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Post: #889197
Topic: The Force Awakens : Fan Edit Ideas
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/889197/action/topic#889197
Time: 23-Dec-2015 3:39 AM

That’s actually an excellent idea.

I’d also consider deleting the Hosnian destruction entirely. It isn’t important for the plot (as far as I can remember) and the fact it can be seen from Takodana as well as the overall poor visuals of the destruction (it was made to look like the planets were all orbiting each other) really damaged my enjoyment of the movie.

Other elements of the movie that folks are unhappy about bothered me a lot less than this.

Post: #889177
Topic: Project Threepio (Star Wars OOT subtitles)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/889177/action/topic#889177
Time: 23-Dec-2015 2:49 AM

CatBus, it’s been a long time since I first downloaded Project Threepio, but as someone living in a non-English-speaking part of the world I really want to thank you for creating and sharing this project. Thanks to the availability of these subs, I’ve been able to share the DeSpecialized Editions of Star Wars with many, MANY people here, and that brings me a great deal of joy.

I’ve been backing up my laptop lately and accidentally lost a few files in the transfer (kept the SRT files but lost the full packages) so I need to grab the torrent again, but once I’ve got it I’ll be seeding it again for as long as I can.

Post: #889175
Topic: Episode VII: The Force Awakens - Discussion * <strong>SPOILER THREAD</strong> *
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/889175/action/topic#889175
Time: 23-Dec-2015 2:40 AM

StardustCamellia said:

The fact that you could see SKB’s shot from Takodana bugs me. It shouldn’t, Because Science Fantasy, but it does. It bugs me in a fundamentally wrong way, and is among my chief complaints about the movie. Sound in space I can dismiss, it’s an ‘audible sharpness’ thing. But the Starkiller beam left my brain hurting, to the point where I thought, initially, that Takodana and Hosnian Prime were in the same star system.

File under “how do magnets work?”. Thanks for sharing this image. Very interesting…

Thank the maker someone else feels the same as I do. It is indeed my CHIEF complaint about the movie. Everyone else is complaining about stuff that CAN be explained away, while this is the one thing that cannot. Nearly a week after I saw the movie it’s still bothering me above all else, to the point where I can’t decide if I really like the movie or not. I pray that a talented editor will be able to chop the scene up in a way that makes it sensibly viewable.

Post: #252789
Topic: Star Wars prequel film noir (* unfinished project *)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/252789/action/topic#252789
Time: 22-Oct-2006 2:56 AM

I wanted to add my voice in support of this project. I loved the idea from the get-go, but seeing that clip really shows that the idea can work. The clip is brilliant, and your voice is perfect. Excellent work!

Steve

Post: #242495
Topic: Temporal Smoothing
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/242495/action/topic#242495
Time: 9-Sep-2006 1:55 PM

Someone asked this before, but I lost the thread it was posted in. Anyway, I was wondering if anyone has a definitive answer on whether or not these new DVDs have the temporal smoothing problem that plagued the last couple of laserdisc releases.

Cheers,
Steve

Post: #224019
Topic: Remember when everyone hated Return of the Jedi?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/224019/action/topic#224019
Time: 3-Jul-2006 10:53 AM

Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
While I found that scene entertaining, I've always thought that it clashed with 3POs previous statement that he wasn't very good at making interesting stories.

It's funny, I've always thought of this as showing that even Threepio had grown by the end of the tale.

Steve

Post: #223841
Topic: The Emperor & line change in ESB SE 1997
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/223841/action/topic#223841
Time: 2-Jul-2006 3:06 AM

Originally posted by: Scruffy

* According to This source, there are 100 stars per cubic parsec in the core of the Milky Way. That means the mean distance between stars is 0.7 light years.** But the galactic core is not the friendly kind of place where Tauntauns and Wampas can evolve ... it's got radiation, and occasional bursts of energy that make the Death Star's superlaser look like a trickle.

** My math is probably wrong.

But it's a good try.
Each star in this cubic evenly distributed space is adjacent to six stars at a range of 0.7 light years, but it's also adjacent to six stars at (0.7^2+0.7^2)^1/2 ly (the diagonals on the faces of the cube) and a further EIGHT stars at [(0.7^2)x3]^1/2 ly (the "internal diagonals" of the cube). This gives a mean average of 0.994 light years between stars, which I find to be an unintuitive and surprising result given the size of a parsec (3.26 light years).

Steve

Post: #220511
Topic: Watched ROTS on HBO, UGGGH!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/220511/action/topic#220511
Time: 21-Jun-2006 9:35 AM

I still can't understand why we never got to see Vader helping the Emperor to hunt down and destroy the Jedi. Don't tell me the "younglings" count.

Steve

Post: #218202
Topic: The Other side of the 30th Anniversary
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/218202/action/topic#218202
Time: 13-Jun-2006 11:49 AM

Originally posted by: SKot

Two of the only films I can think of I've seen that use tons of CGI for the surrounding sets successfully are "What Dreams May Come" and "Mirrormask". It works well there simply because both films take place in dreamlike environments that aren't meant to be real, and the CGI only adds to that unreal/surreal factor.

--SKot

I happen to think that Sky Captain was another film with great CGI. I really enjoyed the atmosphere of that entire film - especially the lighting on the characters. I really should go and buy it sometime soon.

Steve

Post: #217496
Topic: Alternate Endings For The Trilogy....
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/217496/action/topic#217496
Time: 9-Jun-2006 4:09 PM

Millions of tons of molten metal from the second death star rain down on the forest moon of Endor, obliterating the rebels in orbit, their party on the ground, and all of the ewoks. Nuclear winter ensues, and the sterilized rock never becomes habitable again, although some salvage collectors are able to eke out a living over the coming centuries of lawlessness picking through the contaminated rubble. The new republic fails to materialize, and the empire fragments into hundreds of sectors ruled over by greedy and ruthless warlords.

Steve

Post: #213877
Topic: Try to take it easy with the Lucas bashing.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/213877/action/topic#213877
Time: 26-May-2006 3:46 PM

Originally posted by: Jay

Originally posted by: spaint
I think it's because "the only way to hurt a man who's lost everything is to give him back something broken."

I don't know where that quote comes from, but it's amazing. And true.

Stephen Donaldson, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. Excellent books by an astonishingly good writer.

Steve

Post: #213868
Topic: Try to take it easy with the Lucas bashing.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/213868/action/topic#213868
Time: 26-May-2006 3:06 PM

Originally posted by: THX

Originally posted by: Davis
Why did everyone love Star Wars when Lucas repeatedly claimed they would NOT be available on DVD, and now AFTER an announcement that it WILL see the light of day again, everyone's through with SW. It's kinda weird. This is a big step in the right direction.

This is exactly what is baffling me.

I think it's because "the only way to hurt a man who's lost everything is to give him back something broken."

Steve

Post: #211510
Topic: ***The Official RowMan*** Release Thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/211510/action/topic#211510
Time: 19-May-2006 3:40 PM

The supplemental discs are in desperate need of seeders on myspleen - I've been downloading for a week, and am stuck along with many others.

I will continue to seed the supplements for V and VI for as long as I can once they're complete if someone can help out.

Steve

Post: #211076
Topic: New DVDs NOT 16x9
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/211076/action/topic#211076
Time: 18-May-2006 2:37 PM

Originally posted by: JediRandy
Boy, the SE DVD's are really nice.... not Anamorphic or anything. Sweet.

Jay, can't you ban this guy or something?

Post: #207812
Topic: ORIGINAL STAR WARS TRILOGY OUT 09/2006 BY LUCASFILM
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/207812/action/topic#207812
Time: 9-May-2006 4:43 AM

You know, seamless branching and double layer discs shouldn't even make this an issue.

There should be two versions of the crawl, two or three soundtracks, and that's it. It would represent the evolution of the theatrical release of Star Wars into the Faces Edition of A New Hope prior to the release of the Special Editions. The changes for the other two movies would be handled in the same way, with little or no fuss.

Wouldn't that make everyone happy?

Steve

Post: #207556
Topic: Info: A CALL TO ARMS FOR THE X0 PROJECT! (was: A SPARK OF HOPE...)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/207556/action/topic#207556
Time: 8-May-2006 12:08 PM

Assuming that the new DVD release is better than the X0 capture, I'm sure the skills the X0 team have developed and honed will be perfect for "restoring" the new DVD to the best possible quality IT can be as well. I'm looking forward to everything now - even more so now that the new DVDs are on their way.

Steve

Post: #207223
Topic: Giorgio Moroder's Metropolis (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/207223/action/topic#207223
Time: 7-May-2006 6:40 AM

I found a link on mininova but there are no seeders. Can anybody help?
Cheers,
Steve
EDIT: Ah, it's started. Great! I guess this thread's moot then.

Post: #207213
Topic: Giorgio Moroder's Metropolis (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/207213/action/topic#207213
Time: 7-May-2006 4:15 AM — Edited 12-Aug-2020 12:00 PM

OCP’s post on revisionist silent films got me to thinking about this particular movie. Out of all the Metropolis versions out there, this may be my favorite. Perhaps because of my age when I first saw it, but mostly because the music and the image flow together in what can only be described as an extended length 80s rock music video. To date, it still hasn’t seen a DVD release, and most probably won’t either. I was wondering if anyone had taken the time to transfer a laserdisc source to DVD

Steve

Post: #182745
Topic: Info: Holiday Special on 16mm?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/182745/action/topic#182745
Time: 17-Feb-2006 8:46 AM

Getting money back through Paypal depends on him having money in his account. If he has money in it from other auctions it'll all be locked in when you file for a refund.

Steve

Post: #179347
Topic: Classic Edition: Return of the Jedi by Ocpmovie (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/179347/action/topic#179347
Time: 9-Feb-2006 8:08 PM

Where can we find information on this disc PSYCHO_DAYV?

Steve

Post: #178337
Topic: I actually prefer the DVDs and can't wait for more edits, seriously.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/178337/action/topic#178337
Time: 7-Feb-2006 1:35 AM

Except for the somewhat obvious matter of Jake Lloyd almost being too old to play a young anyone. At the speed Lucas makes movies he might as well have filmed Anakin's turn to the dark side in real time.

Steve

Post: #177808
Topic: I actually prefer the DVDs and can't wait for more edits, seriously.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/177808/action/topic#177808
Time: 5-Feb-2006 10:19 PM

Marioxb, are you the same guy who used to frequent the Gamefaqs board for Animal Crossing?

Steve

Post: #177101
Topic: Seamless branching O-OT and SE disc
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/177101/action/topic#177101
Time: 3-Feb-2006 11:56 PM

I'm all for their removal. That's what the (goddamn) special editions should have been in the first place. When I first went to those 1997 screenings I thought I was going to be getting the ultimate "cleaned up" Star Wars (no garbage mattes, no lousy jump cuts, corrected lightsabers) with some cool deleted scenes added back in.

What we got was Lucas's scratch pad for the prequels. Spastic stormtroopers scouring the sands, a cartoon Jabba that's just a rough draft for Jar-Jar "I stepped in shit" Binks, and Greedo getting off a shot at Han (yes, we booed in the theater too) along with a ton of other random and utterly pointless alterations.

Steve

PS. Actually ADM, the more I think about it the angrier I get. I've finally had a chance (just this week!) to sit down and watch your Episode III and I feel more betrayed by Lucas than I have since the release of Episode II. (Great edit btw, it was awesome to see the Mon Mothma scenes in the flick. Not too keen on Qui-Gonn's speech to Yoda though).

Post: #176977
Topic: Phineasbg/ HIGHLANDER II: Extended Versions (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/176977/action/topic#176977
Time: 3-Feb-2006 4:05 PM

This sounds like a cool project. I loved the original Highlander but pretty much hated its sequel.

As for bad SF, I just hope we all agree that Battlefield Earth is at the top of the list.

Steve

Post: #120249
Topic: Six DVD set to look like this?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/120249/action/topic#120249
Time: 1-Jul-2005 7:30 AM

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Originally posted by: Gillean
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Originally posted by: SWFanBoy

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I am thrilled to have the chance to go back to something I composed in 1977 and be able to make the entire saga continuous theme-wise. Notably absent in the first movie is the Imperial March. Being able to insert that theme in the first movie will create a much stronger emotional flow throughout the Saga.
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After the release of Episode III George will enhance the original trilogy with additional scenes and special effects, adding my adjustments to the score this will seamlesly branch the entire Star Wars Saga into one massive romantic space opera. I think something of this magnitude has never been done before.

Am I the only one who's completely unthrilled by this? I actually don't think the Imperial March belongs in ANH and I don't think it's anywhere close to being the best music in the OT.

Steve