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DominicCobb said:

Devil’s advocate: it’s a silly sign, but it’s also supposed to be a joke. And, like most jokes, there’s some truth behind the intent. Which is to say, obviously women have far more rights than guns (don’t think anyone doesn’t literally think that), what they’re trying to say is that they wish protecting women’s rights were as important to politicians as protecting “gun’s rights” (preventing gun control).

I still don’t agree with the premise that women’s rights are under attack in the United States.

ferris209 said:

moviefreakedmind said:

ferris209 said:

That sign is mindbogglingly stupid.

Yes it is.

It is incredibly stupid and it sickens me.

ferris209 said:

That sign is mindbogglingly stupid.

LuckyGungan2001 said:

My hair is now long enough to put into a small ponytail.

My hair is usually down below my shoulders.

I agree towne.

Handman said:

We just had this same conversation in the Rogue One spoilers thread. I believe Fox/Disney will be able to make a deal in the future based on the deals they’ve already made to distribute the 2011 cut of the original film.

I don’t think that the distribution of the movies themselves is the problem, it’s just whether or not Disney/Lucasfilm would want to spend the money to restore the OT when they won’t be getting the full cut of the profits. Fox would actually have an interest in paying for the restoration of Star Wars while Disney has more interest in restoring Empire and Jedi.

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

That is interesting. It’s not part of Disney movies everywhere. I imagine that’s a little more complicated than simply Amazon or iTunes (or physical) sales though.

It’s not part of Disney movies everywhere because it isn’t Disney’s to distribute.

They apparently at least conversed with Fox on Star Wars since Fox released SW at the same time as Disney released the other five digitally. Some kind of cooperation must have occurred.

Warbler said:

moviefreakedmind said:

They didn’t cooperate with him, but they didn’t walk out on him.

I am just talking about walking out on one speech. But no, I don’t think they should cooperate with him. I think they should fight him. I think they should filibuster like crazy. At least filibuster any attempt to repeal Obamacare. Also filibuster any attempt to confirm an Supreme Court nominee until Merrick Garland(Obama’s Supreme Court nominee) gets an up or down vote. Or perhaps filibuster any Trump nominee for a length of time equaling the time from date of the nomination of Merrick Garland to the end the Obama Presidency. Send a message.

I still think that would embarrass them much more than it would help. The populace loved it so much when Republicans were impossible under Obama.

I think Pablo Hidalgo’s comment was a diplomatic way of saying that even though Lucasfilm dropped his sequel ideas, some of his contributions still made it on screen. You know that he, or anyone in LFL, isn’t going to say anything disparaging about George. Also, I absolutely think that Lucas apologized for the slaver comments after a request from Disney. I bet there was a non-disparagement clause in their contract.

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

moviefreakedmind said:

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

But are they George’s or Mouse-era Lucasfilm’s?

They were started under George Lucas and finished after he sold it. Weird.

Are you talking simply the scans, or do your sources claim changes were instituted on both sides of the sale?

The dates aren’t really my sources, they’re just from the resumés of workers people on here noticed a couple of years ago. Reliance MediaWorks started working on them in 2010 or 2011 and they were worked on as recently as 2013. It’s hard to say though with those resumés. They could’ve been referring to different projects on the same movies. I did hear from someone that the recent 4K work from Reliance wasn’t done in 3D though. Maybe the early one was 3D work and probably included more changes and the later one was a normal restoration. The possibility that more stuff was being done before George sold it makes sense because the blu-rays had very few changes and I’ve heard that the blu rays were supposed to have a lot more changes to the CGI quality. Devin Faraci said that the Jabba scene was different in one of the yet-unreleased versions of Star Wars, which would make sense if George had done more work to make the CGI appear seamless before he retired. I seem to remember Bill Hunt saying that Lucas was testing a CGI Yoda for Empire and Jedi for the blu rays. That’s harder to know for sure though since it was so long ago and nobody seems to even care about it anymore. The idea of there being more changes to future transfers of the movies has been unmentioned in articles that have commented on the OOT since the Disney-sale. I personally can’t imagine them releasing a new variant of the SE without including the OOT, but I like to prepare for disappointment when it comes to Star Wars. A lot of that is getting into wild speculation though.

This is unrelated, and I’ve said this before, but it’s slipped under the radar in these types of threads; a guy on neogaf’s forums let slip that the company he works for was asked to remaster Empire of Dreams in HD (it seemed to imply that it was the same company that mastered it in the first place) but Lucasfilm kept delaying in giving them the footage from the original films. He said he was worried that they’d just have to upscale those parts if they didn’t give them the prints. The fact that Empire of Dreams is getting remastered in HD, and by now it probably has been, is promising in my opinion. Why it was taking so long to get the OOT footage (the guy admits to not being in the loop on as to why) is another question.

EDIT: I just realized that in this wall of text I didn’t even answer your question directly. I don’t know that changes were made after the acquisition, but I personally doubt it. I think that if any changes were made after the blu ray, they were done on George’s watch. For what it’s worth, Disney certainly hasn’t been kowtowing to his “vision” regarding Star Wars with the sequel films.

They didn’t cooperate with him, but they didn’t walk out on him.

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

But are they George’s or Mouse-era Lucasfilm’s?

They were started under George Lucas and finished after he sold it. Weird.

Warbler said:

moviefreakedmind said:

Warbler said:

If you ask me, at Trump’s first address to the the both house the Dems should walk out as soon as he gets to the podium.

That kind of behavior would be great for Trump. It would dramatically shift public opinion to his favor.

I don’t think so.

If not a single Democrat was willing to do their job because the person they don’t like won the election, the Republicans would win even bigger majorities in the midterms.

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

While I don’t necessarily care – as in I won’t be bummed out if we don’t get it – I’m curious to see if we get a unique 40th Anniversary cut as opposed to a remastered '11 cut. I wouldn’t be surprised if we got a new cut that preserved the “updated” fx but junked some of nonsense changes, especially the '11 changes.

I suspect George Lucas’ 4K version has differences from the 2011 versions.

TV’s Frink said:

moviefreakedmind said:

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

moviefreakedmind said:

I’ve heard release in September with a likely announcement either in Celebration or in May.

Something concrete?

Hearsay from people I trust. So no, nothing anyone should take as concrete.

You’ll forgive me if I’m skeptical, as I always am when anyone claims to have insider information here.

I totally get it.

Warbler said:

If you ask me, at Trump’s first address to the the both house the Dems should walk out as soon as he gets to the podium.

That kind of behavior would be great for Trump. It would dramatically shift public opinion to his favor.

generalfrevious said:

ferris209 said:

generalfrevious said:

ferris209 said:

“White people are collectively responsible for slavery.”

“White people are collectively responsible for racism.”

“Men are collectively responsible for rape”

“White privilege!”

“These cop shootings are indicative of a systemic problem within the entire police department and in all police departments across America!”

“HEY! Don’t lump me in with those violent protesters! They don’t represent the movement as a whole!”

You won’t have to listen to crap a year from now feris; they will all be in prison by then.

Doom saying. And no they wont, they’ll be at every event Trump is for the foreseeable future.

That’s not doomsaying. That’s how protesters are dealt with in many countries. Public opinion is closer to your beliefs than the dissenters.

That’s how protesters are dealt with in all of the shitty countries you say we’re culturally insensitive to criticize.

Sougouk said:

A 4K restoration done with Disney Dollars sounds impressive. If restoration entails using the original film and no SE.

Supposedly it was a hellishly difficult 4K restoration of both original and special versions from the negative.

TV’s Frink said:

moviefreakedmind said:

TV’s Frink said:

I’m not surprised that Trump supporters are assholes, but Trump supporters are assholes.

http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2017/01/20/hillary-clinton-trump-inauguration/

Hillary supporters were assholes too. Remember Lena Dunham?

Hillary shows great class, far more than Trump would have been able to, by attending the inauguration and the luncheon. And that’s how she’s paid back. At least Trump thanked her.

And of course you compared this to Lena Dunham, which is completely irrelevant.

I didn’t read the article and I wasn’t talking about Hillary. I was just commenting on the fact that Lena Dunham was the spokeswoman for the deplorable faction of Hillary supporters.

ray_afraid said:

Why do some people (Lucas included) think Mos Isley should be a big, busy, sprawling city? The OOT depicts it as a run down truck stop. Much like those you see on the highway in the middle of nowhere. Not too busy, but necessary. I like that much more.

I have no idea. Most big cities aren’t wretched hives of scum and villainy either. Usually big cities have specific parts that are bad, and others that are good. It’s really only run-down places that are entirely wretched.

TV’s Frink said:

I’m not surprised that Trump supporters are assholes, but Trump supporters are assholes.

http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2017/01/20/hillary-clinton-trump-inauguration/

Hillary supporters were assholes too. Remember Lena Dunham?

Warbler said:

moviefreakedmind said:

Warbler said:

TV’s Frink said:

Warbler said:

Trump is now President, God help us all.

Is this a good time for me to hope God exists?

sure, why not? At least you’d believe there was someone with the power to stop Trump.

Actually, if he/she/whatever does, I doubt he/she/whatever cares what our stupid country does to itself.

I disagree here. The God I believe in cares about the whole world.

He cares but according to the Bible he isn’t overly compassionate to the unrepentent masses when it comes to political developments.

According to the Bible, he cared enough about them that he sent his son to die for them and gave them a chance at redemption.

The judgement of the nations still stood though.

MalàStrana said:

Tyrphanax said:

ray_afraid said:

Tyrphanax said:

MalàStrana said:

ray_afraid said:

I’m sorry if you used to think the PT was good. That’s hard to understand too.

However I’m still a big fan of Tartakovsky’s Clone Wars. What are they waiting for to give him a SW animated series again ?

Because his first one wasn’t that great?

Is that the Samurai Jack one?

Yes. Because Star Wars needed Mace Windu jumping a thousand feet into the air to punch a skyscraper-size droid to pieces and that’s apparently much better than TFA or RO.

TFA and R1 are not SW. It’s bad movies with a SW skin, so it’s not SW. Clone Wars is. But that’s ok, your point of view is… logical.

You made a comment a bit ago that seemed to imply that your age is around 30. Why are you demanding that people not acknowledge TFA and RO as Star Wars movies but then you get angry when people say that your beloved cartoon isn’t Star Wars?

Warbler said:

TV’s Frink said:

Warbler said:

Trump is now President, God help us all.

Is this a good time for me to hope God exists?

sure, why not? At least you’d believe there was someone with the power to stop Trump.

Actually, if he/she/whatever does, I doubt he/she/whatever cares what our stupid country does to itself.

I disagree here. The God I believe in cares about the whole world.

He cares but according to the Bible he isn’t overly compassionate to the unrepentent masses when it comes to political developments.