moviefreakedmind

TV’s Frink said:

Trump voters are victims?

No, I was more going with people who aren’t him are being blamed for his obnoxious countdown.

Warbler said:

moviefreakedmind said:

It’s a bit annoying and very melodramatic.

1. you can just ignore it and scroll past it. no big deal

I have been.

2. blame it on the people that voted for the nut/bigot/pig/bully/moron that is about to come to power.

I don’t like to victim blame.

Alderaan said:

moviefreakedmind said:

The behind the scenes footage from TPM showed footage that made it seem clear that Lucas chose Jake Lloyd over other, much better child actors. How Jake Lloyd even made it to the final auditions might have been the fault of the casting director though.

IIRC from a Lucas interview, he had seen Jake Lloyd in something else on TV before casting.

Jingle All the Way I think it was.

Probably what this means is that Lucas had already made up his mind, so the casting director just did as he was told.

Must’ve been.

It’s a bit annoying and very melodramatic.

It seemed implied in your posts that you thought Irvin Kershner was the auteur of Empire.

Dek Rollins said:

Reservoir Dogs (1992) ★★★★

Fantastic! … and kind of depressing.

I decided to try and watch all of Tarantino’s movies in order, so one down.
I’m not sure when I’ll have three hours free for Pulp Fiction, though.

Pulp Fiction was one of the movies I watched a lot in high school.

The behind the scenes footage from TPM showed footage that made it seem clear that Lucas chose Jake Lloyd over other, much better child actors. How Jake Lloyd even made it to the final auditions might have been the fault of the casting director though.

I’m pretty sure that they made clear to Verta years ago that if he ever distributed his then he’d be in huge trouble. I think it’s because, as great as DE is, it isn’t on the level of a professional studio blu ray release, whereas Mike Verta’s is.

EDIT: Then again, whenever Verta said that it was years ago, and Despecialized wasn’t as widely known or as seamless in quality.

All three of the Star Wars movies were very much George Lucas films. He nearly went bankrupt trying to get Empire made. The idea that he had little to nothing to do with the creation of Empire is inaccurate. He didn’t have complete creative control on the first two, but he was definitely the driving force.

I had forgotten how emotional the episode “The Offspring” with Data’s android daughter was in TNG. I almost cried at the end.

The Natalie/Jake scenes were really uncomfortable. Both characters should have been about 15 at the youngest and played by actors that were about that age or older.

I just replayed the original Super Mario Kart for the first time in years and it got me thinking about how there are very rarely any near-impossibly difficult video games released these days. The ones that are definitely aren’t as popular as they were back then either.

He would essentially have made a contract demanding that Lucasfilm can’t release the original versions of the OT in HD but they apparently can in 4:3 letterbox. If George Lucas wanted the original films lost to history then he wouldn’t have allowed them to be used in Empire of Dreams and he wouldn’t have released them himself in 2006.

I think that the obsessed prequel fans are starting to become a thing of the past. I’m not saying that people don’t still like the prequels, but the people who think that they are beautiful masterpieces and believe that the original trilogy was a prophetic follow-up to the prequels made 20 years in advance are starting to fade away.

towne32 said:

Thanks. Most of that is of course Harmy’s doing. I’d say lucasfilm could do a fantastic job, or at least produce something that only needs a few more tweaks.

But I do think Jedi is in the best state by a long shot. With better rancor source material and a 1080p pipeline it’ll be near perfect.

SW still needs some GOUT upgrades, especially in the final battle. And some of the 35mm footage could be better than the SSE print (especially with the lower bitrate 1.0).

I think ESB probably looks a bit better or more passable than SW 2.7. But part of it is because the changes were less severe in the first place. And the remaining recomped SE shots are nothing offensive. Poita’s new scans are incredible, so 2.5 should be amazing.

Cloud City’s despecialized shots look great. The only shots in Empire that I remember really needing better sources were the zoom-ins that had to be undone. In a way, I bet those were probably some of the more troublesome changes to undo, other than Jedi’s multiple stretches of entire scenes being altered or replaced.

Boys Don’t Cry - 8/10

EDIT: Just a warning, the blu ray version of this doesn’t include the pan & scan version of the film, which was released back when the film came out on home video. I think it’s pretty sad that such an important part of the film’s history hasn’t been preserved.

EDIT 2: If anyone is interested I am working on a pan & scan edit of the blu ray. Team MFM - Saving Boys Don’t Cry Pan & Scan Version One Frame at a Time

dahmage said:

moviefreakedmind said:

Probably not for a few decades. Remaking a Star Wars movie would be the equivalent of remaking a Bond movie.

yeah, and Casino Royale lasted 39 years before being remade.

Casino Royale was an anti-gambling TV special in the 50s and a comedy spoof in the 60s, and neither were officially produced by the people in charge of making Bond movies. Never Say Never Again was a remake of Thunderball, but that also was made by a different company that had to remake Thunderball because it was the only one that they could get the rights to.

Probably not for a few decades. Remaking a Star Wars movie would be the equivalent of remaking a Bond movie.

I don’t think that this’ll ever happen.

SW 51:01

The shadow of a removed SE droid is seen just barely as the stormtroopers walk away.

12:46 is the Boba Fett shot, and 12:56 is the shot of the green, skinny dancer and the fat dancer. 13:08 is another place that might have gate weave but I can’t quite tell. The Boba Fett shot especially looks a little unstable in the GOUT but I’m not sure exactly. The reason it confused me is because most shots in the sequence are completely stable, but a select few specific shots as a whole have this quality to them.

Hey guys, I’m really confused about something in Jedi that I hope someone (especially Harmy, if he sees this) could answer. The dance number in 2.5, which is entirely TN1’s footage as far as I know, looks a little wobbly in a couple of shots. This is confusing me because most shots are totally stable, but the shot of Boba Fett and the medium-high angle shot from behind Jabba of the green woman and that big fat lady are kind of jittery. What’s more confusing is that I revisited Dark Jedi’s V3 of Jedi and the Boba Fett shot has shakiness to it in that also. Is this a Despecialized Edition side effect or has it always been there? There’s no shakiness to the TN1 footage in Star Wars or Empire, and those are older so that’s why it caught me off guard. There also doesn’t appear to be any in the Sarlac scenes, so I think it might be part of the actual original footage.

TV’s Frink said:

Tyrphanax said:

I think the point of Deadpool was that it was kinda a parody film.

I get that and I still hated watching it.

Just to give one example, I don’t think fart jokes are funny, parody or not.

I didn’t like Deadpool either.

Mean Girls - 9/10 - Extremely funny.

Ghostbusters Remake - I couldn’t even finish it.

Rogue One - 7/10

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

When I have kids, I see no reason to show them the prequels. I actually fell asleep watching Clones with my family this year. Told them to watch Sith without me, and I’m the most devoted SW fan of the bunch.

I agree. I should add that the reason I don’t want to even see them again is that I find them really boring.