Vess

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Join date: 29-Jan-2006
Last activity: 14-May-2006
Posts: 37

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Post: #209496
Topic: What is the rarest video in your collection?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/209496/action/topic#209496
Time: 14-May-2006 5:33 PM

Pah... what's "rare"? I suppose to e.g. a North American customer with a locked drive a non-R1 DVD that's unreleased in USA and, say, was only released in one country would be rare (Polanski's "Pirates", the US edit of "Fearless Vampire Hunters", the 2-disc version of "Dominion", for instance...). "Rare" as in the so-called "limited editions" (the 2-disc release of "Manhunter" or "Hellboy" with a film cell)? "Rare" workprints, officially unreleased films, practice shorts of future directors (Paul Thomas Anderson, Sam Raimi, Trey Parker, to name a few whose homemade shorts have been leaked) etc.? "Rare" due to their legal problems ("Ricky 6")? "Rare" as in "even the director won't acknowledge their existence" ("Manson Family Massacre"

)? "Rare" because only the person responsible for their existence was interested in somehow releasing them, and that in a tiny quantity (a certain awkward individual who plagues Sylvester Stallone with a certain plotless film of his comes to mind...

Post: #209041
Topic: Uh Oh! Here we go again? on Hyperspace
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/209041/action/topic#209041
Time: 12-May-2006 6:22 PM

Maybe Christensen et al. learned acting from George himself...?

http://japander.com/japander/lucas.htm

Post: #209040
Topic: Original Trilogy Novelizations
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/209040/action/topic#209040
Time: 12-May-2006 6:20 PM

Nothing's changed in all that time, not even the absence of Alan Dean Foster's name on the cover...

Post: #208918
Topic: Help: looking for... any workprints or fan edits?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/208918/action/topic#208918
Time: 12-May-2006 8:18 AM

I've got that Fight Club workprint... still haven't watched more than the opening 5 seconds, though, so I cannot tell what the differences are. I doubt I would catch them, either - I don't know this film well. If I recall correctly, the opening in the final version had different music, though.

(I dug it out now, to take a shot... the quality is awful. Here's some random frame:

http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/339/crap4fu.jpg

)

Post: #208509
Topic: Info: THE ARRIVAL - Special Edition (seeking a team up) (lots of useful info)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/208509/action/topic#208509
Time: 11-May-2006 6:36 AM

Oh, I remember that... I think that was the B genre's response to the magnificent "Contact"...

Nowhere near Contact's level in any respect, of course, but rather entertaining nonetheless.

Actually, I even bought this last year - a US edition has it bundled with its dreadful sequel on one disc. I may have its screenplay for potential inclusion... I'd have to check.

Post: #208278
Topic: Superman II and Superman III extended (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/208278/action/topic#208278
Time: 10-May-2006 4:49 PM

I'm not looking for a one paragraph summary or vague mentions of "more Jor El", but for a detailed, thorough analysis from someone who knows Superman by heart, who saw the expanded cuts, and who compared them (saw, personally - since there are e.g. some analyses of missing scenes from the script, laserdisc, etc., etc., with someone guessing what extra scenes should be in the Salkind version). Something such as e.g. this analysis and comparisonr of the Cliffhanger workprint: http://www.yourfilelink.com/get.php?fid=100625

If there is anything like that out there.

Post: #208277
Topic: Mr. Vader was recently seen in...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/208277/action/topic#208277
Time: 10-May-2006 4:43 PM

Am I seeing things because of the bad JPEG artifacts, or is this bus going to Nievski Prospekt?

That gives a whole new meaning to Ronald Ray-gun's "Evil Empire" phrase...

Post: #208262
Topic: Superman II and Superman III extended (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/208262/action/topic#208262
Time: 10-May-2006 3:40 PM

Speaking of the Supers... does anyone know if there is any online summary of Superman III - the TV cut and Superman - the "KCOP version" (the "Salkind cut")? A detailed one, listing all the differences between these versions and the released DVDs (ideally with screens

)? I could get these, but I don't know if they're worth it...

Post: #208138
Topic: Help: Ideas Wanted for... "Episode 3" or "What Convinced Me To Try a Re-edit"
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/208138/action/topic#208138
Time: 10-May-2006 7:01 AM

Now if only you could edit the film so that it doesn't star Natalie and Hayden......

Somebody's doing that in a fan edit, changing their voices.

Yes, apparently Ahmed Best is doing this.

Post: #208021
Topic: Darth Vader the Musical
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/208021/action/topic#208021
Time: 9-May-2006 8:29 PM

Nooooooooooo!

Post: #207600
Topic: FS: Han Shot First T-shirts
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/207600/action/topic#207600
Time: 8-May-2006 3:12 PM

He singlehandedly saved the flat plot and horrible dialogue in the prequels.

"I canna watch nomorr', cap'n!"

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v480/punkboi/Parno2/theknighting05.jpg

All right, he usually is decent, but in that particular scene, he is so atrocious he makes Christensen look like Marlon Brando...'s t-shirt (What?!? Did someone think I would actually say Christensen is comparable to Brando under any circumstances?)

Post: #207340
Topic: FS: Han Shot First T-shirts
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/207340/action/topic#207340
Time: 7-May-2006 8:05 PM

If Han hadn't shot first, Greedo's han' would've shot Han first.

Post: #207316
Topic: Cover archive for fan edits, workprints, composite edits, etc.?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/207316/action/topic#207316
Time: 7-May-2006 6:41 PM

A collected archive, not a showcase thread.

Post: #207300
Topic: Cover archive for fan edits, workprints, composite edits, etc.?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/207300/action/topic#207300
Time: 7-May-2006 5:14 PM

Is there one?
If not, perhaps there should be?

The hundreds of SW covers for various fan edits and "unofficial" discs can be located easily, but there's no large archive for other such projects... including some of those discussed here.

Post: #206759
Topic: Help Wanted: improving upon ADigitalMan's Revenge of the Sith edit
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/206759/action/topic#206759
Time: 5-May-2006 3:53 PM

It still disgusts me that GL simply accepted this idiotic plea from that horrible "actor" who can only "play" one role all over and over again (before the prequels, I never even considered I would ever have to see a "tuff gangsta Jedi"...), without giving a damn about the established rule of green/blue... I wonder what would have happened if Christensen turned out to like blue and had asked GL "Hey, George, can Vader's suit be blue in this episode"... would we get an "early" blue Vader, too? :\

Post: #206242
Topic: ITS HAPPENED-- OOT AVAILABLE FROM LUCASFILM
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/206242/action/topic#206242
Time: 4-May-2006 8:37 AM

By the way, I still have some small suspicions... I hope that they will not remove the semitransparent cocpits, the blue lines and other imperfections... I want the films completely unchanged.

But I am certain of one thing, and slightly less certain of another... Primo - they will remove Oola's exhibitionism, secundo - they probably will use some Photocrap halo covers instead of the original posters. GL may cave in and allow the "lasers-hit-bodies" effects to stay in, but I truly doubt he will let Oola's mistake remain as it was, unmodified.

I also wonder what the deal with the opening titles is... if the initial announcement was removed, it may indicate that changes are being prepared after all...

Post: #206238
Topic: How "original" do you think it is going to be...? (the 2006 GOUT DVD release)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/206238/action/topic#206238
Time: 4-May-2006 8:28 AM — Edited 30-May-2020 9:20 PM

Post: #206225
Topic: Info: OriginalTrilogy.com to shut down
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/206225/action/topic#206225
Time: 4-May-2006 6:54 AM

Change the domain to "thesitedevotedtohavinglostandunavailableversionsoffilmsreleasedofficiallyondvd.com" and have petitions about "13th Warrior", "The Thief and the Cobbler", "The Lost Cut", "Back to the Futericstoltz" and more...

Post: #206223
Topic: ITS HAPPENED-- OOT AVAILABLE FROM LUCASFILM
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/206223/action/topic#206223
Time: 4-May-2006 6:46 AM

Okay, so it is going to happen, just as I thought I would, and much sooner than I was expecting...

Now, let us get to the Greater Task... getting The Lost Cut released!

Actually, I wouldn't mind an official Holiday Special, either, but as much as I was expecting the theatrical versions to get their official release, I am almost certain none of the above two will. The audible demand is most likely too small for that to happen, sadly...

Post: #205802
Topic: Info: 'Nightmare on Oak Street' fan edit :)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/205802/action/topic#205802
Time: 3-May-2006 6:11 AM — Edited 9-Jul-2020 7:31 PM

Here’s an interesting fan edition:

tracker.zaerc.com

(Oaks are stronger than elms).

:: Direct link removed.

Post: #205624
Topic: Info Wanted: Starship Troopers Anime
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/205624/action/topic#205624
Time: 2-May-2006 5:21 PM

Someone on "Roughneck Ramblins" - http://s7.invisionfree.com/Roughneck_Ramblings/index.php?s=e9510fd52d4f898b6c202acdcc3dc85d&showforum=3 - saw that and claimed that it was horrible, which is exactly what I was expecting...

So far the best adaptation (and a wonderful expansion) of Heinlein was "Starship Troopers: Terran Ascendancy".

Post: #205618
Topic: "The Turkish Star Wars"... quality of the DVD, any extras included?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/205618/action/topic#205618
Time: 2-May-2006 3:57 PM

Hah, just as I suspected when typing the above, I forgot one "y" in the title.

Here is the cover of this official DVD:

http://www.tulumba.com/mmTULUMBA/Images/VI274457TF617_250.jpg

And speaking of the Turkish turkeys... has anyone, er, "preserved" them on DVD-R, doing any home restoration, etc.? The closest I came to was reencoding "Seytan" ("The Turkish Exorcist") on DVD-R with optional English subtitles, but that's because it's related to The Exorcist...

Nevertheless, I was often wondering about some of the atrocities that I never saw - e.g. "Badi" (the remake of "E. T."), the "Turkish Star Trek", the "Philippino Batman and Robin" (supposedly worse than Schumacher's take) and other such ones...

Post: #205617
Topic: The Mask - Workprint (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/205617/action/topic#205617
Time: 2-May-2006 3:53 PM

I'm keeping that workprint next to the Mask DVD instead of "Son of the Mask"...

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/848/masss9lp.jpg

"Son of the Mask"... right up there with "Highlander II" and Joel Schumacher's Ratman. Or rather down there.

Post: #205576
Topic: "The Turkish Star Wars"... quality of the DVD, any extras included?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/205576/action/topic#205576
Time: 2-May-2006 10:53 AM — Edited 15-Jul-2020 11:07 AM

I’m curious if anyone here has or saw the OFFICIAL (sic!) Turkish DVD release of the beloved “classic” “Dunyai Kurtaran Adam” (I wonder if I’m writing the title incorrectly… I’ll have to look it up after posting )? I’m curious about the quality, compared to the usual VHS transfers floating online, and I’m also wondering if it has - heh, heh - any extras…

Post: #205574
Topic: Help: looking for... KISS MEETS THE PHANTOM
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/205574/action/topic#205574
Time: 2-May-2006 10:44 AM

I've heard of this horror after seeing "Detroit Rock City", I found and downloaded a VHS transfer out of curiosity (I think it's even torrented on Mininova)... but I could not watch more than 15 minutes. The film is so bad that if Paul W. S. Anderson saw it, he would adopt it.

And now it got an official DVD release???