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#89909
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Troy - for all your Trojan needs
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Originally posted by: GlopOfGrease
I totally agree about the demythologising of Troy. Most of the movie was pretty good, not great. The thing that really bugged me was that the gods were not talked about. I don't need the gods to be played by actors, but this was a society where everything was correlated to their gods. It would be like making a movie about Jedis and never talking about the force. One guy in Troy talked about the gods being angry at the Greeks for destroying Apollo's Temple and he seems to be treated like he's a religious nut. If I were one of the Greeks, I would be pissed at Achilles for angering Apollo. Apollo is not a god that you would want against you.
My other main problem was that the Trojan War took ten years while the span of the movie was about two weeks. Also, the love story didn't work. Other than than that, it wasn't a bad movie.


I agree with Gundark Hunter.

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#89152
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Comic book movies - who says yes and who says no?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/89152/action/topic#89152
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Don't know if this has come up yet or not, but "Elektra" is bombing badly at the box office (it actually got beaten by "Racing Stripes" in its first weekend!). This prompted the magazined Entertainment Weekly to write an article on whether or not there's any future for "superchick flicks" and the article went on and on about how "Elektra" failed because it's cheapter to just stay home and watch Jennifer Garner do the same schtick on "Alias" and how there aren't any good models for "superchick" movies to follow and how male members of the audience are scared of scantily clad dominatrix women.

How about trying "Crap is crap, and people won't waste their money on seeing crap?"
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#89117
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Empire of Dreams - what was your imagined Star Wars story...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/89117/action/topic#89117
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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
I think that Darth Simon's ideas earlier in the thread are excellent aand I really really (unrealistically) hope that Georgy is reading this and he goes and shoots some pickup scenes and reedits ROTS to at least be a bit like Simon's version. One thing I just want to add though - Obi Wan should see Anakin's lightsaber along with his other possesions, and maybe pick it up and look at it sadly, but then put it back down, then Vader appears helmetless (we don't see his face) tells Obi Wan that his friend is 'No More', then the camera swings round as the helmet goes on and we see Vader from the front in all his glory. He switches on his new Red lightsabre and they fight. Obi Wan loses his lightsaber (it get's knocked out of his hand, or maybe Vader takes it from him using the force and throws it down a hole or something) so Obi Wan uses Anakin's saber to fend off vader (oh the Irony - Anakin's blue saber Vs Vader's red one...) then escapes as the ship is attacked. Vader walks away.


That's good stuff Yoda-Dad.
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#88889
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Troy - for all your Trojan needs
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/88889/action/topic#88889
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And speaking of Lord of the Rings, the Greeks attempt to invade Troy reminded me a lot of when the Uruk-hai tried to invade Helms Deep in Two Towers and the orcs invading Gondor in Return of the King. I almost expected to see Aragorn fighting along side the Greeks at one point, and at another point I expected to see Hector wrestling with an orc.

Hey, Aragorn VS. Hector, who'd you think would win? Or Aragorn VS Achilles, whichever you prefer.
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#88879
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Empire of Dreams - what was your imagined Star Wars story...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/88879/action/topic#88879
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Originally posted by: Rebel11_38
Do you think that Episodes I & II could be condensed into one movie? I think most of the story elements could be condensed to make one solid film, but could the two movies be edited together believably?

What do you all think? I would like to hear about both it from both viewpoints. Looking at it practically, (meaning could the editing actually be done to make it happen), and hypothetically (just the story itself).

Hit me.


I think what we saw in Episode I should never have been written on the printed screenplay.

Part of the personality split would probably require Anakin to have blackouts that give him a few minutes to let the Vader personality kick in so that pre-mechanical Vader can go do evil things, followed by another blackout that gives the Anakin personality a few minutes to reapply itself before the whole giving-in-to-the-dark-side thing was complete.