JadedSkywalker

I wonder what happened to the site admin that site hasn’t been updated in ages. Also, they suspended and apparently deleted the forums that used to be there unless they are archived somewhere.

I never got too heavy into CED i have the Star Wars trilogy and was looking at getting some other ones but players are expensive. And it’s about equal to VHS quality so it’s not worth the money sink.

I did want to get the Hobbit Rankin Bass to see which version it was.

My Mom’s aide gave me attitude and accused me of things i’m not even doing, she gets paid an enormous amount of money to work 5 hours a week. I put in that amount daily and I don’t get paid.

Twice today I had picked my mom’s recycling off the ground because she put in bin with no lid and its blowing, blowing around.

And her aide gets angry at her for being in a wheelchair, but my mom likes her she would sooner fire me.

God forbid her aide follows the rules on putting recycling in the recycle instead of the trash dumpster. It was just as suggestion not an accusation.

Trash and recycling it doesn’t matter, well the environment matters to me lady.

And the attitude I have to the work the day after new years. so did I every single bleeping year, you deserve a medal.

Me storing stuff at mom’s place are you kidding me, I have boxes of her pictures and glassware and god knows what else in my apartment.

The last 7 months moving 3 times and dealing with the new owners who took over the apartments who want to run it like a Condo has been hellish. Lets hope 2025 is better. Though accusing me of not paying first and last when I know I paid I have to go the bank and get statements to prove it. Accommodating to the disabled and elderly hardly, they no longer have covid as excuse to mistreat us. You call there no one ever answers, and the office doors are always locked and they are only open twice a week 9-12. But maintenance is there 6 days a week. Moved me into a new unit with no room, paying more rent less freedom, no back yard, can’t make noise. Crazy neighbors. I could have done without the entire charade. Plus I always have neighbor’s false complaints and following me and taping me with their phone. Years ago you could cook hamburgers outside or run a garden hose without someone tattling. Now god forbid i put up my tv loud enough to watch a film, forget about it.

They were concerned more with corporate synergy than telling a story, they treated the sequels like toy commercial. A way to move other merchandise. I mean come on its Disney they are about the theme parks and merch.

I would love a Rey standalone or episodes 10, 11 and 12. If they can outline them and have an actual story and worldbuilding. And not have to have tie ins fix it for them later or tv series. I think they haven’t learned a thing from the Clone Wars or prequel situation, if anything they’ve made the same mistakes Lucas did and more. Because at least the prequel had progression and world building.

And the EU gave developing character arcs for Han, Luke and Leia that sequels failed at. And Luke successfully passed on what he had learned, became a husband and a father. His Jedi order lasted over a hundred years. Lukes in Disney lasted 6 years or something like that.

And the New Republic and Empire are never even addressed in the sequel trilogy at all. They created a First Order and Resistance just so they could do Rebels VS Empire again. They did the Kylo thing because they wanted another Vader.

I’m not in that group of people, excited to go out and read 3 comic series and several novels to fix someone’s bad movie.

Even the merchandising and Disney EU consumed the movies under Disney, the all one canon nonsense, just make a good movie forget about that stuff. Don’t MCU Star Wars so people have to do homework. Do your exposition within the film.

Retcons can only get you so far. I almost feel bad for the story group, because there is supposed to be a canon they follow with these movies, and nobody believes in it anymore. Not when Filoni changes something every five minutes, they got themselves into a fine mess and unlike the old canon they can’t push it into legends and say this was never canon.

Yes, it is LPCM.

Dolby Surround.

Depending on my mood it might just be the original film, radio drama and books and comics from the 70s and 80s.

Or might extend to the entire Star Wars trilogy but nothing before 1997.

Some of the EU books are in there not all, i have to give it a thought, but the Zahn books the original ones not Disney.

Dark Empire I and II but not Empire’s End.

Tales of the Jedi, the X-wing books.

Basically, nothing prequel or Disney. Though I will say how much i enjoyed those prequel era games, comics, pre Filoni material.

I do like Young Jedi Knights and for me Jedi Academy trilogy is a mixed bag. But i wish there was an alternate EU after Vision of the Future which isn’t the Vong Invasion, so no New Jedi Order, and no Legacy of the Force, or Fate of the Jedi. Jacen doesn’t become Hayden Skywalker 2.0 .No New Sith of week and if there was way to do so, I would have limited the Superweapon of the week in Bantam and Dark Horse.

Anakin isn’t killed because George was confused over two Anakin’s. Mara isn’t killed. Boba Fett doesn’t do what he did in those books training Jaina.

Han, Leia and Luke retire gracefully and the new generation takes over. They aren’t slaughtered for shock value, die for completely no reason. Or lie down and will themselves to die.

Is it possible that the art for the Special Wide Star Wars sets Rikter created is still available, I’m trying to identify if I have that set of DVDS.

Sometimes a non-negative review or middle of the road review will be scaled as a rotten. If it’s not a glowing review that entire system is flawed.

A lot of movies are going to hit that middle road from an excellent film to the worst movie ever made.

But the aggregate is being used to promote Fresh and Rotten. And they’ll be rotten film you’ll enjoy but the critics hated, and they’ll be 90% fresh films you see, you will absolutely loathe.

Cinema Score can also be misleading there are some atrociously bad films that get an A rating.

I suppose you can see critics as being the first influencers, before youtube personalities and social media stars. Or even in my day pop star idols, you were told what music to listen to, how to dress and so on. and it was all about corporate and capitalist ventures.

Make up your own mind, and have your own identity is a maxim.

I thoroughly dislike review bombing, brigading and gatekeeping. If that is what you referring to SuperWeapon.

RT is simply supposed to take reviews from other sites and be an aggregate. But they treat them like the new Siskel and Ebert or something.

And I didn’t always agree with them either. Or the Peter Travers of the world, but at least they had some journalistic knowledge and knew movies.

I agree in spirit with what you are saying nobody should be mistreated for liking Star Wars. Or harassed.

For me Star Wars is the first three movies. And only first two are good. The third is mediocre. They are fundamental Star Wars, the prequel is supplemental. Disney is almost elseworlds, in fact some days I consider the Sequel trilogy to be Infinities, despite having Mark, Carrie and Harrison in them. Despite disappointment, I don’t want those films erased.

The artists and creatives who worked on them deserve to be respected, if not lauded critically.

But what one considers canon to them personally and what is official Star Wars are two separate things.

There are too many Darth’s in Star Wars. Vader should be the only one.

Every Sith being named Darth something is ridiculous.

Flash Gordon Soundtrack by Queen.

The Speeder Bike chase is horrible the entire background and city looks cgi generated and badly at that. It seriously looks worse than Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.

I don’t mind Joan Jett in Star Wars, but the other costumes look terrible, and the bikes look like nothing Star Wars. The blue bike is especially gaudy looking.

Did you find out what kind of soundtrack. optical or magnetic. stereo or mono.

Also how do you go about restoring the color using some software tools?

Its hardly the least desirable Bond i saw a Ib tech 16mm sell for thousands of dollars.

I liked how plucky and heroic and idealistic Rose was, to almost a foolhardy degree. Everyone was screaming at me when I said I liked her character. And I very much disliked when JJ made her a nothing in episode 9. She was all but written out of the movie, in a seeming desire to erase The Last Jedi, and all the elements people complained about, were reversed/retconned. So Rise of Skywalker was a sequel to Force Awakens but not the last Jedi making a sort of duology and no trilogy, I feel like this was a huge mistake.

How do they move forward in the next movie, I have no idea where the story can go. But I’m sure that is why writers get paid to be creative.

Anchorhead said:

Fan_edit_fan said:

This still isn’t going to save this franchise.

The Franchise is 46 years old and includes 12 films, 16 television shows, 110 video games, 380 novels, and nearly 1000 comic books (maybe more, I’m not too sure about my arithmetic). This far in, there’s something for everyone regardless of story preference, age, format, etc. No one thing can save it or sink it at this point. It doesn’t even need saving. It’s a product now, like potato chips. Sometimes they release a Lobster Roll (vile) and sometimes it’s a Salt & Pepper (delicious).

As has long been my thought on the matter - watch what you like, ignore the rest. I can’t fathom why some fans still do battle with a franchise.

Oh, and one awesome 6-hour radio version of the original story. 😉

47 years, you could even say 48 if you are talking about the 1976 novelization. As for the Radio Drama, fantastic. It’s a pretty great standalone story, same with the 1977 film.

So far this series is enjoyable.

I mean I liked the Sixth Sense and I used to like Signs but I don’t now.

But After Earth and The Last Airbender are two of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. And the village was just very, very weird.

I know I hated Unbreakable, but it was when the DVD first came out. I can’t articulate why when i don’t remember the movie it was a very bad comic book movie.

I guess he is an acquired taste as far as filmmakers go, like if you hate a director’s style you aren’t going to like any of their movies.

Or very few you might like one or two out sheer novelty.

I haven’t watched TNT in a while but at one point it was a mix of the 2011 cuts with the new Disney Lucasfilm logo, is that the one still being shown?

I have Mando Season 3 and Ahsoka sitting on my shelf, Willow is in the mail. Weather permitting it should be here in 3 days. I also added Fifth Element and Heavy Metal 4K. I’m upset that Heavy Metal 2000 is just a blu-ray though. It would have been a stellar deal for 20 dollars for both films in 4K. Fifth Element was so cheap it was ridiculous I paid more the DVD when it first came out.

Clone Wars isn’t a part of EU though it contradicts EU and the lore and canon established. The Genddy series fits in EU. Filoni does not. They could do all the edits they wanted to try to bring Filoni into EU before it was moved to legends and they never worked. I always despised the Mortis arc in EU. It made Crucible a novel not worth reading.

As to whether they never brought Hayden in to dub Anakin in the cartoons I have no idea why? I do enjoy Matt Lanter so much more than Hayden it’s another level. But Hayden was so good in the new shows. Why didn’t that show in the prequel. Except in some places, it’s like George had him read his lines with as little emotion as possible flat and bored.

Of all the things i dislike about Disney’s handling of Luke the worst was teaching Grogu about attachments like a prequel Jedi, not my Luke. Rey forgoing the teachings on attachment would be a start.

OT Luke and EU was never afraid of attachments. I mean i know those prequel films happened but seriously it never existed in lore before the prequels. Except in the screenplay draft of Star Wars from 1974.

Everything i love about episode 8 isn’t Luke becoming a prequel Jedi and a failure just like them repeating their mistakes and following the same narrow dogma.

Its the astral projecting bit, it’s the rebellion is reborn today and I won’t be the last jedi. Its the part of explaining the force is bigger than the light and the dark. Its bigger than the Sith and the Jedi. Its in all living things and defines the cosmos. Also Luke finally realizing how wrong the Jedi were but being too old and broken to make a change. So Rey has to take up the lightsaber instead. That i don’t know if its good or bad i’m split on that.

Edit: also please no More Death Stars. No return to Tattoine.

DZ-330 said:

• The Jedi are now actually the “guardians of peace” and travel to more dangerous planets to help topple tyrannical governments and gangs and restore freedom to the citizens.
• The big bads of this movie (or trilogy) would be the crime lords and underworld scum. I really think this is where George was going with bringing Maul back, but to make it different, I think something other than a darksider or Sith would be needed.

I love these ideas. Thrawn would have been perfect, but they’ve used him up. I would have preferred him or another warlord or Moff or even A Crimson Dawn or Black Sun, over another Sith.

Maybe even someone like like Tarkin but not Tarkin.

I still wonder if people would want Darth Maul as the new Sidious, a femme fatale apprentice. and a midichlorian story nobody liked that in the prequel. The story of the Whills, Luke training younglings.

The only net positive I can think of is a successful Jedi Order and New Republic government. With Leia as chancellor. And Luke replacing Yoda as the head of the new order.

I just don’t see Darth Maul as a threat to Luke’s authority and power. Not when Obi-Wan dispatched him so easily in Phantom Menace. Any rebellion of Stormtroopers and New Sith shouldn’t be too hard to deal with. With hundreds of Jedi and a giant galaxy wide government.

I think Rey does what Luke did in the EU and restores the Jedi. A lot of people are going to hate that. Its going to take some deft storytelling to win people over. I’m half convinced it won’t work, but flip a coin, I want to see them make a valiant effort to at least make it so Han, Leia and Luke’s deaths had meaning. My problem with ROS was the galaxy was in the same place as at the end of ROTJ except worse. No hope for Democracy, no Republic restored. Jedi order all but snuffed out. Every Skywalker is dead. What happened to the Empire, is the First Order really defeated forever, are the Sith finished for good. None of these were answered.

The galaxy’s only hope is a Palpatine. And her friend’s Poe, and Finn and Rose.

I’m getting to the point where I wholly dislike legacy franchises and their continuations and reboots, or remakes. and fans need in general to recapture their childhood.

I guess I could change my opinion at some point, what I mean is the disillusionment with Disney Star Wars because it didn’t give us the Luke Skywalker people wanted. and the years of caterwauling and the complaints.

The stagnation of creating nothing new. media going backwards, Science fiction and fantasy film de-evolving. Young people getting my childhood remade and repurposed instead of getting original content.

I found my tapes held together with that carboard band. I suppose this was the first trilogy bundle?

I opened them sealed years ago just to check them but never watched them. I was really excited when I found that at the top of my closet in my bedroom. In a box with the Ewok DVD and the Droids movie edit Pirates and the Prince. And some 80s probably late 80s Raiders and Temple of Doom tapes.

I wonder which mix is on Star Wars. It can’t be the THX cause it’s too early, maybe the Ben Burtt digital mix.