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#62552
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Changes in 2004 DVDs
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/62552/action/topic#62552
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See, I'm starting to like the changes. Yeah I love the old film, and I mean I love them. SW has been in my life since I was 6. That's a long time man.
But with these new changes, he's only trying to make all 6 films fit.
Fair play to the man.
If I was a kid watching all 6 films in a row. I would think WTF??
I garantee(sp?)((I'm so wasted tonight)) you that come 2007, well have a super box set ala Aliens, with both versions of the films. Old and new - The Archival edition!
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#62551
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Lucas: Madman or Genius?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/62551/action/topic#62551
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Originally posted by: Cetera
When did Lucas actually get divorced? I think that episode, coupled with looking at life differently now that he has kids, may have also changed his views a lot. Spielburg has also mellowed a lot with age, and he makes different movies now.

I honestly think that George is not a good director. I think ANH is the lowest quality film of the OT, and not because the effects were more dated or anything. I just don't think George can direct. He's got a decent vision, but he needs someone else to bring it out of the actors, out of the sets, and out of the editing. The best movie of the OT is Empire, and that is because of the director. He was able to adjust, to get what he wanted, to get the best take even if it wasn't what he wanted, to allow the characters to evolve.

In my opinion, the best scene in Empire is Han being put into Carbon freeze. Leia yells to him that she loves him, and Han just looks back at her stoicly, and answers with his brief, "I know." That wasn't in the script. That was Harrison being irritated at having to redo the same take so many times, and yet still being in character, being pissy, and ad libbing something Han would actually say, and in doing so, advancing his character so much with just two words.
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Acording to the docu on the Indy DVD, Lucas was going through a divorce when the were making Temple of doom, hense the reason why it's so dark.

As for the Carbon freezing scene, one, it's one of my faves too, and two, it was more of a case of Ford and Kershner redoing the whole scene, from what Fett says to what Lando says and Vader etc. According to the Making of Empire novel can't remeber what it#'s called even though I own a copy) they needed to justify why Han was in chains, and what he would say to Lando..blah blah.
Actuall this months copy of Empire magazine (nothing to do with SW, just a film mag for the UK) has a whole load of pages quoting the exact converstion between the actors and director regaing that scene. Makes great reading.

ps...I'm so wasted so forgive me if it's full of typos, and makes no sense whatssoever
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#62550
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What did we all expect from the Prequel Trilogy?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/62550/action/topic#62550
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Originally posted by: Luke Skywalker
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Originally posted by: Regicidal_Maniac
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Originally posted by: Luke Skywalker
and to think they made an action figure of Ric Olie....

"now with super standing and saying one line ability!!"
COOL!!


I wish they'd marketed him as Captain Obvious.

"There's the blockade!"
"Coruscant! The entire planet is one big city!"
"Look, there's Chancellor Vallorum's shuttle! And there's Senator Palpatine!"


LMAO!!
please tell me those arent his exact lines from the movie....
anyone who dares say that the script in this movie was good has just been given three great examples as to why it suffers...

LOL
"there's the blockade!"

that should keep me laughing for days..



Yes luke my old mate, they were the exact lines from the film, which I've watched twice in the last 4 days, and enjoyed every minute of it.
I dunno, I quite like TPM. To me it's a little better than AOTC.

You see, on paper these films are really good.
I do think that Lucas has come up with a really good story here.
If you sit down and think about the way the characters meet, why certain things happen the way they do, etc,
you'll realise that it's very clever.
Lucas may not pull it off on screen, but talking about the story is actually more rewarding than watching the story.

He's (Lucas) quite clever you know, for a human being! -

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#62548
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The tauntaun stiffy thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/62548/action/topic#62548
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Originally posted by: Hal 9000
This isn't a line, per say.

But in ROTJ when Han is running from the shield generator yelling "Move!" and jumps down on the ground some few meters away from it.
Then it cuts back to show a HUGE explosion, covering a great distance.
Cut back to Han who is just barley a few meters away, smiles, and dashes off.

Unintentionally hilarious.


Can I be picky here. He was running away from the back door to the shield shit. What we see blown up is the main shield shit.
Han and co were at the back door to the shield shit!

Just the clear that shit up
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#62442
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Who Here has a Home Theather Setup.
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/62442/action/topic#62442
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Well ive got a 256inch fuck off plasma projection flat screen LCD baby in my front room.
Also have a Dvd super high definition superior sound h2O blue chip multi channel FX007 big boys nuts player
With a 2100 gigawatts copper coiled HD32638 ball busting GZ27 Amplifier
Speakers 5600watts multi channel 8 speaker 25w set up with ding dong bassbooster SD5628162


Yeah baby, mine rocks!
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#62294
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DEVASTATED
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/62294/action/topic#62294
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Originally posted by: Brias
Which then raises the question of who kills Jedi Shaft. According to Jackson he goes out in a blaze of glory, but who's goning to get the drop on him.

Brias


Isn't it..........now do we talk spoilers here, coz I've read alot of shit, but not sure if I can say or not?!

But I know the scene when Mace dies, and it sounds like a goody!! Well I think I do anyway?!!?