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#950742
Topic
Sock Admittance
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Lord Haseo said:

TV’s Frink said:

Lord Haseo said:

TV’s Frink said:

Lord Haseo said:

I’d say Duracell is a better candidate.

This better be a troll post.

Well, it’s not. You two were meant for each other.

You had better explain yourself.

Your personalities are suited to each other. If one of you were a female (or were both gay) and were put in the same location for an extended period of time you would either start fornicating or would hit it off and would end up getting together at a later time. Trust me, I’m a doctor.

Or one would murder the other.

Post
#950682
Topic
Episode III: Revenge of the Ridiculousness
Time

TV’s Frink said:

doubleofive said:

TV’s Frink said:

I’m sure if I bought it I could find other uses for it, but it’s still hard to justify.

Dammit, now I might just buy it anyway.

Come on, be like every movie in the 90’s, buy a plug-in and use it as often as you can in as many projects as you can.

I don’t get it.

WHM pokes fun at 90’s movies for overusing particular effects because ā€œwe already have the plug-in!ā€

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#950552
Topic
how to rate movies
Time

timemeddler said:

here’s my system

  1. if it was made in the last ten years, it probably sucks.

  2. if it’s getting rave reviews and I’m seeing posters at walmart, it probably sucks.

  3. if it was directed by jj abrams, I KNOW IT SUCKS.

  4. if its a remake of something good, see number 3.

Thank you for your opinion, I’ll be sure to remember it when I’m trying to recall the reasons I hate most of the internet now.

Post
#950236
Topic
Darth Vader's suit
Time

yotsuya said:

I never really noticed much difference in the costumes between the movies. The armor pieces in ANH look a little more metallic where in the later films they are just black.

When you investigate where the name came from, it is almost impossible to ignore Dark Father and the implication that he was someone’s father from the very beginning. Whose may have changed from draft to draft, but I think by the time it got to the production phase that he was Luke’s father from the outset. Two clues give this away to me. First, the lightsabers. The Anakin and Vader sabers are nearly identical. This may be a coincidence because of the source of the parts, but Kenobi’s saber is vastly different. Second, Alec Guinness delivers a masterful bit of acting just before he launches into the explanation of Luke’s father. Either that is the most awesome coincidence or George told him Ben was lying to Luke. It is just a quick change of expression, but it reads to me like Ben knew what he was about to tell Luke was a deliberately slanted point of view.

Lucas and the Star Wars production were famous about not revealing secrets so Lucas could have had the existing story (of 4, 5, 6) planned out from the outset with Luke and Leia being siblings and Vader/Anakin as their father. He just didn’t tell anyone who didn’t need to know and even then, not before they needed to know it. Like Prowse’s line on set ā€œNo, Luke, Obi-wan killed your father.ā€ Prowse didn’t know. Only Mark Hammil, Lucas, and Kershner knew on the day of shooting and they only told Mark shortly before shooting. Leia being Luke’s sister would be another such item that Lucas would not tell anyone the real story until it was time.

Also, the saber duel on the lava planet was planned from the beginning. I knew about it very early on. Not sure when it was mentioned or how. Though it was originally just a volcano.

Nope. You’ve been drinking the Kool-Aid my friend. I believe that Vader and Anakin were separate people until like the 2nd draft of Empire. I haven’t gotten to the part of ā€œSecret History of Star Warsā€ when Lucas decides to just cut out the sequel trilogy and have Luke’s secret sister just be revealed as Leia.

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#950191
Topic
Info: Films re-released with alterations
Time

Wazzles said:

doubleofive said:

Oops:

http://trekcore.com/blog/2016/06/one-more-change-in-the-new-star-trek-wrath-of-khan-directors-cut/

Also they digitally fixed some stairs in the 2009 remaster?

I got the stairs, but this just looks like a mistake, not an intentional mistake.

The director oversaw this cut, therefore this is a deliberate creative decision.*

*I’m so teasing, its just a mistake. An odd one to have though.

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#948661
Topic
Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD - V2.7 - MKV (Released)
Time

Stinky-Dinkins said:

I popped in my legit retail BD of Lethal Weapon to see if it had the same problem and it wasn’t as bad but then I also photoshopped Mel Gibson’s eyes so they were looking in different directions and I could start to tell it had the same problem too.
Example

Just a quick heads up, don’t know if this can be taken care of in 3.0 or not.

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