SilverWook

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Post: #280025
Topic: Possible original Star Wars screening?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280025/action/topic#280025
Time: 30-Mar-2007 11:35 PM

We could all boo and yell "Han shot first!" at the appropriate moment?

Post: #280006
Topic: Possible original Star Wars screening?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280006/action/topic#280006
Time: 30-Mar-2007 8:08 PM

Academy to Celebrate Star Wars' 30th Anniversary
I'm tempted to call them up and ask which version will be shown. Politely of course!

Post: #279875
Topic: Expanded Universe Unacceptance
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/279875/action/topic#279875
Time: 30-Mar-2007 5:00 AM

I guess it all depends on where you go on the net. I was seeing "Chewie dies!" plastered on IRC channels and message boards the way Harry Potter book spoilers tend to be. Chewie's demise made the cover of the fan club magazine around the same time too.

The thing is, they can only pull the major character death card once before it becomes a cheap stunt. Ask Marvel or DC comics.

The post Vector Prime Chewie comic soured me a bit on the EU. I don't really want to see our heroes that miserable. It's too much like real life. Remember when Star Wars was supposed to be "fun"?

Post: #279799
Topic: Help: looking for... a copy of the 1972-1984 Warner Bros. logo - for my fan project...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/279799/action/topic#279799
Time: 29-Mar-2007 4:51 PM

Interesting, I found a Warner Bros. logo similar to that on my old laserdisc of "The Neverending Story" last night. (Placed after the closing credits.) One they missed plastering over!

Post: #279697
Topic: Post Office unveils Star Wars stamp set
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/279697/action/topic#279697
Time: 28-Mar-2007 7:22 PM

They had a big unveiling in front of Mann's Chinese Theater today. Several characters were in attendance.

Post: #279601
Topic: Expanded Universe Unacceptance
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/279601/action/topic#279601
Time: 28-Mar-2007 5:29 AM

I love the classics, those being the Brian Daley Han Solo books, Splinter of the Minds's Eye, (the sequel that was never filmed) and the Marvel comics. Back in the day they satisfied that hunger for more Star Wars. (There was no "Extended Universe" moniker back then.) And after the Lando books there simply wasn't anything else to read once the Marvel comic ended a few years after Jedi was released. It seems silly now, but Starlog magazine actually posed the question "Is Star Wars fandom dead?" around 1986 partly because there was literally nothing going on.

Now there's almost a glut of material to choose from. But it's like a big buffet table, you can just take the stuff you really like. I've enjoyed the "Infinities" comics for taking the plotlines of the films into "What If?" territory, and "Tag and Bink" because it has fun with the SW universe like the famous "Troops" video did. The rest I don't have time to keep up with. And it's possible to enjoy Star Wars without knowing the backstory of every Mos Eisely cantina patron.

Some fans do take the EU a little too seriously. There was a lot of anger over the death of a beloved character in Vector Prime.

Post: #279527
Topic: I will be away for three weeks.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/279527/action/topic#279527
Time: 27-Mar-2007 6:44 PM

Hope you're feeling better soon.

Post: #279075
Topic: Help: looking for... a copy of the 1972-1984 Warner Bros. logo - for my fan project...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/279075/action/topic#279075
Time: 24-Mar-2007 7:52 PM

I find it ironic that the Special Edition of THX-1138 actually restores the old pre-1972 WB shield logo.

Post: #278997
Topic: Help: looking for... a copy of the 1972-1984 Warner Bros. logo - for my fan project...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/278997/action/topic#278997
Time: 24-Mar-2007 6:02 AM

I think you could probably find it on most pre-1984 Warner Laserdiscs. I have a really old Japanese LD of The Shining with the logo, but the video noise is terrible! (Zooming in on the logo to 16X9 didn't chop anything off though.) All the old Warner Video titles have the blue and white logo on the cover and have either a reddish-orange or green border like this one.

Post: #278443
Topic: The Muppet Christmas Carol (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/278443/action/topic#278443
Time: 21-Mar-2007 1:50 AM

On a related note, why is the DVD of "Muppets Take Manhattan" in mono? The previous video releases in the 80's all had a stereo track.

Post: #278261
Topic: Idea: Preserving STAR TREK - a preservation project?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/278261/action/topic#278261
Time: 19-Mar-2007 10:12 PM

I rediscovered my off-air copy of "The Star Trek Saga: From One Generation to the Next" last night. It's missing the opening and closing credits though. (I also found Gene Roddenberry's obituary from Entertainment Tonight on another tape.) It was released on Laserdisc in Japan as part of one of the massive original series season box sets. The other tv specials came out in Japan as well.

Post: #277993
Topic: Six-Movie Star Wars Marathon at Celebration IV
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/277993/action/topic#277993
Time: 18-Mar-2007 3:39 AM

This is the first officially sanctioned Star Wars convention to be held in California since 1987. The previous celebrations were not centrally located to me. So give us poor west coast fans a break!

Would be nice if someone could hold an "unofficial" screening of the original film elsewhere in town.

Post: #276555
Topic: The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/276555/action/topic#276555
Time: 10-Mar-2007 8:41 PM

I saw "300" today, and there were a couple scenes that reminded me of TT&TC.

Post: #276436
Topic: WOOKIE GROOMER PRESENTS: ADDICTED TO STAR WARS (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/276436/action/topic#276436
Time: 10-Mar-2007 12:40 AM

This could make for some great video wallpaper!

Post: #275721
Topic: See George there's no reason to lie... (future of star wars)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/275721/action/topic#275721
Time: 6-Mar-2007 7:32 PM

He flat out said in a tape recorded interview with the official ESB publicist, (who wrote the official making of book) on the set back in '79 that he had written treatments on all NINE films. How does one misconstrue that?

When he actually makes one of those experimental films he's been talking about for over 25 years, I'll probably faint from shock!

Post: #275397
Topic: Info: Coming Soon On HDTV...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/275397/action/topic#275397
Time: 5-Mar-2007 3:20 PM

I second the call for Incredible Shrinking Woman! I don't think there's been a new transfer of it done since 1981!

I've read elsewhere Legend of Billie Jean may have music rights clogging up a DVD release...

Post: #275204
Topic: 'Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation' (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/275204/action/topic#275204
Time: 4-Mar-2007 4:20 PM

How many people knock themselves out trying to create something original and never get noticed and these guys get the spotlight? Fame is very strange indeed!

Post: #275199
Topic: What is a big fat ass dinosaur doing in my ANH?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/275199/action/topic#275199
Time: 4-Mar-2007 4:06 PM

According to the "Men In Black" movie, George is an alien!

Post: #275103
Topic: What is a big fat ass dinosaur doing in my ANH?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/275103/action/topic#275103
Time: 3-Mar-2007 10:59 PM

What are Ronto's used for besides cheap sight gags with Jawas? Is there a rock quarry on Tatooine?

Post: #274714
Topic: A true conspiracy, why don't we have answers.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/274714/action/topic#274714
Time: 1-Mar-2007 8:06 PM

The Greedo Assassination Conspiracy.

Post: #273961
Topic: Matinee (HDTV2DVD) (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/273961/action/topic#273961
Time: 26-Feb-2007 4:33 PM

It's worth mentioning the Laserdisc had the complete "Mant!" movie footage as a extra. Ironically, this footage got a better transfer than the movie itself did!

Post: #272166
Topic: FAN EDIT REQUEST THREAD - Post your dream Fan Edits Here!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/272166/action/topic#272166
Time: 15-Feb-2007 7:43 PM

Someone probably could get really creative splicing all the different Titanic movies together. Although seeing David Warner in two different roles, (he was a lower decks passenger in S.O.S Titanic) might cause mass confusion.

Post: #271939
Topic: .: The XØ Project - Laserdisc on Steroids :. (SEE FIRST POST FOR UPDATES) (* unfinished project *)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/271939/action/topic#271939
Time: 14-Feb-2007 9:50 PM

The only time I saw 70mm reels on Ebay, they were insanely overpriced and very pink.

Post: #270772
Topic: Info & Help: Looking for... Raiders Of The Lost Ark - on HDTV
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/270772/action/topic#270772
Time: 9-Feb-2007 2:18 AM

There are times I wish I had picked up a couple S-VHS titles when I actually saw them. If only to prove they exist!

Post: #270749
Topic: New Ralph McQuarrie Book
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/270749/action/topic#270749
Time: 8-Feb-2007 11:21 PM

We're all very lucky the suits at 20th Century Fox liked what they saw in Ralph's paintings and gave Lucas the green light aren't we?

And in the "it's about damn time!" dept. Hasbro is making figures based on McQuarrie's designs!