ray_afraid

DuracellEnergizer said:

After the shitshow that was 2019, it had better be happy.

Your 2019, or our worlds 2019?

Anakin Starkiller said:

Z6PO said:

It primarily has to make sense to the people that watch the movie. If it doesn’t look like the burnt guy we saw earlier on, if we can’t recognize him, the movie makers have failed at story telling.

Star Wars is not an historical documentary about the GFFA, it’s a fairy tale that is maybe somewhat based on true facts. Like all fairy tales, entertainment is more important than the truth!

If you’re gonna argue that, I found it extremely jarring as a child the first time I saw the pre-SE version of RotJ with some weird old guy in the place of Anakin.

It’s funny/sad that you can’t follow the simple story or remember a character you met minuets ago & also dismiss Sebastian Shaw as “some weird old guy”.
The problem isn’t the film.
I’m happy Adywan is rightful restoring Shaw. That way he’s in all the versions I watch.

Happy new year, you sons of guns!
The Roaring Twenties are here again!

It is.
At 5 years old I instantly knew who he was. The story probably plays into this as well. And the story isn’t confusing either, so, yeah. Non issue.

I don’t think Yoda says anything in ESB that contradicts or changes anything from SW.
I think that’s a pretty long stretch.

Z6PO said:

It primarily has to make sense to the people that watch the movie. If it doesn’t look like the burnt guy we saw earlier on, if we can’t recognize him, the movie makers have failed at story telling.

But, since it’s easy to recognize him as the man we just met, this is no problem.
…right?

Mocata said:

After all that work to disguise the terrible ROTS latex makeup it does look… marginally better.

Are you talking about Revisited? Ady used Ian from Jedi & it looks incomparably better than the RotS monster-mash face.

I’d love to have A New Hope: Despecialized HD.
I like the continuity with the other trilogy titles & the “fixed” opening flyover.
I’d love to be able to have a boxed trilogy of the numbered films & also Star Wars separately, as that’s how I categorize em: Star Wars is a stand-alone film, A New Hope is the beginning of a trilogy.
Currently, A New Hope is missing from my collection & that’s a shame.

timdiggerm said:

ray_afraid said:

timdiggerm said:

Ever thought about erasing Threepio’s arm that enters the shot at 12:46? It’s an obvious continuity error.

There’s probably several protocol droids in that thing. Doesn’t have to be 3PO.

I would agree except that like two shots later is obviously a continuation of the same shot

Oh, I see what you mean… Hmm…

Anakin Starkiller said:

Even he could chose any form to show himself as, the Shaw form doesn’t make any sense.

Luke wouldn’t recognize him as anyone else.
It makes perfectly sensible sense.

timdiggerm said:

Ever thought about erasing Threepio’s arm that enters the shot at 12:46? It’s an obvious continuity error.

There’s probably several protocol droids in that thing. Doesn’t have to be 3PO.

Ronster said:

there really is little point.

Just because there’s little hope doesn’t take away the point AT ALL.
I don’t think you understand the reasons behind our stance here.

LexX said:

Well, he might have been on the other side of the moon for all we know.

Maybe? But it doesn’t make visual sense. You shouldn’t have to rationalize it.

There must be more Imperial garrisons than that one platform.

Why? They’re just protecting the shield generator.
Why would they need platforms on the other side of the planet? Why would Vader arrive there & then have to travel all the way around the entire planet to get where he was trying to go? He knew what the Rebels were up to & about where they’d be.

^ Didn’t JJ just confirm that there’s no OUT coming out?

DVNR is just a tool. When used right , it’s great. When not, it’s terrible.
Also, just like any tool, it isn’t always needed for the job at hand.
But, sometimes grain is distractingly noisy.
Example: I prefer the 4K77-DVRNed edition of Star Wars to the non. There’s still plenty of natural grain, but it’s not like looking through a sandstorm.
Meanwhile, I’d rather watch Predator on VHS than the DVNRed-to-hell BD disc.

DominicCobb said:

Maybe just, I don’t know, don’t be a dick?

I vote to make this the sites new slogan.

CatBus said:

ray_afraid said:

CatBus said:

Stotchy said:

CatBus said:

three of which I can handle like my existing official Blu-rays: glue them all together, put a string through the middle, and suspend them inside one of the cavities in the walls of my house, so nobody accidentally watches them or stumbles across them and thinks that I like those films enough to buy them

This is really funny.

That is seriously what I did with the 2011SE’s. You glue the shiny sides together so it’s really clear what’s on the disks. Star Wars and Empire on the sides, Jedi in the middle, a little offcenter so that you can see some of its cover too. They’re currently hanging inside the wall cavity of my youngest child’s bedroom closet.

Love it.
But be careful… Some may not think that’s valid.
I got heavily berated for announcing that I only own the paper receipt from my purchase of the BD boxset. “THAT’S NOT GOOD ENOUGH! HE SHOULD BE BANNED!” even though it proves, irrevocably, that I paid my hard earned cash for the set (you can even trace it to my bank account). Simply possessing the set says nothing. Ya coulda’ stole it, bought it second hand, ect.

Thanks for the idea – I’ll glue the receipt to the discs.

Now we’re talkin’.

DuracellEnergizer said:

ray_afraid said:

CatBus said:

Stotchy said:

CatBus said:

three of which I can handle like my existing official Blu-rays: glue them all together, put a string through the middle, and suspend them inside one of the cavities in the walls of my house, so nobody accidentally watches them or stumbles across them and thinks that I like those films enough to buy them

This is really funny.

That is seriously what I did with the 2011SE’s. You glue the shiny sides together so it’s really clear what’s on the disks. Star Wars and Empire on the sides, Jedi in the middle, a little offcenter so that you can see some of its cover too. They’re currently hanging inside the wall cavity of my youngest child’s bedroom closet.

Love it.
But be careful… Some may not think that’s valid.
I got heavily berated for announcing that I only own the paper receipt from my purchase of the BD boxset. “THAT’S NOT GOOD ENOUGH! HE SHOULD BE BANNED!” even though it proves, irrevocably, that I paid my hard earned cash for the set (you can even trace it to my bank account). Simply possessing the set says nothing. Ya coulda’ stole it, bought it second hand, ect.

And what would be wrong with the latter? Or do you need to actually pay the megacorporations for a brand spankin’ new copy to “legitimately” download fan-edits/preservations/etc.?

Oh, nothing at all! I really couldn’t care any less.
It’s just silly to say that I have less right to own fan edits when I actually have proof that my money went to LFL.

The Pods were fantastic. All of em. Great idea, great visual design, great sound design.
The race & the racers were horrible, but.

1. SW/ESB
2. RotJ/R1

And, just because I’ve seen 'em…
CoC/BfE
TPM/TFA
HS
AotC/RotS

^ I’m very nostalgic for that trailer.
But, a few years back I showed it to my lady, with the explanation of “THIS is what we were excited for!”
She laughed the whole way though, pointing out how “Un-StarWarsy” & silly it seems. And I couldn’t disagree. At all.
But it still gets me excited for a film we will never see.

(side note: she saw TPM with her boyfriend at the time & lost all respect for him when he said he “loved it”. This story kills me.)

Tobar said:

Not liking it is fine. But it’s not universe shrinkage if it was always part of his lore from the beginning. It’s actually the opposite as it expanded our knowledge of the past.

George coulda’ planned for Luke n’ Leia to be brother n’ sister from the beginning & it would still make the galaxy smaller.
I don’t totally disagree with you, but Boba Fett the mystery man is much more interesting than him being part of a group who all act & dress up the same. The more we know, the less interesting he becomes.
But that’s a whole other topic.

I’m still excited to sit down n’ watch this thing!

CatBus said:

Stotchy said:

CatBus said:

three of which I can handle like my existing official Blu-rays: glue them all together, put a string through the middle, and suspend them inside one of the cavities in the walls of my house, so nobody accidentally watches them or stumbles across them and thinks that I like those films enough to buy them

This is really funny.

That is seriously what I did with the 2011SE’s. You glue the shiny sides together so it’s really clear what’s on the disks. Star Wars and Empire on the sides, Jedi in the middle, a little offcenter so that you can see some of its cover too. They’re currently hanging inside the wall cavity of my youngest child’s bedroom closet.

Love it.
But be careful… Some may not think that’s valid.
I got heavily berated for announcing that I only own the paper receipt from my purchase of the BD boxset. “THAT’S NOT GOOD ENOUGH! HE SHOULD BE BANNED!” even though it proves, irrevocably, that I paid my hard earned cash for the set (you can even trace it to my bank account). Simply possessing the set says nothing. Ya coulda’ stole it, bought it second hand, ect.

Star Wars '77
Empire '80
all else is subject to my own ideas.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Oh, yeah, the Mon Calamari, too. They’re so ubiquitious throughout SW, I forgot they first appeared in ROTJ.

I really wish they weren’t in R1 though. In my head cannon, many other groups joined the Rebellion after the destruction of the first Death Star.
All these races in R1 forces one to question where the hell they all were during the most dangerous & pivotal battle for the Alliance…