doubleofive

Yes.

It's sounds freaking sweet.

jacksparrow900 said:

I notice a audio glitch in the 5.1 track. Lukes lightsaber ignites twice in the wampa cave. 

http://swrevisited.wordpress.com/2014/08/24/dagobah-trees/

I already updated the WP with the new image.

Johnny Ringo said:

I watched Under the Dome when it first came out but I trailed off when I realised it had almost nothing to do with the book - outside the basic premise and some character names.

Just got back into it. It's good fun but the pacing is very slow and a lot of the story progression requires characters to be complete morons some of the time.

The difference between complaining about a fan edit's changes and Lucas' changes is the fact that you have to go out of your way to see fan edit changes, while Lucas' changes are the only versions you can find, which are available in every store in town. You don't like a fan edit, you can ignore it. It's really easy.

Ryan McAvoy said:

doubleofive said:

I've not been impressed with a Doctor's first episode yet

Yo trippin' 'Spearhead From Space' and 'Time and the Rani' were the shiznit.

I, for one, can't wait for part 2.... ;-)

I haven't read anything about the first episode, but I've not been impressed with a Doctor's first episode yet, so it seems like a gamble.

http://screenrant.com/star-wars-despecialized-edition/

Another site grabs on.

fromdirectorstevenspielberg has a good article about this:

http://fromdirectorstevenspielberg.tumblr.com/why-we-need-indy-5

Harmy said:

I tried watching a few things (including SW) with rifftrax and I thought 90% of the jokes were pretty bad. It only made me chuckle a bit like once every 10 minutes. I still have to try watching the Holiday Special with riffrax though, there's so much comic potential, that it could be good.

Nobody complains about other movies from that era having matte lines today. It's not like people are clamoring for Paramount to make a Special Edition of Star Trek III.

Are we really questioning Harmy's grasp of his own language? ;-)

SilverWook said:

m_s0 said:
They digitized them, but only as 192kbps wma files, because George didn't think they needed to go any higher. They're old anyway and thus obviously sound like crap by modern standards.

You have a source for that info?

SE's were rushed, the plates were never intended to have SFX inserted, the additions were literally JP dinosaurs with some interesting stretching done in different places. Hell, Jabba's texture in 97 was the T-Rex's.

These are all coming from the same source, well, lack of source. At this point, I won't believe anything that doesn't come directly from StarWars.com.

Ryan McAvoy said:

Epic Fail: I saw a display copy for Captain America 2 at the store yesterday (It's out on monday) and Marvel have put a large photo of the Winter Soldier's face on the back cover. Good job that guy who designed the cover.

SilverWook said:

doubleofive said:
I don't believe that. How does a digital copy of a 2 year old movie get transferred to a hard drive, encoded, shipped, and decoded without anyone noticing that it's the wrong movie? The run times are different, the studios are different, and projectionists still test the copies to make sure they're not corrupted, so they would notice it's the wrong movie. Especially if they already made the mistake before.

Trained projectionists are as rare as Jedi knights these days. I don't know about the UK, but older family films are brought back as morning matinees in theaters here, especially in the summer.

Tyrphanax said:

Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Councilor (2013)

This film is why Tyler Perry shouldn't make movies. Terrible acting (Kim Kardashian can't even play herself); terrible one-name (one-name characters and the title? Sounds like Cinemax porn to me), one-dimension, stupidly-motivated, incredibly braindead characters (especially the lead); a predictable and obvious plot twist with a shoehorned reveal in a character's monologue; a tedious, drawn-out, sluggish plot; all stuffed to the gills with incredibly ham-fisted religious parables and metaphors in a wannabe-intelligent and clever, "hey do you get it yet?" fashion. If you decide to watch this, watch the first ten minutes or so and then skip to the last fifteen minutes or so.

SilverWook said:

If you got a Guardians movie with a bunny instead of a raccoon, this might be why. ;)

http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2014/08/cinema-plays-wrong-guardians-film-three-times-in-a-row/

SilverWook said:

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6214496/guardians-of-the-galaxy-soundtrack-no-1-billboard-200

Gen Con is a very celebrity-lite convention. It's pretty much the official Wizards of the Coast (D&D/Magic The Gathering) and Mayfair games (Settlers of Catan) convention, so there's a lot of that mixed with other brands and indie games. They'll have one or two celebrities. We've seen, but not talked to, Nichelle Nichols and Walter Koenig, but got to meet Wil Wheaton (who now just goes to hang out).

We've also been to Adventure Con in Knoxville, TN. It's a tiny convention. There are almost more celebrities than there are booths. It's a big space, but only about half the area has booths and only half of the booths are rented out. In 2006 we met Adam Baldwin and in 2012 we met Alan Tudyk, which I suppose makes it our personal Firefly Con.

I need more real life friends here.

I'm pretty sure we don't have a thread about conventions we may be going to, so here's one.

Gen Con is next weekend in Indianapolis, but I don't think we're going this year.

I will be going to Dragon Con Labor Day weekend in Atlanta. Anyone else going to that?