SilverWook

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Post: #201001
Topic: Star Wars out next year???????
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/201001/action/topic#201001
Time: 13-Apr-2006 9:04 PM

Well, Marty does do a great Darth Vader impression in the first film.

Post: #200987
Topic: Help Wanted: 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit?' Laserdisc Footage - censored scene
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/200987/action/topic#200987
Time: 13-Apr-2006 8:39 PM

How the hell did this tool company even spot this before the video release? The gag goes by so fast. Some employee has bionic vision or something?

Post: #200851
Topic: Star Wars out next year???????
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/200851/action/topic#200851
Time: 13-Apr-2006 2:49 PM

I don't think CD audio is compressed, but older stuff recorded on analog doesn't always sound as "loud" as all digital recordings.

Post: #200631
Topic: Info: Greedo subtitles font...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/200631/action/topic#200631
Time: 12-Apr-2006 11:56 PM — Edited 4-Jul-2020 9:34 AM

I vaguely recall some discussion over what was used on the original film prints. You can see it on this auction. Hopefully somebody can make it out?

Post: #200572
Topic: Watched Star Trek II on HBO the other day, what a difference in effects compared to the OT!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/200572/action/topic#200572
Time: 12-Apr-2006 9:24 PM

I'll take Ray Harryhausen's stop motion FX in Clash of the Titans over CGI any day of the week! The Medusa scene is still scary!

Post: #200467
Topic: Star Wars out next year???????
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/200467/action/topic#200467
Time: 12-Apr-2006 4:07 PM

Star Wars was released in B&W on super 8. It looks very Flash Gordon-esque that way.

Post: #199461
Topic: Info: The "OFFICIAL" audio mixes of the Original Trilogy - Help needed.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/199461/action/topic#199461
Time: 10-Apr-2006 4:27 AM

There is also the early Japanese CLV pan and scan version that has the 35mm Dolby stereo track non-time compressed. Why it has subtitles for "close the blast doors!" keeps me up at night.

Post: #199279
Topic: John William's Opinion on the Special Editions
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/199279/action/topic#199279
Time: 9-Apr-2006 6:29 PM

How is the Tron vinyl album different from the CD?

Post: #198537
Topic: Help Wanted: 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit?' Laserdisc Footage - censored scene
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/198537/action/topic#198537
Time: 6-Apr-2006 4:50 PM

The Rescuers is another case where Disney did a recall on the Laserdisc, only to have many copies escape them!

Post: #198532
Topic: 'So Fine' - Preservation Project (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/198532/action/topic#198532
Time: 6-Apr-2006 4:40 PM

The sanitized tv cut I once saw of this was bad, as the "cheeky" plot points were snipped out. Leaving the first time viewer no doubt confused as to why those jeans were such a big deal.
The LDDB does list a widescreen version pressed in 1998.

Post: #198315
Topic: Help Wanted: 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit?' Laserdisc Footage - censored scene
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/198315/action/topic#198315
Time: 6-Apr-2006 1:38 AM

Considering all the things people with overactive imaginations *think* they see in many a Disney film, it's really funny most of these gags went unnoticed until the early 90's. Once the media got wind of it, the late great Dave's Video in Los Angeles experienced a mad rush on the laserdisc!

Post: #198022
Topic: Superman Movie
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/198022/action/topic#198022
Time: 5-Apr-2006 3:41 AM

Does anyone recall an SNL skit from the 70's that shows what would have happened if baby Kal-El had landed in Germany?

Post: #197949
Topic: Lightsaber commercial
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/197949/action/topic#197949
Time: 4-Apr-2006 8:47 PM

Saw a commercial on Adult Swim last night for those Master Replicas lightsabers, (did they make too many that they have to plug them on tv now?) and it started off with a lengthy chunk of the ESB duel before you even find out what they're selling. The only prequel footage was from ROTS and not much of it either. Are we a desirable market demographic now?

Post: #197272
Topic: April Fools SW Stories
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/197272/action/topic#197272
Time: 1-Apr-2006 8:34 PM

He can have my copies...when he pries them out of my cold dead hands!

Post: #197233
Topic: Help Wanted: 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit?' Laserdisc Footage - censored scene
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/197233/action/topic#197233
Time: 1-Apr-2006 3:57 PM

One of the shorts has a background gag censored too. All three came out on an LD that was suddenly recalled because of "glue problems". Of course, some dealers were not buying that baloney and there are copies still around.

There is a screencap here.
The weird part is the VHS version was never recalled. It wasn't widescreen and THX though.

Post: #197110
Topic: The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/197110/action/topic#197110
Time: 31-Mar-2006 7:01 PM

That's what I thought. I hope Fox releases it on DVD one of these days. Parts of the movie are quite weird and surreal.

Post: #197077
Topic: The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/197077/action/topic#197077
Time: 31-Mar-2006 3:21 PM

Does the Raggedy Ann book tell what aspect ratio the movie was in? I saw it on the big screen, but it was so long ago! What little I saw on tv in the 90's did look cropped.

Post: #196707
Topic: THX Remaster=Tinkering?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/196707/action/topic#196707
Time: 30-Mar-2006 3:49 AM

Some old fullscreen video masters "squeeze" the crawl so the full width is retained but the crawl is more tall and skinny. (Very similar to the way a anamorphic DVD looks in 16:9 mode on a regular tv set.) Others simply cropped the image and the result is you can't read a complete line of text until it's almost scrolled off. The pan and scan version the SciFi channel used to show simply letterboxed the image right up until the Stardestroyer comes up overhead.
Other studios have gone to ridiculous lengths in the past, redoing widescreen movie credits with video titles, (often not using the original font) just to avoid the actors looking tall and skinny!

Post: #196671
Topic: Certain parts of the PT are just cringeworthy, how did this happen?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/196671/action/topic#196671
Time: 29-Mar-2006 11:38 PM

It's stated in the old "Making of a Saga" documentary that Lucas came up with the sister angle on the Jedi set while desperately trying to find something for Vader to provoke Luke into their final confrontation. One of many reasons we will never see an official release of those old docs ever again.

Post: #196635
Topic: Info: Bad Movies, Cult Classics, and Things Lost to the Sands of Time...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/196635/action/topic#196635
Time: 29-Mar-2006 10:00 PM

Fierce Creatures is widescreen on the Laserdisc version. What Universal was smoking when they released the DVD is anybody's guess.
Several of the bumpers on the "I want my MTV" VHS appear on the music video DVD's MTV put out a couple years back. The stop motion shorts and bumpers done by the fellow who directed "The Nightmare Before Christmas" also appear on the TNBC laserdisc box set. They are nowhere to be found on the later DVD version.

Post: #196486
Topic: Star Wars Meets American Graffitti?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/196486/action/topic#196486
Time: 29-Mar-2006 3:12 AM

Here's one tv appearance I never knew about!

Post: #196068
Topic: The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/196068/action/topic#196068
Time: 27-Mar-2006 8:01 PM

Ah, ok. I have wondered if the music in the workprint is a temp track or not? The one clip I've seen online where Zig Zag goes to see One-Eye and his harem forms a throne had a really nice score.

Post: #196007
Topic: The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/196007/action/topic#196007
Time: 27-Mar-2006 4:56 PM

When I had the Fruit Loops DVD, I was so annoyed at the pan and scan I didn't even notice it had 5.1! I gave it away after I got the laserdisc.

A soundtrack CD did come out when the movie was released as Arabian Knight. Would that be of any use to you? There are a few up on Ebay right now.

Post: #195566
Topic: Robot Chicken - TESB Parody
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/195566/action/topic#195566
Time: 25-Mar-2006 6:04 PM

Mark Hamill doing Luke's voice just makes it even more funny!

Post: #195433
Topic: SW figure fan poll
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/195433/action/topic#195433
Time: 24-Mar-2006 9:45 PM

I really want to see Hasbro make the triple breasted dancer from Jabba's palace. It's long overdue!