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#216394
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Idea: Titanic - with a John Williams Score mix...
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Still, in the end, it's not music composed for the movie. It's music composed for other movies that you think could fit. Nothing entirely wrong with that, but while we're at it, let's replace James Newton Howard's score for King Kong with Howard Shore's music from the Lord of the Rings. Or replace John William's score for Superman with music from Jerry Goldsmith's body of work.

But if you do this yourself, Cameron originally wanted Enya to do the songs for the movie. So you can throw in some Enya songs. And apparently, he also wanted Reba Macintire for Molly Brown so maybe you can cut and paste some footage of her from her sitcom or something.
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#216123
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<strong><strong>BLADE RUNNER: The Unauthorized OFF-WORLD Box Set</strong></strong> (Released)
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Originally posted by: PaulisDead2221
"Prefer" father? you're crazy! That's Roy's (or mankind's, rather) moment of complete anger and frustration with his God. His four years represent the time that never seems enough to any of us! He has killed his way to the answer of his existence, and is thoroughly pissed off that his God saw fit to make him mortal. It is mankind's everlasting anger with his creator.

"All those moments will be lost like tears in the rain"--that's life--that's God--that's why Blade Runner kicks so much ass.
You're right. Oddly, I've read more about the film than I've actually seen it, and as such, I've read more about that line than I've actually heard it. In reviewing the scene last night after I had posted -- I realized that "fucker" was more appropriate given Batty's anger. I always thought of the line as someone meeting his maker -- his father. In that sense, it seemed better, but contextually, "fucker" does works better.
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#215931
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The Most Boring Commentator Ever
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Originally posted by: Delicieuxz
The Pirates of the Caribbean commentary is pretty damn disappointlingly dull as well. Just wanted to throw that in there.
Which of the three? The Gore Verbinsky/Johnny Depp track is fairly dry, but I liked the Keira Knightley/Jack Davenport one. Doesn't hurt that I'm a fan of Davenport's from Coupling altough Keira actually got on my nerves a few times during it.

I'm actually convinced that what George Lucas needs is someone to do the commentary with him. Someone knowledgable who can ask him good questions and offer their own insight as well.
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#215923
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Idea: Lord Of The Rings trilogy edit...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/215923/action/topic#215923
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Originally posted by: BrikHaus81
Surprisingly enough, I rewatched all the extended versions of these movies this week. The first two times I watched them I thought they were great. This time, however, all I could think while sitting there was, that Peter Jackson and his wife are really shitty screenwriters. Take, for example, the missing scourging of the shire. Apparently this wasn't in the movie because Jackson didn't like it in the book. So apparently, he thinks he could write a better ending than Tolkien. If they ever film The Hobbit they should really let someone else do the script.
What are you talking about? They did an amazing job adapting the books (well, I personally didn't care for the liberties they took with TTT, but...). And they didn't try to "write a better ending than Tolkien." It's the same ending, they just omit the Scouring.

With all the people bitching about the how long the ending of ROTK is, they probably made the right choice.

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#215919
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<strong><strong>BLADE RUNNER: The Unauthorized OFF-WORLD Box Set</strong></strong> (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/215919/action/topic#215919
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Originally posted by: digitalfreaknyc
Originally posted by: strangelove
Originally posted by: ReverendBeastly
A few seconds of violence, I believe.


And the provocative change of Roy's line "I want more life, f***er" to "I want more life, Father!"


It's ALWAYS been "father." Strangelove is wrong.
It's always been "f*cker". "Father" is only heard in the workprint and censored TV versions. Interestingly, on the current Director's Cut, he says "fucker" but the subtitles say "father". I personally prefer "father".

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#215662
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ORIGINAL STAR WARS TRILOGY OUT 09/2006 BY LUCASFILM
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/215662/action/topic#215662
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Originally posted by: andy_k_250
There was a bunch of talk earlier about what pieces of the original film elements survive. Here's a question -

Why was it so easy to add in the Biggs footage prior to the Battle of Yavin for the SE release, and why does it look so great? This was obviously not part of the original film, but it was spliced in seamlessly and looked perfect, despite being 20 years old.

How is it that a single cutscene could be in better shape than the rest of the OT?

Forgive me if I'm being naive.
The reason the Jabba and Biggs material look as good as they do is precisely because they weren't in the film to begin with. SW has the curse of being a popular film, which means many prints were struck off of the original negatives, leading to dirt and scratches. It also had the misfortune of having many shots filmed with an unstable film stock, which was prone to color fading. Lucas, being a self proclaimed packrat kept the cut footage, and luckily it survived in pretty good shape. However, the the original negative of the film is another story.
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#215487
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The Most Boring Commentator Ever
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/215487/action/topic#215487
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Originally posted by: 20th Century Mark
Personally, I can't stand to listen to Ben Burtt. There is just something about him that rubs me wrong.

I will have to say the worst and least informative commentary is the one for Napoleon Dynamite! They just sit there and say things like, "this scene is my favorite". And there are long gaps where they just sit and watch the movie and say nothing.
The absolute worst commentary ever recorded is probably the one on the unrated version of Anchorman in which the director and Will Ferrel spend the time just saying the most vulgar, nonsensical things they can think of as though it's funny. Personally, I thought it was humorous at first, but it got old really fast.
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#215218
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Another way Lucas is screwing us! (re the 2006 GOUT DVD release)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/215218/action/topic#215218
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Does it matter? Most DVDs these days do contain trailers and lame previews. Heck, there were some issues concerning the compression of the 2005 version of King Kong on the DVD, and they still managed to cram a Volkswagen commercial and some NYC tourism thing onto the disc.

I'd get concerned if we find out they're being put on a single layered disc. Then the extra content will seem ludicris. If they do go with dual layered, then little things like a game demo and some commercials isn't really a problem as there should be enough space.
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#214269
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FAN EDIT REQUEST THREAD - Post your dream Fan Edits Here!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/214269/action/topic#214269
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Blade Runner:

I personally don't hate the fact that Deckard is an android in the eyes of Ridley Scott, but I prefer thinking he's human. So how about an edit taking out the Deckard is an android stuff? Somehow removing the red twinkle in his eye at the end, the unicorn dream, and maybe with some clever editing, we can make Gaff look like he has a unicorn fetish so the oragami unicorn makes some sense.

This is what I really want to see though: I was reading some of the passages from Paul Sammon's book "Future Noir" about how hard it was for them to track down the unicorn footage for inclusion in the Director's Cut. In fact, it goes on to show that many collaborators on the film were left dumbfounded as to why Scott wanted a unicorn to begin with. So why not replace the unicorn dream with - get this - a sheep dream! Anyone who has read Philip K. Dick's original novel "Do Android Dream of Electric Sheep?" knows what I'm getting at. Heck, someone really good with this stuff can make a few shots of an animal catalog and insert it in a way to make it look like Deckard wants to buy a real sheep as per his reason for taking the job in the novel.

Not entirely serious with all of that, but it could be interesting.