doubleofive

One of the famous people I was in the room with was TV's Frank. He tried to convince the audience that Titanic was an amazing film.

Dragon Con was crazy. Didn't meet anyone famous, but was in the same room as a lot of famous people.

darth_ender said:

On the other hand, now that I say that, I should not fail to note that Indy seems a lot more selfish in this film, caring more about "fortune and glory" than about people, while in Raiders he clearly has a more noble head on his shoulders, so perhaps there is a sign of some maturity, but other than that, I really have a hard time looking at it as a prequel as well.

Leaving for Dragon Con tomorrow. Planning on being there all day Sunday, and Sunday night is the Parsec Awards for scifi podcasts. My TOS podcast is a finalist for "Best New Speculative Fiction Podcaster/Team", so wish me luck!

Oh man, if you have an iPhone, you need Overcast. I've been using it for about a month now, and the SmartSpeed has saved me 8 hours just buy cutting out the longer pauses. It also has a 110% speed that doesn't affect the pitch, but really just makes people sound like they're a bit more excited and talking faster than they actually were. So I'm much more efficient in my podcast listening.

muddyknees2000 said:

It's not like a structured military organization or anything.

Kapheen said:

Due to the size, complexity, and duration of this project I'm curious as to how you are running the management side of this edit. Is it organized as per an organizational structure (such as Project Manager, Lead Cinematography, Lead Animator, etc...) with assigned tasks and responsibilities, or is it managed mostly ad hoc on an as-needed basis?

Fang Zei said:

The bit from the badass digest article I find interesting is that apparently the people in charge at Fox don't feel comfortable releasing the OOT while Lucas is still alive.

I'm not sure why this would be the case, though.

peter_pan said:

What if we start a new petition stating we will boycott VII unless the original trilogy is released?

moviefreakedmind said:

Well, Red Letter Media did do a commentary on Star Wars (DVD) and he just tore all the changes apart, it was great. In one of the reviews, I've forgotten which, he said that the SE's were "offensive", I think he described it as something along the lines of, "you're trying to watch the movie, and they keep shoving more shit on the screen to distract you," and if I remember right he referred to Lucas as nothing but a child waving his arms around for attention or something. I guess that's all that really needs to be said about the SE's, but if you want to hear him pick apart specific changes then check out that commentary track, it's on their website I think.

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?