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#303371
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Info: What is your dream fan edit if you could get the rare footage?
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I'd always have loved to see Alien 3 with every single scrap of footage put back into the film. I know from reading online comments by the DVD producer of the Alien Quadrilogy set that there he was limited by what footage he could find at Fox. I know that from the comments on the DVD set, there had been a much longer version screened that was almost over-the-top violent. Couple that with all the workprint footage that never made it to the assembly cut, and the rumored scenes that might have been shot (Ripley fighting the alien in the "basement" and it refusing to kill her, the chestburster going from Newt to Ripley in the EEV), and you could have had a very interesting alternate cut.

Man, this is an old topic.
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#303068
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The Prequels r sooo much more better that the original
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Originally posted by: {DoS}Hellhound
Originally posted by: crazyrabbits
Originally posted by: {DoS}Hellhound
Darth Maul is the best! The orriganal trillogy bores the crap outta me i almost never watch it with out falling asleep the technology is better in the prequels any ways andAniken is way more Badass that stupid Luke


Please, let me correct that for you.

"Darth Maul is the best! The original trilogy bores the crap out of me. I almost never watch it without falling asleep. The technology is better in the prequels anyway, and Anakin is way more badass than stupid Luke."

Rules to remember:

1) "Outta" is not a proper word.
2) Always remember to use periods to complete a thought.
3) "Badass" should not be capitalized in the middle of a sentence, regardless of what person it's describing.

If this were a writing class, I would have written a big, fat "F" on your paper. Your fine is one internet. Please disconnect your connection and smack yourself in the head.


i dont need yer pitty thank u im not a govt puppet like u


Alright, alright, we'll ignore the mental deficiencies you suffered at childbirth for a moment. What I want to ask you is...why? Obviously, you seem to have writing problems...are you young? Did you not get enough love as a child? Was the pain of a breakup to much for you to bear? I just want to know...so that I can laugh at you some more, because, damn, you are a failure. I laugh at your insolence. On the scale of trolls I've ever encountered on the internet, you rate a solid 1 out of 10. When you can log on every day at 6:00 AM and provide detailed breakdowns of posts coupled with sarcastic insults while wired on caffeine, then I will respect your trolling skills. Until then, you're a small fry. A little dog. A lone french fry. Inconsequential.
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#303057
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The Prequels r sooo much more better that the original
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/303057/action/topic#303057
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Originally posted by: {DoS}Hellhound
Darth Maul is the best! The orriganal trillogy bores the crap outta me i almost never watch it with out falling asleep the technology is better in the prequels any ways andAniken is way more Badass that stupid Luke


Please, let me correct that for you.

"Darth Maul is the best! The original trilogy bores the crap out of me. I almost never watch it without falling asleep. The technology is better in the prequels anyway, and Anakin is way more badass than stupid Luke."

Rules to remember:

1) "Outta" is not a proper word.
2) Always remember to use periods to complete a thought.
3) "Badass" should not be capitalized in the middle of a sentence, regardless of what person it's describing.

If this were a writing class, I would have written a big, fat "F" on your paper. Your fine is one internet. Please disconnect your connection and smack yourself in the head.
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#302135
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Heroes
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/302135/action/topic#302135
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Originally posted by: Sluggo
A quick question. Last week, Peter helped Adam escape the company by walking through a wall. When did he pick up that power? Did he ever have contact with DL?


Well, if I remember the season 1 finale correctly, he was in proximity every major character (Hiro, Nikki, D.L., Parkman, etc.). He may have picked up D.L.'s ability unconsciously. That's a guess, though.

I haven't watched the show since the second episode of this season. I'm waiting for it to come out on DVD before I watch it all.
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#301908
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2007 DVD repackage
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/301908/action/topic#301908
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Originally posted by: Dantha Fodder
I still can't believe Lucasfilm let the 30th anniversay go without a new/different release. Its not disappointed I'm expressing, more wonderment.


Well, it's their own goddamn fault for blowing their wad with the release with the unaltered trilogy. I don't know about you folks, but I would have gladly waited a year if it meant (although, it would be a serious pipe dream) that they could have released the films in proper anamorphic quality. As it is, I'm content to wait it out until the next release.
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#301346
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BSG
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Originally posted by: oojason
^ Was it the screener version of Razor you saw mate?


Yeah, that was the one.

Another thing I forgpt to talk about was how pivotal Kendra was to the story. I really liked her character, but I don't understand why the producers/creators didn't bother to give her screentime in the main series. The idea for the "Pegasus" idea has been on the table since at LEAST the beginning of this year, if not earlier. When I watched this, I got this "Back To The Future Pt. 2" feeling. Here you've got this newcomer to the Pegasus, who just happens to take an active role in many of the incidents the Pegasus faced (initial attack, Cylon boarding party, civilian ship massacre). I think, at the very least, could have come up with at least a generic name for an unseen character (whose referenced by other crewmen) in the Pegasus episodes in season two, and then used the character as a continuity reference point, so that it wouldn't look like the writers suddenly pulled it out of their asses. Hell, I know they did it with another character from the Pegasus, a pilot named Nacho, who's been doing sporadic appearances for quite some time now. Anyway, that's just my two cents.
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#301333
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BSG
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I watched it. Here's a capsule review of Razor:


**SPOILERS**

On the whole, it's an effective time-waster until the new season starts, but the only thing that will blow the minds of fanboys are the beautiful FX battle sequences, and the use of the original Cylon Centurions (yeah, they've got the original ships, still sit three to a cockpit, and they do say "By Your Command").

Essentially, this extended episode takes place sometime just after "Epiphanies" and "The Captain's Hand", and sees newly-minted Pegasus Commander Lee Adama hiring a woman named Kendra Shaw to be his new XO, and her skills are put to the test (in the present) when a Raptor survey team goes missing on a research misson. The Pegasus goes out to look for it, eventually encountering the original Cylons, who happen to be harboring the first "Hybrid", a product of the first Cylon War.

Through Kendra's eyes, we see a series of flashbacks, showing what transpired aboard the Pegasus over the past few months. Starting with Kendra's transfer to the ship, we see the initial attack on the Scorpion Fleet Yards, the boarding of the ship by the Cylons (that also exposes "Gina", a Number 6 model), and the massacre aboard a civilian fleet vessel.

What's good? Kendra is ten times more badass than most of the supporting cast, and is a real "go-get-shit-done" kind of person. We get some insight into what happened during the First Cylon War (explained through a flashback by Admiral Adama where he infiltrates a Cylon experiment site), and we get a couple interesting developments in the overall storyline (how Kara Thrace is supposed to bring the apocalypse, what the first Hybrid looks like), and the FX shots are AMAZING. There's also a very neat parallel in regards to a knife owned by Cain, Kendra and Kara. Since this is a sole Pegasus story, the Galactica is barely seen, and the increased screentime for the Pegasus is welcomed.

What's bad: Kendra's flashbacks, with the exception of a few notable moments, weren't really needed. Trying to rewrite continuity so that there's a bad-ass Captain who's never appeared in any previous episode (or any episode after this) doesn't help either. In fact, the story was more effective when Colonel Fisk told the story to Tigh in the "Pegasus" episode, forcing viewers to create their own perception of the madness of Cain. In this episode, most of the Pegasus flashbacks have already been explained sufficiently in the series. It's great that Gina is a lesbian, but does it advance the story in any way? Not really. In addition, the episode keeps throwing casualty reports at us via Kendra, but when there are supposedly hundreds of dead crew members on the ship, but only a handful of corpses seen in later sequences, it loses a lot of it's dramatic impact.

I also have to ask: What happened to Laird after the events in the initial Pegasus arc? I mean, he's got a big role in this film, but I have no idea where he went afterwards. Also, what kind of plan involves a team of experienced officers sacrificing another Raptor and then carting a nuke with them onboard a Cylon basestar? The Pegasus had nukes loaded and ready, so why didn't they FTL jump past the old Cylon fleet once the team accomplished their extraction mission and nuke the Basestar? Did Kendra really have to sacrifice herself? I digress.

Overall, though, it's good enough to act as a bridge to the upcoming season, and it wipes away some of the bad taste left by the first half of season 3, which I am still personally trying to forget. The acting is solid, the effects are great, and it's a fine way to waste an evening.

I give Battlestar Galactica: Razor a 7.5 out of 10.
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#301214
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The Beginning: Making 'Episode I': A comedy masterpiece
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Originally posted by: Trooperman
Trust me, I've had to go through each scene and analyze every shot of this. Attack of the Clones is an awful, awful film in every category. Music is mediocre, cinematography is awful, script is awful ("I wish I could just wish away my feelings"), acting is horrid, and the whole mess is packaged in incredibly unrealistic CG. The film deserves the flak- it's just complete, contrived crap.


I remember watching AOTC, and I was very confused during the scene with Obi-Wan in the diner talking to that fat alien...for a moment, I couldn't comprehend what was going on. Somehow, Lucas thought it would be a good idea to shoehorn in a fat, greasy alien who picks at himself as a supposed friend to Obi-Wan, with no build up whatsoever.

God damn, the more I think about that film, the angrier I get.
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#301116
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The Beginning: Making 'Episode I': A comedy masterpiece
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/301116/action/topic#301116
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Originally posted by: zombie84
I was ready to love Terminator 3--I went to that theater excited as hell. I didn't expect it to live up to either two originals because I know that those are so above-average that its an unrealistic expectation. But when the credits rolled and i left the theater I realised that the film fucking sucked just because it fucking sucked. Okay, some nice action scenes, and a pretty neat last 10 minutes. But you know what--Wing Commander has redeemable qualities like this. Battlefield Earth has some interesting effects and a cool action scene. Scary Movie 4 has a few jokes I laughed at. Every movie has something good in it, something worth watching. When you get a pool of talent--Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, designer Doug Chiang and Gavin Boucquet, the best special effects wizards in existance, John Williams and hell, even George Lucas--of course there will be elements, scenes and moments that are watchable, good or even excellent. But the reason that people think Wing Commander sucked, Terminator 3 was poor and Phantom Menace was poor was because, for whatever good elements in there, they were swallowed up by ten times as many bad elements. Thats what matters.


I totally agree. I didn't mean that people outright assumed the movie would be spectacular, but with any sequel to a franchise that is made many years later, the memory of the previous entries will cause everyone to build up images of what they think the film is going to be like in their head, and I don't mean necessarily good or bad, but everyone has a different perception, and when you get all those people into a theatre, after so long, there will undoubtedly (in my opinion, at least) be mixed reactions to what the audience is seeing.

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#301109
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Demonoid Dead...
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When I first started downloading, I grabbed everything I could find: movies, music, games, you name it. I then realized that most of the mainstream movies I was downloading were garbage. I've since only used P2P sporadically, either for downloading screeners, episodes of Dexter, or the occassional workprint (to see what's different).
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#301107
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The Beginning: Making 'Episode I': A comedy masterpiece
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/301107/action/topic#301107
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Originally posted by: Johnny Ringo
Originally posted by: crazyrabbits
Originally posted by: Johnny Ringo

I was actually very disappointed with the amount of [or lack of] Jar-Jar footage for Revenge of the Sith.


Fixed.


Hey! c'mon now. Play nice.


Heh, I couldn't resist.

I think that, with any franchise built on the back of one person's vision (James Cameron and the Terminator series, Francis Ford Coppola and the Godfather series), making a sequel much farther than the road is not always a good idea. You get this sort of "mystique" built up in the minds of the fanbase, and the end product, even if it's good, is sure to be a letdown. Most people were set out to hate Terminator 3 when it was announced Cameron wasn't directing, and the movie was actually quite watchable, but it will always be the black sheep of that series. With this film, I think that once the euphoria of the premiere wore off, people were quick to slight the film for it's kid-like elements (the comic relief, the questionable acting by the child actor), but they forget about the great lightsaber duel, the scenes on Coruscant (which I thought were quite good)...what I mean to say is that, while I don't think the film is great by any means (it could have used more finesse like the original script), it will always be maligned, and I personally don't think it could have ever lived up to the standards Star Wars fans had set in their minds. Just my opinion, of course.