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#235947
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A Question to the Older Members
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Wow, it seems even in this thread there are a wide range of repsonses. I said I never saw the garbage mattes until the '04 DVDs. Others say they first noticed them on the '95 Faces set, which is my only copy of the original version, and on which I've never seen garbage mattes. Some say they were visible in theatres. Some say they weren't. some say they were more visible in Empire. I say they're much less noticeable in my DVDs. I guess it goes to different film and TV setups that cause so many differing opinions.

And I don't necessarily mind them. I don't want any type of corrections done. I mean, these kinds of things should have been the kinds of things fixed for a special edition if a special edition had to be done, which I don't believe it should have been. But otherwise, I want all the "mistakes" including uncolored lightsabers, vaseline on the lens, matte lines, et al!

But thanks for the response guys. Keep 'em coming!
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#235882
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General Batman Talk
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/235882/action/topic#235882
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Originally posted by: ADigitalMan
In the Burton/Schumaker films, the Catwoman story is really the only one that was filmed with taste and an appreciation of the craft. Not being a comic book guy, I don't know how far that strayed from the source, but I always liked how it was handled on film. The Penguin's treatment kinda ruined that film, but the entire Catwoman plot has made it my favorite of the films in that era.

However, the entire series became dead to me after Batman Begins. Nolan made me finally able to forget four films that were all too damn imperfect and replace them with something no less than perfect. I positively can't wait for TDK, though if Phillipe joins, I may return to my usual skepticism.


Just out of curiosity, what problems did you have with The Penguin and the rest of the Burton movies aside from Catwoman?
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#235879
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A Question to the Older Members
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/235879/action/topic#235879
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As most of you know by now, I'm relatively young in the grand scheme of Star Wars... er, sorry, the epic scope of Star Wars, being born nine years after Star Wars was first released. I was a fan for a little over a year before the special editions came out (but it seems like so much longer... but maybe that's because the SEs never replaced the originals for me, and I still watched the originals much more frequently). But whatever "mistakes" there were in scenes or special effects never bothered me. It wasn't until the 2004 release that I ever noticed the garbage mattes around TIE fighters in the first movie. Matte lines were obviously always there, but I'd never seen garbage mattes until then. Now I've gotten differing opinions on this before, so I figured I'd start a thread about this. This one goes out to guys like CO, Anchorhead, Obi Jeewhyen, and anybody else who saw Star Wars in theatres. Did the DVD technology finally present a clear enough image so that these were visible, or was this another example of the crappy color correction for this set? In other words, were garbage mattes visible in theatres?
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#235875
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George Lucas and Ed Wood OR The Alignment of the Stars
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/235875/action/topic#235875
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Originally posted by: Mielr
Maybe the star wars budget wasn't as much as GL would have liked, but I think it was pretty decent. They had enough $ to shoot in Tunisia, to build some fantastic sets on the soundstages in England, to hire some great talents- John Williams, Gil Taylor, Ralph McQuarrie, etc., so.......


Yeah, like I said, Lucas had major studio backing by an amazing chance. It was pretty low-budget, but if Ladd hadn't accepted him, he might not have gotten that much money and might have had to make his movie Ed Wood style.

And SKot, I definitely agree.
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#235874
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So Who Killed Palpatine, Anyway? (This thread is made from 100% post-poster recycled bandwidth)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/235874/action/topic#235874
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Anakin's 'death' upon becoming Darth Vader is a metaphor. He didn't litterally become a new person, but everything he once cared about no longer mattered.


Yeah, but George takes it too literally, especially in the apparent fact that "Anakin" couldn't come back from the dead, i.e. being redeemed, since the first dead Anakin is now what appears at the end rather than the second dead Anakin. You know, there are just too many freakin' dead Anakins nowadays.
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#235789
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George Lucas and Ed Wood OR The Alignment of the Stars
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/235789/action/topic#235789
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Yeah, I would love to know how accurate the movie was. I'd love to read the book it was based off of, since it has a lot of interviews with the people involved. I'd like to think that the movie was (for the most part) accurate but just viewed through the same rose-colored glasses that you say the real Ed Wood saw through. I mean, I see a lot that could have been real and true to the real character but shown in a comedic and sympathetic light.

But interesting opinion about the budget, though. I don't know. It would have been interesting to see what Wood could have/would have done with a decent budget. Would he have made 50 low-budget movies, or did he only make low-budget movies because no one would give him a decent amount of money?

And we all know that George claimed the prequels would be low-budget movies, but look where they went. I mean, if you have those kind of resources, would you be able to keep yourself from going overboard?
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#235646
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favorite songs
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/235646/action/topic#235646
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Well, of course. First of all, "their best songs" is subjective, so that would be impossible anyway. It was following its own premise, which was their number one singles on a CD. And there were simply a lot of great songs that didn't happen to be released as singles or were B-sides or just got beaten out by something else.