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Luke's rope-throwing talents in EP4 — Page 2

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Here is the section from the book:

Red Leader's voice shouted back over the headphones. "I get no reading, are you sure?"
"Pull up!" Lando commanded. "All craft pull up!"
He banked hard to the left, the fighters of the Red Squad veering close to his tail. Some didn't make it. Three flanking X-Wings nicked the invisible deflector shield, spinning out of control, exploding in flames along the shield surface. None of the others paused to look back.
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Talking about weird memories about sequences that did not exist: I clearly remember when watching the 1997 SE A New Hope on the theaters, that the shot right after Vader says "Close up formation" was Vader's fighter along with the two Tie Fighters moving from right to left, I clearly remember this, and all the other copies I've seen have this other shot, I don't remember what it is, but I belive it's the imperial fighters moving towards the camera (as opposed to side by side). Am I insane, or could the theater have a mis-edited copy?
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I have some vague memories of such things--remembering scenes in movies that didn't actually exist.

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Yeah, it's definitely weird. Like I remember this part in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie where . . . oh, wait, nobody cares about that movie but me.

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Hello? I think we are products of the 80's here. I loved the Turtles movie. I think I liked III the best, but it has been YEARS since I've seen any of them.
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I remember Ray Stantz getting possessed by Vigo and trying to crash the Ecto-1A into a tree.

"Ray, what're you doing? You're gonna kill someone!"

"No! I'm gonna kill all of us!" *wham*

I'm pretty sure that was shot, or at least storyboarded, because there's a scene where Ray gets mesmerized by the painting that doesn't really lead to anything. (I don't think it was necessary to telegraph that Vigo was going to take over Ray in the final encounter.)

Upon reflection, I may have seen that in some kind of secondary media ... a book or whatever. Might explain why I remember Ray as a shorter, pudgier Dave Coulier.

Now what's this about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?
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Originally posted by: Invader Jenny
Hello? I think we are products of the 80's here. I loved the Turtles movie. I think I liked III the best, but it has been YEARS since I've seen any of them.


Heh, the third film wasn't bad at all; I like it. Certainly better than the second's story and Vanilla Ice cameo (neither of which I was never very happy with when I was younger). Otherwise, the first movie is by far the best in my mind; it was grittier, darker and more realistic. Plus, the Turtle suits and animatronics that Jim Henson and his company made for that movie looked so great on film. Fluidly smooth and full of emotion. The latter two paled by comparison in this regard where the turtle designs were worse and had a jerky, irregular motion with the animatronics. Too bad Jim Henson died after the first movie was made.

Otherwise, the scene I remembered from the first film, after seeing it in the theater, had to do with the scene where they are communing with master splinter telepathically. I could have sworn in the theater that they had their eyes open and talked to the phantom in the fire directly, but when I got the movie on VHS their eyes were closed through the entire sequence and it seemed shorter than I remembered. That conflict between my memory and what I watched on VHS really weirded me out for some reason. Though I was younger then and it does seem trivial now.

Oh, and here's a quick fact: as far as I know, the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie was the top grossing, idependantly made film of all time, which is cool.

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Yes, I believe I've heard that too.

But I liked the second movie...! I supposedly own all three, but I haven't been able to find the first one in years. It might be time to replace them with DVD...

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I purchased a cheapo DVD of the first film and it was watchable. The biggest problem was the sound because of the fact that they "remixed" it in Dolby 5.1. Unfortunately, all that "remixing" the film meant was putting the original soundtrack through a concert-hall echo simulation.

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Originally posted by: Nanner Split
Originally posted by: JarHead413
Originally posted by: zombie84
Theres just as many people that swear they remember the rebel fleet crashing into the Death Star shield in ROTJ as well.


I can distinctley imagine in my head an X-wing (or A-wing?) pulling sideways when the shield is found to be still up and not turnng fast enough and hitting the shield.

Was this in the novel (it's been 9 or so years since I read ROTJ) because I for sure remember me either seeing it at some point somewhere or imagining it like it happened in the movie while I was reading it. 5th grade doesn't seem so long ago suddenly.


That did happen in Independence Day. Perhaps someone is getting their sci-fi movies confused?


Trust me, I know both movie too well o get them confused, it's just that I can totally imagone that scene in the movie for some reason.

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Luke. Never. Missed.
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Originally posted by: JarHead413
Trust me, I know both movie too well o get them confused, it's just that I can totally imagone that scene in the movie for some reason.
I can imagine quite a bit.

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Just for the record on two points:

The ROTJ urban legend of ships crashing into the Death Star shield can be explained not only by the novelization, but by a much more likely source for us then-young-kids: The Read-A-Long Cassette of 1983. The narrator specifically tells the listener that Lando and the Rebels pulled away from the space station, but some of the ships exploded because they hit the invisible shield.

The first time I read the names Coruscant and Palpatine was not in any EU material in 1991. For me, these names first appeared in the rulebook for Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game published by West End Games in 1987. In fact, both of these names are on the first page of the book in a simulated opening crawl. I believe one or both of these names may have also appeared in the original preface to the Star Wars novelization in the beginning in that "From the Journal of the Whills" page...



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Senator Palpatine was indeed mentioned. Coruscant, however, was not. In fact it states that it is unimportant where the Republic came from.

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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did Coruscant really predate Timothy Zahn? I was always under the impression it was first mentioned by name in Heir to the Emperor.