Baronlando

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Post: #315996
Topic: New 'The Clone Wars' movie trailer
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/315996/action/topic#315996
Time: 15-Apr-2008 11:15 PM

Having Jabba on Tatooine also enables the former slacker farmhand Luke to return home a Jedi hero, so I'm good with it.

Post: #315861
Topic: New 'The Clone Wars' movie trailer
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/315861/action/topic#315861
Time: 13-Apr-2008 11:53 PM

Dang, I wasn't aware of the Vintage project! Looks awesome.

Post: #315847
Topic: New 'The Clone Wars' movie trailer
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/315847/action/topic#315847
Time: 13-Apr-2008 9:40 PM

Much of the damage done by the special editions was through additional shots, and those would lift right out. When the official site ran that exhaustive "what's different" article, I counted how many "lost" shots would be needed to make a 1977-ish version of the first movie. It was only about 15! And Revisted already did one of them! (the big dinosaur in front of the landspeeder).

Post: #315843
Topic: New 'The Clone Wars' movie trailer
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/315843/action/topic#315843
Time: 13-Apr-2008 8:59 PM

If Lucas doesn't do it himself, some time in the next 1-2 years,somebody will have made a perfectly good bootleg of the original or original-ish version, so there will be no need to watch the special editions. (if I had the skill and equipment, I'd do a mini version of something like the X0 project and just clean up the 10 or 20 most important "lost shots" enough so they could intercut reasonably well with the 2004 dvd. then I'd sync it up with the 2006 dvd soundmix and move on with my life!)

Post: #315839
Topic: New 'The Clone Wars' movie trailer
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/315839/action/topic#315839
Time: 13-Apr-2008 7:10 PM

A box set of 6 movies plus extras, released by Fox, will be 75- 100 bucks. More for Blu-Ray. To charge that for something that has Hayden Christensen's costume fittings but not the actual movie that started everything is too retarded to comprehend. So it'll probably happen.

Post: #315833
Topic: New 'The Clone Wars' movie trailer
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/315833/action/topic#315833
Time: 13-Apr-2008 4:10 PM — Edited 13-Apr-2008 4:10 PM

Well, this forum is a little different than others. The original trilogy's restoration gets further ignored because this cartoon (more specifically, the toys and t-shirts and paper plates that go with it) is considered more important and worthwhile, so it kind of already has that strike against it for me. But it looks like a decent kids' show, I'll watch it (for free on TV).

Post: #315808
Topic: New 'The Clone Wars' movie trailer
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/315808/action/topic#315808
Time: 13-Apr-2008 12:54 AM

"Despicable and worse than Plan 9"? Where did anybody say anything like that?

Post: #315803
Topic: New 'The Clone Wars' movie trailer
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/315803/action/topic#315803
Time: 12-Apr-2008 10:29 PM

The original trilogy IS being honored, complete with old school artwork. In the form of cycling jerseys! What more do you want?

http://shop.starwars.com/catalog/category.xml?category_id=336&rid=CJADBN

Post: #315429
Topic: Further proof GL has lost his mind... Clone Wars
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/315429/action/topic#315429
Time: 8-Apr-2008 5:27 AM — Edited 8-Apr-2008 5:34 AM

Wouldn't those old stories be "more" official in a way, because at least Lucas was apparently actually reading those comics and semi-involved back then? He was handpicking specific artists, and voiced his displeasure at the first marvel story (the one with the big green rabbit) and a completely new writer and artist took over...
Either way, this cartoon looks kinda cheap. It will really be interesting to see how this does in the theater. Without the "regular" movie audience we might see theatres with a weird mix of 10 year old boys and schlubby grown men, and nothing else!

Post: #313849
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/313849/action/topic#313849
Time: 16-Mar-2008 7:16 PM

ah, okay thanks. (it was really bitchin' by the way)

Post: #313846
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/313846/action/topic#313846
Time: 16-Mar-2008 5:53 PM — Edited 16-Mar-2008 5:56 PM

Sorry if this has been covered already, but has there been an explanation of exactly how the "de-special"' shots were done? (especially the one in Mos Eisley where the dinosaur was removed and replaced with the original white droid) I'd love to know how
to do that. Thanks.

Post: #312380
Topic: Anyone else here have a love/hate relation with Revenge of the sith ?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/312380/action/topic#312380
Time: 4-Mar-2008 5:04 PM

Yeah, I could go that way too. I see Star Wars stuff in the store, and just reflexively I'm turned off because I can't understand how a Vader Mr. potato head is deemed worthy of the cost and effort of designing, manufacturing, packaging, shipping, but a restoration of the actual movie isn't.

But back to Revenge of the Sith, it's almost 3 years old now, and kids seem to still be buying the toys, they must have done something right. Contrast that with 1985/6 when they couldn't get kids to buy Star Wars stuff at gunpoint.

Post: #312293
Topic: Anyone else here have a love/hate relation with Revenge of the sith ?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/312293/action/topic#312293
Time: 4-Mar-2008 12:00 AM

I dunno about GLOWING reviews. It's a pretty good movie, I have no hostility about it, nothing about Star Wars arouses any big feelings in me these days, except this original versions business. Maybe that's only because it's still ongoing. (If they ever release them, I wonder if many fans will buy them and then just fade away.)

Post: #312123
Topic: Star Wars Prologue - Epic Prequel Edit (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/312123/action/topic#312123
Time: 2-Mar-2008 6:32 PM

The first movie has 2 fade-to-blacks: when the droids are bought, and when Luke and 3p0 wait until morning to look for R2.

Post: #311978
Topic: Why do PT defenders and such keep claiming the OT was badly written as well ?!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/311978/action/topic#311978
Time: 1-Mar-2008 2:47 PM

Yeah, I don't even hate the prequels, but the thing super-diehard fans will not acknowledge is that there are DEGREES OF THINGS. (Besides, saying the prequels are good because the old movies are "bad too" ? The hell kind of "defense" is that anyway?)

Post: #310048
Topic: Official: 'THE CLONE WARS' movie in Theaters 8/15/08
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/310048/action/topic#310048
Time: 13-Feb-2008 3:16 AM

Isn't this likely to be shown in only digital theaters? Won't that make it kind of a limited release?

Post: #309182
Topic: Jim Ward steps down
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/309182/action/topic#309182
Time: 5-Feb-2008 1:43 PM

I forgot that digitalbits had broken it down so succinctly. I must have blocked it out because that was when some jagoffs from theforce.net were convinced
they understood the restoration issue better than Robert Harris and my brain melted.

Post: #309157
Topic: Jim Ward steps down
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/309157/action/topic#309157
Time: 5-Feb-2008 3:52 AM

My understanding is that the line about "existing prints" is misleading bullshit because they wouldn't make a dvd from "existing prints" anyway. They'd create a new source from whatever the best available elements are, or something? The "best available", I guess, would be a 1997 IP or IN, plus the shots that were lifted out in 97? Assuming those particular shots are in storage, and weren't burned on a pyre Vader-style.

Post: #309145
Topic: Jim Ward steps down
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/309145/action/topic#309145
Time: 5-Feb-2008 12:15 AM

I have anamorphic Wrath of Khan '82. You can still get it (used) pretty easily actually. http://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-II-Wrath-Khan/dp/6305910189/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1202188180&sr=8-3

A homemade original (or "original-ish") Star Wars would be pretty cool. I've been using Final Cut Pro, maybe I'll take a crack at it. A few weeks ago I was discussing which "lost" shots from the 77 version are the most important.

Post: #309046
Topic: Jim Ward steps down
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/309046/action/topic#309046
Time: 4-Feb-2008 3:19 AM

But if Ward is leaving, it's hard to imagine the next guy giving up on the originals when presented with the facts. Here's an asset we happen to have that's not being exploited, what responsible executive can just ignore that? Especially when there's no sure thing (a new movie) on the horizon? It's comical that there is going to be a major star Wars merchandise push this year with the cartoon and game etc., but the actual movie doesn't warrant any attention. (You walk into the store and it's a 1993 laserdisc while the Family Guy Star Wars dvd right next to it is beyond deluxe. This is the bizarro world.)

Post: #308618
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/308618/action/topic#308618
Time: 30-Jan-2008 5:22 PM

I got it from fanedit.org

Post: #308574
Topic: Star Wars Prologue - Epic Prequel Edit (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/308574/action/topic#308574
Time: 30-Jan-2008 4:11 AM

Just a suggestion: Maybe rather than fade-to-black, use a rising sound effect-into-abrupt cut, like the flashblacks on LOST?
-Really like the blue "STAR WARS" (love those old Empire trailers)
-I'd use Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon as your transition characters as much as possible. Between the two of them, they are good "chroniclers", like the wizard telling the tale in Conan. Or like Godfather 2, the transitions are from father to son, only here master to apprentice?
Anyway good luck!

Post: #308239
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/308239/action/topic#308239
Time: 27-Jan-2008 2:53 PM

When i saw the trailer for this on youtube long ago, I didn't get what the big deal was, but this is really something. The most impressive shot to me is actually the one in mos eisley ("how long have you had these droids?) where original 77 material has been reinstated, apparently without a loss of quality! Wow!I think that's a pretty major accomplishment (especially for the "preservation" part of this forum). The falcon's extra "few maneuvers" was really cool too.

Post: #304962
Topic: Star Wars: The Best of 2007 (Looking Back at 30 Years)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/304962/action/topic#304962
Time: 29-Dec-2007 12:31 PM

Weren't those mailboxes awesome!? Blade Runner, Shmaderunner!

Post: #304298
Topic: "The People Vs. George Lucas" documentary...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/304298/action/topic#304298
Time: 20-Dec-2007 10:09 PM

I really wish the original movies were controlled by a faceless corporation, because I like the guy and all this seems too personal. And it feels weird and embarrassing to be begging for the privilege of giving my money for something that should be so simple. If I believed it was some Kubrick-y artistic integrity thing, I could let it go, but with all the trinkets Lucas WILL sell (action figures of his family etc., I still get email from my long-expired fan club subscription trying to sell me stuff) uh, no. So, I'll probably keep adding my own small voice to the chorus wanting those original versions treated well, since that's the only way it'll happen. This movie raises the question, it will be interesting to see if Lucas ever tries to interact with fans more directly, since the future of Star Wars (games, cartoons, toys, the TV show) is so much more connected to that hardcore world than it was before..