Bossk

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Post: #52265
Topic: TV on DVD resurrected (kind of)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/52265/action/topic#52265
Time: 7-Jun-2004 4:48 AM

Yep, knew about Reagan. RIP.

As for TV on DVD, DigitalBits had a rumor that they might be working on season set releases of The Greatest American Hero for 2005. That show was a classic.

I will be buying (very gleefully) my season 1 set of Quantum Leap tomorrow. HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY!!!!

Post: #52264
Topic: OT bootleg DVD reviews
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/52264/action/topic#52264
Time: 7-Jun-2004 4:45 AM

I just got my digitalfreaknyc set and have yet to watch it. I'll get around to it sometime soon but am leaving for vacation in a day or two, so I'm not sure when it will happen.

Post: #52263
Topic: BOYCOTT (the 2004 OT SE DVD release)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/52263/action/topic#52263
Time: 7-Jun-2004 4:44 AM

I always liked the changes in Cloud City. I liked seeing more background in the windows and I liked the extended Falcon escort scene. This scene was one I never really complained about in the SE. If it's gone for an OT-OV release, I won't whine, but the scene itself wasn't worth bitching about like the scream or Greedo shooting first.

Post: #52262
Topic: Changes in 2004 DVDs
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/52262/action/topic#52262
Time: 7-Jun-2004 4:42 AM

Luke30... saw it. Pretty well done trailer, I will admit. They avoid showing any of the new scenes although I did notice one that I don't seem to recall. From when Han is chasing the Stormtroopers in the Death Star in ANH, he runs into an entire phalanx of them and it shows them all. Many of them standing rank and file in the background. Was this an SE scene or is it new?

Also, for those wondering about sound, the trailer announces that "for the first time" it will be available in 5.1 Surround EX. No more details other than that.

Post: #52261
Topic: MORE CHANGES!!! (for the 2004 OT DVD release)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/52261/action/topic#52261
Time: 7-Jun-2004 4:34 AM

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Originally posted by: shanep
Re-read my post Bossk. I said it was never released. It was offered for order with the firing jetpack on the blister packs for Star Wars figures. The BG toys did have firing missiles and one family sued the maker when their kid shot himself in the eye with a Viper missile.

I'm sorry. I was reading it quickly and when I caught the bit about kids being hurt by firing missiles, I assumed the Fett figure was what you were referring to. I missed the Battlestar bit entirely. My bad.

Another expensive figure was the very rare Yak Face. He never quite caught on and, since his figure release coincided with the boom in popularity of G.I. Joe, few sold. This is one of only four or five figs I need to own all the original SW figures. Too expensive to buy one though.

Post: #52133
Topic: Motti and dayv are missing
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/52133/action/topic#52133
Time: 5-Jun-2004 12:50 PM

Where's that damn Ecto Containment Unit?

Post: #52132
Topic: Harry Potter 3
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/52132/action/topic#52132
Time: 5-Jun-2004 12:49 PM

Snape as a vampire... interesting. That would be a pretty cool twist. Weird, depending on how she (Rowling) tackles it.

Post: #52131
Topic: MORE CHANGES!!! (for the 2004 OT DVD release)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/52131/action/topic#52131
Time: 5-Jun-2004 12:48 PM

Falacy (sp?).

The shooting jetpack was never actually released as a toy. It was a concept only. I've seen the concept toy. He comes in the all grey-blue that most of Boba is molded in and his rocket is red and the launch pin is also red. He was never painted and never released. The accidents, if they ever happened, were in test groups. I've read in several places that the figure was never released. However, some of the concept models have gotten out and are worth more than the lives of any ten of us combined. If you've seen a shooting jetpack Boba Fett figure and he's painted, then it was a customized figure that someone made. Several people did do it. But the difference, if you're looking at one, is that the actual concept model was never painted.

Post: #52130
Topic: Stupidest Prequal complaints
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/52130/action/topic#52130
Time: 5-Jun-2004 12:40 PM

Shimmy... Luke was replying to a quote from Jimbo. Not you. Don't take offense.

Post: #52127
Topic: Star Wars Pan Scan
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/52127/action/topic#52127
Time: 5-Jun-2004 12:35 PM

Amend that to say "in widescreen on DVD" because I actually own a copy of the original trilogy (pre SE) in widescreen VHS.

Post: #52124
Topic: Motti and dayv are missing
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/52124/action/topic#52124
Time: 5-Jun-2004 12:29 PM

It's a good thing Motti left me with the Kneecutter and Elbowblower. And to think I was just supposed to clean them. Now I've got some target practice.

Here Shimmy-shim-shim...

Bow, bitch.

Post: #52122
Topic: Harry Potter 3
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/52122/action/topic#52122
Time: 5-Jun-2004 12:27 PM

Yes, Yoda. Quite good the new Harry Potter is.

Post: #52043
Topic: Harry Potter 3
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/52043/action/topic#52043
Time: 4-Jun-2004 10:37 AM

Many people were surprised enough that Azkaban didn't get a PG-13 rating. I'm on the fence about whether it should have or not. But if this one warranted a PG, then the first two, by comparison, should have been rated G. It is darker and more violent. PG13... dunno. Higher rated than HP1 and HP2... definitely.

By the time HP5 comes along, none of our kid wizards will be virgins anymore. In HP7, they will be having Whomping Willow Sex Fests and the film will be NC-17.

Post: #52038
Topic: Motti and dayv are missing
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/52038/action/topic#52038
Time: 4-Jun-2004 8:44 AM

To make sure that what we get back is the original Motti and Dayv and not some "new and improved", super glossy, Stepford Wife-ish, alternate version of our beloved Manglers.

Post: #52032
Topic: Funniest Movie Ever
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/52032/action/topic#52032
Time: 4-Jun-2004 7:16 AM

I own it and I've got to see it again. Been quite a while. I don't think I've ever watched my DVD copy yet I wore my VHS down to nearly nothing. I did the same thing with Edward Scissorhands. Watched the VHS like there was no tomorrow but have yet to watch the DVD and I've owned that for nearly three years. Sad, eh?

Post: #52031
Topic: TV on DVD resurrected (kind of)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/52031/action/topic#52031
Time: 4-Jun-2004 7:14 AM

I'd rather not remember Gremlins 2, period.

Post: #52030
Topic: Catwoman
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/52030/action/topic#52030
Time: 4-Jun-2004 7:14 AM

Fincher started in music video? Which ones?

Post: #52029
Topic: Harry Potter 3
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/52029/action/topic#52029
Time: 4-Jun-2004 7:13 AM

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Originally posted by: Hal 9000
Harry Potter???

Isn't that for kids?

Ummm... no.

The books are quite unfortunately shelved in the young adults section despite being longer and more intense than many of the "adult" books I've read in my lifetime. The first two movies are rather youth skewed (thanks in large part to Chris Columbus' glossy treatment of them), but not this one.

Post: #52028
Topic: post-secondary education
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/52028/action/topic#52028
Time: 4-Jun-2004 7:11 AM

I was being serious, too. I thought it was near Banff for some reason. I had met a couple people from UGuelph several years back. Don't know anything about the school itself, though. Sorry.

Post: #52027
Topic: Motti and dayv are missing
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/52027/action/topic#52027
Time: 4-Jun-2004 7:10 AM

I'll start up www.originalmottidayv.com. Will you guys sign the petition?

Post: #52009
Topic: Funniest Movie Ever
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/52009/action/topic#52009
Time: 4-Jun-2004 4:54 AM

"Okay, now what do we do?"
"Well, we wait until nightfall and then you, me, Lancelot, and Robin climb out of the giant rabbit and... oh."

I know I didn't get those quotes right, but you all know what I was shooting for.

Post: #52007
Topic: post-secondary education
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/52007/action/topic#52007
Time: 4-Jun-2004 4:49 AM

Isn't that near Banff (sp?)?

Post: #52006
Topic: Motti and dayv are missing
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/52006/action/topic#52006
Time: 4-Jun-2004 4:48 AM

Quote
Originally posted by: Rebel Scumb
Perhaps they will return as Motti and Dayv the special editions, with new enhanced visual effects. Then they'll deny that the original versions even exist anymore

ROTFLMAO!!!

Post: #52005
Topic: Harry Potter 3
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/52005/action/topic#52005
Time: 4-Jun-2004 4:47 AM

Quote
Originally posted by: GundarkHunter
That's just WRONG! Besides, it would cause droputs in the soundtrack.

Killjoy.

Actually, seeing nude shots of Cameron Diaz might cause a dropout of my lunch. But that's just me. Not a Diaz fan.

Oh, and I really dug on HP3. Cuaron did a spectacular job and I would love to see him back for HP4 even though Newell is officially the director of it. Yes the film was much darker and grittier and, let me tell you, it works. The look and feel of Hogwarts and the surrounding territory is 100% different than the first two. The land is hilly and steep and even slightly uninviting and that's how my wife and I always imagined it. Everything has a creepiness to it which I would expect from a world of wizards and witches. And it makes all the CGI look that much better. The Quidditch match looks so much more realistic and believable. None of the CGI stands out like a sore thumb anymore.

Bravo Cuaron. You did a fantastic job.

Post: #52004
Topic: Hockey Talk
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/52004/action/topic#52004
Time: 4-Jun-2004 4:43 AM

So much for that new keyboard helping your typing skills, shimmy.

However, since you misspelled one word twice the same way, I assume you do not know how, so I'll attempt a correction here (and, no, this does not make me his official translator again)...

not "feness", but "finesse".