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Oldman has been in Star Wars before, sort of. ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN-5n6rBcHM

Must be one of those rare bad discs that somehow escaped the factory. You ought to be able to pick up a used disc that works on Ebay for a few bucks.

Gary Oldman briefly talks about Star Wars.

http://youtu.be/glm8pSEmqDs

Just in case you were wondering what Mr. Binks has been up to lately...

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1942795-sports-mascots-you-had-no-idea-existed/page/22

Here's a "lost" episode that perhaps should have remained that way. ;)

http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/2014/01/doctor_shmoo.php

I've not seen a disc turn blue before. Are you sure it's isn't some sort of pressed bootleg? When my THX Moonraker and Goldfinger discs went bad they took on a dirty brownish hue.

I actually just got FYEO off of Ebay recently but haven't had the chance to watch it yet. Disc color looks okay though.

Golden Gun and View to a Kill still elude me on LD.

Bags Unlimited has Blu Ray cases that can hold six discs.

With seemingly everybody using the same darn sound effects library, it can be hard to avoid certain things. Watch old Universal tv shows and movies, and the exact same loud shrill telephone sound effect pops up every time. (It was used even in  the 90's.) I think even Ben Burtt once mentioned how much he hated it.

If you're listening to a specific song or bit of music when you get bad news, that can set up an unfortunate association in the mind that triggers an emotional response whenever you hear it again. I have one or two of those. :/

Everybody probably has a tune that's like nails on a chalkboard whenever you hear it, but why that is I have no idea. There was one summer where a Paul McCartney song was on the radio about 100 times a day, and I couldn't stand hearing it again for decades afterward. I'm cool with it now, but there are others in my personal audio torture chamber I can't write off to overexposure.

Weird, I never noticed still frames for establishing shots until the late 80's. Older shows tended to have several stock shots, so you could have lights going on and off, or extras walking past. Or show the weather.

It was probably easier to do with a facade on the backlot than a real house.

Tying into Padme's line about freedom dying to thunderous applause, Palpatine's speech could be accompanied by studio audience applause from any old sitcom. The more fakey and "canned" the better.

Who is this Kubrik guy? The fellow who invented that cube? ;)

Kubrick's 2001 trims were well documented before the internet. Even the official making of book from the early 70's mentioned them and had a still or two. Would be nice if we got to see it for the 50th anniversary in 2018.

In any case, Stanley used opening weekends/limited runs the way other filmmakers used preview screenings. The Shining lost an entire scene at the end with Wendy and Danny safe in a hospital, for example. That's different than radically altering your film twenty years later.

Vader being there was a surprise. Boba, not quite as much, as we knew he was shadowing the Falcon.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Darth-Maul-Valentine-Retro-Style-Star-Wars-Movie-Reel-Candy-Tin-NEW-UNOPENED-/131110899590?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1e86d18f86

Why do these things even surprise me anymore?

Jambe Davdar said:

I've still got a 16mm version of SPFX The Empire Strikes Back that I got off ebay a while back. I need to sell the damn thing!

 You do? Have you screened it lately?

:(

http://celebrity.yahoo.com/blogs/celeb-news/leonard-nimoy-reveals-he-has-copd--warns-against-smoking-223318587.html

Always thought Blackmail would go over really well as a actual reality show. It's the only place the genre has left to go, really, short of a real life Most Dangerous Game.

So, that reunion thing is happening. Old men in dresses, or jolly good idea? If Graham's urn isn't on stage, I call ripoff. ;)

I think Frink has to do that in his version now. ;)

I didn't know you were working on Jedi already? ;)

A slow zoom, the kind Lucas uses way too often in the PT, would work better than the shake.

I'm sure a Young Han Solo movie is being bandied about at Disney. ;)

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Guidelines-for-Post-Content-and-General-Behavior-Or-How-Not-To-Get-Banned/forum/6/topic/12074/

Last time I caution about this.

Yet Imperials work with such trash all the time. ;)

Very retro. :)

You'd think there would be a market for putting these out on DVD or Blu Ray with some bonus content. There are already some "audio only" Blu Ray titles on the market.

jediracer said:

Hey, did you guys know about the Topps edition re-releases of the radio drama?

http://www.highbridgeaudio.com/starwarsradiodrama-toppseds.html

 

 Hey! How did original Jabba get in there? ;)

And is that an aged Jimmy Smits as Bail Organa behind Leia?