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#226417
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The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe: 1979 Animated VS. 2005 Live-Action
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/226417/action/topic#226417
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Ooooh, I've always liked the animated one. Very hard to find. I've watched it maybe 4 times total my entire life. At this point I don't have or know exactly where to find a copy, but would be interested in finding one not too far down the road.


I came out on DVD recently to coincide with the Andrew Adamson/Mark Johnson picture.
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#226411
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Finally Got Rid of My 2004 DVD's...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/226411/action/topic#226411
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I believe Darth Maul was a pretty sweet villain despite not being explored as a substantial character (as he should have been).

Looking at the marketing campaign back in 1999, you'd have thought that Mace Windu, Anikan, and Darth Maul were the main characters.

Congratulations to Darth_Evil; that is probably the most generous way to discard a load of tripe that I’ve ever heard of. I hope your cousins enjoy themselves.


Are you sending the discs back to Lucas?
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#226263
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Fox France confirms the French OOT release >NOT< to be anamorphic
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/226263/action/topic#226263
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I love The Road Warrior too - can you imagine how crappy it would be done with CGI?


Unfortunately, yes I can. Did you see Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay's Bad Boys II? There is an action set piece in which the villians are dropping cars from a carrier onto the good guys who are chasing them. What could, in the hands of Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, John Woo, Peter Jackson, Brian Singer, Sam Raimi, or even someone like Richard Donner or John McTiernan or one of the other virutosos of popcorn filmmaking be an exhilarating sequence instead becomes a mishmash of CG and editing so frenetic that it's almost impossible to tell what's going on.
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#226246
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Fox France confirms the French OOT release >NOT< to be anamorphic
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/226246/action/topic#226246
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Originally posted by: Tiptup
Originally posted by: Mike O
She proably said what the "official LFL response" said. Again, we must remember, that Lucas is still contemptuous of these versions. He wants to test the waters, and as we all know, he'll be surprised by the results. "Now we'll find out whether people wanted the original or the improved versions. It will all come out in the end." What is the end? The 30th anniversary? Everybody cross their fingers.


Heh, I envision a complicated, evil-mastermind setup with a timer ticking down to the 30th anniversary: one side of the contraption holds the theatrical releases while the other side holds the special editions and a great sword threatens to fall from above. As fans support one version more than the other, one is more in danger of being cut to pieces.


Not a sword-a lightsaber! And Yoda would be standing and watching and say "Prefer the original, the public does. Remaster them, we must." I think that it a case of a couple of things. I don't want to Lucas bash, so I must choose my words carefully, but some of it might have to do with his ego (i.e. his preference for the SEs vs. much of the public's preference for the originals). And, of course, money. As I've said in another thread, it would be a devious marketing trick to test the waters with this release and then include a high-quality release in the 30th anniversay boxed set (anamorphic with 5.1/2.0/and mono) when the set will of course be very high priced. Lucas knows full well that someone like me would pay a lot of money for the set just to get the three version of the films which I love so much. Let us hope that we are correct.
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#226197
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Lucas may have caved, here is a link to Barnes & Noble early review of the O-OT DVD's:
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/226197/action/topic#226197
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I do feel that there is some sort of movement swelling (regarding the sendback idea), and would like to find out from Jay if he's interested in shifting the function of this site in that direction.


I have not seen Mr. Sylvester much lately. I wonder if he has any ideas. We are gaining groud! We must continue the battle!
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#226195
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Lucas is a businessman - Don't believe what he says
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/226195/action/topic#226195
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Originally posted by: THX
I don't think Lucas did say that, actually. I believe that was interpretational editorial content inserted by the "journalist".

OK, but he did say that "it will all come out in the end." MTV. The root of all evil today.

Well, the point is, I would not be willing to buy a huge boxset even if the OOT were on it and pristine to the point of pants-crapping perfection. I love the movies, but I'm not willing to shell out a couple hundred dollars when I only want about 1/3 to 1/4 of the content I'm paying for, and the rest is useless to me. If I hated chocolate with coconut in it, I wouldn't buy a huge sampler box that had 25 coconut candies just so I could have 6 butter creams, would you? Hopefully nobody's that insane unless they just have an exorbitant amount of money. And I happen to not have that kind of money, and I refuse to be screwed around with anymore.


I was just commenting on the way that Lucas thinks. That would depend on how much I like butter creams . DVDs would also last quite a bit longer. . I get what you are saying. I was just trying to make a point.
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#226193
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Finally Got Rid of My 2004 DVD's...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/226193/action/topic#226193
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Originally posted by: Darth_Evil
Yeah, I know about the campaign. I was going to send back the discs of the spetember releases though.

Anyway, you're right that many of the sequences in the OT are very exciting. Sadly, most children are impressed by Jar-Jar fighting robots, which is apparently the new kind of action.

And I think a true fan of Star War would say that Luke VS. Vader in ESB is much more exciting than Anakin VS ObiWan in ROTS, right? That was so over the top it was laughable.


I thought that sequence was reasonably well thought out, it was just that they kept talking ("From point of the view the Jedi are evil!" Will you just shut up and fight?). The idea for the big, climactic duel was impressive (as comared to Luke and Vader's more intimate battles), but, as with the rest of the PT, the execution left something to be desired, and Anikan's jump and Obi-wan's slice struck me as incredibly anti-climactic. Again, I apologize if seem like I was attacking you or something. I meant to no offense! It's good that you're sending the discs back. The battle with Lucas isn't over yet, apparently.
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#226192
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SUPERMAN RETURNS REVIEW
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/226192/action/topic#226192
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Originally posted by: Invader Jenny
Originally posted by: Mike O


The campyness is part of the film's charm. The first was certainly very campy.


And I think that is where the films fail with me personally. I'm starting to see why people wouldn't think of SR as fondly as they would their 1978 and 1980 films. I saw Sups I and II after I saw SR so it just adds to the pile. Those films are very campy, but it turns out they were supposed to be. Ahhh...I see. I get it now.


I apologize! I didn't mean to say a snobby "you don't like it because you don't understand it!" I was just saying that it was stylisically different from Singer's films, that's all. Sorry!
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#226190
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The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe: 1979 Animated VS. 2005 Live-Action
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/226190/action/topic#226190
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Originally posted by: auraloffalwaffle
I think the disappointment I felt in the movie version was due to its lack of character. The makers were obviously falling over themselves to emulate The Lord Of The Rings.
What they should have realised is that CS Lewis' fantasy was a different beast to Tolkein's and merited a different approach.
The pointlessly OTT action scenes (particularly under the frozen waterfall) were so histrionic that it was almost funny. And the photography was all so bright and cheery, in that oh-so-Disney way, that it couldn't hope to match the brooding gloom of LOTR.


Interesting thoughts. I myself had to pull my foot out of my mouth after see the movie. I rather enjoyed it. I had thought that Disney would give a treatment that stripped it of its meaning (obviously the religious allegory, but also its paralles with childhood) that I was surprised how much got through. There were times when it looked like what it was, a series of sets in Hollywood, and had that stiffness that made Chris Columbus's Harry Potter films so cramped. It isn't as gloomy a tale as LOTR. Most of the film's issues, to me, stemmed for overreaching. Hopefully Adamson will improve his technique with the sequels. But it was infinitly more satisfying that I though that it would be.
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#226189
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Pirates of the Caribbean Two
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/226189/action/topic#226189
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Originally posted by: DarthBalls1138
The lotr movies were longer than Pirates and the amount of excitement in Pirates is equal to the amount of boredom served up by lotr, the stories are wonderful to be sure, but the movies just put me to sleep!

I've heard people say that before, but I just can't juderstand how one could findd the battle sequences in thos films dull. I don't think that I have ever left the theater so exhilarated in all of my days. Don't get me wrong, I certainly don't think they're flawless films, but I find them to be trul exhilarating entertainment of the kind that Hollywood seldom, if ever, makes these days. I think that their length can be argued fo given the depth of their source material.

He probably is just trying to stir up excrement. Pay him now mind.


You mean pay him no mind. Thanks! Hello fellow LOTR fan!
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#226110
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Lucas is a businessman - Don't believe what he says
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/226110/action/topic#226110
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Originally posted by: Number20
The problem is that we can wait until doomsday, and may never see a high-quality pristine version of the O-OT on DVD. Lucasfilm doesn't really need the money.


Lucasfilm doesn't need any more money. They haven't needed it for a long time now. About three decades. But they keep releasing new products. When they have no more new products to release, the OOT will come out on a fantastic set. Besides, there seems to be something of an ego clash going on here. Lucas said that he is releasing these discs to bait fans. Let's wait and see how this pans out. I'll be the foolish optimist.
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#226102
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HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/226102/action/topic#226102
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Originally posted by: Han Solo VS Indiana Jones
Originally posted by: Mike O
Originally posted by: Marvolo
Spielberg was approached to direct the first HP movie but he wanted to hire american actors for major parts and have Haley Joel Osment playing the part of Harry, but he was American and had blonde hair. J.K. Rowling refused to have the films stripped of thier British heratige, and I can't blame her. So Spielberg refused to do it unless he got what he wanted. Small article about Haley playing Harry Potter


I'm torn. I respect Rowling, but I would have loved to have seen Spielberg's take on the franchise. Then again, I'm not British. Ah, well. What's done is done.


I wonder if it would be better for Americans NOT to be involved with the very British Potter film adaptations. Clash of styles and ideologies and all that.


I don't know. Caruon was Mexican and I think that he made a fantastic film. I think that it depends on a lot of issues. First and foremost, of course, the talent of the director. But while the trappings may be distinctly cultural, great storytelling transcends such boundaries. Interesting thoughts, but as the only American director we have to judge the franchise against is is Chris Columbus, the ideas are a bit hard to judge against anything. I kind of wish that someone else had directed Chamber not because I dind't like it, but because it would have been interesting to see how seven different directors would handle the material, like the Alien franchise. Ah well, I suppose we'll find out, won't we. Are you British?
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#226093
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HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/226093/action/topic#226093
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Originally posted by: Marvolo
Spielberg was approached to direct the first HP movie but he wanted to hire american actors for major parts and have Haley Joel Osment playing the part of Harry, but he was American and had blonde hair. J.K. Rowling refused to have the films stripped of thier British heratige, and I can't blame her. So Spielberg refused to do it unless he got what he wanted. Small article about Haley playing Harry Potter


I'm torn. I respect Rowling, but I would have loved to have seen Spielberg's take on the franchise. Then again, I'm not British. Ah, well. What's done is done.
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#226092
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Fox France confirms the French OOT release >NOT< to be anamorphic
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/226092/action/topic#226092
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Originally posted by: Mielr
Originally posted by: andy_k_250
I just got off the phone with Lucasfilm. The lady that I spoke to there told me that they had had other calls regarding the rumor that the French release would be anamorphic.

"It is 100 percent, completely not true" was her response.

Did you make your feelings known to her about the non-anamorphic issue? If so, what did she say?


She proably said what the "official LFL response" said. Again, we must remember, that Lucas is still contemptuous of these versions. He wants to test the waters, and as we all know, he'll be surprised by the results. "Now we'll find out whether people wanted the original or the improved versions. It will all come out in the end." What is the end? The 30th anniversary? Everybody cross their fingers.
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#226090
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Lucas is a businessman - Don't believe what he says
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/226090/action/topic#226090
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Originally posted by: JediFlyer06
Unfortunately, there's no reason for him to give true fans what they want when the mindless masses lap up every bit of shit that LFL releases as though it were the food of the gods. Why give them filet mignon when they're happy with McDonalds? Stop buying the SAME movies over and over again. Exercise some self-control. When the cash stops rolling in, which we know it never will, but if it did, watch how quickly those "reviled and flawed" originals would find their way onto a high quality dvd.


We at OT.com are a minority, albiet a growing minority. However, that matters not because money is money and evidently even a multi-billion dollar company can never have too much of it. We're not buying the same movies over and over. We're buyingdifferent versions. Not everyone knows about this whole situation yet, and opinions still vary. But things are changing fast. As Lucas own Skywalker, THX, and ILM, the money wouldn't stop rolling in even if the whole world boycotted Star Wars. However, the saga is finally over. What else do LFL have to release now? Sooner or later, and hopefully sooner, the OOT will show up on high quality DVDs. It's just a matter of waiting. Again.
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#226088
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Will There be Further Changes to the 09/12 SE Discs?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/226088/action/topic#226088
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I've been wondering that too. As I've said, as long as Lucas makes high-quality versions of the originals available, I'm all for his following his "original vision." But what is his "original vision?" I'm not sure and apparently, neither is he. He'll have a hard time saying that the 2004 versions "don't exist" when so many people own them. Lucas is digging himself a bit of a hole here.