Veers tells Vader that he may land, and we then see Vader on the ground. Filling in all the little gaps and explaining things to death is a big part of why the prequels sucked....there's no room for imagination.
WELL said (and I'm not being sarcastic!)
Lately it seems the trend here has been to suggest scenes and changes that are totally outside the scope of the fanedit, and it's bogging down the thread and actually good suggestions are getting lost in the shuffle. It's not breathing new life into the thread, it's just driving it off the rails.
I'm in no position to speak for adywan ( that's 005's job! ;D ), but I'm pretty certain he will not be adding any new shots or scenes to ESB, period.
Doctor Who - "The Angels Take Manhattan"
Before I started watching Doctor Who a couple months ago, I had no idea it would make me cry almost as often as it would make me laugh.
aalenfae said:
I'm sorry, I know this isn't exactly on topic, but this guy's left arm must be dislocated at the shoulder and broken at the wrist to get it into that position. WTF ILM.
Jango's Bongo said:
Just an observation - In the scene where the added Hyperspace tunnel can now be seen through the Falcon's cockpit window wouldn't it appear to be off to the left of the screen a touch rather than dead centre? I'm no expert on these technical things so forgive me if I'm talking Wampa poodoo here but it just always gets my attention whenever I see it. The cockpit is on the far side of the ship so this makes sense right?
I'm sure someone has an in-universe explanation that goes beyond my knowledge of Star Wars, but my explanation would be it's akin to the weird theory that wherever you are in the universe is the center. The hyperspace tunnel isn't an actual tunnel with a measurable diameter, it's just a consequence of observing the universe at hyperspeed. So, wherever you're standing, you'd see the "end" of the tunnel straight ahead of you.
I'm into gramar and short tempers. What are you into?
muddyknees2000 said:
If movies have taught me anything (well, the good ones anyways) it's that it's always who you least suspect. So logically, the spy is Ady.
I went to "like" this and then realized I'm not on Facebook.
Decided to stick with the original, even though I found out shortly after I started that there's a "revised" version. I'm about 20 pages from the end.
Saw two great classics in the theater recently. First was Casablanca with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra performing the score live. That was a fantastic experience, but was entirely dwarfed by 2001: A Space Odyssey in 70mm! I feel blessed by the gods to say that I saw a pristine 70mm print of 2001: ASO on the big screen, front and center about 10 rows back, with the screen nearly filling my vision, and the sound so beautifully loud that the high-pitched whine during the Stargate sequence was actually hurting people's ears (like it should). The overture, Ligeti's Atmospheres, played to a completely blackened house, and you could hear a pin drop from the moment it began to the moment the film ended.
Definitely a Top 3 Movie Experience for me. I feel like I can die a little more peacefully now that I've seen 2001 in 70mm.
NeverarGreat said:
Yes, thank you for your detailed explanation. The new version looks much more natural than the first comparison version (though I guess I've just watched the GOUT so many times that it would take some getting used to).
By the way, in defense of my ignorance, did you know that your thread is over 1000 pages long? ;)
No defense necessary! It lead to a great post by adywan about the problems of the various releases and his repair-process, and who doesn't enjoy reading those? It's one of those times that reminds you just how much thought and talent is going into the Revisited project.
So, thanks for bringing it up, NeverarGreat! :)
What use would God or Superman have for a machine gun?
Interesting, I never thought of Scream as a bit of silly fun. It actually scared me quite a bit when I saw it in the theater at 15. I'm still puzzled at how it's distasteful that a character in a horror movie is tortured and killed. Isn't that the point of a slasher movie?
At the risk of starting a rant, I think it's a mistake to transfer the thoughts and behaviors of fictional characters onto their creators. Writers have always given their creations opinions and ideas that they themselves do not hold. It's the same sort of thing that's happening to Tarantino right now with Django Unchained. I can't stand QT as a person, but I don't think he's a racist for putting "the n-word" in the mouths of his characters.
I like it already.
Can we get a Purist version with Crappy Yoda Puppet, please?
Bingowings said:
The opening sequence of Scream is so mean spirited and sadistic (as a film sequence beyond what the characters are doing) that it really spoiled the whole film for me.
Can you elaborate? I'm really puzzled.
Lincoln - 7/10 - A nice film, but not a masterpiece. The acting, costuming, set design, and script are all masterful (save Tommy Lee Jones who was just himself, like every role he plays) but it just lacked a certain something I can't quite put my finger on, but I'm blaming Spielberg. I guess I was hoping for something a little more daring, more artistic, and I think I expected Lincoln to seem not quite so heroic and "perfect", for lack of a better word. DDL was amazing, and brought me the closest to Abraham Lincoln the man that I think I'll ever come, but I just have a gut impression that Lincoln was a little rougher around the edges, in private a little less polished, less agreeable and magnanimous and ever-ready with the perfect thing to say or do in every situation. What made Lincoln who he was, and better than his rivals to lead the country at this time, was exactly that lack of polish and culture. This film Lincoln, like all the others, just seems a tad too ideal. We're still looking at what we hope, or need, Lincoln to be, instead of the flawed human being he really was. Still, an excellent film.
For a long while now, I've wanted to own a complete set of Epic Comic's colorization of AKIRA. The last issue I needed arrived in the mail yesterday. This will be my 3rd read-through, first time in color. The Epic run of AKIRA was one of the first manga to be translated into English, and maybe the very first comic to ever be computer colorized. This definitely shows, it's like the colorist, Steve Oliff, didn't have his levels properly set in Photoshop because you can see where his darker blacks end and the lighter blacks of the original art begin. I flipped through some later issues, and it seems like this got fixed at some point, but at least in the first dozen issues, it's pretty noticeable. Also, according to fans, the translation is inferior to the Dark Horse 6-volume set.
Still, AKIRA is the only manga I've read front-to-back, one of my absolute favorite comics in general. I love being able to re-read it in color. I feel like one of my lesser holy grails has now been found! :)
Found this great explanation from Oliff about how Akira was colorized, at least in the beginning:
Two days after Christmas 1987, Federal Express delivered two boxes to my office in downtown Point Arena. It was an IBM 286 12mhz box, loaded with an AT&T Targa graphics board, DOS, their “Kaliedoscope” software, and a monitor. It also had a handmade heat diffuser to cool off the math co-processor.
Taped to the case was a one page sheet of instructions about how to run the system. It was very simple. I set it up and loaded in some of the disks of Akira art, then spent the next three months coloring Akira #1. The system chugged like an old farm truck. The software was buggy and the machine was erratic. It really needed that heat diffuser, because when it overheated (every day, some days many times a day), it froze, and I'd lose everything up to the last save. It got so bad that I'd save the page after every polygon (each traced off and enclosed area of color). I colored all but 3 or 4 pages, which Abel Mouton helped me with. Eventually.
In the early days, Kenny scanned the pages, then shipped me the disks. I colored them on the system, and sent the disks back to him. From there he made proofs and output the film. I didn't see a single proof until the issue came out in print for the first 10 issues. With issue #11 I got a printer and a scanner, so I could actually check things. All the issues before were kind of seat-of-your-pants, hope for the best.
A director's job isn't just to make a film look good. It's also about getting great performances out of the actors - something George Lucas absolutely cannot do. Abrams is much better at that.
Django Unchained - 7/10 - A lot of fun, but a bit of a mess. A lot less refined in terms of pacing/editing than QT's previous films, but I still enjoyed every minute of it. I can allow that this messy, unevenness may have been purposeful, but sometimes it felt like a byproduct of something else amiss, and not a deliberate attempt to get at something more raw and less polished. Some incredible performances, particularly by DiCaprio. I love that he continued acting even after seriously injuring his hand! And Tarantino kept it in!
Can it be construed as insensitive by some? Yeah, definitely. Does it make QT a racist, or as some have lately been calling him, a "closet white supremacist"? Abso-fucking-lutely not.
Or Britney Spears!
CP3S said:
BmB said:
The annoying thing is, I agree with you on some of this, the government lies and hides stuff from us all the time. I think mistrusting them is a good thing, but you take it all to the cliche point of ridiculousness that makes it so nobody can take it seriously. Thanks to wacked out crazy hypothesizes, it is hard to get people to take things we probably should be on our toes about seriously.
Just like the "Obama's gonna burst into our homes and take away all our guns!!1" people make it really hard to pose a reasonable constitutional argument about the potential dangers of government gun control without being thrown into that same stupid dumbass useless camp. In this way, conspiracy theorists are somewhat like Orwell's sheep, drawing a distraction from real dangers and issues by braying incessantly and mindlessly.
I don't think the claims you make are ridiculous because they are out of the normal line of belief, or because I think the government would never try these things, but because the conspiracies you are citing are so over the top, unbelievable, and impossible, they takes heavy amounts of suspension of disbelief. 9/11, the moon landing, we are talking about things that would be nearly impossible to pull off. And on top of that, all the evidence for these things apply pathetically sad misunderstandings of various sciences.
If either of those two things are conspiracies, and for the sake of argument, I will concede that there is a possibility they are, then conspiracy theorists just got extremely lucky in their guessing, because the evidence they bring forth (fire can't melt steel! Look at the shadows!) is painfully ignorant and demonstrably wrong, and the government is much more capable and able than they have ever openly showed themselves to be.
I'm very open minded and willing to consider some pretty wacky crap. I'm totally willing to go against the flow and believe something the vast majority of people refuse to believe. But if you come to me with a piss poor understanding of how the physical world works as your evidence for this wacky crap, then I am going to have to write it off as nothing more than wacky crap.
Actually that's not entirely true, they do employ people to troll forums that are too far out of line.Evidence of this? Or is it just a "OMG, a troll heckling us. Must be the Feds again." sort of thing?
EDIT: Oh yeah, and I agree with everything Bingo said in the post directly above mine. Well said.
Bravo! There are most certainly conspiracies perpetrated by our government. The kind of mundane conspiracies that actually hurt and endanger people and their freedoms; unlike the moon landing, which has little to no direct impact on anyone at all. Like you and others have said, it's the focus on the exciting and grandiose conspiracies that distracts and entices us away from the focus on the boring conspiracies that really matter.
