doubleofive

Not strictly video game related, but:

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/08/xbox-one-to-get-far-better-at-playing-pirated-tv-shows/

Native MKV is coming to the Xbone.

Here's the soundtrack in film order.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXa8Bw3aGMQ

This man is going to be in Episode VII. Neat that they captured that moment for him.

Guardians of the Galaxy

If you haven't seen it yet, go now.

Every Ball.

Luke's ignorance is understandable. HAN'S is something completely different.

lordsidi said:

Hi Harmy, Big fan of yours, but if you don't mind explaining what this newest Empire that's available all about? Please forgive me, cause I don't get a lot of time to read all the posts.

Harmy in the first post said:

This is a reconstruction of the 1980 theatrical version of The Empire Strikes Back. The original shots were painstakingly restored using various sources (listed below) and the film received an extensive shot by shot colour correction.

The remastered version (v2.0) represents a significant improvement in picture quality over the earlier 1.0 version
due to the use of better encoding and higher quality sources and replacing many of the despecialized shots with
higher quality ones.

The AVCHD version contains the latest versions of the preservations of the original audio mixes, three different
commentary tracks and an isolated score.

Ryan McAvoy said:

Johnny Ringo said:
Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan.

quite good.

Burn the heretic! ;-)

Yeah wait...



(assuming Australians are just as polite as Brits)

WedgeCyan said:

I can't bring my real-life friends here... Last weekend by former best friend told me TPM was his favorite SW movie followed by AOTC :( I nearly cried in public. I have not spoken to him since this incident.

I hope Bond/24 is a Daniel Craig/Kiefer Sutherland team-up where Bond & Bauer have to work together to stop the biggest terrorist attack ever.

Somehow I doubt either of those things were influenced by unused Willow concepts. Both seem like pretty standard ideas that many people have.

Good for you?

Johnny Ringo said:

As for the other way around - I connect with a few of you via other means like facebook, xbox live, steam, stalking doublofive on twitter [he's not as punny as he thinks he is]

This is a tall order. You're right in saying they will contradict each other.

This is true, there is no canon, and until recently the novels were mostly stand alone. There are some classic novels that don't fit in to later canon that you should probably read ("Spock's World" and so forth), but a chronological list of every media? I don't think it would be very pretty.

I've not read a ton of the novels. Personally, I like/own the Crucible series by David R. George III. Taking only the shows and movies as canon, he explores how the events of "City on the Edge of Forever" affected each of the Big Three. Spock's is a pretty straightforward story, while McCoy's is mostly told from the alternate reality where the Nazi's win WW2. Kirk's is kind of weird, mostly him reliving experiences in the Nexus if I remember correctly.

KrisEike said:

TV's Frink said:

Well it is for metrosexualcon, right?

Nah, but close.. Metrocon in Norway, held in a city called Sandnes :P

Jaws 3-D

Unfortunately not in 3-D, stupid Universal and me not having a 3D TV anyway.

Sometimes I'll just show my wife movies that I've always liked. This weekend I showed her Shawshank Redemption and The Usual Suspects, but I had mentioned a couple weeks ago that she needed to watch the so-bad-they're-good Jaws sequels, which she reminded me of last night. It's rare that she'll drop everything and focus on a movie, and this was not one of the rarities. She did laugh at the terrible 80's fashions and awful 3D-not-3D effects. Last night as we're falling asleep she says to me "not many people died in that movie". I told her that each Jaws sequel has less deaths, and Jaws: The Revenge has like two. "I guess we'll find out tomorrow..." she says.

I hope she still likes Michael Caine after this...

Tobar said:

This is just silly.

Thanks for clarifying. Appreciate it.

Interesting that they would restore and show vintage trailers. Maybe they just wanted to be able to show more than just Rebels stuff on their screens.

Drugs? It's more like "let's take these two things from the 60's who have successful reboots and smash them together." See also: the Ghostbusters/Ninja Turtles crossover comic that is also coming soon.

I can't wait for either.

Some of the CGI was made in 1994, so it's understandably dated. Jabba was worked on the entire year of 94, animated frame-by-frame by hand using textures from the T-Rex from Jurassic Park. Not that you can see that today, but the dewbacks and troopers I believe were also hand animated.

The whole idea was a test-bed for the Prequels, never meant to be the be-all end-all for the movies.

unamochilla2 said:

How does this person know they were restored?  Did they say so or did they just "look" restored? 

gizzy2000 said:

unamochilla2 said:

Fang Zei said:

It's Comic Con.

They were probably just showing it just to have something to show on the big projectors in the background while everyone partied it up on the convention floor.

 That makes more sense than having an event that "debuts" these remastered trailers.

 From the sounds of the guy's tweet though he made it seem like they were restored trailers. Would they restore trailers just to have in the background?

http://twitter.com/oshanruiz/status/494128216349487104

He says they were restored original trailers. Interesting.

Apparently Peter Jackson said/joked at Comic Con that he's considering adding a few scenes to the LotR trilogy for the eventual Complete Middle Earth Set. Extended Extended Edition?

timdiggerm said:

doubleofive said:

I just noticed this tweet we got last night:

Lucasfilm was showing restored original trilogy @starwars trailers @Comic_Con this year. Are these available? @swrevisited @SW_Celebration

I'm trying to follow up on this, I haven't heard anyone mentioning any trailers.

Can't decide if these are trailers for a restored original trilogy, or restored trailers from the 70s & 80s.

I just noticed this tweet we got last night:

Lucasfilm was showing restored original trilogy @starwars trailers @Comic_Con this year. Are these available? @swrevisited @SW_Celebration

http://twitter.com/oshanruiz/status/493931616746475524

I'm trying to follow up on this, I haven't heard anyone mentioning any trailers.