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#51612
Topic
Star Wars Trivia
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/51612/action/topic#51612
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Okay, that sounds like a challenge; I haven't watched it for a while but I will try to do it by memory: Super Star destroyers; Imperial Shuttle; B-wings; TIE Interceptor.

That's all the ones I can think of for now that I am reasonably sure of; there were probably some new Rebel capital ships too but without watching ESB again I couldn't be sure they weren't in that movie first. Am I close at all?
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#51558
Topic
BOYCOTT (the 2004 OT SE DVD release)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/51558/action/topic#51558
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Welcome GS! Thanks for sharing that with us.

I just purchased "Alien" on DVD; now it has both the directors cut and the original version on one single DVD. I presume it just plays the same versions, adding or subtracting certain scenes as required. Why can't Lucasfilm do this? Surely they have the knowhow? I also liked the introduction to the Directors cut, in which Ridley Scott very humbly said that he hoped we agreed with the changes he'd made in that version. Just imagine Lucas doing something like that...

As for me, I have decided just to stick with my VCR tapes for now. If the opportunity comes along, I will get a bootleg version, perhaps from someone who has posted in the forums here, but I'm not too fussed.
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#51555
Topic
Stupidest Prequal complaints
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/51555/action/topic#51555
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I think another reason CGI often seems obvious is that it always looks too perfect, too shiny. Movie makers try hard to avoid this, but it doesn't work very often. I believe the reason the CGI in LOTR worked so well is that the characters weren't "uniform", ie their left side lookeddifferent from the right; whereas the clones on AOTC were very uniform, and the shiny uniforms look more plastic than the textures on the orcs etc in LOTR. Plus all the clones looked exactly the same (obviously) which again looks unnatural. Even the stormtroopers in the OT look slightly different; they all wear the same uniform, but are slightly different heights, have slightly different stances, have slightly different amounts of black and white showing etc, and the eye picks up on these minute differences, which don't exist in AOTC.
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#51510
Topic
Star Wars Trivia
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/51510/action/topic#51510
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"Where did Dexter Jetster tell Kenobi he recognized the dart Jango usued to assassinate the Changling?"

Well, technically, the place that he told Kenobi that was in his own cafe...

Sorry, just being a smartass... I would have to look at the DVD to find the real answer, and I can't be bothered right now...
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#51088
Topic
MORE CHANGES!!! (for the 2004 OT DVD release)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/51088/action/topic#51088
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It has to be fake. You can clearly see that the body is from the original film and the head is just pasted on. Some people suggested that maybe that is what they are actually going to do in the film, but think about it; it's easy to do in a still image, but if you past a moving head onto a different persons body, which is also in motion, it ain't gonna work. You would be able to see the join at the neck. Besides, Jaydens appeal is his youthful good looks, whose going to want to see him with a forty year old body?? ;-)
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#50981
Topic
What is wrong with Return of the Jedi?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/50981/action/topic#50981
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I thought of two more, Blade Runner and Total Recall are both (very loosely) based on Philip K Dick stories... and I just remembered Minority Report is too. However both Total Recall and Minority Report are based on short stories which would be impossible to turn into movies... as for Blade Runner, the book (which was called "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep") was completely wacko. If you've never read it I would recommend it, honestly that guy must have been doing some serious drugs when he wrote that book. Actually all the stuff I have read by him is pretty out there, another great one is "Ubik". Great story, but some very strange characters...
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#50831
Topic
What is wrong with Return of the Jedi?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/50831/action/topic#50831
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Not sure what the Ripley movies are? But I think one of the reasons LOTR was so successful is that they didn't change the characters or the story too much. The most importatn thing I think, is that the screenplay doesn't change the essence of the story. From what you said about HHG, sounds like they are going to take everything that made it a good story away...
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#50489
Topic
What is wrong with Return of the Jedi?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/50489/action/topic#50489
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HG: There are five books in all, three written as a trilogy and then two more added at seperate times later on. FOr some reason the TV series only covers the first two, although the third was released at the time I think? Or maybe not? As for what it's about... that's a bit tricky. Basically it's about a man who discovers his best friend is actually an alien when his friend rescues him moments before the earth is destroyed to make way for an interplanetary bypass route (they "hitch a ride" on one of the demolition fleet ships, hence the name). But I think the story is really just a setting for the author to excercise his brilliant wit and absurd views on life, the universe and everything (which incidently is the name of the third book in the series). I have read them all, plus one or two others by Adams, and I would thoroughly recommend at least reading the first one; if you don't like it, however, it's probably not worth bothering with the others.