imperialscum

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TV’s Frink said:

Why would anyone give him the benefit of the doubt? He’s got a proven track record.

What would that track record be? Staying on topic. Never breaking the forum rules. Being civil, even when people throw insults at me.

Right…

Seriously…?

You might want to check again what this thread is about:
http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Parroty-Thread/id/17518/page/1

List of TV’s Frink’s Bannable Offences

ChainsawAsh said:

Why’s it easier to cut the origami shot? The dream comes out much more cleanly, and the origami shot still has meaning without the dream (Gaff is telling Deckard that escaping with Rachel is just a fantasy that can never be real). The dream, on the other hand, means nothing without the origami shot at the end.

Deckard falling for Rachel is being a unrealistic and unicorn nicely represents that. But this can apply to both the origami and the dream. The difference is that the dream would imply that Deckard himself subconsciously knows it, while with origami, Gaff is relying that fact to him. So, the dream can stand on its own just as easily.

darthrush said:

NeverarGreat said:

darthrush said:

Jeebus said:

New Blade Runner 2049 trailer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZOaI_Fn5o4

Not a fan of this trailer. Firstly, why the hell does this trailer start with a 5 second trailer for itself?

I’m not averse to action at all, but the action scenes presented in the trailer seem fundamentally un-Blade Runner. I think that’s partly due to the way the trailer was edited. This trailer is trying to market the movie as an action film for mainstream audiences, so it follows the mainstream trailer formula. It’s always a landscape shot or two, someone talking (sometimes to another person), action clips with overbearing drums, repeat ad infinitum.

The cinematography is gorgeous and the soundtrack is killer, though.

Agreed. But hands down the most disappointing aspect of it was that they basically confirmed that Deckard was a replicant, and I DESPISE that theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner_2049
"When Scott was asked about the possibility of a sequel in October 2012, he said, ‘It’s not a rumor—it’s happening. With Harrison Ford? I don’t know yet. Is he too old? Well, he was a Nexus-6 so we don’t know how long he can live. And that’s all I’m going to say at this stage.’"

The general consensus is that Deckard being a Replicant diminishes the story of the original film, and though I have never much cared for the Blade Runner universe, I agree. It seems like Ridley Scott has entered the phase where his interpretation is the right and valid one, even at the expense of the basic theme and continuity of his franchises. Sounds like another director I know…

Exactly. Everything works better in the Blade Runner when he’s a human which is why the final cut minus the unicorn dream is the perfect cut of the movie for me.

You can keep the dream and just cut the origami shot. It is easier.

Anyway, Scott has proven to be horrible when it comes to story and ideas. He is good when good ideas and story is handed over to him and he sticks to it.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Imp’scum was a self-important prick from Day 1.

Now now, let’s not get down to the level of name-calling.

Cedric T Sealion said:

I think you need to invest in a dictionary.

I am the dictionary.

Anyway, “apologists” is intrinsically incorrect term to describe the particular group of people. They do not apologise for the fact that TFA is shit. They just deny it. To be able to apologise for something, one must first admit it.

rodneyfaile said:

Lucasfilm has nothing to apologize for as far as the new movies go. The Force Awakens and Rogue One are outstanding.

TFA certainly stands out, but in a very bad way.

OT are my top favourite films, along with Alien and Blade Runner.

SilverWook said:

You should get that on a t shirt. 😉

Is that cool? 😄

I have not even seen Avatar.

Fang Zei said:

I’m not going to hold my breath until then, but the situation with Fox is very obviously the reason it hasn’t happened just yet.

The reason why it is not happening is because, next to any of the new stuff they make, OOT release is profit-wise basically nothing. In fact, all it would do is steal the attention from their new stuff.

TV’s Frink said:

Is it “casual person who doesn’t know anything about the movie and won’t care” unpolished? Or is it “casual person who doesn’t know anything about the movie and will be distracted by it being ‘unfinished’ so might care” unpolished?

There are certainly some things that are very distracting even for naive audience. For example screenshot in the top is from DC and screenshot in the bottom is from FC. The scene takes place during the night in a heavy rain. Seeing suddenly clear blue skies was very distracting to me.

TV’s Frink said:

Wife came up with the idea of taking me to see the new Blade Runner as a gift, but she wants to see the original first. Final Cut seems to be the correct choice based on the responses in this thread, but the disc is a “very long wait.” We can rent the Director’s Cut via Comcast, should I just go with that, or is there another way to watch the Final Cut without buying it? I haven’t checked Amazon Prime yet but their streaming selection tends to be even more limited than Netflix.

All the major story-affecting changes that were introduced in Director’s Cut are also in Final Cut and Final Cut does not introduce any other major story-affecting changes. However, I would go for Final Cut since there are so many good extensions of scenes and visual/sound improvements/corrections.

Well there is some strong evidence that, by that time, Luke was quite a player in Outer Rim and apparently he preferred it hairy.

Biggs said:

Luke is the best bush pilot in the Outer Rim Territories.

SilverWook said:

Ugh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szDJA8fWfLM

Back on topic. Was Luke a virgin before he had sex with Leia?

Lord Tobias said:

sorry…but empire strikes back is nothing special in the story department(in fact i would argue that many of the awful habits of the post empire strikes back franchise was born in empire strikes back)…it was kasden, not lucas who made empire strikes back awful story work for the most part.

empire strikes back gave the I AM YOUR FATHER TWIST which fucking destroyed darth vader and made him a boring caricature

It took you only 11 days to top the stupidest thing I have seen around here in a while.

TV’s Frink said:

Impscum, Alderaan, and Mala (to a lesser extent since she seems to enjoy fanedits) exist in this place entirely to tell other people how wrong they are for liking the things they like.

I have never ever told anyone that he/she is wrong for liking whatever they like. I do not care in the slightest if people like bad stuff like TFA.

DrDre said:

I think many here really underestimate JJ Abrams.

We do not need to estimate anything. He made TFA and it sucked big time.

TFA ending is really the last thing one can complain about. The ending is one of very few instances in the film that are actually relevant to the “story”, among the huge collection of unrelated random shit.

TV’s Frink said:

Do we know for sure that JJ had no plan for what to do with the ST?

Well if his plan looks like TFA, then it is better he did not have any plan at all.