Bossk

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Post: #66029
Topic: Amazon Reviews (re the 2004 OT SE DVD release)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/66029/action/topic#66029
Time: 21-Sep-2004 11:54 AM

This one was great...

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(one star) It's like McCartney re-recording Beatles, September 21, 2004
Reviewer: Gregory Saracino (Malta)
Sorry folks. Releasing the versions like this is the EQUIVALENT of Paul McCartney going back and re-recording the Beatles albums with all the modern technology. That would be interesting and maybe even cool. However, it would TOTALLY BLOW if the *new* versions were the ONLY versions available on CD. DOESN'T THIS SOUND RIDICULOUS? I will never buy these and instead, give in to piracy. In fact, stuff like this makes me hope that piracy is the END of Lucas.

Post: #66026
Topic: An article of lies and disgust - George Lucas talks re the 2004 OT SE DVD release...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/66026/action/topic#66026
Time: 21-Sep-2004 11:43 AM

The Star Wars DVDs and Episode III will be sales bonanzas, no doubt. But they are not going to be record setting in terms of overall DVD sales and beat all the other record holders nor will ROTS be a top-five movie. They just don't have the overall appeal that a Shrek 2 or a Titanic or a Spider-Man has. Just won't happen. TPM became a bonanza because people saw it as the first SW movie in 16 years. Then, they all felt burned by it. That's just how it is. That's why AOTC sold $120 million less in tickets. Many people gave up after TPM. They just didn't care anymore. Sith will be the same way, I fear. Many people just won't want to see it. The DVDs will do well. But for LFL to say that they will be the best selling DVD set of all time is going a bit overboard (I think they made that projection, didn't they?). The big green ogre is gonna slap them come Christmas.

Post: #66025
Topic: George Lucas, I wish you would have a change of heart :(
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/66025/action/topic#66025
Time: 21-Sep-2004 11:38 AM

I have no desire to see them changed. That's why, when I go to Best Buy tonight, I plan to spend a minute educating whoever I see grabbing the SW set off the shelves before I head directly to the CD department and spend my money on a couple of worthwhile CDs instead of the SW set.

Post: #65973
Topic: The DVD's........Man!!!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/65973/action/topic#65973
Time: 21-Sep-2004 7:38 AM

Nope. No recall. LFL released a statement to thedigitalbits.com claiming that it was intentional. Covers their asses.

Post: #65972
Topic: Number Of Users
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/65972/action/topic#65972
Time: 21-Sep-2004 7:37 AM

That was the Great Post Purge of November 2003. Yes, it was that long ago. He may still have to do it again. Who knows.

Post: #65967
Topic: INTERVIEW WITH GEORGE LUCAS (on Fox News)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/65967/action/topic#65967
Time: 21-Sep-2004 7:25 AM

Oh dear Christ no. The digital E.T. looked like garbage. To make him fit in, you have to replace him in every scene. No thanks. I've got my original.

Post: #65951
Topic: Country Differences
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/65951/action/topic#65951
Time: 21-Sep-2004 6:30 AM

Are you sure you'd want to hear a southern fried Briton? I dunno about that one.

Post: #65948
Topic: StarWars.com wants us to show them our DVDs.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/65948/action/topic#65948
Time: 21-Sep-2004 6:20 AM

Replace JarJar with GeorgeGeorge?

Post: #65947
Topic: An angry Review of the 2004 OT SE DVD's
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/65947/action/topic#65947
Time: 21-Sep-2004 6:18 AM

What documentary? That's just what I got out of reading them.

Post: #65931
Topic: StarWars.com wants us to show them our DVDs.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/65931/action/topic#65931
Time: 21-Sep-2004 5:27 AM

Anybody here have a membership we can use to flood them with our pics of us and our preferred editions?

Post: #65929
Topic: Country Differences
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/65929/action/topic#65929
Time: 21-Sep-2004 5:25 AM

Meaning what? How do they make it now? Or is this some in-joke this damn Yank just doesn't get?

Post: #65926
Topic: NFL
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/65926/action/topic#65926
Time: 21-Sep-2004 5:19 AM

Yes, and what was that? Bears 21, Packers 10?!?!?! Are we living in some alternate reality? HOLY BALLS!!! THE BEARS BEAT THE PACK!!!

Even if we don't win another game all season, we can still proclaim proudly, "the BEARS beat the PACKERS in LAMBEAU FIELD!!!!!"

Yeah baby!

Post: #65924
Topic: Raiders of the Lost Ark - Special Edition?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/65924/action/topic#65924
Time: 21-Sep-2004 5:17 AM

eBay would be your only hope since they never sold them separately in retail stores.

Post: #65923
Topic: Beautiful Women
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/65923/action/topic#65923
Time: 21-Sep-2004 5:16 AM

Chaltab, look at his classification under his avatar... "CAPITAL Punishment". It's that way for a reason. He's been typing in all caps for a lot longer than you've been here (if you look at his signup information, he was the second person to register for the forum). You just kinda get used to it.

Post: #65921
Topic: Country Differences
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/65921/action/topic#65921
Time: 21-Sep-2004 5:13 AM

Well, I might vote that way if it wasn't for Bush's lapdog Tony Blair as the PM. I dunno how much better it would be for us.

Post: #65919
Topic: THE PSYCHO REVIEW
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/65919/action/topic#65919
Time: 21-Sep-2004 5:11 AM

What's my tattoo say?

Post: #65918
Topic: Number Of Users
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/65918/action/topic#65918
Time: 21-Sep-2004 5:10 AM

Plus you have to take into account all the one-time posters whose messages were deleted before the Great Post Purge of November '03.

I think a lot of people sign up as soon as they sign the petition thinking that they will post on the forums but then just decide against it for whatever reason. Jay has links to join the forum all over the place so it's pretty easy to do. Whether or not a person remains committed to the idea is something else altogether.

Post: #65915
Topic: An angry Review of the 2004 OT SE DVD's
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/65915/action/topic#65915
Time: 21-Sep-2004 4:57 AM

If it wasn't intentional, then he did a piss poor job of avoiding it.

Post: #65914
Topic: PSYCHO_DAYV'S SW TRILOGY DVD SET REVIEW
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/65914/action/topic#65914
Time: 21-Sep-2004 4:56 AM

Haven't we always?

Post: #65913
Topic: I have been taken by the dark side
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/65913/action/topic#65913
Time: 21-Sep-2004 4:54 AM

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Originally posted by: Commander Courage
All my friends who are buying the DVDs think I'm crazy for not getting them as well.

Well then, I'll be your friend and call you a stand-up guy for not buying into the hype. Be strong, m'man!

Post: #65912
Topic: Will anyone please video capture the "When Star Wars Ruled the World" Vh1 Special?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/65912/action/topic#65912
Time: 21-Sep-2004 4:51 AM

For people who haven't seen it, I just wanted to share my favorite line from the whole thing. Jeremy Bullock (Boba Fett) being interviewed and saying, "Now that I am a Pez and a Lego, I don't want for anything more." That line made the whole thing worthwhile.

VH-1 really went balls out on interviews here. Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, Jeremy Bullock, Peter Mayhew, Anthony Daniels, Billy Dee Williams, Irvin Kershner. I can't remember if Kenny Baker and Warwick Davis were actually interviewed or if they were just in archive footage. It's worth the download time once the link is posted.

Post: #65910
Topic: StarWars.com wants us to show them our DVDs.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/65910/action/topic#65910
Time: 21-Sep-2004 4:42 AM

What we need is a whole reenactment of the Office Space printer smashing scene with some of the DVD sets.

Damn it feels good to be a gangsta...

Post: #65908
Topic: Things you LIKED about the Special Editions?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/65908/action/topic#65908
Time: 21-Sep-2004 4:39 AM

I love the Biggs stuff being reinserted as well. I just want to see all his scenes in there.

Post: #65907
Topic: PG-13 Revenge of the Sith
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/65907/action/topic#65907
Time: 21-Sep-2004 4:38 AM

Kevin Smith could do it. Yeah, I know he's done nothing other than raunchy comedies (save for Jersey Girl), but he's such a big fanboy that I think he could write a killer story. I dunno if he'd want to direct it, though. He already backed out of Green Hornet as a director, but will still write it. I just think he'd be good. He has enough exposure, love, and knowledge of it to pull it off.

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And also, we don't know that Padme dies. It would be unlikely because she has to live long enough for Leia to have memories of her.

Lucas has changed so much of the mythos already, what's to stop him from totally screwing this bit up?

Post: #65670
Topic: MANGLER BROS., INC. IS NOW CLOSED HERE
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/65670/action/topic#65670
Time: 20-Sep-2004 7:04 PM

RRS posted a message about flying in a space shuttle almost a month ago. Haven't seen him since.