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#267917
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Which one of there are you?
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Whoa, I feel sorry for the turtle. He is the only respectable one of the bunch. If I were him I would be afraid I would get eaten by one of those preditoral animals. High school kids don't really look like that these days do they? What a bunch of freaks. Poor confused saps. Makes me wonder how world will look in 20 years when these guys will be selling insurance and controlling the business world. I am going to make damn sure all my kids are geeks.
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#267816
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Serenity
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/267816/action/topic#267816
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
I don't think Joss and crew were alloted the biggest budget for the film since the series got cancelled so fast, but I really don't think it detracts from the movie. Eh, that's just me. I've seen about three full episodes of the show and the film, and that's it.


Oh, you should really try to get your hands on the DVDs. If you liked the film, I am sure you would really like the show.
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#267769
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Info: Empire dubbed with Radio Drama audio... (on youtube)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/267769/action/topic#267769
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Originally posted by: Nanner Split
Man, whoever does the voice of Vader in that radio show is terrible.



Yeah, I know. I love those radio dramas! I love to listen to them and imagine none of the movies ever existed, and imagine everything anew. They are very well done and have a very archaic feel to them. Like they are an authentic old radio serial. But Darth's voice has never quite sad right. I guess it is on par with old radio villains, but I really wish they had gotten JEJ or some black guy with a deep voice to make it closer to the movies. The only other voice that sticks out to me is Han's. The rest are prefect! Some (Luke, Threepio) for obvious reasons. How cool would it be if they would make special editions with Jame Earl Jones and Harrison Ford re-recording the dialogue for their characters.
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#267761
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Serenity
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/267761/action/topic#267761
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Originally posted by: Windexed
Originally posted by: Wookie Wedgie
Joss shouldn't have directed. Really needed someone who was more a "cinema" caliber.



I agree completely. I really like Serenity, but it did look and feel somewhat amateurish and/or tv show-ish.


I am not really sure how I would have felt leaving the theater, had I seen it in the theater, if I had not seen the show first. Somebody said they saw the movie first and loved it. I am not so sure I would have. I guess it kind of has a sequel feel to it, if I knew nothing about Firefly, and I were flipping through channels and saw this thing on the Sci-fi channel, I think I'd probably guess that it was the second half of some two part mini series.
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#267760
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This Movie must be stopped!!!!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/267760/action/topic#267760
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Originally posted by: Krycek87
Originally posted by: ricarleite
Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
What if it turns out good? Weta did do the CGI in LOTR after all.


The point is that they'll dumb down the plot for the stupid western audiences, and use western actors to do the characters.

Good thing is, more Eva movies are coming along this year, 3 movies that re-tell the original series story, and a fourth one with new material... And hopefully this WETA project will remain on pre-production limbo forever.


This will never be made, look at the Dragonball Z movie, never made, as is should be! I
WOULD EAT MY EVANGELION RENEWAL DVDS IF THE EVANGELION MOVIE IS EVER MADE!

Now for the animated ones coming out in the next two years, very much looking forward to!


If the EVA movie does by some chance get made, when you eat your DVDs can you make sure you record it and post it on Youtube for us all to see? That would be awesome to watch!

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#267667
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Concerning Fan Edits
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/267667/action/topic#267667
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Originally posted by: TheCassidy
I agree in principal with Chaltab and C3PX, but I maintain that if you think it can be done better, do it better. I'd love to see someone inspired by a fanedit to create their own version, "improving" in those areas they found lacking.


I think that happens all the time here. Probably most of the edits done around here were greatly inspired by Magfan the Phantom Editor before him. I have my own versions of the PT I have made, I took ideas from the other edits I have seen and put them all together into my own personal edits. In my version of the Phantom Menace I have the whole pod race sequence clocking in at just under five minutes, and I worked it so there is no submarine scene at all. I took a lot of my Jar Jar cuts from Magfan, but I didn't bother with subs. Over all mine are much more conservative edits, leaving as much of the original feel to the films as possible, while removing the parts I find unbearable. However, I don't claim I can do better, just more to my own liking.

But it is a very interesting to think that there is a good chance everybody here has a very different version of the PT that they watch.

So, has anybody seen Kirkless Generations? I have seen a few CBB edits and have so far not been impressed with them. They do impressive editing work, but story wise I feel they are too far removed from the source material for the film (War of the Worlds is a good example) and are just looking to make something new and interesting out of a film they didn't enjoy. I was wondering if it is worth my effort to obtain Kirkless? I always thought it was a lame way to pass the torch to the TNG crew, and felt it would have worked better without teaming Picard and Kirk together, but I think the movie is pretty cool otherwise (for an ST movie, that is). Were they able to pull it off fairly seamlessly? I really don't see how they could make the fight scene at the end work too well. Any outstanding reviews for this thing?
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#267633
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Concerning Fan Edits
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/267633/action/topic#267633
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I think if you are going to throw a work out to the public (or even to close friends), you should always be ready to recieve some critism. Whether you are a pre or an amateur. I agree, it is hurtful to go and bash the hell out of somebodies work because you don't like it. I also agree constructive critism is a very good thing, but artist should always understand that they can't please everybody. One diffculty with giving constructive critism is the risk of giving it to somebody who will take offense.

I wasn't trying to bash faneditor with this thread. It is just something I used to think was a revolutionary idea, but now that I am seeing it in action it rarely makes sense. ADM's stuff is always surefire. I haven't seen one of his that doesn't make sense. I know I mentioned Pearl Harbor as not being quite right, but I also said the trouble was with the source material, not the editor. So far I have only heard people saying either that fan editing is the greatest thing in the world, or that it should be illegal. I was curious is anybody else felt the way I do. I think one thing they suffer from, is being in the hands of two small a group. When a movie is originally cut it passes the eyes of a good number of people, which would obviously cut down on bias and a lot of awkwardnesses. When you have just one or a few people editing, and nobody else seeing it until it comes out, you run the risk of a lot more awkward scenes, and you can fall victim to your own creative bias. The biggest problem I see with some fan edits, is that they take a scene that they want to fix, and once they fix it the proceed to tinker too much and push it to far making the film feel much less professional. George comes to mind when I think of this, there were some things he didn't like about his films personally, and when he went back to fix the things that needed fixing (matt lines, orange blobs, gay Ewok song, etc.) he pushed it over the top and over tinkered. Something may be too bland and need a dash or two of salt, but when you go an dump the whole shaker on it, you'll find your food was better when it was bland.
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#267623
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Horriffic Violence Theater
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/267623/action/topic#267623
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Originally posted by: Tiptup
Hah, I liked it. I gave it a rating of 3 stars.


When i think back about my violent drawings and comics, I had many. (I still draw violent things from time to time.) One of the more memorable episodes involved a number of images depicting Minnie Mouse being tortured, dismembered, and generally killed. (If you ever played "Mickey Mousecapades" for the NES then you'll know why.) I actually remember my father sitting me down and telling me that violence against women is wrong after he saw them. It was funny.


I played that game and beat it, but it has been so long. Is it because she is so annoying and always gets stuck making it really hard to get through a level, or because of some scene in the game?
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#267572
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Horriffic Violence Theater
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/267572/action/topic#267572
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This reminds me of a comic series I used to draw when I was about 9 or so. My first issue started with a dog, named spot, running into the open door of a 10 story apartment building. Each panel showed him running past the windows on each floor until he reached the top and jumped out the open window. Then the comic followed his journey back down past each floor until he hit the ground and splattered everywhere. It was inspired by my cousin's dog doing exactly the same thing (only in a three story house), after that the dog had violent spasms for a few days, then it died. He he, stupid dog. I think I made a few other issues, all depicting dogs dying terrible deaths on the account of their stupidity. If I had had a computer and something like flash when I was 9, I bet I would have a whole folder of overly violent cartoons. Alas, my mom threw away all my comics the first chance she got and all my wonderful work is lost.
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#267537
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//Star Wars Begins\\: HD Version Now on Vimeo
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/267537/action/topic#267537
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Originally posted by: Wookie_Monster
"Starting Star Wars" has a nice ring to it.

Starting Star Wars
Building Empire
Returning to Jedi

or maybe

"From Starkiller to Star Wars" but that doesn't go with the other titles as well?

WM


Yes, I really like "Starting Star Wars". It fits with the other two, and it is not redundant. Another reason I think it is perfectly fitting is that this movie was the start of the whole Star Wars phenomenon.

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#267500
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Funny Pic:
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/267500/action/topic#267500
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Originally posted by: Tiptup
I saw that about a month or two ago. Very funny if its real. But the resemblance is so close that I almost wonder if it's a hoaxed image.


Could be and very likely is. But what you don't know can't hurt you (B/S!) so from that standpoint to us it is real and it feels good to laugh. Thanks WESHALLPRESERVE.
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#267498
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General Harry Potter Discussion
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/267498/action/topic#267498
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Originally posted by: Tiptup
Originally posted by: C3PX
Hmm, I looked into the whole Bilbo and dragon thing a little more. Actually that whole sequence is very similar to parts of Beowulf. Tolkien borrowed plenty of things from plenty of different myths and legends. I think he would actually be proud that new writers and borrowing from the legend he wrote.


I agree with you that Tolkien's world is beyond Rowling's, but what scene in the first Harry Potter book mimics Bilbo riddling with Smaug? I can't think of one.


Skyjedi2005 wrote: "In all fainess i think J.K. Rowling is a hack i mean I read some of the first book and the writing was fairly juvenile and derivative and ripped off of tolkien very badly in some obvious places. I think it's funny because I saw an interview with her on t.v. where she does even try to disguise that she ripped off tolkien heck she said she read those when she was a kid. the fact that she intirely plagiarised one of my favorite moments in the hobbit the one between bilbo and smaug the dragon in the first potter book told me this book belonged thrown in the trash."

I search google but did not find anything specific here. All I found were a few web pages pointing out that she stole the idea of wizards, goblins, dragons, giant spiders, and countless other things from Tolkien. I would also like to point out that I believe she stole the word "the" and "and" from Tolkien as well. You will find that Tolkien used these two words quite often and she plegerizes him by using them quite often as well. Seriously though, I am not sure where the exchage between Bilbo and the dragon was ripped off in HP, but even if she did it is fair enough. As I mentioned before, I fail to see anything so spectacular about her writing, but I don't see any reason she should be considered a hack.
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#267483
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Concerning Fan Edits
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/267483/action/topic#267483
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Originally posted by: Nanner Split
MagnoliaFan's "Balance of the Force" and "The Clone Wars", which are edits of TPM and AOTC respectively, were my introduction to fan-edits, and they're both fantastic. I'd also keep my eye on Trooperman's "Shroud of the Dark Side" if I were you; it hasn't been released yet (I think the current deadline is March, but TM says he won't release it any later than May 25) but it looks to be the most ambitious fan edit to date.


Plus I provided a voice for it.


Yes, I have kept up on Trooperman's AOTC edit since the beginning. I think that was before I even registered. I remember thinking he was some silly kid who thought he could redub the film with a PC mic. After seeing his first screens of the naboo scene where he color corrected it to be night time, I decided he wasn't as silly as I thought. I am definately looking forward to it.

I never liked Magnolia Fans edits that much. The whole changing the story so much never really seemed to work that well, and the dubbing of Jar Jar was a bit too extreme. Make him tolerable, don't try to make him a badass, it is a step too far in making him something he was never intended to be. The reversed language has always bothered me.

It is interesting to see how many people feel exactly as I do about fanedits. I feel exactly like Reverend Beastly. A lot of films didn't make sense for an edit in the first place. War of the Worlds could have benefited, but instead they pushed it further from the book, even going as far as to remove the few references to the book the movie had.

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#267446
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A Song of Ice and Fire
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/267446/action/topic#267446
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Originally posted by: JediSage
LOL...I remember writing just before ROTS came out that I had a vision of him riding a bomb out the back of a C-14. The bomb had Episode III written on it, and he was slapping it with his cowboy hat going "Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-Haaaaaaaaaaaaaw!! Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-Haaaaaaaaaaaaaw!!" all the way down, ala Dr. Strangelove.


That image is somehow really easy to summon to my mind. I don't even have to use my imagination. The only difference from the scene you described was that in my mind the bomb is plummeting into a massive mountain of money.

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#267445
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Need help finding rare vintage handhelds.
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/267445/action/topic#267445
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Number20:"Today, however, its hard to find anything there. Too many collectors/e-bayers now I guess. Good luck!"

Stupid ebay!


Yes, Byakko, to redundantly pretty much repeat what Number20 has already said, somebody who posts this thing on ebay might just be cleaning out the attack and want to get rid of it not knowing what it is, they could list it as something like "Handheld Game thingy". Good luck.
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#267444
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Concerning Fan Edits
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/267444/action/topic#267444
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As soon as the SW trilogy was released to VCD, I bought it and made my first fan edits by using tmpeg to paste the two halves back together and cutting out as much SE material as I could without it being noticeable. I even searched the internet for a wave file of Luke's line "You're sure lucky you don't taste very good" and edited it back into the soundtrack of ESB. I am not sure if DVD burners were commercially available yet, if they were they would have been way above my budget and I didn't even consider buying one. I just kept the three films saved on my laptops hd and would plug it into my TV to watch them. I never even thought about trying to fix The Phantom Menace by editing it.

When I first heard of the Phantom Edit, I was skeptical but excited at the possibility. I think The Phantom Edit kind of introduced the idea of personally editing movies, and I think in the case of the SW PT trilogy there was nothing to lose. Since this time I have been enthusiastic about fan edits, but my high speed internet has torrents blocked.

Since FE began putting them on rapidshare I have taken the effort to grab a few. So far every single one has been a big disappointment. The best work I have seen by far is ADM's Pearl Harbor edit, but honestly there are parts of it that don't work. This is by no fault of ADM, but the fact is the actors are out of sync with the edit. I guess you work with what you have, and it is still a vast improvement above the original. Pearl Harbor is a movie I see justified to edit, it had some great material, and is about a subject that is very close to many people's hearts. Extended editions are also sometimes really cool. But sometimes it feels that they are just edited to be edited. Not even to make them flow better or to bring them closer to their source material, but rather to create a whole different story that takes it even further away from the source material. Does anybody else feel this way? My opinion of fan editing dropped from feeling it had great potential to improve movies with slight flaws, to feeling like it is just a bunch of kids seeing how much they can change the story of one movie to be something completely different. Anybody want to mention any outstanding edits they feel are definitely worthy of downloading? Or their general opinion on them? (Not trying to rag on anyones edits, just something that was on my mind and I thought I would post it to see if others felt likewise).
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#267439
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Close Encounters - edit? (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/267439/action/topic#267439
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Originally posted by: Bahax
Originally posted by: heinzjuergen
Originally posted by: Bahax
Yup, I've done it, from the Criterion 1990 laserdisc.


Really? Woohoo! Can I get it anywhere?


I just watched it again, and it looks like shite. It was one of my first laser transfers, before I knew how to fix dot-crawl and do inverse telecine and other stuff.
Damn! Not something I would post anywhere. I did a nice job of stitching it all together, too!
I need a drink.


Do you have any interest in re-transferring it from LD and stitching it together again, then posting it? If not, your current version can't be that bad, can it? There wouldn't have been any quality lose since the time you edited it back together, at the time you did it you must have found it acceptable enough. I think a few of us would still be pretty interested in this either way.
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#267437
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Idea: Revenge of the Sith: Extended Edition
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/267437/action/topic#267437
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Originally posted by: Arnie.d
It's without a doubt a deliberate creative decision
Looks like Obi-wan's Mini-me force ghost (from Ep II) sneaking up on Anakin.


Thanks Arnie! I am at work right now and as I read that I started laughing like an idiot. I hate it when people ask you what you are laughing at. They wouldn't find it funny if I told them. Hmm, I should memorize some hysterical dirty joke and have it on hand to tell them if something like this happens again.

My second guess about that thing would be that it is the ghost of Sir Alec Guinness. The poor man's spirit is trapped in a personal hell where he has to spend eternity on the set of Lucas' movies. I would say it is possible he haunts Skywalker Ranch by choice, but I know he would have better things to do with eternity than waste his time like that.
It must be awful, just imagine those walls of endless green screen his poor tormented spirit has to bounce around in all day. The mere thought makes me shudder!