SilverWook

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Post: #205939
Topic: Any truth to this? Lucas is releasing the three unaltered ORIGINAL Star Wars films?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/205939/action/topic#205939
Time: 3-May-2006 10:27 PM

Whoa.
Okay, *IF* this turns out to be true, we really need a proper effort to thank George for his generosity.

Post: #205919
Topic: Any truth to this? Lucas is releasing the three unaltered ORIGINAL Star Wars films?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/205919/action/topic#205919
Time: 3-May-2006 9:29 PM

The link doesn't work for me.

Much as I would be happy if this were true, I'd keep a giant grain of salt handy.

Post: #205429
Topic: Yet another movie remake we don't really need...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/205429/action/topic#205429
Time: 1-May-2006 9:50 PM

Well, the comics came before the Buster Crabbe version did, so it's not technically a remake anymore than the dual Poseidon Adventure movies this year. Matter of fact I owe good old Irwin Allen an apology. Turns out "Beyond the Poseidon Adventure" was a book too! And all this time I thought Irwin had pulled a sequel out of his *ahem*.

Post: #205375
Topic: Yet another movie remake we don't really need...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/205375/action/topic#205375
Time: 1-May-2006 5:14 PM

Is nothing sacred?

Post: #205362
Topic: The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/205362/action/topic#205362
Time: 1-May-2006 4:15 PM

Are the Japanese widescreen DVD and the U.S. letterboxed Laserdisc the same cut then?

Post: #205158
Topic: Idea & Info: "Darkman" - unaired tv pilot & info on a bonus disc project...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/205158/action/topic#205158
Time: 30-Apr-2006 6:19 AM

Are you sure it wasn't the studio's idea? The text bio on the Evil Dead DVD mentions how they wouldn't even let Raimi cast Bruce Campbell in the lead role, so it's easy to imagine their other helpful "suggestions".

Post: #205156
Topic: The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/205156/action/topic#205156
Time: 30-Apr-2006 6:07 AM

The Moroder version seems to have some footage the current "official" release doesn't.

Post: #204682
Topic: Star Wars books and summer sunsets
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/204682/action/topic#204682
Time: 27-Apr-2006 3:49 PM

Splinter was at one point going to be George's low budgeted sequel since he thought Star Wars would only be "mildly successful". Which Han Solo trilogy are you talking about? There are two of them by different authors. Brian Daley's is my favorite. The Lando books also harken back to a simpler time when there wasn't so much baggage in the SW universe.

Post: #204257
Topic: The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/204257/action/topic#204257
Time: 25-Apr-2006 8:50 PM

If there was an Laserdisc in existence of Raggedy Ann and Andy, I think the LDDB would have a listing. Turns out there was a RCA CED videodisc of it though!

Post: #204250
Topic: Idea & Help Wanted: Mission impossible 3 hype
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/204250/action/topic#204250
Time: 25-Apr-2006 8:14 PM

You'd think the tv series would be out on DVD by now. I wouldn't mind seeing the late 80's version again either.

Post: #203939
Topic: An exact quote from Lucas on Greedo shooting first.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/203939/action/topic#203939
Time: 24-Apr-2006 8:59 PM

Well, it's not like anybody else in the saga kills a bunch of innocent kids or anything and gets redeemed in the end.

Post: #203459
Topic: Beardless George!!! Lost Raiders tv spots???
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/203459/action/topic#203459
Time: 22-Apr-2006 8:58 PM

The polarized glasses system used for EO and several 80's films apparently won't work on video. However, several films you can only get in two dimensions on DVD were released in Japan letterboxed and 3-D on a Videodisc format most people have never even heard of. Alas, EO wasn't one of them.

Post: #203367
Topic: Star Wars Trilogy tops IGN's "Most Wanted DVDs"
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/203367/action/topic#203367
Time: 22-Apr-2006 3:20 AM

Lucas quit the DGA after being fined for Empire, IIRC. (Also supposedly one of the reasons he couldn't hire Spielberg to direct Jedi, alas.) The DGA can't bug him now even if he puts dancing Ewoks in every scene. And some rumors persist Lucas ghost directed most of Jedi...

Post: #203341
Topic: New Star Trek Movie
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/203341/action/topic#203341
Time: 22-Apr-2006 12:52 AM

This accursed Starfleet Academy idea has been around festering for so long, it's become the Jason Vorhees of Trek movie scripts! A Capt. Pike era film could have been cool since a young Spock served aboard the Enterprise then.

And Paramount excecs should be soundly flogged for not having something ready this year, the freaking 40th anniversary!

Post: #203003
Topic: Star Wars Trilogy tops IGN's "Most Wanted DVDs"
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/203003/action/topic#203003
Time: 20-Apr-2006 3:33 PM

This fansite has everything about SOTS you ever wanted to know but were afraid to ask. According to the site, the NAACP has no current position on the film pro or con.

Post: #202877
Topic: Help: looking for... Yellowbeard! (has anyone done a good transfer preservation?)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/202877/action/topic#202877
Time: 20-Apr-2006 3:49 AM

The Digital Bits says Sony will release Yellowbeard on DVD in June!

Post: #202813
Topic: Info Wanted: The Legality of Fan Projects
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/202813/action/topic#202813
Time: 19-Apr-2006 9:12 PM

I think it's been common practice since at least the 70's to shoot alternate versions of explicit or violent scenes if not for tv, then to cope with the wrath of the MPAA. I've seen nude scenes replaced with underwear scenes. It's painfully obvious when profanity is redubbed for tv, especially by someone who sounds nothing like the actor. (Jackie Gleason in the Smokey and the Bandit films being a prime example.) It's also funny when the phrase "Judas Priest!" is uttered plenty and often in the tv version of the Exorcist. Jack Nicholson says "freak" a lot in "The Shining". (The optically added fog over the very naked Room 327 ghost actually makes that scene more spooky.)
NBC once held up the tv premiere of "Battle Beyond the Stars" until they figured out a way to cover up Sybil Danning's ample cleavage. I doubt anybody would bat an eyelash at it now.

It's a shame that Repo Man doesn't have the tv dialog dub as an alternate track on the DVD. The director once commented he thought it was funnier with expletives replaced by the likes of "Melon Farmer!" and "Flip that!"

Post: #202723
Topic: Info Wanted: The Legality of Fan Projects
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/202723/action/topic#202723
Time: 19-Apr-2006 2:29 PM

The studios have dabbled in "cleaner" versions of movies before. Saturday Night Fever got a PG cut in theaters to bring in more business from those not clever enough to bluff their way into the R rated version.

I once saw a official VHS copy of New Line's Lost in Space movie which touted on the packaging it had been toned down to a PG family friendly film.

Post: #202395
Topic: Info Wanted: a 'Battlestar Galactica 1980' preservation?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/202395/action/topic#202395
Time: 18-Apr-2006 5:11 AM

"The Return of Starbuck" episode is about the only one most old school fans accept the existence of. If Universal could release the agonizing second season of Buck Rogers, then anything is possible.

The movie version of G'80 inflicted on the rest of the world, "Conquest of the Earth" is on my to-do list. The LD has Japanese subtitles though...

Post: #202242
Topic: Beardless George!!! Lost Raiders tv spots???
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/202242/action/topic#202242
Time: 17-Apr-2006 10:06 PM

Blink and you'll miss it proof that Lucas' beard vanished in 1986. Was the real George replaced by a double after Captain Eo wrapped?

A couple Raiders tv spots. Are these on the DVD? Harrison's line of "Whiskey?" sounds different.

Post: #202234
Topic: Help Wanted: 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit?' Laserdisc Footage - censored scene
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/202234/action/topic#202234
Time: 17-Apr-2006 9:35 PM

Given the perception that SNL sucks rocks these days, NBC picked a fine time to get anal retentive about clips circulating of really funny stuff that could attract new viewers. It's called free publicity, idiots!

Post: #202015
Topic: Help Wanted: 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit?' Laserdisc Footage - censored scene
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/202015/action/topic#202015
Time: 17-Apr-2006 2:15 AM

Sorry, it wasn't me. I'm having enough hassles getting my own stuff on the interweb! BTW, SNL is doing a "best of" Tv Funhouse on April 29th. Set your recording devices!

Post: #201930
Topic: Help Wanted: 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit?' Laserdisc Footage - censored scene
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/201930/action/topic#201930
Time: 16-Apr-2006 9:47 PM

Last night's SNL Tv Funhouse segment has a blink and you'll miss it Roger Rabbit reference, and Walt's personal cut of Song of the South!

Post: #201348
Topic: Info Wanted: Yet another Blade Runner question - Directors Cut & Criterion differences?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/201348/action/topic#201348
Time: 14-Apr-2006 9:40 PM

And I thought Brazil had a lot of different versions!

Has anybody ever figured out if the Unicorn dream was part of the original shoot, or something Ridely did while making "Legend"?

Post: #201232
Topic: Info: Whats on Your Shelf????
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/201232/action/topic#201232
Time: 14-Apr-2006 3:13 PM

Wow, Rikter! I thought I was the only loon with RCA CED's of Star Wars.