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Star Wars
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 (May 7, 2014 at 5:42 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(May 7, 2014 at 5:40 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: My favourite scene in any Star Wars film was when they opened the Ark and all the Nazis melted. Um...Star Trek would never sink so low as to allow religious artifacts to actually exert any supernatural influence on the natural world. Harrumph. ![[Image: 10314461_875206779161622_3907189760171701548_n.jpg]](https://scontent-a-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/t1.0-9/10314461_875206779161622_3907189760171701548_n.jpg)
 (May 7, 2014 at 4:58 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:I would have made the ship-yard close to a few star destroyers.... who needs shields, when you have a cluster of ships defending you!(May 7, 2014 at 3:23 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Actually, I think that would have made less believable... Also, I'd do it deep in romulan space... no one from the Federation would come snooping. 
For Religion & Health see:[/b][/size] Williams & Sternthal. (2007). Spirituality, religion and health: Evidence and research directions. Med. J. Aust., 186(10), S47-S50. -LINK
The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK "That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke  (May 7, 2014 at 11:23 am)Kitanetos Wrote:(May 7, 2014 at 10:36 am)Elskidor Wrote: I suppose I'm more of a casual fan and not a die hard one. I'm a casual fan but was introduced to the extended canon by a coworker who was an uber-fan; I think he had a podcast that he and a friend of his did where they reviewed the books. I am offended on behalf of him and the other super fans when Lucas monkeys with the films. (May 7, 2014 at 2:25 pm)Faith No More Wrote: George Lucas needs to stop fucking with Star Wars. This constant updating and "fixing" shit needs to stop. I appreciated some of the "fixes" that Lucas did when he went through and updated some of the scenes back when he first did it; when he fixed the smudging out the wheels on Luke's speeder and CGIing windows in Cloud City and a couple things like that because it added ambiance or updated what they couldn't do with SFX in the 70s. But I'm largely on board with the "stop fucking with them" crowd, especially when they CGI'd Hayden Christensen into RotJ as Anaken. Quote:That being said, I do not have high hopes for the new movie, and the prequels have left me bitter. Unless I'm really wowed by previews, I probably won't see it. I'll see them in theaters once, not on opening weekend, though.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
  (May 7, 2014 at 5:25 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(May 7, 2014 at 5:13 pm)Bad Writer Wrote: "Fully operational" from a certain point of view, one would surmise. You're all overlooking one thing. "It's a trap!"
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
 (May 12, 2014 at 10:36 am)Clueless Morgan Wrote: I appreciated some of the "fixes" that Lucas did when he went through and updated some of the scenes back when he first did it; when he fixed the smudging out the wheels on Luke's speeder and CGIing windows in Cloud City and a couple things like that because it added ambiance or updated what they couldn't do with SFX in the 70s. Those blemishes are part of the original work of art, and tampering with that changes the original artistic statement. Imagine if J.K. Rowling went through the Harry Potter books and started changing the language that she decided could have been done better.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
(May 12, 2014 at 2:22 pm)Faith No More Wrote:(May 12, 2014 at 10:36 am)Clueless Morgan Wrote: I appreciated some of the "fixes" that Lucas did when he went through and updated some of the scenes back when he first did it; when he fixed the smudging out the wheels on Luke's speeder and CGIing windows in Cloud City and a couple things like that because it added ambiance or updated what they couldn't do with SFX in the 70s. Imagine "The Sound of Music", remastered and reworked, to have all the kids the original author really wanted to have: 30! 
(May 12, 2014 at 2:22 pm)Faith No More Wrote:(May 12, 2014 at 10:36 am)Clueless Morgan Wrote: I appreciated some of the "fixes" that Lucas did when he went through and updated some of the scenes back when he first did it; when he fixed the smudging out the wheels on Luke's speeder and CGIing windows in Cloud City and a couple things like that because it added ambiance or updated what they couldn't do with SFX in the 70s. I honestly don't know if I would notice if JKR did that. It would have to be REALLY conspicuous, like changing "Lord Voldemort is the most evil wizard who ever lived" to "Lord Voldemort is the epitome of sunshine, rainbows and all that it lovely." And watching the Original versus (the first) remastering of SW, for most of the movie I probably wouldn't be able to tell you which one I was watching. There are a couple places where it's obvious (where they CGI'd in alien animals or extended the yeti scene in ESB) but for 90+% I wouldn't be able to tell. And, besides, authors do edit their books as further editions are released, as JKR did with her books as more editions were released and the later books were finished: http://www.hp-lexicon.org/about/books/differences.html Quote:Original (First edition) As well as all the differences made between the British and American versions of the books, and Americanizing them so the huge American market would be able to understand them. So if your argument is "book authors don't do it, so Lucas shouldn't do it!" then your argument falls apart because book authors, especially authors of series books, do change their books.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
(May 12, 2014 at 2:52 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote: So if your argument is "book authors don't do it, so Lucas shouldn't do it!" then your argument falls apart because book authors, especially authors of series books, do change their books. No, I merely mentioned it as an example from a contrasting media. My argument is that when an artist creates a finished product, it needs to stay finished, and using hindsight to change art dilutes its artistic integrity. Creating art is about using your current mindset to create, and coming back to it later on in a different mindset ruins your original artistic statement.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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