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#226081
Topic
Superman (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/226081/action/topic#226081
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Just curious who has this and what the status is?

Are the commercials being yanked out of the edit?

Is anybody going to go the route of the RIC (which I finally saw last week) and add the "new" elements of this source to a store-bought NTSC theatrical cut? Or is it just going to be a straight transfer?

Either way, I'm eagerly awaiting this, cause I don't get the vibe we're getting the Intl. Salkind Edition in the mega boxed set this fall (I hope I'm wrong).
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#225956
Topic
SUPERMAN RETURNS REVIEW
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/225956/action/topic#225956
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Jenny, all that campy crap from SII is going to be gone come this fall. Richard Donner's cut (as Michael Thau would assemble it) is going to finally see the light of day. It's all but certain that the rather stupid elements of the film will be gone. Meanwhile, Lois will shoot Clark, Brando will be back, the Fortress will be destroyed, and Miss Tessmacher will find the toilet.
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#225872
Topic
SUPERMAN RETURNS REVIEW
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/225872/action/topic#225872
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I'm in the category of those who thought it was good, but not great. But I also go into any superhero flick not expecting Shakespeare (and get pleased when a film like Batman Begins completely delivers beyond my wildest expectations). My first movie was Star Wars in 1978, followed by Watership Down, and then Superman: The Movie, in that order.
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#225870
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Explaining the shoddy OOT treatment in public
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/225870/action/topic#225870
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Originally posted by: Vigo

Claim: We should be grateful that Lucas is doing his fans a favour and release the OOT, no matter what quality comes out. The Goodwill counts.

Answer: It was not Lucas Goodwill to bring us the OOT. It was the continuing protests of fans and the numerous attempts from fans to preserve the OOT on DVD´s themselves using VHS or Laserdisc sources which changed his mind. The primary aim for this DVD release is to destroy the commercial market for the fan made preservations, which were sold by bootleggers for very high prices on Ebay. Keep that in mind if you try to bring on this "George is so good, be grateful!" argument, since it is only an understandable decision made by a business man. If George would really listen to his fans, and understand their dedication and love for his films, he would have released the OOT in proper DVD quality, rather than just Laserdisc transfers which hardly surpass the fan preservations (since they come from the same source). Further he is forcing OOT fans to buy the 2004 SE with the OOT and charges a lot of money for this release.

One of the points I've continually made is that this is not a "gift" from Lucasfilm, it is a product. If Lucas were giving this to all customers who bought the 2004 or 2005 sets, that would be one thing. But it is a product that we are being asked to pay our hard-earned money for. Because of that, we have every right to expect industry standard quality. Feel free to use this point.
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#225666
Topic
HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/225666/action/topic#225666
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Originally posted by: Han Solo VS Indiana Jones
Originally posted by: ADigitalMan
I'm hoping Richard Curtis will do HBP.

I'm afraid I'm not familiar with Richard Curtis. What's on his resume?

He's only directed one film so far, Love Actually, but he's written a host of films and TV shows. Mr. Bean, Black Adder, Four Wedings & A Funeral, Bridget Jones, Notting Hill.

He interviews the cast on the GoF DVD. He's a brilliant writer and Love Actually showed he can direct the hell out of character actors in an ensemble setting. He even made Alan Rickman likeable. I know he'd nail the humorous parts of the books that have been sorely lacking in the films without sacrificing the emotional textures.

Edit: Oh, and he wrote "The Girl in the Cafe" which was David Yates' last film.
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#225662
Topic
RIP Syd Barret
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/225662/action/topic#225662
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And this on the date of Pulse's release on DVD. I can only respond with the entire libretto from Wish You Were Here:

Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
You were caught on the crossfire of childhood and stardom,
blown on the steel breeze.
Come on you target for faraway laughter,
come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!

You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Threatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Well you wore out your welcome with random precision,
rode on the steel breeze.
Come on you raver, you seer of visions,
come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!

Welcome To The Machine
Welcome my son, welcome to the machine.
Where have you been? It's alright we know where you've been.
You've been in the pipeline, filling in time,
provided with toys and Scouting for Boys.
You bought a guitar to punish your ma,
And you didn't like school, and you know you're nobody's fool,
So welcome to the machine.

Welcome my son, welcome to the machine.
What did you dream? It's alright we told you what to dream.
You dreamed of a big star, he played a mean guitar,
He always ate in the Steak Bar. He loved to drive in his Jaguar.
So welcome to the machine.

Have A Cigar
Come in here, dear boy, have a cigar.
You're gonna go far, fly high,
You're never gonna die, you're gonna make it if you try;they're gonna love you.
Well I've always had a deep respect, and I mean that most sincerely.
The band is just fantastic, that is really what I think.
Oh by the way, which one's Pink?
And did we tell you the name of the game, boy
we call it Riding the Gravy Train.

We're just knocked out.
We heard about the sell out.
You gotta get an album out,
You owe it to the people. We're so happy we can hardly count.
Everybody else is just green, have you seen the chart?
It's a helluva start, it could be made into a monster
if we all pull together as a team.
And did we tell you the name of the game, boy
we call it Riding the Gravy Train.

Wish You Were Here
So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell,
blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?

And did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?

How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found? The same old fears.
Wish you were here.

Shine On You Crazy Diamond (reprise)
Nobody knows where you are, how near or how far.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Pile on many more layers and I'll be joining you there.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
And we'll bask in the shadow of yesterday's triumph,
sail on the steel breeze.
Come on you boy child, you winner and loser,
come on you miner for truth and delusion, and shine
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#225629
Topic
***The ADigitalMan non-Star Wars DVD Info and Feedback Thread***
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/225629/action/topic#225629
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Nice. Wow! Looks like D_J put The Terminator up too. Thanks to both of you. This ought to make some peeps happy.

Devilman1369, that is the most hysterical Avatar I've seen since Rikter's "HP and the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" a few months back. I wonder how many people will get the reference. I mean, aside from me and Prime Minister, Sir Dingley Dine.
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#225480
Topic
DVD controversy mentioned on imdb.com
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/225480/action/topic#225480
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Originally posted by: darkhelmet

As Aldous Huxley, author of the sci-fi and literary classic BRAVE NEW WORLD, said about his most popular work:

"[T]o attempt to patch a faulty work into the perfection it missed at its first execution, to spend one's middle age in trying to mend the artistic sins committed and bequeathed by that different person who was oneself in youth - all this is surely vain and futile."

That is a beautiful quote and should be in your signature.
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#224877
Topic
SUPERMAN RETURNS REVIEW
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/224877/action/topic#224877
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I simply don't expect SR to have the staying power that BB had. BB had such incredible word of mouth precisely because of it's emotional depth and, beyond that, its execution. BB executed beyond expectations on every possible level, which kept its numbers up all summer long. I think GC is right in saying that PotC2 is going to immediately eclipse SR. And because it was so freakin' expensive to make, they have a long row to hoe.

And yet, I find myself awaiting news on the sequel already. I personally enjoyed SR. Not perfect like BB, but worth my time. I can't wait for the DVD, and I might even cook up a project based on it depending on what they give us.
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#224864
Topic
SUPERMAN RETURNS REVIEW
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/224864/action/topic#224864
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Originally posted by: Han Solo VS Indiana Jones
So I hear that the box office performance of Superman Returns is not up to par. I guess now I'll have to see it out of pity for the box office.


I think it's the biggest opening in Warner Bros. history so I wouldn't say it's not up to par. It beat industry expectations and blasted the hell out of (the much superior) Batman Begins.