Davis

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Post: #237019
Topic: Info Wanted: Do I Have The Best OT Preservation DVDs out there?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/237019/action/topic#237019
Time: 20-Aug-2006 1:59 PM

Originally posted by: Duke of Crydee

Originally posted by: Davis
No, because it's not true to the original. There are shots on that disc that were modified for the 2004 SE, and they weren't replaced with the original video.

According to the people that released it on MySpleen, all of the Special Edition shots in all 3 movies were deleted. Replaced with the original video from the LD rips.

They're wrong. All of the SE shots were not deleted. I'm sure others can provide you with examples. The most glaring is an SE shot in the Battle of Yavin.

Originally posted by: Duke of Crydee

Originally posted by: Davis
So I'd say no- pick up the official DVD for $18 next month, which contains the actual original movie.

Now this comment I can't wrap my head around. First of all the OT isn't going to be $18 next month. That's just for 1 of them. So you're looking at over $50 for the entire OT, since Lucas is forcing you to buy the SE versions as well. On top of that, the video quality has been confirmed by LucasFilms themselves as being no better than anything you can find from what has been released here. No thanks.

Sorry I was wrong about the price- I thought you were just talking about Star Wars. But your comment about the video quality is patently untrue. The September DVD's will blow the other preservations out of the water, except for the XO project. Possibly.

Post: #237013
Topic: Info: Original Trilogy in HD screening this November!!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/237013/action/topic#237013
Time: 20-Aug-2006 1:53 PM

But what good would that be if your final project is in DVD format? You have to compress it anyway.

Post: #237008
Topic: Info Wanted: Do I Have The Best OT Preservation DVDs out there?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/237008/action/topic#237008
Time: 20-Aug-2006 1:41 PM

No, because it's not true to the original. There are shots on that disc that were modified for the 2004 SE, and they weren't replaced with the original video. And the colors are screwed up. And the encoding is pretty lousy (I don't know about Empire and Jedi, though).

So I'd say no- pick up the official DVD for $18 next month, which contains the actual original movie.

Post: #236806
Topic: Info Wanted: Did anyone do a preservation of the 'Behind the Magic' DVD?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/236806/action/topic#236806
Time: 19-Aug-2006 11:44 AM — Edited 8-Jul-2020 6:33 PM

I was just wondering if anyone did this- put all of the stuff on the 2-disc Behind the Magic set onto a DVD, with the DVD menus exactly the same as on the CD’s. If not, that would be an awesome project for someone smarter than I am

It would probably take too much time, though. There’d be so much involved.

Post: #236213
Topic: The Film Industry
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/236213/action/topic#236213
Time: 17-Aug-2006 1:50 PM

Which is really a shame. Relegated by who? How does one become the person that relegates? Politics? Being in with the right people?

I don't think they realize how many more people would come to the movies if film actually became an art form again.

Post: #236207
Topic: The Film Industry
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/236207/action/topic#236207
Time: 17-Aug-2006 1:33 PM

I thought this would be a good topic for discussion:

How would a film director get into the industry, and somehow get into a position where he's in complete control of what he's doing (cinematography, music, and so forth) and actually start making great movies again. I know that popular taste has changed and all, and that movies have been seriously dumbed down lately. But how do you get into the position to make something radically different?

I'm talking about Alfred Hitchcock/ 70's Spielberg type stuff. Stuff that's indisputably great without resorting to popular taste or stupidity. Is it even possible to make movies like this any more? I think we're due for a renaissance.

Post: #236203
Topic: The creation of the Star Wars logo
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/236203/action/topic#236203
Time: 17-Aug-2006 1:23 PM

Link

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:7s_hMBq3Wx5NVM:http://www.macdesktops.net/data/522/4197starwarslogo.jpg

I thought this was really interesting. No computer or anything- just a pencil, an eraser, a ruler, and that type of thing. This woman didn't even appear in the ending credits!

Post: #235714
Topic: Star Wars CD Cover Art Thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/235714/action/topic#235714
Time: 16-Aug-2006 10:21 AM

Thanks so much man!

That's just what I had in mind. Like you said, hopefully others will make a few other covers sized for jewel cases.

Post: #235366
Topic: Star Wars CD Cover Art Thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/235366/action/topic#235366
Time: 15-Aug-2006 12:43 PM

YouSendIt sounds great.

Post: #235156
Topic: Star Wars CD Cover Art Thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/235156/action/topic#235156
Time: 14-Aug-2006 6:13 PM

Done! This is great news. I'm so glad that this exists.

Post: #234860
Topic: Star Wars CD Cover Art Thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/234860/action/topic#234860
Time: 13-Aug-2006 8:05 PM

Originally posted by: klokwerk
I'm not sure of the username but I know there were some CD cover cases posted either in the first cover art torrent or possibly just in the Star Wars DVD cover thread. I think the guy had done a generic set (ie. could be used with any preservation effort or even the retail discs), a set for the splitscreen trilogy and one for Deleted Magic. The generic ones imitated the style of the crawls, with yellow text on a black starry background. They were pretty cool. Have a look in the cover art thread and the torrent and if you can't find 'em within the next few days I'll try and find them on my discs and upload them for you.

Cool- that sounds exactly like what I'm looking for. thanks!

Post: #234405
Topic: Star Wars CD Cover Art Thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/234405/action/topic#234405
Time: 12-Aug-2006 12:00 PM

I was just curious about something- has anyone made any covers for any of the projects and fan edits that are out there- for CD cases instead of the full-blown DVD cases? For someone with a lot of discs and not as much room, this would be great and it'd conserve a lot more space. I'm looking specifically for covers for the split-screen trilogy, MagnoliaFan edits, ADigitalMan edits, and Deleted Magic.

I just wondered if this had ocurred to anyone else, or if anyone else had a need for this. I mean, the full blown DVD covers are nice, but you have to buy cases, buy the photo paper, etc. And it takes a lot of ink as well.

Thanks!

Post: #234395
Topic: What did the Prequel Trilogy need?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/234395/action/topic#234395
Time: 12-Aug-2006 11:05 AM

There must be more out there who agree with us! Hopefully they're not all under the age of ten!

No, I agree as well. In retrospect, TPM is a much better and more cohesive movie than II and III. It just went downhill from there.

Post: #233718
Topic: 9/11 - The Movie
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/233718/action/topic#233718
Time: 9-Aug-2006 5:47 PM

Too bad the film probably can't/won't show this as being the staged hoax that it really was.

How was 9/11 a staged hoax, pray tell?

Post: #233226
Topic: Help: looking for... The 1977 Bootleg
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/233226/action/topic#233226
Time: 8-Aug-2006 10:44 AM

Ingosucks is in the wrong. So is Moth3r for overreacting and using the F word on a 12 yr. old kid. Calm down a bit, huh?

Post: #232984
Topic: 5/25/77 A fan film idea...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/232984/action/topic#232984
Time: 7-Aug-2006 9:01 AM

Another fan film idea I've always thought would be hilarious is "Citizen Lucas", a movie about Lucas' rise to power and his subsequent plunge into lousiness...

Post: #232537
Topic: Idea: My weird idea for a hybrid OT project
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/232537/action/topic#232537
Time: 5-Aug-2006 11:28 AM

Rather than using the SE laserdiscs, why not use the German digital broadcast of the SE trilogy? It had exceptional quality and the colors (of the unaltered sections) were perfect and true to the original.

I don't know why someone hasn't done a "reinventing wheel" NTSC version of the digital '97 SE. That could be so, so valuable...

Post: #232068
Topic: Why LFL is actually cool (I know we need some reasons right now)...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/232068/action/topic#232068
Time: 3-Aug-2006 9:26 PM

i bought the Behind the Magic set, and it was one of the best purchases I ever made. I was fascinated with the cantina sequence from the lost cut, Greedo with a British accent, etc.

Unfortunately, for some reason it doesn't play on my machine ever since we switched to XP. Did anyone do a fan preservation of this? Replicating all the menus and everything?

This would make an INCREDIBLE fan preservation disc.

Post: #231930
Topic: Original Trilogy DVD Article in Total Film
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/231930/action/topic#231930
Time: 3-Aug-2006 2:11 PM

person they adore and worship, who made the original film in the first place, says "This is the way it was meant to be..." And then they can't cope with it.

Idiot.

Post: #231756
Topic: Saber fighting as kids....
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/231756/action/topic#231756
Time: 2-Aug-2006 10:09 PM

Oh yeah! I remember my brother always wanting a blue lightsaber, which I don't think they made at the time.

Post: #231742
Topic: Saber fighting as kids....
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/231742/action/topic#231742
Time: 2-Aug-2006 9:45 PM

I thought it'd be cool to have a thread to find out... how many of you guys played with those Hasbro lightsabers they used to make, when you were kids (if you're that young).

I used to duel constantly with my brother (and friends occasionally), sometimes choreographing it and sometimes not. My brother would always provide the lightsaber noises

Post: #229376
Topic: The "original crawl" on the new DVD is NOT the original crawl! Screenshot inside!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/229376/action/topic#229376
Time: 26-Jul-2006 9:32 AM

Originally posted by: boris

Originally posted by: zombie84
Okay just saw the trailer for the OOT DVD. They showed a clip of the new DVD "original crawl". I was looking to see if it was truely the original crawl, if it was formatted correctly. Mysetriously, the clip on the trailer cuts off just as it is about the get to the first line formatted, which is the third line in. Uh oh. What are they hiding?

Then I took a closer look at the screenshot. "The Star Wars logo looks funny--shouldn't it have receeded by now??"

Sure enough, i took a look at the Empire of Dreams original crawl footage--it is not the same.

THE UPCOMING OOT DVD CRAWL IS JUST A PHOTOSHOPED VERSION OF THE EPISODE IV CRAWL. And, 1. how do you know the empire of dreams has the original version? 2. How do you know that there weren't 3 slightly differently formatted crawls for the 3 theatrical versions? Did you know that when creating the opening crawl it would have been composited together? Therefore isn't it reasonable to assume that they would do this composite each time they made a theatrical master? And as they had to make 3 different masters, there could be 3 slightly different versions? And so in doing so isn't it reasonable to think that in some instances the SW logo will be more faded faster then in other instances?

There is no solid evidence that this is a recreated crawl. Also the percieved difference could be due a simple difference in cropping (though by looking at the stars it does appear this is not the case)
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Stop jumping to early conclusions and complaining about every grain.

No offense, but you don't know what the hell you're talking about. The Star Wars logo in '77 wasn't "more faded faster" in one release as opposed to others. The 3 theatrical versions were exactly the same in terms of video.

And we're not talking about a "simple difference in cropping".

Therefore isn't it reasonable to assume that they would do this composite each time they made a theatrical master?

Absolutely not. You really shouldn't assume...

Post: #228210
Topic: Vertigo mono track (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/228210/action/topic#228210
Time: 22-Jul-2006 5:49 PM — Edited 12-Aug-2020 7:44 AM

I’m a big, big fan of the movie “Vertigo”. And I got this DVD after it came out: Vertigo

This release had a new audio remix, with new, loud sound effects. It wasn’t the movie Hitchcock made, however similar. Then I find out that they finally released it with the mono track, but it’s packaged in an $85 dollar set (Masterpiece Collection), and most of the movies in it are already in my collection. I already bought the movie, anyway.

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Post: #227717
Topic: Pirates of the Caribbean Two
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/227717/action/topic#227717
Time: 20-Jul-2006 5:52 PM

I have to go against the crowd on this one, and say that I thought POTC II was a complete dud. They missed everything that was great about the first one- even Depp's performance felt canned somehow. The whole CG Davy Jones thing was silly, especially the CG hammerhead guy. The whole thing with the heart was ridiculous. There wasn't much of a plot, and it seemed like it was playing down to 11 year olds this time around. There was no subtlety whatsoever of the first film. No sense of pacing at all; it dragged and dragged. I couldn't understand a word the fortune-teller was saying. And it was just mindless CGI and action without any reason or suspense.

The first one was pretty good, but POTC II made it look like Raiders of the Lost Ark. I for one was very disappointed.

Post: #226513
Topic: new book on a new hope coming in september
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/226513/action/topic#226513
Time: 15-Jul-2006 12:07 PM

What I heard is that Kershner not working on ROTJ was a mutual decision because Lucas wanted more control over the movies, and Kershner was displeased with the lack of freedom as a director on Empire.

And yes, I also heard Lucas was irritated with Kershner going over-budget.

Where is that quote where Lucas says something like, Kershner went in a different direction than I wanted, or that he ruined his movie. It's not really a well-known quote, but I remember it...