It was people inside Lucasfilm that lobbied to get the OT on DVD in the first place. Unfortunately, Lucas responded by dusting off the 1993 Laserdisc masters.
Humpbacked people?
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/18/americas/mexico-lucha-libre-donald-trump/
Where’s El Santo when you need him?
Was watching the extras for the animated reconstruction of the lost Doctor Who story The Power Of The Daleks, and noticed that the production used a familiar fake title so fans wouldn’t get wind of it.
Blue Harvest. 😃
Trump supporters are allowed to raise money under fake news premises because they are just following the lead of the big guy.
Christie?
LOL!
Trump supporters are allowed to raise money under fake news premises because they are just following the lead of the big guy.
You leave Mr. Carlson out of this. 😉
This story combines so many things.
So, doesn’t GoFundMe have to refund people’s money since it was raised under false pretenses?
Dalton never did seem to get a fair shake from U.S audiences. (LTK might have been too dark for 1989, but the Craig films have walked in it’s footsteps.) I still kind of want to see him play an older Bond lured out of retirement for one last mission.
Somehow, I knew you would be the first reply on this. 😉
The current ones are really tiny, even on a large monitor. And does this look like a smile to you? 😃
Yeah, I know. And the current emoticons suck. (And they’re freaking tiny.) AOL had better ones 15 years ago. 😉
Derek Meddings and crew outdid themselves. Considering the real space shuttle had not flown yet in 1979, the launch sequences are still impressive. (Like Thunderbirds on steroids.) I didn’t mind Jaws returning, but making him suddenly become a “good” guy is a bit of a stretch. His lady love unfortunately looks like the Swiss Miss Instant Cocoa gal. Drax was a great villain though. (I think Austin Powers cribbed from this as much as the Connery films.) I’m surprised nobody has done a fanedit to dial back the goofiness.
I have to chuckle that the U.S. would have a platoon of space marines handy they could quickly launch, (what were they training for, alien invasion?) and a real shuttle launch from Vandenberg gets you into a polar orbit, which probably isn’t in the neighborhood of Drax’s space station.
And if Drax wasn’t evil enough, he somehow captured the Jupiter 2 from Lost in Space! (Lower right corner.)
I’ve heard that Kubrick destroyed his deleted scenes. I’m not sure if that’s true though.
The 2001 trims were found in the salt mine MGM/Warners uses for a film vault a few years back. (My money is on them being included as an extra in a 50th anniversary video release next year.) The pie fight from Dr. Stangelove is also rumored to exist.
Unused footage from The Shining was allegedly burned, but the many hours of footage Vivian Kubrick shot for her making of documentary now reside in the Kubrick Archive in the UK, along with footage she shot for a never completed doc on Full Metal Jacket.
Ray Stantz having a sexual encounter with a ghost while dressed in period attire. A small snippet of the scene made its way into a montage sequence, but the full scene has never before been seen.
Eh. Honestly, I’ve never understood people’s fascination with deleted scenes.
It’s often a glimpse into how a movie was originally conceived, and gives insight to the editing process. I know I’d love to see the footage Kubrick removed from 2001 and The Shining not long after they were released. I’d love to see all the lost The Wizard Of Oz footage too.
And where would fanedits be without deleted scenes? 😉
A View to a Kill (1985) 6/10
A movie that relies a bit to much on the audiences nostalgia for the past entries in the series. Sill it was fun to watch and make fun of.
I liked the revelation that 007 is an excellent chef. The movies usually don’t have time to show us a different side of Bond, and it was a nice touch.
Why can’t you do that in here?
Take it to the the existing Trek thread. Thanks!
I had heared about this the other day and decided to look into, I cringed at what I read. set a few years before the five year mission, and will focus on quote "he lead character - who will be female, and likely either black or Hispanic - will be “on a journey that’s going to teach her how to get along with others in the galaxy”.
SO It’s a political correctness PREQUEL???!!! will they ever learn? who would want to watch that?
So, because the lead will be a female and not white you’ve lost any interest?
What an ugly idiot you are.
Let us refrain from personal attacks.
http://originaltrilogy.com/announcement/Updated-OTcom-Forum-Rules-and-Guidelines-Applies-to-all-forums-including-Off-Topic/id/52717
http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/All-Things-Star-Trek/id/15388 😉
Thanks, suspiciouscoffee! Very nice of you.
Jaggies don’t seem to be an issue with the partially animated stories I’ve seen, but those are all PAL discs I’ve bought on Ebay.
Previous BBC Who releases tended to put lengthy extras on a second disc. (It’s also possible the animation and the telesnap version are easier to compress than a regular restored story, but that’s still nearly five hours in total.) I’m only watching the colorized version with the commentary switched on out of curiosity. The UK version doesn’t seem to have the second color disc at all.
Widescreen seems to go against the grain of recreating a 1960’s tv show, but they don’t have to blend in with any vintage material, unless an 16mm reel or two magically turns up in the near future. 😉
Look like they nuked the boards a little early, or else they’re on the East coast.
There is at least one attempt to save the old boards on a new site.
http://www.moviechat.org/
Watched The Power Of The Daleks animated reconstruction over the weekend, and really enjoyed it. There were some weird issues with the video quality though. Lots of jagged lines on just about everything, and the closing credits look like they’re oscillating. Going frame by frame, some of the text actually gets mangled or vanishes. A poorly done PAL to NTSC conversion? Kind of wishing I’d bought the UK release now. (And there’s no sign of a U.S. Blu Ray version on the horizon either.)
And the “color” version on the second DVD is actually just the B&W version colorized after the fact. The extras really should have been spread out across both discs, as cramming the telesnap recon and the behind the scenes stuff all on the B&W version is probably stretching things to the limit.