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StarThoughts said:

unlike some of the other sequences, it was an alteration that was clearly NOT what was originally intended in '77, and it was poorly executed in all versions…

All of The Clone Wars is coming to Netflix, including the "final" season.

*shrug*

They're Lucas' favorite frames? I guess that's worth something to some people.

This thread reminds me of Sliders, and the problem I always had with trying to find your way back from infinite possibilities. While sure, dinosaurs never dying or no one discovering penicillin are possible timelines, so are the ones where I turned on the light in the bedroom so I didn't stub my toe. Or cutting my hair last week instead of today.

So the Sliders should have come across a billion versions where the only difference was that someone decided to mow their grass in India on a different day of the week than normal and have been perfectly fine staying there.

There's apparently a note in the front of the book apologizing for the poor image quality since the original images were only 1920x1080. They're "hand selected" frames from the Blu-rays printed in a book.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/george-lucas-star-wars-interview-288523

Lucas said:

The controversy over who shot first, Greedo or Han Solo, in Episode IV, what I did was try to clean up the confusion, but obviously it upset people because they wanted Solo [who seemed to be the one who shot first in the original] to be a cold-blooded killer, but he actually isn’t. It had been done in all close-ups and it was confusing about who did what to whom. I put a little wider shot in there that made it clear that Greedo is the one who shot first, but everyone wanted to think that Han shot first, because they wanted to think that he actually just gunned him down.

I don't like how it undermines our intelligence. Lucas says he always intended for that to be the case, we just couldn't tell because of the poor editing. So no one in 20 years was able to figure out the mystery of who shot first (because we didn't know there WAS a mystery). I doubt he didn't have the technology to film and edit Greedo shooting first in 1976 if he had wanted it that way. It represents "Revisionism" to me in the most physical way. I think that's why I'm still upset about it.

I would think if this was Mal actively going back into the dream world, she'd actually tell him as much, and not just try to kill him. She'd also show up in the top level instead of only when he goes deeper.

Did anyone listen to my wife and I do a commentary on this movie with some friends?

http://maxhegel.podbean.com/2013/04/07/inception-commentary/

Because that's a thing that happened.

SilverWook said:

Just in case you were wondering what Mr. Binks has been up to lately...

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1942795-sports-mascots-you-had-no-idea-existed/page/22

Reframing, very interesting.... Let us know what you find.

Continues is pretty great. I do want to point out my little nitpick that the shuttle should say "Galileo II" on the side, but other than that it's all very well done. I love that Drexler (designer of most of the ships from Enterprise) built his TOS E in the computer at 11.5 feet so the camera would react to it as if it were a scale model and not a 1000 foot spaceship. It's the little details.

Soon we'll have Larry Nemechek (McCoy/Author of the TNG Companion) on my podcast to learn more about Continues.

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TV's Frink said:

I highly recommend the name "CP3S" since the guy who should have that name spelled it wrong when he signed up.

Here's 900 or so suggestions, but I like ShutterAndy

Darth Lars said:

I wish that I could filter this thread to only contain posts by AdyWan, so that I did not have to wade through all the chatter about unrelated stuff ...

The Blu-ray changes were definitely for the 3D versions, at least the visual changes. Save for the fixes (of things they messed up in 97), most of them add some kind of depth or perspective that wasn't there before.

I agree about the padding. There was an unnecessary amount of slow motion walking for my taste. Hardly any fast cut deductions, though Drunk Sherlock Deductions were hilarious. "Electric Thingamabob" and so forth.

Sherlock does seem nicer. I was going to say you can't have someone be an ass forever, but look at House.

Yes, yes, to Bingo you listen.

I like podcasting.

Not only do I get to record myself talking to friends about nerdy things, but sometimes I get to meet some of the creatives behind the nerdy things!

New How It Should Have Ended, on TPM:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4hvUvBmoaA

The credits sequence has a shoutout to CPY.

Thanks for the title update, Boost.

Bingowings said:

hairy_hen said:

Go full retard?  You never go full retard.  ;)

 Oh yes the N-word for learning disabilities :-/

RicOlie_2 said:

Well done Frink, well done. One thing though--at 19:47, Shatner (not having seen the movie, I only know the actor)