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#1470334
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<strong>The Book Of Boba Fett</strong> (live action series) - a general discussion thread - * <strong>SPOILERS</strong> *
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My wife isn’t an obsessive SW fan, pretty much seen just the movies and then The Mandaloian (which she liked a lot) and BoBF (which she is tepid about and pretty much watches because I am watching it).
She hasn’t seen The Clone Wars cartoons and I have only skimmed them – don’t like the animation, it just doesn’t sell for me and I have a hard time watching around that – but I do know who Cad Bane is. I was looking forward to his introduction into the show. We watched the new episode and she looked at him and said, that is the fakest looking thing I have ever seen in Star Wars.
My concern with Cad Bane is that they pull a Walking Dead with him where they introduce a heavy into one part of the franchise and then kill him off in the next episode. Even though I am not a TCW fan it would be a real slap in the face to that part of the fanbase if they did that…and the way things are going I can see that happening.

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#1470142
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The NumeralJoker/MechaSalesman 4K HDR Edits Megathread, Clips Previews, and Release Info
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Have you ever thought about doing just an extended edit of Revenge of the Sith and its deleted scenes without adding in the Clone Wars material? I think that would be a popular edit too, mainly for people who would want a consistent live-action look throughout the edit.

I prefer to try and avoid the chaos and confusion that gets caused by hosting multiple versions (aside from resolution) of the same film, especially since so many other editors have already tackled the material of just restoring deleted scenes back into Episode III alone. Having said that, it seems no one else has done pure “Extended” cuts like I have for Episodes I and II without any removals of other material, so maybe at some point. We’ll see.

adigitalman did edits of 1, 2 & 3 that are the core movies with the deleted scenes added back in and nothing deleted.

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#1468168
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DUNE (2021) Minimalist (Audio) Fan edit idea(s)
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I love Arrival and Dune…however…my gripe with both of them is the music.
I think both need something more organic, personally I think the works of David Sylvian work better. I’d love to strip the music entirely from both movies and rescore them with Sylvian’s work (instrumentals from the Brilliant Trees era, Gone to Earth instrumental disc, Rain Tree Crow tracks and his collaborative albums with Holger Czukay). Sadly I have no clue how to accomplish this.

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#1467841
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Editing other sci-fi movies into Star Wars stories
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I did a Prometheus edit that used a lot of film in the opening from Terrance Malnick’s ‘‘Tree of Life.’’
My new opening is about 1/2 hour long and between things from ToL and bonus features on the BR only about 2 minutes of it are from the version of the movie that you saw as “Prometheus.”
This idea can work but you have to be careful in the execution.

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#1465784
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<strong>The Book Of Boba Fett</strong> (live action series) - a general discussion thread - * <strong>SPOILERS</strong> *
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Mrebo said:

A very good episode. I was almost giddy seeing the Hutts. The CGI has come along enough and it not being Jabba helps immensely. I still don’t like the lame minor characters who try to be funny, like at the mayor’s office, but more concerning Max Rebo’s trunk is too thin, isn’t it?

I am amazed that with the money and tech that Lucasfilm/Disney has at its disposal that so many of the casually seen aliens look like borderline rubber masks.
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets had more convincing looking aliens!

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#1465643
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<strong>The Book Of Boba Fett</strong> (live action series) - a general discussion thread - * <strong>SPOILERS</strong> *
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Boss episode, which I say as someone who saw the first movie in '77 as an eleven year old and LOVED the Jawas and Sand People. The Mandalorian and BoBF have both delivered in spades on expanding two cultures I have wanted to see have more attention for years. The over officious Twilek major domo guy is great, too.

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#1458280
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The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released)
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GLogus said:

Hal 9000 said:
If anything, it was rude of Rey not to return the favor. Maybe she could have tried if he hadn’t vanished. Good thing she didn’t vanish, though, I guess.

I think it’s funny that Ben pretty much dies three times in the film.

I’d say it’s probably best if you don’t think about things too much with TRoS, but that’s not a luxury a faneditor has.

Due to multiple deaths & re-boots his Force OS is corrupted and he can’t install or run FORCEGHOST.EXE.
Fanedit issue solved.
NEXT!

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#1457691
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The Kenobi <s>Movie</s> Show (Spoilers)
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We have to concentrate on what we know and don’t know in regards to another duel.
Yes, we are clearly going to get another duel.
It could be a PTSD vision of Obi Wans. It could be a force vision. They bang on about fear all the time. Maybe OWK sees this as a force vision and he has to overcome his fear to do something important and this rematch never happens outside of his head.
Personally I think that if we do get a duel it’s going to involve Obi Wan ‘‘throwing the match’’ to make it look like he died, if it happens of Mustafar then we get more of that rhymetry that poems that they like so much. If Vader thinks Obi Wan is dead there’s no reason for him to keep looking for him and he can safely go back to Tatooine.

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#1456972
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The 80s
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  1. Did you participate in the early home video revolution? If so, how did you, for instance, obtain all of the episodes of Star Trek (TOS)?

I worked at a Walden Books in the late 1980’s.
We had two customers who ordered the entire entire series of Star Trek on VHS.
We had two large stacks in the stock room of their unclaimed orders.
Every other two weeks each guy came in, figuring payday, and bought two tapes.
One guy asked for specific tapes, the other guy was like “surprise me.”

  1. Were you tech-savvy? If so, were you an audiophile, a videophile, a computing enthusiast/programmer, …?

I tend to be a late adopter to pretty much everthing. I was an audiophile and used to make (what I thought that the time) were fairly elaborate music mixes on cassette tapes using two cd players, a turntable and a radio shack mixer.
I was big on Super 8 cut downs of movies in the 70s and followed them into the 80s until the US manufacturers (Ken Films, Castle Films, MFI) stopped making these as Beta & VHS took over. I remember when I bought the Star Wars tilogy on VHS I went to town on my super 8 digests and made my own little fanedit, doing things like cutting in the asteroid field from TEBS into ANH when the Facoln comes out of hyperspace before being captured into the death star, things like that. The Star Destroyer chase from TESB made it into ANH to make the Tatooine escape a bit more dynamic.

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#1451143
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The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released)
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Jar Jar Bricks said:

Do people seriously hate Hayden this much? Lol.

No, about 50% of this thread by post is suggestions for changing things for the sake of changing things.
I think the current version should be called done & if the myraid collection of pending things that never seem to inch to completion are ever finished then re-do it and give us a pleasant surprise.
The litany of needless minutiae being beaten into the ground is incredibly tedious.

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#1445436
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The <strong>Original Trilogy</strong> Radical Redux Ideas Thread
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I just grazed around their video, a couple of the Y-Wing trench shots looked okayish however a lot of the rest that I saw just looked like a video game. Which the original movie did not (Revenge of the Sith OTOH).
The other problem is the massive bombardment of lasers flying at the ships, we don’t see anything like that before or after this scene in any of the movies, putting it in the movies would just be a massive speed bump.
Speaking of speed bumps, the one thing I would like to see someone fix is the cut that exists when ships are enterig the trench.

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#1444700
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STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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Is this really an issue? For all we know there’s different interfaces that a gunner can choose when they fire it up.
It’s like complaining about the hallway lights in the Falcon, in one movie they’re blue-ish in another green-ish Big deal, someone replaced the lights they’re a different color now. I’ve been in plenty of places where you walk through a store or down a hallway and there’s 2-3 different color flourescent lights, white/pink/grey combos. That’s how life is.