digitalfreaknyc

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

Harry Potter just dropped in 4K. SRP $44.95 a title and currently pre-ordering on Amazon at that price, no box set, while the 2016 Blu Ray is selling on Amazon for $8.

1. Can’t believe that price.
2. A per-title release instead of box is interesting. Even more interesting is we’re getting the last four in the series first, with the other four titles coming later in 2017.

For the OT, if we get 4K (and even if not), I like the individual title release idea, but $45 per title?? New releases don’t even fetch that on the format. Hopefully we won’t get gouged like this if the OUT comes around this year.

It’s a good thing you weren’t around for laserdiscs.

Cj6543 said:

Was this ever uploaded?

I hope that the Netflix version was used to patch the shot(s) that weren’t available.

The DP of Rogue One Greig Fraser mentions that they had a look at the 4K versions of Star Wars AND Empire in the February issue of American Cinematographer:

“With Gareth Edwards, we wanted to be attentive that the look be consistent with A New Hope, which is seared in our brains. We weren’t necessarily trying to reproduce what it actually looked like, but how we remember it — there’s a difference between reality and the remembrance of reality. Part of our research was to look at the 4K scanned versions of A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back. They look fantastic, but they don’t look how I remember them.”

Molly said:

A couple friends have tentacles out for the BDs of Superman II and Superman II RDC. I’ll see what I can do.

If I am able to do it, I will do it in two forms:

• A full length cut, at 720x540, using as much restored footage as possible (cropped to 4:3).
• A shorter cut, at 1280x540 (possibly also at a higher resolution), with only the restored footage.

No guarantees.

Just an fyi, those are PAL sizes. The original NTSC would be preferable.

Should check out this interview with Ben Mendelsohn: http://collider.com/ben-mendelsohn-rogue-one-star-wars-interview/#changes

“We did have multiple, multiple ways of going at any given scenario, we had multiple readings of it. So should they ever decided to, there would be a wealth of ways of approaching these different things. And I know from having seen sort of the crucial kind of scenes throughout it, I know there’s vastly different readings of at least four of those scenes, with enormous differences within I would’ve said 20 or 30 of the scenes.”

SilverWook said:

When poor Carrie was reported to already be dead in some corners of the internet last week, yes I question the news. End of discussion.

Carrie was never “reported” to be dead. People talking on Twitter doesn’t constitute a “report” unless you’re dumb enough to conclude it is one.

And the discussion doesn’t end simply because you say it does. You’ve already proven that your experience or intelligence level on the subject is…lacking.

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

Not sure this is the time or place to have this debate.

Then feel free to tell the person who started it by questioning the news.

SilverWook said:

I’ll wait until I hear the news from a more reputable site. TMZ is sleaze.

You’re saying TMZ isn’t reputable? Are you 80? Or living on another planet?
They break ALL entertainment news.

Was finally able to gather my thoughts and post this on Instagram. My heart still hurts 😦
https://www.instagram.com/p/BOir_rVgLib/?taken-by=cjlenti

[Tyrphanax said:]
It does suck. Some of the stuff she was into leaves indelible, permanent scars, though. Not sure it was so much a “bounce back” as it was a cumulative effect over time. Plus when you throw age in, all bets are off.

And the weight loss/gain. Seems like that can’t help matters.

[Tyrphanax said:]
Haseo was saying “there’s no logical reason such a thing should happen to someone like her” and I felt like her drug abuse was a pretty logical reason.

My response was dripping with sarcasm. Sorry if that wasn’t clear.

schorman13 said:

Well, in the case of my father, who had “the widowmaker”, they waited a week to do surgery.

But was he in ICU after a heart attack? I mean…we don’t even know if she’s awake. She’s on a ventilator.

Hardcore Legend said:

If she had surgery, ICU and breathing assistance is common for 24 hours. Oxygen for 2 days, especially if emergency surgery. I had a Family member go through this. They want the heart to not have to work as hard as it recovers. Plus, worry of infections.

But there’s no indication she had surgery. I’m thinking they would have mentioned if she had.

Tyrphanax said:

I mean there’s the heavy heavy drug abuse in her past.

Really? noooooooooooooo

She’s the only one of the 3 that I’ve never met…and the one I want to meet the most. 😦

JawsTDS said:

My main question, after finally seeing the film twice is: did anyone catch a “Wilhelm scream” hidden in the sound mix?

Someone said it was when Jyn grabbed the troopers gun and he fell off the platform. I’ve seen it 3 times and never heard it.

Lord Haseo said:

Telling them the story of SW and ESB progresses the plot in no way.

Are you so busy ranting that you’ve forgotten how to read? You just got your explanation. It absolutely does.

Smoking Lizard said:

Damn, dude. Please tell me you don’t really think that’s what Haseo is saying, right?

That’s exactly what he said. How should I take it any differently?

Lord Haseo said:

digitalfreaknyc said:

Lord Haseo said:

And just like that I’m sad. Thanks for that.

TFA wasn’t perfect but neither is RO. I’d argue the problems with RO are more glaring than TFA. And some, like this, you have to think about a little more.

That type of thinking can enable me to poke a million hopes in the OT as it suffers from that type of writing too. Even if those films didn’t have shit like that in them you’re overthinking it. It’s a chaotic encounter in a narrow, dark hallway. Vader was probably fixated on blast deflection and just trying to kill everyone instead of devoting useful mental resources to think about one Rebel.

So…he was just trying to kill everyone? Not get the plans? And that’s why he stares at the Tantive IV as it takes off? Because he didn’t get to kill more people?

Riiiiiiight.

Lord Haseo said:

And just like that I’m sad. Thanks for that.

TFA wasn’t perfect but neither is RO. I’d argue the problems with RO are more glaring than TFA. And some, like this, you have to think about a little more.

DominicCobb said:

digitalfreaknyc said:

And, btw, I know EVERYONE is loving the Vader scene (as did I) but I’ll be the guy to throw a huge monkey wrench in the Vader-orgy going on:
With one force pull, he grabbed 5-6 blasters. Couldn’t he have done the exact same thing with the plans that the soldier was holding? One force pull and he’s got them. Done.

Continue…

It’s unclear if he even realizes that guy has the plans.

Riiiiiihgt. So the dark lord of the Sith needs someone to point an arrow at them and say “these are the plans you’re looking for?” He could use the force, read their minds and find the trooper that’s the MOST frantic. Or, hell, the one who’s thinking “I’m holding the plans in my hand.” He’s the one with the plans. Done.

Burdokva said:

I don’t want to derail this but taste is subjective. To me, TFA is an incredibly well done movie but an incredibly soulless one. It’s the marketing director’s sweet dream come true. Repeated viewings have made it worse each time. Whenever people say they couldn’t connect to ROs characters but praise TFA, I can’t help but roll my eyes. If the TFA characters weren’t connected to the original cast, I am pretty certain things wouldn’t have been the same. And I give them that they acted well enough.

This statement is as inane and simplistic as it gets. That’s like saying "if it weren’t Star Wars, you wouldn’t care at all.

Well, duh. No shit.

If it were Star Trek, I would barely care. If it were The Walking Dead, I wouldn’t care at all. But, in the end, it’s Star Wars and that’s the primary reason why ANY of us care.

And, btw, I know EVERYONE is loving the Vader scene (as did I) but I’ll be the guy to throw a huge monkey wrench in the Vader-orgy going on:
With one force pull, he grabbed 5-6 blasters. Couldn’t he have done the exact same thing with the plans that the soldier was holding? One force pull and he’s got them. Done.

Continue…

Smoking Lizard said:

digitalfreaknyc said:

Give me the heart of Eps 4-7 on the regular and I’ll be very, very happy.

What the hell does “heart” even mean, anyway? Post a vague, eye-of-the-beholder rationale for liking or disliking a movie?

If you don’t know, I can’t help you understand.

Ronster said:

digitalfreaknyc said:

Smoking Lizard said:

TV’s Frink said:

Watching TFA last year and RO this year have made the PT even more irrelevant in my mind because they’ve hammered home how poorly executed the PT is.

RO also renders TFA irrelevant. The reality for the fan base hasn’t fully burned in yet, but RO has grabbed the reins of the SW franchise and jammed it back on track. It’s a coup. In the end, Disney is going to have to rethink the direction of episodes 8 and 9 based on the sensational execution of RO.

Yeah ok. Good luck with that. RO will make a percentage of what TFA did, which was all because of repeat business and the OT actors. If the movie sucked people wouldn’t have come back to it. And, btw, reviews for TFA are better than RO. There’s MUCH more “heart” in TFA than there is in RO and you care a helluva lot more about the characters.
That’s not a slam against RO, which I loved, but my excitement about it has been tempered by subsequent viewings.

Personally what I take away from it is that Episode eight will be aimed at 5 - 10 year olds and the Anthologies hopefully will be aiming at higher age ranges teens to adults.

I don’t feel the sequel trilogy is really aimed at adults or at least that is my current perception unless they make the sequel trilogy more mature.

Personally, the whole reason why I got into Star Wars is because of its tremendous heart and soul, which the OT had in abundance. Even Empire, which is the darkest of them all, has an over-abundance of it.

RO is great for a stand-alone but several of these and I’d no longer be a Star Wars fan. Give me the heart of Eps 4-7 on the regular and I’ll be very, very happy.