Guy Caballero

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Join date: 7-Jan-2006
Last activity: 3-Oct-2009
Posts: 300

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Post: #222568
Topic: John Williams' Music
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/222568/action/topic#222568
Time: 27-Jun-2006 7:41 PM

I think Williams did good music for I-III, but as someone said, you can barely hear it, or it's chopped up in a weird way or it's recycled for something it wasn't written for, or it's not used at all! It would be interesting to see a version of a prequel film cut TO the music, with the barest minimum of dialogue, like Sergio Leone style.

Post: #222489
Topic: Why the PT fans love the PT so much, not as diehard as we think
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/222489/action/topic#222489
Time: 27-Jun-2006 4:35 PM

Just because Lucas and a bunch of force.net weirdos SAY Anakin is the hero doesn't make it so. There's just nothing in the movies to support it. The main character in Phantom is Qui-Gon. The other actual heroics are mostly from Obi-Wan. When I see all 6 movies I say Anakin was more powerful but Luke was the better man-the hero. Anakin will never be the hero or the "main" character or whatever. He's almost a plot-driver like the death star plans.

Post: #222098
Topic: OK, the DVDs are coming...so how bad are they going to look?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/222098/action/topic#222098
Time: 26-Jun-2006 11:47 PM

This is sort of related: On the dvd documentary, there are several clips from Jedi that look really good, and they have the burned-in film subtitles, so they're not from the dvd, or the old laserdiscs. Where did they come from? I only wish the dvds would look that good.

Post: #221788
Topic: George ruined the drama in his own stories.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/221788/action/topic#221788
Time: 25-Jun-2006 11:16 PM

I like it. Although my favorite is this angry religous website that calls it: STAR WARS:RELIGION OF THE ANTICHRIST!

Post: #221742
Topic: George ruined the drama in his own stories.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/221742/action/topic#221742
Time: 25-Jun-2006 9:19 PM

The 9-part series would have been something. When I said I don't think the trilogy is "that type" of story it made me wonder what exactly is it? What is the big deal anyway?I've yet to hear anything that satisfied me. For years I've heard one group telling me it's just fun kid's stuff and another group equating it with literature and mythology and neither feels right to me. What the hell is it anyway?

Post: #221717
Topic: George ruined the drama in his own stories.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/221717/action/topic#221717
Time: 25-Jun-2006 8:09 PM

"Yeah, the same "dark" college-age posers who made hits out of the sad, bittersweet endings to the mythical Norse cosmology, the Arthur story, Shakespeare's tragedies, just about every version of the Batman story, nearly every well-received World War 2 movie, the Lord of the Rings, the Empire Strikes Back, the Sandman, etc. Only a poser could appreciate the dramatic value of fatalities in a myth-patterned war."

I'm sorry I just don't see the trilogy (including Empire) as that type of story. A happy ending is the appropriate ending. Just my opinion.

Post: #221692
Topic: OK, the DVDs are coming...so how bad are they going to look?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/221692/action/topic#221692
Time: 25-Jun-2006 5:30 PM

Here's a dumb question: Just got a plasma TV. Will having a dvd player with HDMI/"upconverting" make any difefrence in how these discs will look?

Post: #221663
Topic: George ruined the drama in his own stories.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/221663/action/topic#221663
Time: 25-Jun-2006 3:00 PM

Does anyone actually want Han Solo or Lando dead and Luke isolated and a "sad, bittersweet" Jedi? That sounds like the same "dark" poser-ing that a lot of older college-age fans say they want, especially in the 90s, but you basically just end up with Alien 3. Jedi has a chintzy look and feel, and shortchanges Han, but I wouldn't say Kurtz's preferred way is that great either.

Post: #221661
Topic: Shadow of the Empire (book)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/221661/action/topic#221661
Time: 25-Jun-2006 2:48 PM

I hated that book a lot. It was the last star wars book I ever read. It was all a big cross-promotion circle jerk. I think it was fairly popular though, so what do I know?

Post: #221321
Topic: Watched ROTS on HBO, UGGGH!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/221321/action/topic#221321
Time: 23-Jun-2006 6:26 PM

This is one thing about the new movies that doesn't bother me. Droids ARE just toasters to everyone but Luke and Anakin. Also Anakin only flew with R2 as his co-pilot for 3 years. For the previous 10 years he probably used different R2s. ObiWan's red one got decapitated and he didn't really care. And that was the r2 he was most familiar with. And every politician seems to have protocol droids, and they probably all have that subservient butler personality.Except that silver one on Bespin who said "eat my ass" in space language to 3P0. He's awesome, by the way.

Post: #221034
Topic: Why the PT fans love the PT so much, not as diehard as we think
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/221034/action/topic#221034
Time: 22-Jun-2006 10:40 PM

Some people at The Force.net definitely have these scary weird feelings about Anakin that I don't think even Lucas ever intended. He had the guy kill children! He's bad okay? They think he's cute or something. It's like those lonely women who write letters to prisoners.

Post: #220880
Topic: Peter Jackson the new Luca$???
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/220880/action/topic#220880
Time: 22-Jun-2006 2:46 PM

Randy, how is the comparison valid at all when Lucas controls what is done with Star Wars, but Rings is controlled by a studio, and gets the SAME milking/frequent releasing pattern all big-selling studio movies get, whether it's Rings or American Pie?

Post: #220300
Topic: **It has happened, Original films on DVD!!**
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/220300/action/topic#220300
Time: 20-Jun-2006 5:23 PM

Hey Velvet, it's much cooler to have NOT known, so good for you.

Post: #219754
Topic: Say the SE release in theaters bombed in 1997?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/219754/action/topic#219754
Time: 18-Jun-2006 4:08 PM

If only Lucas had paid attention to the drop-off at Jedi. It might have influenced the prequels and the 04 changes in a GOOD way, but no. 1997 Return of the Jedi made quite a bit less than Star Wars. I've talked to some people who had never seen that version until 2004 and were shocked at the lameness of the changes. These are people who probably hadn't seen Jedi in ten years and those 2 new songs just jumped out and slapped them. To me '97 Jedi IS a bomb (as opposed to Da bomb).

Post: #219475
Topic: 1977 70mm soundtrack recording (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/219475/action/topic#219475
Time: 17-Jun-2006 3:43 PM

Those people cheering the death star explosion is even more amazing when you realize it's not an opening day crowd, it's not "fans", it's just some regular people in New Jersey!

Post: #219189
Topic: Moving in from the Basher's Sanctuary (TF.n)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/219189/action/topic#219189
Time: 16-Jun-2006 4:53 PM

I just signed up over there. Reading through it though, I'm really at a loss as to what to say though. I guess if I see any original defenders getting ganged up on like I saw last week I'll chime in. I've never been in an "internet fight" before.

Post: #219188
Topic: Prequel demographic breakdown
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/219188/action/topic#219188
Time: 16-Jun-2006 4:47 PM

My nephew is about 7 and even he thinks Attack of the Clones is lame. But he really likes the other 2 and Star Wars in general. Jedi is his favorite right now.

Post: #219078
Topic: Moving in from the Basher's Sanctuary (TF.n)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/219078/action/topic#219078
Time: 16-Jun-2006 4:29 AM

There seems to be some older Trekkie-ish people too. They don't care about film as art, they like costumes and weapons and collectibles and elaborate continuity they can get lost in and never come out.

Post: #218796
Topic: The Official Lucasfilm Response
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/218796/action/topic#218796
Time: 15-Jun-2006 3:11 AM

As I recall, the technicolor print was used only for reference, because it had held up much better than the other prints. here's something from an article on technicolor:

"An article on the 1997 restoration of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (original version 1977) claimed that a rare dye-transfer print of the movie, made for director George Lucas at the British Technicolor lab, had been used as a color reference for the restoration. The article claimed that conventional color prints of the movie had all degraded over the years to the extent that no two had the same color balance."

So, it's sitting there. I'll scale the wall. I need people outside The Ranch to create a diversion. Ready...break!

Post: #218588
Topic: Moving in from the Basher's Sanctuary (TF.n)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/218588/action/topic#218588
Time: 14-Jun-2006 6:28 PM

Wow, I was reading that forum all week and you never should have been banned Zombie. I tried to sign up there but my computer wouldn't let me. I think it has more sense than I do. I kept reading one guy saying it's "ungrateful" to want the originals in a decent transfer. Grateful for what? "I'm so grateful McDonald's sold me this crappy cheeseburger". Ugh, maybe the internet should just go away. We can go back to buying porno at a newsstand.

Post: #218310
Topic: Remember when everyone hated Return of the Jedi?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/218310/action/topic#218310
Time: 13-Jun-2006 6:56 PM

The prequels had the pleasant side effect of making me appreciate '83 Jedi more. The emperor is now a more interesting character, the Luke/Leia brother sister thing has a little bit of emotional value now. The simple forest of Endor is now kind of a relief after all the fakey bluescreen worlds. Those nerf muppets are better (and take up a lot less screen time) than all the liquidy cartoon cg creatures. There's an actual sense of adventure and fun in Jedi that the new ones don't have. So, my surly grunge 90s self can fuck off. Jedi rules!

Post: #217875
Topic: Moving in from the Basher's Sanctuary (TF.n)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/217875/action/topic#217875
Time: 12-Jun-2006 1:17 AM

"A New Hope is meh." Those fruitcakes. They don't realize they are helping to kill all of Star Wars by turning it into a creepy, narrow-appeal fringe thing, like what happened to Star Trek. It's hard to imagine now, but my entire family actually waited in a HUGE line for Star Trek IV. It wasn't even opening day, either.

Post: #217706
Topic: Moving in from the Basher's Sanctuary (TF.n)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/217706/action/topic#217706
Time: 10-Jun-2006 5:15 PM

Being a prequel fan and preferring one version over another is one thing, but a lot of those people over there have gone off the deep end. It really is like a scary cult, and a lot of them seem pretty young. I hope they don't go postal at school.

Post: #217599
Topic: Moving in from the Basher's Sanctuary (TF.n)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/217599/action/topic#217599
Time: 10-Jun-2006 3:00 AM

Holy hell theforce.net is creepy! I never went into their boards before this week. They seem to have a lot of members. Is that a true representation of Star Wars fans these days? I used to think that most liked the originals better than the specials. Then when I started reading actual arguments about these dvds being "what we wanted" and "a gift" or a "favor" I though maybe it's 50/50. But now...I think we're an endangered species. I'm depressed.

Post: #217567
Topic: The Other side of the 30th Anniversary
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/217567/action/topic#217567
Time: 9-Jun-2006 10:07 PM

I love the idea of a "200 shot" cap on cgi shots in movies.
Is anybody else checking Digital Bits and Home Theater Forum like, every day just in the vain hope that some good news about these dvds might suddenly appear? I am and it can't be healthy. Also, it was reported in 97 that Lucas has in his collection a rare Technicolor print of Star Wars. Does anyone know if that could have been used as a source for a new dvd? And if so, what the fudge is the point of having something like that if it will never be seen by anyone? It's just gonna sit there, like The Ark of the Covenant?