Invader Jenny

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Join date: 10-Nov-2005
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Post: #216326
Topic: Big Brother sits down and watches Star Wars
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/216326/action/topic#216326
Time: 5-Jun-2006 2:17 PM

Originally posted by: greencapt
Doubleplusgood post Jenny!

I didn't get your comment there till just a few minutes ago. I was reading on the bus and came across Syme's comments to Winston during their lunch break. I laughed.

Post: #216180
Topic: Upcoming release German covers!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/216180/action/topic#216180
Time: 4-Jun-2006 11:35 PM

Ha! I never noticed the Luke thing. Creepy. I also like how none of the main characters have ever made it into the cover of ESB outside of the OT. SE, 2004 release? Nope. That's the good one, so Lucas is all like, "You wanna see the characters you love? Ha! Here, have some Lando and Boba Fett, bitch! No, Luke's not in this movie. Shut up."

Post: #216178
Topic: Big Brother sits down and watches Star Wars
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/216178/action/topic#216178
Time: 4-Jun-2006 11:29 PM

True. I just wanted to point out the creepy parallels I found, not to pimp the up coming DVDs.

Post: #216175
Topic: HAPPY SATAN DAY!!!!!!!!!!!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/216175/action/topic#216175
Time: 4-Jun-2006 11:24 PM

Ooo...tomorrow's no good for me. How's 'bout Wednesday?

Happy 62nd anniversary of the D-Day battle of Normandy!

Post: #216172
Topic: Dont give up being a fan
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/216172/action/topic#216172
Time: 4-Jun-2006 11:21 PM

In a twist of irony, no mater how much of an angel Lucas may become, I will always hate the PT.

Dudes, seriously. I popped in my Episode III DVD today (temporary brain anuarism) and pretty much chapter searched until I said, "Oh yeah. This scene...lets see...yup. That sucked. Dear god! The dialogue! So...horrible...brain hurting... Hayden...can't...act... *dies*

Post: #216165
Topic: Big Brother sits down and watches Star Wars
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/216165/action/topic#216165
Time: 4-Jun-2006 11:07 PM

I just recently picked up my latest summer reading from my night stand and came across something...disturbing. So much in fact that I felt it best to share here.

I've just started the classic "1984." And already I can't turn my brain off from drawing parallels with our own situation and those found in this book.

Let me read to you chapter one, section IV (page 40):

"As soon as all the corrections which happen to be necessary in any particular number of the Times [newspaper]...that number would be reprinted, the original copy destroyed, and the corrected copy placed on the files in its stead. This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound tracks, cartoons, photographs..."

Sound familiar? Oh it gets even more specific:

"Books, also, were recalled and rewritten again and again, and were invariably reissued without any admission that any alteration had been made."

I'm sorry, but that is just frightening. Already this book is scaring me and to find such distinct parallels with our situation is unnerving. Our fight for the originals goes much more beyond "nerd purism." Too many people have rolled with the "improvements" Lucas has made. They accept it at face value and claim we all just bitch too much. Big Brother has spoken and they all nod their heads, and like a parrot squawk out "Original vision, original vision, wawk! He-who!"

Remember, this fight is about preserving cinema history. It always starts out small, but this could grow to more and more movies and soon we'll be left with nothing but X-Treem Gone with the Wind! full of lasers and northern aggressor cyborgs.

I have no problems with alterations, retractions, or corrections. Lucas can alter his movies till the cows come home. But when he denies that the originals never even existed (Lucas interview: "These are the films I want out there. The originals don't exist any more for me."), and refuses to let the originals see the light of day, then we start to get into some problems. (See also, Song of the South)

I am convinced even more now to buy the DVDs in September. Not in any real hope that a better HD disc will be out there someday, but because I don’t want to loose the movies that I love so much before Big Brother makes any more alterations to them.

Post: #216153
Topic: 10 Other Things That Han Shot That Didn't Shoot At Him First
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/216153/action/topic#216153
Time: 4-Jun-2006 10:20 PM

I have a feeling Han would shoot this baby kitten right between the eyes. Yes, he's that much of a bad-ass.

http://www.babyanimalz.com/Images/kittenbig.jpg

And this of course, is how Lucas saw Greedo. He was only offering a bounty of love, Han!! How could you!!?

http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/5827/hamster4qo.jpg

Post: #216122
Topic: 10 Other Things That Han Shot That Didn't Shoot At Him First
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/216122/action/topic#216122
Time: 4-Jun-2006 6:33 PM

"There might have been space kittens in there!"

I will never view that scene the same again.

Post: #216111
Topic: Upcoming release German covers!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/216111/action/topic#216111
Time: 4-Jun-2006 5:42 PM

Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
Actually, despite the fact that it is on the ANH cover, that picture of Mark Hamill as Luke was taken after ANH and after his car accident.

Yeah, I noticed that too. That car accident never really did that much of an alteration on his face. It just seems that his nose was...changed some how. To this day I still can't figure out what exactly it was that changed. I just know it's different some how.

http://www.sandcrawler.com/SWB/Images/StarWars/Classico/105-520.jpg

http://blogs.starwars.com/static/img/image-selector/full/original-trilogy/episode-v/07.jpg

Post: #216064
Topic: Return of the Jedi Script Game
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/216064/action/topic#216064
Time: 4-Jun-2006 12:00 PM

Vader: As you wish.

Emp: Everything is proceeding as I have forseen it. *swivels electric chair*

Post: #216063
Topic: Upcoming release German covers!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/216063/action/topic#216063
Time: 4-Jun-2006 11:50 AM

Ach! Mein lebin! Vas is das?

Looks like we got the better deal.

EDIT: I also noticed how different Luke looks from the first to the third. In ANH he's so youthful and determined. And then by ROTJ he's war weary and burden ridden.

Post: #215944
Topic: X-MEN 3 PSYCHO REVIEW
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/215944/action/topic#215944
Time: 3-Jun-2006 10:20 PM

How about pity?

I've only seen her in X-Men. She sucks.

Post: #215942
Topic: DVD controversy mentioned on imdb.com
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/215942/action/topic#215942
Time: 3-Jun-2006 10:15 PM

Power and money has corrupted the once imaginative mind of George Lucas. Bottom line. That simple.

Post: #215940
Topic: Dont give up being a fan
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/215940/action/topic#215940
Time: 3-Jun-2006 10:04 PM

For many of us, Star Wars was our childhood. It's not so much that we fell in love with a simple movie, but that the movie stole our hearts.

The bedroom that we called our sanctuary, was our haven. In it we had an ESB poster, Han Solo and Princess Leia 12" dolls, Star Wars bedsheets, and an assortment of X-Wings and Emperial shuttle crafts proudly displayed on our bookshelf.
Then Lucas, the almighty redecorator, came in tore down our posters, burned our sheets, and smashed our dolls - all while hasitly replacing them with Jar-Jar action figures, CGI Jabba the Hutt wallpaper, and floating Anakin-head mobiles.

He didn't even let us keep our old toys. He trashed them in place of these "better, cooler" toys he shoved in our room.

Star Wars is my childhood, and I'll be damned if I'm going to just sit here and let Lucas take a crap all over my past.

Post: #215937
Topic: The Most Boring Commentator Ever
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/215937/action/topic#215937
Time: 3-Jun-2006 9:45 PM

Originally posted by: Switch Radic
I also love the commentary from "comic book: the movie."

Isn't that the little film that Mark Hamill was in? How good is that? I'm not a comicbook geek by any means, but I am quite the nerd. Unfortunatly, I think Hugh Hefner was in that film and well...I have a serious problem with that guy.

Post: #215934
Topic: As Much As I'd Love A Remastered Version of the OOT....
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/215934/action/topic#215934
Time: 3-Jun-2006 9:39 PM

I think that some day we will have a nice remastered version, but it won't be until Lucas is gone. No getting around that. Until then, I'll be quite happy with the DVDs coming out in September. I've loved the quality and the coloration on the Laserdiscs, so I'll be happy. I don't want to even come near a Falcon Green saber or a Pink Vader puss saber. No thank you. Plus, I like my Yavin 4 Death Star Trench Run Battle to have proper music levels (conscious creative decision my ass).

Post: #215626
Topic: The Most Boring Commentator Ever
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/215626/action/topic#215626
Time: 2-Jun-2006 12:13 PM

Originally posted by: The Dark Lord
whoa, Jenny.
EDIT: for the record, i'm not actually a trucker, but i share some of their sensibilities.
btw, are you drunk or something?

Lord no. What would give you that impression? I wasn't actually yelling that outloud. It was what my brain was screaming while I was watching the movie. My outward appearence was calm and collected. I simpley got up, turned off the TV, sighed saddly, and said, "Well screw that."

Originally posted by: JediFlyer06
I'm so glad someone else picked up on Ben's disdain on the special features... The look on his face and his body language say it all.

I know people have noticed, those that watched the episode III featurette where Lucas comes into the storyboard room or something, and everyone around is all stiff and nervous. It is so painfully obvious.

And about the Jake Lloyd casting. I totally agree. I remember watching it and when we finally get to see Jake, I was not impressed. He even screws up his lines and starts ad-libbing. It sucked. I remember thinking, "Dude, this kid sucks. There were ton better kids at that audition. His was the worst. Why did they pick him? Oh I see...he "looks" the part. Pfft. That piss poor casting."

Also, also - I see an enherent flaw in Lucas's thinking and audiance expectations. Lucas cast Jake because he was the most "innocent." He didn't have the evil strength that some of those other boys did (like the "I won't always be" boy). Lucas wanted to present us with a pure boy. Okay.... it's going to make it that much harder for the audiance to accept him as our future Vader...
And with Hayden, during Episode II Lucas had to constantly reign him in, telling him "don't act so angry, lower the evil a bit." So how did Anakin come across in the film? That right, he became frustrated and whiny. We lost all of the deep, rummbly elements and got a high pitched, tinny sounding Anakin. So when the time came for the dark side "turn" we were left sitting there going, "Damn. That poorly excecuted."

Post: #215625
Topic: Dont give up being a fan
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/215625/action/topic#215625
Time: 2-Jun-2006 12:09 PM

Yeah....

I don't think that many of us are going to up and leave Star Wars behind. Many of us can't help but be a fan no mater the circumstances. Me being a Star Wars fan is as enherent as me being female. I was born it, and I can't change it. My father was a huge Star Wars fan (he still is but now he is "too mature" to bubble about it anymore, apparently after your 5th masters degree you have to tone down your nerdum a bit), and I pretty much enherited all of his genetic material, from looks to likes.

So I can't stop being a Star Wars fan. No mater how much of an ass Lucas is.

Post: #215500
Topic: Close call for "Attack of the Sith"
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/215500/action/topic#215500
Time: 1-Jun-2006 6:38 PM

It's also annoying.

Post: #215499
Topic: The Most Boring Commentator Ever
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/215499/action/topic#215499
Time: 1-Jun-2006 6:36 PM

I loved the commentaries for the Futurama episodes. Those where cool.

And I cannot stand the Star Wars commentaries. I put in my Episode III disk one afternoon and was going to listen to the commentary. After only 4, count them - 4 minutes, of listening to Lucas and McCallum talk, I had to turn it off. I simply could not stand to hear Rick McCallum suck off George Lucas' dick anymore. Right from the beginning he would not take his lips off that man's fat ass. "And right here is so classic George. The Battle sequence is just spectacular..." SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP!

Post: #215332
Topic: Return of the Jedi Script Game
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/215332/action/topic#215332
Time: 1-Jun-2006 12:30 PM

Adm: It's an older code, but it checks out. I was about to clear them.

Post: #215331
Topic: Idea: X-Men 3 - Deleted Scenes - fan edit?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/215331/action/topic#215331
Time: 1-Jun-2006 12:28 PM

Originally posted by: crazyrabbits

-(from trailer) Logan telling Bobby before the final battle, "You might not come back. She (Kitty) might not come back. Are you ready for that?" and Bobby saying, "We're not kids anymore."

I was actually waiting for that scene! I remember sitting in the theater going "when is he going to say that line?" I thought it was a good line. I hope they put it back in the DVD version.

And this movie could have been a ton longer.

Post: #215330
Topic: X-MEN 3 PSYCHO REVIEW
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/215330/action/topic#215330
Time: 1-Jun-2006 12:19 PM

Cool. I was disapointed that he "died" the way he did. I mean, if they are going to kill off a main character, at least have the sense to show us his death.

Post: #215098
Topic: X-MEN 3 PSYCHO REVIEW
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/215098/action/topic#215098
Time: 31-May-2006 2:45 PM

I know nothing about the comics or the cartoon show. Never read them, never saw them.

I do, however, love the movies. I've got the first 2 on DVD and saw X3 this past weekend. I thought it was great. I did feel that it was a bit short, but not too bad.

*Spoilers*

The only thing that I hated was the scene where Magneto dumps the Golden Gate Bridge on the shore and it is dusk outside, and then the scene cuts to troops running out of the building and now it's magically midnight outside! Yeah.... Piss poor editing there fellas.

But I thought the movie was good. I don't know why Scott was killed off so early in the film, though. I mean he's there for 4 minutes, cries about Jean, and then is dead. And we don't even get to see him die. WTF?!

Post: #215096
Topic: We have to buy this set atleast to preserve it for the next generation of fans
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/215096/action/topic#215096
Time: 31-May-2006 2:31 PM

Lucas may have well said that the unmasking scene will never be altered, but I don't know why he would say that. He already insulted Shaw by replacing him during the end scene. What difference would it make if he replaced him in the unmasking scene too? He already crossed the line. What's stopping him from just going all the way?