So apparently the JFK files are a thing but not really a thing?
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/27/politics/trump-jfk-documents-analysis/index.html
“But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.” -D.H. Lawrence
I’m saying that I didn’t even realize it was a change in the first place because I played Rogue Squadron 20 years ago
Oh yeah… I forgot about that.
Also, Rebel Assault.
It would be helpful if you made any sense.
So where does that leave you?
How do you know for certain they’re screwing with you, rather than your just assuming they are? What do they say when you ask them to stop? Seriously, if they’re your friends, you should be able to be straight with them about how you feel. Within a certain level of civility of course.
On the one hand, your friends should respect you enough to not jerk you around if you genuinely ask them not to. On the other hand, if you feel everyone is jerking you around, that may be more your perception than their intent.
Not intending to preach, but I don’t see how deep-seated bitterness can be healthy overall for ones emotional wellbeing. Trying to ferret out the root of it and foster genuine non-threatening relationships would seem helpful to that end. Although, I imagine dredging up pain so one could get rid of it would initiate quite an enormous rant or two or three. So if you were to rant, you might warn them about it or ask them if you could rant for a while.
Although, speaking for myself, sometimes starting to complain about something gets me going more than lets off steam.
My earliest memory of anything Star Wars is not from the movies. I remember having a Return of the Jedi Read-Along Storybook, and going with my Mom to a local burger restaurant more than once so she could play a Star Wars arcade game (the wireframe Trench Run one in a sit down cabinet.) My parents also owned the Star Wars: Jedi Arena, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi: Death Star Battle games for Atari 2600.
I think my parents rented and pirated the Original Trilogy, but I don’t remember how young I was when I first saw them. I do have a vague recollection of watching the end of A New Hope and it switching suddenly from fullscreen to letterboxed right at the last shot before the credits roll, and I had no idea at the time why it did that.
When I really got into the actual movies themselves was when my parents gave me the Faces VHS set for my birthday. I remember those were given to me, not just bought in general for my family.
And I certainly remember watching the SEs and the Prequels in the theatre when they each first came out. Yuck. Growing up, my favorite Star Wars movie was Jedi for reasons that basically qualify it as classic adventure flick. So I especially hated the SE version of Jedi for what it did to Lapti Nek and Sy Snoodles. That is, until I found ANH:R and eventually Despecialized.
Now, because of the ongoing nature of these fan projects, I have a continuing fascination with the Star Wars films. My family probably thinks I’m eccentric for knowing little nitpicky details about their production when the reality is I just hang around you guys enough to pick stuff like that up.
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But again—in Star Wars, the original film, by itself, without any other films being made yet—Ben Kenobi says of Anakin that “I took it upon myself to train him as a Jedi” and “A young Jedi named Darth Vader who was a pupil of mine […] helped the Empire to hunt down and destroy the Jedi Knights. He betrayed and murdered your father.”
That is in the first act of the first film all by itself.
Isn’t it a little weird how in the first movie, Han says that he’s never heard of the Jedi or the Force, but the Jedi only went extinct twenty years earlier?
He just said he didn’t believe in this stuff. This is also consistent with what he said in TFA.
LUKE
You don’t believe in the Force, do you?HAN
Kid, I’ve flown from one side of this galaxy to the other. I’ve seen a lot of strange stuff, but I’ve never seen anything to make me believe there’s one all-powerful force controlling everything. There’s no mystical energy field that controls my destiny. It’s all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense.In any case, I think Lucas originally wanted the Jedi to be extinct for much more years for the original movie, but this later changed with the next two.
No. Luke’s father was a Jedi, and Vader reportedly murdered him and helped hunt down the other Jedi. And Ben knew Anakin personally. Han’s and General Motti’s (“don’t try to frighten us…”) skepticism of the Force aren’t so much an indication of a previous storyline as much as a possible minor plothole.
Han’s skepticism can be validated to a degree, but I don’t know what justification Motti would have for willfully baiting Vader like that.
Combing the first 26 pages of this thread, there is no such mention. But there is no reason to assume he would recolor it. There would be no point to changing it other than for purely aesthetic reasons. It would have nothing to do with improving effects or fixing plotholes.
The purpose of Revisited is to make a Special Edition worthy of the original, not to act as George did and change things because reasons. Yes, Ady did make arguably unnecessary changes to ANHR, like altering the music during the Ben/Vader battle. But to some degree that made sense. Coloring Luke’s lightsaber in Jedi from green to blue doesn’t make sense.
I am just wondering why Garland was mentioned specifically.
are you talking about Judy Garland or Merrick?
see, this is why he needs to be mentioned specifically! (or she)
I thought garlands had no gender?!?!
Did you just assume its non-gender?
My question is, when Ren does take his helmet off during the interrogation, why does he lay it down in a pile of ash? And why is there a pedestal with a pile of ash there to begin with?
A Jedi does not rummage for his lightsaber. He calls it with the force and it comes.
Exactly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-12BmIHzWdc
Sith use synthetic crystals, which only come in red.
I thought kyber crystals turned red after making it “bleed” through domination and such.
…Anyway, to continue the Sail Barge discussion, I worked on reducing the green screen artifacts in Photoshop:
http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/K7GNNN8X
Nice. But there is still a light source that is lighting up the edge of Luke’s face for some reason from the tip of his nose to his chin.
If they had tried to pull it off as some big reveal a la ESB, I would’ve been rolling my eyes. They still managed to achieve this with Han’s death scene, though.
Actually, I went into the film already knowing that Harrison Ford wanted Han to have died in the OT given the character’s arc from a selfish scoundrel to a loyal hero was complete; and that he was unhappy with the “teddy bear picnic” in Jedi in lieu of a more bittersweet ending. So I could tell it was coming pretty early on in that scene.
I’m not saying that scene is obvious, I’m just saying it was in no way a shock.
I recently watched DigMod’s Heir to the Force edit, and I liked the aspect of keeping Ren’s helmet on—and not outright saying who his father is—until the confrontation on the bridge. It made me somewhat wish there was a mashup between that edit and this one.
I REALLY don’t like this concept, so I’m glad this edit is not going to include it. No offense to Digimod’s work, he did it well, but I think it would be best left up to another editor to combine these change.
I didn’t say he should in this edit. I said I wish there was one.
But just so we’re clear, when you guys say the extended reveal “creates more problems than it solves”, what problems are those exactly?
Why though?
Okay, so you’re trolling.
Also, I own that game, and I’ve beaten it (although that was way back when and I haven’t used that Atari in decades). I didn’t think it was as awful then as people apparently make it out to be.
Just remembered I have a lot of H.P. Lovecraft on my phone. Might be redos or compilations. Even have all of Charles Dickens, John Le Carre, and Alexandre Dumas too. All those epubs. No idea what I have in storage, should check again soon.
Do you use Calibre to store your ebooks?
I use Calibre, Dropbox, and Calibre-go for Android to store my entire ebook library and share it to my mobile devices.
When was the last time you actually watched E.T., Frink?
Having never seen it myself, I can confidently say ET isn’t that great of a movie as everybody says it is.
Having seen it, I can confidently say yes it is.
Having seen it, I can confidently say it’s fine. But not great. So Possessed wins this round.
Then you are lost!
From my point of view the ET Special Edition is evil!
FTFY
Having never seen it myself, I can confidently say ET isn’t that great of a movie as everybody says it is.
Having seen it, I can confidently say yes it is.
Yeah, in that respect I have to say the world is what you make of it. This world does have plenty of stupid people, and plenty of evil. But that doesn’t mean we can’t focus on the good, on the people who care about us, on our friends, etc.
Being downright hateful of anyone and everyone, specific and nonspecific, known and unknown—I don’t see how that’s sustainable.
I am pretty introverted. I don’t hate people but I do gain a certain enjoyment from spending time by myself. I’m also pretty shy and I really hate having the spotlight. That being said, I have no problem being in a crowd of strangers, as in a crowded store or something.
I do have a wife and a daughter. It was my wife who struck up an extended conversation with me after I made some witty comment when we first met. I did not make the first move. I couldn’t.
But now that I’m married, I’m much more secure around people. I’m not on the market so I can just because myself. For the most part, anyway. I’m still rather awkward at times and can have a tendency to talk too much or put my foot in my mouth. It is after those moments, when I realized it, that I shut up for a while. Kind of a back and forth at times.
My relationship with my wife has been strained at times over the years, due to me being stupid or her being depressed. But we still love each other. I’ve known my wife for 15 years and we’ve been married for 12. I LOVE my daughter, and she’s only 2.
