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#289217
Topic
Article in the LA times about movie theaters
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/289217/action/topic#289217
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You're assuming going to a movie is a "right" in the first place. It isn't. It is a privilege. A theatre, on the other hand, has an obligation to provide the best level of service to its patrons. If that means refusing service to a group of patrons because of legitimate concerns that they will become disruptive, then the theatre is well within its rights to do so. While a theatre cannot use this argument to discriminate on the basis of race, sex, or ethnicity, there is no statute that prevents the exclusion of minors. The whole purpose of the ratings system is so that the industry can police itself without the need for government interference. If the government is getting in the way of that, as was the case by the judge even allowing this to come to trial, the legislators need to know.
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#289210
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What about the slaves?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/289210/action/topic#289210
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Not to mention I figured that when he did go to free the slaves, (which I actually expected to see in Ep II) Watto would activate the detonator inside of Anakin, blowing his arm off. I also expected the slavery plot to tie in with the enslavement of the Wookiees. Again, Lucas just kept writing without looking back at what he'd written before or what was accepted as canon from the EU.

Instead we introduced some old guy named Dookie who cut of Anakin's arm, knew how to make force lightning stronger than the Emperor, and could do backflips from one level to the next and land on his feet. Obi-Wan was just a schmuck by Episode IV. Right?
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#289113
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IGN Star Wars movie poll.
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/289113/action/topic#289113
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The prequels are wretched in their official cut. All these re-edits do improve them, but compared to the unaltered OT, they still lack considerably. I just did a marathon of my prequel edits, followed by the GOUT and the OT blows the prequels AND their SEs away so much it has ceased to be funny. After finishing ROTJ I went back and watched the updated FX for Sy Snootles, and even when set to Lapti Nek, the whole scene falls flat compared to the original.

Just like we need to take away drivers licenses from elderly people who create mayhem on the roads, so should we take away the ability for aging directors to screw up their perfectly good films. I picture George Lucas ending up like Uncle Junior before it's all over.
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#289088
Topic
Article in the LA times about movie theaters
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/289088/action/topic#289088
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Somebody sat a two-year-old next to me to see fucking JACKIE BROWN!!! I had half a mind to call social services on their ass right then and there. If you can't get a sitter, DON'T GO TO THE DAMN THEATRE! I used to see 1-2 movies a week at the theatre before kids. Now I'm lucky to see four a year, but that's life as a parent.

Somebody brought a child of the same age to The Da Vinci Code last year. Kid freaked the fuck out when Silas started whipping himself. I talked to the manager and asked him why the hell they didn't have a rule prohibiting kids under a certain age from seeing PG-13 and R movies. His answer: The theater chain got sued (by some fucktard in California of course) when they did just that. So every decent moviegoer now gets screwed because some dipshit wanted to take his underaged kid to see some R-rated gore-or-curse-or-fuckfest and sued for the "right."

What's the fucking point of MPAA ratings if the theatres cannot enforce them? Moreover, what are we coming to when a business cannot reserve the right to refuse service to people who will disrupt the business?

Think this sucks? Write the MPAA and NATO, plus your representatives in your state legislature. It wouldn't hurt to write the theatre chain as well, just so they know where you stand.
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#289071
Topic
Holiday Special Cartoon/Deleted Scene DVD rumours at CELEBRATION IV
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/289071/action/topic#289071
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What? Not the whole Holiday Special? I want to see Itchy watching Wookiee porn in fully-restored glory. And who doesn't want a remastered sountrack to hear Carrie Fisher sing
We Celebrate
A Day of Peace
A Day of Harmony
A Day of Joy
We all can share
Together, Joyously
A day that takes us through the darkness
A day that leads us into light
A day that wants to make us celebrate
The night
A day that brings the promise
That one day we'll be free
To live, to laugh, to dream, to grow
To touch, to love, to be

And the compelling dialog that ranks up there with "I'm haunted by the kiss ..." "Stir, whip, stir, whip, beat, beat, beat, stir"


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#289041
Topic
.: The XØ Project - Laserdisc on Steroids :. (SEE FIRST POST FOR UPDATES) (* unfinished project *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/289041/action/topic#289041
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Originally posted by: Arnie.d

Well, that's just great..... THEY SHOULD TELL US IN THE OPENING CRAWL MAN!!!

A long time ago in a very different part of a galaxy far,
far away where stars may appear blue(ish)...


Had this concept been introduced during the PT, Lucas likely would have done that as an exercise in more pointless exposition.
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#288680
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A Crime, but Not by the Man Doing It
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/288680/action/topic#288680
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Originally posted by: JediSage

Yeah, this coming from the...person...who continually equivocates those who disagree with him with mass murderers, while crying like a little bitch when someone questions their patriotism (now WHY would anyone do that?). "You know nothing of whom you insult".

You got me. I'm not a person, I'm one of those Geico Cavemen, and I clearly call everybody who disagrees with me a mass murderer. It must be because I'm so unpatriotic.

But at least I don't bemoan the material world and then refuse all well-intentioned advice because I consider it selfish to help out my fellow man if it actually helps me feel better about myself. JediSage, you wallow in misery and bring it here every day. If your sole purpose is to complain about life and do nothing, I know of several walls who make equally good listeners. We've tried to help you when it sounded like it mattered and you threw it in our faces, so you reap what you sow. Consider my attitude towards you "tough love" because I got wise to you ages ago.

Wanna get this thread back on topic? Try to actually execute the noble idea from what you said in your first post: Back a truck up to ol' book-burner's warehouse and take the overstock off his hands, then go play Santa Claus with all the reading material like they're from the Island of Misfit Toys. Writing about people not reading is about as sensible as yelling about noise pollution. Be the change you want to see in the world. Otherwise, you're just white noise in a world full of bellyachers.
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#288669
Topic
Family Guy to kick off season with 1 hour Star Wars spoof
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/288669/action/topic#288669
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I can see the tired-ass Family Guy formula at work:

"You think that's bad? Remember the time on the Pulp Fiction set when Samuel L. Jackson ate womp rat while John Travolta chatted up George Lucas?"

"Yo mutha[BEEP], womp rat may taste like pumpkin pie but I'd never know 'cause I'd never eat the filthy mutha[BEEP]."

"So, like, George, both our sons are named Jett. That's so weird."
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#288572
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Happy 30th Anniversary, Star Wars!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/288572/action/topic#288572
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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)
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#288551
Topic
A Crime, but Not by the Man Doing It
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/288551/action/topic#288551
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Sage, you're a classic complainer and you have a massive superiority complex. You think your opinions are better and your shit stinks less than anybody on this board. I've been saying it for ages, but you're quick to write off anything I say because you disagree with 95% of my politics. Now a bunch of your own homies are telling you this, and you're getting defensive against them as well. Truth hurts, but it's no grand conspiracy to cut you down to size. Seriously, go seek professional help. It may help you fill that "deep, abiding emptiness" that you recognize in yourself but refuse to take any advice to fix. Or, as Eddie Murphy would say, HACAASASTFU.