24th September 2004, 4:35 PM
(This post was last modified: 24th September 2004, 5:08 PM by Dark Jaguar.)
Not sure ABF, but Penny Arcade hates it, or seems to...
Honestly, seems to me updating old films to SUPERIORIOSITY is a good thing. Honestly, I never did understand why some people consider colorizing old movies to be a bad thing (unless the movie was meant to be told in black and white... I'm sure some are). Art is meant to be updated over and over again until the artist dies. I think that's what normally happens anyway...
What ever happened to those "archive editions" I heard about? Silly sounding name, but weren't those supposed to be the end all be alls, or is this now that?
Edit: Okay, PA's archives are working again (weren't when I first posted this, for some odd reason), so here's that comic.
<img src="http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2004/20040922l.jpg">
Eh, either this is them stating their own opinions, or is them sending the average Star Wars nerd's opinions back at them in comic form. They didn't say what they thought about it in their little news post except one of them thinks of the series as "neat" surrounding one movie that's actually good (I think that one is the one with the Empire... Strikes Back, that's CERTAINLY it, almost typed "Revenge of the Empire" or something...). That about sums up my thoughts. Star Wars is cool and all, but they aren't "move classics" that are used in film school to tell you how to make a truly great movie that will stand the test of time and move people deeply. And yes, that IS what defines what a truly epic movie is. A movie can still be fun though without being "epic".
....I think I may have made a lot of enemies...
Honestly, seems to me updating old films to SUPERIORIOSITY is a good thing. Honestly, I never did understand why some people consider colorizing old movies to be a bad thing (unless the movie was meant to be told in black and white... I'm sure some are). Art is meant to be updated over and over again until the artist dies. I think that's what normally happens anyway...
What ever happened to those "archive editions" I heard about? Silly sounding name, but weren't those supposed to be the end all be alls, or is this now that?
Edit: Okay, PA's archives are working again (weren't when I first posted this, for some odd reason), so here's that comic.
<img src="http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2004/20040922l.jpg">
Eh, either this is them stating their own opinions, or is them sending the average Star Wars nerd's opinions back at them in comic form. They didn't say what they thought about it in their little news post except one of them thinks of the series as "neat" surrounding one movie that's actually good (I think that one is the one with the Empire... Strikes Back, that's CERTAINLY it, almost typed "Revenge of the Empire" or something...). That about sums up my thoughts. Star Wars is cool and all, but they aren't "move classics" that are used in film school to tell you how to make a truly great movie that will stand the test of time and move people deeply. And yes, that IS what defines what a truly epic movie is. A movie can still be fun though without being "epic".
....I think I may have made a lot of enemies...
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)