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#293656
Topic
2007 Star Wars DVD Collection Release
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/293656/action/topic#293656
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Originally posted by: Sluggo
Does anyone remember the shirt he was wearing during the production of Episode 2? It said Star Wars at the top and listed how the movies were poorly written and acted and blah blah... I'd need to see the actual text before coming to any conclusions, but I think this might shed some light on his t-shirt tastes.

He can be seen wearing the shirt in the Episode 2 web docs in Tunesia.


Is it this text on the shirt: "a film with comic-book characters, an unbelievable story, no political or social commentary, lousy acting, preposterous dialogue, and a ridiculously simplistic morality. In other words, a bad movie." ?

(see here and here)
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#287778
Topic
New Star Wars Movie...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/287778/action/topic#287778
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Originally posted by: CO
"I am done with Star Wars, I am going to make small, independent movies that really don't make any money."
-George Lucas, April 2005 - 60 Minutes Interview

He has said that since after the first movie, in 1977!

"Also, I figured the merchandising along with the sequels would give me enough income over a period of time so that I could retire from professional filmmaking and go into making my own kind of movies, my own sort of abstract, weird, experimental stuff."
- George Lucas, May 1977 - Rolling Stone Interview. (link)
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#286809
Topic
TPM: In other words, a BAD MOVIE.
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/286809/action/topic#286809
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In the book <span class=“Bold”>The Cinema of George Lucas</span>, there is two photos of George Lucas, on the set of <span class=“Bold”>The Phantom Menace</span>, wearing a black t-shirt, with a white text on it that says:

<div class=“PostQuote”>STAR WARS™:
“…a film with comic-book characters, an unbelievable story, no political or social commentary, lousy acting, preposterous dialogue, and a ridiculously simplistic morality. In other words, a BAD MOVIE.”</div>

Maybe, with the prequels, Lucas tried to prove that sentence wrong?

(by the way, the quoted text above comes from this 1997 New Yorker article)

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#245106
Topic
POLL: So Who Bought Them &amp; Who Didn't? (the 2006 GOUT DVD release)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/245106/action/topic#245106
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Originally posted by: CO
We need to make him realize that any Saga boxset in the future has to contain the O-OT in it or he won't get a dime from us.


I heartfully agree with that! We have to tell Lucas(film) that they have to release properly remastered DVDs of the O-OT (just match the quality of the Indiana Jones boxset, and we'll be happy). Let's start a new letter campaign to Lucasfilm, telling them that we won't buy anything star wars related until the O-OT get a proper release...
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#239182
Topic
Star Wars DVD Covers
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/239182/action/topic#239182
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WOW! You've got great artistic tallents, Falle.

Two remarks: the white outlines around the characters needs to be a little hazy, or have some glow. And you need some "smoke plumes" around the characters as well (John Alvin uses them a lot).

Another remark: a spaceship! Or some kind of vehicule, like the John Alvin posters.
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#239129
Topic
Slideshow of ANH changes since 1977
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/239129/action/topic#239129
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Originally posted by: Mavimao
My favorite is picture 28 - when the big ronto passes the land speeder when Luke and company get stopped in Mos Eisley. Wow...what an improvement. A high-rez texture in my face.


It completly ruins the scene, IMHO.

I remember a SFX wizard bragging how they were able to put a lot of Rontos in the Mos Esley scenes. In fact, there is at least two of them in every scene. This is so stupid... And that poor beast is not even interesting! It is one of the most poorly designed creature in the Star Wars Universe....
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#236959
Topic
aspect ratio
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/236959/action/topic#236959
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You can find the aspect ratio by hand:

Take a picture of the screen while the movie is playing on your computer
Load this picture in an image editing software (like PhotoShop)
With the "rectangular lasso tool", select only the image of the movie
your editing software should show you the width and height of the selection (I know PhotoShop do that)
The aspect ratio is the width divided by the height!

(by the way, it's 1.33:1, 1.78:1, 1.85:1 and 2.35:1, not 1:33:1 1:78:1 etc. because it simply says that if your screen is 1 meter high, the picture will be 1.33, 1.78, 1.85 or 2.35 meters across)