Zebonka

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Join date: 10-Feb-2005
Last activity: 19-Aug-2019
Posts: 192

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Post: #112032
Topic: FOX issuing takedown notices to Sith downloaders
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/112032/action/topic#112032
Time: 4-Jun-2005 7:54 PM

Well it's like this. This is about greed. They have paid for the movie, they have turned a profit, just about everyone has already won out and made more money than most movies make anyway. They don't need anymore. It will not hurt them if people pirate the movie from here on in because they're still making money and will make even more money in November when the DVD comes out. It don't matter anymore!

Besides, people have to stop thinking about legal issues a little. If I get pissed with my Dad and joke about killing him in his sleep do I go:

"No, I'd be sent to jail!"
or
"That'd be wrong he's my dad and I love him".

Too many bloody people these day go for option 1, because it's a high horse. It's so easy to sit there and say 'thief!' when in actual fact it just doesn't bloody matter! I'm not thinking of the enormous penalty I'm going to get for downloading Episode IV (the nonSE version), I'm thinking of the fact that Lucas is what, a 10billionaire already? And that everyone involved already HAS my money (I own the DVD's). The fact that you guys get suckered into their greed is quite funny!

Post: #111909
Topic: Fix the lightsabers (Poster participation)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/111909/action/topic#111909
Time: 4-Jun-2005 9:11 AM

No it ain't, even ROTS had more glow than that.

And let's be clear, the prequels aren't the movies you want to mimic. At most, you'd go after Phantom Menace. But the other two aren't nearly as good as the lightsabers in the old movies. They actually look like lightsources.

Post: #111908
Topic: FOX issuing takedown notices to Sith downloaders
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/111908/action/topic#111908
Time: 4-Jun-2005 9:09 AM

Hardcore Legend, you missed my point which was:

WHO CARES?

Post: #111524
Topic: Fix the lightsabers (Poster participation)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/111524/action/topic#111524
Time: 3-Jun-2005 7:43 AM

Heh thankyou. For more on lightsabers you should look at the fanfilm forum at theforce.net. That's where I picked up most of it. Mind you they don't do it exactly like the old movies, but they give you a great starting point from which you can mimic the old look.

Post: #111362
Topic: Fix the lightsabers (Poster participation)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/111362/action/topic#111362
Time: 2-Jun-2005 10:20 PM

Heh I figured we'd need a blank frame for this thread. I could do more for diff. scenes if no one else wants to...

Post: #111347
Topic: FOX issuing takedown notices to Sith downloaders
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/111347/action/topic#111347
Time: 2-Jun-2005 9:54 PM

Man this is a hoot. Revenge of the Sith is doing record business and they're complaining about piracy? If a film is big enough, then the piracy doesn't hurt it because it makes so much money. If a film (or song or whatever) is small time, then it's not big time enough to be bootlegged widely, and the free publicity is worth it. Seriously. I don't see the problem. I've seen the movie twice, am going to see it a 3rd time, and am buying a copy in November. I haven't downloaded it, but certainly will not pick on anyone who does as long as they've paid good money to see it and will buy a legal copy at a later time.

Post: #111334
Topic: Fix the lightsabers (Poster participation)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/111334/action/topic#111334
Time: 2-Jun-2005 9:42 PM

Ok, I figured it'd be unfair of me to poke fun without at least offering up my own alternative.

http://www.angelfire.com/creep/clan_mccoolness/rash.html

There you'll find an empty frame, a frame of the lightsaber from the 2004 DVD, and at the bottom, my own one. I tried to mimick the very nice glow of the old ones, but gave it some colour instead of making it white.

And Hardcor Legend, I mean no insult but your lightsabers lack glow. They don't look like an actual lightsource. If you take a photo of some actual lightsources you'll see what I mean.

Post: #111303
Topic: Fix the lightsabers (Poster participation)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/111303/action/topic#111303
Time: 2-Jun-2005 9:03 PM

Um. That's not a fix. You broke the lightsabers, did you do that with MSPaint or something? Maybe I'm being harsh - i'll look again.

No. Those are really bad. Never do that again. Or if you do, don't put it in any alternate versions of the movie. It'd be a shame for someone to be downloading a supposed 'fix' and instead get that.

Post: #111302
Topic: Natalie Portman Goes CUEBALL!!!!!!!!!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/111302/action/topic#111302
Time: 2-Jun-2005 9:01 PM

Heh, nasty language on the front page! Hooah!

Not that I'd criticise them, they were only saying what I was thinking.

Post: #110658
Topic: StarWarsLegacy.com - The Official Thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/110658/action/topic#110658
Time: 1-Jun-2005 1:53 PM

Huh? There's non-SE versions floating around? For god's sake there's 70 000 people on that petition! Didn't it occur to any of them that it might be easier in the end to cat-burgle one of those prints, do a Lowry style clean up on it and get to work? Jeeze! Somebody get a hold of them fast!

Post: #110169
Topic: Info: Would it Be Good? An Official Release of the unaltered Original Trilogy on DVD?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/110169/action/topic#110169
Time: 30-May-2005 2:56 PM

My original memory of Star Wars is the ones we taped in the late 80's. I mean - the picture was squished inwards to get more of the widescreen image in (I always wondered why the moons of Tatooine were oval instead of round). Even now if I watch the DVD, I still expect the Rebel theme and the "STAR WARS - CHANNEL NINE" thing with the picture of Luke in the gunner seat to come up.

Can you believe, I didn't see 'look sir, droids' till I was 9 and the old old trilogy was released for the last time on VHS.

I'd go back to those really old copies, but guess what? My brother lent them to his kids. They got a scissor treatment when jammed in a VCR. I could have cried, those tapes were very precious.

Post: #110166
Topic: Which did you prefer, the SE or the 2004 DVD edition?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/110166/action/topic#110166
Time: 30-May-2005 2:50 PM

They corrected Vader's voice? Can't believe I didn't notice.

I would've appreciated the Emperor more if he'd had the exact same dialogue in TESB.

Post: #109967
Topic: .: Moth3r's PAL DVD project :.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/109967/action/topic#109967
Time: 29-May-2005 1:08 PM

Hooorah...

Soo, is there a way to still get this version of ANH? I live in Perth Australia and can't afford to get someone from overseas to ship it in. Noooo way!

Post: #93150
Topic: Do they even exist anymore? (the unaltered theatrical version of the Original Trilogy)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/93150/action/topic#93150
Time: 13-Feb-2005 4:04 AM

Heh, I had a feeling that they might have all the raw film or whatnot tucked away. I mean, Empire of Dreams shows just about anything you can think of - untouched bluescreen shots, clapboards, the 'old' crawl... even the shot with Sebastian Shaw instead of the 'new' Anakin. If they've got all that in their freakin' archive, I think it's reasonable to assume that either the original movies, or at least the old pieces of the originals, should still be stashed away.

I only just realised my icon looks like Freddie Mercury.

Post: #92873
Topic: Who has caved?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/92873/action/topic#92873
Time: 10-Feb-2005 4:32 AM

I never bought these DVD's - my nephews left them here by accident. Liked the special features because there was nothing about the Special Editions there. Movies look alright, I just walk out of the room everytime there's something I don't like.

Post: #92869
Topic: Empire of Dreams - what was your imagined Star Wars story...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/92869/action/topic#92869
Time: 10-Feb-2005 4:29 AM

In my head, the lighting is brighter like in ANH. It's all too moody in new films.

Also, when Anakin and Obi-Wan go at it, when I was 9 I always envisioned this would be something that Palpatine would preside over (just like the way he watches Vader and Luke go at it in Return of the Jedi).

Padme would wear less.

Post: #92866
Topic: Do they even exist anymore? (the unaltered theatrical version of the Original Trilogy)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/92866/action/topic#92866
Time: 10-Feb-2005 4:25 AM — Edited 31-May-2020 8:57 AM

I speak of the original trilogy when I ask this - do they actually exist anymore?

I don’t know if Lucas has had his official bonfire yet (the one where he takes every last print of the films and does a Hitler with 'em). Some Lucasfilm guy said ‘technically they don’t exist anymore’. But I refuse to buy that statement personally.
I watched the “Empire of Dreams” documentary, and there’s what… the 77 crawl, beginnings and ends of shots (with clapboards and everything)… if they have ALL THAT USELESS stuff locked away in their archive - why wouldn’t they have the movies?

Just wondering if anyone knew if the movies had undergone ‘the chop’ yet.