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not sure about that.
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Secret Agent Man was the original series, known as Secret Agent in the US.
BTW, the reason I came back to this topic in the first place was to announce that the THX-1138 website is up, complete with a new trailer. It looks like this will get a limited theatrical rerelease before going to DVD. Here's the link to the trailer

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WTF?! A George Lucas' cut version of the movie, with new CGI scenes?! What in God's name is wrong with that man?! I've never seen the original THX-1138, and now thanks to him, I never will! Ok now I'm pissed!
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I think its cool that this film will be out with only a few days "Window" before its DVD comes out!. I wish New Films would do this too. IMO six months is way to long a wait.

It would have been cooler to get the film DVD right after seeing it! I'll take one large Popcorn one drink ... and one copy of the DVD Please.


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Originally posted by: ricarleite
A bouncing bubble? You sure you weren't watching a Jethro Tull show by mistake?


That sounds alot like The Absent-Minded Professor starring Fred MacMurray.
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A bouncing bubble? You sure you weren't watching a Jethro Tull show by mistake?


That sounds alot like The Absent-Minded Professor starring Fred MacMurray.


Eh?
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A bouncing bubble? You sure you weren't watching a Jethro Tull show by mistake?


That sounds alot like The Absent-Minded Professor starring Fred MacMurray.

lol!

I believe Jedi Master is referring to the professor's bouncing bubbly plastic invention, 'flubber' as in the Robin William's remake Flubber.
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At least he wasn't referring to John Travolta's TV movie debut, The Boy in the Plastic Bubble. Ugh.

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Hi, I recently found a link to a very cool after/before picture comparison of the changes that will be applied to the DVD version of the film. As much as I did not like many of the changes applied to the classic starwars trilogy, as much I'm loving the changes they applied to this film. It really amplifies the atmosphere of it all, imho. Yet, I still believe George Lucas should have put both versions out on DVD, for the sake of historical reference.

Here are the links: Page 1, Page 2
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ahhh another movie lost to Lucas...
i cant believe no other filmmaker is speaking out against this kinda crap...
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Somebody should perform a lobotomy in Lucas, removing the part of his brain that controls the urge of creating special editions out of everything.
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I found a sound bit somewhere where Lucas was talking about replacing Howard the Duck with a digital Duck.

I'll try to find that again.
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How about replacing Howard the Duck with just an empty video box? That would make all of us much happier.
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Ditto Radioland Murders.

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How about replacing Howard the Duck with just an empty video box? That would make all of us much happier.


lol
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I've seen a preview of the upcoming DVD, and it does appear that the changes actually will help the film, rather than being a blatant marketing ploy/CGI test. I have an LD transfer of the film so I will compare them when the DVD is released, but maybe Lucas finally streamlined his editing process and didn't include superfluous scenes/material this time.
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That'd be nice.

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I've seen a preview of the upcoming DVD, and it does appear that the changes actually will help the film, rather than being a blatant marketing ploy/CGI test.
Exactly my impression as well, TR47. I'm actually looking forward to the release of this DVD.

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haven't seen it yet but can't wait till it comes out on dvd to see it
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Don't you get it? I've never seen the original THX-1138, and now, thanks to GL, I never will!
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering
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my words exactly ricarleite...
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I'm in the same position as well. I'm hoping somebody's gonna put up a torrent file with the original THX 1138 eventually, because I'm really interested in seeing the movie but I want to see the original version of it first.