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Mike O

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#235801
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My two cousins are becoming OOT fanatics
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/235801/action/topic#235801
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Originally posted by: JediRandy
The version I gave them was Dark Jedi's Widescreen FACES set. I cloned it with my DVD burner.


Ooooh! Dark Jedi's FACES set! Almost as good as his first film.....




....




Oh wait. He's a fanboy with a DVD burner. Nevermind.


Dark Jedi never claimed to have made a film. The FACES set was directed by George Lucas, Irvin Kershner, and Richard Marquand. I don't recall Dark Jedi, or anyone else on these forums, ever claiming that they made the films. Except Geroge Lucas, of course, as he apparently did all of the work and Kershner, Kurtz, Hamill, Marquand, Ford, Fisher, and the thousand of craftsman and technicians who's work no longer exists because Lucas feels that it is unimportant were just figureheads. But no one on these forums, to the best of my knowledge, has ever claimed that they made the films. I certainly haven't. I fail to see why not having made them means that we cannot have high quality releases of them as they were originally released.
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#235770
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Remember what Lucas said about the OOT not existing....?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/235770/action/topic#235770
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Originally posted by: JarHead413
All but the people that will end up buying this set of DVD's knows that there is better source quality out there...and it's a damn shame.


But we need people to buy these DVDs to remind Lucas that there is demand for the OOT. It's really a brilliant catch 22.

This, however, is interesting, and very telling indeed. I just hope it means something. I wonder if we can ever win this, or even get even.
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#235767
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www.dvdempire.com O-OT pre-orders rankings (updated)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/235767/action/topic#235767
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Originally posted by: Tiptup
True, but that would be a really, really stupid assumption on his part.

If the theatrical releases were given a high quality, digital master to DVD, with mutliple audio tracks available, and filled with other historical information and special features, it would make a lot of money. With this kind of OT release, most casual Star Wars fans probably couldn't give a shit (because of the sub-par treatment), much less think they should buy the same 2004 DVDs a second time just to get it.


Perhaps. As I have stated, I do firmly believe that Lucas is anything but stupid, but he could easily twist poor sales into that, in spite of the fact that LFL keep sayin that this is just an attempt to release the movies individually.

As of 08/16/06

SW 157

ESB 163

ROTJ 173

They're getting higher.

Everyone star praying.
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#234341
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General Batman Talk
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/234341/action/topic#234341
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Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
Originally posted by: Han Solo VS Indiana Jones
Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
Originally posted by: Han Solo VS Indiana Jones
How is the "the fact that Keaton was Batman" is "kinda the point"? Well everyone knows Keaton as Batman so it would be cool to have him play the Joker in a new film. I dunno - it's postmodern or something.

I still don't get it.


It's just kinda ironic.


That's complex. I really don't think that Keaton would fit the role.

...but Heath Ledger is a good actor so I'm looking forward to seeing what he can do with the role.


In the Knight's Tale days, I'd have shuddered, but after Brokeback, I can see that he has matured into an exceptional actor. Hamill keeps being brought up, huh? Any DCAU fans here?
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#234307
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Expecting too much of George Lucas?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/234307/action/topic#234307
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While still not worthy of hatred, George should be heavily criticized as a person over these moves.

I'm more inclined to criticize the actions than the man.

. Even worse is the way he prevents the original form of the movies from ever being seen and that’s an unforgivable course of action so long as he decides to stick to it.

That is crititicism he deserves.

Besides, I may be one of the few people old enough to get Gaffer Tape's screen name. (She was amazingly beautiful when she was young)


Whom?

As part of the saga, I've come to appreciate Empire a bit, but I find it totally unworkable as its own single film.


Yes, but that's the whole point. ESB gets what it is: a part of the whole. Part of the problem with is that ROTJ doesn't entirely lead it to a satifyng concllusion ins many peoples's eyes, which probably weakens ESB. ESB is superbly crafted, saga or not, which, while I enjoy the PT, is not a complement that I can give it.
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#234208
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News on the TV Series if Anyone Cares.
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/234208/action/topic#234208
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Originally posted by: darkhelmet
Originally posted by: Bissrok
...Because the original Clone Wars series just didn't suck enough, GL will step in and take care of this himself.

More like Lucas couldn't accept the fact that the Clone Wars animated series was a better Star Wars mobvie than any of the prequels.


[mock puzzlement]Who was involved with the prequels but not with CW? Hmm.[mock puzzlement]
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#234207
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george lucas is so stupid!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/234207/action/topic#234207
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Originally posted by: C3PX
Originally posted by: BadAssKeith
George Lucas, you're a fraud. Everything that made the Original Trilogy great was other people’s incentive. You're a talentless hack. You constantly contradict your pathetic excuses for why your prequels suck, changes to your gay special editions, and why you won't release the unraped originals respectively. I have more than enough evidence to sue your fat ass for everything you got and win. Why don’t you just admit you’re a selfish, greedy, coward? I’ll see you in court: Lucass.


If you are so confident you can sue him and win, why don't you stop hanging around here and adding more "Hate Lucas" "Lucas is Stupid" threads to our already painfully infinite supply of them and go out and sue him. I suppose you are probably somewhere around the age of thirteen and have a very weak grasp on reality, but I could be wrong. If you are over thriteen and have the ability to sue Mr. Lucas then go and do it, but please leave OT.com out of your silly little crusade, we have no wish to be associated with the embarassment you will be. Fortunatly no lawyer in the world would do anything but laugh at you, so you would have to be representing yourself, which could actually make some pretty funny news, "Teenager Attempts to Sue Mass Millionaire George Lucas."


[sarcasm]Well, It'd at least get the OOT issue back into the public eye[sarcasm]. If BAK does sue, let me know. It'd be...interesting.
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#234205
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General Harry Potter Discussion
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/234205/action/topic#234205
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Originally posted by: Han Solo VS Indiana Jones
Originally posted by: Mike O
Oh. I didn't know that. Keep you're fingers crossed for Terry Gilliam or Alfonso Caroun. It'd take a miracle, but hey, it'd be great.


I'm hoping and praying and crossing.


Well, do it for both that and a proper OOT DVD release, and soon. I appears that a supreme being (Ever seen Time Bandits? "What, you mean God?" "Well we don't know him that well.") is one of the few people with more power that George Lucas.

Anyways, can you imagine the Inferius rising up out of the lake thorough the lens of Caroun or Gilliam? It'd be a superb blend of nightmarish horror and fantasy. Man, the possibilities.

Columbus and M. Night have both been brought up.
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#234120
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Expecting too much of George Lucas?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/234120/action/topic#234120
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Originally posted by: Anchorhead
Originally posted by: Obi Jeewhyen
as I now confess and then run for cover .... that I am the world's only megastarwars fan who … doesn't like The Empire Strikes Back.
Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
No, Anchorhead feels the same way you do.


Gaffer speaks the truth.
I’m not a fan of Empire. Too contrived, too slick. Star Wars was a complete story. A reluctant bystander gets drawn into a battle against an evil lord and with the help of a mentor and an unwilling pair of shady characters, he rescues the princess and defeats the bad guys. It’s an outer space fairy tale, and it worked very well.

No more of the story needed to be told. Doing so started the process of shrinking the universe and weakening the story. The characters in Star Wars aren’t related to each other and it’s just by chance that their paths cross. The adventure they all go on because of the chain of events that brought them all together is what makes the movie so big and magical. Empire is none of those things.

In fact, I haven’t seen Empire in about 7 or 8 years and I can’t imagine I’ll bother with it again.

Star Wars is the movie that awed me as a boy. It’s the only one I’m interested in.


I shudder to think what you'd say about Jedi or (gulp) the PT.