bigbaddaddyvader

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Join date: 18-Feb-2007
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Post: #278896
Topic: Where to enter EU?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/278896/action/topic#278896
Time: 23-Mar-2007 6:07 PM

Truce at Bakura maybe.

Post: #278895
Topic: What were your original expectations for the PT?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/278895/action/topic#278895
Time: 23-Mar-2007 6:06 PM

I think there were possibly references to "Sith pirates" in the original treatment and drafts for Star Wars.None on screen though,right?

Post: #278887
Topic: What were your original expectations for the PT?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/278887/action/topic#278887
Time: 23-Mar-2007 5:36 PM

Am I wrong in thinking there are no references to the Sith in the OT at all?Just that vader is the emperor's apprentice.Correct me if I am wrong.

Post: #278779
Topic: Seeing the Saga in order - a review by a first-time viewer....
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/278779/action/topic#278779
Time: 23-Mar-2007 12:22 AM

Thanks.I dont like to very confrontational and I am enjoying this board a lot.Gives my geek room to breathe.....

Post: #278762
Topic: What were your original expectations for the PT?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/278762/action/topic#278762
Time: 22-Mar-2007 10:53 PM

Anything with Jefferson Starship in it gets my vote right away.
Shudder.

Post: #278760
Topic: Seeing the Saga in order - a review by a first-time viewer....
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/278760/action/topic#278760
Time: 22-Mar-2007 10:50 PM

Incidentally I didnt mean to seem like i was having a go.I misunderstood the point and replied poorly too.I am fairly new here and would not like to start pissing people off just yet

Post: #278756
Topic: Seeing the Saga in order - a review by a first-time viewer....
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/278756/action/topic#278756
Time: 22-Mar-2007 10:33 PM

Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape

Originally posted by: bigbaddaddyvader
Now let's not be pedantic.This thread is about the saga,six movies,and the preferrable order.In THAT context Star Wars is ANH.As a matter of fact if we are talking about watching the original trilogy,IV-VI,in any order it is still ANH as it was changed o this pre-ESB thus making Star Wars ANH in every sense other than as a stand-alone.

Sorry if my rationale doesn't please you, but, at the end of the day, I really don't care.

And in terms of history, Star Wars, even after A New Hope was added to the title, was still referred to as Star Wars in every home video release until the 2000 VHS boxset (including the 1997 Special Edition boxset), so, no, your own logic doesn't hold water in terms of Star Wars being A New Hope in every context except as a standalone movie.

EDIT: One other innaccurate point. It was released with "A New Hope" added to it in 1981, after Empire Strikes Back, not before it. Of course, now I'm just picking hairs, but then again, that's pretty much what you were doing to my post to begin with, right?

I may have misunderstood the point you were trying to make and accept the mistakes I made in the post.I referred to Star Wars as ANH as it is now the most convenient way to distinguish titles since we have six movies.

Post: #278714
Topic: Seeing the Saga in order - a review by a first-time viewer....
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/278714/action/topic#278714
Time: 22-Mar-2007 6:57 PM

Now let's not be pedantic.This thread is about the saga,six movies,and the preferrable order.In THAT context Star Wars is ANH.As a matter of fact if we are talking about watching the original trilogy,IV-VI,in any order it is still ANH as it was changed o this pre-ESB thus making Star Wars ANH in every sense other than as a stand-alone.

Post: #278705
Topic: Seeing the Saga in order - a review by a first-time viewer....
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/278705/action/topic#278705
Time: 22-Mar-2007 6:04 PM

For me the bottom line is that ANH is the best film so I will always start there and move through to ROTJ then do TPM-ROTS.ANH changed everything-changed the way I view cinema,changed the way I view the world,changed ME.I am a big fan of certain aspects of the PT (I like the extended scope of the STORY) and I like ROTS a lot but ANH will forever,to me,be the absolute pinnacle of film-making.Visionary and revolutionary.ESB was clearly the most dramatic but ANH started everything and opened my eyes.
IV-VI
I-III
The first experience you have of Star Wars should always be the Tantive roaring onto screen and then that moment with the Star Detroyer.Nothing like it.

Post: #278540
Topic: What were your original expectations for the PT?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/278540/action/topic#278540
Time: 21-Mar-2007 3:25 PM

I enjoy the prequels despite their flaws.I,as I have said,really enjoyed ROTS.Certainly they didn't live up to my expectations but let's be honest we are not an easy bunch to please.Would anything he had released actually have lived up to all our collective expectations?Our expectations for them were probably so colossal that a let-down was inevitable.All in all though I like the extended story and scope of the whole saga nowEven though the OT will always,obviously,be paramount for me and in particular ANH.My collection mainly focuses on ANH for a reason.

Post: #278087
Topic: .:. MoveAlong's - The Lost Scenes .:. Complete & Released
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/278087/action/topic#278087
Time: 18-Mar-2007 10:33 PM

Will there be a torrent of this at any stage?Great presentation.

Post: #277531
Topic: What were your original expectations for the PT?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/277531/action/topic#277531
Time: 15-Mar-2007 12:08 PM

I just meant that I like ROTS and I also understand why people dislike it.Matter of taste and opinion.I am just tired of the whining and the bitching and the endless nitpicking.Like you say there must be something more productive to do!

I certainly see aspects of this particular forum such as the fan edits and the preservations as being a wholly more heartening thing than the incessant bashing of the PT and the moaning about George doing this or that.I wish I had the talent and ability to do the work that a lot of the guys around here do.I very much admire the dedication of a lot of you guys.

Post: #277486
Topic: Scans of Original Movie Posters
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/277486/action/topic#277486
Time: 15-Mar-2007 2:58 AM

Brilliant.Cheers mate!

Post: #277469
Topic: Scans of Original Movie Posters
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/277469/action/topic#277469
Time: 15-Mar-2007 12:37 AM

Does anybody have any good scans,at around average wallpaper size,of original movie posters for the original trilogy?Any help would be much appreciated.

Post: #277375
Topic: What were your original expectations for the PT?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/277375/action/topic#277375
Time: 14-Mar-2007 4:59 PM

You're welcome to hate it as much as you like as is your perfect right to do so.
I,on the other hand,am also well within my rights to love it.
So,well,I don't know....bite me.

Post: #277344
Topic: What were your original expectations for the PT?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/277344/action/topic#277344
Time: 14-Mar-2007 3:58 PM

When I was growing up the talk in the schoolyard was always that Vader became Vader after a duel with Obi-Wan.For me,personally,seeing the hellish Mustafar and that final duel was a dream come true.While parts of Eps 1 & 2 certainly disappopinted a friend asked me when I was coming out of the first night of ROTS "What did you think?" and I said "It was everything I wanted it to be" and I still think that about ROTS.

Post: #277282
Topic: What were your original expectations for the PT?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/277282/action/topic#277282
Time: 14-Mar-2007 10:06 AM

LOL

Post: #277269
Topic: What were your original expectations for the PT?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/277269/action/topic#277269
Time: 14-Mar-2007 5:44 AM

Oldies....oh,lord.I do feel past it now.I suppose you qualify for "oldie" if you saw all three OT's in the cinema then?
Oldies....you kids...why I oughtta....

Post: #277191
Topic: What were your original expectations for the PT?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/277191/action/topic#277191
Time: 13-Mar-2007 9:38 PM

I wanted something new.I wanted to see the Clone Wars.I wanted to see Anakin's story and his fall.That was what always intrigued me about the mystery backstory that was alluded to in the OT but never fully explained.I wanted to SEE the old republic before the dark times,before the empire!Primarily though I just wanted Anakin's story.I love Anakin's story and his eventual redemption.Hope for us all,eh?

Post: #276780
Topic: Hypothetical: 30th anniversary theatrical release
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/276780/action/topic#276780
Time: 12-Mar-2007 8:14 AM

I quite agree.As long as we are given the choice about what to watch I have no problem at all with George doing what he feels he needs to.It's paramount that we are not patronised and told these are the versions you have to watch.
And I like the prequels so...

Post: #276732
Topic: ROTS Easter Egg - I Am Highly Frightened
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/276732/action/topic#276732
Time: 12-Mar-2007 12:23 AM

I'm actually surprised this has caused so much debate.

Post: #276338
Topic: ROTS Easter Egg - I Am Highly Frightened
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/276338/action/topic#276338
Time: 9-Mar-2007 3:21 PM

No just perhaps not to take the whole thing SO seriously is all I meant.It's not like it would have you rolling in the aisles or laughing out loud but neither is it the "pinnacle of the mockery that ILM and George made of the Star Wars name".It is what it is.A bit stupid.

Post: #276277
Topic: ROTS Easter Egg - I Am Highly Frightened
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/276277/action/topic#276277
Time: 9-Mar-2007 10:05 AM

lol

Post: #276270
Topic: ROTS Easter Egg - I Am Highly Frightened
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/276270/action/topic#276270
Time: 9-Mar-2007 9:15 AM

Oh come on.Relax mate.Have at least some semblance of a sense of humour.

Post: #276260
Topic: Anyone got £40,000 to spare?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/276260/action/topic#276260
Time: 9-Mar-2007 4:44 AM

I will have to speak to my mods on my forum before posting links as it is a private forum for members only.However I can say,and those of you who know anything about the prop business will know the name,the very highly respected team at The Propstore Of London (who I hold in very high esteem personally) were not in the least convinced by this and had opportunity to see it first-hand as did many other members of the community.As I have said I think it would be fair to say that it has been widely accepted in the prop community that there were many glaring and visible errors with the cloak.I can provide a link to a discussion on the RPF which is a public forum:
http://www.therpf.com/index.php?showtopic=126224&st=0
As with most things of this nature discussions usually take place on a more personal level but there are some very interesting points raised in the RPF thread.I will see if it is possible to post any more links.