digitalfreaknyc

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.

Hardcore Legend said:

I actually think this should have been two films. I think all the exposition they tried to cram in to get you backstory in the first 45 minutes should have been in a separate film, allowing us to jump off with the rescue mission of Erso and the trip to Jedha. Jyn’s childhood just didn’t fit in the film and I think it made it seem like they couldn’t find a better way to tell you how the Erso’s got to this point.

Gee…I wonder how they could have gotten that exposition done. What would have been a better way to tell you the backstory you needed to know before a Star Wars movie started? 😃

ray_afraid said:

I dunno how it looks in motion, but Leia looks alright here…

And it’s so quick, I don’t see how anyone can criticize it all that much. She says one word “Hope” and that’s it.

Is this the first Star Wars soundtrack without the Star Wars theme on it??? Jeez… 😦

SilverWook said:

Ok, just pointing out one handed Vader has a precedent. 😉

Amazing some footage has leaked. I would have thought people going into the premiere were body searched for cell phones. Of course, some one at a theater could have already run the DCP just for calibration purposes.

There are subtitles. Not sure what language but something asian. So it didn’t happen in the states.

Here’s a list of clips that weren’t in the movie.

http://www.premiere.fr/Cinema/News-Cinema/Douze-plans-des-trailers-de-Star-Wars-Rogue-One-qui-ne-sont-pas-dans-le-film

Granted, that’s just one list. I’m SURE there are more.

joefavs said:

The guy from TCW is credited on IMDB.

Then maybe it is him? I dunno. I never watched it.

SilverWook said:

Really? I thought they had a good Cushing sound alike when Tarkin appeared on TCW. I don’t know who’s voicing him on Rebels.

I would assume they used whatever actor whose face was replaced as the voice here. He rolls the R’s correctly but he just doesn’t sound right. However, it’s not distracting. It’s just not perfect. I’d say the score and the lack of crawl are far bigger issues.

Tobar said:

Reminder: this is the non-spoiler thread

Whoops. Sorry!!

joefavs said:

De-aged Anthony Hopkins was more than passable on Westworld, and they did that with a fraction of Rogue One’s budget. My guess is that the real problem is that they overuse Tarkin. The tech is definitely there to pull off this kind of thing in brief segments.

He’s in several scenes. And, IMHO, it looks great. However, it’s certainly not perfect. I had more of a problem with the voice work than the CGI. It doesn’t totally sound like him.

Fang Zei said:

On the other hand, I’m now very intrigued as to who this other cgi character is.

I would assume he means Leia.

SilverWook said:

I haven’t seen it yet. Just reminded of how Lucas has said some of his colleagues thought the first quarter of Star Wars was too Sci-Fi weird, (like THX 1138 was) and needed more human stuff to balance it out. Hence the Luke and Biggs scenes, which all got cut anyway. 😉

Well, most people haven’t seen it yet. 😉
I’d say it’s just shifting a lot between different planets and different characters, all of whom are completely unfamiliar to the audience. That’s very different from how every other Star Wars movie started, aside from ANH and TFA, I guess.

SilverWook said:

That could easily describe the first section of the original before the droids meet Luke. 😉

There was action in those first 20 minutes. There really isn’t much of any for RO. That’s the difference. This one doesn’t start off with a bang. Quite the opposite. The biggest weakness is the score and the fact that there’s no crawl.

TV’s Frink said:

digitalfreaknyc said:

The first 15-20 minutes are generic sci-fi and “weird.”

Those seem to be in opposition, but I’ll trust you for now.

TBH, i’m not a big sci-fi fan. I never really considered SW to be true sci-fi. It was too human, for me.

Saw it last night and the Coming Soon review almost completely sums up what I thought of it.

The first 15-20 minutes are generic sci-fi and “weird.” But, after that, I was thoroughly entertained. Absolutely loved it. And I also loved TFA.

No. I can just capture Vudu films 😉

You’d have to find a source that will play Vudu at 24fps. Most devices only play 60fps. It took a lot of searching, for me. Finally found a blu-ray player that will do it. I capture with the Hauppauge.

you can update TFA because ALL deleted scenes are now on the 3D edition. Nothing is digital-only.

sunday256 said:

So still no full release of this yet huh?

Yes there was but it’s no biggie. So no one created a new thread about it or bumped this one over the last 3 years. You totally missed it.

JawsTDS said:

digitalfreaknyc said:

Aaaaaand now the theatrical version is up on Netflix. sigh

Well, this version isn’t as highly compressed, but it is disheartening that they didn’t use it for the Blu-ray.

But wouldn’t it help to have the missing “Jake’s Death” shots from it?

Aaaaaand now the theatrical version is up on Netflix. sigh

marioxb said:

digitalfreaknyc said:

Looks like none of this matters anymore. All will be included on the upcoming 3D set.

Well, probably not the episode 1-6 digital-only extras…

Hmm. Just Force Awakens 3D? They should release all 7 in 3D. Did they even make the others in 3D, besides 1 and 7?

Those were never being included on mine.
All 7 weren’t done in 3D

Looks like none of this matters anymore. All will be included on the upcoming 3D set.

JawsTDS said:

So – I can render this thing out very soon, just need to finish the colour correction. Considering the Blu-ray was DNR’ed, would preserving the theatrical cut in 720p be acceptable? I could do 1080p, but that would make the missing frames stick out, as their resolution is only slightly about 720p.

I believe Harmy showed that DNR’ed Blus sometimes don’t have a big difference between 1080 and 720.

Thoughts – 720p vs 1080p?

So you’re re-encoding the majority of the movie? What’s the basis for this “color correction?”

I don’t think the resolution of the missing frames is a major issue, considering how short those shots are.

loa said:

I would still love to see digitalfreaknyc’s 2x BD25 version of it. Even if it’s just 720, who needs 1080 for that old transfer anyways ? As far as I know it isn’t possible to convert a compressed 720p MKV container to a BD25 without loss in quality.

My version is 1080I and, I believe, been deleted. There’s no reason to keep it with the 720p being higher quality. And you can easily burn that to a single BD-R

Well there would certainly be an issue of frame rate. The Blu-ray would be 23.976 and the TV version, if transferred properly and from a US broadcast, would be 29.97. In that clip, the TV footage definitely gets “jumpy” because of the cut frames.

SilverWook said:

Poita is a busy guy, and he said several posts back this was going to take a while. The tapes aren’t going to turn into pumpkins at midnight, so patience. 😃

So sorry 😦