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#287729
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When it was just a movie....
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Yeah, I was pointing out that it was better when it was just a single film. However, that was just an aside to my post. I really posted the cereal box because I thought it was interesting how simple it all was back then - before it became the juggernaut it would later morph into.

Sunday actually sidetracked my fucking post before it ever got started because he sees battles where there are none. Man, I just thought the cereal box was interesting.

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#287528
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When it was just a movie....
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/287528/action/topic#287528
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This is the back of a cereal box from 1977.

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f20/stonetriple/Lucky_SWbox.jpg

The text reads;

“Collect great photos of Luke Skywalker, Ben (Obi Wan) Kenobi, Princess Leia, and Han Solo. Get other exciting Stick-ons of Star Wars Robots, Creatures, and Scenes like Chewbacca, R2-D2, and Fighting Space Ships”

Funny how there’s no mention of Darth Vader. He was just a bad guy with a black mask. Just one of the characters on the adventure that Luke Skywalker went on. The movie, the story - it really worked back then.


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#287065
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Anyone else totally disregard Leia being Luke's sister?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/287065/action/topic#287065
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When I first watched ROTJ, I searched my feelings and realized I was loosing a day's pay by calling in sick so I could go to the "big premiere".
Lucas owes me about 30 bucks - 1983 wages x 8 hours.

Well, I did rip the audio track of my Star Wars DVD and make a few copies of it (car, iPod, computer). I guess we're even after all these years.
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#286940
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Hello I'm new and have a question. (re StarWars.com and its message boards)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/286940/action/topic#286940
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Originally posted by: CO
...they say they want all views of the movies, including SW '77 fans, OOT fans, yet they are the ones who are censored or shouted down because they don't conform to the Saga


Yeah, I lurked on a few other sites around the same time I found this one. It only took reading a few topics over there to see they aren't open to any sort of independent thought, and certainly not the truth about Star Wars or Lucas.

You better get on board with drinking the Kool Aid over there or you'll be hammered mercilessly. Truthfully, the amount of Lucas' lying and revisionist history they'll accept is shocking. It's as though they've completely abandoned the desire to think for themselves.

The truth about Star Wars is readily available, in the form of original scripts and interviews, to anyone who is interested. However, they not only don't want to know the truth, but they become almost violent with people who mention it's existence. It's like some sort of skewed type of Stockholm syndrome.

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#286673
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Anyone else totally disregard Leia being Luke's sister?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/286673/action/topic#286673
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On the off-chance that Sue comes back to see any responses;


I just love it when a random asshole calls me 8 because I love ROTJ.

Sue, if you weren't so quick to take offense and see I wasn't insulting people who like ROTJ, you would see that I was talking about the shift in the target fanbase - not describing the established fanbase. In fact, I wasn't insulting anyone. We were discussing Lucas' change in focus, story, and methods.

Most of your reasoning sounds like nothing but a sad snob who spends most of his/her time thinking about nothing but how to shoot down popular movies


If you spent some time here, you'd see that you just about couldn't be more wrong. I only watch one Star Wars movie - how in the world can I be a snob when I'm a fringe member of the fandom? Also, I seldom, if ever, shit on other popular movies. That's just not my deal.

There's some great people here, Sue. Intelligent, clever, witty, thought-provoking, etc. You'll learn a lot from them. I certainly have. My very small Star Wars world (one film) has grown substantially after having met these people. I'm more grateful than they know. Much more.

a random asshole


How come I can't be a regular asshole? <--- that's a joke Sue.
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#286245
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What could have made the PT better?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/286245/action/topic#286245
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Originally posted by: Forbidden Zone
I don't care if the shark in 'Jaws' looks fake, I watch it for those guys on the boat.

That's the essence of that film, the human interaction. Those guys don't particularly like each other, they don't have a great deal in common - and - they're in very close quarters, having to deal with those issues. The shark is just the external force that brings them together. That movie is thick with human interaction and emotion. A great example is when Ellen is saying goodbye to the chief, at the dock. She's already been through a lot and is barely holding together - but when she's walking away and Quint starts yelling at the crew, she finally breaks down and starts running away from there. She's that upset and afraid - and you can feel it. Great stuff. One of my all-time top ten films.


I think George has no clue on how to write a friendship because he has forgotten how to have one. He has surrounded himself by kiss-butts for too long.


There may be something to that. There isn't a series of checks and balances in his world anymore, nor has there been for quite some time. That's not usually a good thing.

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#286195
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Wanted: Looking for Star Wars poster for the NPR drama
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/286195/action/topic#286195
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Yeah, the first one is high - even for an original (sort of). It's really just an original for when the CDs came out in 93, not when it was actually airing in 81. I'll get a reprint if I have to, but I'll have to see it in person first. I spent 22 years in the printing industry - I'll want to see the color and register before I settle. I'll still look around for an original for a while longer.

My thought was to send it around to some of the cast members and get it signed before I frame it. Considering the availability and cost of originals, a reprint might be the way to go.

Shouldn't be too hard to find mailing addresses for some of them. Mark Hamill would be easy to get a fan address for maybe. Perry King also. Ann Sachs runs a very respected theater restoration company in Manhattan. Since I go back to NYC several times a year, I could just take it by the main office.

Yeah - that wouldn't look pathetic..."Hi, Ann..um, I mean Miss Sachs. I'm a...I'm a big Star Wars fan...and I was just wondering if you'd sign my poster"
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#286072
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George Lucas calls Spiderman 3 'silly'
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/286072/action/topic#286072
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Originally posted by: C3PX
It is entirely possible something has changed on the TV series front. Lucas is a pretty flacky guy...tends to change his mind a lot.

Man, that's for sure. When Lucas says he's planning a TV series based on whatever, and it's going to be ready in a few years - damn - that could mean anything in Lucasspeak.

It is annoying they are taking place between 3 and 4, does anybody even really care what happened during that time? I think it would be more interesting pre TPM or post ROTJ.


That's how I feel about anything else he does in the space genre. He has visited the known Star Wars universe way too many times already. I'd be interested to see something of his (maybe) if it came from some other area of the galaxy. It's worked very well for Star Trek. It could work for Star Wars also. The next ship doesn't have to be purchased from a guy who stole it from someone whose mother worked on Cloud City and the co-pilot doesn't have to be someone Chewie sat next to in the cantina.

George - Let go of the Adventures Of Luke Skywalker for a change and write us an outer space adventure again. And for God's sake - get off of Tatooine finally. It went from being - "if there's a bright center to the universe, you're on the planet that it's farthest from" - to being damn center stage in all that universe seems to be. Enough already. Take the advice of one of your own characters and "stretch out with your feelings".
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#286011
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Anyone else nostalgic to the PT?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/286011/action/topic#286011
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Originally posted by: Nobody
Star Wars has many influences, but Lord of the Rings is one that I almost never hear mentioned, and it clearly provided a large amount of back-bone to the plot,


Many many years ago, long before I'd ever read Lord Of The Rings, a buddy of mine was always trying to get me to read it. He knew I was a huge Star Wars nerd and one of his favorite things to mention was how Star Wars was just Lord Of The Rings in space.

He was right.

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#285914
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George Lucas calls Spiderman 3 'silly'
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/285914/action/topic#285914
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Originally posted by: kmcherry
Still, it's interesting to read--even if it ends up being untrue--that it will be set in the Star Wars "milieu." Of course, that settles nothing as to whether it's PT or OT or between.


Set in the Star Wars milieu - is what Lucas should have been doing since about 1980. Why in the world he couldn't come up with interesting stories outside of "The Adventures Of Luke Skywalker" is beyond me. Instead of continually shrinking the galaxy by making everything connected, he could have actually enlarged the already vast Star Wars galaxy by writing other stories that were loosely connected.
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#285290
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Anyone else nostalgic to the PT?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/285290/action/topic#285290
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Originally posted by: CO
I can understand the nostalgia of anything growing up, cause it just holds a place in you that you dont' forget.

Therein lies the true reason for most (if not all) the anti-Lucas sentiment and anger where some OOT fans are concerned. We all know the truth, the original story, the original scripts, the interviews, etc from the 70s. We know what we saw. However, and in spite of those facts, we still have Lucas still trying to revise history with his doublespeak.

It would be different if he'd made Star Wars and then over the course of the rest of his career, just made more films (sequels\prequels\parallels\etc). But he's not done that. He's instead decided to alter the originals, lie about them, deny their existence, and (until very recently) keep the originals from the people who remember them. Even then, he's decided he'll control how people see them.

It's that desire to control other people's nostalgia, for his own personal reasons, that angers people. He wouldn't have near the public backlash if he'd stop trying to convince people that their past is a lie - it's not.

When Ted Turner was coloring B&W movies years ago, he wasn't trying to tell people the originals never existed, or that using color is what the director really wanted. Nor was he trying to eliminate the originals. He was just offering up an alternative. People were free to watch it - or not. Even Turner knew better than to try and tell people what their memories or feelings {i]should be.

However, George is so megalomaniacal that he's decided he will make those decisions for other people.