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#197470
Topic
Superman Movie
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/197470/action/topic#197470
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There will be subtle deviations from tradition. The slogan "Truth, Justice and the American Way" won't be heard; instead, newspaper editor Perry White says "Truth, justice, all that stuff." It's a nuance that could help bolster international appeal, at a time when the image of the United States is not exactly at its zenith.


You gotta be kidding me......
Post
#196673
Topic
THX Remaster=Tinkering?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/196673/action/topic#196673
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I own two VHS copies of the OOT: the pre-THX set and the Faces set, both fullscreen. In the pre-THX set, everything fits on the screen quite nicely. On the Faces set, however, everything is a lot bigger. For instance, during the opening crawl, on the Faces set I have to wait till the text is almost at the top of the screen before I can read the entire line, while on the pre-THX set I don't have this problem.

Another example: In the opening scene of ROTJ, the Star Destroyer and Death Star fit comfortably in the same frame in the pre-THX set. In the Faces set, it starts on the Death Star and pans over to the Star Destroyer.

Anyone know why this is?
Post
#196131
Topic
Alan Smithee
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/196131/action/topic#196131
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1. Alan Smithee was kicked out of the Church of Scientology for undisclosed reasons.

2. Alan Smithee is convinced that all red-heads are robots.

3. Alan Smithee was arrested in a Montevideo bath house while in the midst of a three-way with Argentinian film legends Francesca Fiori and Bruno Puntz-Jones.

4. Alan Smithee recieved a master's degree at the Bringham Younge University having written his thesis on the dwarfish languages of Middle Earth.

5. Alan Smithee only drinks Fair Trade coffee.

6. Alan Smithee kept kosher until the age of 17 when he discovered, to his horror, that he is not in fact jewish. He now makes it a point to eat lobster at least once a day.

7. Alan Smithee has a severe phobia of garden gnomes. After seeing the french film "Amelie", Smithee required psychiatric hospitalization.

8. Alan Smithee is obsessed with proper grammar and punctuation. The publication and success of the punctuation guide "Eats shoots and leaves" gave him more sexual satisfaction than any of the $10 000 hookers he routinely visits.

9. Alan Smithee once consumed a goose-down duvet.

10. Alan Smithee refuses to travel without his three-legged Basset Hound, Stumpy.
Post
#196040
Topic
Alan Smithee
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/196040/action/topic#196040
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Here's 10 things you may not have known about Alan Smithee:

1. Alan Smithee was childhood friends with former Pennsylvania State Senator Budd Dwyer. They used to play cowboys and indians together. An attempt to re-enact one of their a play-sessions led to the infamous Budd Dwyer suicide in 1987.

2. Alan Smithee used the umbilical cord of his sixth son Alan Jr. VI (born from dancer/singer Iris Chacon) to play jump-rope in the hospital dorm. When later confronted on his strange behavior he used the same umbilical cord to garrote the delivery doctor, two nurses, six hospital patients and a potted plant before jumping out the window and suffering a broken leg upon hitting the pavement.

3. Alan Smithee voiced Beavis in the Mike Judge short cartoon "Frog Baseball" in 1992 by request of the animator. Smithee also animated the film in question, as well as six unreleased episodes of "Beavis & Butthead".

4. On August 23rd, 1964, Alan Smithee was reported to grow a full beard on a short bus trip from New York to Florida. This famous event is known to have inspired James Leo Herlihy in the writing of "Midnight Cowboy". The beard in question is known to have inspired Chuck Norris and, to a lesser extent, James Hetfield of Metallica.

5. Alan Smithee has an autographed Bible at home. The autograph is that of Alan Smithee.

6. Alan Smithee taught Mark Knopfler how to play guitar. The friendship of the two guitar-virtuosos was short-lived though, as Smithee, during a drunken binge, tossed Mark Knopfler's television set as well as his first guitar and one of his children out the window of their seven-story hotel room. They have not spoken since.

7. Alan Smithee invented Santa Claus by mistake one morning when he, having not shaven for some six hours, fell down the chimney of famed caricaturist Thomas Nast on January 30th, 1863.

8. Alan Smithee bench-pressed 600 lbs once. Having supposedly died from the effort, he mysteriously appeared on the set of "Catchfire" and directed it, disregarding the numerous claims of his death. Later that same evening, Denis Hopper suffered a near-fatal heart-attack. Found at the foot of his bed was a hankerchief with the initials "A.S.". It has been rumored to be left there by famed lounge-singer Arnold Schwarzenegger.

9. Alan Smithee guest-directed the shot from "Mean Streets" where Harvey Keitel points his finger at his girlfriend. The gunshot that can be heard during this event was caused by Alan Smithee who at the same instance shot a member of the catering personnel with his .357 revolver.

10. Alan Smithee once broke a coconut with a hammer.
Post
#196018
Topic
I actually prefer the DVDs and can't wait for more edits, seriously.
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/196018/action/topic#196018
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Originally posted by: patbuddha
A Force ghost does not have a physical reality. The way it appears to a living Jedi is a combination of the way the Jedi chooses to see it and the way the dead Jedi chooses to present himself. Anakin appears to Luke as his 22 year old self, the way he appeared just before he got burned up. This is the way he wants to be seen by Luke. He has been moved by the concept of his own metaphorical death, that little zinger Luke hit him with just before they went to see the Emperor.


You just contradicted yourself though. "The way it appears to a living Jedi is a combination of the way the Jedi chooses to see it and the way the dead Jedi chooses to present himself." Why would Luke see him that way if he'd never seen him that way before, and therefore had no idea that that's what Anakin looked like. If my saw my dad in the flesh when he was my age, I definitely wouldn't recognize him. So if the dead dad is gonna come back as a Force ghost, which makes more sense: the younger version, that only one of the two people has seen, or as the older version, which both people have seen?
Post
#195821
Topic
The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/195821/action/topic#195821
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Originally posted by: Han Solo VS Indiana Jones
Originally posted by: PSYCHO_DAYV
MOST OF US ARE THAT WAY. I HATE IT TOO.


Glad I'm not alone.

I also hate it that there's going to be an Indiana Jones 4 and/or that there's going to be a Jurassic Park 4. As far as Indy's concern, it's been too long and once you've reconciled with your neglectful father, you've pretty much come full circle. As for Jurassic Park... the dinos are exitnct. Let's leave 'em that way.



I didn't even like "Jurassic Park 2". Thankfully Michael Crichton isn't in the same vein, as he's said that he won't be doing any more dinosaur books.