Love the visuals! Great work!
I will, however, point out that you should try to keep the original aspect ratio of 2.39:1. I'm sure you'll matte to it on the final cut.
Vader #2 came out yesterday. Random mission, not sure how it ties into the plot of this limited run series, but it's entertaining at least.
captainsolo said:
I avoided Kingsman because I knew I'd get far too annoyed with the overall crass tone, overabundance of CGI and the fact that the "homage" basically crapped on the great elements of many classics, such as The Avengers. Some of these elements were what I hated in First Class despite it being one of the strongest X-Men films.
The Last Five Years
Interesting concept for a musical, it takes the titular last 5 years of a relationship with each scene/song taking place at a different point in the relationship. The couple takes turns singing, her songs start at the end of the relationship and work backwards to the beginning while his songs go the opposite way, timelines meeting in the middle for the wedding. Unless you've read the description, there's no real set up for that, so going in blind is confusing for the first several songs.
As for the quality, watching it on my iPad on an airplane sharing earbuds with Mrs. O'Five probably wasn't the ideal conditions, but I enjoyed it overall. The music is good, the cinematography is not. I get the feeling most of the songs were done in a handful of takes, so there's a lot of long shots and the camera or the singers sometimes get lost or you can tell the cameraperson is running after them.
Anyway, if you like musicals, you could do worse.
Kingsman: The Secret Service
I feel like a fuddy-duddy, but I didn't get much enjoyment out of this movie at all. I like the Colin Firth mentoring a streetwise kid on how to be a gentleman spy stuff, but then it would dip into dark places that would make Craig Bond wince, then go into over-the-top stuff that Austin Powers never dreamed of. I read that Vaughn wanted to redefine the spy movie like Spielberg redefined the serial adventures of his youth with Raiders, but he really missed with it. And its not like the serial adventures were still going strong in the 80's with a hundred better takes on it already out like we have with spy movies.
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We're talking about a movie where a bunch of rich people's heads explode in brightly colored smoke in time with the music being immediately followed by a mother trying to break into her bathroom with a meat cleaver to murder her toddler. It's an insane whiplash.
My biggest issue was the final test for these gentlemen spies-in-training. They were given a dog at the beginning of training and told to take care of it. Every lesson we see is about building teamwork between the students. The final test is they're given a gun and told to shoot their dog. Of course, our hero doesn't do it. So he fails.
Sure, the guns had blanks, but it still holds that refusing to shoot the dog you were told to take care of is a failure in this gentleman spy organization. What kind of lesson is that? Where would he have learned that in the training? The last time I saw an organization that gave you a dog and forced you to kill it was HYDRA, and they're the bad guys.
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Anyway, I didn't like the movie, thought it failed to do anything it set out to do. And this one I saw at an Alamo Drafthouse Cinema while drinking with a bunch of people who did seem to be enjoying it, so it wasn't the environment.
Jupiter Ascending
My wife and I went to another Alamo Drafthouse to see this to wash the dirt off from Kingsman. We were both pleasantly surprised. After hearing about it and how most people I know who saw it enjoyed it, I took it upon myself to not abandon it as I did John Carter and Edge of Tomorrow, movies I was sure I would have liked but didn't see in theaters which I ended up enjoying a lot and feeling bad for waiting for Blu-ray.
I found it intriguing and engrossing. I want to see more of the world the Wachowskis created for this, unfortunately due to what seems to be WB losing all faith in it last summer and delaying it till winter (you can't tell me they delayed it 9 months to finish the effects and couldn't have waited an additional 3 to keep it a summer movie) and then not promoting it properly, the franchise is dead already. I love me some comic book movies, but I also love me some original IP. It's a shame this isn't getting more love. Because I love it.
THIS JUST IN: writers can sometimes write more than one genre, especially when the cowriter is also known for other genres.
Film in 2016
It's a fan edit / fun project. It doesn't need to be future proof.
It's a fan edit / fun project. It doesn't need to be future proof.
Seems like you're my target audience for my Revisited ReVHSed project.
The original effects shots are in HD on the Blu-Ray. They had access to the original film masters. That's what was broadcast. That's as good as they can look because they didn't have the original elements to peice back together like they did for the recent TNG Blu's. The CG effects were added because CBS figured that they couldn't get anyone to show the re-runs without some kind of catch. The original versions are still out there and preserved.
Amazon Prime has the original versions.
I love that buying an AMT model kit is technically "screen-accurate"!
Ray, the entire reason the Remastered exists is for syndication. MeTV actually showed the new versions first run. So I wouldn't expect a good reaction from them.
The pilot Enterprise had a larger bridge module, larger deflector dish, solid red spiked nacelle caps, and holes in back of the nacelles. When they got picked up, they upgraded the model to have lighting, so they ended up changing all that. So there are really only two versions, they just used the pilot version in the series if they had a stock shot of it doing what they needed it to do that week.
They also used a few AMT model kits, but that's beside the point.
Welcome to a fresh new canon.Smithers said:
Does anyone know who that lizard-eyed dude was that the Emperor was talking to in Darth Vader #1? He isn't familiar to me at all, also, does anyone know who that black mangled wookie is (Black Krrantan) because I have no idea who these people are.
OR:
http://swrevisited.wordpress.com/2012/11/20/why-720p-for-revisited-is-enough/
"Darth Vader" #1 takes place after the arc we're halfway through in "Star Wars". I mean, I assumed the Rebels accomplish their mission and escape, I just figured I'd find out how by reading that series.
Anyway, "Darth Vader" is pretty good. The art is a little "traced over screengrabs from the movie" which makes them look more realistic than the current "Star Wars" run, but is distracting to me personally when I can identify what frame most of the art was based on, except for the two-page spreads, which look incredible. As for the plot, I'm really liking the animosity between Vader and the Emperor. The Emperor just treats Vader like garbage, and some of the dialog are now my favorite things.
Ugh, more people who like "The Thaw".
I don't know what that means.TV's Frink said:
I thought you meant "used as a source" in a Curb Your Enthusiasm sense.
That sounds great! Can we see screenshots or videos?
I'm fairly certain we've got everything we need right here:
http://www.swonvideo.com/
Reference, yes, sorry.
Those are apparently taken from the Blu-ray, so they've already been used as a source.
Ralph Brown now has a character in the MCU. This pleases me.
You used Dr. Horrible, I missed a few videos, so I'm sure that's not new, its just perfect for that scene. The Kill Bill stuff is also perfection.