Invader Jenny

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Post: #213404
Topic: I just compared my 'Hoosiers' Anamorphic & Non-Anamorphic DVD's
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/213404/action/topic#213404
Time: 25-May-2006 12:47 PM

Is there anyone out there that can share a screen cap of any anamorphic vs. same movie in non-anamorphic? A picture can speak a 1000 words here.

But your post brings a big weight off my shoulders. They weren't lying when they said "it's not anamorphic, but it's still pretty good."

Originally posted by: CO I'm sorry, but I just don't have the stuff on my computer to do this, and I hope I dont' lose credibility, cause I can understand anyone who is suspect of this post.

Come on, CO! It's you! Like we would doubt you.

Originally posted by: ScruffyTo me, non-anamorphic widescreen materials look pretty bad over fifty inches. (I'm looking at you, original release of Star Trek Generations.)

I just watched that! I've only got like a 30 something TV but I thought it was pretty good. Better than laserdisc (which I also own).

Post: #213403
Topic: What sends the better message to LFL?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/213403/action/topic#213403
Time: 25-May-2006 12:44 PM

Originally posted by: nohandluke
What's more interesting - In the off-chance that the transfer is better than the LD because it is coming from the LDs master and not the LD itself (although it still won't be anywhere close to acceptable)...

I was thinking about that too. I've never really had a problem with watching my actual Laserdiscs. They were bought in like 1992 and my player isn't all that fantastic, but I've been able to live with it.

And since these are coming from the masters I guess we won't have those little prism lines all over the screen (sort of like digital dust). I'm not happy, but since this is the best we have so far (and I do stress the "so far" part) I'm willing to give to the cause.

Post: #213401
Topic: Lucasfilm lunch hour
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/213401/action/topic#213401
Time: 25-May-2006 12:30 PM

Originally posted by: Scruffy
They're going to have to sell amazingly well, or not at all. Anything in between will send a mixed message that LFL is free to interpret however they want.

I know, and that is the sad thing. I've heard from other people at other various boards, and personal friends of mine at the university that they ARE going to buy these DVDs (mostly because they held out in 2004 or have only bootlegs).

All or nothing is what we have to work with, and since so many people already (including myself) are planning to buy them it seems like the "nothing" option really isn't going to work (not with so many people getting this set).

It's like we are all on a SE boat and we need to go all Poseidon on it's ass. To the port side is the September release, to the starboard is the "do nothing" release. We can't tip this boat over if we evenly devide ourselves on deck. And since I see more people filing over to the port side railing, that is where I'm going to throw my weight too to tip this damn thing over.

EDIT: And yes, I also do plan on mailing back the SE disks that will come with this release. Just so I know for sure that Lucas has gotten at least one message that the OOT is all that I wanted. He loves those disks so much, well, he can have them.

Post: #213204
Topic: The Chronology of How My love for Lucas has fallen
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/213204/action/topic#213204
Time: 24-May-2006 9:04 PM

I can't believe how much of a change there was for Lucas between 1976 and 1983. Sure it is 7 years, but wow he sure looked young during A New Hope.

Maybe that is what ate is brain. All the fame and glory that came from his "one hit wonder."

Post: #213198
Topic: Lucasfilm lunch hour
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/213198/action/topic#213198
Time: 24-May-2006 8:57 PM

That's kind of how I see it too. The only bad guy here really is Lucas.

People boycotting this DVD release (even though I understand why) is going to hurt us. We need to see these sales do extremely well. Amazingly well. And even though our complaints are logical and founded, how are we going to let Lucas really know that the OOT disks are the ones we want?

I've pre-ordered mine. I know that they aren't great, but I'm not buying them because "I need them." I have a bootlegged copy. I'm buying them in the hope (and the investment) that a HD disk will come out.

Sure the e-mail response lady said that "it will never happen." But so did people who said that the OOT would never be on DVD. And yet...it will be, in September.

My DVD purchase is an investment and with every investment there is a calculated risk. I'm willing to shell out $35 for the 3 movies, crap-vision or not. I'm not happy with the quality, but my money speaks louder than my letters. Who else but the OOT fans are going to buy this? So when that $$$ sound goes off another tally goes up for "who here wants the OOT on DVD?"

Post: #213188
Topic: Addresses and contacts for various media outlets go in here
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/213188/action/topic#213188
Time: 24-May-2006 8:43 PM

Originally posted by: Master Skywalker
There is no where to go!"

Fixed for ya'.

How do we contact that Criterian guy and beg him to do the Star Wars collection?

Post: #213081
Topic: Grievous Questions... and more!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/213081/action/topic#213081
Time: 24-May-2006 4:41 PM

Wait? Who was grevious?

...oh yeah. I think I remember. He's the dude that was voiced by Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.

Post: #213059
Topic: We start the war from right here
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/213059/action/topic#213059
Time: 24-May-2006 3:31 PM

*raises her hands in battle cry* We have not yet begun to fight!

This has moved beyond quelming fan desires. This is about preservation of HISTORY! And nobody scribbles out the truth and shoddly writes "LOL!!1!11! CGI Jabba teh Hutt!" in the margins.

Lucas, dawn has broken, and our S-foils are locked in attack position.

Post: #213057
Topic: The Official Lucasfilm Response
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/213057/action/topic#213057
Time: 24-May-2006 3:27 PM

What's a "super 8 film reel?" Isn't that a motel chain? Were they showing these in motel rooms?

Post: #213052
Topic: I am losing sleep over this!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/213052/action/topic#213052
Time: 24-May-2006 3:21 PM

You people talk about "fuck it, Star Wars is dead to me" but it sound like you guys are giving too quickly. The road gets a little bumpy and now you want out. The Death Star takes out one of your command ships and now you wanna go home.

Well tough. Once a Star Wars fan, always a Star Wars fan. You give up now, and Lucas wins. We've come this far. We've gotten him to acknowledge us. Hell, he's even caved a little bit and is releasing a version.

But it's a crappy LD version. Why? Because he is afraid of us. Yes, us. The fans. He's afraid that if he does present a good version nobody will like his version and he will have failed himself as a human and a man. Oh boo-hoo.

Giving up is an acclamation of defeat. You don't like Star Wars anymore? Fine. There's the door. And don't let it hit you on the way out.

But if your a fan, a true fan, then join us. Here's your helmet and a nerf gun, with Lucas seeking missiles.

We have not yet begun to fight.

Post: #213041
Topic: The Official Lucasfilm Response
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/213041/action/topic#213041
Time: 24-May-2006 2:55 PM

Could there be some under the table work at Lucasfilm, in our favor?

Read this line again:

So many fans have requested the original movies, we wanted to find a way to bring them to you.
They had to find a way to give it to us. They couldn't just give it too us flat out (because Lucas forbids it), so they had to piggy back it on the SE DVDs.

But since these movies do not represent George's artistic vision, we could not put the extraordinary time and resources into this project as we did with the Special Editions.

Basically, "We would if we could, but Lucas is a prick so we can't."

They know we want it. That is why they are trying to get it out to us. But the enemy forces are hot on their shoulder and they can't very well give us what we want. I don't think Lucas will let them. So they are giving us these DVDs, promoting more of the "unaltered version" angle rather than "bonus, bonus, bonus."

I think the Lucasfilm workers are selling us the movies while George's emperial troops look on as the employees say, "Yes. Here are your DVDs, sir. *wink wink* They contain bonus material. *wink wink* It's not as good as the 2004 version... *gun cock noise*...the, er, definitive version, but I think you will have fun with this. Fun. *wink wink*"

Post: #213039
Topic: The Official Lucasfilm Response
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/213039/action/topic#213039
Time: 24-May-2006 2:44 PM

This has now gone way beyond just giving the fans the old "fist up the ass." We are now talking about the criminal neglect of one of the most influencial and historically important films in cinema history. To hell with Lucas's "vision." To hell with profit margins and sales quota. To firey hell with it all.

This is about preservation of HISTORY, and Lucas is trying to bury it in light of his rewritten version. Our culture's most provocational film is in jeopardy and if we quiet our voices, these movies will die.

Post: #213024
Topic: 1997 & 2000 VHS Boxset Differences?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/213024/action/topic#213024
Time: 24-May-2006 2:05 PM

Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
Wait. How could there possibly be a 1982 boxset that includes Return of the Jedi?
TIME TRAVEL!!

he he he

I didn't even think of that. On the box it make some comment about "15 years ago I set out, blah blah blah" and did some math. I guess it was like an '85 box set or something.

Originally posted by: JarHead413
I still have that box set put away to keep me from completely wearing them out (they are already not so good looking) and use my LD transfer DVD's. Oh the memories.

My aunt wanted to watch ANH for the hell of it and put in that tape version instead of my Faces set. Holy hell was that image crappy. Not only was it pan and scan, but there were water marks on the film. WATER MARKS!! It was all washed out and graining. God it was horrible. I thought my VCR was going to vomit up little bits of Star Wars chunks at any moment it was so bad.

And I did watch A LOT of the SE box set as a young teeny. I saw in the the theaters and just went crazy. But even as a 15 year old, I knew that something wasn't right about the alterations. Such as the Luke line "You're lucky you don't taste very good." Where was it? I liked how cleaned up it looked and the "special footage" added, but something was missing.
Even my little brother noticed, and one day (back in 2002 when he was now 15) we wanted to watch ESB and he said "Let's watch the original version. Put in the laserdisc." I wanted to kiss him. Not in the way that Leia kissed her brother, but there you go.

Post: #213021
Topic: New DVDs NOT 16x9
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/213021/action/topic#213021
Time: 24-May-2006 2:02 PM

You know, until episode I came out I thought that Lucas had directed all 3 OT films. Seriously. I never even occured to my little brain that someone other than Lucas could have directed these fantastic films. I was praising him and worshiping him for the directing work he "supposedly" did.

Had he not brought so much attention to his whoring self I would have continued to think that everything was his own. He then could have had someone else direct the films (like Speilberg this time since Lucas can apparently do whatever the living hell he wants now) and yet I would still have only identified with him.

Not only has he screwed us, he's screwed himself. Brought the ever glaring light on to his one flaw he felt was his weakest: Directing. And now it's quite obvious. The man sucks.

Post: #212704
Topic: Are you gonna buy 'em?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212704/action/topic#212704
Time: 23-May-2006 7:58 PM

At fye.com where I pre-ordered mine, it says that it is Dolby/sensormatic/widescreen.

What the hell does "sensormatic" mean?

Post: #212697
Topic: Make your voices heard! (again) - re the 2006 GOUT DVD being in letterbox format
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212697/action/topic#212697
Time: 23-May-2006 7:43 PM

Originally posted by: Harlock415
I’m an active member in the Star Wars community: a member of the 501st Legion and Fan Force...

*giggles* I understand what you are trying to do, but you might not want to reveal your nerd-ism too much in this letter.

Post: #212692
Topic: Are you gonna buy 'em?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212692/action/topic#212692
Time: 23-May-2006 7:33 PM

I put in my pre-order, but I can still opt out if need be in the coming summer months. So far, I know what I'm getting into. Unless there is word that they will be released again, in better condition, I'll be getting mine in september.

Post: #212690
Topic: 1997 & 2000 VHS Boxset Differences?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212690/action/topic#212690
Time: 23-May-2006 7:30 PM

http://members.aol.com/coddlers/ebay/starwarstrilogytapes2

http://members.aol.com/coddlers/ebay/starwarstrilogytapes1

1982

http://imagehost.vendio.com/bin/imageserver.x/00000000/psylocke/vhs_sw_box_a.jpg

1995 (I love how the main title is "Star Wars" while "a new hope" is tiny and out of the way.

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B00021TLDO.01-A2LWKZGGMBGN21._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

1997

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00004XPP0.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

2000

And I own all of them, except the last one. But I also own, the pre-1995 Laserdiscs, and a bootleg copy on DVD.

Post: #212655
Topic: HOLD ON a second...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212655/action/topic#212655
Time: 23-May-2006 5:37 PM

Originally posted by: Harlock415

Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
You know, it's always annoyed me greatly in my DVDs how the subtitles are in mattes rather than in the picture. So that was a deliberate creative decision too? Damn!

Actually that never bothered me when I had a 4:3 TV I preferred it that way to see more of the pic. But it is now annoying on my 56" Widescreen when I use the zoom to fill the screen on letterboxed movies and now have the subs cut off.

I know! God, I hate that! Do we know where the Jabba lines are going to be? Obviously in the theater they had to be on the screen.

Post: #212653
Topic: New DVDs NOT 16x9
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212653/action/topic#212653
Time: 23-May-2006 5:26 PM

Originally posted by: The Dean of Don Mills
There has been a further statement made from LucasFilm as
to the reasons for what they are doing...
I can't wait to hear this one.

Originally posted by: THX
Aware of the uproar, Lucasfilm is in the process of directly contacting its upset fan base in an attempt to smooth things over.

"Smooth things over?" What the hell is that going to entail? A Lucasfilm Mickey Mouse hat with our names on it?

I don't mind grain. I don't mind mat-lines. I just don't want my movie to be pixilated when I blow it up on a projecter screen. Damn.

Post: #212651
Topic: 1997 & 2000 VHS Boxset Differences?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212651/action/topic#212651
Time: 23-May-2006 5:20 PM

The packaging, I believe. My best friend has the 2000 box, but never openned it.

Post: #212586
Topic: Cut scenes
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212586/action/topic#212586
Time: 23-May-2006 1:10 PM

Maybe when Lucas is dead there will be an ultimate 6 disk set of just the original original trilogy. Something like the Gone with the Wind set. 3 disk are our theatrical movie versions, and 3 other disks that are chalk-full of extra material, including all the delated scenes for each movie.

...It's the dream that keeps on dreaming.

Post: #212585
Topic: Will the OOT *even* be DVD9?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212585/action/topic#212585
Time: 23-May-2006 1:04 PM

Originally posted by: C3PX
It will be great, to get to this film which we would much rather have as the main feature, you will probably have to navigate a bonus menu full of lego advertisments, game demo and trailers for the prequels.

Oh god. I didn't even think of that. What will the openning menu look like? The 2004 version was so cool, but as "bonus" material? Now I'm scared. Probably a pixilated image of Luke with a big shoddy button that says "Duh, Play Moovy".

Post: #212583
Topic: New DVDs NOT 16x9
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212583/action/topic#212583
Time: 23-May-2006 12:54 PM

Even the 35 million tapes of Star Wars out there won't last more than 30 or 40 years. A hundred years from now, the only version of the movie that anyone will remember will be the DVD version [of the Special Edition]...

Oh god in heaven, I hope not.

I have never in my life wanted to punch Lucas so hard.

Post: #212324
Topic: Upcoming DVD covers
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212324/action/topic#212324
Time: 22-May-2006 1:52 PM

Originally posted by: Marvolo
Invader Jenny did you notice the emperor looming in the background of this Episode 2 poster you posted?

Yes. Yes I did. That is why I think it is cool.

Originally posted by: HotRod

http://www.drewstruzan.com/documents/img/gl0605111758356539.jpg

I have always loved that picture of Luke that the artist used for that collage. I called it the "Bambi Eyes" photo, and I love it.