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Post: #309056
Topic: .:. MoveAlong's - The Story of TESB/The Adventures of Luke Skywalker .:. Complete!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/309056/action/topic#309056
Time: 4-Feb-2008 8:27 AM

does anyone know where I can find good quality audio files of the three STORY OF...... recordings? I've searched everywhere and can't find an active torrent or anything? I had them on casette years ago and practically wore them out.

Post: #308322
Topic: Info & Ideas: ESB and ROTJ Wishlist
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/308322/action/topic#308322
Time: 28-Jan-2008 6:07 AM

if anything , as far as the movies go Boba wasn't much more than a glorified delivery boy in a cool outfit. Give the sarlaac/Audrey 2 some razor sharp teeth in it's beak and beef up Boba's death with some blood curdling screams and remove all doubt that he might have survived.

"I felt a great disturbance in the force as if millions of fanboys suddenly cried out and were silenced."

live like a little bitch, die like one too!
with the way he was depicted in episode 2, I doubt many people still wanna see him escape the sarlaac.

Post: #307343
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/307343/action/topic#307343
Time: 21-Jan-2008 8:39 AM

definately love the new gooey stump Ady, once the smoke is in and the few glowing embers it will renew some of those gross-out memories I had growing up, the detail on the flipper looks better, but it does look a bit like an avocado now. it's still a bit abstract in suggesting it's meant to be an arm of some sort.

Post: #307338
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/307338/action/topic#307338
Time: 21-Jan-2008 8:10 AM

I have question about the credits too, was Sir Alec Guiness always credited simply as 'Alec Guiness' upon the films original release?
I have no idea when he was 'knighted'and i don't think I'd ever really noticed it before , but it just feels strange seeing him credited without his regal title ****and i'm not suggesting to change it if it was never that way originally, it just feels odd to see him mentioned without his title, I think I've always known him as Sir Alec Guiness, almost as if 'Sir' was his real first name****

Post: #307332
Topic: Fall to the Dark Side?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/307332/action/topic#307332
Time: 21-Jan-2008 7:38 AM

I think the 'turn' would have been more convincing if Anakin had been 'expelled' or at least 'suspended' from the Jedi Order early in episode 3, upon his marriage to Padme being revealed/exposed. it really could have been done without effecting too much of the rest of the events in the film and could've driven a greater wedge between Anakin and Obi Wan and pushed Anakin closer to Palpatine/sidious.

Post: #307328
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/307328/action/topic#307328
Time: 21-Jan-2008 7:17 AM

criticism aside, I'm extremely grateful that Adywan has created the definitive version of Episode 4 as far as I'm concerned this will be the version of the film that I choose to watch from now on, but how many of us would be on this forum if we weren't a little bit anal about one of our alltime favourite films? We would have just taken what George gave us in 2004 and been happy with it.

you're never gonna please all of the people all of the time, but I think Adywan has come closer to pleasing everyone 100% than anyone else has before. and If I was to list all of the things I loved about his revision then we'd be here for weeks.

it'd just be a real shame to all his hard work if someone used his edit and just added that last bit of icing to the cake and made the 'flipper' work.

Post: #307321
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/307321/action/topic#307321
Time: 21-Jan-2008 6:26 AM

WOW, thanks Adywan for creating my preferred version of the film, as much as I love the GOUT, you've managed to create the special edition as it should've been done back in 97, but I guess theres always room for a little constructive criticism.

loved the extended death star reveal, but I found the vast planet surface below the death star kind of belittled the enormous scale of the death star compared to the fighters and star destroyer, the planet also looked a bit too much like Alderaan (and Earth) for my liking, it just seemed a little strange when they eventually arrive later at Alderaan to blow it up.

guess I'll join the chorus on the Ponda Boba arm, I think part of the reason why it doesn't quite gel with people even if you got the continuity correct is that the original severed arm with the blood and everything was always a bit of a 'money-shot' especially seeing the film as a kid and growing up with it, and although the bloodless cauterizing effect may be more realistic (even though this is the first of many light -saber related severing of limbs that we got to witness in the original saga and the only one where blood was spilled) the new version just lacks the impact and gruesomeness of the original and looks even more static than the original shot, perhaps you could work in a little severed nerve 'twitch' into the severed arm? and perhaps make the flipper look a bit more streamlined with more of a suggestion of a thumb of sorts , so that it actually looks more credible that the alien could use a gun?
perhaps even give the earlier background shot of Ponda with his fins something that resembles 'thumbs' so as not to throw out continuity,**edit*** took me a while to type this out so forgive that you've already adressed you won't be making it more 'hand-like' ****** but I do like the 'others' suggestions of glowing embers on the stump.

although I'm sure these suggestions are easier said than done. Also it seems in the new audio mix that the human screams of pain are more prominent than Ponda's (I wonder which bit of Dr Evazan Obi-wan managed to slice off in the fight?)

I tend to agree with a previous poster about some of the death star interiors being a little too desaturated to the point where the actors almost appear to look like they've been colourised over black and white footage (although I did look at the GOUT DVD and it looked very similarly monochrome, especially footage of the Falcon after it lands in the docking bay.

not sure about Obi-Wan igniting his saber before Vader ignites his, it just doesn't really seem to be very Jedi-like, it makes him look like he's on the attack rather than the defense, it also makes Vader's 'I've been waiting for you ' line seem out of place, as it almost looks like Obi-wan was waiting for Vader to arrive.

love the way you've sped up the duel and it fits really well with the prequel music used and looks great , but the 'choral' music just seems a little too grand and over the top to fit into the original trilogy, it's especially jarring when the original music swells back in much louder and stronger after Ben dies and luke has his 'Noooooooo' moment as they're scurrying back into the falcon.

love what you've done with the new space battle, adding in all the tie-fighters, but the action and the threat seems to go into a bit of a lull once the fighters begin to make their trench runs ,after it seems the rebels have managed to wipe out all the tie's except for Vader and his two wingmen, perhaps if there was a bit more to suggest that dogfights were still happening up above whilst the Y-wing's made their trench run?

after the spectacular job you did with the Alderaan explosion, the destruction of the Death star does tend to pale in comparison and is a little anti-climactic, perhaps the 'praxis ring' effect would have been better saved for the death star explosion rather than Alderaan?
and I can't help thinking that seeing the five beams from the Death Star cannon intersect should have resulted in the Death star firing off a fairly damaging laser-bolt towards the Yavin moon (not a planet destroyer but still would've been fairly devastating) in that split second before the Death Star exploded. maybe if we just saw the five green points of light appear around the dish a split second before the explosion?

I know it sounds that i've picked up on a few things in your edit, but they're really only minor niggles in an otherwise brilliant Revision.
I'm still amazed how you managed to make a 1.6 gig AVI look as crisp as the 2004 DVD's , can't wait for the DVR-5 version!

Post: #304950
Topic: Info & Ideas: ESB and ROTJ Wishlist
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/304950/action/topic#304950
Time: 29-Dec-2007 9:39 AM

Also if you want to get a clip of James Earl Jones saying "Your Mother..." Look no further than CD set of him Reading The New Testement of the bible. He says that at least twice on the cd set You might be able to put it with his ROTJ conversation with Luke. Luke says "Come with me" as Padme also said, then Vader repies "Obi-Wan once thought as you do." Which could be changed to "Your mother once thought as you do." Which seems to fit better.

but if you look at Revenge of The Sith it's clear that Obi-Wan makes much more of an effort to bring 'back' Anakin to the light, than Padme does, she barely even has a chance before Vader chokes her , and her trip to Mustafar she seemed to be on a mission to warn Anakin and was more in 'denial' than anything else.

your suggestion kind of works if you're viewing all 6 movies in order, but doesn't make much sense if you're viewing the original trilogy as a whole. and I'm not much in favour of changing the originals to fit in with the prequals, it's a dangerous area to tread.

Post: #304949
Topic: Info & Ideas: ESB and ROTJ Wishlist
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/304949/action/topic#304949
Time: 29-Dec-2007 9:26 AM

- now a bolder suggestion: emperor's minions could perhaps (if technically possible) changed from humans to neimoidians. There is plenty of neimoidian footage in the PT. This would be really a minor change since emperor's minions play no real role in the OT, but as neimoidian opportunistic nature suggests, they stay close to the ruling party - the emperor.

I doubt the Emperor had a very high opinion of Neimodians based on the prequals, they may be sycophantic and easily manipulated, but I doubt he would trust in them in an advisory capacity, they come across as pretty bumbling and stupid n the prequals. In ROTJ we barely glimpse his advisors but they do appear to be twisted and dark in a similar way to the Emperor, which lends them a greater sense of mystery to the buerocratic Neimodians. I always assumed they were dark Jedi of some sort, although the Prequals rule of 2 blows that theory out of the water.

Post: #304948
Topic: Info & Ideas: ESB and ROTJ Wishlist
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/304948/action/topic#304948
Time: 29-Dec-2007 9:14 AM

I guess there are two shots in Empire that have always looked a bit 'off' to me.

firstly when Luke is initially attacked by the Wampa whilst on his taun-taun, and we briefly see it's face as it lunges into camera, something about the way the shot is framed ruins it's whole sense of scale and it ends up looking like a muppet sized hand-puppet and just appears badly inserted into the scene, not to mention it looks nothing like the special edition Wampa footage from the cave (which I don't mind the new footage). I don't know how talented anyone is with creature animation, but even if the original shot could be reframed to make him appear much larger and ominous and perhaps give his face and eyes a bit of articulation to make him look less puppet like.

secondly there's a brief shot during the Hoth Battle, I believe it's when Wedge (?) is flying around an AT-AT's legs with his tow-rope, there's one quick shot where the screen is framed by an AT-AT's Legs and a snowspeeder makes a pass across the screen behind the legs of the Walker and apart from a few wispy clouds it looks like they left the Bluescreen in the background and didn't matte in the proper sky background (ie. the sky is a very bright (bluescreen) blue) again it's a very brief split second shot that probably a little colour/saturation tweaking would fix and make it match the colour of the sky in the rest of the scene.

Post: #304263
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/304263/action/topic#304263
Time: 20-Dec-2007 5:23 PM

Originally posted by: Sevb32
I think the Rodians than worked for Jabba had a standard identical uniform.

that may be the case and it's probably how Lucasfilm explains it away , but it still looks like bad continuity.

Post: #304211
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/304211/action/topic#304211
Time: 20-Dec-2007 2:19 AM

it's been a while since I've posted here, but i saw your Mos Eisley footage and had to congratulate you, especially on the way you injected some life into the cantina creatures, and the way you trimmed out the corny sight-gags at the beginning. Just wondering if you had any plans to alter/remove the resurrected GREEDO as he pops up twice in street scenes shortly after Han pops a cap in his ass. perhaps you can alter the colour of his uniform to make him look like a different Rodian? it always bugged me in the original that they reused the costume on a street extra.

Post: #224550
Topic: Lucas talks about the Sept 12th Release of the O-OT
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/224550/action/topic#224550
Time: 5-Jul-2006 10:14 PM

surely the new DVD's only need to outsell the 2005 repackaging rather than the original 2004 to send out a clear message as to which version of the movies the public wants, although I'm sure if they do make record sails George will say it's all due to the fact they're being offered individually for the very first time.
personally I think he's bowing to pressure from his Marketing Department who are saying he'll now have 3 trilogies to milk dry with endless reissues.

Post: #224549
Topic: Princess Leia
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/224549/action/topic#224549
Time: 5-Jul-2006 10:05 PM

sometimes the best way to hide something is in full view.

Post: #126521
Topic: Episode 3: DVD - Released november 1st
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/126521/action/topic#126521
Time: 29-Jul-2005 3:15 PM

also the vocal changes he goes through when his true self is revealed would support Hotrods theory.

Post: #120716
Topic: This sound familiar to anyone?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/120716/action/topic#120716
Time: 3-Jul-2005 7:44 PM

Can you Imagine the scene where Han is being lowered into the carbon freezing chamber:
Leia: I love you!
Han: frankly my dear, I don't give a damn!

Post: #120022
Topic: What killed Mace - the Lightening or the fall?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/120022/action/topic#120022
Time: 30-Jun-2005 4:00 PM

Fett's Dead Baby,
Fett's Dead!

Post: #115624
Topic: Does Tarkin know that the Emperor is a Sithlord?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/115624/action/topic#115624
Time: 16-Jun-2005 1:25 AM

I always saw Tarkin as being the top man in charge on the Death Star and Vader being the Emperors representative sent to watch over the completion of the Death star and to make sure Tarkin didn't stuff it up. Tarkin is clearly in charge of operations on the death star, but ultimately answerable to the Emperor via Vader. Tarkin's leadership and strategy is well respected by both Vader and the Emperor, that's why Tarkin is allowed to stand up to and give orders to Vader but he knows well enough not to overstep the mark .There's a very obvious sense of respect between Vader and Tarkin.

Post: #115620
Topic: Does Tarkin know that the Emperor is a Sithlord?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/115620/action/topic#115620
Time: 16-Jun-2005 12:54 AM

I think the whole point of The Emperor/Sidious is that he deliberately hides his true self and his powers, and manipulates things behind the scenes and gets others namely Vader to do his dirty work for him, Outside of the Jedi council I'd be surprised if anyone else knew of the existence of the Sith or what a Sith lord was, he became Emperor by discrediting the Jedi and ending the Clone Wars, by the time he ascended to power he would have been seen as the Hero who ended the war and bought Peace to the Galaxy which opened the floodgates to corruption, after all it did take take 20 years for a small band of rebels to make any sort of effective stance towards the Empire.

I always assumed the Emperor was a reclusive leader that only a precious few high level Imperial dignitaries would ever come into contact with, bueraucracy would do the rest. I'm sure many would suspect he was pure evil, but I think he would have kept his dark powers well hidden operating only to subtley manipulate events on a large scale, Vader was his show-pony and his display of powers were enough to instill fear and obedience throughout the Galaxy.

unfortunately the EU only tends to muddy this issue by making his Dark Powers obvious to all.

Post: #115618
Topic: You came this close to Qui Gon being in the end of ROTJ...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/115618/action/topic#115618
Time: 16-Jun-2005 12:07 AM

if Qui-Gonn taught Yoda and Obi-wan while they were still alive, who taught Anikan? or did he work it out for himself after he died the same way that Qui-gonn did?

Post: #115615
Topic: Anakin & Obi-Wan: The Friendship We Never Really Saw
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/115615/action/topic#115615
Time: 15-Jun-2005 11:55 PM

I think had Anakin been introduced as a troubled teen in the first film (or at least closer in age to Padme and Obi-Wan) and had more interaction with Obi-wan in the first film it would have made their friendship a lot more believable as well as creating a kind of friendly sibling rivalry between the two 'brothers'(no not biological brothers) and had Anakin not whined about Obi-Wan for no reason at every drop of the hat in AOTC, I think the climax of ROTC would have been far more intense if Anikan's resentment of Obi-Wan had been left to emerge in the final film.

Post: #115604
Topic: CGI Yoda for TPM
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/115604/action/topic#115604
Time: 15-Jun-2005 11:04 PM

cgi Yoda is a lot closer to Freeborn's vision than that mean-looking terrible puppet in Phantom Menace which looked more like a Gremlin, re-doing his scenes in TPM will be one of the few changes George has made that actually improve the consistency between the 2 trilogies, as for the possibility of replacing the OT puppet, I really can't think of a shot in the OT that would warrant being re-done, 25 years later it is still astounding the life they managed to create from the original latex puppet.

Post: #114941
Topic: Final Scripts
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/114941/action/topic#114941
Time: 13-Jun-2005 10:57 PM

Quote
Max_Rebo I doubt those lines where in any draft GL wrote. He didn't come up with the whole "Leia is Luke's sister" and "Being seperated at birth" until the early 80s.

Max Rebo was quoting from the screenplay of Return of the Jedi, the scene in which Luke returns to Dagobah and speaks to Obi-Wan.

Post: #114924
Topic: Boba Fett in Star Wars TV Series?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/114924/action/topic#114924
Time: 13-Jun-2005 10:21 PM

If Daniel Logan's been approached to star, then I don't like the chances of him not wearing a helmet.

Post: #114891
Topic: Why Kill Padme?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/114891/action/topic#114891
Time: 13-Jun-2005 8:15 PM

If Luke has absolutley no recollection of his mother even though he was first born,named and held by his mother , and stronger in the force than Leia, how does Leia have memories of her? I don't want to make excuses because I think George seriously dropped the ball on this one, but isn't it more likely that Leia's recollections of her mother are of Bail's wife, (ASIDE FROM THE ANNOTATED SCREENPLAY)

Bail and his wife raised her from birth as their own, because they couldn't have children, this could explain her adopted 'mother's sadness at not being able to conceive a child of her own, concealing Leia's identity from her true father and the Emperor, whilst still retaining a position in the Senate would be hard enough without letting Leia know she was adopted, as far as I know Leia was unaware that Bail Organa was not her natural father.