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timdiggerm

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#662693
Topic
Making of Return of the Jedi (the book) Thread
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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.

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#662687
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Star Wars Prequels 35mm 4K Filmized Editions by Emanswfan (a WIP)
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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.

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#662628
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Star Wars: Episode VII to be directed by J.J. Abrams **NON SPOILER THREAD**
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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.

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#662073
Topic
Movies with wrong color grading *** UPDATED ***
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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.

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#661720
Topic
ROTJ is the best Star Wars film... discuss!
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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.

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#661629
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Star Wars: Episode VII to be directed by J.J. Abrams **NON SPOILER THREAD**
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Bingowings said:

Didn't IG-88 get married to the second Death Star and explode on his honeymoon or something?

Well if you want to get all EU on us...

The IG-88 in ESB is killed on Cloud City by Boba Fett. His boss, another IG-88, however, did that weird DSII thing that you reference, as part of his master plan to lead a droid uprising and rule the galaxy.

Guys, the EU is weird.

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#660942
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Frink's Digital Diorama [was: OT Deleted Scene Restoration Project?]
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skywalker89 said:

Why is everyone so negative to me?

Because you spammed a bunch of threads, which made you appear clueless, which made you a target. And some folks can't resist a target, apparently.

I won't to offend anyone and make Jambes work bad, I just wanted to make a project with your help, so you should also be more positive to me.

That's probably true.

You (all of you) are much worse than me in your behavior.

Given that you're new and didn't know not to spam loads of threads with the same message (...are you new to message boards in general?), also true.