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Post: #196376
Topic: HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/196376/action/topic#196376
Time: 28-Mar-2006 6:26 PM

Originally posted by: GundarkHunter
Best omission in Goblet of Fire: the house elf subplot. Think about it and ask yourself: does it really advance the story in any way?

Yeah, that one was easily able to be removed. I mean, it's a nice little sideplot, but I think the coolest thing about it was how it almost seemed like the book had built in a simple answer for cutting it out, since Neville was supposed to be the one that pointed Harry to the gillyweed in the book in the first place.

Post: #196375
Topic: Certain parts of the PT are just cringeworthy, how did this happen?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/196375/action/topic#196375
Time: 28-Mar-2006 6:14 PM

Naboo's not nearly as bad as Dooku, though.

Post: #196374
Topic: SW figure fan poll
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/196374/action/topic#196374
Time: 28-Mar-2006 6:13 PM

Hmm. I never had a hard time finding Vader with removable helmet back in the day.

Post: #196153
Topic: See if you can find all the references in this picture
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/196153/action/topic#196153
Time: 28-Mar-2006 1:20 AM

Ah, good. I'm glad to see that, in my absence, sybeman hasn't surpassed me!

Post: #196151
Topic: HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/196151/action/topic#196151
Time: 28-Mar-2006 1:20 AM

I'm basically happy with the way the movies are now with only a few exceptions. I really don't think they need extended versions. The Voldemort scene was fine the way it was. The lengthy exposition that Voldemort rattled off in the book about his history for the past 13 years was very interesting but would have gotten old fast as movie dialogue. Anyway, the only glaring continuity errors that really bother me are when Uncle Vernon in Azkaban suddenly knows that Harry's not allowed to do magic in school despite him never finding out and previously thinking that Harry could bewitch him at any minute. Another is the removal of Azkaban's backstory about the animagi and the origin of the Marauder's Map, Whomping Willow, etc. And I know I just complained about exposition, but this was really important and leads into my final complaint: Peter Pettigrew being referred to by Harry solely as Wormtail in Goblet of Fire, despite the fact that the previous movie had not at all attributed that name to him. The rest, like changing schoo geography, different actors, and other minor problems and omissions really don't bother me at all. I have a friend whose enjoyment of Chamber of Secrets is diminished because the Deathday Party was ommitted, and that was Moaning Myrtle's original entrance into the story. The lack of that never bothered me at all, and her introduction in her bathroom is quite perfect for the sake of condensing things. Yet she insists that it completely ruins the character. I guess it's an individual thing.

Post: #196146
Topic: I hate this day
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/196146/action/topic#196146
Time: 28-Mar-2006 1:12 AM

I, too, am sorry for your loss. Almost inconceivable that the same date could yield such tragic circumstances twice. And I find it even more eerie because my cousin's birthday is March 24th. I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers.

Post: #196145
Topic: See if you can find all the references in this picture
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/196145/action/topic#196145
Time: 28-Mar-2006 1:10 AM

Hehe, okay, now that I've actually seen the humongously huge picture, I assume that, amid the winged dinosaurs and Mario-esque sidescrolling levels, we're looking for Star Wars references?

Post: #196144
Topic: See if you can find all the references in this picture
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/196144/action/topic#196144
Time: 28-Mar-2006 1:08 AM

I conclude that there are zero references to anything in that "picture."

Post: #196142
Topic: I actually prefer the DVDs and can't wait for more edits, seriously.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/196142/action/topic#196142
Time: 28-Mar-2006 1:06 AM

I don't get the argument of the Shaw force ghost not making sense because he never existed that way. I mean, it's a very common idea that the souls of those in the afterlife are the manifestation of the last currently known living form of that person only healed from wounds and injury. I admit that the theory of returning to a younger and more active "age" after death is also a common theory, but it doesn't fit the rest of the evidence presented in the movies. Ben appears looking like he did at the age that he died, except that he's not cut in half, the injury he sustained that killed him. And Yoda is presented at the age he was when he died, except he didn't seem ill. So that theory holds itself entirely consistent. To allude to the other popular theory of, "George had to use Shaw because he didn't have a young Anakin yet!", there was absolutely nothing keeping Lucas from having the Shaw ghost appear as the burnt and bald inside the suit Anakin. As we'd already witnessed that form, we know there was nothing that would have prevented him from reusing it if he wanted to. But he chose to have the perfect representation of Anakin at the age that he died, just as he had with the ghosts of Ben and Yoda. And now his meddling has made his entire logic of Force ghosts completely inconsistent.

Post: #196127
Topic: HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/196127/action/topic#196127
Time: 27-Mar-2006 11:23 PM

Originally posted by: ADigitalMan
Not completely. Kloves wrote to a mandated length. The original plan for Goblet was to make two 2-hour movies out of it. Alfonso convinced Newell to trim the book down to a 2.5 hour movie. Kloves wrote to that length.

Azkaban could have stood about five more minutes to tie up some loose ends.

Goblet of Fire could have stood about ten more minutes (past the length of the extended edition) to give it a bit of breathing space and to tie up some more loose ends. The Rita Skeeter subplot really needed to be completed.

Wait. There's an extended edition?

And, yes, I agree that Azkaban could have been helped by some fleshing out, especially in regards to the origins of a certain map.

Post: #196126
Topic: HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/196126/action/topic#196126
Time: 27-Mar-2006 11:21 PM

Yeah, I must say I never really liked that either. I don't think it ever fully explained the reason for it being there in the first place. It just seemed so random. "Let's have a curtain between life and death here for no apparent reason."

Post: #196124
Topic: Rankings
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/196124/action/topic#196124
Time: 27-Mar-2006 11:18 PM

I'd love to get paid to play Final Fantasy VI.

Post: #196122
Topic: Shocking picure from Tiananmen Square!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/196122/action/topic#196122
Time: 27-Mar-2006 11:11 PM

I agree. The title is what makes it funny.

Post: #196121
Topic: Original Trilogy DVD my ideas
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/196121/action/topic#196121
Time: 27-Mar-2006 11:09 PM

I like the blob! ^_^ Not from a technologically appealing standpoint, but just as an example of filmmaking. It's like being so knowledeable about a movie that you can be the annoying guy who tells all your friends how the special effects were done. So it's one of those cool things you can just point out.

Post: #196120
Topic: I like 'em both :)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/196120/action/topic#196120
Time: 27-Mar-2006 11:07 PM

I would always show the original version. In fact, I did that last summer when I showed them to my girlfriend's little sister. As for which one, I'd love to see a version that was never released to home format: the original '77 theatrical version without "Episode IV A New Hope" in the title. As for which audio track to use, I'd take any of the three original mixes. I'm not too picky when it comes to that.

Post: #196119
Topic: Certain parts of the PT are just cringeworthy, how did this happen?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/196119/action/topic#196119
Time: 27-Mar-2006 11:04 PM

For years, I always assumed that the "there was no father" thing was supposed to be taken metaphorically, as in her saying that the father left, therefore, there was no father. I was blown away when I found out it was supposed to be taken literally. I guess I gave George too much credit at 13.

Post: #196117
Topic: What time frame do the OT movies take place in?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/196117/action/topic#196117
Time: 27-Mar-2006 10:55 PM

Originally posted by: russs15

Back on topic, what always got me was the escape from Hoth in Empire. We see Luke arriving at Dagobah whilst Han is still shaking off TIE Fighters whilst leaving Hoth!!

I never could work that one out.

Well, that's another hyperdrive issue, isn't it? The X-Wing's hyperdrive was working fine, while the Falcon was hoofing it on normal speed.

Post: #196116
Topic: SW figure fan poll
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/196116/action/topic#196116
Time: 27-Mar-2006 10:52 PM

I think I'll have to go with the Solo children. Any one of them.

Post: #195597
Topic: Jackson Shuts Down Neverland House
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/195597/action/topic#195597
Time: 25-Mar-2006 9:16 PM

I guess I'm forever the devil's advocate when it comes to these forums, and now that AWK is gone, I have to find another unpopular opinion to support. Don't get me wrong. I enjoy a good Michael Jackson joke as much as the next guy (anybody see the Robot Chicken parody where it turns out that this current Michael Jackson was actually an alien replacement instituted when his hair caught on fire?). But did it ever occur to anybody that maybe he's just a now-really-weird-looking guy who genuinely likes children and doesn't actually molest them? And that maybe parents of said children are banking in on the fact that this isn't quite status quo behavior and taking him to court?

I'll go hide under my rock now.

Post: #195596
Topic: Volkswagen Commercials
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/195596/action/topic#195596
Time: 25-Mar-2006 9:11 PM

Ahem, this is not the German Car thingswehate Thread, sean. It'd be fun if you made one, though.

I regret to say I've only seen this commercial once, but its memory will stick with me for a lifetime. Or maybe I should just watch more TV when I'm at school.

Post: #195594
Topic: BEAUTIFUL WOMEN NEW RULES IN FIRST POST (NSFW) UPDATED RULES
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/195594/action/topic#195594
Time: 25-Mar-2006 9:09 PM

Those were some pretty hot glasses, though...

Post: #195593
Topic: Rankings
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/195593/action/topic#195593
Time: 25-Mar-2006 9:07 PM

Originally posted by: Scout trooper
wow, it's been other a month. Has anyone knocked Adamwankenobi off the top 10 yet?

Has it already been a month? Damn. Sigh. Reminiscing.

Wow. I didn't notice that Warbler was back on the Top 10. Looks like he's closest to knocking Adam down a notch. And then I guess it will be Sessler to perfrom the fatality.

Post: #195592
Topic: George Lucas helped film the Godfather?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/195592/action/topic#195592
Time: 25-Mar-2006 9:06 PM

Originally posted by: bad_karma24
Without Francis Ford Coppola, it is very much possible that there would be no Star Wars. He also produced THX-1138. Then he made Jack. Seems to be a trend among both of them (alright, so Jack had some good points... haha).

Hey, I loved Jack! Of course, I was a bit surprised when I found out a few weeks ago that it was Coppola directing it, but I still think it's an awesome movie. Not The Godfather, but Jack trying to be The Godfather would just be really weird.

Post: #195591
Topic: Robot Chicken - TESB Parody
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/195591/action/topic#195591
Time: 25-Mar-2006 9:05 PM

Maybe it's the lower quality of the clip, but I didn't Mark Hamill actually sounded like Mark until the very end where he says, "If you're not even going to try."

Post: #195590
Topic: What time frame do the OT movies take place in?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/195590/action/topic#195590
Time: 25-Mar-2006 9:02 PM

Going back to Return of the Jedi, your timeline makes a lot of sense, but I think it's maybe the traveling thing that throws me. From Tatooine to the Rebel Fleet and Dagobah and then from Dagobah to fleet and then from the fleet to Endor makes me seem like there'd at least be some days in there.