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#54344
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Changes in 2004 DVDs
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/54344/action/topic#54344
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Starkiller, I respect all that you said, and agree with it completely. I am nineteen, and though I'm from Jimbo's generation, I was long ago appalled with the way my generation and others regard women and often behave in general. I admit that I had a crush on Natalie Portman when I saw her in the first two prequels, but I wouldn't have been nearly as taken with her had I not read how intelligent she actually was. It's always tempting to dream about the women we see in movies and so forth, but you have to draw a fine line. You can see their beauty and simply admire it, or you can let it go further, which can be completely detrimental, especially as the odds are very slim that you'll ever set eyes upon them, much less say more than five words to them. I admit it, I have a Princess Leia Winamp skin with her wearing her slave outfit, and I have desktops with Keira Knightley from King Arthur and items such as that, but they are not because I'm horny. I find females mystical and lovely and I view them as equals, and so it sickens me at the way many men treat women.

Starkiller, even though I'm as young as I am, I too have had my mouth washed out and have been spanked many times over the years. I was sent to my room, but my parents paddled me or gave me a tongue-lashing first, so I would go to my room with enough of a heavy conscience that I couldn't bring myself to read or do anything else. Today, being in college and seeing the utter lack of discipline rampant on my campus, I greatly respect how my parents disciplined me, and realize things would be a lot better if other parents did the same thing.

And Jimbo, please quit accusing those of you that disagree with you on this point as being gay or female in an attempt to put holes in their argument. Just because someone put his hormones under control doesn't make him gay or anything else. It just means he's not horny.
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#54340
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Stupidest Prequal complaints
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/54340/action/topic#54340
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Originally posted by: jimbo
Sorry R2 but your complaints about Attack of the Clones are unfounded. Ever been in teen love. Well my personal teen love life has been less then succuessful. Anakin is just a horny kid. Who can blame him? The dialog is childish unpurpose. It is meant to show that childish behavior can lead to disaster. Id like you to find a love story that isn't at least a little bit cheesy. The only one I can think of is The Girl Next Door. There is no such thing as to much digital effects. Every digital effect in Attack of the Clones was perfect. Its easy to forget that is digital often. It is filled with deep imagination and a great mult-layered story. No movie ever was able to combine action and story as good as Attack of the Clones. That whole paragraph was all as the title of the thread suggests stupid prequal complaints.


Unfortunately, Anakin comes off as a thirteen-year-old rather than as a twenty-year-old. I can understand immaturity (I'm only nineteen myself), but George made him too immature for the role of the one who would become Vader. He might mature considerably before and during Episode III, and I really hope so, because I don't want to be laughing as I see him slowly fall to the dark side.

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#54337
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Prequels from an Expanded Universe POV
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/54337/action/topic#54337
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I'm still a relative EU newbie...I have read the novelizations (except for ROTJ), Cloak of Deception, Ambush at Corellia, and Heir to the Empire, but I have a ton of others lined up to read (I especially can't wait to finish the Thrawn Trilogy and get started on the NJO). Today, I happen to be reading the Mara Jade: By the Emperor's Hand graphic novel, and am enjoying it immensely (I'm not a comic person, but I really wanted to know more about Mara Jade, who is already my favorite EU character, and I also intend to read the Dark Empire comics soon, as well). I haven't went to Jedinet before, so I'll have to check that out. TFN is really starting to annoy me (as well as the official site).
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#54227
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Interview?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/54227/action/topic#54227
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
How about "Super Size Jabba", "Bowling for Coruscant", "Fahrenheit 01/31/1997" (special edition release), or "George and Me"? The truth story of how George (Lucas, not Dubya) got insane and decided to destroy his own creation... Hey, a Michael Moore spoof AND a Star Wars fan film, all in one! Ain't that a great idea?


That's a brilliant idea, Ric, and basically what I was thinking of! 'Bowling For Coruscant' is my favorite, personally.
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#54222
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Interview?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/54222/action/topic#54222
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Originally posted by: Luke Skywalker
i wonder if we were to send a set of questions to Lucas or his publicist's... if we would get any answers to similar questions?
what do u guys think??


Any questions we'd ask should be submitted by OriginalTrilogy.com, rather than just one person asking a question here and another there, because Lucas can ignore individuals extremely easily. I'd like to see how he and his yes men would respond to questions provided by a website that represents nearly 60,000 fans; it would be a bit harder for him to ignore. It's definitely worth a try.

One thing I think would be hilarious is for a documentary filmmaker to prepare a set of questions for Lucas and create a film focusing on him trying to actually infiltrate Skywalker Ranch and other places to get to Lucas and sit him down for an honest interview. An impossible hope, but the documentary could be entitled, 'Desperately Seeking Lucas,' or something like that.
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#54221
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Marlon Brando is dead
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/54221/action/topic#54221
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
I know. I mentioned it because it's one of my biggest fears. #2 actually:

1- Turtles bitting me while I'm asleep
2- Death of Don Knotts
3- Airplane pilots
4- A Jesus idol thing gaining life thru magic, getting out of the cross and fist-fighting with me without saying a word
5- People laughing at me in my funeral
6- McG
7- A clown with a gun coming to the office and threatening my life and the life of my co-workers
8- The melting nazis from "Riders of the Lost Ark"
9- Astronauts
10- Cristopher Lloyd's Judge Doom character from "who framed roger rabbit"


You know, those actually aren't terribly outrageous fears.

Turtles biting you when you sleep...that would be scary...

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#54205
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Marlon Brando is dead
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/54205/action/topic#54205
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
Marlon Brando died... So, that means Al Pacino is the head of the Corleone family now... He was a good actor, altough I belive he overacted sometimes (one eyed jack, maybe last tango), and in other times he just didn't care (superman, don juan de marco).

First Reagan, now Brando... Who's next? I bet it'll be Don Knots!




Ric, though I know that Brando was a classic, talented actor, I do think I will honestly grieve Don Knotts's passing far more.
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#54204
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my thoughts on originals vs SE...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/54204/action/topic#54204
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Welcome, Stale Elvis! I'll echo Luke, and hope that Jimbo doesn't scare you away. I've spent more time reading the TFN boards than I care to think about, and I'm really fed up with the pro-Lucas talk you come across in every place where they discuss the original trilogy. I'm thinking of leaving the Classic Trilogy section for good and start posting somewhere where the posters are simply trying to have fun discussing the stories and the entire universe. I wonder if Lucas understands how much of a rift he's created in the Star Wars community, and even if he does, I'm sure he doesn't care.
I agree with you completely. If you have a copy of 1977's The Making of Star Wars, sit down and watch it sometime. It was made without hindsight, and gives you a feeling of what the original sentiments of Lucas and others were at the very beginning. You also get a sense of just how resourceful the effects people had to be with the technology they had at the time. The cinematic miracles they managed to achieve are now being erased, one special edition at a time, however. I know one of the effects that Lucas complained most about in ANH was the vasoline smudge under Luke's landspeeder, and yet I find that it was a creative solution to a problem, and it worked. It took more creativity and originality to think up the concept and say, 'Hey, why don't we smudge it out with vasoline?' then to say, 'Ah, hell, don't worry about the undercarriage of the landspeeder. We'll just take it out on the computer.' Do I hate the Special Editions? No, but I do hate that the dedication of the original crew members on the set of the movies are having their hard work wiped from the record.

By the way, Jimbo, some people actually feel Return of the Jedi is the best of the movies. If you want people to respect your opinion of AOTC being a masterpiece, don't slam ROTJ. Each of these films is someone's favorite in the saga, after all.
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#54203
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Prequels from an Expanded Universe POV
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/54203/action/topic#54203
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I would like to be more familiar with the EU than I am, and am starting to take strides in that direction. I found that I appreciated TPM and AOTC a lot more when I read the novelizations for them, and they added enough to the story that I would think they could be considered EU, but I especially found TPM a much more fully realized story after I read Cloak of Deception. Sure, it's not a terribly action-packed story, but the political intrigue is important to understanding what happens to the Republic, so I felt it served a very vital purpose in the EU. So, yes, Klingon, the EU does add to my appreciation of the prequels.

We should start a few EU discussion threads (on different eras of the EU or characters or something). It would provide a nice distraction from all of the technical threads on bootlegs (which I'm thankful for, but have no hope of understanding).
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#53880
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Fahrenheit 9/11
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/53880/action/topic#53880
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Originally posted by: Luke Skywalker
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I did know he lied in Bowling for Columbin. He made it look like a banks free gun offer just let him walk out with it. In reality Moore had to wait 2 weeks and was given a backgroud check. If this isn't a total and complete lie I don't know what is.


ya well he didnt lie...
he used editting to his advantage in that case...
its not like he said omg i cant believe i got a gun in one day!! and plus he was told that they do a background check on him before he gets his gun... it was in the scene when he is filling out the form i believe...


I still need to see that one, if I can ever get in the right frame of mind to sit down with it.

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#53875
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Changes in 2004 DVDs
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/53875/action/topic#53875
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Originally posted by: Luke Skywalker
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If the scene isn't the way it was originally intended it is broke


so much for jimbo's streak of tolerable posts...
jimbo i think your broke.... have u ever made a movie??? no! exactly.... so how the hell would u know what broke was?


Nothing lasts forever.

And truthfully, we'll never know how Lucas originally intended anything. His original intentions vary from year to year, and from video release to video release.
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#53838
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Fahrenheit 9/11
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/53838/action/topic#53838
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Originally posted by: Luke Skywalker
anyone here see it yet??
if so what was your opinion??

im going tomorrow so ill have to let you know how it is...


I may end up waiting for it to come out on DVD...though I do want to see it. I'm sure Moore stretches some truths and fabricates some lies, but I couldn't prove it, so I'll just go into the movie with an open mind and the determination to take what he says with a grain of salt. We have to do that with politicians anyway.
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#53837
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Changes in 2004 DVDs
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/53837/action/topic#53837
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Originally posted by: Luke Skywalker
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Lucas had attempted to creating a good Wampa puppet back in 1980. Unfortunity it didn't work properly so they had to show very little of it. The Special Edition makes that scene so much better.


I understand that but i felt it played out better when you didnt see it...
things like that play out on your fears more when you dont see it... you can picture it for yourself...
look at the movie signs... many thought that the ending was ruined when they showed the alien... i thought it did...

i've always thought less is more...
play the game silent hill and you'll notice that they use sound more than any blood and gore to make a game scary as hell!!


...Or almost any Hitchcock movie (especially Psycho)...