fmalover

MonkeyLizard10 said:

Here are some links to frames of 35mm scan timed to the 35mm print, most are re-sized to UHD size but a few are full res:

I put these first few in ProPhotoRGB format since these ones definitely have some colors that need wide gamut and get clipped by sRGB regular gamut. If not viewed with a color-managed browser or image viewer they will look really bad though and all faded and weirdly twisted tint. And obviously if not viewed on a wide gamut display set to wide gamut mode you’ll still get the beyond sRGB colors clipped away, mix of 1.85:1 and open matte:
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sRGB format, mix of 1.85:1 and open matte:
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Wow! This is definitely the best looking version of Jurassic Park.

Too bad I can’t afford to contribute to this project in any way, meaning I’ll miss out on this beautiful scan.

I have the Dorling-Kindersley Star Wars Visual Guide of the OT, which came out in 1997, and there it says the Emperor looked the way he did due to his lifelong immersion in the Dark Side.

After watching TPM I expected there to be a progression of his Dark Side corruption becoming more evident with each passing entry, and I was sorely disappointed when ROTS establishes that actually it was due to Mace Windu deflecting Force Lightning back at him. So stupid.

I recall the official SW website came up with some bullshit explanation that actually Palpatine was using the Force to project a non-corrupted looking version of himself. Yeah right.

One of the most iconic voices in movie history.

All in all, my favourite lightsaber duel is Dooku vs Anakin and Obi-Wan in ROTS. It’s brief, simple and elegantly choreographed.

I’ve never been a fan of the Darth Maul vs Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon duel, way too choreographed for my taste. Fortunately Lucas corrected this and the lightsaber duels in AOTC and ROTS had more intensity to them.

Anakin Starkiller said:

Patali said:

• I don’t have much of an opinion on eras beyond, because I think the storytelling potential of focusing in a close time period is so much greater than spreading thin to multiple disconnected eras. I did love both Kotor games back in the day, but a problem I have is, it’s supposed to be set 4000 years before, yet it doesn’t feel like it. If you told me it was 1000 years, I might believe that easier. But the lack of change over so long I think is unreasonable, and honestly dissapointing. In terms of design, I think High Republic actually did great in terms of style and palettes. I buy the idea that its the 100 years before the PT. But Old Republic being 4000 years? No way, not even a chance. In my personal head canon, it is only 1000 years before. And I think that is the danger in jumping so freely in the timeline outside of what is developed already.

This 100%. The technological and political stagnancy over literal millennia is laughable and immersion breaking. It’s just a roundabout way of making an alternate universe at that point. Remember the hyperdrive booster rings in the Prequels? How 'bout every starfighter needs them. And if you go further back only capital ships have hyperdrives. Little touches like that to make it feel older.

This is a complaint some have expressed with Tolkien’s Middle Earth. The stories take place over millenia yet there is ZERO technological advancements.

So it’s basically one of those many movies about a group of kids embarking on an adventure, only it takes place within the SW universe.

Disney selling Lucasfilm is very much a pipe dream.

There’s this very famous press conference Anthony Mackie gave at the London Film and Comic Con in October 2017 where he said “They make movies for specific audiences as opposed to just making good movies”.

I think we can adapt this to the current state of Star Wars and say they tell stories for specific audiences as opposed to just telling good stories.

Superweapon VII said:

Really gets my goat how so many Legend of Zelda YouTube channels use footage from the 3DS remakes when discussing Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask.

Same here.

HAttackontheBun said:

Let me address the elephant in the room. Poor Things is an overrated movie. None of the characters were engaging, I’m apathetic towards the story and it nearly BORED me to sleep upon watching this film. One of the movie’s strongest aspects were the visuals such as the backdrops (especially the Portugal scene) and the soundtrack which reminded me of Animal Crossing, but that’s about it. I didn’t care for this movie.

Visually stunning movie, meh story.

JackNapier said:

The film A Bug’s Life is an underrated classic. Definitely a must see.

A Bug’s Life has the distinction of being the only classic Pixar movie I didn’t like at all.

JackNapier said:

The film Apocalypto is an underrated masterpiece, an excellent period piece and a stellar look at Mayan culture.

My only complaint is that the movie ends with the Mayans witnessing the arrival of the Spaniards, when in reality Mayan civilization had collapsed centuries before such arrival took place.

Spartacus01 said:

fmalover said:

Spartacus01 said:

In retrospect, I think that the best thing that Lucas could have done was keeping Lucasfilm away from Disney and maintaining it as an independent company, but still retiring to private life and putting someone else in charge of Lucasfilm, possibly not Dave Filoni.

In that scenario I fear Lucasfilm would have turned into Filoni’s fanfiction playground. I’m glad we aren’t living in that world.

I said “possibly NOT Dave Filoni”.

My bad.

JadedSkywalker said:

Dune 2, amazing cinematography. And i’m one of those guys who hates digital.

That’s because they strike film prints from the digital footage and later scan the film footage. The print scans is what gets released and that’s why the movie looks so good.

Why not just shoot on film?

Channel72 said:

the main characters are given arbitrary leadership roles that don’t suit their previous story-arcs

Lando being promoted to General in no time sticks out like a sore thumb.

JackNapier said:

The film Interview With The Vampire: Chronicles is an excellent example of the talents of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, a must-see!

Funny that you say that, as Brad Pitt absolutely hated working on that movie.

Spartacus01 said:

In retrospect, I think that the best thing that Lucas could have done was keeping Lucasfilm away from Disney and maintaining it as an independent company, but still retiring to private life and putting someone else in charge of Lucasfilm, possibly not Dave Filoni.

In that scenario I fear Lucasfilm would have turned into Filoni’s fanfiction playground. I’m glad we aren’t living in that world.

George Lucas is an ideas man first and foremost who needs people who challenge him creatively so he can polish and refine them, otherwise an unchecked Lucas results in stuff like the Prequel trilogy.

Tobar said:

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

It’s been decades since I first saw this film and this was my first time watching the Director’s Cut(4K). A fun film to pick up after doing a run of the Original Series. Though slows down a bit too much toward the end. The changes in the DC are a bit of a mixed bag. All of the changes done early in the San Francisco section are very poorly executed. Whereas the changes done in the V’ger section do a lot to add to the film and the atmosphere it’s building.

I’ve seen many refer to it as “the Slow Motion Picture”.

Tobar said:

My apparently unpopular opinion judging by past reactions:

I think they should have used Kyle Katarn and Jan Ors in Shadows of the Empire instead of creating Dash Rendar and Leebo. Kyle and Jan were already mercenaries working for the Rebellion with big accomplishments under their belts and they were active during that period. Instead we got a Han Solo wannabe that was as interesting as a slice of bread.

I always liked Dash Rendar, and Jon Knoles gave the best description of what differentiates him from Han Solo, that Han ultimately isn’t as tough as he appears whereas Dash is the really rough guy.

Despite its detractors, the Canto Bight casino felt much more like a part of the SW universe than any other attempt Disney has made at replicating the OT look.

There, I said it.

Z6PO said:

Leigh Brackett was a Hollywood legend, she was very ill when writing for Lucas (she passed away soon after IIRC), so as an hommage to a great lady, her name was kept in the credits even if none of her writing was used.

Thanks for clearing that up.

Channel72 said:

fmalover said:

Channel72 said:

Gandalf the Cyan said:

I can give Lucas a bit of slack for the lucklusterness of the PT and ROTJ, since he was ultimately just trying to make pulpy Flash Gordon-esque adventures, not high-art movies. ANH and ESB, however, were so good that they’re generally considered to have entered into the realm of high art. He then fell into a trap where his subsequent films were expected to be masterpieces as well, and I agree that he could have definitely done better on them. But since he really knocked it out of the park on his first 2 SW films, fans’ expectations were higher than his.

I don’t think this opinion is too unpopular, especially around this forum. ESB especially came out amazingly good, but went over budget and probably gave Lucas ulcers from the stress. He probably never intended to make Star Wars that good - but it ended up being that good anyway due to “lightning in a bottle” factors like Kasdan’s script, Kershner’s direction, and the natural chemistry between Hamill, Fisher and Ford.

Why does everyone ignore the fact that TESB was co-written by Leigh Brackett? They always make it seem like Lawrence Kasdan was the sole screenwriter.

Well, I definitely don’t ignore that. In fact, I posted a whole thread about Brackett’s screenplay a while back. But the reality is that close to 0% of Brackett’s draft made it into the final shooting script, so her role is often glossed over for the sake of brevity when discussing the development process of ESB.

In fact, I wouldn’t even necessarily say Brackett “co-wrote” ESB. That implies a collaboration between Brackett and Kasdan. In reality, Brackett independently wrote a completely different take on ESB based on Lucas’ plot outline. Lucas then rewrote the script from scratch apparently. It’s hard to say how many ideas in Lucas’ rewrite originated with Brackett. At face value, the later Kasdan scripts (which were based on Lucas’ rewrite) appear to be completely independent from Brackett.

Personally, I believe that elements of Brackett’s draft influenced the way Kasdan/Lucas thought about the story as they developed it. But that’s just my own speculation. The broad story elements - the plot, the locations, even some specific things like Luke being attacked by a snow monster - originated from Lucas’ plot outline, not Brackett’s draft. So it’s tough to identify specific ideas in the final script that unambiguously originated with Brackett. But going by Kasdan’s fourth draft and the final shooting script, pretty much 0% of Brackett’s original writing or dialogue carried over into later iterations.

So Brackett was credited as a screenwriter as an acknoledgement of her involvement?

When I read the news it felt as if a friend died.