There's nothing odd about it. Film looks great! I love the look of film; I love the grain, the colors, the feel of 24 fps. If done right, super 35 does look a lot better than current digital projection but, I also hate seeing a movie that's been played 500 times because the cinema is too cheap to buy a new copy. That is were digital projection will be a bonus. Hell, a week after the movies opens the film starts to look like shit because they play 5 showings a day.
I once had a friend that worked at a movie theater in Minneapolis. The film they were showing got dropped and fell off the reel. In order to untangle it, they had to string the movie up and down the street. Scratched the hell out of the film. Probably not the norm, but I think of that everytime I see a scratched up film.
Hey, if I'll be able to get an SA-CD (with both the 44.1MHz audio and the 24/96 track) for the same price as a standard CD, that'll more than make up for the extra couple of steps it'll take me to burn it.
Everything is so bloated now. Not just the internet, programs too. My friends and I got out an old Com64 a while back and were amazed at how well the games actually looked. They still hold up. And you could get a dozen of those games on a 5 1/4" floppy disc.
Why does the music industry treat it's customers like crimminals? Because they are. We all have downloaded a little free music off the net.
I don't have any huge respect for most music industry execs, but they are just as capable of downloading a file sharing program a seeing what's out there as anyone else is. There're making a few moves that piss me off too, but nowbody has the God given right to download music. CDs are a product the same as dish soap and VCRs.
Perhaps radio programmers are in cahoots with CD manufacterers. Because of the crappy music played on FM radio, my CD collection keeps growing and growing so I have something good to listen to.
Wasn't that Simpson's joke a reference to the Jimmy Swaggert comment about the large sized Jar Jar doll. He claimed that there were several points of entery that a child might use the doll for masterbation purposes.
George's original concept for the series has changed quite a bit from the original. Here is an exerpt from the notes of Gary Kurtz (original producer for parts IV and V, a man I hope George works with again). It outlines the original plots for the non-ology. They were written up before RotJ as you will see.
EPISODE 1: Was to focus on the origins of the Jedi Knights and how they are initiated and trained
EPISODE 2: Introduction and development of Obi-Wan Kenobi
EPISODE 3: Introduction and life of Vader
EPISODE 4: There were seven different drafts of the film. At one point, they pursued buying the rights to Hidden Fortress because of the strong similarities. At one point, Luke was a female, Han was Luke's brother, Luke's father was the one in prison (interesting point for some debates) and the film featured 40 wookies
EPISODE 5: Once written, the screenplay of Empire is almost exactly what is seen on screen. The only cut scenes were those involving wampas in the rebel base (cut because of time and unsolved technical glitches) and about two minutes of Luke/Yoda Jedi training with no real dialog.
EPISODE 6: Leia was to be elected "Queen of her people" leaving her isolated. Han was to die. Luke confronted Vader and went on with his life alone. Leia was not to be Luke's sister.
EPISODE 7: Third trilogy was to focus on Luke's life as a Jedi, with very few details planned out.
EPISODE 8: Luke's sister (not Leia) appears from another part of the galaxy.
EPISODE 9: First appearance of the Emperor.
These may have appeared before, I'm not sure. But it's interesting never the less.
I would consider myself a large SW fan and I couldn't give a flying F**** if Spider-Dude outdid it at the box office 100 to 1.
I'm not going to force the movies of my youth of another generation, they have their own movies to watch. What surprises me is that anyone under 30 went to see AotC at all.
I hear your point however, when taken into account the infinite number of possibilities of what forms "life" may take on in an infinite universe, the question that has to be answered before ANY search for life outside of Earth can be done is "what exactly are we looking for?" You could be standing right next to a super alien and not even know it because it looks and tastes like and orange gum ball. Therefore, we have to base searches, studies, and hypothesis on the only life that we know of, ours. And that does not include just humans, all life on Earth - man, dog, plant, protezoa - have the same basic finger print and the same basic range of conditions that it can live in. Those conditions are what were are looking for. Otherwise, searches would be nothing but shots in the dark that would take forever and acheive nothing.
as any of you that have ever written anything knows, all your inspiration not not flow from one source (unless you're incredibly narrow minded). I would say that visually and plotwise the SW movies owe much to the classic sci-fi movie serials of the 1930's and 40's. If you listen to the audio commentary on TPM DVD, you'll hear how they spent hours trying to figure out the sound used in the Flash Gordon serials whenever a video message was being recieved (it turned out to be a flute). In addition to this, there are many elements of mythology (principly greek) used in the story. Lucas was an anthropology major before he switched to film. I'm not saying he put any great deal of thought into it, I'm just saying that the characters were there in his life, as a part of his studies, and he used them. There are many more images, characters, and story lines used by GL from the films of Akira Kurosawa. Anyone that has seen the Hidden Fortress will see huge simularities between it and SW. I do not see, however, and reason the spend vast amounts of time insulting Lucas, as the article seems to do. Joseph Campbell is using Lucas as a vehicle to promote his books, not the other way around. "Oh Joe, please please let me be on your show. My movies aren't doing so hot and need the air of authenticity that you bring."
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I once had a friend that worked at a movie theater in Minneapolis. The film they were showing got dropped and fell off the reel. In order to untangle it, they had to string the movie up and down the street. Scratched the hell out of the film. Probably not the norm, but I think of that everytime I see a scratched up film.
Hey, if I'll be able to get an SA-CD (with both the 44.1MHz audio and the 24/96 track) for the same price as a standard CD, that'll more than make up for the extra couple of steps it'll take me to burn it.
Either the fish are dead, or those girls in the thongs need to take a bath.
Everything is so bloated now. Not just the internet, programs too. My friends and I got out an old Com64 a while back and were amazed at how well the games actually looked. They still hold up. And you could get a dozen of those games on a 5 1/4" floppy disc.
I warned you about the giant metalic bugs ... But you all thought I was CRAZY ... ha ha ha a haha ... ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ah ........
I don't have any huge respect for most music industry execs, but they are just as capable of downloading a file sharing program a seeing what's out there as anyone else is. There're making a few moves that piss me off too, but nowbody has the God given right to download music. CDs are a product the same as dish soap and VCRs.
Perhaps radio programmers are in cahoots with CD manufacterers. Because of the crappy music played on FM radio, my CD collection keeps growing and growing so I have something good to listen to.
Wasn't that Simpson's joke a reference to the Jimmy Swaggert comment about the large sized Jar Jar doll. He claimed that there were several points of entery that a child might use the doll for masterbation purposes.
EPISODE 1: Was to focus on the origins of the Jedi Knights and how they are initiated and trained
EPISODE 2: Introduction and development of Obi-Wan Kenobi
EPISODE 3: Introduction and life of Vader
EPISODE 4: There were seven different drafts of the film. At one point, they pursued buying the rights to Hidden Fortress because of the strong similarities. At one point, Luke was a female, Han was Luke's brother, Luke's father was the one in prison (interesting point for some debates) and the film featured 40 wookies
EPISODE 5: Once written, the screenplay of Empire is almost exactly what is seen on screen. The only cut scenes were those involving wampas in the rebel base (cut because of time and unsolved technical glitches) and about two minutes of Luke/Yoda Jedi training with no real dialog.
EPISODE 6: Leia was to be elected "Queen of her people" leaving her isolated. Han was to die. Luke confronted Vader and went on with his life alone. Leia was not to be Luke's sister.
EPISODE 7: Third trilogy was to focus on Luke's life as a Jedi, with very few details planned out.
EPISODE 8: Luke's sister (not Leia) appears from another part of the galaxy.
EPISODE 9: First appearance of the Emperor.
These may have appeared before, I'm not sure. But it's interesting never the less.
From what I've heard though, they do not involve any major characters - Well ... not any more major than Bail Organa anyway.
Britney Worishutz? Yeah, she's a real bitch!
I'm not going to force the movies of my youth of another generation, they have their own movies to watch. What surprises me is that anyone under 30 went to see AotC at all.
I hear your point however, when taken into account the infinite number of possibilities of what forms "life" may take on in an infinite universe, the question that has to be answered before ANY search for life outside of Earth can be done is "what exactly are we looking for?" You could be standing right next to a super alien and not even know it because it looks and tastes like and orange gum ball. Therefore, we have to base searches, studies, and hypothesis on the only life that we know of, ours. And that does not include just humans, all life on Earth - man, dog, plant, protezoa - have the same basic finger print and the same basic range of conditions that it can live in. Those conditions are what were are looking for. Otherwise, searches would be nothing but shots in the dark that would take forever and acheive nothing.
Man hasn't reached the moon yet, and we never will!
Looks like as many people saw this post as saw your last movie.
Peace out, dude!
as any of you that have ever written anything knows, all your inspiration not not flow from one source (unless you're incredibly narrow minded). I would say that visually and plotwise the SW movies owe much to the classic sci-fi movie serials of the 1930's and 40's. If you listen to the audio commentary on TPM DVD, you'll hear how they spent hours trying to figure out the sound used in the Flash Gordon serials whenever a video message was being recieved (it turned out to be a flute). In addition to this, there are many elements of mythology (principly greek) used in the story. Lucas was an anthropology major before he switched to film. I'm not saying he put any great deal of thought into it, I'm just saying that the characters were there in his life, as a part of his studies, and he used them. There are many more images, characters, and story lines used by GL from the films of Akira Kurosawa. Anyone that has seen the Hidden Fortress will see huge simularities between it and SW. I do not see, however, and reason the spend vast amounts of time insulting Lucas, as the article seems to do. Joseph Campbell is using Lucas as a vehicle to promote his books, not the other way around. "Oh Joe, please please let me be on your show. My movies aren't doing so hot and need the air of authenticity that you bring."