doubleofive

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?

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...