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#321476
Topic
Star Tours - preservation dvd (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/321476/action/topic#321476
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You should check out the timecoded version that is on OCP's "Return of the Ewok and other little films". If that one is better quality than the widescreen version you have, than I'd recommend adding both to the DVD. Ideally you'd have:
1. The widescreen ride video (assuming this was OAR).
2. The fullscreen ride video (only if better quality than widescreen).
3. A hand-held cam of the ride in progress (this would be good to document the actual experience).
4. The 'boarding instructions' video (not sure if this is out there).
5. Any thing else related to ride, be it promos, press kits, whatever.

Now, with all that said, RotE is the only thing I can help you out with...
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#321286
Topic
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: The InfoDroid Edit (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/321286/action/topic#321286
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InfoDroid said:

DarkGryphon2048 said:

InfoDroid said:

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j22/sdevore1138/temple%20of%20doom/TempleDVDcover1mockup1.jpg

Full Rez cover & disc art available here: http://rapidshare.com/files/123712545/TempleDVDcover1.zip.html
Um, why is the Chachopayan Fertility Idol used on the cover with RotLA elements? Shouldn't it be the Sankara Stones? Front picture seems like it's Harrison from Last Crusade. Should be heavily film specific for ToD.
Redo please?



Oh.

My.

God.


:-O

He forgot to also ask how you're making out on that Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis project he wants to see.... :P
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#321277
Topic
<strong>The &quot;EditDroid&quot; Trilogy DVD Info and Feedback Thread</strong> (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/321277/action/topic#321277
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auximenies said:

Boywonder said:

Could anyone put up pics of what the menus look for on the Empire and Jedi dvds

thanks


Take a look here:
http://www.galactictradefederation.com/dvd/OT/edit.html
http://www.galactictradefederation.com

I can't remember if this is russs15's new site or old site...

'Twas the old site. New site is here...
http://www.galactictradefederation.co.uk/
...and shows screen caps of the bonus disc menus as well.
Direct link to EditDroid page:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/russdawson/gtf/dvd/OT/edit.html
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#320606
Topic
STAR WARS: EP V &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - <strong>12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW</strong>
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/320606/action/topic#320606
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adywan said:

...i prefer it the way it is. i've never had a problem with the timeline taking a step back for this. This is one scene i will always remember sitting with my mates in the cinema in 1980. we see the probe land and then emerge so we know what's in it. next we see Luke see it land.

Heh. I always figured it was 2 different probes, and the first one landed nowhere near Luke (maybe other side of the planet).
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#320305
Topic
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: The InfoDroid Edit (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/320305/action/topic#320305
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DarkGryphon2048 said:

This seems like a very poor "fan-edit" as it is and seems more personal compared to an actual one. Not interested in the slightest.


Interesting tactic: repeatedly state that the faneditor is doing something pointless, then ask him to do an edit of something *you* would like to see.


IMO, Raiders of the Lost Ark should NOT be retitled to add "Indiana Jones and the..." because Indy himself is one of the raiders. He's after the ark too, he just has better motives for acquiring it.

True, the film itself wasn't retitled as was the DVD case, I'm pretty sure the DVD menu screen titles it "IJatRotLA"? While I can make my own cover easily, I can't easily replace the menu screen. And honestly, that's why I have yet to add RotLA to my DVD collection!

If I may go off on a tangent here: It drives me absolutely crazy when DVD menu screens give away too much of the film. Believe it or not, someone will actually be watching the film for the first time. Ridiculous to give it away. IIRC, the menu screen for "Raiders" is one of the worst offenders. Pretty much takes you scene-by-scene through the film. Fortunately my kids know that these menus can give things away and are always quick to say, "Hurry up and start it! I don't want to see too much!" Not that they've seen the Indiana Jones films, but it is a common occurrence.

Oh, and I can help PIF it, from the top or wherever you need me in the structure. I'm in the US but can mail internationally.
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#319443
Topic
Indiana Jones IV
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/319443/action/topic#319443
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zombie84 said:

Darth Chaltab said:

auximenies said:

zombie84 said:

Nothing could be worse than Burton's Planet of the Apes. But then the whole film was on that kind of level anyway. It was like a final dump in the toilet to a two-hour bowel movement.

Wow. You've put in to words exactly what I had been feeling about that film since the evening I saw it. To me, Burton's PotA and GL's AotC are the two worst films I have ever seen.


If Planet of the Apes and Attack of the Clones are the worst you've seen, you're VEEEEERRRRY lucky... And for that matter, even those two movies aren't in the same league of badness.


I'm pretty good at steering away from bad movies. I mean, I'm sure if I watched something like What Happens in Vegas that would be a new candidate but why in the world would I want to do that? And it still probably has better acting and writing than Attack of the Clones. I watch a lot of low-budget horror stuff, so indeed I HAVE seen worse examples, but I think I can honestly say that AOTC has the worst acting and dialog I have ever witnessed in a mainstream motion picture in my life. <snip>

I don't consider myself to be lucky, just good. ;) Like zombie, I have an ability to avoid bad movies. Now, I probably miss some good ones along the way, but NOT seeing something good is far favorable to wasting 2 hours of my life on something bad.
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#319164
Topic
Indiana Jones IV
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/319164/action/topic#319164
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zombie84 said:

Nothing could be worse than Burton's Planet of the Apes. But then the whole film was on that kind of level anyway. It was like a final dump in the toilet to a two-hour bowel movement.

Wow. You've put in to words exactly what I had been feeling about that film since the evening I saw it. To me, Burton's PotA and GL's AotC are the two worst films I have ever seen.
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#316270
Topic
opinions - how the release of the original to theatres was different than the new three films.
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/316270/action/topic#316270
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Well, I have always said I was the ideal age when Star Wars was released -- 5 years old -- because I got to revel in all three movies upon their initial releases AND was able to enjoy playing with the action figure toys during the entire run. I know that may sound like odd reasoning, but "playing star wars" defined my childhood.

Anyhow, after reading Anchorhead's story, I'm not so sure any longer that I was the ideal age.

Being as young as I was, I didn't already have formative years before Star Wars, which would have then been drastically altered after seeing the film. I imagine the "experience" was much more dramatic for a teen. Yeah, if I had been a teen I would have missed out on the joy of playing with the toys and re-living the movie moments over and over (remember, we couldn't watch the films over and over on home video). But Star Wars the film is much more important to me than any of the toys or even the other two movies. Sure, I had it good. But to be a teen in the summer of 1977....

But now to get to what I did experience. I clearly remember the time my sister and I saw a neighborhood teen wearing a red Star Wars shirt with a guy holding a light sword above his head with a woman draped at his feet. We both thought it looked unbelievably cool, but agreed there was no way that our parents would let us see that movie. A little a bit mature for us. But not long after we danced with glee as my dad announced, "Kids, we're going to see Star Wars!" It wasn't spoken as if by someone who must accompany his children to a "kids movie", but by a man who was genuinely excited himself about this movie that EVERYONE was talking about.

Yep, we went and saw it at the drive-in (which was a whole other adventure unto itself). Not an ideal setting for such a film, but at my age I honestly wouldn't have known the difference if I had seen it in a theater. It was the greatest thing I had ever seen.

A couple of things that stand out:

- In the late '70s early '80s, you could make a Star Wars reference and ANYONE would "get it". My dad would sometimes call my sister (Rebecca) "Chewbecca", and his friend Garth would be dubbed "Garth Vader". This is not a man who had/has any interest in Star Wars aside from it being a great/memorable film he saw when he was 36 years old.

- I was Darth Vader for three Halloweens in a row. Yeah, it was that crummy plastic suit with his picture on the chest -- not even his chest plate! My friend would go as Luke and we made our own light sabers with flashlights, long wires, and plastic food wrap. As was alluded to earlier, we used our imaginations back then. Those goofy vintage toy commercials where the kids use a styrofoam cup as the carbon freezing chamber? That's the sort of thing we did! Not everything was pre-determined for us. There were many playsets that weren't produced, so we created our own!

- Empire was an event too. I still remember sitting in the lunch room at school debating whether or not Darth was actually Luke's father. I firmly believed that Darth was trying to trick Luke. Of course, the psychic "conversation" they had as Luke was whisked away in the Falcon went over my head....

Fast forward many years.............

When the SE's came out in '97, my sister and I and our respective spouses went and saw them together and had a great time. We certainly didn't like all the changes -- Jabba looked lame, Greedo shooting first was deplorable, and some of the CGI add-ons were unnecessary. But it was okay 'cause it was all an excuse to see the Star Wars films in the theater once again. And we certainly didn't think these would REPLACE the original films. After all, they were called "Special Edition". Even the video release said as much. But then when that first SE set came out that didn't say "Special Edition" on it, my brother-in-law and I started to wonder exactly what was going on.

1999: I wasn't following the Episode I hype on the internet at all. About the only thing I saw was the trailer, and it did have me jazzed about the new SW movie. But the end product was a big-time disappointment. A few years later AOTC failed to meet even severely lowered expectations. My wife and I both agreed it was the worst film we have ever seen. She refused to go see ROTS. I went out of a sense of duty, but didn't see it until many weeks after it was released 'cause I was in no hurry. It was only when I realized that it might not last much longer in the theater that I made it to a show. Meh.

I don't know if I've actually helped you out, emfab, but it was fun to rehash some of these memories.
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#315850
Topic
STAR WARS: EP V &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - <strong>12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW</strong>
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/315850/action/topic#315850
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DoubleOFive, did you or Ady do the "Luke-falls/Vader-yells-No!" audio? That was very well done. I would love to see the scene with this audio as an easter egg on the Ep. V Revisited release. Absolutely hilarious.

In fact, while I was playing the audio, my 9-year-old daughter in the other room heard it and yelled out in a similar voice: "DO NOT WANT!". I'm sure the "Backstroke of the West" fans out there can appreciate that. ;)
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#315374
Topic
Revisted
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/315374/action/topic#315374
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Mielr said:

I'm wondering how the other anti-SE members of this forum feel about the Revisited DVDs? I haven't seen any of them yet, but would someone like myself who think of the SEs as sacrilege really enjoy these?

Some of the responses on the "Revisited" thread were rather surprising to me ("From now on, this is the ONLY version of Ep.IV that I'll watch."), such that I had thought of putting up a poll in this forum. But then the forum software was changed and poll functionality isn't available right now.

I would actually venture to say that Adywan's edit has brought aboard a great many folks who don't fit the stereotype of "OT.com member = SE hater".

As an anti-SE dude, I've really enjoyed Adywan's SW:ANH-R, but it certainly won't become my version of choice. In my book, nothing can replace the original, warts and all.

Aside from the Darth Editous-type "goof" and continuity corrections, he has removed some of the more "cute" and silly SE elements (bickering robots, bucking Ronto, gratuitous flying droids at Mos Eisley) resulting in a Special Edition that respects what made the original so great.

The re-editing of the Luke-in-Ben's-hut scene provides an interesting alternative, and the alterations of the DS reveal, the Vader/Ben duel, and the Battle of Yavin are enjoyable. I would say that this is what the original SE should have been: a fun "alternate take" on the film. And without question this is impressive display of what one guy (with a few assistants) can do with modern software and a little imagination.
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#314177
Topic
STAR WARS: EP V &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - <strong>12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW</strong>
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/314177/action/topic#314177
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adywan said:

I won't be removing them all but a few. I want to keep a couple of the windows so you can see TIE's shooting down some escaping craft (just an idea at the moment and may not happen)

I was watching TROOPS last night and thought the presence of TIE's in atmosphere (or near ground level, anyway) looked strange. Without this becoming a nerdy debate on the capabilities of such a craft, can anyone remind me if there are any parts of the films in which we see a TIE *not* in space?
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#313856
Topic
STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/313856/action/topic#313856
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ImperialFighter said:

Although my first look at what 'Ponda Baba's' actual 'flipper' arm looked like on the cantina floor was from the deleted shot on the 'Behind the Magic' CD-Rom years ago, I ALWAYS preferred the 'hairy hand' with fingers...

This has been the 'default arm' for generations now, and I would prefer the original shot of 'Ponda Baba shoving Luke' to have had the brief 'flipper' in THAT shot to be amended to look like the 'hairy hand' instead. I personally rather the fantasy image of an 'alien' arm being shown in this instance, rather than the too-graphic seeming dismembered 'human'-like arm. AND I always liked that orange tunic and will miss the color of it against the floor now...

Uh, feel free to watch the original version of Star Wars, or even the SE. You won't miss your preferred arm that way.
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#313836
Topic
Splinter Of The Mind's Eye - review and thoughts.
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/313836/action/topic#313836
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Anchorhead said:

Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
But obviously that plot point did not exist in any way at the time this book was written, so how exactly would Darth Vader be so intimately aware with 3PO's programming?
3PO mentions it in passing, but it's never used. It's just his usual blathering on while people are trying to have a conversation.

The book was written 21 years before TPM, by someone other than Lucas. It's a coincidence, nothing more.

Is it explained at all?

No. It's not even bothered with in the book. In fact, when Vader shuts both droids down, he simply tells them to shut down. Since they're programmed to follow orders, they just shut down. No code words are needed or used and the command is just the phrase...shut down.



Um, not in the book I read. Could you have read a "Special Edition"? ;) Mine is indeed an old copy. Original paperback, if I'm not mistaken. Picked it up at a garage sale when I was a kid, back in 1980 I think. There is no narrative of Vader shutting down the droids. We are aware that it happened because Vader tells Luke: "As for your 'droids, they are conditioned to obey orders. I had them turn themselves off." The methodology of this is later explained when C-3PO says, "He knew all the proper code words and commands." The comic book adaptation is similar to this.

Anchorhead said:

Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
Interesting aspect, though, that anybody can simply say, "Shut down," to a droid. One, I would think that a droid would only obey his master's directive to do that.


In fact, Vader tells Luke that's why they obeyed him, because he had just become their new owner.


Again, not in my copy of the book. Weird.

Of course I saw the similarities to elements later seen in the movies. The primitive Coway defeating the Imperials was akin to the Ewoks (or Wookies in early screenplays) doing the same. The Wandrella reminded me of a terrestrial form of the ESB space slug, not of the Sarlaac as you saw it.

Does anyone know how ADF went about writing this? -- zombie84? Was he given guidelines? Did he have the old screenplays and free reign to use ideas that didn't make it into Star Wars?
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#313033
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STAR WARS: EP V &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - <strong>12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW</strong>
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/313033/action/topic#313033
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Originally posted by: Sevb32
They took his wrist binders off before he was lowered.
Hm. I guess that's what the Ugnaughts were doing there. Still looks like he has something strapped around his biceps, and connected behind his back.
Why would we need everything spelled out with Han putting his hands up like that? He did that when he was further down in the chamber, so why is it necessary to see it?

Why should anything be changed? Because Adywan can, and because a lot of it would be fun just to see it realized on the screen. Believe me, I don't need anything "spelled out" (Ugnaughts removing binders notwithstanding ). Since long before the SE and teh interwebs my brother-in-law and I have been joking about how we can more or less explain away all of the errors in SW. So I don't see this change as a "spelling out" of anything. It would simply be fun to see. How many of the changes in SW:ANH Revisited were "necessary"? Not many by my count, but I still enjoyed the heck out of it.
And I have always loved that Vader's helmet blows slightly in the wind, it...kind of reminds us that he is just a man in a mask and the man he once was is still in there.

That's what the scene in his meditation chamber is for. Besides, the flimsy looking helmet doesn't jibe with the sound effect of his helmet being secured to his scarred head. SHHHUUUMP! That certainly sounds like a secure fit to me.
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#312995
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STAR WARS: EP V &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - <strong>12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW</strong>
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/312995/action/topic#312995
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Just watched the part from the carbon freeze scene through "i am your father", and here's what needs attention:

1. When the carbon freeze first engages, is there a way to see Hans hands come up in front of him (implying the freeze broke the binders and his natural reaction was to raise his arms in front of him)?

2. When Boba Fett fires at Luke, his first shot misses but his second hits the edge of the wall. When we see his third(?) shot hit the wall, the edge where the second shot hit looks untouched.

3. During the duel, after Vader falls below and "disappears", Luke jumps down. The sound of him landing implies it was a ways down, but we see him stand up, revealing that his hop was only a short distance down. I think Uncanny Antman was referring to this when, on 17-Feb-2008, he wrote "1:45:18 - Erase Luke’s head popping up at the last moment."

4. Just before Luke flies out the window, his saber is ignited. When he flies out the window, there is no saber in his hand. If you add the hilt to his hand while he's heading out the window, there may be time just prior to add the sound effect of de-ignition (is that a word?).

5. If there is any way to prevent Vader's helmet from blowing around in the wind while he is telling Luke of his grandiose plans, please do it. It always drove me nuts that it looks as though that thing might come off at any moment!

6. As the good guys are running through Bespin enroute to the Falcon, there are some inconsistencies in the lighting as a result of the added CGI exteriors.

Adywan, I realize you're in wind-down mode after SW:ANH:R, but would it be possible to update the first post to list suggestions that you are aware of, and perhaps annotate them? You could mark each one Y, N, or M (yes, will be changing; no, won't be changing; maybe will change, not yet sure). This way we could be aware of all the things that have been thrown out there, even if you're not going to make a certain change.

Thanks for all your work!