Moderator: Controllers
oh i LOVE Spaceballs and it might be my favorite Mel Brooks movie...but I recognize that it's not quite as good from a critical level as something like Young Frankenstein.gila-monster wrote:Wow, I must be the only one who likes Space Balls!
"They're sh-t." He doesn't think they're necessary at all, citing as one example how he loved Lucas' original, Sergio Leone-like approach to shooting Mos Eisley as this minimal, barren place and how now it's just "filled with a bunch of... CGI sh-t."
In fact, there's a lot about modern Hollywood spectacle films that the very affable Tippett isn't too fond of. He thinks Avatar was a total missed opportunity; to paraphrase, "Who cares about blue aliens and people walking around in mechs? We've seen those designs before. Do something crazy and new."
In regards to some of Hollywood's latest trends, he thinks "3D is sh-t" and, and this is a direct quote,
Movies.com: Us fans "OH GODZILLA! WHAT TERRIBLE LANGUAGE!" and moan and gripe whenever George Lucas starts messing with Star Wars again, but is that something effects people who actually worked on the film feel? Are we the only ones who think he's a crazy person?
Phil Tippett: No, not really. At a certain point, even going back to Return of the Jedi at ILM...they had a little room where you could get chips and drinks and I was getting something. George and Richard Marquand, the director, came in and Richard was saying, "George, I don't totally get where we need to go with this picture." And George said, "Well, did you see Benji?" "No George, I didn't see Benji." "Well, what we're doing now is kind of like a cross between Benji and what we did on Empire Strikes Back."
jellydonut25 wrote:I'd love to see Spielberg or Abrams come out and say that substituting CGI for filmmaking is trash, but I don't hold out a lot of hope for Steve; he is the producer on Transformers, after all.
Yeah, he has his own issues as well, I was just throwing a name out there of someone who is fairly well-known among the unwashed masses.The Shadow wrote:jellydonut25 wrote:I'd love to see Spielberg or Abrams come out and say that substituting CGI for filmmaking is trash, but I don't hold out a lot of hope for Steve; he is the producer on Transformers, after all.
Abrams? As in J.J. Abrams man of a thousand lens flares?
Dr Kain wrote:I'd rather Abrams just got his ass moving on the next Star Trek instead of working on another crap tv series.
Dr Kain wrote:I'd rather Abrams just got his ass moving on the next Star Trek already. It has been over 2 years since the last one came out. What is the friggin hold up?! The sequel was supposed to be out in May of next year at the latest.
kiryugoji04 wrote:Tell me that they'll have the original, untouched trilogy on there and then I might give a damn.
Bill Hunt wrote:Now consider this: Disney purchased the Star Wars franchise in 2012 for $4 billion. That’s billion with a ‘B’. And they intend to continue with Saga with new episodes that tie directly into those original films. This isn’t another prequel trilogy aimed at a new generation of kids – they’re shooting squarely at Gen-Xers with these new films. The same Gen-X that's built up all those bad feelings surrounding Star Wars over the years. What do you suppose is the quickest and surest way to wipe out all that ill will in one stroke, and at the same time ensure that nearly every of those kids who first discovered Star Wars back in the 20th Century (now 40 and 50-something adults) jumps on the bandwagon for the new sequels?
Of course, Disney is going to release the original, unaltered films!
Are you kidding? The folks at Disney have $4 billion riding on this little investment and they aren’t stupid. The only reason the original versions haven’t been properly released before this is that George Lucas didn’t want it to happen… but Lucas is no longer in control of such decisions. There’s simply no way Disney would have paid $4 billion without the right to do what they wanted to with this franchise. And what they want to do is exploit the crap out of it for years to come.
Bottom line: We’d be absolutely shocked if the original, unaltered Star Wars films don’t A) return to theaters, B) get released on Blu-ray and DVD, or C) both, prior to the theatrical debut of Episode VII in December 2015. I mean seriously. You don’t need to be a Jedi or a Sith to see that the Force is strong in this rumor.
Da7e wrote:Got sent these mockups of the original trilogy Blu Rays with the “LEGENDS” banner from a designer who claimed to have made them at the request of Lucasfilm.
For those of you who are just joining us, “Legends” is the distinction made by post-Disney Lucasfilm to separate non-canon Star Wars works (previous novels, comic books, etc) and canonical Star Wars works that relate to The Force Awakens and beyond.
The thing that made these images exciting was that “Legends” banner. It signals that middle ground had been reached between Disney, who owns Star Wars, and Fox, who owns distribution rights for the original trilogy. If we ever see a Blu Ray of the despecialized cuts, they’d likely have the “Legends” banner.
That was enough for us to get excited and contact some people in the know around the net and some folks embedded in industry places where they’d know of an upcoming release the scale of OT Blu Rays.
Tom R VanSlambrouck wrote:I watched Episode 1 and 2 on BD the past few nights and I'm not impressed with the PQ. Fox did such an amazing job with Alien Anthology on BD but this is meh. Hopefully the others look better.
O.Supreme wrote:So, did I miss any major changes?
Return to Daikaiju Home Media Releases
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 4 guests