ADigitalMan

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Post: #241782
Topic: So, this is how the DVDs are going to look...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/241782/action/topic#241782
Time: 6-Sep-2006 5:24 PM

Originally posted by: Obi Jeewhyen
Neil, I don't know who you are...

Spoken by somebody who has been on this board for no more than a month ...

Post: #241751
Topic: The Hobbit starting in 2007?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/241751/action/topic#241751
Time: 6-Sep-2006 3:29 PM

I dunno, I think it would be interesting to let Sean Astin direct it.

Post: #241750
Topic: The Music Thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/241750/action/topic#241750
Time: 6-Sep-2006 3:26 PM

Currently remixing the Pulse Leftovers disc. One of the spleen guys got DJ the ambient soundscapes track which is tripping me out right now (and I don't use!)

This alt. version of One of These Days sounds fantastic. One Slip sounds pretty weak though. I could use the one from Delicate Sound of Thunder VHS, but that would be cheating.

Post: #241703
Topic: Is Dune a good movie?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/241703/action/topic#241703
Time: 6-Sep-2006 12:17 PM

Originally posted by: SKot
The idea isn't to consider the two movies (Lynch's version and the miniseries) a substitute for the book, but more like a supplement to it. Paintings of the same subject material by two different artists, if you will.

Beautifully said. No picture book in the world can capture the essence of what it is like to stand in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel or China's Forbidden City. That doesn't mean such books shouldn't exist.

Post: #241683
Topic: The Hobbit starting in 2007?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/241683/action/topic#241683
Time: 6-Sep-2006 9:56 AM

Originally posted by: Number20

The Silmarillion is unfinished. Therefore, it lacks that polish and cohesiveness. I personally found it a real chore to read, but not bad looking back on it. Not sure I'd read it again, though. Being that it has a slow building plot, few characters that continue throughout the entire book, and no real hero, at least not one who is in the entire book, I don't see how anyone can do a mini-series with it.

Hence why I think a miniseries is the only way to do it. Since there are lots of individual storylines, each would adapt nicely to their own one-hour presentation. Kinda like From The Earth To The Moon, where each episode focused on a different set of characters, many of which weren't present in other episodes.

Post: #241682
Topic: .: The XØ Project - Laserdisc on Steroids :. (SEE FIRST POST FOR UPDATES) (* unfinished project *)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/241682/action/topic#241682
Time: 6-Sep-2006 9:39 AM

I think we need to start calling the Lucasfilm release the O-OUT (Official Original Unmolested Trilogy) to distinguish it from other O-OT/OUT preservations.

Post: #241525
Topic: ***The ADigitalMan non-Star Wars DVD Info and Feedback Thread***
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/241525/action/topic#241525
Time: 5-Sep-2006 8:31 PM

MANY thanks Rik, as always! Great stuff, and it fills in some major gaps.

Post: #241435
Topic: Episode V: What Has Changed?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/241435/action/topic#241435
Time: 5-Sep-2006 2:58 PM

If Ian McD had just re-recorded the Clive Revill dialogue with no additions, fewer people would have cried foul. But instead Lucas over-exposes (as usual) and opens a massive continuity problem that WASN'T addressed in ROTS. Hence, it's just a stupid glitch that the O-OT doesn't have.

Interesting, for all the "fixes" they talk about, they ignore how much they screwed up the sabers, especially in this film. That saber shot while Luke hangs in the Wampa's cave tells you everything. Is the 2004 shot really an improvement?

But, I guess it's fitting that Vader's saber is now pink. Lucas and Hayden pussified the rest of the character in the PT. This was just the final log on the funeral pyre.

Post: #241419
Topic: any plans here for the 30th anniversary?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/241419/action/topic#241419
Time: 5-Sep-2006 2:20 PM

I plan to watch the X0 project on May 25th.

Post: #241417
Topic: The Hobbit starting in 2007?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/241417/action/topic#241417
Time: 5-Sep-2006 2:14 PM

I hope he actually keeps Ian Holm, Ian McK, Hugo Weaving and Andy Serkis in the film too. I'd like a complete and total tie-in between the two.

Beyond that, I'm all for an HBO Miniseries for The Silmarillion produced by Jackson. Would that not be uber-cool?

Post: #241184
Topic: Tom Cruise dumped by Paramount.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/241184/action/topic#241184
Time: 4-Sep-2006 3:49 PM

And a greasy, used car salesman robot to boot. Hey, why doesn't Lucas get Danny DeVito to overdub C-3PO? It'll help bring Star Wars closer to his original vision.

Post: #241182
Topic: .: The XØ Project - Laserdisc on Steroids :. (SEE FIRST POST FOR UPDATES) (* unfinished project *)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/241182/action/topic#241182
Time: 4-Sep-2006 3:41 PM

Heck, VCD looks crappier than VHS. I never got it. I got S-VCD, but not regular VCD. It was just a junky format.

Post: #241180
Topic: DVD Ripping
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/241180/action/topic#241180
Time: 4-Sep-2006 3:39 PM

Bookmark Video Help and spend a LOT of time there. They can answer all your questions.

Post: #241177
Topic: ***The ADigitalMan non-Star Wars DVD Info and Feedback Thread***
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/241177/action/topic#241177
Time: 4-Sep-2006 3:33 PM

But having them isn't quite enough. Then we need to have the ripping, conversion, editing and re-authoring tools, affordable blank media, affordable burners, and settop players capable of playing the burnable media.

Or, studios smart enough to repackage extended editions with the theatrical ones on such a big and versatile medium.

Post: #241129
Topic: The R.I.P. Thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/241129/action/topic#241129
Time: 4-Sep-2006 11:08 AM

I think that was a bad rumor, Montcalm. Nothing in the press confirmed it.

Post: #241118
Topic: The R.I.P. Thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/241118/action/topic#241118
Time: 4-Sep-2006 10:35 AM

R.I.P. Crocodile Hunter

Thanks Darth Richard for starting this thread.

Post: #241115
Topic: ***The ADigitalMan non-Star Wars DVD Info and Feedback Thread***
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/241115/action/topic#241115
Time: 4-Sep-2006 10:06 AM

I hope so. I'll gladly retire my collection if they'll give us the real thing. Though they'd be Expanded Editions, not necessarily director's cuts.

Post: #241020
Topic: Tom Cruise dumped by Paramount.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/241020/action/topic#241020
Time: 3-Sep-2006 11:48 PM

I know what you mean. I get so incensed by the notion that a Welshman was cast to play the great American hero Batman.

And don't even get me started on that hack job done by the very British Ben Kingsley playing the mack-daddy of all Indians, Gandhi.

I mean, what are they thinking getting actors to play somebody outside of their native land?

Post: #241016
Topic: ***The ADigitalMan non-Star Wars DVD Info and Feedback Thread***
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/241016/action/topic#241016
Time: 3-Sep-2006 11:43 PM

No time soon. I'm pretty happy with where things went. I may re-visit in a hi-def format when the technology is such that I can do in that format what I do in this one. At that time, I may re-do all this from scratch.

*sigh*

Post: #240603
Topic: X-Wing or Y-Wing, which ship would you prefer?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/240603/action/topic#240603
Time: 2-Sep-2006 1:01 AM

Originally posted by: lordjedi
TIE Fighters have no shields

Ah, but they do in the O-OT. They were erased by Lucas' tinkering. Some call them garbage mattes. I always thought they were shields.

Post: #240602
Topic: Where did the huge influx of retards come from?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/240602/action/topic#240602
Time: 2-Sep-2006 12:58 AM

Originally posted by: MeBeJedi
No one got my reference.

Oh, I did, to be sure. We must be on the same wavelength because I read that one today to my little one.

Post: #240601
Topic: General Batman Talk
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/240601/action/topic#240601
Time: 2-Sep-2006 12:57 AM

Batman Begins was on Cinemax tonight, and I got sucked into it again. Every time it's on, the surfing stops.

Post: #240405
Topic: SUPERMAN RETURNS REVIEW
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/240405/action/topic#240405
Time: 1-Sep-2006 1:50 PM

I've been wasting my time over here today. Hysterical thread.

Post: #240374
Topic: What did the Prequel Trilogy need?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/240374/action/topic#240374
Time: 1-Sep-2006 12:22 PM

Originally posted by: torque91
I have alway thought that since x-wings and y-wings where old ships and all the rebel could scrap together, they should have been shiney new ships in the PT. And lots of them. Just think how long our military aircraft are in service before they are obsoleted. We are just now scrapping the F-14 and it entered service in 1972.

Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. Lucas was more concerned with selling new toys than realizing that by Ep III we should have seen the classic fighters and the Falcon in their prime.

Post: #240373
Topic: Rankings
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/240373/action/topic#240373
Time: 1-Sep-2006 12:19 PM

1985 - Marty McFly went back in time.