timdiggerm

Deak said:

Yippee!

hahahahahahahaha yes good job writers

Those are all in one timeline, though.

Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

deho said:

TV's Frink said:

deho said:

This is my first post here.

lol, you might want to change your avatar.

I'm not using forums very often, so I basically have no idea what I'm doing here, lol. I guess it's a copyright issue?

In a way -- a prominent longtime poster uses that exact avatar.

Yeah, two people with the same avatar is really confusing.

Like Sojourn said, your wish has been granted by way of editing the url

Bingowings said:

Whatever happened to that ship/pod shown in the build up to the filming of TPM in the BBC documentary about Lucas?

It looked fab and never turned up in any of the films as far as I can recall.

----UPDATE----

This thing?

I spent minutes speculating based on that one ship.

 

Isn't that just a rear shot of Sebulba's podracer cockpit?

fishmanlee said:

I don't think Ungoliant was mentioned in the Appendices...?

This is why some of the references surprise me.

fishmanlee said:

doubleofive said:

 

fishmanlee said:

The reason the EE is so short, is because the Theatrical is so long.

And because the book is so short. Did we really think he could pump 3 3.5 hour movies out of The Hobbit?

 

And the Appendices, and Unfinished Tales, The History of Middle-Earth series..

Just the appendices. They have the rights to anything in the books LOTR & Hobbit, but nothing from the other books.

DVD-BOY said:

Has anyone downloaded similiar e-books before?  I'm wondering how easy it is to extract the images and assets, or are they in some proprietary format?

 

Oh I'm sure that, in time, we'll figure it out.

Baronlando said:

http://www.foxconnect.com/star-wars-trilogy-episodes-iv-vi.html

So I guess this is just some pointless repack?

Pointless? The box art is a lot better!

darth_ender said:

timdiggerm said:

darth_ender said:

Well, I am officially the third highest official in the local Mormon Diocese.

Okay, so that's a lame joke.  But I am now serving in a position of authority over the local congregation as the 2nd counselor in the bishopric.  Positions are entrusted to a person, not sought, and leaders are not paid in my church, so there is no ambition in seeking these positions.  This is a position I am honored and terrified to take part in.  I'm younger than the usual folks, and it can be rather time consuming.  I am not terribly organized by nature either.  But I pray I am up to the challenge and may serve God to the best of my ability.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop_(Latter_Day_Saints)

This is a serious question, and I am not making fun of your faith, despite the fact that it might sound like I am.

 

How many secret handshakes do you know, as a Bishop?

First, I am not actually a bishop: I am second counselor to a bishop.  No biggie, but just to clarify.  Second, it's a difficult topic for me to discuss because I feel that what you are referring to is sacred and not to be spoken of lightly.  Even referring to it as handshakes, though I know that is how it is commonly viewed, seems like a simplistic way to express it.  They're not something we do outside the temple, and they are not even part of entrance to the temple, nor are they a means of conveying, "Hey, I'm a Mormon too."  Though the comparisons to masonry are common and understandable, their function is different.  Brigham Young put it this way:

“Your endowment is, to receive all those ordinances in the house of the Lord, which are necessary for you, after you have departed this life, to enable you to walk back to the presence of the Father, passing the angels who stand as sentinels, being enabled to give them the key words, the signs and tokens, pertaining to the holy Priesthood, and gain your eternal exaltation in spite of earth and hell.”

What others call secret handshakes we call tokens.  That said, I received my endowment which included all such "key words," "signs," and "tokens" back in 2001 prior to going on a mission.  There are no new tokens to learn.  I learned 'em all already 12 years ago.

Hope that's a useful answer.

Thoroughly useful answer. I dunno how I misread your description of your title/duties, and sorry about that.

And the point about not discussing lightly, sacred stuff, etc makes a lot of sense, and I'm a little sorry I phrased it the way I did. Interesting to know that you learned all that stuff when you went on your mission (is that the same as being made an "Elder"? I am guessing entirely based on missionary nametags here)

Although it does sound from that Young quote like the tokens are about gaining entrance...just not on Earth so much.

darth_ender said:

Well, I am officially the third highest official in the local Mormon Diocese.

Okay, so that's a lame joke.  But I am now serving in a position of authority over the local congregation as the 2nd counselor in the bishopric.  Positions are entrusted to a person, not sought, and leaders are not paid in my church, so there is no ambition in seeking these positions.  This is a position I am honored and terrified to take part in.  I'm younger than the usual folks, and it can be rather time consuming.  I am not terribly organized by nature either.  But I pray I am up to the challenge and may serve God to the best of my ability.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop_(Latter_Day_Saints)

This is a serious question, and I am not making fun of your faith, despite the fact that it might sound like I am.

How many secret handshakes do you know, as a Bishop?

valinkrai said:

timdiggerm said:

I only watch films projected onto aged but clean theatrical-sized screens projected from film with decade-authentic bulbs.

 I just got a bit sad, because I realized that I'll probably never see something decently projected on film again unless I go really early in a screening to my local theater

I was being sarcastic. But if it's film you crave, go to an IMAX and see one of their classic documentaries. I mean a real IMAX, not the IMAX-branded garbage at a multiplex.

I admit that it's hard to judge from one pic, but it's like X-Wing Alliance's "Otana" with ... I dunno, McQuarrie-esque domes?

I only watch films projected onto aged but clean theatrical-sized screens projected from film with decade-authentic bulbs.

TMBTM said:

Ryan McAvoy said:

(False perspective)

Not wanting to be a smartass, just a real question I asked myself when watching the Hobbit: how could they make false perspective when shooting in 3D? I remember some behind the scene footage of LOTR and I found very interesting to use that old trick of forced perspective. But this can't work when filmed in 3D because the trick is revealed. Maybe forced perspective shots were post "3Dfied" or something.

I could be wrong, but I remember that being a problem with The Hobbit. They couldn't use false perspective, and so they had to bluescreen everything.

Ryan McAvoy said:

Let's have the ST done the Peter Jackson/Christopher Nolan way. All practical unless it is ABSOLUTELY impossible.

Did you see The Hobbit?

Bester said:

Great news.  Now I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the Ben Burtt announcement.

What, you don't want Matt Wood????

imperialscum said:

Ryan McAvoy said:

As a writer of film scores Williams is overrated IMO. Brilliant, but overated. Ennio Morricone and Bernard Hermann are the greatest ever composers of film scores. Every score they did featured a whole new soundscape of different instruments and emotional depths.

That is your opinion.

Yes, which is why he said "IMO", which stands for "In My Opinion". He then explained the reasons behind his opinion. All in all, an exemplary post for online discussion.

ray_afraid said:

timdiggerm said:

fishmanlee said:

True, but for people expecting to hear exactly what they heard in 1977, from John Williams in 1999-2005 for vastly inferior films...

Right, gotcha.

Frankly, if you want to hear something like his OT work, go listen to Raiders.

^Yes! Star Wars and Raiders are my favorite scores and both have a very similar feel. A magical, mysterious feel.

I wonder if this means we should check out his Lincoln, War Horse, and The Adventures of Tin Tin soundtracks to get an idea of where he might be in a few years?

fishmanlee said:

True, but for people expecting to hear exactly what they heard in 1977, from John Williams in 1999-2005 for vastly inferior films...

Right, gotcha.

Frankly, if you want to hear something like his OT work, go listen to Raiders.

Those don't sound like particularly bad ideas at all, and rather fitting.

AntcuFaalb said:

muddyknees2000 said:

Is it lossless on the quality aspect? (audio doesn't matter, only video)

All you need to do is to capture it uncompressed over HDMI using something to either ignore or strip HDCP.

drngr might be able to help.

Given that it's streaming from a webservice, and they're the ones that compress it....

darth_ender said:

Close ups instead of wideshot, and I guess is supposed to imply a little flirting.

Although perhaps this take is flirtier, and the different framing helps with that, I've always thought it was closeups because pan&scan on the original wideshots would be awful, and this take gave them an alternative. TV was 4:3 back then, after all.

They could just act like NJO never happened, and retcon it that NJO was an alternate universe from the new films.

I mean, if they were willing to make up really silly retcons for Jater Mareel... why not.