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TheCassidy

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#139001
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Star Wars 3-D in 2007
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/139001/action/topic#139001
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Star Wars fans have allowed themselves to become alienated due to Lucas' own creative decisions.

He changed his movies but the last time I checked he wasn't sneaking into people's housed and raping their childhoods like everyone complains. That's Michael Jackson's job besides (rim shot). The original trilogy is widely available in numerous formats for your enjoyment, get it, burn it, watch it and shut up about it.

EDIT - my wisecracking isn't aimed at any of my brothers and sisters here, just a general statement on the lazy Star Wars fans that regurgitate everything they read on message boards about Lucas.
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#139000
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From Jedi To Jesus
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/139000/action/topic#139000
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While I never intended this to be a 'It's OK to be Christian & A Star Wars Fan' thread, it's been interesting to watch the responses.

Clearly the gentleman who made this film is a nutter and an oportunist. The very idea that he would use Christ and Star Wars, two of the most profitable things (for lack of a better word), for personal gain is offensive.

He has seemingly replaced his self-termed unhelathy obsession with Star Wars with an Obsession Of The Christ (tm). Obsession of anything is fanatical, unhealthy and downright scary.

So let's hear it and keep it on track - When does a fan of Star Wars become a fanatic?
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#138589
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Delted Magic on Ebay!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/138589/action/topic#138589
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I couldn't agree with Rixter more. At the same time, there has to be some sort of pride knowing that your personal work has become the standard and definitive edition of the HS. I know that I'd be pretty jazzed knowing my work was being seen all around the world.

If they started passing my work around as their own, well, it's nothing a pillow to the face at 4 AM couldn't fix. Not that I'd murder anyone. I meant it as a colourful metaphor. I'm all poetic like that.
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#138256
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Info Wanted: Blade Runner - number of English versions? And differing sound mixes?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/138256/action/topic#138256
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What about the 'Deckard Looks At The Screen & Say's I'm A Replicant Everybody!' version, so I can stop explaining to the peons at work that the unicorn dream is a planted memory...unless it isn't and he used to ride around on unicorns shooting replicants. In which case Ridley Scott needs to make a prequel. Seriously.

At any rate, I'm really glad you guys are doing this because this is my 3rd favourite movie of all time and let me tell you - this is a real education, man
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#137918
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What id Star Wars was never made?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/137918/action/topic#137918
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Ah, well - a personal level is something altogether different.

I was 4 years old in 1977 when I saw Star Wars for the first time. It is also the exact moment when my mind all of a sudden came alive. It really is the first memory, which I can recall in complete detail. The smell of the theatre, the cigarette smoke in the projector light, standing up for the Canadian National Anthem back in those days (no Coke commercials), not blinking for 2 hours...man, those were the days.

We went straight from the theatre to the toy store, where my old man bought me a Kenner R2-D2, who is still my favourite character.

The following fall I started Kindergarten. I was with a pretty diverse group of kids, racially and economically. But all 20 or so of us loved Star Wars. Maybe we wouldn't have found so much in common were it not for Star Wars. Maybe my perspective wouldn't have broadened. Maybe I wouldn't have normally been so tolerant of other races and religions were it not for Star Wars.

I know it sounds corny, but Star Wars made my world a better place to live in.
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#137912
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What id Star Wars was never made?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/137912/action/topic#137912
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Of course, of course. No disrespect intended.

Sorry. If Star Wars had never been created, none of us would be here. This forum, I mean, not in the cosmic sense.

I was just trying to be cute - yet again, I've failed.

I debated this very thing just the other day with a co-worker. They said that if it hadn't been Star Wars, it would have been something else. Some other movie, according to him, would have 'revolutionized' special effects and the end result would have been the same.

I disagreed. My opinion is that Star Wars opened up a part of the collective conciousness that would likely have remained locked or hidden. Films of the 70's were bleak and cynical. Lucas (and Spielberg) stood out amongst the Scorceses and DePalmas of the film world. Here, right after the end of Vietnam when everyone was depressed and had a bleak outlook on the World, comes a film which offered hope and optimism and told the story of a youth escaping his stifling existence.

Without Star Wars, perhaps we would have remained in a rut for many more years, never knowing that it was okay to dream.

Just my thought though, for what it's worth.
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#137856
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Blade Runner - PAL and NTSC - jedi/feta (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/137856/action/topic#137856
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Coming to the party a bit late here I'm afraid, and of all the BR threads I wasn't sure where to post this, but here goes.

I may have access to a direct master of a Blade Runner special done on TVOntario as part of their Saturday Night At The Movies program. Basically for those unfamiliar (which would be everyone outside of Ontario I'd reckon) they show a movie and then do interviews with those involved in the production. The BR special have interviews with Emmett Walsh, Joanna Cassidy and others that slip my mind. Ford wasn't involved, that much I know.

I don't know if anyone is interested in this, so I thought I'd throw it out there and if there is enough buzz I will get the tape.

Cheers.
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#137611
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Episode III DVD menus
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/137611/action/topic#137611
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Originally posted by: ADigitalMan
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Originally posted by: TheCassidy

Hater.


Much to learn, you still have.


At first I was all like, huh, what? Then I re-read your original post and realized that you were only complaining about the fact that Coruscant was actually there, not that some of the others had been excluded. Initially I was all like, what is he talking about? Here's, um, Utapauupaau and Mustafa.

So while I do have much to learn, that'll have to wait for a while. Now if you'll excuse me I have to get back to shoving bamboo shoots under my fingernails for being so terribly, terribly wrong. And I'm not being sarcastic. That's the way I roll.
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#137486
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Idea: STAR WARS: CLONE WARS - A FAN EDIT REQUEST/PROPOSITION
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/137486/action/topic#137486
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I thought about it a long time ago, but if it takes more than 15 minutes of my attention then you can count me out. Damn ADD.

Anyway, I noticed that the opening sequence of Clone Wars 1 has this montage sequence that repeats later in the series, almost like a preview clip. It would be nice to see that edited out and start it more Star Wars-y. Yoda riding on the back of the whatchamallit just doesn't scream 'exciting,' know what I'm saying?