timdiggerm

SilverWook said:

Should the network announcer over the end credits be preserved as well?

Absolutely.

Heilemann said:

So Lucas mythologized his creation of the Star Wars story, so what? For how long does he have to have his nose rubbed in that?

On this board? Probably forever. sigh

I'm really hoping he bases it off the original costume. Silver sphere eyes and all.

Anchorhead said:

SilverWook 

I'm amazed we're getting such an unvarnished look at what must have been a more tumultuous production than even ESB was.

I wonder if some of it is because Lucas doesn't run the Star Wars universe anymore. These people may feel less intimidated, or even a little vengeful at what a dick he was. 

....or maybe because it's 30 years later.

xhonzi said:

Bingowings said:

[Carrie] was great in ESB and not so in ROTJ...

Look Bingo, I think you may be alone in this.  Carrie was great* in RotJ, it's probably her best performance in the trilogy.

 

*And by great, I mean hawwwwwwwt.

I still don't understand this. She's much better looking in ESB. It's like amount of clothes is inversely proportional to attractiveness for y'all.

chyron8472 said:

I volunteer to put it on Myspleen. I did so for v2.1.

If you all recall, I was able to download 2.1 from uloz and put it up on Myspleen in very little time. The reason being because I'm using the internet at my office, which is really fricken fast. 

Plus, I'm really nitpicky about wanting torrents for the same set to have identical formatting/layouts in their Myspleen descriptions. So if I do it myself, I can ensure that it looks right.

Yes thank you.

So, when editing the PT, one should pick the music first, yes?

darth_ender said:

Oh drat!  I ... was about to start it in its own thread

whyyyyyyyyyyyyy

SilverWook said:

http://www.fandango.com/moviephotos/thecoolestmoviespacesuitsinhistory_spock%E2%80%99ssuitinistartrekii:thewrathofkhani_623_3

So many errors...

The faces I just made reading that. And I don't usually react that way. Ouch.

This is Bingo's favorite idea that will, sorry to say, never happen.

ray_afraid said:

I'm interested to see what role the speeder-bikes were originally meant to play in the sail barge scene. I've always had a suspicion that they were designed for that scene as the fins on the front and overall shape/design and color looks like Jabbas sail barge and skiffs. Now that BTS photos of them at the sail barge shoot have emerged, I'm more convinced than ever.

I always thought the explanation for their presence was simply that all the ROTJ stuff was in trailers, and all the trailer came to the shoto.

emanswfan said:

timdiggerm said:

Was I supposed to be getting a distracting amount of flickery movement in the backgrounds?

Did you not see this in my post?

emanswfan said:

...and trying to correct some of the flicker from the film grain scan I use.

Oh jeez, sorry. Somehow I read that as "I have already fixed the flicker and here are my results" which is...the opposite. My apologies.

That is just like watching the movie, only not very enjoyable.

Was I supposed to be getting a distracting amount of flickery movement in the backgrounds?

dan76 said:

If this new trilogy has any chance of recapturing that spirit I hope politics stays out of it. It should be a small story. It will be difficult to have cut-out baddies without redemption (I know Vader had redemption but he was the only one). In a modern film the Emperor would go into therapy...

Yes, most films today end with the villain in therapy. They hardly ever kill of villains in the cinema anymore.

Feallan said:

Let's ostracize him.

Let's not.

roback214 said:

I have a lot of material to share, but first you have to talk and befriend

This, I think, is where there's a difference in culture. Why is sharing contingent on friendship?

Hal 9000 said:

Do you have a source for that?

I really hope he says The Latino Review

Papai2013 said:

Not only are the JP 35mm stills gorgeous in terms of colour and definition, they have a much better framing than the 2D and the 3D Bluray.

The 35mm stills even in the matted 1.85:1 widescreen shots, are both wider and taller than the 2D and the 3D BD. It seems as if they cropped the original widescreen version to 16:10, then put black bars on top and bottom of that 16:10 frame to create an even more cropped 1.85:1 version. Its like double-cropping!

For the 3D I can still understand that they had to shift the images left and right (still it doesn't justify that much cropping as Titanic 3D-the scope version that played in theatres, wasn't cropped much from the framing of the DVD), but why was the 2D cropped?

I just hope one day to get my hands on a 35mm copy of JP so I can preserve the uncropped version, as it seems, Spielberg or Universal won't invest on a remaster anymore after their 3D version was a success. So each successive home video version may feature the cropped framing.

Please do not forget that, in film projection, some cropping is inherent to the projection process, assumed to be taking place by the filmmaker, and thus compensated for when filming. When transferring to home/digital media, then, some cropping is appropriate, in order to reproduce the image actually seen in theaters.

TV's Frink said:

timdiggerm said:

It's pretty clear from the way that Vader looks at the Emperor, looks at Luke, looks at the Emperor, looks at Luke, and then yells "NOOOOOO" that he's in it to save Luke.

I'm 99% sure you're making a joke here.

Don't worry, Frink, we are the 99%.

It's pretty clear from the way that Vader looks at the Emperor, looks at Luke, looks at the Emperor, looks at Luke, and then yells "NOOOOOO" that he's in it to save Luke.

team_negative1 said:

These will be the new standard

That remains to be seen. I suspect, unless a very serious argument can be made that syncing to -1 is more theatrically accurate than syncing to GOUT, that a GOUT-synced version of your print will happen pretty quickly.

imperialscum said:

I think his primary goal was Luke. Everything else seems to be secondary and subordinate to that. If his primary goal was to destroy Alliance he wouldn't order fleet to hold while its star-fighter complement was wasted on rebels.

He orders the fleet to hold so they don't get destroyed by the blasts coming from that Death Star! Meanwhile, the fighters are there to make it look like the Imperials are actually attacking with their fleet. They're just keeping the Rebels busy until the DS opens fire.

TK-949 said:

 

Bingowings said:

I may be some time (something like 15 seconds probably).

What do you do, when you are some time?

 

Here, "I may be some time" means "I might take awhile".

imperialscum said:

 The only reason Emperor came to Endor was to get Luke (and possibly destroy Alliance in the process).

Isn't it the other way around?