It's okay - everybody kills Hitler on their first trip.

Also Liam Neeson before he had so many particular skills.   And that Amish kid who grew up to be a bad Inception architect.

And Ricky Jay credited as "scam consultant".

It's really quite a movie, that.

Even better, what if their DNA was a 200% match?    Science!

Let's not forget the disastrous attempt at rebooting the franchise for kids...

Well, the question was why do people like Game of Thrones and that's my answer.   I'm not saying everyone should like it.   

In fact, Game of Thrones (Deadwood too) fall more into a category of "it's great they made this for me, but who the hell else would be twisted enough to watch it?"

I will say that there's one way GoT (and whaddaya know, Deadwood too) sometimes gets a bit too grim for my taste, and that's the treatment of women.   It seems like almost every female character who isn't an aristocrat is a whore, and either way life for them is especially awful.  Which, sadly, is probably historically accurate but I think it gets used too gratuitously sometimes.

We're not really talking about "hating" anything here, though - the question was why do people like Game of Thrones, when for other people it's just meh.      I'm sure that many many people consider BTTF to be okay but don't understand why some of us are so obsessed with it.   

On the topic, I watched the first season of GoT before reading any of the books - but that inspired me to read all the books by the start of the second season.    The books helped me understand a lot of the relationships and connections that I'd missed from just watching the show, but that was just gravy, I was already a fan.

Me, I like the darkness of the show - which comes from the tone of the books, obviously - but it's great that dark tone made it to the screen mostly unaltered.    When a show dares to say "there are no heroes here per se, and the things that happen will almost never be "good" or "just" or "appropriate", well - I find that fascinating.  Because unlike most every other mass entertainment, that means I literally do not know what will happen.   

Because ya know what else is just like that?  Real life.    And mass entertainment almost never dares to be like real life.     True love wins, bad guys get defeated, blah blah, we all know the tropes.   Shows like GoT (and they're rare) are refreshing to me when they have the guts to not make happy endings for us.     So it feels less like a story and more like an alternate-universe medieval history.   

Interestingly, I just gave another HBO series a try, and I was shocked to find out that Deadwood is just Game Of Thrones in the wild West.  (Or rather the opposite, since Deadwood came first).    Deadwood has that exact same "fuck you and your desire for happy endings" attitude that Thrones has.   

And I loved it - burned through all three seasons in two weeks, and now am one of the many who lament that there won't be any more.

Fun fact - one of the reasons Deadwood has that random, "no one is safe, ever" vibe is... much of it is based on actual events.   That's real life for ya.

And of course, now having read all the books - I know all about the time bomb that's gonna go off in GoT season three.   Boy, people who don't know it's coming are gonna hate hate hate it - because it's something that few would ever dare to do in a story.  Usually only real life would dish out such a downer as that one. 

Well, we are all interested in the future.  For that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives.

Exactly -  the same argument applies there.   mp3 is designed for small file sizes for internet streaming and so on, but brings with it a lot of compression artifacts that can cause trouble if you try to export the file again.

.wav or .aiff at maximum quality are my usual choice.

Aside from FX shots which often involve frames, I use image sequences as my final output format - at least for projects that I think will have any shelf life at all.    A directory of individual frames plus a soundtrack audio file makes the project more future-proof.   You don't have to worry about your master file becoming outdated because of the codec you used, etc.   

Whatever format I need my project to be in, I just load the original frames and output as needed.    I've lost count of how many times I've exported the Pink Five series to keep up with new codecs and formats, but all the versions have been generated from the same set of original master frames.

I know it says Van Halen but it's a handwritten label and it's not an actual Van Halen song that plays, just a Van Halen-esque riff.   And Marty certainly plays like Van Halen... so I dunno.

Insert shots are always suspect to me (severed arm in the Mos Eisley cantina, etc) - and that Van Halen label always seemed to me like a last-minute attempt to explain - or change - whatever that tape was originally intended to be.

I could be wrong, it's just a suspicion I have.

Cool Story Bro time - I am old enough that several of my USC film professors also taught Lucas and Zemeckis, and one of those professors was always saying "You can save any scene with an insert shot".    That was probably the single most important thing I learned in film school, really - and when I see critical information presented via insert shots in Lucas or Zemeckis movies I always think "Yep, I had that same guy."

Nice!  Never seen it all laid out like that before...

A few others I can think of  -

At first Marty's sister is unpopular, then at the end is told by the brother "hey, I can't keep track of all your boyfriends" or some such.

The scene with Jennifer in the town square is completely crammed with setups - in addition to the clock tower flyer, there's also:

Marty sees the 4x4 truck, later he will own it.

Marty frets about sending his demo tape to record companies, and Jennifer says "Like Doc says, if you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything".  Marty answers with "what if they say I'm no good?...  Jesus, I'm starting to sound like my old man",    Later George says the same thing almost verbatim about his writing to Marty, and Marty gives him the "put your mind to it" line.   Which George then echoes again at the end, talking about his novel - "It's like I always say, if you put your mind to it..."

And the demo tape itself is a setup - (I believe) it's the same tape he later uses to melt George's brain.   (I admit I could be wrong on this one).

EDIT - oh, you had the 4x4 in there already, I missed it.   Carry on.

That's... um... wow, okay.

This is at a real college?   As opposed to a cardboard sign taped to an underpass that says "Colege" or something?