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#303958
Topic
Just Released: The Star Wars Holiday Special RiffTrax!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/303958/action/topic#303958
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I guess I built up some sort of tolerance for bad films watching Movie Macabre in the 80's, as I find some of the KTMA era MST3K pretty darn funny. And it's worth seeing the show evolve into the MST we know and love at least once.

They riffed on a Space:1999 tv-movie, and some really cheesy sub-Irwin Allen disaster movies back then. I wish that they had been able to redo those movies on Comedy Central, as they did with Gamera and other Sandy Frank dubbed Japanese horrors.
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#302217
Topic
Preserving the...<em>cringe</em>...Star Wars Holiday Special (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/302217/action/topic#302217
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I can guarantee that in 1987 very, very few people had a copy of the HS. I was dying to get my hands on a copy ever since seeing it air in 1978, but I still didn't manage to turn one up until around 1994.

A chance conversation with a college classmate back in 1990 turned very interesting when they told me they had a copy on Betamax that had been in their family video collection since 1978! Unfortunately, by the time the tape was located, a younger sibling had taped it over with cartoons!
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#302172
Topic
Preserving the...<em>cringe</em>...Star Wars Holiday Special (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/302172/action/topic#302172
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The Q&A was held at the one and only officially sanctioned Star Wars con of the 80's, the 10th Anniversary Celebration.

Lucas also stated there would be several Howard the Duck sequels.

I've heard elsewhere that during the con, someone had a private showing of the HS in their hotel room. Peter Mayhew was invited, and actually showed up!
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#302150
Topic
Lensman - dvd preservation proposal (* unfinished project - lots of info *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/302150/action/topic#302150
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Thank you so much for all of that! I may have to sync up that stereo track with my Laserdisc tonight.

Interesting it was apparently fixed. Even the version I taped off the SciFi channel in the early 90's had the same crappy mono track.

I think I like the credits on the Japanese disc better.

BTW, are you familiar with this fan site ?
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#302098
Topic
Lensman - dvd preservation proposal (* unfinished project - lots of info *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/302098/action/topic#302098
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Could you possibly post a screencap from the Japanese disc? I've been curious about Lensman's proper widescreen aspect ratio for years now...

I'm still puzzled why the English dub on the Lumivision disc is so low-fi and mono. The movie posters for Lensman's limited U.S. release clearly have a Dolby Stereo credit on them.
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#300158
Topic
Helping someone with a childhood Star Wars memory
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/300158/action/topic#300158
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I think I know what you're talking about. It was one of those odd little film shorts HBO used to run inbetween movies in the 80's.

The plot is basically just a boy riding alone on a monorail(?) type of train. (I remember it being an elevated track.) He was reading a Marvel Star Wars comic, and his imagination cuts loose as the train keeps going. A whole lot of pseudo-2001 visuals set to a synthesizer score follow, as the boy imagines travelling in hyperspace and firing at the bad guys.

There is no dialogue, which is why it might have seemed like it was a music video.

When he arrives at his station, Vader is waiting for him! He starts to flee, when Vader grabs him! The boy snaps out of the fantasy, and realizes it's just his older sister. They go down the escalator together. The End.

I wish I could recall the title. It's been too long!