JennyS1138

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Join date: 29-Jun-2005
Last activity: 27-Dec-2016
Posts: 291

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Post: #123470
Topic: Most Powerful Quote in all the Star Wars films.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/123470/action/topic#123470
Time: 16-Jul-2005 2:26 PM

Hey, how did you get that as your cell phone ring? I'd love to have Darth Vader breathing and lightsabers as my cell phone ring (or the doink doink sounds from the Law and Order shows)

Post: #123467
Topic: Of the six Star Wars movie which is your LEAST favorite?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/123467/action/topic#123467
Time: 16-Jul-2005 2:03 PM

My least favorite is Phantom Menace, which I have tried to like but just can't watch without getting bored. IMO Jar Jar was a total disaster!!!!!

Post: #122310
Topic: What is your favourite reference to Star Wars films in other shows (TV and Film)?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/122310/action/topic#122310
Time: 11-Jul-2005 4:37 AM

How about the Friends episode where Ross' sex fantasy was for Rachel to where her hair in the Leia buns and wear the gold bikini while he humed the SW theme?

There are also some pretty funny references in Austin Powers The Spy Who Shagged Me.

Post: #122192
Topic: funniest Star Wars parody films
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/122192/action/topic#122192
Time: 10-Jul-2005 7:37 PM

My favorite is this one:

http://www.newgrounds.com/video/losthope.html

Post: #122190
Topic: connecting the OT to the prequels (parody)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/122190/action/topic#122190
Time: 10-Jul-2005 7:30 PM

That was brilliant, hillarious stuff! I can't stop laughing and I've got to read it again. Now if only we could get George to do the opposite and fix the prequels to fit with the original trilogy!

Post: #122189
Topic: connecting the OT to the prequels (parody)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/122189/action/topic#122189
Time: 10-Jul-2005 7:28 PM

Post: #122169
Topic: Worst changes to OT in '97 and '04
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/122169/action/topic#122169
Time: 10-Jul-2005 1:33 PM

Wow, I agree with you on almost everything. The thing I hate the most is that technically, George has the right to do what he wants, BUT, he did not direct two of the three OT films and therefore should not have been allowed to tamper with them. The director is the person whose vision makes it to the screen, not the executive producer! I doubt Irvin Kershner originally intended to make some of the changes.

Post: #120825
Topic: Who are your 10 favorite and least favorite characters from all six SW films?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/120825/action/topic#120825
Time: 4-Jul-2005 1:21 PM

Here are mine...

my top 10 favorite

1. Yoda
2. Obiwan
3. R2D2
4. Leia
5. Han
6. Luke
7. C3PO
8. Chewbacca
9. Darth Vader
10. The Emperor

my 10 least favorite
1. JAR JAR BINKS!!!!!
2. Watto
3. Nute Gunray
4. Nien Nunb
5. Episode 1 Anakin
6. Episode 2 Anakin
7. Mace Windu
8. Bib Fortuna
9. Darth Maul
10. Uncle Owen

Post: #120816
Topic: I saw Empire at the AFI Silver theatre on Saturday!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/120816/action/topic#120816
Time: 4-Jul-2005 10:46 AM

The AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring MD has been showing the Star Wars films in honor of George getting the AFI Lifetime Acheivement award. They had the entire OT play on Saturday and Sunday and episodes 1 and 2 on Friday and today. They will also be playing the Indiana Jones trilogy and other Lucas films in the coming month.

The size of the crowd for Empire was very big and very impressive considering the recent DVD release. They showed the 1997 Special Edition version (scream and all) and the audience was laughing throughout the movie (especially at Yoda, R2D2 and Han). Nothing beats seeing the SW films on the big screen with a crowd.

Post: #120364
Topic: Why the OT will live on, while the PT fades away.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/120364/action/topic#120364
Time: 1-Jul-2005 5:06 PM

I agree with everything you wrote, Smashman. I was very disapointed with Episodes 1 and 2 and feel they were missing the magic, great characters, humor and cast chemistry that the originals have.

Post: #120359
Topic: From a Certain point of View...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/120359/action/topic#120359
Time: 1-Jul-2005 4:46 PM

If George Lucas had made Phantom Menace in 1977 with the same script, different cast and cheaper special effects I can't imagine it make that much of an impact on the public. Heck, if there had been no OT and Lucas had made Menace in 1999 as the first SW movie the way it was, I think it would have grossed considerably less.

Post: #120356
Topic: Did George actually have an "original vision?"
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/120356/action/topic#120356
Time: 1-Jul-2005 4:30 PM

In the prologue of the novelization they had a little bit about the Emperor and the fall of the Jedi, but it's very vague and simple. It's written by Leia in the Journal of the Whills.

Post: #119744
Topic: Am I the only one who thinks the CGI effects look fake?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/119744/action/topic#119744
Time: 29-Jun-2005 6:24 PM

I know Emperor Lucas is in love with CGI, but I actually think most of the effects in the prequels were INFERIOR to those in the OT because they look cartoonish and fake. Tatooine, Hoth, Daghobah and Endor were real looking. Heck, even Bespin was more believable than Naboo and Coruscant. I really think they went overboard on the CGI, which I think should have only been used for space battle scenes or action sequences. The computer generated backgrounds and characters looked like they belong in Shrek and not in Star Wars, at least IMO.

Post: #119741
Topic: Did George actually have an "original vision?"
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/119741/action/topic#119741
Time: 29-Jun-2005 6:07 PM

I sure don't think so based on many of the inconsistancies in the series. There are plenty of things that I don't think George "originally envisioned" when he made the original Star Wars films. Some examples:

1. I don't think he originally envisioned the character Qui-Gon Jin when he was making the OT.
2. I doubt he originally envisioned Anakin being conceived by midichlorians or growing up as a slave
3. I'm not convinced he knew Vader was Luke's father when he made Star Wars or if Luke and Leia were always brother and sister
4. I really don't think he originally envisioned Boba Fett's daddy as the man who was cloned
5. Is there any way he originally planned to have Padme die when he wrote ROTJ and Leia said she remembered her mother?!
6. Didn't he originally envision a tension between Owen and Anakin as well as tension between Owen and Obiwan? None of this was developed in the prequels. Heck, Owen met Anakin AFTER he had left Tatooine and "gotten involved." There was just no impression that Owen thought Obiwan was a wacky old man either. I mean the dude gave him Luke to raise!!!!
7. Nobody can convince me that George had visions of trade disputes and Jar Jar Binks 30 years ago
8. There is no way he originally envisioned Greedo shooting first. I mean, Han was clearly loading his reched blaster
9. If Anakin wanted Luke to have his lightsaber when he was old enough, then why didn't he ever say anything
10. The terms "Padawan" and "midichlorians" were absent from the OT, so how could this have been part of the plan?

There's plenty more I could come up with, but I really think his so-called vision was never really clear.

Post: #119738
Topic: Anakin & Obi-Wan: The Friendship We Never Really Saw
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/119738/action/topic#119738
Time: 29-Jun-2005 5:43 PM

Wow, this is a great thread and I've had the exact same thoughts as many people here. I really never understood what the point of Qui-gon was, when Obiwan's friendship to Anakin needed to be developed.

In the OT, the characters really showed that they liked each other and came across as Friends. Han and Luke are joking around about Leia and then they have that great moment right before the Battle of Yavin when Han says "May the Force Be With You." Oh man, is that a great moment or what? And the way the three friends are embracing, smiling and shouting after the Death Star is destroyed is awesome.

In Empire there's a great scene which shows the Friendship between Luke and Han. Right before the Battle of Hoth, just the way they look at each other shows that they care about each other and the way Luke is so concerned about his friends on Cloud City.

The only person I was really convinced Anakin loved was his mother.

Post: #119547
Topic: Parody interview with George Lucas on OT changes
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/119547/action/topic#119547
Time: 29-Jun-2005 5:38 AM

I thought it would be fun to write a fake interview on George's thoughts on this issue

George Lucas interview
By Hugh Ken Knott B. Seriuz

George Lucas, the man behind the Star Wars curtain has taken a lot of flack in recent years for his refusal to release his original trilogy. I decided to sit down with Lucas at Skywalker Ranch to discuss the issue.

Seriuz: Mr. Lucas, you just released the Star Wars trilogy on DVD, but many of your most devoted fans have urged you to release the original versions. Why won't you do it? You'd probably make a ton of money.

Lucas: First of all, I'm a billionaire, any money that might bring in would be chump change to me. Secondly, you have to understand that this just cannot happen. The original versions were utter failures. The special effects were amateurishly done and the films were just not like my original vision had been.

Seriuz: But Mr. Lucas, you're original vision of Star Wars had Han Solo as a Giant Green monster with gills. You had a Journal of the Whills. At one point, you heroes were midgets. If you wanted to go with your original vision, you'd remake the films based on your first draft!

Lucas: I threw the early drafts away buddy. Anyway, those Star Wars fans are really nuts sometimes. They should just accept the fact that the old versions of Star Wars sucked.

Seriuz: What about the people who worked their tails off to get the films made? Don't you feel badly that you've altered and in some cases, taken out parts of the film that they worked so hard to create?

Lucas: Oh come on, I gave them all profit points, why should they care if I cut a few seconds out?

Seriuz: Mr. Lucas, have you ever stopped to think about how strange it is that the most popular trilogy of all-time is unavailable in its original theatrical form?

Lucas: Um...

Seriuz: Could you imagine if people went back and changed other classic films? Like what if they did a digital version of Snow White, Fantasia, and all the animated Disney films and combined them with the old audio tracks, pretending it was the original version? And what if, the scenery of the Wizard of Oz was replaced by digitally animated backgrounds? And how about they took out "You Must Remember This" from Casablanca and replaced it with a breakdance routine?

Lucas: Those don't sound like bad ideas actually?

Seriuz: You must be joking.

Lucas: No, I'm not. Films are never finished and I think more filmmakers should go back and continue working on their films. Heck, I can hook them up with ILM and we can go rewrite movie history! I've always wondered what my companies could do with the original King Kong, or Gone With the Wind, Lawrence of Arabia and other classics.

Seriuz: So, Mr. Lucas, does that mean someone should repaint the Mona Lisa?

Lucas: I doubt DaVinci would care. He's dead you know.

Seriuz: Why am I not surprised that the man who created Jar Jar Binks said that? Anyway, do you think you will ever be done tinkering with Star Wars?

Lucas: No, never. In fact, we're working on them right now. We are going to completely redo the background of all three films. It's time that the look of the originals completely matches the look of the prequels.

Seriuz: Ugh.

Lucas: That's right Mister. We're going to totally redo the two week points of Star Wars: the Cantina scene and the Death Star. I'm going to completely recreate the cantina by dumping all the lame muppets and replacing them with digital characters.

Serius: Oh yay, more cartoons.

Lucas: And the Death Star is going to be opened up like we did with Cloud City. When you see Leia in her cell, or Tarkin and Vader in the meeting room, you're going to see large open windows with ships flying in the background, just like in the throne room in Jedi. And, I've always felt that the scenes on Tatooine drag. Too much time elapses without a special effects scene. Right after the droids reunite in the Jawa's transporter thingy, I'm cutting to some scenes on Coruscant and we're going to show Palpatine dissolving the Senate. Then I'm going to have some scenes on Daghobah with Yoda communicating through the force with Qui-Gon.

Seriuz: Dude, I think the brain damage you suffered from that car accident over 30 years ago is finally starting to show.

Lucas: Hey don't mess with me pal. I wasn't done telling you about the other changes.

Seriuz: Oh please continue:

Lucas: Anyway, the originals will finally meet the standards of the prequels. We are redoing all the special effects and all the backgrounds. The entire trilogy will now look the the prequels. Thank goodness the prequels lived up to my standards.

Seriuz: Technical standards, yes. But have you realized that the originals were superior films in terms of storytelling, characterization, acting and character interraction?

Lucas: No, I think both trilogies are equal in that department.

Seriuz: And don't you think that one of the reasons people liked the originals was that the special effects, though not as advanced were actually more realistic? That people liked the realness as opposed to the videogame look of the prequels? The puppets were believable, and people could buy into everything because things looked worn down and dirty and real.

Lucas: You are one weird dude. This is the 21st century. They're my movies and nobody else can tell me what to do with them.

Seriuz: Okay, I've had enough of this. As one Mr. Binks would say. Thisa interview isa ova!