Guy Caballero

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

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Post: #231495
Topic: Info Wanted: 70mm Film Cel Scans (good reference or pointless?)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/231495/action/topic#231495
Time: 2-Aug-2006 3:07 AM

Those are great. Film is a beautiful thing. Sad that we can't simply watch the films as they really looked. Strangely, Jedi seems to look the "oldest" or the most pink.

Post: #231213
Topic: SW: R.I.P. - 9/12/06
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/231213/action/topic#231213
Time: 1-Aug-2006 5:49 AM

I think the mainstream media will never, ever be sympathetic to this. But hopefully the home video/electronic industry will make some noise. That's the bubble Lucasfilm lives in anyway. Maybe enough bad reviews (and a bad rep as a seller of crappy products) will follow them to enough industry shows and conventions to have some effect.

Post: #229943
Topic: Ok, straight up... is this the last time we will ever see the OOT?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/229943/action/topic#229943
Time: 27-Jul-2006 6:05 PM

I'm trying to be positive and believe that he'd release them just before the TV show, to promote it and build up some good nostalgia (among those 30-somethings with disposoble income that they love in the TV world) going into it.

Post: #229689
Topic: Info: Some thoughts on this community.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/229689/action/topic#229689
Time: 27-Jul-2006 1:08 AM

1. What's wrong with the Indy trilogy?
2. Why can't we have negative feelings about stuff? Are we scientologists? (I even like the prequels and I get along fine with people who hate them. Everybody on earth hates them, and I'm not moving to the moon).
3. These dvds suck cock.

Post: #229685
Topic: We're Still Immature Whiners to MSNBC
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/229685/action/topic#229685
Time: 27-Jul-2006 12:54 AM

Goofing on dorks at a comic book convention! That's pretty bold, Lenny Bruce!

Post: #229329
Topic: first viewing of the 2006 OOT dvds
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/229329/action/topic#229329
Time: 26-Jul-2006 4:27 AM

You mean you expect The Empire Strikes Back to get the same level of attention as Halloween 4? You fans are never satisfied.

Post: #228865
Topic: first viewing of the 2006 OOT dvds
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/228865/action/topic#228865
Time: 24-Jul-2006 10:59 PM

I'm probably still buying (slaps self "stupid!"). Lucas will interpret the sales figures, whatever they are, to mean whatever he wants over on his planet.

Post: #228863
Topic: ~~~Segaflip's Newsgroup Posting List~~~
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/228863/action/topic#228863
Time: 24-Jul-2006 10:55 PM

I'd like to suggest any of the early (pre-1993) widescreen laserdiscs? Thanks.

Post: #228563
Topic: News on the TV Series if Anyone Cares.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/228563/action/topic#228563
Time: 24-Jul-2006 4:03 AM

no.

Post: #228216
Topic: Episode II: The Gathering Storm
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/228216/action/topic#228216
Time: 22-Jul-2006 6:11 PM

Sounds real good! I like the blitzkrieg approach to Anakin and Padme's assorted lameness, the movie biggest flaw (and unintentional laugh-getter in the theaters). Why does "go and find her" need to be changed to "him"? Didn't Anakin see her when he was hanging on to her speeder? Anyway, very cool.

Post: #228180
Topic: first viewing of the 2006 OOT dvds
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/228180/action/topic#228180
Time: 22-Jul-2006 1:57 PM

I love how Sansweet acts like an insider: "The script for Indiana Jones 4 is blah blah" like they tell him anything. He reads the same internet shit we do. They have a pathetic trailer for these dvds that's like what Disney uses to sell Bambi II to fat moms and their fat kids. Even as Fox restores the shit out of Towering Inferno and Poseidon Adventure, they put out this thing .

Post: #227844
Topic: New director what do you think ?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/227844/action/topic#227844
Time: 21-Jul-2006 2:59 AM

I thought Kershner turned down Jedi, and later regretted it?

Post: #227133
Topic: SW: R.I.P. - 9/12/06
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/227133/action/topic#227133
Time: 18-Jul-2006 6:13 PM

We can't talk about something that's dead? I guess nobody talks about the Beatles or Elvis either.

Post: #226776
Topic: new book on a new hope coming in september
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/226776/action/topic#226776
Time: 17-Jul-2006 1:41 AM

I wonder what the whole story there is, if there even is one. TRON had no opening credits, Spielberg himself directed 1941, which has no credits. i think that whole Spielberg-directing-a-star wars-movie was probably a lot of talk. The dvd just covered it in the same vague P.R.-influenced bullshit as everything else.

Post: #226405
Topic: Shadow of the Empire (book)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/226405/action/topic#226405
Time: 14-Jul-2006 11:27 PM

I don't care about continuity glitches so I thought the old marvel comic covered that period in a more fun and interesting way.

Post: #225377
Topic: Lucas may have caved, here is a link to Barnes & Noble early review of the O-OT DVD's:
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/225377/action/topic#225377
Time: 10-Jul-2006 12:54 AM

Don't give up, it's worth it to keep complaining. The hard part, getting them released at all, is already done-thanks to the complaining. Now that SW is about to die its second death, they'll be selling anything and everything to keep the machine running in the next few years. I'm starting to warm to the idea of mailing in the 04 discs. Remember, tomorrow is a new day-for bitching on the internet!

Post: #225173
Topic: Making our own 35mm preservation--my crazy proposal
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/225173/action/topic#225173
Time: 8-Jul-2006 8:05 PM

So, the japanese version is the most accurate? That's interesting. Is there a place to see comparison shots for Empire and Jedi? I know the "screenshot" page has some for Star Wars.

Post: #225127
Topic: Lucas may have caved, here is a link to Barnes & Noble early review of the O-OT DVD's:
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/225127/action/topic#225127
Time: 8-Jul-2006 1:14 PM

I guess I'll send mine just for the hell of it, but the problem is we've crossed into a world where plenty of schmucks AGREE with Lucasfilm and tell them the SEs are awesome and these 20 dollar bootlegs are better than we deserve! They already get so much GOOD feedback (AND money for limited edition Mace Windu cock rings) from the loyal fruitcakes, they don't need us. Sending the discs back (unless they were BURIED under an avalanche of many thousands of them) won't make anyone care.

Post: #224498
Topic: Making our own 35mm preservation--my crazy proposal
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/224498/action/topic#224498
Time: 5-Jul-2006 6:33 PM

Zombie, I've been reading and admiring your voice of sanity over at the forcenet, but to do what one of the richest people in the US won't do just seems wrong. Especially when the elements and the equipment are RIGHT THERE where the guy lives! Up on that precious Xanadu mountain! This is why the forcenet drones and their ilk are so frustrating. If they wern't such fucking doormats and made a little noise on the "big" Star Wars websites, the movies would be treated right. It's a cool idea though.

Post: #224005
Topic: Lucas may have caved, here is a link to Barnes & Noble early review of the O-OT DVD's:
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/224005/action/topic#224005
Time: 3-Jul-2006 6:06 AM

I like how saying "Star Wars will get a normal dvd" is now hoax-worthy. Get me off this bizarro world!!

Post: #223772
Topic: .: The XØ Project - Laserdisc on Steroids :. (SEE FIRST POST FOR UPDATES) (* unfinished project *)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/223772/action/topic#223772
Time: 1-Jul-2006 6:45 PM

I'm really interested in what the XO team does specifically with the overall look of Return of the Jedi. I had an awful pan and scan tape as a kid, and the 93 laser always looked kind of bright and drab to me. The 2004 dvd just looks..weird. What IS that movie supposed to look like anyway?

Post: #223753
Topic: Explaining the shoddy OOT treatment in public
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/223753/action/topic#223753
Time: 1-Jul-2006 5:37 PM

What really sucks is trying to explain the whole thing to anyone in the outside world. Come September, it's going to be hard to come off as anything but bitter nerds. "No, this IS the version I want, but anamorphic blah blah". It just sounds so lame. We're going to be easy to dismiss.

Post: #223540
Topic: Remember when everyone hated Return of the Jedi?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/223540/action/topic#223540
Time: 30-Jun-2006 6:53 PM

The ewoks. Whatever underdog metaphor he was going for kind of got lost in the cheap, klutzy execution. It all just looked like people in ill-fitting suits. And if you think too much about it, they didn't really do much of anything. They made some racket so Chewie and Han could do the important stuff. The team could've been captured, thrown in a cell, then somehow rescued by R2 and 3P0. Then, like they planned, the team blows up the generator Dirty Dozen style. We wouldn't even need the little bastards.

Post: #223010
Topic: Remember when everyone hated Return of the Jedi?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/223010/action/topic#223010
Time: 29-Jun-2006 3:34 AM

Nothing Leigh Brackett wrote was used in Empire at all. She did one draft before she died. She got a credit out of respect.

Post: #222758
Topic: Remember when everyone hated Return of the Jedi?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/222758/action/topic#222758
Time: 28-Jun-2006 3:21 PM

I'm super-pissed at Lucas these days, but I'm going to defend him a little with regard to Jedi. I also wish Kershner/Kurtz had done it of course, but Jedi was a much bigger story than the intimate Empire. If it had gone out of control like Empire did, it could have been in huge financial trouble, like career-damaging Coppola trouble. Empire was not universally loved and Raiders and E.T. were more successful and more well-liked. Jedi had to be cheap and HAD to have broad appeal. It's a shame but that's how it goes if you're putting 30 million dollars of your own money into something. That's 30 mil in 80s money. And you're about to have a very expensive divorce on top of that! I would crap my pants. I think it's amazing Jedi is as good as it is.