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#104216
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UPCOMING DVDs
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/104216/action/topic#104216
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The first one I saw it on was The Virgin Suicides a year plus ago and I thought it was just an indie flick thing. But then I started seeing it on a bunch more. I hated them at first and was afraid they would start doing that on kid's movies (I can't imagine kids trying to tear into a movie case through those locks). However, they've grown on me. Especially since I no longer have to peel off those two wider labels. I think they'd even get rid of the top label if they could, but that's the identifier tag so people can see the name of the movie just looking at the top edge.
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#104214
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Close Wars cartoon - I'm sorry, but i thought this sucked
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/104214/action/topic#104214
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There are two potential reasons, but nothing made official...

One, the DVDs were pressed before the episodes aired on Toon Network so they would have to push back the release date to get them on there.

Two, more money. And more promotion of the third season. Seasons 1 & 2 came out relatively close together on TV. People who saw s1 could remember it well enough when s2 started. However, wasn't it almost a year before s3 came out? A little reminder of all that happened was a good idea. Hence the DVD. Plus they get more money because people will buy the first DVD and then have to buy the second. But, knowing Luca$, he will also subsequently release an edition with all three seasons spliced together contiguously, heretofore pissing off those of us who already bought s1.
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#104212
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I like the Special Editions ..... minus some scenes
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/104212/action/topic#104212
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Originally posted by: electrictroy
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Originally posted by: BosskAs for opinions being crammed down others' throats... you're the one that said "Nostalgia is nice. Progress is better." That's an opinion that you are offering up as gospel truth and trying to tell me that what I said was wrong.
Strawman argument (again). There you go, putting words into my mouth. I didn't say you were wrong. I was sharing my perspective (I liked old 8-bit games with upgraded 16-bit graphics... as long as the gameplay remains the same) in order to explain the subject of this thread - "I like the Special Editions ..... minus some scenes."

I didn't expect or require you to agree with me.

Also, anything under the words "Troy Heagy" is my opinion, not "gospel truth". That should have been obvious, without my telling you.

Friends?

Troy :-)


It sounded like you were shooting for complete accordance with your thoughts. That was just my perception as a reader. But, as we all know, the written word is one of the worst ways to try to convey a message when you can't simultaneously convey inflection, sarcasm, etc.

Yep, let's end it.

Friends.
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#104201
Topic
UPCOMING DVDs
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/104201/action/topic#104201
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Originally posted by: Luke Skywalker
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Originally posted by: Bossk
I hate when I buy a DVD and find that it has a tear in it that is the fault of the store where I bought it. And I also hate when the DVD insert cover is not lined up perfectly under the clear plastic protector and the stupid security stickers peel some of the coloration off the edge of the cover.


LMAO!!
holy shit i thought i was the only one that cared about that!!
i took back my Maximum Overdrive because that happened to it the other day... ironic no?

but your right about the sex in the city thing too Bossk...
maybe Seinfeld is planning to change the colour every 2 dvds...
doesnt make much sense to me either ??


If it's every two sets, that's not so bad. But somehow I don't see that happening.

Definitely ironic. I've never taken any back, but I have touched up the inserts with markers and whatnot.

Another terrible thing about DVD packaging is when they use those cardboard slip covers on the outside of the DVD case and they apply those practically-impossible-to-remove magnetic labels to them directly. Right on the cardboard and, usually, right on some key part of the movie's description. Annoys me to death.

But there is one nice thing. Those new DVD cases that have the two little locks on the edge opposite the spine. I know it's annoying to have to pop those open all the time. But when you consider the fact that the use of those two locks has eliminated use of two of the security stickers, I'll take it.
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#104198
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bad luck
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/104198/action/topic#104198
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Not like it was intentional. WaterPics are used both to clean teeth and clear auditory canals. The difference is the power setting. Much higher for teeth, much lower for ears. He never reset the thing which should have been the first thing he did. Blasted right through the wax in my brother's ear, tore open his eardrum, and shattered his cochlea.
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#104195
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I like the Special Editions ..... minus some scenes
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/104195/action/topic#104195
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Okay, I'll grant you that I said "realistic"... true. In my head, I was shooting more for motion and the explosions and the blasts and all that. I wasn't aiming for scientific integrity. I was just comparing what Lucas did to what had been done before him.

As for opinions being crammed down others' throats... you're the one that said "Nostalgia is nice. Progress is better." That's an opinion that you are offering up as gospel truth and trying to tell me that what I said was wrong. That my belief in the originals being better is nostalgia, but the SEs are better because they are "progress." Now who's trying to "verbally beat" somebody? You're the one that started the attack. I'm just defending my opinion which, apparently, I'm not allowed to have.
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#104158
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bad luck
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/104158/action/topic#104158
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A negligent doctor deafened my brother with a Teledyne WaterPic while trying to clean wax from his ear when he was four years old. We sued and we lost. Again, the insurance company and the doctor's lawyers weaseled around the system (Gundark, now you see why I give you hell about your chosen profession; the case should have been a lock and we still lost).
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#104157
Topic
UPCOMING DVDs
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/104157/action/topic#104157
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I hate when I buy a DVD and find that it has a tear in it that is the fault of the store where I bought it. And I also hate when the DVD insert cover is not lined up perfectly under the clear plastic protector and the stupid security stickers peel some of the coloration off the edge of the cover.
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#104156
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I like the Special Editions ..... minus some scenes
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/104156/action/topic#104156
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Originally posted by: electrictroy
(1) 2001 made in 1969 was more realistic (there are no sounds in space!).


If you're looking for realism, then why are you watching Star Wars?

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Originally posted by: electrictroy
(2) Although I enjoy playing old 8-bit games like Super Mario, given a choice, I'd rather play the 16-bit versions. Same Game. Better Looks.
The same applies to Star Wars. Why settle for the primitive model technology & black squares around the ships, when you can have the same movie, but with better looks & no squares?


Because it is what I grew up with. It is what is recognized by film organizations the world over as being the "mold breaker" in terms of scifi effects. Not the 1997 version. The 1977 version of Star Wars won an Oscar for its contributions to the art of film making. The 1997 version didn't win anything and likely wouldn't even if it was the first version of the film but released 20 years later. Other films had done the same thing and done it better. There was nothing special about the SE whatsoever.


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Originally posted by: electrictroy
Nostalgia is nice.
Progress is better.


Purely subjective. Don't expect everyone to buy into your opinion.


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Originally posted by: electrictroy
My only objections are when Lucas actually *changed the scene* like deleting the Yub-Yub Song I disagree with that. But where he left the scene intact, merely enhanced with CGI, I think it's good.


And guess what, to get your beloved "progress" you need to contend with Lucas' changes. Now you must make a decision... is progress worth putting up with GL's progressivist bullshit? I don't think so. I'll take my cel squares, thank you very much.
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#103999
Topic
UPCOMING DVDs
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/103999/action/topic#103999
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I didn't realize it was a different color. That sucks. It wouldn't be so bad if 1/2 and 3 were each different colors, but now we've got an unbalanced color collection. That's not cool.

Kinda like Sex and the City. The first season came out in a completely transparent box. Even the spine was transparent with reddish lettering. Then season two came out with a blue spine and (I think) white lettering. It seemed fine because it looked like all of them would be different but just similar enough. Then seasons 3-6 came out with the season one spine color scheme. Now season two sticks out like a sore thumb. And to add salt to the wound, they released season 2 with the transparent spine later, but only if you bought all the seasons together in a multipack. Bastards. I wasn't going to buy them all again just to get that one.
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#103997
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Who has caved?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/103997/action/topic#103997
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That quote is sweet!!! I think I'm gonna hijack it and put it on my Website (which is admin'd using a Mac).

I have a PC at work that does pretty well. If I personally owned a PC, I would want one like it. But my other work computer is a G5 dual processor PowerMac running Jaguar (we haven't upgraded all our work computers to Panther yet and we won't likely go for Tiger at all until Adobe and Quark upgrade their software to operate on it -- I'm a Web developer and graphic designer).

At home, I have a G3 PowerBook Lombard that I've owned for six years and just upgraded to Panther from OS 9.2. The thing works faster and more reliably than it ever has in the past. I also have a G3 iBook (the white one) that I shanghai'd from work. The iBook has less memory, but we use it because it has Office on it. I haven't gotten a copy of Office for my Lombard yet. Still working with our IT department on a seat license for that. Again, with both of those, I will wait until Adobe and Quark upgrade their software before updating to Tiger.

I'm a longtime PC user (since early 90s), but made the switch in '99 and have no desire to go back.

Once you go Mac, there's no goin' back.
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#103996
Topic
I like the Special Editions ..... minus some scenes
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/103996/action/topic#103996
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Originally posted by: electrictroy
Also, what do you mean the original didn't need fixing? I already pointed out the black matting squares around all the ships. Even in the 1980s when I was a kid, I thought that looked dumb. That's at least ONE thing that needed to be fixed.

troy


Color me crazy, but I dig on those squares. It marks the limitations of the available technology, yes. But it reminds you of all that Lucas had to overcome in making those movies. That was how he had to make it look like something was flying and it was great. Nobody had ever bothered to make something so realistic before.

I get a strange sense of comfort seeing those squares around the TIE Fighters as they attack the Falcon.
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#103995
Topic
How Many Times Have You Seen The Original Trilogy?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/103995/action/topic#103995
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I saw each of the OT movies in theaters at least once. I was too young to be able to go on my own or I would have gone more often. Saw ANH and ESB SE in theaters once each but never saw ROTJ SE in theaters.

My parents had some kind of copy of the OT on VHS when I was a kid. Dunno where they taped it from as I never remember it being on TV. Then, in 1990, I got my first official VHS box set and watched it to death (it is still a good copy, though). Got the Faces THX Widescreen set in 1995 and still watch it. Got the SE VHS Widescreen in 1997-98 and watched them once each. Now I have DVD rips of the Faces LDs that I've watched a couple times each.

PT, I saw TPM once in theaters and never rented it or saw it on TV. AOTC I saw once in theaters and have seen maybe another three or four times on cable. Never rented though. And I don't own either on DVD.