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Mark's Down On Your Syntax

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#1096094
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Dealing with People Selling Fan Projects
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Don’t worry, pittrek. Fan edits and to be specific, Harmy’s despecialized edition, is something Lucasfilm, Disney (and Fox for that matter) are already aware of. This site and several others on the net would’ve been lawyered out of existence long ago if they had the intention to do so. Disney sued a kindergarten that had a hand-painted Mickey Mouse on its wall a few years ago, if they want something gone then it’ll get dealt with. Reporting scumbags who are profiting from selling their copyrighted material, whatever the source is, can only do good and will discourage others in the future.

Besides, Lucasfilm can’t acknowledge Despecialized, or by extension, the fan editors who created it or the sites they use, without dropping themselves right into the awkwardness of talking about the OUT - which is something they are deliberately not doing.

It’s small enough to not be affecting revenue at the moment but that could change if more people begin dealing in custom sets, especially on the open marketplaces like eBay.

I say report them, report them a lot.

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#1095745
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Last movie seen
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“Halloween” (2007) and “Halloween 2” (2009).

I’m not a huge fan of Rob Zombie’s films and I never bothered to watch these two until now. They were both bold attempts to reimagine a dead franchise in a new way whilst still hitting enough beats from the originals to keep old fans… interested(?) Nothing seems to really work though. For all the good, there’s twice as much bad. Some great acting, some great waste of acting, some great ideas, some great waste of ideas - you get the idea.

The overall impression these films left me with is perfectly summed-up by seeing cute little moppet Danielle Harris from the earlier movies all grown up and having sex - a skanky, grimy uncomfortable experience that really just feels wrong.

Oh, and they pulled the old “it was all a dream!” trick on me again - that those scenes were one of the better parts of either movie was bad enough, that the dream itself was twenty-ish minutes long was unforgivable.

Each film earns itself 1 mark out of 5.

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#1095658
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Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD - V2.7 - MKV (Released)
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It’s appalling enough that this jerk is trying to profit using other people’s hard work. The fact they are charging $190 for their “time and effort” making the set to order whilst insisting the buyer already own the official releases leaves me at loss for words. Like, I actually don’t know how to phrase how that makes me feel.

F**k you, "sellingstuffagain, or whatever your name is, I wish you a lifetime of warts, flatulence and bad breath.

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#1095404
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Are you male or female?
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I reckon there’s far more men than women actually posting here. But keep in mind there’s probably a lot of female lurkers who regularly read this site. I’ve been here for nearly ten years but I only made a profile last year.

I’d say it’s pretty much impossible to accurately gauge the gender diversity on an open forum like this one but it is interesting that we’re mostly dealing with fellas making the posts.

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#1094912
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[fill in the blank] Just Died!
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Nobody mentioned Jeanne Moreau the other day so I thought I’d better drop her in. 89 is a ripe old age though.

Also, Robert Hardy has passed away aged 91. Those of you in the U.S. might recognise him from Harry Potter but he’ll always be Siegfried Farnon to me. A legend, who simply couldn’t have been any more British if he tried!

I hope both are resting in peace.