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#231892
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Sean's issues
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Perhaps you don't believe that you are deserving of anyone's affection, making it an overwhelming experience when you feel it from someone you are attracted to.

Or perhaps you feel so lonely that you seize upon any show of affection towards you, from someone you are attracted to, and convince yourself that it has to be because they could be falling in love with you.

I've experienced both of these. I don't think they're unusual attitudes. And they are by no means the only possible answers to your question.

A person showing you affection is not always due to romantic love but it is due to love of some kind. You thoroughly deserve any affection you are shown by your family, your friends or anyone else for that matter! You can be justifiably proud of yourself for this. Just take things a little easier, that's all. Try to enjoy the development of relationships with others without becoming anxious about making it into a romance.

Your Grandmother could have any number of things going on at the moment and her actions may not be due to mental illness, as such. But it is very difficult for children to accept that there may be something wrong with their parents, so your parents may have some resistance to the idea that their mother (or mother-in-law) has mental problems. It is right and proper that you care for her and look out for her but do not jump to the conclusion that no-one else in your family does. And you should certainly not take it upon yourself to feel solely responsible for her. It is awful to see someone you know change like that but you can't take that sort of thing on your own shoulders. It has to be shared. No-one can take that kind of weight alone.

Are you at school or college or what?
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#231883
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first viewing of the 2006 OOT dvds
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/231883/action/topic#231883
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A further attempt to petition Luca$hFilm is a good idea, I agree. I think that heavyweight film arts organisations are worth getting on board too. The BFI, the AFI, the Academy, etc. I'm sure it would have some impact at Luca$hFilm if these groups joined in criticising their policies with regard to the OOT. I'm talking about their prevention of public screenings of the OOT, as well as the home entertainment releases. I'm waiting on responses from the BFI and AFI at the moment.
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#231547
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first viewing of the 2006 OOT dvds
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/231547/action/topic#231547
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Originally posted by: darkhelmet
"I hope you will have a chance to see these first versions of the movies on DVD when they come out. Those who have been communicating their opinions and beliefs online have not seen the DVDs."


Except the report darkhelmet linked to at the start of his email.

Muppet...

I love the way Luca$hFilm talk about the remastering as having been done in 2004 and that they never mention the re-edits and CG changes and additions. Oh no, wait, I fucking hate it! My mistake...
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#231538
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Is the lack of quality in art a kind of art form?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/231538/action/topic#231538
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Originally posted by: ScruffyI was going over some archives last week and it turns out there was this huge fan theory about Sidious and Palpatine, that one was the clone of the other.


I remembered from the SW novelisation that Palpatine was the Emperor, as mentioned in the prologue. And Darth Sidious was clearly the Emperor. So, as usual, Luca$h decided that people needed things stated clearly in order to enjoy his movies. I would have loved to see some content in the PT that could (cleverly) upset preconceptions based on the OOT (or EU).

Sadly, it was just used to show backstory which had already been established for the OOT, quite often in a way that jarred with or flatly contradicted the OOT.

It would have been interesting if Sidious was a different person to Palpatine in some way.

On topic, I think that some film makers do successfully use crapness to comment on certain issues sometimes. My first example would probably be Verhoeven's 'Starship Troopers', which, I would say, uses crapness to attempt to alienate us from the human characters and make us more sympathetic to the bugs.
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#230929
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Lucas' real reasons for changing the OT
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/230929/action/topic#230929
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I do not think that one could be justified in considering Luca$h an auteur of any great ability. I think that the team he works with has always had a huge impact on the quality of the pieces. Also, changes in the teams have corresponded to marked changes in the tone and subject matter of the pieces.

Cahiers Du Cinema used Alfred Hitchcock as their model when first defining the auteur theory. It is clear, they suggested, that when one looks at the films Hitchcock had directed throughout his career, that his vision was at work in them all.

It seems to me that Luca$h has put the label of auteur on himself and that he has increasingly been treated as such by the teams he assembles for his projects. Probably because he selects people that treat him with that level of authority. He has also succeeded in convincing most of the world that he is an auteur and is solely responsible for the greatness of SW.

I think that, the more Luca$h is allowed to produce work like an auteur, the more it becomes clear how weak his talents are. Luca$h needs a strong team around him to channel his ideas, challenge his concepts, visualise the SW universe and shoot and edit the movies if they are to be good pieces of work. Otherwise, as with the PT, they become uneven, infantile pieces without memorable qualities.

An auteur is supposed to be an individual that controls (or influences) all aspects of the filmmaking process (screenwriting, production design, casting, direction, soundtracking, scoring, editing, etc.) in order to create the artistic work they envisioned.

Individuals that can justifiably be called an auteur are very rare.

Luca$h, I believe, has shown that he is not capable of producing films of quality as an auteur. The quality of the final product depends utterly on the team he works with and, critically, their ability to question him and make changes. In recent years he has surrounded himself with people who regard him as an auteur and produce whatever he asks for, no matter how good or bad it may be. I believe that that is why the PT is so inferior to the OOT.
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#229893
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Confession: My favorite movie is ROTS
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/229893/action/topic#229893
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Originally posted by: Ingo Sucks
It has just about all the necessary Star Wars characters, and it has better special effects.


"Necessary"? "Necessary"?!!! Are you suggesting that, as long as particular characters have screen time in it, that becomes your episode of choice?!!????!!!!!!!

And there are more effects but I would have to question that they're actually any better. Plus, Luca$h uses CGI in virtually every frame of episodes 1-3, so to continue to call the effects 'special' seems inaccurate, to say the least.
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#229889
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Quit Whining
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/229889/action/topic#229889
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Originally posted by: Whiners
And now you're getting them, exactly the way they were showing them in theaters back in 1977, 1980, and 1983.


Really?! You mean, when I watch the "bonus" "material" on the 2nd discs from the releases of episodes 4-6 coming out this September, it'll look every bit as good and be just as satisfying as it was to watch them in the cinema all those years ago?

The picture won't be fuzzy and have weird colour levels and have interlacing problems and have to be stretched in order to be watched on a widescreen TV?

You seem to think we're trying to deny people the SEs and force everybody to watch the OOT. We're really not. All we want is the choice. That's all. I don't see what's selfish about that.
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#229871
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No explanation necessary (but we got one anyway)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/229871/action/topic#229871
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Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
The big contradiction. How in the world does Leia remember her mother if her mother died three seconds after she was born? The way ROTJ Leia talks about her, it sounds like they were together for at least a few years before she died. It simply does not make sense that Leia would remember her and Luke not if they were both newborn infants. Explain that one, please.


Absolutely. That, for me also, was the big contradiction. So much so that I started a thread about it in General Star Wars Discussion. It should still be in there, gathering dust...

Whiners, the events you listed are not contradictions and, what's more, I've yet to find them mentioned as such on this site. So what, exactly, is your point?

Hey, Gaffer Tape! Sure beats debating Christian terminology, huh? Sorry about that, by the way. I read back my last post and it was a little... histrionic. I had always assumed that virgin birth and immacculate conception were more or less synonymous but, to be honest, I don't care enough about it to discuss it further. As you've said, we all know what I was trying to say, and that's the main thing, ain't it?!