I don't believe they have been uploaded to Demonoid as yet, Octorox.
Just seems obvious to me, if you have someone good at editing and someone good at cleaning up, you can get a clean, edited set.
adywan said:vaderios said:And if the ESB and ROTJ wishlist thread fails to capture the off topic convs why not someone opens one specific thread for ROTJ:R to fill everyone's fetish :)
-Angel
please, no one open a ROTJ:R thread. i will do that when the time comes.
Savage said:Agreed. Although I'm guilty of it myself. :)
I'm still wondering if anyone has further thoughts on the amount of time that elapses between the Falcon's landing and eventual escape from Bespin.
I'd say that it was within the same day, 2 at the most. they land at sunrise and escape at sunset.
Are we figuring that Bespin has an Earth-normal 24-hour day, then?
I fully support an AGMBC set. ;)
What will be there instead? I would suppose a shot of Coruscant would work.
Apparently Prowse wasn't even told that this was the line, that instead, the line was "Obi-Wan killed your father." So this is what he delivered.
According to what I've read, when Prowse saw the film at the premiere, he leaned over to George Lucas and said, "You know, if you had told me that was the line, I would have played that differently."
As a fellow collegian, I can also attest that college is also a real-time drain.
Yep.
The X-wing being blown up does look just a tad dodgy.
After watching the clip a few more times, I think I know why; it's because there are no evasive maneuvers or any sort of reaction to being shot at -- the X-wings just fly in a straight (or slightly curving) line and there's no return fire or anything (I know that there's not much point in shooting at a Star Destroyer if you're in an X-wing, but it still looks odd).
Otherwise, it looks really, really good.
Luke's thoughts through all of this:
"Oh, look it's my mentor, Obi-Wan!"
"And Yoda, my teacher!"
"And that's what Dad would have looked like if not for lava (and Obi-Wan)! I love you, Dad."
...
"Who the hell is that with the long hair?"
I suppose you could go through it frame by frame in photoshop, selecting certain elements and separating them out into layers, then desaturating only the layers you want to.
But that would be quite a job to do. Only take about twenty years.
Of course, maybe that would only be necessary for certain shots.
Sorry I haven't been able to rewatch it yet, Taolar. School, work, and playing music have consumed me of late. But I'll get around to it, hopefully soon.
Galen
dang. talk about missed opportunities.
OH MY SUPERMAN.
I just finished watching the Son of Jor-El prerelease/rough cut (basically this is like the version they would give to test audiences, I imagine) on my Sony HDTV hooked up to my computer. It was the best Superman movie that I've ever seen, mostly because you took the best parts of the best Superman movies and put them together in a fantastically logical fashion, with a near-flawless sense of storytelling and style (I have read the entire thread, so I was keeping the various things in mind that you mentioned) that I haven't seen in a fanedit in a really really long time, if ever. The way you combined the two narratives into one, I thought, was brilliant, and everything just felt like it fit together where it should. Of course, I wasn't trying to watch as a critic, just as a fan of Superman, and so that probably will make my love for it much more effusive than if I was looking for errors, but on casual viewing, nothing really jumped out at me as missing, except for when Zod burns the one guy. I do wish that there was some way to supplement East Houston with scenes of the supervillians tearing up Washington DC, with the four-star general being there instead.
My favorite edit (that I noticed): the tanker heat beam vs. cold breath sequence. The way you handled Luthor's introduction and the encounter with Superman where he explains his plan was also handled very well, the intercutting really ramped up the tension here. The way you brought out the parallels between the two films by joining them together really excited me too. And the ending! Fantastic!
Speaking of tension... when you watch a movie enough times, it doesn't affect you like it used to, and the Superman films are examples of that for me. I don't feel worried for Superman during his battles and I don't feel as excited as I used to when I watch Superman and Superman II -- they're old, comfortable favorites. Watching Son of Jor-El was like seeing Superman for the first time. I gasped, I shrieked, I laughed and celebrated as if it was all new and fresh. It's not just because it's a fanedit -- I've watched good Superman edits before (the ADM edits, a few others), but none of them thrilled me like Son of Jor-El. Come to think of it, this was more fun than when I first saw Superman Returns. (and when it comes to SR, most of my problems with that film would be fixed with a single change; that Jason isn't Clark's son -- that was the way the novelization was, and I was suprised at how that simple change almost completely fixed the story)
Can't wait to see the final release.
Galen/guitarfan01
P.S. I'll try to watch it again sometime soon so I can be a little more objective and critical, but I wanted to get the initial "you're a genius" reaction out there too. One helps with the final product, one helps with the motivation.
P.P.S. Now I have to watch Superman / Doomsday and some episodes of Justice League or something. You got me in a "watching Superman kick ass" mood.
sweet!
looking forward to being able to toss my VHS!
well, once it's ready, I'll start up my bittorrent for a week or two, and make sure to share as well.
Sweet! Thanks so much for working on this with such dedication!
By the way, what open-source video software are you planning to change over to?
As a life-long trek fan who has read the novels of the bacakstories, I loved the trailer. It looks like they're going with Diane Carey's "young rebel Kirk" that I loved in her novel "Best Destiny."
I giggled like a schoolgirl when I saw the trailer. I can't wait (and this surprises the heck out of me)
If this question has already been answered, I'm sorry...
Ady, are you planning to add any more ships to the Rebellion fleet at the end of ESBR? It would give us a little taste of what's to come in ROTJ and it might be interesting to see a couple of scarred-up ships from the PT in the Rebellion fleet. Too bad there aren't any really good quality shots of Rendili Star Drive Katana-class ships or anything like that...
I can guess, and it sounds like a good idea to me.
hah! I have a feeling you're quite right.
Like the majority of those on here, I'm definitely interested in seeing a clip.
Well, in my planned edit, my aim at the end was the removal of the kissing on top of bumblebee shots, which were a little squick.
This works ok, but I think the way the voice-over builds in the theatrical cut is just really good. I actually don't mind the Linkin Park song so much (though the rock guitars in the chorus aren't great), though I'm not much a fan of LP. "What I've Done", though it makes no thematic sense with the film, has a really cool building quality that fits with Cullen's performance there very well. But heck, this one is yours, not mine. :)