timdiggerm

Thank you, 005.

I dunno, all this talk of Hoth, Tatooine and AT-ATs worries me. I'm pretty sure those films were already made?

Do you like fish sticks?

I don't see how it's any more "like a set" than the cropped one. "Inside" vs "Outside" the cockpit is bogus, as a camera could easily fit inside the cockpit for both shots, and a human viewer could sit in that location for neither shot.

Perhaps it was done to hide Kershner's decision to build the cockpit set larger for ESB. He did this specifically to fit everyone better inside the frame...which the cropping undoes.

I don't see how this would be possible without 35mm sources.

So glad to see this done.

No, no, don't assume that Revisited will match any previous version of the film. Remember that ANH:R intentionally has a grey-er, washed out Death Star.

Bingowings said:

People from Aberdeen aren't that friendly with sheep.

 Not compared to people from Cardiff, right?

The board fails to recognize https urls as links

Ah, but this keeps a record.

Also it was down again.

Tack said:

There's a series of Star Wars related videos called 'kit-bashed', which expand upon the notions of Star Wars' influences from classic cinema (The Hidden Fortress makes quite a few appearances)

There are some interesting points made in these videos, but one that stands out is the music influences for the opening. In particular, this one from Ivanhoe.

There's also one from Stravinsky's Rite of Spring that was interesting.

To toot my own horn, see also this thread.

AntcuFaalb said:

n00b said:

@ Harmy

Is there any chance to get rid of those bright boxes around the Falcon and the TIE fighters at 00:36:42 - 00:36:44? This problem was much less prominent before Lowry "restored" the material though your workprint is already an improvement over 2004.

I don't have the WP downloaded. Are you, perhaps, referring to garbage mattes?

If so, then wouldn't garbage matte removal be a "specialization" rather than "despecialization"?

 Not if the garbage mattes weren't visible in theatres in 1977, due to the differences in film projection vs modern systems.

In short, no.

Bingowings said:

Ben aged at the same rate as a normal human being.

 Faster, even.

Leia the older stateswoman will work just fine.

I feel like we would need to learn about/hear from crosscultural adoptees to really talk about this?

adywan said:

It seems a shame that they are going to include all the interiors

 But those don't even fit inside the exterior, as I understand it.

DuracellEnergizer said:

imperialscum said:

when it comes to reproducing creatures, puppet based SFX just suck compared to CGI. CGI can reproduce more natural behaviour and motion of a creature. In the end they both look fake.

I'll take the less-than-fluid movements of puppets over the plastic surfaces and weightlessness of CGI any day.

What if sometimes one is better, and sometimes the other is better?

I just don't see the reason in investing great amount of time, effort and money in making a stop-motion SFX with a puppet. Especially when it usually look very unnatural. The way to solve this is either putting a guy into a costume or using CGI.

You do realize that in this day and age, the herky-jerkiness of stop-motion can be corrected, don't you?

 How? With...computers?!

Unless they seriously screw things up between the draft I read online and the final script, Interstellar is going to be great.

...Ady's gonna have to built a DSII model. And then he'll shoot it from several angles, so that it's not always seen from only one side.

ROTJ:R is gonna take forever

Bingowings said:

Doesn't Billy Dee do this scene in the Radio drama?

 Alas, no, he only did the ESB Radio Drama.

Just had another one.

Bingowings said:

^Count Dooku has reprogrammed himself to be much younger and broken his nose and it's nice to see the Probot getting on with Chewie, Threepio and R5?

I like to see the symmetrical Vader queens faces when they see that Dark Lord.

Leia is missing a few digits and aged a bit too quickly and Luke is wearing...well it's hard to tell...is he one of the Osmonds because that looks very 70's Vegas?

 It's a fascinating choice, recasting Han, Luke and Leia.

http://imgur.com/Jot5XkB

Found this on reddit and knew it'd be appreciated here.

DuracellEnergizer said:

timdiggerm said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Now, this makes me wonder -- is the cancellation of the series so soon after the regime change a coincidence, or did the powers-that-be's unhealthy preoccupation with "canon" end up alienating the readers who liked the comic for what it was, not what they wanted it to be?

 You don't have to project our dislike of canon onto the general fandom for this to make sense. Disliking canon and liking a place for non-canon to exist are not the same. Tales provided a place for non-canon stories; that was what was great about it. You lose that, you lose what's great, you lose the audience. Again, just because the audience liked to read non-canon stories doesn't mean that they dislike canon, only that they liked having a place for non-canon.

 I thought that was implied by what I said =\

 Oh, then I totally misunderstood. Sorry!

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DuracellEnergizer said:

Now, this makes me wonder -- is the cancellation of the series so soon after the regime change a coincidence, or did the powers-that-be's unhealthy preoccupation with "canon" end up alienating the readers who liked the comic for what it was, not what they wanted it to be?

 You don't have to project our dislike of canon onto the general fandom for this to make sense. Disliking canon and liking a place for non-canon to exist are not the same. Tales provided a place for non-canon stories; that was what was great about it. You lose that, you lose what's great, you lose the audience. Again, just because the audience liked to read non-canon stories doesn't mean that they dislike canon, only that they liked having a place for non-canon.

Also, if the nuTales was a dumping ground, that may have something to do with it.