SilverWook

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Post: #164452
Topic: Info: More ANH soundmix discussion (remasters & French dub)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/164452/action/topic#164452
Time: 20-Dec-2005 2:40 PM

I'd take the info about the French mix with a grain of salt. Dolby surround has always been compatible with two channel stereo. The earliest "stereo" VHS movies and Laserdiscs have the surround info in the mix, years before surround sound was available for home use. Early home theater fanatics discovered how to use old quadraphonic stereo amps to decode them.

Post: #164449
Topic: Farscape Puppetry use in the Star Wars PT
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/164449/action/topic#164449
Time: 20-Dec-2005 2:26 PM

Originally posted by: none
Jar Jar's manerisms would have been greatly reduced,

And that's a bad thing?

Post: #163956
Topic: Jedi Temple In ROTJ!?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/163956/action/topic#163956
Time: 17-Dec-2005 4:18 PM

Palpatine turned the Jedi temple into a low rent apartment building. It's a dump on the inside!

Post: #162428
Topic: Johnny Mnemonic Japan Cut <JM> Extended (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/162428/action/topic#162428
Time: 11-Dec-2005 3:07 AM

Are you sure there isn't a Laserdisc version?

Post: #162425
Topic: Are Sebastian Shaw & Clive Revill still alive?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/162425/action/topic#162425
Time: 11-Dec-2005 2:14 AM

If an actor is erased out of a film, would they (or their estate) still get residuals?

Post: #162177
Topic: This Movie must be stopped!!!!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/162177/action/topic#162177
Time: 9-Dec-2005 9:56 PM

Things could be worse. An "Oh God!" sequel was announced several years back. After George Burns died! But like the old Monty Python skit about Marylin Monroe's "new" movie, being dead doesn't save you from unscrupulous filmmakers. There was some pretty creepy CGI test footage of Burns shown on tv.

Post: #161249
Topic: What species is Yoda anyway?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/161249/action/topic#161249
Time: 6-Dec-2005 8:09 PM

Lucas was asked about this at the tenth anniversary con. He stated he didn't know what species Yoda is, but added that Mel Brooks thinks he's Yiddish.

Post: #160970
Topic: Info Wanted & Help: looking for... The lost footage of 2001
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/160970/action/topic#160970
Time: 6-Dec-2005 2:09 AM

You can't blame Stanley too much. He was concerned everything from 2001 would be reused in some low budget movie the way many costumes and props from Forbidden Planet showed up in cheese like "Queen of Outer Space". There are some well known costumes in the OT that are actually from a Ray Harryhausen film!
It's interesting how much actually escaped being trashed. It appears one of the ape heads turned up in the awful "Trog", outacting star Joan Crawford. I spotted a spacesuit backpack in a Jon Pertwee era Doctor Who episode. At least one spacesuit has survived and is being restored. Someone found the
space station miniature sitting in a vacant lot. Sadly, they were unable to rescue what was left of it.

Now, if somebody could just find Dave's spacesuit and the full size pod from 2010. Director Peter Hyams apparently has a Hal faceplate!

Post: #160848
Topic: Help: looking for... 'Star Trek - The Cage' - narrated by Patrick Stewart, & more
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/160848/action/topic#160848
Time: 5-Dec-2005 6:15 PM

The special Patrick Stewart hosted was the first public airing of the complete pilot with the restored "lost" color footage. The footage was originally cut from "The Cage" when it was reworked into the two part episode "The Menagerie" of the original series. The early video release filled in these gaps with black and white footage from Gene Roddenberry's personal copy. For the tv special, Stewart did a short retrospective on how the show began and it's long history. After the pilot was over, Stewart narrated a short preview for the second season of TNG. (Which was delayed by a writer's strike at the time, the special also being a clever way to tide the fans over.) I may still have this on tape, but I'm pretty sure it was missing a few minutes at the beginning and the end credits.

Both versions of the pilots were released on Laserdisc and the last volume of Paramount's first DVD release of the series.

Post: #160590
Topic: Empire '97 SE
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/160590/action/topic#160590
Time: 5-Dec-2005 2:56 AM

Redubbing the voice was a bad idea. Given Fett's line of work, would he even want his real voice coming out of that helmet? Would be a little hard to shed the armor and go totally icognito as Boba has done in the novels.

Post: #160470
Topic: Super Star Wars (and 'Super Empire Strikes Back' & 'Super Return Of The Jedi')
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/160470/action/topic#160470
Time: 4-Dec-2005 4:30 PM

Shhh! There's a cliff on Tatooine where if you jump off into the chasm, you land near a cave full of extra lives. You have to sacrifice a life to escape but you gain more lives repeating this several times.

Post: #160319
Topic: Found this quote from Lucas about the Fans from May '05
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/160319/action/topic#160319
Time: 3-Dec-2005 6:12 PM

We're controlling the media?!

Post: #160286
Topic: Info Wanted & Help: looking for... The lost footage of 2001
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/160286/action/topic#160286
Time: 3-Dec-2005 2:42 PM

It's a safe bet it's all sitting in Stanley's film vault. I wish that Kubrick exhibition would tour the U.S.!

Post: #160285
Topic: Idea & found on ebay: 16mm film SCOPE Star Wars RETURN of THE JEDI MINT LPP
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/160285/action/topic#160285
Time: 3-Dec-2005 2:32 PM

16mm telecines aren't cheap, but they can be bought by mere mortals.

Post: #160283
Topic: Info Wanted: quality of various "Making Of" documentaries on the LD's?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/160283/action/topic#160283
Time: 3-Dec-2005 2:27 PM

The U.S. pressings of Making of Star Wars were plagued by laser rot. The degree varies from copy to copy. It takes an early gas-tube laserdisc player to get a good picture out of them. (Or an XO!) The Japanese pressings are probably better but there will be subtitles. Classic Creatures and Star Wars to Jedi only came out in Japan. Ebay is your best bet to find them these days.

Post: #160183
Topic: SW.com's apologetic press release (re the 2005 OT SE re-release set)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/160183/action/topic#160183
Time: 3-Dec-2005 12:28 AM

What's laughable is most stores still have plenty of last year's set on the shelves, and I'd bet the price difference isn't going to amount to much.

Post: #159520
Topic: Your Ultimate Star Wars boxset
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/159520/action/topic#159520
Time: 30-Nov-2005 2:05 PM

Originally posted by: Adamwankenobi
That was retconned by StarWars.com as a different language he was speaking that was translated to engluish for the audience.

It figures! However, the old Star Wars fan club newsletter ran an interview with the director of the first movie, and he pinned it down as post ROTJ. A scene was mentioned (that never made the final cut) showing an Ewok child playing with a wooden toy resembling a scout walker.

I'd like to see them retcon the Droids series now!

Post: #159342
Topic: Your Ultimate Star Wars boxset
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/159342/action/topic#159342
Time: 29-Nov-2005 9:32 PM

The problem with the Ewok films being post ROTJ is Wicket has learned to speak English in Battle for Endor. Or whatever language Cindel speaks.

Post: #158938
Topic: Idea & found on ebay: 16mm film SCOPE Star Wars RETURN of THE JEDI MINT LPP
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/158938/action/topic#158938
Time: 29-Nov-2005 12:19 AM

That 16mm print of Jedi was relisted again. Deadbeat bidder!

Post: #157927
Topic: Idea & found on ebay: 16mm film SCOPE Star Wars RETURN of THE JEDI MINT LPP
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/157927/action/topic#157927
Time: 25-Nov-2005 1:15 PM

Wow! Time to write that letter to Santa, and hope he's an OT fan!

Post: #157926
Topic: Man busted in Star Wars Lego scam...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/157926/action/topic#157926
Time: 25-Nov-2005 1:12 PM

As reported by CNN. I've heard of toy scalping, but this takes the cake!

Post: #157313
Topic: Look what's coming to DVD...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/157313/action/topic#157313
Time: 22-Nov-2005 7:27 PM

Donny and Marie wasn't that bad! You must be confusing it with the Brady Bunch Variety Hour.

Post: #157249
Topic: Name that planet?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/157249/action/topic#157249
Time: 22-Nov-2005 2:47 PM

Maybe Lucasfilm sent another C&D nastygram?

Post: #157136
Topic: "You don't know the power of the dark side! I must obey my master"
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/157136/action/topic#157136
Time: 22-Nov-2005 12:02 AM

Anakin was slowly seduced by the darkside for years. He started towards that cliff the moment his mother died, and he wiped out the entire Tusken Village. In the end, Palpy was just making him finally walk off the cliff in ROTS.
After Mustafar, Vader certainly must have felt in debt to the man who "rescued" him. (Especially since Obi Wan left him to fry!) I doubt he seriously thought about taking his master out again until Luke came along.

Post: #157132
Topic: Look what's coming to DVD...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/157132/action/topic#157132
Time: 21-Nov-2005 11:42 PM

They're talking a "best of" compilation at this point. So don't toss your copies just yet. I really hope the Star Wars skit is included. I fear song rights issues will rear their ugly head and result in stuff getting cut much like the current Muppet Show season one set is.