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Post: #159010
Topic: redeeming lucas
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/159010/action/topic#159010
Time: 29-Nov-2005 2:23 AM

thats the rots effects teams fault not ANH's

Post: #159004
Topic: Rank the changes made to the OT from worst to best (or least worst?)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/159004/action/topic#159004
Time: 29-Nov-2005 2:16 AM

adam most people on these boards wouldnt mind if the prequels slightly revised the OT if they were any damn good! get a clue.

by they way the special editions all suck and have sucked since i first saw them in '97.

ian mcdiarmad in esb wouldve been cool if he didnt remind me how much i hate the prequels, with him all bloated and catatonic telling vader that luke is his son when vader should know that already and how would the emperor know anyway and why would a sith lord who follows the rule of two as established in the prequels send another sith who thinks the same way (not to mention hes related to him) out to convert him?

Post: #158999
Topic: redeeming lucas
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/158999/action/topic#158999
Time: 29-Nov-2005 2:07 AM

well the tantive looks squashed in rots, than in ANH. thats just a failure in the effects for rots though not ANH

Post: #158993
Topic: Wookies vs Ewoks in ROTJ.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/158993/action/topic#158993
Time: 29-Nov-2005 2:01 AM

it made sense for him to say that in '83 but now its just more bullshit

Post: #158989
Topic: redeeming lucas
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/158989/action/topic#158989
Time: 29-Nov-2005 1:58 AM

i wouldnt have minded if lucas made it all about anakin if most of the prequel trilogy didnt suck so bad! why would anyone want to watch either tpm, atoc, or even the first 45 minutes of rots again! they are that bad! it just shows how much story lucas really had for these movies, not much! what a waste of a good trilogy

Post: #158983
Topic: redeeming lucas
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/158983/action/topic#158983
Time: 29-Nov-2005 1:50 AM

by the way adam is just someone who has bought into the whole lucas revisionist theory, that the star wars saga was always the tragedy of darth vader, but lucas didnt come up with that notion til 1998, 15 years after he made the OT!

Post: #158978
Topic: Why the saga has suffered because ESB was so good (IMO)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/158978/action/topic#158978
Time: 29-Nov-2005 1:35 AM

Originally posted by: The Bizzle
Yeah, that gets quoted every 3 or 4 months. Kurtz later apologized for the interview, I believe, because he admitted he unfairly slanted it against Lucas. Something along those lines. He didn't like how harshly he came off.

That and to say there's NO subtext in Phantom Menace is silly. if anything, there's too much, and it muddies up the economy of the storytelling.

actually that makes sense, the backstory did provide depth to the OT seeing as how obi wan pretty much told it to luke at the beginning of ANH. and thats why the prequels dont work as well, its basically reiterating everything obi wan said in ANH. but at a 7 hour running time and a 'different point of view'

Post: #158974
Topic: If the Prequels had been made first would they have succeeded?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/158974/action/topic#158974
Time: 29-Nov-2005 1:28 AM

according to lucas he had a 13 page backstory, and had to fill in the rest starting in late '94. i'm sure he had the volcano thing worked out since he talked of it in the '77 rolling stone but im sure not much else. actually the last 20 minutes of rots right before the duel seemed the most prequel (in a good way) than anything in all the PT, probably because he had that worked out originally.

Post: #158968
Topic: Idea & found on ebay: 16mm film SCOPE Star Wars RETURN of THE JEDI MINT LPP
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/158968/action/topic#158968
Time: 29-Nov-2005 1:22 AM

i just wish someone on these boards would get it and post more screen caps, those frames really bring me back

Post: #158967
Topic: SIX fantastic brand new preservation projects..... (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/158967/action/topic#158967
Time: 29-Nov-2005 1:19 AM

i just wonder if the HBO early cable showing of star wars is the same as the '82 laserdisc, since it has that squeezed macrobinocular shot in it

Post: #158584
Topic: If the Prequels had been made first would they have succeeded?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/158584/action/topic#158584
Time: 28-Nov-2005 4:06 AM

i dont think he wrote a backstory other than what was said by ben to luke in ANH

Post: #158573
Topic: Why the saga has suffered because ESB was so good (IMO)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/158573/action/topic#158573
Time: 28-Nov-2005 1:56 AM

in regards to star wars, lucas just has poor taste about them now, well since '95 at least, or whenever he started production on the special editions

Post: #158088
Topic: Idea & found on ebay: 16mm film SCOPE Star Wars RETURN of THE JEDI MINT LPP
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/158088/action/topic#158088
Time: 26-Nov-2005 3:59 AM

if they brighten up the picture it will

Post: #158079
Topic: THE FAN EDIT CONTEST HAS A WINNER !!! REVIEWS IN OFF TOPIC FORUM
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/158079/action/topic#158079
Time: 26-Nov-2005 2:56 AM

by the way if anyone from lucasfilm is reading, please brighten up the OT and maybe tone down the brightness in TPM and AOTC, the next time you release them, thanks

Post: #158076
Topic: Idea & found on ebay: 16mm film SCOPE Star Wars RETURN of THE JEDI MINT LPP
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/158076/action/topic#158076
Time: 26-Nov-2005 2:50 AM

they will still look dim and digital. i have wonderful sense memory of jedi, the first star wars i remember seeing at the cinema. i saw all of them, i just remember this specifically.

Post: #158072
Topic: Idea & found on ebay: 16mm film SCOPE Star Wars RETURN of THE JEDI MINT LPP
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/158072/action/topic#158072
Time: 26-Nov-2005 2:21 AM

this just proves that DVD technicians suck! they cant even put movies from the late 70's and early 80's on DVD and make them look right

Post: #158070
Topic: SIX fantastic brand new preservation projects..... (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/158070/action/topic#158070
Time: 26-Nov-2005 1:41 AM

also i have the '82 laserdisc, this has different pan and scan than the later ones, including a squished scene where luke sees the tusken thru his binoculars instead of it being cropped. i read on the davisdvd star wars video timeline that this version was only shown on HBO in the early '80s, and never released on video.

and what was different about the '80 stereo mix of empire?

thanks karyudo, can anyone answer my other questions above

Post: #158006
Topic: SIX fantastic brand new preservation projects..... (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/158006/action/topic#158006
Time: 25-Nov-2005 9:31 PM

Originally posted by: battlewars
couple of questions what is the incredible shrinking ratio?

also i have the '82 laserdisc, this has different pan and scan than the later ones, including a squished scene where luke sees the tusken thru his binoculars instead of it being cropped. i read on the davisdvd star wars video timeline that this version was only shown on HBO in the early '80s, and never released on video.

and what was different about the '80 stereo mix of empire?

anyone know?

Post: #157992
Topic: SIX fantastic brand new preservation projects..... (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/157992/action/topic#157992
Time: 25-Nov-2005 8:41 PM

couple of questions what is the incredible shrinking ratio?

also i have the '82 laserdisc, this has different pan and scan than the later ones, including a squished scene where luke sees the tusken thru his binoculars instead of it being cropped. i read on the davisdvd star wars video timeline that this version was only shown on HBO in the early '80s, and never released on video.

and what was different about the '80 stereo mix of empire?

Post: #157991
Topic: if lucas had left the ot alone
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/157991/action/topic#157991
Time: 25-Nov-2005 8:29 PM

do you think the fans wouldve been more forgiving towards the prequels?

Post: #157775
Topic: If the O-OT ever came out, the future of SW is with the PT fans.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/157775/action/topic#157775
Time: 24-Nov-2005 4:38 PM

i dont get people just being fans of the prequels, seeing as the prequels are all about setting the OT up

Post: #157380
Topic: redeeming lucas
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/157380/action/topic#157380
Time: 23-Nov-2005 4:06 AM

what could finally redeem lucas in your eyes after the travesties of the special editions and the prequels? if thats possible now

Post: #156863
Topic: Lucas's future changes for the OT to come... (with quotes)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/156863/action/topic#156863
Time: 21-Nov-2005 5:11 AM

i wish lucas cared more about continuity than stupid cg effects

Post: #156846
Topic: Should GL have made the ST and then do the PT later
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/156846/action/topic#156846
Time: 21-Nov-2005 2:25 AM

wasnt kasdan listed on the pre release dvd box as doing the commentary? what happened there?

Post: #156827
Topic: Should GL have made the ST and then do the PT later
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/156827/action/topic#156827
Time: 21-Nov-2005 1:15 AM

actually i wish kurtz and kasdan had done commentary for the ot release