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  1. Dynaman
    I liked the previous one more but this one was solid entertainment. Happy to have seen it in the theater.
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    The movie studio (or whoever owns the picture) certainly has rights to the character, which includes how that character looks. No actor is allowed to make money off of a character they play in a movie without the rights holder to that movie giving the go ahead. The character certainly includes the likeness - the fact there was an actor or actress does not change that fact. The only difference today (or soon) is that digital effects can make a much closer copy of the original actor's look. The screen actor's guild is claiming the opposite but since there is no precedent yet nobody knows, future contracts may be written in such a way that digital recreation rights are specified.
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    Agree on Tarkin looking the better of the two. Part of that may be that Hollywood has been much better at making young people look older then it has at making older people look younger, at least till the last couple years. The younger versions of Kurt Russel and Jeff Bridges looked better then Leia however, so perhaps just a goof. As for it being legal without the original actor's consent (or their estate), that is a grey area. Carrie Fisher's and Peter Cushing's estates have the right to their likeness but whoever owns Star Wars has the rights to Leia and Tarkin. In the past that meant they could use any actor they wanted to play the part and with makeup perhaps make them look very close to the original (Spock in Star Trek for instance) but the limits of the technology made an exact match nearly impossible. CGI is a different technology that will eventually allow recreating a character down to the last detail of the original actor - and there has been no case law to decide just where the line is drawn.
  4. Dynaman
    The articles I read EMPHATICALLY stated there would be no CGI for Leia and it would be all footage already shot. I'm guessing they will fudge on that a little bit but nothing like what was done in Rogue One. Perhaps the backgrounds will need CGI work and a "stunt double" will be used for long distance or shots where Leia's face is not visible. At any rate it appears they learned their lesson on CGI main characters, for now.
  5. Dynaman
    It will get right back on track when more news come out on the new series.
  6. Dynaman
    I had read there are shots of her contacting/calling out for others to join the rebellion (er, resistance). Those shots could be made use of.
  7. Dynaman
    That depends on how the contracts are written. If there are written to continue when rights are sold then Universal will keep the rights for now, if they are written to expire when the main rights are sold then it is up in the air. I doubt Universal would have gone with the second option - they put too much money into it to have the rights disappear if the owner changed. Finally even if they do have "permanent" rights Disney and they may decide to change the agreement later. (feel free to give whatever motivation behind any changes you wish but I'm guessing royalty payments are a possible point of contention at some time in the future)
  8. Dynaman
    Do we have a thread for Episode IX? No matter this is partly episode VIII related. Carrie Fischer will be in Episode 9 by using footage from episode 8. Billy Dee Williams is also on board as well as Mark Hamill (though that last one should not be a surprise)
  9. Dynaman
    > Macross in general isn't exactly aimed at the 30- and 40-somethings out there... it's targeted to the secondary school students (and maybe college students). So was Frontier, if the next series is more like Frontier then I'm all for it.
  10. Dynaman
    It was a distillation of the music and idol parts of Macross, which is what I am least interested in. The love triangle in 7, while taking up a lot of screen time, was a mess where the main character is totally clueless and disinterested in personnel relationships of any kind. If it weren't for Max and Millia it would be a complete disaster on that front. Space Battle scene wise it was totally worthless, partly due to plot and a lot of it due to boring battle scenes - it is hard to make a battle interesting when the enemy just sucks your mind out...
  11. Dynaman
    The only real problem with Into Darkness was the villain was a waste. The actor did a fine job with what he had to work with but the characterization was off. The main cast character moments in that film were spot on however.
  12. Dynaman
    More Macross Plus is what I want. More Macross 7 I have no interest in. No need to mash in other unrelated items like CGI animation. Plus is a more gritty story that I like, 7 was lunacy in my opinion and I feel bad having watched all of it.
  13. Dynaman
    Not really, in that case I would not be reading it at all and thus would not have to worry about what I can't see.
  14. Dynaman
    In Universe the Enterprise is a prize as well, Everyone and their uncle wants to be the Captain of a Constitution class. It is considered a prestige posting.
  15. Dynaman
    The visuals are great (as to be expected). I'll keep up with Gubaba's synopsis as they come out and hope that in a few years a translated version is released in the West. Of course it first has to be completed this time and that is no guarantee either.
  16. Dynaman
    Ever since the MST3K riffing on Gamera I have been a fan. Even of the non-riffed version. I loved the Mothra and Rodan movies as a kid though, so hard to choose...
  17. Dynaman
    Whadya mean Godzilla can't fly? We all know Godzilla can fly.
  18. Dynaman
    I was toying with watching Discovery till I saw that trailer. The little "joke" at the end and "The power of math" bits are infantile
  19. Dynaman
    Star Trek's timeline and our real timeline diverged in the late sixties - it is much cleaner to think of it that way.
  20. Dynaman
    I tried Google's phone app and it came up with some interesting, and obviously entirely wrong, translations - even though it highlighted the Kanji characters correctly before trying to translate. Looks like this is still some ways off from being workable.
  21. Dynaman
    Just to be clear, I don't want the text to be put into a text bubble and reprinted or anything, just checking to see if there was any tool out there that found and translated text in an image. I'll have to give the phone app a try with the web page.
  22. Dynaman
    Does anyone know if there is a site that does scanlation translations of pictures on other web sites? I know that Japanese to English translations are often rough at best but some indication of what is going on would be helpful. I have an image translation tool on my phone that works but the small screen size would be a nightmare for a web comic image.
  23. Dynaman
    how exciting, more skullz...
  24. Dynaman
    I'll add a little to Tking22's answer. They are back because of this fan at least. Although on Disney's streaming service it may be a while before I see it.
  25. Dynaman
    A new trailer, I think, for the series. Not really a lot to go on. Certainly better than the teaser trailer I saw a couple days ago where the doctor seemed to have the power to make food reappear.
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