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Post: #163406
Topic: Best movies of 05
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/163406/action/topic#163406
Time: 15-Dec-2005 1:14 AM

Alright guys! lets get back to the topic and move this over to the general discussion thread. I don't know about this year being better than 2004. It's sorta so-so. The movies this year were not much of an improvement from last year. It'd be nice if we could get good movies like we had during the 80's and 90's though.

Post: #162888
Topic: Best movies of 05
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/162888/action/topic#162888
Time: 13-Dec-2005 12:27 AM

so... it's just you shooting from the hip then?

Post: #162858
Topic: Best movies of 05
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/162858/action/topic#162858
Time: 12-Dec-2005 11:08 PM

Well, Jas, I apologize. I wasn't trying to get a shot in as you call it but I apologize anyway. I also am pretty big on film and it is something that I am getting involved in. The reason I asked how old you are is cause your posts sound like your an angry teenager.

And I listed those movie cause I liked them and age has no bearing on whether or not you like a film. Whether the film is appropriate for someone to see is another subject entirely. And I might also add that this forum is anout peoples opinions. Thik of it as a way of getting to know someone a little more.

And believe it or not, I have my problems with narnia. I felt that there really weren't any characters to invest in and care about, other than moments of lucy.

I just wanted to say that I'm not here to fight just trying to get a bead on where your coming from and sometimes, age has alot to do with that.

Post: #162614
Topic: where is everybody?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/162614/action/topic#162614
Time: 12-Dec-2005 1:33 AM

sorry dude, but RL rocks compared to an online forum.

Post: #162595
Topic: Best movies of 05
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/162595/action/topic#162595
Time: 12-Dec-2005 12:24 AM

I'm not even going to dignify Jaster with a response. I only have one question. How old are you Jaster?

And My List would be short (In no particular order):
[!Disclaimer!-- this is meant to be taken as my personal opinion and not as fact. Nor is it meant to be me trying to force anyone to agree with my opinion.]

1. Kung Fu Hustle

2. Batman Begins

3.Charlie and The Chocolate Factory

4. Corpse Bride

5. Wallace and Gromit

I haven't seen Crash, Hustle and Flow, Jarhead, Good night and Good Luck or Syriana. I want to see those and Narnia and King Kong. Didn't see too many Movies this year. Nothing really struck my fancy in alot of them.

Kung Fu Hustle was just something fresh in a way and was very funny (Of course there's alot of asian humor in it that I'm used to and others may not be). Batman Begins was just good from a comic movie stand point. Corpse Brid and Walace and Gromit were funny and inventive and fresh in some respects.

Charlie and the Chocolate factory was okay I guess. I loved the humor in it but that's just me.

In terms of well crafted movies, there weren't a whole lot of those this year. I've heard good things about the most of the films I haven't seen. I'll enjoy them on DVD.

Post: #162588
Topic: where is everybody?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/162588/action/topic#162588
Time: 11-Dec-2005 11:47 PM

It's the Holidays man! What do you expect from people? I've been reading, shopping and hanging out with RL friends.

Post: #160106
Topic: redeeming lucas
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/160106/action/topic#160106
Time: 2-Dec-2005 4:03 PM

the best course of action when it comes to adam is to just ignore him. YIYF, also, it is probably a good idea to not care what adam thinks of you. Who cares if he thinks that we are a bunch of losers for liking the OOT? I certainly don't care what he thinks about me as I also don't care what everyone else on these boards thinks about me. I just chose not to allow anything negative that they may think about me to affect me. It can be done, just takes practise. Adam, you do need to think about what you are posting on these forums from now on. By now, you know what buttons not to push with certain posters; so think about what you type in the interest of keeping this forum a friendly enviornment. I will read what you have to say, but I will willingly ignore any baiting and the like from you.

If adam likes the PT and doesn't like the OOT, that's his perogative. Of course, it might be a good idea to see the OOT first; which he has said he will do. I am sure that once he gets older, his views on things will change, I know mine did. I'm not as big of an SW fan now that I'm older. I still enjoy the movies, but they are not so much of a focus in my life anymore. Other things have become more of a focus in my life nowadays. This is why I have decided that posting in these types of threads are somewhat of a waste of my time. It really doesn't do any of us any good to complain and moan about how Lucas has gone nuts and ruined everything. I agree with the sentiment, but I find it counter productive to complain about it. Now I will step down from my soap box and be on my way.

Post: #160099
Topic: Women and Action Films
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/160099/action/topic#160099
Time: 2-Dec-2005 3:32 PM

yeah, i've noticed that too. you could say that aeon flux was done in the style of anime when it was done as a cartoon. And the trend in Hollywood since business' took over has basically been to find something that sells really well and copy it. I personally can't wait til people who actually love movies and understand them start running the studios and kick the business idiots out. It'll happen...eventually. If you guys look at what's coming out in 2007 and beyond, not too many sequels and spin-offs scheduled right now. Lets hope it stays that way. You can go to comingsoon.net to see for yourself.

Post: #159973
Topic: Women and Action Films
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/159973/action/topic#159973
Time: 2-Dec-2005 3:41 AM

I don't have anything against women being the hero in action films, so long as the story is really good. In Aliens, as someone metioned before, the movie did well because the story was good. The skip over to AVP, the hero was supposed to be a woman and the story was crappy. If they'd have stayed close to the comic series, the movie would have worked IMO.

Post: #159616
Topic: It's official, George is really losing it (claims more changes to the OT to come...)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/159616/action/topic#159616
Time: 30-Nov-2005 8:02 PM

when I meant money with tolkein I meant that he had a steady income coming in from being a professor. No fame from teaching at Oxford? I'd think that in Academia, he had some notoriety for that.

Post: #159610
Topic: My take (long)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/159610/action/topic#159610
Time: 30-Nov-2005 7:36 PM

so he just lost hiss edge once ESB was done? hmm.... that's sad. I can think of ways he could have gone beyond what he had done. Well, that's not really true, at least not off the top of my head. But there is always something. There is always something out there that nobody has ever done before and whatnot. If I were him, I'd have turned to more experimental stuff to just try new things and expand, but i guess he never did. It's funny, since hitchcock, films haven't been the same in a way. the inventive spirit is almost nill right now. Sad...sad...sad...

Post: #159605
Topic: why he does it... (Lucas destroying his own creation)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/159605/action/topic#159605
Time: 30-Nov-2005 7:22 PM

I've suspected something like this for a while myself. And yes, if all you go after is success, than once you attain it; what then? That's why there has to be something bigger than achieving success dominate in your life. That's why it's not such a great thing being under the power of gold.

Post: #159597
Topic: It's official, George is really losing it (claims more changes to the OT to come...)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/159597/action/topic#159597
Time: 30-Nov-2005 7:09 PM

I never really understood why one would compare the two. Lucas was never even close to being on par with Tolkien. Tolkein literally wrote his story from scratch so many times because he ran into problems or other things that go bump. He re-wrote the story until he came to another bump and them re-wrote it again. He didn't publish until he had the story completely worked out. Which is something Lucas never did. I think in part he didn't because he hated writing as he has said so often. I actually like writing and so did tolkien. It sorta allows one to enter a world of endless possibilities. Also remember that Tolkien wasn't writing for money or fame he already had that at Oxford. Lucas was writing for money essentially

Post: #159593
Topic: My take (long)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/159593/action/topic#159593
Time: 30-Nov-2005 6:58 PM

so what exactly made Lucas "lose his hunger" as you put it? This is the only thing that interests me at this point.

Post: #159365
Topic: redeeming lucas
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/159365/action/topic#159365
Time: 29-Nov-2005 10:34 PM

i really don't have any problems with adam's opinions they are his and he has a right to them, but his behaviour on this forum is suspect. The fact that he hasn't seen the O-OT isn't the reason we should ban him. It's the fact that he was baiting us with the high-and-mighty attitude about the 2004 DVDs when he hadn't seen the originals. That is what a troll is right? someone who comes in an baits users with what they say? Adam, it's great that you want to see the oot, but it doesn't negate what you've already done on this forum. You don't really have a means to compare the 2004 dvds to the original if you haven't seen both. It's like comparing coke to pepsi. you can't form an intelligent comparison unless you've sampled both the colas. do you understand where we are coming from at least?

Post: #159176
Topic: Do you think Lucas really knows there is demand for the O-OT on DVD?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/159176/action/topic#159176
Time: 29-Nov-2005 12:29 PM

well, the artist is being unnesassarily stubborn about something that could actually make money. I personally think that he doesn't care because if you think about having to please all those people it gets insanely hard to do anything creative.

Post: #159174
Topic: If the Prequels had been made first would they have succeeded?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/159174/action/topic#159174
Time: 29-Nov-2005 12:16 PM

Interesting stuff, that would actually fuel anakin's hate even more if he saw darth maul kill his father. And then out of freindship to Qui-Gon, Ben trains anakin.

Post: #159171
Topic: redeeming lucas
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/159171/action/topic#159171
Time: 29-Nov-2005 12:09 PM

Yeah, someone get Jay and have him look into this. The fact that he didn't watch the O-OT warrents either a ban or an ignore feature of some kind. It's funny how when you drive adam into a corner he can't get out of, he says that only lucas will only know the truth and crap like that.

Post: #159017
Topic: If the Prequels had been made first would they have succeeded?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/159017/action/topic#159017
Time: 29-Nov-2005 2:47 AM

does anyone have a workable link to these scripts? I think i lost my stuff.

Post: #158950
Topic: redeeming lucas
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/158950/action/topic#158950
Time: 29-Nov-2005 12:48 AM

so adam... how thick-headed can one get?

Post: #158946
Topic: France
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/158946/action/topic#158946
Time: 29-Nov-2005 12:45 AM

so, how many thick-headed people are on this forum?

Post: #158941
Topic: If the Prequels had been made first would they have succeeded?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/158941/action/topic#158941
Time: 29-Nov-2005 12:25 AM

Nanner, didn't mean you there, that was why I said most. There are some 16 year olds out there who are willing to at least listen and they also reach there opinions in a very intelligent way. But some of what Adam is saying just doesn't work if he hasn't expereinced the O-OT for himself.

Post: #158921
Topic: If the Prequels had been made first would they have succeeded?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/158921/action/topic#158921
Time: 29-Nov-2005 12:02 AM

it's funny that a bunch of us are trying to get the point acrossed to a 16 year old. In my experience, most sixteen year olds think they know everything and don't want to listen anyway. I do think that the kid needs to actually watch the O-OT before forming opinions though. That and read a couple of good books. Adam, I am sure that many of the classical writers didn't actually write a back story before they wrote the books they did. I get the impression that they wanted to allow the characters and the story to take them to unexpected places as they wrote. Take Treasure Island for example, Stevenson seems to just write and allow things to flow freely in that story. Same with Count of Monte Cristo. I could be wrong though haven't looked into it to know for sure.

Post: #158667
Topic: If the Prequels had been made first would they have succeeded?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/158667/action/topic#158667
Time: 28-Nov-2005 1:44 PM

I have also come to suspect that the reason why GL doesn't pay any attention to the O-OT anymore is because his wife at the time had a hand in editing it. She was the one who said that the Jabba scene was redundant in the first place. His real motive for some of the changes to ANH may have been driven out of this fact. She really must have hurt him alot after ROTJ.

Adam, I never said he didn't have a backstory for ANH, I said he wrote THE backstory after the first movie was sucessful. The backstory that he actually had for ANH was slighlty different than the one he had after the movie came out. Besides, what can you really contribute to this? you haven't even seen the O-OT pre- '97. You have no real frame of reference for this discussion.

Post: #158577
Topic: If the Prequels had been made first would they have succeeded?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/158577/action/topic#158577
Time: 28-Nov-2005 2:09 AM

The more I think about it, the more I come to the conclusion that he made it up as he went along. Kinda like the Walchowski brothers and the matrix mess. Adam, you need to really think about what you are saying. I've found that most of your statements hang on the idea that Lucas knew what he was doing, and that anything he does and says it gospel when it comes to how things wnet down. The man is human and he is prone to lying just as much as you are. Trust me, He's lied to the world, even to his friends about this story for years. He never had what you would call a real backstory when he made the original star wars. He didn't write any of that until after it did really well in the box office. Once he saw that, he thought "well I can say there is moer to the story and make more movies". Then he wrote the backstory based on the previous scripts that he tried to hammer out before 1977. Once the backstory was laid, then he wrote the story outlines for ESB and Jedi.