SilverWook

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Post: #133192
Topic: Star Wars: The Interactive Video Board Game (1996, Parker) (* unfinished project *)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/133192/action/topic#133192
Time: 24-Aug-2005 3:58 PM

Since that auction is in the UK, it's most likely a PAL tape. Is the new Vader footage shot on film or video?

Post: #133037
Topic: Brock Peters passes away...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/133037/action/topic#133037
Time: 23-Aug-2005 3:54 PM

In addition to his many movie roles and several appearances in the Star Trek universe, he was also the voice of Darth Vader in the Star Wars radio dramas. Rest in peace.

Post: #132834
Topic: Help: looking for... The Twilight Zone: The Movie Preservation?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/132834/action/topic#132834
Time: 22-Aug-2005 11:38 PM

It's odd this was never remastered, as many Warner's titles were reissued on LD in the mid to late 90's. You'd think something with Spielberg involved would have some weight behind it, (as literally all his other old movies seem to be on DVD now) unless some rights problems have reared their ugly head elsewhere.

Post: #132452
Topic: Jimmy Stewart, Jedi Knight?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/132452/action/topic#132452
Time: 21-Aug-2005 9:15 AM

Hehe, and Harvey could be his apprentice? A sith only he can see!

Post: #132387
Topic: Jimmy Stewart, Jedi Knight?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/132387/action/topic#132387
Time: 20-Aug-2005 9:29 PM

I watched "Rear Window" on TCM tonight, and noticed that the flashgun Jimmy Stewart defends himself with at the movie's climax appears to be a Graflex!

Post: #132294
Topic: Does anyone have this...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/132294/action/topic#132294
Time: 20-Aug-2005 3:59 PM

I recall the story appearing in a newspaper or magazine around the time Jedi hit theaters, and I haven't heard George deny it's his hands yet.

Post: #132204
Topic: Does anyone have this...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/132204/action/topic#132204
Time: 20-Aug-2005 1:29 AM

I have that poster on my wall and can vouch that the first link is accurate in colors.
Bonus points if you know who the hand model for the artist was.

Post: #132141
Topic: Info: PAL LBX: there's another one... a '78 UK release of a PAL LBX LD
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/132141/action/topic#132141
Time: 19-Aug-2005 10:25 PM

Any news on this yet?

Post: #131515
Topic: Info: PAL LBX: there's another one... a '78 UK release of a PAL LBX LD
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/131515/action/topic#131515
Time: 17-Aug-2005 7:24 PM

Bootleg laserdiscs do exist. They typically came out of the far east from disc production plants that had been closed down by their legitimate owners or those that looked the other way while an illict batch was run off. Either way, not something anyone could do cheaply in their basement.

Post: #131453
Topic: Info: PAL LBX: there's another one... a '78 UK release of a PAL LBX LD
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/131453/action/topic#131453
Time: 17-Aug-2005 4:03 PM

Laserdiscs were around in 1978, (under the original moniker Discovision) but the public couldn't buy anything before 1979. (And Fox wasn't on the bandwagon until later.) This mystery disc must be from the 80's.

Post: #131169
Topic: Vector Prime EU Commercial
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/131169/action/topic#131169
Time: 16-Aug-2005 11:40 AM

Is that the one Mark Hamill did the narration for as Luke?

Post: #130678
Topic: Holiday Special Deleted Scene - Wasting Electricity
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/130678/action/topic#130678
Time: 13-Aug-2005 9:02 PM

Fascinating, but not much more scary than those neon billboards on Coruscant in Episode II.

IIRC, that's the same lettering style used elsewhere in the cartoon...

Post: #130625
Topic: Lucas prequel decisions in hindsight
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/130625/action/topic#130625
Time: 13-Aug-2005 3:47 PM

Quote
Originally posted by: bad_karma24
The Wookie battle definetely seemed like an after thought, as well as Alderaan, as if Lucas realized, "Damn, we don't have that stuff in there! Better just throw it in..."

I'm pretty sure it got cut down to almost nothing in the editing. There's a Hasbro toy of Yoda riding some giant Kashyyk dragonfly and that certainly wasn't in the movie! Since George used to talk about how he wished he could have done a huge Wookiee ground battle in the OT, you'd think they would have gone all out.

Post: #130549
Topic: Lucas prequel decisions in hindsight
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/130549/action/topic#130549
Time: 13-Aug-2005 9:51 AM

I don't see how having Wookiees in Episode III is a bad thing?

Post: #130494
Topic: Star Wars: The Interactive Video Board Game (1996, Parker) (* unfinished project *)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/130494/action/topic#130494
Time: 13-Aug-2005 2:48 AM

Thanks for sharing that article. It's amazing that Lucas didn't take advantage of this to shoot new scenes for the special editions! Or shoot the end of Episode III.

Post: #130326
Topic: Ewan McGregor Interview In Playboy
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/130326/action/topic#130326
Time: 12-Aug-2005 10:12 AM

Isn't it interesting that Ewan is in both the biggest moneymaker of the year and one of the most expensive flops of the summer?

Post: #130021
Topic: Star Wars: The Interactive Video Board Game (1996, Parker) (* unfinished project *)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/130021/action/topic#130021
Time: 11-Aug-2005 10:57 PM

If this is the one with the new footage of Vader, it would certainly be a good addition to the other things being preserved. Dave Prowse back in suit again, JEJ does the voice, and the new footage was shot by the same director of photography who worked on the original movie!

Post: #129529
Topic: Info Wanted: has anyone tried a Star Wars Super 8mm to DVD preservation project?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/129529/action/topic#129529
Time: 10-Aug-2005 9:22 PM

Segaflip, do you have the whole movie or one of the short versions?

Post: #129451
Topic: When Stormtroopers go bad...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/129451/action/topic#129451
Time: 10-Aug-2005 10:13 AM

And this is why when they stopped using clones the Empire was doomed!

http://dragoncontv.com/movies/stgw.mov

Post: #129334
Topic: Info Wanted: has anyone tried a Star Wars Super 8mm to DVD preservation project?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/129334/action/topic#129334
Time: 10-Aug-2005 3:36 AM

Yes, such an undertaking is in the works. That's all I can say for now.

Post: #128112
Topic: Did George actually have an "original vision?"
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/128112/action/topic#128112
Time: 5-Aug-2005 3:40 PM

It's kind of funny how the people running Fox at that point seemed to have totally forgotten the merchandising moolah the Planet of the Apes movies brought in only a couple years before. It's a safe bet George didn't.

Post: #127464
Topic: Magnoliafag and Dickter
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/127464/action/topic#127464
Time: 3-Aug-2005 12:19 PM

MF has put their DVD forum behind closed doors, interesting...

Post: #126825
Topic: Worst changes to OT in '97 and '04
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/126825/action/topic#126825
Time: 31-Jul-2005 11:43 PM

ANH
"New improved" Landspeeder shots. In the process of removing the old "hide the wheels" FX, it looks like they shaved a few inches off the bottom of the speeder. How can they fit their legs in there now? I always thought that was supposed to be heat distortion radiating out from under the speeder anyway...

I really can't stand those Rontos. They seem impractical as desert transportation, (unlike Dewbacks) and we never see any on Tatooine in the prequels anyway. And we don't see those damned Eopies(?) anywhere in ANH either, thankfully. When I saw Ben riding one at the end of ROTS, all I could think of was the fart scene from Phantom Menace!

Replaced Cantina aliens. I can see how Lucas must hate the one guy in the cheap werewolf mask, but pasting a muppet over the really cool one sitting in the shadows with the glowy eyes?

Aurabesh lettering on the tractor beam control. Because I know I'll be sitting next to some guy in a theater come 2007 who will wonder out loud, "What's that thing he's turning off?"

The extra who passes in front of Luke, Biggs, and Red Leader to hide the edit of a few alleged retro-continuity busting lines of dialog regarding Luke's father isn't fooling anyone.

"New improved" Death Star goes boom. The ringed explosion was cool...when it was in Star Trek 6!!! The DVD botches an iconic shot even more, by draining all the color out of the original pyrotechnics and adding that weird blue gas. Who knew the DS ran on propane?

ESB
New Wampa shots. It was more scary when you saw less of him. The irony being it ended up that way originally because they had troubles with the Wampa costume back then.

The new Cloud City extras listening to Lando on the PA react like he's reading the lunch menu. And they could have given Ice Cream Maker guy a new scene!

ROTJ
The herd of Banthas in the new shots of Jabba's barge on it's way to the Sarlacc pit looks very flat for some reason. Like they cut out a photo of the original creature and animated it or something. And turning the Sarlacc into Audrey II is unintentionally funny...

Post: #125718
Topic: Director's Cut?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/125718/action/topic#125718
Time: 27-Jul-2005 9:44 AM

Doesn't the current Aliens DVD allow you to watch either cut? (Not sure about T2.)

Post: #125579
Topic: Episode 3: DVD - Released november 1st
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/125579/action/topic#125579
Time: 26-Jul-2005 12:58 PM

Is there some unwritten law that a movie with perfectly decent poster artwork has to be replaced by a headshot photo cover whipped up in ten minutes with photoshop for the DVD?

And Yoda deserves to be on the cover as much as Palpy!