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#274348
Topic
Spider-Man 2.1 - Extended Cut
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/274348/action/topic#274348
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Is it just me or does this sound like the most gratuitous extended cut yet? I didn't see it on TV but I was really interested in it. I spent some time last week Googling the added scenes and it sounds like complete fluff except for Jameson in the suit. Do I REALLY need to see Mary Jane going shoe shopping? Kirsten's phoned-in performance notwithstanding, the theatrical cut was damn near pitch-perfect. This EE doesn't sound like a LOTR or Superman or Dances With Wolves or James Cameron film, where the extensions bring a whole new level of depth to the characters and situations. It sounds like a pretty blatant stop at the Spidey-Fan ATM to help offset the cost of Spidey 3.
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#273257
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Getting too old for this sort of thing?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/273257/action/topic#273257
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I remember the line in my pissant hometown for Empire on opening day. All of the kids in my neighborhood were in that line. It must have been 100 yards long. But when it came to Star Wars, mom took me to the nearest "big" town 20 miles away to see it. It was sold out at the first theatre we went to so she found another one showing it. She still talks to this day about how my mouth hung open speechless at the start of it. I recall some other kid having to be taken out when R2 was shot by the Jawas, but again, I was simply transfixed. Silent as a tomb.
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#273039
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Getting too old for this sort of thing?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/273039/action/topic#273039
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Star Wars was the first movie I ever saw on the big screen. Later that year I saw Watership Down and Superman. But Star Wars has the distinct place in my heart of being the first time I ever saw a big screen. I remember the hype. I still have the Kenner action figures (R2-D2 was my first). I remember Donny & Marie spoofing Star Wars. I remember missing the Star Wars Holiday Special and hearing all about it from my next-door neighbor. It sounded great, with awesome scenes of the cantina characters and a guy who drank from the top of his head. I will only be too old for this sort of thing when I'm pushing up daisies.
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#272868
Topic
Star Wars, Hollywood Style!?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/272868/action/topic#272868
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Leif Garrett as Luke Starkiller
Burt Reynolds as Han Solo
Jodie Foster as Princess Leia
Donald Pleasance as Obi-Wan
Marlon Brando as Tarkin (All his scenes would have had to be filmed in five days and he'd have received $5 million for the role.)
Orson Welles as Darth Vader (no suit, and he'd refuse to be shot with Brando, so all the scenes with Tarkin and Vader would have to be assembled cleverly in the editing room)
Roddy McDowell as Cornelius Chewbacca
Wilt Chamberlain as C-3PO and Billy Barty as R2-D2 (both would be recognizable behind their semi-robotic makeup)
ABBA as the Cantina Band

Filmed on the 20th Century Fox backlot with On Location shooting in the Joshua Tree National Forest for the Tatooine desert

Sets would look like "Space: 1999" and the FX would look very Planet of the Apes

Lightsabers would have been cut in favor of a deadly card game between Welles and Pleasance. But the fist fight in the cantina with Reynolds, Garrett and a cast of wacky aliens would be legendary.

Marvin Hamlisch would score the movie with cheesy Bee-Gees-style music (meaning he wouldn't have done The Spy Who Loved Me. John Barry would have done that score and it would have been good).

The most enduring thing would be the hot sex scene between Luke and Leia.
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#272865
Topic
Heroes
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/272865/action/topic#272865
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Originally posted by: JediSage
My only problem with this show is Ali Larter. She can't act to save her life and every time she's on screen I want to rip my own ears off. She's nice to look at but that's about it. Otherwise the show is good.

What he said. Aside from her first shot in the series, she's been pretty much worthless. They have GOT to start doing something purposeful with her character or kill her off. Everybody else is astounding, good guys and bad.
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#271554
Topic
What the fuck??? : George is definitely gone "bye bye"
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/271554/action/topic#271554
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Fortunately George was able to make Empire so much better by replacing Boba Fett's voice, adding a scene in the middle of the film where Vader is surprised to learn that the Skywalker he's sent the entire Imperial Fleet after is the son of Anakin Skywalker, and adding a tension-breaking scene where his shuttle lands on the Executor, whose docking bay looks exactly like the one on Death Star II AND is met by Moff Jerjerod. I mean, this movie would have sucked if he hadn't done this.

Meanwhile, I find it hysterical that George kept telling his marketing people to say that Episode II and Episode III were going to be like Empire. I guess in his mind he wanted us to know they were going to suck?

Yoda say: Man who speaks with forked tongue hides it in large goiter on neck.