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#169223
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Any GOOD memories of the PT?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/169223/action/topic#169223
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I know we are pretty purist when it comes to the films and granted the PT is subpar compaired to, well, just about everything - esspecially Star Wars.

But I was thinking the other day. Do any of you have any great memories tied with the PT? I was there for all the excitement and the hype (and the painful let down) that the PT provided and I do have some wonderful memories associated with the films. Granted I don't much care for the movies, but I have been known to sit down and watch it if it is on (such as when my aunt watched Episode I over semester break). I don't like the movies, but it does bring up some great memories.


TPM - I was 14 years old and living in Japan. My 2 best friends and I were so psyched it was obsured. I was on a small American Base so the theater had one screen and we had to drive to the other base opposite the island to see it. I still have the Japanese Coke cans that had full color photos of the cast on them. I ate at Taco Bell so I could have the Anakin mug. All 3 of us bought the novel and each tried to get a different cover (I got obi-wan's). I had about 3 different posters and flipped out whenever I saw the "Duel of Fates" on MTV. I saw the movie twice in the theater and bought about 2 T-shirts when I was in Hawaii. I was so young and so hyped up, and even made a fan movie called "The Franchise Menace" where I played Obi-Wan and my other friends were Darth Maul and the Queen. We had some damn fine costumes.
Those were some good times. I may think the movie is lame, but it will always remind me when I knew how to have nerdy fan-girl fun.


AOTC - I was a senior in high school and quite fond of my then boyfriend. He was a sweet guy and it was my first real boyfriend I had ever had. Convienient the second Star Wars movie was a love story. It was the only film that didn't say the word "midichlorians" and once again, I was overseas and had to see the movie in a German theater. It was in English and it was the finest theater I have ever been in. Plush, clean, very "broadway" like. The germans do love their entertainment. Good times. And the Love Theme is still wonderful.


ROTS - this just came out, but I still have some great memories with it. I was just in my Junior year of college and taking summer classes to stay on top of things. It was the first time I had to take classes down town and boy was it hot. I can remember sitting in my film class for 3 hours in the afternoon watching old Bogart films thinking, "I think I'm gonna go see ROTS again when I'm done with class." I had the soundtrack in my car for who knows how long (John Williams is a music god). I can remember sitting at the bus stop waiting for my campus bus to come and bring me back home and thinking, "Sure that ROTS movie wasn't as good as I had hoped, but it had some cool qualities...aside from the NOOOOOO! part." It was summer, it was warm, I was in shorts and I had the soundtrack on my CD player while on the beach. The movie sucked, but the memories are great.


With these movies and I can see them and see myself growing up with them, even if I didn't have a choice. I can see myself from a little girl who had hope that these movies were going to be awesome and soaked up what I could, to a young girl experiancing romance for the first time, to eventually a studying film student sitting out in the sun thinking, "Well, I suppose it could have been worse. Not too shabby."


The films may have sucked, but their presence brings good memories to mind. How 'bout you?
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#169183
Topic
'Merge' Article- Lucas in his own words
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/169183/action/topic#169183
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THREAD DERAIL:

How do you think Luke got his X-Wing back? He left it there on Cloud City. Did he go back and fight the Emperials who had taken over the city to get his craft back? Or was that a new X-Wing we saw in ROTJ.

My theory, is that the Emperials left the city after Landa high tailed it out of there and Luke got dropped off by Leia so he could pick up his fighter.


And I have never had a problem with the whole Luke/Leia love triangle. It makes perfect sense to me. Who cares if Lucas didn't plan it from the beginning. The plot line works. Role with it baby.
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#169153
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5-25-77 Documentary
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/169153/action/topic#169153
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Originally posted by: skye_solo
I've heard of this movie for ages. It seems like it will never see the light of day. I hope it will, but it seems very, very buried even tho it's finished.


Why? I mean, it looks professional and all. Hell, they've got Lloyd in there doing some sort of role. I don't think that he would star in some student film. Plus, Gary Kurtz's name is on there too.

This looks quite interesting. I really hope that I'll get to see this, some how. Maybe even in the theater. Though at the bottom of the page is looks like a low budget fan film or something. I doubt it will come to any Cineplex...

What exactly is this movie about?
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#169147
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Changes you want (or don't want) to the 2007 archival editions
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/169147/action/topic#169147
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I have nothing against him, it's just that McCallum wouldn't be that bad of a guy if he would just stop sucking Lucas's dick for 2 minutes.

I listened to the first few mintues of the ROTS DVD commentary and had to stop it at minute 4 because I was so sick of him verbally blow jobbing Lucas and his "creative vision for this movie." I haven't gone back to that damn DVD since.
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#168938
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So, what would happen if he did release the OOT on DVD?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/168938/action/topic#168938
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Well, considering that all of us are here because we PINE for the original trilogy to be on DVD, that at the single anouncement of "The trilogy will be on DVD tomorrow" we'd be all over those DVD's like a pile of horny chipmonks during mating season.

Blue-what? Who cares? Unless the technology is so advanced that I don't even need a remote anymore and I can just chapter skip by using my using my mind, I ain't buying nothing.

Now, if GL only release the OT on Blue-Ray DVD, then I will buy that box set and wait for the DVD player's to go on sale some time down the road.
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#168936
Topic
Ideas For The T.V. Series
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/168936/action/topic#168936
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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
If it must happen, the TV show should be a band of brothers style show about a new bunch of trainee Jedis under the tutelage of Luke Skywalker, played by Mark Hamill, post ROTJ.


My god that would be great. It would be like "orgasm on ice: the musical." Dude, totally. That would rock so hard.
And since George Lucas doesn't really want to do anything with the TV show (i.e., direct, be on set) other than hack out some sort of loose plot for the directers to follow, the show could be gold. Better than the PT (which really wouldn't be all that hard to do given some tallent.)

Wow... dammit! That is what I want to watch. That is what the public needs. We need something like that to wash the bad taste out of our mouths that the PT left behind.
We don't need anymore of the "Boba Fett Show and his band of merry bounties" thank you very much. God in heaven....
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#168934
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'Merge' Article- Lucas in his own words
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/168934/action/topic#168934
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People probably do confront him with these types of questions, but he then has them secretly killed and buried out at Skywalker Ranch.

But the whole GL statment that "episodes 7, 8, 9 thing is totaly BS. I never said that. Ever. You are all lying. It was the media! The media I SAY!!" pisses me off. Not to mention the fact that he is pushing this "Star Wars is Anakin's story" bullshit that none of us is buying. "It was my original vision from the beginning." Buuuuuuuuuuulshit!

Look, I have an ORIGINAL copy of the 1976 book that he wrote titled "Star Wars: The Adventures of Luke Skywalker." Sorry, buddy, but I don't see nuthin' that will make me believe that Star Wars is about Anakin.

The PT, yes, I can buy that. But to say that the original trilogy is Anakin as the central figure? Pfftt. Show the Original Trilogy to someone who has never see a single Star Wars movie and then quickly ask them at the end "Who was the story about?" What do you think they are gonna say?

*said in Carlos Mencia voice* "Dur, they're gonna thay Luke Thkywalker! Der de-der!"
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#168026
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A Future For Futurama?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/168026/action/topic#168026
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I am one of the biggest Futurama freaks out there, but I don't want the show come back in "show" form. I had heard talks from Matt himself that said he wanted to end the show by making 3 movies and ending it like that, a la "Star Wars trilogy" or something like that.

Family Guy has only be brought back to life for less than a year and the show is already starting to get sour. Recently the episodes have just been, "Hey, remember that one time when I...(cut to some knock on pop-culture). Yeah, and that one time when Stewie and I...(cut to some other reference)." There is no more substance to that show anymore. Where the hell is the plot?

I can easily see Futurama going down that path. I say, let the show die and bring on the feature length movies!!
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#167632
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What Star Wars has meant to you
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/167632/action/topic#167632
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Well (and apprently I've hijacked this thread here), I've always had an affinity for entertainment media (TV, movies, radio, theater, stage). I was originally I biology major, but couldn't pass organic chemistry, so I switch gears and took control of my other love - media.

I can't explain why I fell in love with cartoons. Probably because it is lower key, you can do anything in a cartoon, the potential for storylines is endless, and I have the utmost respect for voice actors. It's a art higher than anything Hollywood can produce. In audio, you focus on pure form and delivery of the line. You don't fuss with wardrobe and shout out "I'm ready for my close up now, Mr. Divile!"

To quote Mark Hamill, while working on the Radio Drama, "Radio is a very different form. Here, nobody can see how silly you look as you pretend to dangle from a weather vane. It's all about the delievery of the lines."

With the line of work that I want to go into, chances are good that I might actually work the Mr. Hamill himself from time to time, including a list of other well respected voice actors.