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#64109
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Info: OT Bootleg DVDs
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/64109/action/topic#64109
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Originally posted by: General Gravos
here is some screenshots from the Reivax Star Wars SE Bootleg :

http://www.fansub-support.net/uploads3/reivax01.bmp
http://www.fansub-support.net/uploads3/reivax08.bmp


Jeeeesus Christ. 2 MB per one picture! Have you ever heard of CONVERTING graphics? Here's one, only now it takes 30 K, not two megs.

http://img18.exs.cx/img18/6426/reivax08.jpg
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#64192
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An angry Review of the 2004 OT SE DVD's
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/64192/action/topic#64192
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Jackson's lousy films are terrible adaptations. Empty, soulless, dumb and worst of all, revisionist. They reminded me of all those "updated, hip" moronic TV series like "Hercules" or "The New Adventures of Robin Hood". Idiotic changes like throwing Glorfindel out and replacing him with Politically Cretinous Expanded "Warrior Maiden" (TM). Plus, the stupid films made a whole generation of dumb teenyboppers claim they "love LotR". I'm still a bit ashamed to admit I first read and loved the whole LotR, Hobbit and Silmarillion cycle when I was 6, ashamed because I don't want to be taken for one of that whole "ringnut" crowd of idiots who never even heard of the books before those three idiotic movies.
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#64145
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An angry Review of the 2004 OT SE DVD's
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/64145/action/topic#64145
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"Special limited editions" packaged with gaudy, lousy Gollum toys and a "unique bonus disc" featuring interviews with Howard Bore (and possibly some more "features" - I don't know, I didn't check as I don't care the least bit about these flicks); "special limited soundtracks" exactly the same as normal ones, only packaged in cheap tasteless fake leather - all this "limited" junk collects dusts in stores here, that's what I mean. Hilariously enough, it seems to be sold out on some online US stores I checked, e.g. on Amazon.

Lucas never released a "limited collector's edition" of SW with a Jar-Jar Binks doll. In fact, Lucas always gets criticized for *not* releasing enough, while most studios happily vomit out fourteen "special edition" DVDs of one movie in two years, because they know the sheep will buy each "new" edition. When is "The New Extremely Limited Lord of the Rings Super DVD Megaboxset With Genuine Hair From Peter Jackson's Beard" coming, I wonder... or the "Ultimatrix: the 20 DVD Century Edition Directors' Cuts Box"?

Frankly, while I'm peeved at Lucas's stinginess when it comes to releasing things (no OT on DVD, poor bonus features in the current release), I actually think it's better than what would happen if a film studio owned Star Wars. We wouldn't be asking for the old and new versions of the movies on DVD; we would be pissed off at learning that in 2005, "Fox Home Video" will be releasing the sixth DVD edition of "Star Wars: the Original, the Special and the New Edition" in three years, this time with "an all new bonus documentary containing two of the previously unavailable deleted scenes" and "five collectible covers".
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#64108
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An angry Review of the 2004 OT SE DVD's
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/64108/action/topic#64108
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Christ, what an idiot that guy is. There's a paper that actually PAID for this infantile, mediocre writing???

The "best" part is probably this:

"Peter Jackson understands fans. His "The Lord of the Rings" movies are released on DVD in both theatrical and extended versions"

Wrong, idiot. It's the marketing that understands sheep and their mentality. I may not forgive Lucas for inserting Hayjerk in RotJ, but he certainly doesn't release a "new edition" SW DVD every three months, and doesn't puke out "special limited collector's editions" (limited to 2 billion copies, apparently - at least here they're in every damn store and nobody buys them) with cheap gaudy toys and droning "bonus" interviews.
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#63580
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Is nothing sacred? The Krayt dragon change (re the 2004 OT SE DVD release)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/63580/action/topic#63580
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It sounds like a cop car that got its siren blasted with a shotgun two seconds after it went on. If the Tuskens are scared of this ridiculous sound, no wonder Mannequin had no problem killing them all effortlessly in Ep. II. He probably burped and passed the other gas loudly, and they died of fear instantly.

Still, it's not nearly as awful as having Hayjerk penetrate RotJ's ending. I could actually accept all existing changes except that one.
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#59236
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Pot calling the kettle black?? George Lucas talks 'The Three Stooges' - remade in color?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/59236/action/topic#59236
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I hate fullscreen, and feel it's a waste for the fullscreen to be a separate release, but if it's on the same release as the widescreen


Such unwanted, unneeded, revolting "additional" foolscreen versions use up DVD space that could be filled with some extras or provide more space for e.g. a better quality version of the audio track in the widescreen version. Foolscreen must be squashed and its carcass burned - not just be allowed to coexist along with widescreen. It's a disease that unfortunately infected the whole world and that needs to go.
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#58937
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Friend claims to have Episode 3 on dvd...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/58937/action/topic#58937
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Liar George Lucas has no soul! he sold it in the early eighties,


That's why it was available for download.

Anyway, right now I'm downloading... Lucas. Yeah, take that! Seems someone digitally cut him into nanometer-thin slices and scanned each of those from both sides, then put it online on a secure FTP. It's the thinner version of Lucas, from the 90s, but it's still pretty hefty at 4532049349242 terabytes of lossless PNG files.

Once I'm done downloading (I'm at 0,0000094929424% now), I'll print them all, cut them out, glue them together and thus build my own Lucas. Then I'll have him remove Christensen from RotJ.
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#58933
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star wars kid
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/58933/action/topic#58933
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Ooh, I remember that idiotic petition. I'd rather have that infamous Nonsync cameo in Episode II than a scene with this guy in Episode III. Hell, I'd even rather see cameos by the McCallum family or Christensen inserted over Sebastian Shaw than... oh, right.


By the way, the only thing that screams louder "It's just a movie you're watching!" than stupid cameos is product placement. It's a good thing Georgie has enough not to have to do *that*!
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#58739
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Ideas: Re-edits for various movies
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/58739/action/topic#58739
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"Dune" is a magnificent movie (I'm speaking of the film, of course, not of the lousy recent TV series), and I have both the original cinematic DVD R2 version of it, and the hour-longer TV cut (R4). The TV version is considerably worse (and the DVD comes in fool screen only, sadly).

AI was reedited? I'd love to see the first cut, then - just as I'd love to see the first cut of 13th Warrior, although I absolutely love the final versions of both of these films.

Other famous reedits? Hmm, "Battlefield Earth" was cut for the US release, I hear. I don't know what was cut, as I only saw the European version (and I have to say I saw many much, much worse movies in just the recent year - "Van Hell*hit", "Undercrap", "The Texas Chainbuck Remake", "Scatwoman", "Barfield", just to name a few...). "Exorcist II" was cut by John Boorman and was supposedly a bit less of a mess than the original version is. "Robocop II" was heavily cut and reedited - sadly, many excellent scenes were destroyed in the process (the Elvis skeleton scene must have been great...)

BTW, ignoring the dreadful spew of puke named "Vidocq" (a flick by the idiot who made "Scatwoman" and who, like that other idiot "McG", likes to pretend he has only one name), "Loups" is probably the worst French film I've had the displeasure to see since, uh, *ever*. It makes The 5th Element and even the horrible Taxi flicks look watchable. Hell, it makes "Le Gendarme et les extraterrestres" look like the best part of the whole Gendarme series.
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#58736
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Hey R2- Holiday Special truely isn't dead...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/58736/action/topic#58736
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It more or less proves what I'd suspected - that Georgie Porgie does indeed have the original, best-quality version of the Holiday Special.

(Unless they watched one of the pirate tapes or DVDRs, but I doubt that.)

Damn. He should release it, along with a Howard the Duck DVD with deleted scenes. And no, I'm not joking, I'd seriously buy both the HS and HtD the second they were released (interestingly, the demand for a legal Howard DVD is quite high, as a matter of fact - the pirate Hong Kong discs with it sell quite well, and I'd even buy one if it wasn't in fool screen).