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#252406
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My girlfriend has never seen Star Wars!
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Originally posted by: ReverendBeastly
So you've got a girl who was trying to jump your bones while watching Star Wars, and then you basically said "No! This is Star Wars! You must watch!" and kept fending her off, and she still wanted to jump in bed after the movie? That's a keeper, man.

No, if, after ROTJ, she says "I'll put on a gold bikini for you" THEN she's a keeper.
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#252325
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The originaltrilogy.com acronym buster
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/252325/action/topic#252325
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Originally posted by: Karyudo


Actually, I would submit it's those people who pronounce C-I-N-E "sinny" who are neglecting the root of the word: it's from French (innit? they invented movies...), and I'll bet you any Frenchman worth his baguette would cold-pronounce C-I-N-E as "seen".

Ah, the French would love to think so. It's actually rooted from Greek before that.

From the Online Etymology Dictionary
1899, "a movie hall," from Fr. cinéma, shortened from cinématographe, coined 1890s by Lumiere brothers, who invented it, from Gk. kinema "movement," from kinein "to move"


Of course, the "Graph" part is also rooted in the Greek "graphikos" which means "to write."

So Cinema is short for Cinematograph, which is based on the Greek for "To write (record) movement."

But I can't take credit for knowing Greek of the top of my head. No, I wouldn't have thought to look this up if I hadn't, only half an hour ago, read this passage while reading up on Enik from "The Land of the Lost:"
Walter Koenig, the scriptwriter of "The Stranger", originally named this character "Eneg", in honor of Gene Roddenberry. As noted in an audio commentary on the DVD, the spelling was changed to Enik (reverse of the Greek root word for "cinema") by David Gerrold, before the episode "The Stranger" was filmed.


Not to mention that Dracula takes Mina to the "Cinematograph" in a scene I just excised from that film only days ago.
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#252008
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***The ADigitalMan non-Star Wars DVD Info and Feedback Thread***
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/252008/action/topic#252008
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Not much to tell really. There isn't as much to the edit as you might think. With 24 deleted/alternate scenes, most of them didn't fit. In fact, I put in one that in hindsight I should have also left out because of a continuity error. Alas, what's done is done. My heart wasn't fully in this one because the extra materials weren't earth-shattering.

I considered putting in the alternate Rogue resolution, but I still think they'll do another film, in which her accepting the cure may still be a relevant plot point. Maybe in 5 years if all hopes of X4 have been dashed I'll re-do it again.

Oh, and I'm still considering using Logan's return to Alberta in an expanded edition of X2. It would fit better there than in X3.
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#250925
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The Spider-Man 3 thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/250925/action/topic#250925
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Elfman left because he felt Raimi was too attached to the temp track on Spiderman 2. Nothing more. See the "Raindrops keep falling on my head" scene again and maybe you'll understand Elfman's concern. I think he has some points.

I used to really like Elfman, but lately I feel he's done the same damn score for every movie since Men in Black. Having a style is one thing, but, damn, branch out a little musically.