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#215584
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The Most Boring Commentator Ever
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/215584/action/topic#215584
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I don't remember that part of The Beginning....but i've always known their had to have been better auditions than Jake Lloyd.

A commentary track I like a lot was The Goonies. They kinda cut between showing the movie or showing most of the main characters in the movie (now quite a bit older, yet still familiar) all sitting at a table by mics and just remiscing and giving enormous amounts of behind the scenes info and quite naturally "shootin' the shit". They did it in 1999 and I found it funny that Sean Astin left half way through it. I'll bet he was off on something LOTR related. Goddamn, it still blows my mind that I was in 6th and 7th grade when they started shooting those movies.
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#215280
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X-MEN 3 PSYCHO REVIEW
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/215280/action/topic#215280
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He's more of a badass cocky guy and that works well as a lead guy (especially in this kind of gruop) better than the sensitive guy that gets depressed when his girlfriend dies. Plus, I think Wolverine is actually more in love with Jean Grey, it's just more repressed because Scott was in the way kind of. I thought X3 made this decently clear.

I read very few of he comics and only saw some of the show as a younger person, so I took the movies as something more stand-alone using the comics as a reference instead of a guide. I think these movies are better than most other big comic book adaptions (Spiderman, Fantastic 4, The Hulk) and it's because they don't stick to the comics so closely, they make their own identity. I don't think disregarding the source completely is a good idea, but making a new story is moe interesting to me.
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#212882
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1997 & 2000 VHS Boxset Differences?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212882/action/topic#212882
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That 1985 box set is the the only versions of SW I ever watched until i saw each in the theater in 97 and then in 04. Yes, I have the 04 DVDs but they were a gift...can't complain about a gift meant in good intentions.

It must have been 1993 or 1994, when I was about 6, when my dad walked downstairs and gave me this kinda worn out box set of movies i'd never heard of. He just kinda told me to watch them, like he knew I was gonna love them or something. So he popped one in, turned off the lights, went back up stairs....and my life was changed (at 6, that's really all it takes in a way).

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.
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#212538
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Cut scenes
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212538/action/topic#212538
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I think it's fun imagining how ifferent a feeling Star Wars might have had if the space battle from the ground and the Anchorhead scenes with Biggs and buddies would have been left in. That's just me tho. When I first saw all of that with sound on the Deleted Magic DVD (love love love the thing) I loved being able to see it. I hadn't even known it existed outside the novel.

It obviously seems to be an American Graffiti homage of some sort. Outside that deleted scene, you never get a glimpse of what life was like for Luke on Tatooine. I mean, you barely ever see him work, just eat and clean the droids, then off on an adventure. I personally feel it adds another dimension to Luke and his extremely normal life on Tatooine compared to what he was destined to become.

/end
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#212405
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Modern Myths?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212405/action/topic#212405
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Myths in ancient times were grandiose stories used to wrap up everything they didn't quite understand. It was a way to get all the gods and misc. characters together to do something incredible that resulted in the sun setting, seasons....whatever. That or they taught us a lesson or two.

Thing is..we don't really need them so much anymore, at least the first part. I guess you could easily say that movies and TV have certain aspects that teach people something in some way. It's just that so little of them do anymore that technically, we have no modern myths on those fronts. It's all for pure entertainment. Not that I mind it because to be taught a lesson everytime a i watched a movie would get a little bit repetative I guess.

It kinda sucks that we will have so very few "moder myths" to pass on to history unlike the Greeks or Romans. No one is gonna remember this period in history for it's myths anyways. It'll all be about terrorism, war, Bush and general unrest in the world.

EDIT: YIYF is completely right tho....if much gets remembered, I think Star Wars will be the ultimate Good Vs. Evil myth of our time.
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#211784
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The Da Vinci Code Movie
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/211784/action/topic#211784
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No. You'll just get some interesting background and cool theories about histories most established religion that would very much change history if it could be proven true. So basically, it'll be cool to watch in that regard. It won't make you more religious for sure, and if you get the point of the movie, it shouldn't make you less religious if you are.
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#211557
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The Da Vinci Code Movie
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/211557/action/topic#211557
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Yeah I read Angels and Demons first sophomore year of high school and had to do a presentation on it for English. I didn't even know he had a book before it or after it and it was right before The Da Vinci Code mania blew open. A part of me preferred it (the nerd side) because it had lots more to do with insanely cool theories and facts revolving around science as well as awesome the religion parts of it. That and it had the very interesting ambigrams. A good fun read.

BTW....the movie is beautiful. To each his own but seriously....if you haven't read the book, I doubt you'll very much enjoy the movie. That and if all you are looking for is a smarter National Treasure. THIS IS NOT AN ACTION/THRILLER. It's dialogue driven. I'd say mystery is it's genre.
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#205204
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Star Wars books and summer sunsets
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/205204/action/topic#205204
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I'm surprised no one mentioned the bounty hunter trilogy with Boba Fett as the main guy. It's about how he got where he wanted to be, the inner workings of a rather complicated bounty system, and his survival from the Sarlacc pit. It features lots of other famous bounty hunters from the trilogy in a way that actually works with the story.

But for the life of me, i left them at home when I moved for college and I can't remember the name of any of the books.

I also recommend the Rogue Squadron series.
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#203014
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The Tom Kitten
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/203014/action/topic#203014
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I'm actually just disturbed awkwaardly by the thought of Katie Holmes eating a gooey bloody placenta. I know thats not what it would have been like, but the quick thought made me kinda sick, and lots of things don't make me feel like that.

For the sake of compassion between humans, I hope she runs away from all off this and tries to get bak to something morenormal, tho I bet after fully believing in Scientology....that must be a little hard......that and being famous and hot (or once hot)
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#202888
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Star Wars Trilogy tops IGN's "Most Wanted DVDs"
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/202888/action/topic#202888
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Hell yeah....

Thousands of people use that site and will see that. Plus they made a stab at GL in an affective way. Yet another big boost toward what we've been wanting. I seriosuly can't wait for the one thing that'll make the topic explode into the mainstream public eye. It's exciting....like revolution......only kinda less important.

I'm not part of that generation being given the middle finger but I can understand how lame GL actions must be to you guys.
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#202870
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The Tom Kitten
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/202870/action/topic#202870
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First off, I'll say I'm not a religious person for the most part.

But I stll find it beyonf believable how someone can convert into scientology. The beliefs of the religion are totally insane. I'm not saying that they can't believe what they want, but what they are believing seems to hard for someone to take seriously. It's a science fiction story made up by a man in the 60's (i think) and turned into the bases of a cult. At least when I look at christianity, catholicism, islam, buddhism....whatever it may be.....they generally are based in the realm of reality with many places and people that actually existed. They can stand up to much scrutiny which is why the are still around many centuries later. It's hard to prove or disprove eaither way. Scientology can be argued against easily, either for regular organized religion or athieism or whatever you want.

Even the loosest christian still believes in the basics and general story of how things came to be. So that means the loosest of scientologists still has to believe that aliens made us from frozen aliens dropped in volcanoes and their souls came out and found monkeys to live in just like a christian believes God making earth in seven days and the whole story of jesus and whatnot.

So basically what I'm saying is that you have to have one hell of an unskeptical beliefs system to believe in Scientology. An average person has to argue his way out of believing in whatever they formally did.....I just don't see it happening to the average Scientologist.

Again, If they are happy with what they believe, then good for them, same with any other person on the planet. But the fact that this cult seems to be a "fad" sickens me.

(goes off to start a religion)