Gaffer Tape

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Join date: 2-Jun-2005
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Post: #233058
Topic: Rankings
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/233058/action/topic#233058
Time: 7-Aug-2006 4:14 PM

Heh, barely. The second war is becoming one of those slow tactical nightmares that are cool for historians but will definitely have to be beefed up with CGI explosions and digital aliens when we sell the movie rights.

Post: #233036
Topic: Original Trilogy DVD Article in Total Film
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/233036/action/topic#233036
Time: 7-Aug-2006 3:18 PM

"Well, I gotta go now, Wally, on accounta Larry Mondello and me are gonna go get inta trouble."

"Be careful, Beav, or Dad'll clobber ya!"

"Not worser than he will for you goofin' up those Star Wars pictures!"

Post: #233035
Topic: Rankings
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/233035/action/topic#233035
Time: 7-Aug-2006 3:13 PM

Hate to interrupt the name game, but I'm at 3,600 now! Just thought you all should know.

Post: #233034
Topic: How the prequels should’ve played out:
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/233034/action/topic#233034
Time: 7-Aug-2006 3:12 PM

Yeah, I never had a problem with the original duel from Star Wars, and I had no idea anybody else did until Lucas himself started complaining about it. It always made perfect sense to me in the way they were fighting. And the sequels just built on that and made it slightly more intense. But you get to the prequels, and it's all just crazy, especially the one in ROTS, which is another reason why that movie is becoming, to me, the worst prequel.

Post: #233033
Topic: The 2004 SE DVD covers are laughable!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/233033/action/topic#233033
Time: 7-Aug-2006 3:06 PM

I believe him. I know I couldn't remove a DVD cover from the case using only my mind. I'd love to see somebody who could.

Post: #233032
Topic: POLL: Are you buying the Star Wars DVDs released on September 12, 2006?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/233032/action/topic#233032
Time: 7-Aug-2006 3:04 PM

Originally posted by: boris

Originally posted by: darkhelmet
Where's the "Maybe" button?

We don't serve their kind here.

The original poll a couple months ago did have an undecided option.

Post: #232930
Topic: ROTS: Baby Scoops?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/232930/action/topic#232930
Time: 7-Aug-2006 1:33 AM

Maybe in real life it's played at a frequency that only women can hear, and that's why you've never heard that sound, MeBe! ^_~

Post: #232889
Topic: How the prequels should’ve played out:
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/232889/action/topic#232889
Time: 6-Aug-2006 8:24 PM

I missed the last couple of days, so this BadAssKeith stuff kinda got under my radar, but he actually has a very good point about Ben's robes that I never thought about before. The way Alec Guiness wears those robes, it just screams, "crazy old wizard!" But, yeah, they do become a Jedi trait. And Lucas should have known better. Actually, he did, since Qui-Gon had enough sense to change into a poncho before leaving the ship in order to conceal his identity. Boggles the mind.

But ROTJ had Anakin in the same robes, too, so it's hard to say.

And, Darth_Evil just had to remind me of the implausibility of the C-3PO thing. My personal favorite is when Anakin says that he built him to help out his mom. Yeah... like a slave in the ass-end of the galaxy really needs a protocol droid that can be programmed to learn 6 million forms of communication. Unless maybe he was originally designed like that urban legend trading card. He never did specify in exactly what way 3PO was supposed to be "helping" his mother, now did he? ^_~

Post: #232885
Topic: Original Trilogy DVD Article in Total Film
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/232885/action/topic#232885
Time: 6-Aug-2006 7:57 PM

Heh, I just intended to use it the one time, since I was so pissed. I'm certainly not looking for the next "cool" immature catchphrase like the highly original and severely underused "Luca$", but I'll try to let my juvenile and immature qualities manifest themselves in other exciting and shocking ways in the future. Just stay tuned!

Post: #232674
Topic: Original Trilogy DVD Article in Total Film
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/232674/action/topic#232674
Time: 6-Aug-2006 12:23 AM

Originally posted by: Mike O

Rick McCockum

That was a little immature.

Yes, I believe I admitted it was in my original post. Don't see how it's any more "immature" than the other justifiably angry posts by other members cussing him out and describing with detail the sexual acts that Rick must perform on George to keep his job. So thank you for singling me out, Mike.

Post: #232670
Topic: ROTS in the IMDb top 250!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/232670/action/topic#232670
Time: 5-Aug-2006 11:55 PM

Originally posted by: CO
Originally posted by: BadAssKeith
Overuse of CGI? I agree. Just watch parts of all 6 movies, and the OT movies feel real with real models and real locations (Endor, Tatooine, Hoth). The only setting that felt real in the PT was Tatooine, cause that is the only part Lucas didn't shoot in Bluescreen.

Pointless Charaters? I agree, Grevious was bad, and someone get him some Robitusson!

Don't forget Naboo. Seriously, TPM had the most real stuff out of all the prequels, and it's starting to gain my favor, especially considering how bad ROTS is starting to look on repeat viewings. I swear, parts of that movie are just painful to watch.

Segue.

Like every scene with General Grievous. Funny comment. I actually said the same thing when I was watching the movie with my friends last week.

Post: #232667
Topic: Princess Leia
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/232667/action/topic#232667
Time: 5-Aug-2006 11:49 PM

Wow, I find it quite weird that the Debbie Reynolds picture is of such higher quality than the Natalie Portman picture. So much for Lucas's digital renaissance.

Post: #232143
Topic: What do you look like?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/232143/action/topic#232143
Time: 4-Aug-2006 2:37 AM

Hey, I think the hair's pretty cool. Also, I like your sig. Good song.

Post: #232128
Topic: BEAUTIFUL WOMEN NEW RULES IN FIRST POST (NSFW) UPDATED RULES
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/232128/action/topic#232128
Time: 4-Aug-2006 1:42 AM

Yeah, well, I don't like Star Wars!

Post: #232127
Topic: Adamwankenobi
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/232127/action/topic#232127
Time: 4-Aug-2006 1:36 AM

Yeah, I have to admit that that letter choked me up a bit. I'm going to assume he meant every word he said. After all, he would have had no reason to write it if he didn't mean it. And I'm very glad that he's gotten help and hopefully will get his life back on track. As much as the people on the Internet are real, I think he's really lucky that he messed up here rather than in some other medium. In person, his actions could have been much more dire, and so could the consequences. What he got from here was a sobering wake-up call and a bruised conscience, and I'm sure that's the best that any of us could have hoped for, if that helped him clean up any bit at all.

So I'm glad Mike O started this thread because it ultimately brought about much more closure to this subject. And I happen to have quite a bit more respect for Adam because of that letter, because there are so many f-ed up people out there who never do get the guts to come back and beg for forgiveness or even allow themselves to admit that they have a problem in the first place.

Who knows. Had the circumstances been a bit different, maybe Adam could have been a respected poster here, and none of us would be talking about this at all right now.

Post: #232106
Topic: General Harry Potter Discussion
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/232106/action/topic#232106
Time: 3-Aug-2006 11:56 PM

Part of me thinks it would be cool if they were somehow forced to not use magic and just fight each other in visceral hand-to-hand combat to the death. Maybe that would be considered a bit too violent for a children's book, even Harry Potter, but remember that Harry tried to do that to Sirius in POA.

Post: #232103
Topic: Poll: Who is more annoying, Lucas or McCallum?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/232103/action/topic#232103
Time: 3-Aug-2006 11:45 PM

I think I'm just super pissed at that idiotic, short-sighted comment that McCallum made, so I gave him my vote.

Post: #232102
Topic: Original Trilogy DVD Article in Total Film
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/232102/action/topic#232102
Time: 3-Aug-2006 11:43 PM

Originally posted by: TheCassidy
And there you have it. That's what they think of us all.

What the hell would he care, anyway? No one had ever even heard of that pompous ass before the SE's in 1997.

Have you ever heard of someone so arrogant as to think they are above criticism? The SE's and Prequels are done - why does this mouthbreather still have a job at LFL?

I'm deeply offended - I think I might actually write a letter to this dickhead, asking me for all of my money back that I've spent on Star Wars crap since 1997. Seriously. If this is his way of saying thanks to us for making him rich? God.

If you're sitting knee deep in coke and hookers reading this right now McCallum, you'll be hearing from me.

C U Next Tuesday.

EDIT - Who says anyone ever worshipped GL? We like his movies, for God's sake...it's not like we all sucked his dick to get a job at LFL? Anyone know anyone who did that? Eh, Ricky boy you fat bitch?

Hey, if you have any contact information for Rick McCockum (sorry, I couldn't resist giving him a juvenile nickname, which is something I've never even done for George), then, please feel free to make it public here. I have more than a few things I want to say to that drone too!

Post: #232101
Topic: Lucas' real reasons for changing the OT
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/232101/action/topic#232101
Time: 3-Aug-2006 11:38 PM

Yeah, you're right. They would have been better off doing things like that... but I'm glad they haven't. Even if they could make it totally seamless, Mielr is right, there was no other way for them to do it back then. It was a film made in 1977, for crying out loud! I know I can forgive a few technical flaws in exchange for a great movie. I don't know why Lucas and his fanboys can't!

Post: #231926
Topic: Original Trilogy DVD Article in Total Film
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/231926/action/topic#231926
Time: 3-Aug-2006 1:47 PM

Wow, how far removed he is. Because I can speak volumes of how much I "worship and adore" George in my "delightfully damaged way." Even from George himself, I've never heard such arrogance. I doubt even he would think that people "worship and adore" him.

Post: #231925
Topic: The "original crawl" on the new DVD is NOT the original crawl! Screenshot inside!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/231925/action/topic#231925
Time: 3-Aug-2006 1:43 PM

To me, a change is a change, and none of them should exist. And the minor problems never really bothered anybody enough to keep it from becoming a successful movie, so there's really no point in changing it twenty years later.

Post: #231833
Topic: The "original crawl" on the new DVD is NOT the original crawl! Screenshot inside!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/231833/action/topic#231833
Time: 3-Aug-2006 2:09 AM

Originally posted by: boris

Originally posted by: Mielr
Why do you consider the Indy trilogy to be tampered? Because they erased the snake's reflection from the plexi?

Yes, that change alone is too much. And then there were all the other "fixed" blue-screen shots, etc.

I agree with boris on this one. That's the same reason I've never attempted to get the Indy set. I find it quite irritating.

Post: #231753
Topic: Saber fighting as kids....
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/231753/action/topic#231753
Time: 2-Aug-2006 10:06 PM

I had both the Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader lightsabers back in the day, but I always longed for a blue one like in the first two movies. I got a friend of mine to help me act out the saber fights from all three movies. Of course, they had built-in sound effects, so I didn't need anybody to recreate them. I stopped buying when the prequels came out, and they started making those extremely low-quality sabers.

Post: #231721
Topic: IN MEMORY OF WARBLER
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/231721/action/topic#231721
Time: 2-Aug-2006 9:21 PM

Originally posted by: TheSessler
This year I'll get to experience Halloween in a huge college town, should be exciting to say the least.

Honestly, I've been through two Halloweens in a college town, and, maybe it's simply because I don't party, but it didn't really seem like anything more special than regular Halloweens.

Post: #231720
Topic: Adamwankenobi
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/231720/action/topic#231720
Time: 2-Aug-2006 9:19 PM

Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father

Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
The Wikipedia article links to a site with the video. I almost watched it last night, but I decided that I probably shouldn't so close to bedtime. I don't know. Part of me wants to watch it, part of me thinks (probably rightfully so) that it will be extremely disturbing. Sigh, I probably will watch it soon anyway. I just can't keep myself away...

I watched a DVD called 'executions' a few years back. Horrible stuff. Don't do it Gaffer.

To update, I still haven't done it yet, but I still keep on meaning to. I figure if I do it I should do it before school starts when I can afford to stay up all night out of fear. =P