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Wow, I hope the -1 team will send you their prints :-)

They are independent from each other, but Empire -> Jedi -> Begins was the order in which the documentaries were produced. JD "released" them on standard dual layer DVDs, I'm not what's the source of the 720p versions

Those were the 3 documentaries in 1 video

People who say that Into Darkness is the worst Star Trek film ever have obviously never seen Nemesis. Or Generations. Or Star Trek 11. Or Final Frontier. Pegg just said his opinion, he could say it in a more "press friendly" way but still it's just his opinion.

Yippe Ki Yay Mr. Falcon :-)

Harmy said:

Yeah, that would be cool. Maybe a few frames if you could.

Also, here's the Ben ghost scene as it's supposed to be - in the WP the colors of it are all messed up:
http://uloz.to/xBcb7RNX/ben-ghost-mp4

Don't pay attention to the audio.

MUCH better but still not correct :-) Check the final shot when the tauntaun appears, the background behind the ghost and the tauntaun is still blue.

Any chance you could put the synced audio somewhere?

I hope Harmy uses this for his despecialized edition :)

I downloaded it and I'm watching it right now. Overall i like what I see, mostly the colours and the detail.

There were 6 problems I found till now :

- the sound goes very slightly out of sync for a few seconds when Luke speaks to Han (it seems to be 1 or too frames off, it's very minor)

- there are occasional slight shifts to red which "correct" themselves within a second

- there was a weird white error during the Han/princess argument around 6:46 - I don't have a way how to watch it frame by frame - it looks similar like a damaged VHS tape :-) The same thing happens around 16:30 when Luke is in the bacta tanc and around 19:40 and 20:06

- the scene were R2 and C3PO are standing outside and scanning is extremely blue and oversaturated, AFAIK it was never THAT blue before 2004

- the scene were OB1 shows himself to Luke (around 12:59) the space where he will appear has a thick dark blue background which I never noticed in any other version. The same problem appears a few seconds later when OB1's ghost disappears and Han arrives on his tauntaun

- the snowspeeders which are looking for Han and Luke look "animated", they're not very well integrated to the background

SilverWook said:

Are we going to need a kindle, or some other pricey device I don't currently own just to read these things?

Excatly what I'd like to know.

What a bunch of assholes. I'm definitely NOT buying the Bluray unless they release a PROPER version of it.

Všechno nejlepší, Pet?e :-)

Jesus Christ, there is a new Batman coming? Why?

Since I'm building a computer by myself for the very first time, I'd like to hear opinions about some "open points" from more experienced people.

1) RAM - I'd like to have 16 GB of RAM. My motherboard has 4 DD3 memory slots. What's "better", to buy 4 4GB modules, or to buy 2 8GB modules? The 2x8GB modules are cheaper than 4 4GB modules, but what will it do with the system performance?

2) Hard disc. Right now I work with a 1TB WD Green drive. That's why I know, that I will never again buy a green drive :-) I was right now thinking that I will buy a small SSD for the operating system and either a 4TB WD Black drive, or 2x2TB WD Black drives and put them into a RAID 0. What is a better idea? The computer will be used mainly for editing video

3) Power supply - any tips for GOOD power supplies?

4) Operating system - is Windows 8 REALLY so horrible as I read and heard? I mean I worked with it just one day and I thought the ModernUI is a horrible piece of you know what, but people claim it has a better performance. Is it really worth to go to Win8 or should I stay with Win7 and wait till they release Windows 9? And no, Linux is not an option

Thanks

emanswfan said:

For ROTS, the models they built they just scanned in to the computer for CGI.  I'm certain, they never shot an actual model during ROTS.  It gave it more detail, but you still get that CGI feel.

Oh, thanks for the correction then

SilverWook said:

Fans naturally wondered about a crossover with the original crew from the beginning. McCoy was in the pilot after all. But after encountering Sarek, Spock, and Scotty in later seasons, the big Kirk/Picard meetup felt a little forced.

And why does Scotty ask in the series if Jim Kirk came to save him, when according to this movie he was there when Kirk died?

darth_ender said:

Glad we're all in agreement. :)

What is a bit of a bummer is that the movie had lots of potential.  There was resolution for the Duras conflict, resolution for the Lore conflict (in Data finally using the emotion chip), Kirk and Picard getting together like everyone wanted, the Enterprise-B, the death of the Enterprise-D, nice special effects, and in my opinion some good humor.  But sadly, the nexus gimmick and the otherwise rather thin plot failed to carry the story sufficiently.

Oh, and something that has always bugged me: what on earth happened during Geordi's interrogation?  I mean, why is it that really the only bit we see shows Soren questioning Geordi about trilithium, when clearly he knows little about it and Soren himself is the most knowledgeable fellow on the subject around?  What was he trying to gain?  My understanding is that there was some lovely torture to go along with this, but since most of it was cut, the whole scene serves literally absolutely no purpose in the end.

Plus don't forget that according to the series trilithium was very common, even the D's engines created it as a side product, but suddenly it's rare and unknown in the movie. Geordi's interrogation was originally much longer (and better), check the workprint.

I've been wondering about different things. E.g. why did the Duras sisters beam Picard down to Soran? Why does suddenly Picard have a problem that he has no family after saying he's not a family man for 7 years? Why can't Guinan come back with Picard? Why did Picard and Kirk return in time to the duel and not one day earlier? One week earlier? One year earlier? 78 years earlier? The whole story makes no sense at all if you start thinking about it

darth_ender said:

Obviously there are folks who are not exactly fans of Generations.  It's not my favorite of the bunch, but I do enjoy it.  I admit, my enjoyment has deteriorated over time.  I probably would have rather watched a movie following the Enterprise-B.  Ah well, it's still fun, but still I want to gripe about it since I watched it recently.

Why didn't the Enterprise change their shield frequency?  It seems pretty obvious that such was the Duras sisters' trick, as all weapons went right through.  You'd think that would have been their first action.

If shields are so easy to penetrate once the frequency is known, why didn't the Borg try that trick when they first encountered the Enterprise in Q Who and hacked their computers?

Why did Picard have to pick up Kirk and fight Soren on Viridian III?  It seems it would have been far easier to interrupt his plans by returning to when he first met him in Ten Forward and Soren stated he needed to get back to the station to complete his work.  If he had delayed him for even a few minutes, it would have stopped Soren's plans right there.  He then could have helped deduce Soren's involvement in blowing up stars and stealing trilithium research and could have locked him up for a long time.

Usually Star Trek has some sort of technobabble to explain the unexplainable, so why is there some "nexus" that escapes the meaning of time and gives everyone lasting happiness?  Unless this is like a little crack in space that leads to heaven, it's just too contrived for me.

So there's my rant.  And yet I still like it :)

The reason is very simple. The SAME people were at the SAME time working on All The Good Things, Generations and Voyager. Only ATGT turned out to be great

emanswfan said:

New screencap from Utapau in ROTS:

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/37344

I think I did a really good job at making the CGI look a lot less CGI-ish and more like physical objects.

I love it, but were the rocks not an actual model and not CG?

I like TFF but I can't watch it when I'm sober.

In his age? Wow, good work

Tobar said:

So this happened:

Into Darkness voted worst Star Trek film by trekkies 

Really? Have the people seen the 2009 movie? Or Nemesis? Or Generations? Or The Final Frontier?

Is there any chance that you could for example add a text to the black bar area for let's say first 30 seconds telling that it's not the final version? Just to avoid all the discussions "I have downloaded a torrent form site X, which version is it?"

Well I have the feeling a 6 hour cut could be more watchable than the 2 hour cut

The problem with "JJ Trek" is that the movies are great action movies. But they are horrible Star Trek movies