Week of 1/9 OT Thread: All Replies Must be in French

I think he has to know how important it is to get this one right. We shall see if he’s still got it.

Trevor, we’re talking about the epic cinematic achievement that is Bladerunner and you interject with Rocky Horror? Come on man.

The good, the bad and the ugly is the best one to see in theater right now.

Take this scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubVc2MQwMkg&feature=fvwrel and see it in theater, it’s perfect.

Even if Burton’s new ones are more the ones for children.

that was why he went the direction he did. He wanted to involve the next gen the way the older gen was, and he accomplished that.

But yes, his writing is a bit weak at times. Ewan is great, Portman is awesome (though, like you said, her dialogue is not).

I tend to focus on the details behind the story though. The fall of the Jedi and the rise of evil makes the story themselves great. He did a good job in accomplishing that. Now, if it could have been wrtten out in a book a la tolkien or rowling? That would have been unbelievable. But Lucas’ medium is film, so that’s the way it goes.

You and I are going to fundamentally disagree here Trevor. You want to clean up the background? Fine. You want to improve the audio to 5.1? Fine. You want to add deleted scenes? Okay, but the additional Jabba one in New Hope was redundant and poorly executed. IT’S NOT OKAY TO CHANGE A CHARACTERS MORAL CENTER! It’s not okay to mess with the tone of an entire scene. You mean to tell me that fuzzy gremlin playing the harmonica and singing like Louis Armstrong in Jabba’s Palace wasn’t distracting? Annoying? It took away from the movie and it definitely detracts from the feel of that whole scene. Busy places don’t mean campy places. Scum and villainy drink heavily, get in bar fights, and maybe play darts. They don’t do the Electric Slide. They sure as heck don’t drink appletini’s right before they threaten to kill you for minding your own business because they don’t like the look of you.

And Bobba Fett may not have a lot of lines, true. However, I and millions of other fans like me know those lines by heart. We can recite them in our sleep and we remember every single minor inflection and we like it that way. I don’t need the new actors voice. It’s distracting. It also takes away from the scene and the film. The previous delivery was good. Probably better. The change is unnecessary. One of the first things they teach you in film school is how to know when to keep things in your film. The one question you have to ask is, “Does this help and further the story?” None of these changes did that. They are superfluous and distracting. It’s one thing to make a directors cut for a film that the studio destroyed before it was ever released. It’s another thing to take one of the greatest sci-fi genres of all time, one that revolutionized the way film making was done and then decide to “fix it.” It changed the story and in many ways. Some minor changes I don’t mind. Having that wretched excuse for an actor Hayden CGI’d in blue form at the end? I didn’t mind that. But most of the changes weren’t that subtle. Greedo missing at point blank range because you see Han’s head distort like a pretzel to “dodge” the LASER BLAST is bordering on insanity. The changes overall distracted WAY MORE than they added and that took away from the whole story. The story didn’t need changing. They’re not perfect movies. Not many movies are though. I agree the Ewoks were probably the biggest mistake in the original trilogy. Again, Lucas didn’t ask that all important question. Still it doesn’t kill the movie. That certainly doesn’t justify him in making the problem even worse.

If I’m Michael Curtiz, I don’t go back to Casablanca and say “Man that Sam sure wasn’t very good. His acting was so bad and it needs to be changed. It’s amazing anyone even watched the film because his scenes are so bad.” That is a ridiculous notion. The film may be the greatest film of all time. It’s adored by millions upon millions of people. Is it dated? Sure. Does it still stand the test of time though and transcend all that? Absolutely. Now if Michael Curtiz did go back and decided to make Sam into an orange person with fuzzy ears and that talks like a baby then we would all hate him for it. And rightfully so. If he told us all that we were all crazy for thinking that Sam should be anything but an orange fuzzy person who talks like a baby, and that we should all go jump off a cliff we, would hate him even more. And rightfully so.

it’s a Laserdisc rip but it’s better than not having them. Lucas’ ego just got too big. He started to believe his own hype and he got soft. He stopped surrounding himself with people that would challenge his ideas and instead gathered a bunch of “yes” men. That’s why he’s ruining so many things. You lose perspective when you lose the ability to collaborate. When you think you’ve arrived you think you can do no wrong and then that’s exactly what you wind up doing.

They have a long history of singing like that.

It just gets too muddled. Side characters are always sacrificed in films (See: Percy Weasley)

“You are late.” I love that scene and it’s not in book. There are many similar good moments, so no worries there.

Okay, but those two scenes were magic, others… Naah.

I liked the fact that Harwey Keitel had a part as a voice. Like Jackson had too.

But many will not, even if they are wrong. =)

I feel you completely on not having time. I also have very little for games. That’s why I’m so picky. I only buy the highest rated one’s that I know are worth the precious little time I have to play. Even then I have some games that I bought that are sitting and I’ve yet to even crack the case. I’m lucky if I can play two hours in a week. Still, it doesn’t matter how long it takes you to finish the game, Mass Effect is well worth it. It’s like playing a movie. It is unbelievably good. I promise you, it’s a worthwhile investment.

Mass Effect is a really good game and worth playing, just do what the good man says Trevor.

And after that, get Mass Effect 2, it’s even better. I played them with my PC, you can do the same.

I could never do that. Before I got the first Xbox I would play RTS games on my PC and I liked those. However clicking on a map and building bases made sense to me with a mouse and keyboard. But I could never get the idea of the FPS on PC. I bought Halo for the PC and tried to play online and pretty much got rocked every time. I could never get used to aiming with the mouse. I never got it down. The only matches I was good at were CTF because I didn’t have to try and shoot anyone using the mouse. I don’t know how you do it. After that I finally bought an Xbox and got A LOT better at Halo.

I did buy the Orange box and I started trying to play Half Life 2 but it just didn’t hold my interest. I think I came to it too late. It’s tough to play games like Bioshock and Halo Reach and then come back to Half Life. Maybe that’s lame but I just can’t do it. Those other new games have just spoiled me.

Nowdays I have been using sword/bow, not guns. It gives me some limits. =)