Better then time traveling to see what oppinions were in 1983.

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Originally posted in Removing newsgroups
net.movies.sw
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This group was originally created when "The Empire Strikes Back" was
released (I believe), and was intended to keep all the discussions
out of net.movies. Nothing has been posted to net.movies.sw in
many, many months that was not also posted to net.movies. There
seems little reason to support this group until a new Star Wars
epic comes out (years), and we can recreate the group at that time,
should the net last so long.

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Originally posted in rotj and tesb videocassettes wanted
i feel a tiny (but not too much) sorry for you. criminal action out on the
open public with disregard for the law makes a strong legal case against you.
and doing it in a newsgroup which LucasFilm folks must surely read takes
a whole bunch of GAUL. (perhaps you could go for the insanity defense?)


normally i would just let the other comments stand, but in this case i feel
it is important for USENET folks to strongly condemn your action.
legal stuff aside, your type of request does harm to the net. USENET
can be the forum for the exchange of useful information, and a place to
relax and hang out. but using it for shady reasons is one way to ruin
it for others.


chongo <do i get free tickets to SW-1 for this?> /\**/\

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I've heard that Ben Kenobie (or whatever) and good old DV
fought many years ago and DV was thrown into a volcano.
Well, somehow DV survived (Lucky, huh?) and the result
is his UGLY head. Well, That's my favorite ( it might
even be true!) story on how it happened (The head I mean.)
Therefore, DV could be Luke's Dad.

Ben Walls
...cbosgd!bsw

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Originally posted by: Mackey256
I'd like to see what they think now.

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Orignally posted in Luke and Leia (Spoiler!!!)
except in STII, Kirk DID know he had a son named David, he just hadn't
ever seen him. Don't you remember when everyone goes deeper into the
Genesis Cave and Kirk and Carol are alone (except for Checov who's
out of it), Kirk says "I did what you wanted, I stayed away. Why didn't
you tell him?" He could stay away from his son, but he wishes Carol
had at least told David who his father was.
-ka

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Originally posted in Armed bandit steals `Jedi' print

From: Roger H. Goun <G.ROGER@MIT-EECS at MIT-MC>


Associated Press


OVERLAND PARK, Kan. -- A print of the film ``Return of the Jedi' was
stolen from a movie projectionist who was held hostage for two hours by an
armed robber, police said yesterday.


The projectionist, John J. Smith, told police the robber confronted him in
the parking lot of the Glenwood Theatres early yesterday and ordered him to
return to the projection room.


Smith said they entered the projection booth of one of the theater's
screening rooms and the gunman forced him to transfer the 70mm film from
large projection reels to smaller transport reels, which took about an
hour.
(more at the link)

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Originally posted in Close the blast doors!
As far as the close the balst doors line goes; it appeared alone in the
original version and so was not funny so they added the other line (which
I assume should have been there in the first place but was forgotten)
"Open the blast doors, open the blast doors!!"
(more at the link)

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Originally posted in rain in ROtJ
I noticed that to in prints being shown at Hamilton Ont., Toronto Ont.
and Oceanside Calif. so it must be intentional. I rule out the possibility
of some photograhpic or filming error because, after all, this is a $M
Lucas production. I noticed in the scene at the beginning where DV comes
down the platform of his shuttle (the most obvious scene with this so called
rain) that there was a lot of venting gasses eminating from the shuttle.
(More at link)

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Originally posted in Holy hologram!
Anything that looks grainy or is just a poorly done special effect has
the "computer look." Like the "ground effect" around the vehicle
escaping from Jaba's barge (mentioned by Dave Mason above). And things
that were *not* done by computer are mistaken for computer effects. For
instance, the projection of Princess Leia (sic?) from R2D2 in SW. In the
documentary about the movie they *say* they filmed a TV image of her,
and that's what gave it the holographic quality. Yet I still hear
several people referring to that as a computer generated image.
(more at link)

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Originally posted in Holy hologram!
Anything that looks grainy or is just a poorly done special effect has
the "computer look." Like the "ground effect" around the vehicle
escaping from Jaba's barge (mentioned by Dave Mason above). And things
that were *not* done by computer are mistaken for computer effects. For
instance, the projection of Princess Leia (sic?) from R2D2 in SW. In the
documentary about the movie they *say* they filmed a TV image of her,
and that's what gave it the holographic quality. Yet I still hear
several people referring to that as a computer generated image.
(more at link)

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Originally posted by: Jedikev
Imagine if the internet excisted back in 1979, then the ESB would have been spoiled for us.

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Darth played by... (possible spolier?)

Newsgroups: net.movies.sw
From: s...@gatech.UUCP - Find messages by this author
Date: Thu, 9-Jun-83 13:00:21 EDT
Local: Thurs,Jun 9 1983 1:00 pm
Subject: Darth played by... (possible spolier?)

Based on careful observation and an interview on NPR, we believe
that the person in the Darth costume (when Luke removes his
helmet just before he dies) is James Earl Jones. Note the
voice and check out the eyes.
--
"The soapbox of Gene Spafford"

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I hope "possible spoliers" are OK on this forum.

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