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#250770
Topic
Lucas Interview from 1979 - Alan Arnold's 'Once Upon a Galaxy' book
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/250770/action/topic#250770
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Originally posted by: Go-Mer-Tonic
Seems to be the same old George to me.

I agree. Only a few years after Star Wars, and he's already become an egotistical control freak that thinks he's the only one that can do it all correctly.

Also note that he specifically mentions the nine film triple trilogy that he now claims to have never mentioned - plus he says he added the other stories after Star Wars was made. What about that grand vision he had from the very start, before any of the films were made?

The only thing he's done from the very beginning is make up stuff as he goes along. No wonder he worked that into the Raiders Of The Lost Ark script.
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#249038
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For Those who bought the Sept. 12th Release, Thoughts so far?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/249038/action/topic#249038
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Originally posted by: Skyranger
I can't help but suspect that those who are COMPLETELY satisfied with this DVD version, and claim they will never buy another, never stood in line to see Star Wars in the theater in 1977.

You are incorrect where I'm concerned. I'm completely satisfied with this DVD version and I stood in line a couple of times a week back in the summer of 1977.

When I watch Star Wars, I'm watching, feeling, and being transported into that same adventure - that same story. The same one I stood in line for every week in 1977. Star Wars is emotional for me - not technical. It transcends the medium or the equipment showing it to me. It's bigger than that - much bigger. I don't see the TV screen or the DVD player, or the rest of the room for that matter.

I don't sit down and watch a DVD transfer process.

There are two ways I could handle this release - I could waste time bitching and moaning about what could have been \ should have been - or - I could let my imagination take me on that same far away adventure I went on when I was a kid in 1977.

I chose the latter.



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#248944
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For Those who bought the Sept. 12th Release, Thoughts so far?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/248944/action/topic#248944
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I've now watched Star Wars more times (4) in the last 3 weeks than I had in the last 10 years. It's completely rekindled my love of the film. Honestly - I'd forgotten how much I love the movie. For more years than I can remember, it existed only in my memory and imagination - and in the soundtrack, which I listen to quite a bit. I've never seen anything SE-related because it's not the film\story\characters that I grew up with. So, for a really long time I just remembered every line, every scene, and every emotion while listening to the music. Now, I can experience them again, and I have been. It's been a great 3 weeks. None of the characters are related to each other and the universe is enormous.

Star Wars is back.
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#248107
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Happy Birthday Mark Hamill - September 25th
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/248107/action/topic#248107
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Originally posted by: Darth_Evil
Wouldn't it have been great if you'd gone on to bigger and better thangs like you're buddy Harrison Ford?

Like what? - The carbon copy man-standing-up-to-authority role that he plays in every film these days? Complete with the one, overly-assertive, stern-faced, line shown in the trailer for every one of those movies. It's always the turning point where the everyman that he always plays finally takes control of his situation...

"How dare you, sir!"

"Get off of my plane!"

"Give me back my wife!"

He's settled nicely into typecasting. A new Indiana Jones would be a welcome change.



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#247602
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Ok. The OUT Covers for the UK- WHY!?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/247602/action/topic#247602
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Originally posted by: casualimp
Complete ugliness but it's a bilingual law so custom covers all the way.

I've done it before on my James Bond set. The last film (Die Another Day) had a completely different spine than the other 19 - it was a late addition to the set just before they shipped. So, I just scanned one of the others and added a picture of Brosnan in the appropriate spot to match the other covers (all the spines have a small picture of whoever played 007 in that particular film), then cut-and-pasted the title in from a second scan so that it lined up with the others. Printed it to scale and it's indistinguishable as a one-of-a-kind.

My Star Wars DVD has a custom cover sleeve also. With desktop publishing software what it is these days, anything is possible. I use Photoshop professionally so my only limits are being able to find certain artwork on the internet. Took me a while to find a scan of the poster I used on the back of my cover.

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#245526
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"BUT ANAMORPHIC ENHANCEMENT ALTERS THE MOVIES!!!"
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/245526/action/topic#245526
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Originally posted by: Vigo
I mean, isn´t it pathetic to what extend some fanboys go to defend this release?

…anamorphic DVD´s and new digital transfers have become a ->STANDARD<- in the industry
Yes, anamorphic is the standard. Yes, the current standard and the format Lucas decided to use for this release of Star Wars are not the same. Someone accepting the format (regardless of the pretzel logic behind Lucas’ decision to use it) is NOT the same as defending it.

What exactly is it that you want people to do?
If someone doesn’t have a copy of the original version to watch and they would like to see it, this is the version they get to buy legally. It’s all Lucas is offering now – no matter how wrong that is.

Everyone would like the picture quality to be higher, but this is where we are now. No matter how much you want the people who bought this release to appear as uninformed fans “blindly following” everything Lucas does – that’s simply not the case. They’ve just decided to accept what’s currently available and not spend all day on the internet bad-mouthing Lucas and boycotting everything other than a bootleg. They’ve chosen to watch the movies instead.




Originally posted by: Vigo
George, you should really have thought about creating a religion of Star Wars, since your fans show the same signs of denial and blind following …


The point I´m trying to make is how Lucas has managed to mobilize the sheer ignorance of his blind followers…

Originally posted by: Vigo
I never said that "people who are happy to get the O-OT on DVD in any format" are "blind followers"

Of course not. I wonder how anyone got that idea.



Originally posted by: Vigo
We are not in the year 1993 anymore,

We’re not in the year 1986 anymore either. The Beastie Boys aren’t the >standard< for teenage angst. Get a new mantra.

Originally posted by: Vigo
…learn reading.

The verb you’re looking for would be read. As in, learn to read. By adding ing to the end of read, it became a noun. You can’t learn a noun.

YOU GOT TO FIGHT! * BOOM BOOM * FOR YOUR RIGHT!.....TO POOOOR GRAAAMMAAAR!
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#244894
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POLL: So Who Bought Them &amp; Who Didn't? (the 2006 GOUT DVD release)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/244894/action/topic#244894
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Originally posted by: Hoichi, the EarlessTo me if he had released them remastered but looking like the '04 dvds with the incorrect colors/sound I would have been more upset.

Instead I now have exactly what i've always grown up with.

+1

I've never seen the SEs, but I've seen some of the screen captures and they are way too blue and dark - too saturated overall. They have that false, 1940s technicolor look.
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#244602
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Stormtrooper with 4 eyes ::( or Stormtrooper showing terrible IVTC/telecine artefacts
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/244602/action/topic#244602
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Originally posted by: Mielr
I didn't watch the movie in slo-mo, I didn't watch it frame-by-frame, I just watched it, and enjoyed it. ....whatever flaws that are evident are less objectionable than the flaws in the 2004 DVDs (Greedo shooting first comes to mind....)


I agree fully. If I have to watch a movie in slow motion (or even worse, frame by frame) to notice a problem - then it's not a problem I'm going to waste any energy on.

I watched it all the way through last night. It had been years since I'd seen it and it was fading from memory. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

There were probably others but I didn't see them. I only saw far away worlds, a hero, space ships, and a princess.

Truthfully - I missed the stormtrooper glitch the day before. I only noticed it the second time because someone went to the trouble of screen grabbing it, posting it, and starting an internet discussion about it - good job.
http://www.gigabikes.com/forums/html/emoticons/slap.gif

But it's just par for the course these days. We live in a society now where people go out of their way to make sure everyone else is as unhappy as they are. I guess there weren't enough people hating it and something had to be done.
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#244108
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Got it today
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/244108/action/topic#244108
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Originally posted by: boris

Glad to hear you enjoyed it!

Yeah, and more than I thought I would. My very favorite shot - the one that really transported me into the film as a kid - still moves me. The shot just as the escape pod blasts away from the blockade runner. The whole sequence of them escaping, really. It starts the entire chain of events that brings all the characters together. Great stuff, man.

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f20/stonetriple/pod1.jpg

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f20/stonetriple/pod3.jpg
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#243881
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Got it today
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/243881/action/topic#243881
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Just about two hours ago, in fact. $18. 37 at Best Buy, last one on the shelf. Only the OOT and the stripped case came inside - the paper sleeve, disc one, and the plastic part that holds disc one are all on the floorboard of my truck. I'll decide what to do with them later.

I've watched the first 20 minutes or so. Quality is fine. Much nicer than I expected. I have Star Wars now in the only form I've ever seen it. None of the characters are related to each other and the universe is enormous. Can't wait to have a proper sit down with it this weekend. I have no interest in the other two films.

Thanks George, and good luck.