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Happy 30th Anniversary, Star Wars! — Page 2

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Originally posted by: ESHBG
Originally posted by: Mielr
Happy 30th Birthday Star Wars, and Happy 29th Birthday to my Star Wars-fan-Nephew, Jordan!

It's my 29th b-day also so party in my honor too, Mielr!

30 years of SW and the most technical thing we have of the originals as of now is the 1993 Letterbox versions.
Well then happy belated-birthday to you as well! Hope you had a good one.

I picked up some Star Wars stamps yesterday- the P.O. was nearly sold out. They only had the multi-stamp sheets, the Yoda stamps will be out in the fall. It's too bad there was so little fanfare about the 30th anniversary. I was expecting more. Aside from Craig Furguson mentioning it in his monologue night before last, and an "on this day...in 1977" blurb on Fox News' Studio B, I didn't see any reference to it on TV.

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Thanks a lot to this site. I've learned so much about video just by reading about others attempts to capture their laserdiscs and learned so much about color correction. If Lucas had released the original versions with the 2004 set, I never would have bothered to look for this site and find a way to obtain the originals. So I suppose I can thank him for something after all.
Anyways, I invited a few friends over to watch the original film in celebration.

Take back the trilogy. Execute Order '77

http://www.youtube.com/user/Knightmessenger

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I thought this was enjoyable

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6680279.stm

It really gives you a different, fresh perspective on the star wars mythos when star wars was just one tour de force film and not this overdrawn soap-opera.

What’s the internal temperature of a TaunTaun? Luke warm.

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Thanks, Mielr! Much like SW, I too am getting old.

On a related note, I noticed that the prices on HD-DVD players have really dropped. With The Matrix trilogy now on the format, I'm sure LFL won't be too far behind. Since Fox is with Blu-ray (correct?) imagine how big of a push that format would get if the SW movies were released on it! Knowing Lucas, he's not going to let this opportunity slide...
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Cast comparisons between their characters and how they look now:

http://english.pravda.ru/photo/report/star_wars-1894
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Happy 30th Star Wars. May George release an anamorphic, nicely restored DVD in the near future.
George Lucas was seduced by the dark side. The OOT ceased to exist in his mind and became the Special Editions...." "They're more maching now than movies. Twisted and evil."
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Here's another look back to when it began, a photo essay for CBSNews.com:

http://www.showbuzz.cbsnews.com/elements/2007/05/14/movies/photoessay2798928.shtml

Best,
morgands1
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So. 30 years. Happy Birthday, Star Wars!

I bought issues of Empire and Total Film yesterday which both have Star Wars themed issues this month.

Total Film comes with a booklet of photos from the studio shoot in the UK. The very first photo is (blatantly) of Red Leader. Total Film think it's Mark Hamill. Sums it up, I think...

Empire have done a rather good series of 30 different character covers. Guess which one I bought?

Where's our beautiful, deluxe, extras-laden, retrospective original theatrical cut release of Star Wars? THAT'S the question that...

...no-one apart from us seems to be asking.

I dunno... I still refuse to buy the GOUT. I'll back-up my VHS tapes to DVD before I'll buy the GOUT. But why hasn't there been some kind of commemorative release this year? I felt certain that there'd be some massive boxed set of the whole "saga" coming out. Stands to reason, I thought.

As Darth Chaltab so rightly pointed out, we got...

...stamps!

Fuckin' STAMPS?!!!

I'm finding it very hard to keep the faith here...

British new kid cuddling 3 VHS tapes... and weeping for what could have been...
Don't you call me a mindless philosopher...!
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Celebrate GOUT times, come on! (Let's celebrate)
Celebrate GOUT times, come on! (Let's celebrate)

There's a party goin' on right here
A celebration to last throughout the years
So bring your GOUT by, and your X0 too
We gonna celebrate your party with you
Come on now

Celebration
Let's all celebrate and have a GOUT time
Celebration
We gonna celebrate and have a GOUT time

It's time to come together
It's up to you, what's your pleasure
Everyone around the world
Come on!

Yahoo! It's a celebration
Yahoo!

Celebrate GOUT times, come on!
It's a celebration
Celebrate GOUT times, come on!
Let's celebrate

We're gonna have a GOUT time tonight
Let's celebrate, it's all right
We're gonna have a GOUT time tonight
Let's celebrate, it's all right

Baby...

We're gonna have a GOUT time tonight (Ce-le-bra-tion)
Let's celebrate, it's all right
We're gonna have a GOUT time tonight (Ce-le-bra-tion)
Let's celebrate, it's all right

Yahoo!
Yahoo!

Celebrate GOUT times, come on! (Let's celebrate)
Celebrate GOUT times, come on!
It's a celebration!
Celebrate GOUT times, come on! (Let's celebrate)

(ad lib)

Come on and celebrate, GOUT times, tonight (Celebrate GOUT times, come on!)
'Cause everything's gonna be all right
Let's celebrate (Celebrate GOUT times, come on)
I am fluent in over six million forms of procrastination.
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[Wipes away tears and starts to boogie]
Don't you call me a mindless philosopher...!