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I all for critising Lucas but sometimes it gets a bit mean. He did give us those 3 original films that we love. That's enough to forgive his litany of crimes in the years since.

I'm just happy he's retired, for whatever reason and we can all go back to admiring all the things he achieved in his career, instead of resenting him.  The man has been responsible for more awesome Film, TV, Literature, Videogames, Music and Magical SFX-Wizardry than any other person who every worked in cinema's history.

Sorry, something about the OP just made me want to defend Lucas. Surely something is wrong with an OT.com post when it makes you do that ;-)

Right back at ya ;-)

1. The Living Daylights
2. For Your Eyes Only
3. You Only Live Twice
4. A View to a Kill
5. Live and Let Die
6. GoldenEye
7. Licence to Kill
8. Goldfinger
9. Octopussy
10. The Man with the Golden Gun
11. Moonraker
12. Casino Royale
13. Thunderball
14. Diamonds Are Forever
15. Dr. No
16. The Spy Who Loved Me
17. From Russia With Love
18. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
19. Tomorrow Never Dies
20. Quantum Of Solace
21. Skyfall
22. Die Another Day
23. The World Is Not Enough

My curiosity got the better of me.

I thought 'In The Beginning' was totally freakin' awesome when I saw back in the day (Still holds up now).

The Lucas reference is an interesting one in that it's a prequel that doesn't depicts events we've already been told about. But the difference is that the B5 prequel was action packed, exciting, emotional and was actually better than what I'd imagined these events to be like.

As for continuity Straczynski had a huge 5 season arc TV show with flashbacks, future visions and time-travel combined with lead actors leaving and the Network f*ckin' with it. That it has as solid continuity as it does is to be marvelled at. Lucas had a mere 3 films, that he had total ceative control of and he still ballsed it all up.

Something with speeches written like this has to be good...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeNBJ5o-b7s

canofhumdingers said:

One of the few times I've ever spent $17 for one movie ticket and felt I TOTALLY got my money's worth. In fact, it was a bargain.

I hope so! My ticket for next weekend cost $25.87 (£16.51) :-(

Potentially useful 'Alan Partridge' animated-gif roundup...

Erik Pancakes said:

Actually, the "Phase One" briefcase box... included a bonus disc with more deleted scenes for the movies than the standalone releases did.

Wha? Mine didn't, what scenes were there?

Hey, I just had this amazing idea!

How about this becomes the all-purpose creative-euphemism-writing thread or something?

From the current series of The Apprentice...

TheBoost said:

TFN said:

words that mean masturbating that aren't "MASTURBATING"

There's something funny about how specific this is. It means someone posted a post with "whacking off" in it, and then argued that it was ok.

We should really have a thread here for creative masturbating euphemisms (By that I mean creative euphemisms for masturbating and not euphemisms for masturbating creatively).

My favourite was from The League of Gentlemen TV show...

"Cavorting with Madam Palm and her five lovely daughters"

Erik Pancakes said:

the fact that Moffat actually kept Danny dead

There's always the Christmas special

DrCrowTStarwars said:

I have not bought Thor 2 on Bluray yet.

Don't get me wrong, Thor2 is still a great Blu-Ray package with loads of extra content and waaay more than most releases have. It was just annoying to find a few pieces were missing.

Neglify said:

here's a little clip of Chris Pratt and Zoe Saldana having an "epic dance battle."

 If I'd seen that Starlord dance ^ before I'd seen the movie I'd have assumed it was Pratt goofing off for the blooper reel. That's what was so fun about this movie.

SilverWook said:

Ryan McAvoy said:

Please elaborate

 http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Guardians-of-the-Galaxy-discussion-thread/post/735594/#TopicPost735594

Doh! I should have scrolled up. Thanks.

I can maybe see why the Grandpa scene might not get included, as it could possibly contradict what Gunn is planning for the second film in some way and the Nebula shot sounds like it was just a single shot. Also the Grandpa thing might have just been one shot, they sounded like unused parts of the end montage. The extended montage would have been nice though. You never get all the unused footage on any DVD package but if it's got the major deleted stuff I'm happy. I could have gone for a 3-hour making-of documentary ;-)

I hope those mentioned scenes don't become Disney streaming exclusives like with the Thor2 Blu-Ray because that really p*ssed me off.

SilverWook said:

So, we're basically getting stiffed on deleted scenes for the inevitable double dip two and half years from now. Thanks a lot, Disney. :/

Please elaborate on the stiffed-ness you've heard about, as from what I'm reading it sounds pretty decent...

http://screenrant.com/guardians-galaxy-blu-ray-features-deleted-scenes/

Audio Commentaries are my favourite feature so I'm pleased.

Godamnit when is Rebels gonna be out on DVD, so I can cut it into a movie already :-)

FrankT said:

Moffat is now a murderer. He killed the Master. Major character of the series. This is inexcusable, I'm not staying around for the Christmas special!

I might be wrong but didn't she disapear in flash of blue teleporty light and not dissolve into a a flash of orangish light. I'm sure when she killed the other people it was orange and when she teleported off the plane it was blue. So I assumed she'd escaped at the end. We weren't meant to think that she died right?

m_s0 said:

'Obscure' would be a better term now that it's on youtube for everyone too see. Looks pretty good.

Well if you think ab... oh I can't be bothered right now.

Excellent YouTube film channel called Eyes On Cinema. Rare film interviews and stuff. A few interesting recent Star Wars uploads...

36-Minute 1983 interview w/ Darth Vader actor David Prowse on 'Star Wars' & more [audio]

George Lucas in 6 Vintage Japanese 'Star Wars' Commercials for Panasonic

17-Minute 1977 'Star Wars' interviews w/ producer Gary Kurtz, Mark Hamill & Carrie Fisher

The title feels a bit generic but it's okay. Awesomeness of episode titles isn't really an indicator of quality in SW movies anyway ;-). Did anybody in that "guess the title" thread get it right?

darth_ender said:

Another thought I've had... Luke made two runs through the Death Star trench

the Star Tours footage includes... a different shot of entering the trench, flying down the trench, a little dogfighting with TIE fighters

Can't quite get my head round how that would work with the footage available?

Is the Star Tours stuff HD and or CGI/Trad-Models etc? Sounds interesting.

lpd said:

Just read through this, had a go at this once myself but it went the same as all my edits onto the back burner. Some of your clips look great cant wait to watch your finished product.

I'm still recharging my batteries on this one, while working on other edits. I'm about 90% of the way through a Star Trek project where I've learned sooo much, that I'm gonna bring over to this. Alternate SFX shots galore!

lpd said:

I know someone who knows the guys who JJ talked to about the new R2 and I promise they know their stuff.

I'm still thrilled that anybody is talking to anybody about getting things right on these new films! ;-)

Even that little amount of care was beyond Lucasfilm a decade ago.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Count Mira Furlan as another addition to my list.

 Since when was she made a Count? Not that I'm saying she doesn't deserve it.

Potentially useful 'Blackadder The Third' animated-gif roundup...

...and a bonus 'Blackader's Christmas Carol' one too...

I can see these coming in handy ;-)

Looks identical to me too, even the holo-projector you mentioned is at a totally different angle in the two shots. I'm just pleased there is an R2 prop and not a CGI version like in the last film.