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BadAssKeith

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#235774
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A touchy subject
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Top Ten things I want to do to George Lucas:


10. Beat up his girlfriend: Rick McCullum

9. Strangle him with the original film negatives

8. Put him in CGI land

7. Sue his ass for everything he has got and go laugh in his face when he’s living on the streets

6. Kick him in the crotch

5. Put laxatives in his drinks

4. Beat him to a pulp

3. Get a voodoo doll of him and do you know what

2. Hang him by the balls

1. Make him dance naked in the streets


Please refrain from negative comments. We don’t want to be offensive here.
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#235760
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ROTS in the IMDb top 250!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/235760/action/topic#235760
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Originally posted by: ronlaw
IMHO ROTS has just the same problems as the other two prequels: crappy acting, stupid script, and ridiculous characters. It also adds a fresh problem, overkill on original trilogy cameos, and even has some problem finishing cleanly.
There ARE a few good scenes - like the scene with Anakin and Padme thinking about each other and starting across the city - but the first two also had a few good/fun scenes.
I think the deliberate, clumsy linkups to ANH make people nostalgic and thus they overlook the crap.

By the way - I was told that at last the Prequel Trilogy of STAR WARS would actually have some space battles in it... but there was only that brief and cheesy-animated-robot-riddled flying sequence with the two Jedi. Some proper space battles would have been nice!


Ya, the least you'd think GL could do in a Star Wars movie is give us some decent outer space battles, but he couldn't even do that! I was absolutely appalled by the space battle at the beggining of ROTS. In the OT Obi Wan kept mentioning how great of a pilot Anakin was and we never saw it. All we were showed was some lame slapstick. Unless you count Anakin’s ridiculous Pod race in TPM, which Obi Wan never saw and that was just pathetic. I love the irony how Lucas left out a lot of the best character development and action in the PT. Did he expect us to all watch the clone wars cartoons? I bet he thought he was genius to leave that to our imagination. Sorry Lucas, you're no Stanley Kubrick.

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#235147
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Star Wars isn't the only one...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/235147/action/topic#235147
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Originally posted by: Ingo Sucks
Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
But video game publishers rarely release old games. I mean, even if there was no Doom Special Edition, you wouldn't be able to walk into a store and buy the original Doom would you? Games are made, released, and then replaced by new versions (better graphics, more levels, more moves, different storyline, etc etc)
You can still buy old games online. 3D Realms is a perfect example of this. They're still selling their 1990-1996 DOS games for about $15-30. ID Software still sells the DOS version of Quake for about $40!

And Ingo, I see you have a new favourite game and therefore a new favourite movie. What is the reasoning? Why the change?


The only reason I made Episode III my favorite at the time was because it was a prequel like SFA3. But SFA3's final boss (Super Bison) is ridiculously difficult and frustrating. Even worse, in some versions if you lose to him, you can't continue. I got extremely angry trying to beat him without losing, then I thought "To hell with it. Bison's just an over-the-top asswipe." So I ditched SFA3 and made DOOM my favorite game of all time, because I know that game, and it's nowhere near as frustrating as SFA3. I can speed through and beat that game on its easiest difficulty, and that's what I want in a game. And with 5 difficulty levels, I can always come back for a challenge. But my favorite is the ORIGINAL version of DOOM, because Ultimate's fourth episode does not fit in with the other three. It doesn't have a world map like is MUCH harder compared to the other episodes. So I'm trying to preserve the original version because that 3-episode game is truly my favorite.

So Star Wars became my true favorite movie, because 1. It's the original like DOOM, and 2. It's to me the only one out of the six that had no offensive parts in it. And its the OOT version, like DOOM, because even though I don't mind the SE, I still think the modelwork is fascinating.

EDIT: There's another reason why I don't like Ultimate DOOM. The original DOOM worked well as a standalone game, even though it was sort of a cliffhanger. Ultimate's Episode 4 was created basically to tie in the first game with DOOM II. So now it's sort of a prequel to the second game. I reject this because I like the original DOOM to be a standalone game. Same with ANH.



Hey Ingo, I don't mean to be offensive but your reasoning for favorites doesn't reason at all. I think it's interesting how you reason your favorite game and movie but that is silly. It seems autistic. Are you in the ASD spectrum by chance?
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#235143
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BadAssKeith: You need to chill, dude.
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/235143/action/topic#235143
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I was constructive. I offerd to Sue LFL but you guys didn't like that either. I was going to sue them for the original film negatives and give them to someone who really cared and had the resources to restore and repectively release them and sue LFL for a billion dollars and distrubute the money between the people here but you all gave me shit about that. Okay, just kidding, I appologize and I will cool my bashing, but frankly, when I came here and read the bashers, I thought: now this is my kind of place!
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#235135
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ROTS in the IMDb top 250!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/235135/action/topic#235135
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I actually don’t even think there are 250 good movies out there. Maybe I haven’t seen enough movies but I only have like 20 movies that I like and sometimes I even find my favorites to be a mixed bag. I’m just a picky person I guess. A lot of the movies in the top 250 are there more because of the period of time they were made and by who. Like the Stanely Kubrick films. Those are all overrated but since Kubrick’s has this aurora around him that he’s so great people tend to inflate their opinions on his movie thinking they’re so smart to like films that are weird.
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#235095
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Remember the mass advertising of TPM?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/235095/action/topic#235095
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Originally posted by: 20th Century Mark
Dude, it's been 7 years. Get over it. Personally, I don't think that Lucas can be fully to blame. When it was anounced that a new Star Wars film was coming out, every company in the world wanted to capitalize on it. Retailers over invested in it thinking they will clean up. However, most of the stuff produced was crap. It's like there was no quality control. "Just smack the Star Wars logo on it and it will sell". Well, people are smarter than that. I also agree that all the hype, in a sense, hurt the movie.


I thought it was more of the case of LFL distributing their products to retailers everywhere because they wanted to take every possible opportunity to make money and take retailers to the cleaners. Retailers would’ve had to pay a hefty price to buy and sell products from LFL.

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#235075
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Remember the mass advertising of TPM?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/235075/action/topic#235075
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I think this is another reason why a lot of the people didn’t like the prequels. I don’t know how much merchandising and advertising went on for the OT (wasn’t born when they came out) but I bet there has been a lot more for the PT than the OT. It’s not that I don’t like advertising it’s that LFL over did it with too much stupid stuff and wouldn’t shut up about it on TV. It’s another case of lack of subtlety. The infamous problem Lucas has. If LFL were more subtle advertising these movies maybe people wouldn’t have expected so much from them. I don’t mind him selling action figures and stuff like that but when it’s inescapable every time you go in a retail store or watch TV then it gets on your nerves.

One of the reasons why I was so fascinated with SW back in the late 90’s is because I didn’t hear much about them and it made me curious to see them and I wasn’t disappointed. They were just as good as I thought they would be.
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#235071
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Remember the mass advertising of TPM?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/235071/action/topic#235071
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Originally posted by: JediRandy
Originally posted by: BadAssKeith
George Lucas heavily advertised and merchandized all of the PT movies, but particularly for TPM. Remember all that damn advertising? Taco Bell, KFC, & Pizza Hut were bought into joining in the advertising of TPM and it was just nuts how much crap Lucas shoved down people’s throats.

During that time you couldn’t go anywhere, anytime without being hammered with merchandising on TPM. It seemed like all the TV commercials were designated to that movie during that time and they were all these really annoying, stupid, cringe inducing commercials that made me want to throw something at the screen and shoot george lucas. He had everything imaginable merchandized for this piece of crap. I remember TPM fruit snacks, T-shirts, shoes, flip flops, toys galore, posters, backpacks, pictures of characters from the movie displayed on every Pepsi product, and a jar jar binks popsicle type thingy with his tongue sticking out like GL wants children to give him blow jobs. There were countless other things too. It was sickening.

GL should be ashamed of himself for putting so much money into advertising instead of better things, especially from such crappy movies. He is just a greedy, selfish, arrogant man and he should be embarrassed. Makes you wonder how often he gets out of his ranch (or perhaps that new facility he has in San Diego). Think of the pollution generated from all that crap.


Another fantastic post.


Thank you. I hope you're not being sarcastic?