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BrainSushi

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#147501
Topic
What is your favourite reference to Star Wars films in other shows (TV and Film)?
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The new Family Guy DVD Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story has a great referrence.

Peter gets his own segment on the local news show where he simply rants about whatever bothers him. The segment is called "What Really Grinds My Gears."

At one point, he says:

Peter: "You know what really grinds my gears? When I can't find the droids I'm lookin' for!"

Cut to two fully uniformed stormtroopers, sitting in their living room, eating TV dinners and watching. One says:

Stormtrooper: "Yeah, I hate when that happens!"
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#77226
Topic
My 2 cents releasing the OT on DVD
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/77226/action/topic#77226
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I can't say that I wouldn't enjoy a Star Wars where I see all those matte lines and that blob underneath the speeder.

No, not everything in that movie may look realistic, but does CGI look anymore real? No. I don't care about matte lines, and I don't care about blobs. I certainly don't care about more storm troopers.

When I watch SW on VHS and I see that blob, it reminds me that erasing those wheels was actually a challenge in 1976. They had to put vaseline on the freaking lens. If that's not inventive, I don't know what is. Digitally removing the wheels sure as hell isn't.

I do want the original, unaltered versions of the SW trilogy to be released on DVD. I want to bask in the matte lines and blobs and every little thing. I don't want a single change made. Not one single effect needs to be "slightly improved" or "enhanced" in any way. The movies were perfectly fine the way they were. So what if all those little things will be more visible in the high resolution of DVD. That's how movies were made in 1976.

And I don't care how many facial expressions you can create on a computer, cgi Yoda looks no better than the cartoon Yoda on the Clone Wars cartoons. Puppet Yoda looks like an actual living thing.

Off topic, but has anybody seen that recent picture of General Grevious w/ his two guards on sw.com? It reaks of Buzz Lightyearness.
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#67307
Topic
Artists' rights
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/67307/action/topic#67307
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Hello all, I'm new here.

I signed this petition quite awhile back, then found it again when I first heard the films would be hitting DVD... and hey, Idiscovered this board, which I think is quite cool! Glad to know I'm not alone... I even got my girlfriend (a devout Star Wars hater, though she graciously bought me the DVDs for our anniversary) to sign the petition. I've registered to the forum a little while ago, just never bothered posting.

Anyway, I'd just like to express my overall disappointment, as many have, over the fact that we'll never get an official release of the original trilogy on DVD (according to Lucas at least). While I prefer the originals, without a doubt, I'm still able to watch these new DVDs and enjoy the films. I'm still getting the story and the adventure, with a little bit of altered things that I don't care for, but I can enjoy them for what they are... but, and I know this has been said before, I can't see a real point to any of these changes unles you've got something to compare them to eg. the films in their original, unaltered states.

This IS the first time I've seen all three Star Wars films in widescreen (at least, the first time I've watched them in widescreen knowing the difference between widescreen and fullscreen - I saw the ANH and ROTJ SE's in '97 when I was 9, not knowing at all what more I was seeing). While I can't deny that George Lucas has the right to do as he pleases with these films... I also feel that once any sort of art is made available to the public, it becomes theirs as well. No, artists don't make things for the public, they make art for themselves, but I feel that the artist gives their art up to the public. While it may be George Lucas' vision, we the fans own it as well. He gave us Star Wars with models, matte lines, and Sebastian Shaw... and now he owes us that. For him to just forget them is a horrible injustice to US, because without us, he wouldn't even be able to do what he's doing to the trilogy now. How he can simply say "Sorry you fell in love with an unfinished film," shrug it off and sleep at night, I have no idea.

My outrage not only comes from being a Star Wars fan, but as a filmmaker. I want to appreciate what special effects were like in '77, '80, and '83. With changes coninually being made, I can't. I can't appreciate the fact that bunch of guys got together and build models. I can't appreciate that they were able to erase a set of wheels by putting vaseline on the lens. I can't appreciate that you had no choice but to have black lines around your space ship. Turning to a 30-year-old movie to appreciate MODERN technology? That doesn't sit well with me at all.

And of course, I'm outraged that certain story elements have changed. Boba Fett an Aussie? Anakin's ghost looking like Hayden?! Obi-Wan said it himself... " From a certain point of view." From a certain point of view, these changes make perfect sense. From others (like mine), they don't.

Anyway, there's my rant of sorts.