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#316260
Topic
China
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Yeah, that's the paradox about Mao; he is the most "revered" of the evil dictators. Even in travel books about China, Mao is given a heavy amount of sugar-coating, so I guess that has to do with government propaganda. Basically, China is a magnified version of the US and all the things wrong with us. I just hope the 2008 olympics don't become a massive failure because of Tibet controversy. You can't say anything bad about Mao according to the Chinese government.
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#316259
Topic
China
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/316259/action/topic#316259
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Yeah, that's the paradox about Mao; he is the most "revered" of the evil dictators. Even in travel books about China, Mao is given a heavy amount of sugar-coating, so I guess that has to do with government propaganda. Basically, China is a magnified version of the US and all the things wrong with us. I just hope the 2008 olympics don't become a massive failure because of Tibet controversy. You can't say anything bad about Mao according to the Chinese government.
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#316257
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2006 DVD OOT
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/316257/action/topic#316257
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But who is like the beast?
I know It's pretty substandard and I even have a widescreen computer and TV myself, but its the only way now to get the OOT on DVD without resorting to piracy. It sucks, but we can't do anything about it. Plus, I kind of have a weird fascination with archaic technology (laserdisc), even though this came out two years ago; and I even play my SNES games on my LG, in 4:3 mode, so I guess the GOUT would not be that unbearable. The only true reason to pick up the GOUT if you are desperate and you will kill yourself if you cannot watch the OOT in a legal, non-disintegrating form.
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#316256
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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/316256/action/topic#316256
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I actually never saw the OOT in the theaters, since I was too young to experience it in 77-83, and I can also be considered a second generation fan of the OOT. Every May I always get the itch to watch the OOT. It makes me quite sad that we can enjoy the OOT the way it should, but at this point, Im all too convinced that SW in its present form will become the entrenched version promoted by Lucasfilm, so I've accepted that I cannot win against George Lucas.
For the PT, I have a kind of "addiction" that isn't all that good. I also end up thinking that the PT isn't that bad, but I think that was because I grew up in Tandem with the releases of the PT, and I almost act in denial that they were bad, but in my heart they are the true destructive factor of the OOT I want to keep alive.
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#312216
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Anyone else here have a love/hate relation with Revenge of the sith ?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/312216/action/topic#312216
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For me ROTS represents the failure of the SW saga in general; it is painful for me because it so strongly represents what could have been with the PT and maybe the saga in general. I used to think that ROTS was the worst movie of all time, but now I am a little wiser about its value. But sorry, ROTS is synomynous with FAILURE to me.
On a second note, it also kind of reflects the GOUT, as that could have been our holy grail, but just the small fact that it was non-anamoprphic killed the franchise for all of us and represents the obstinance of Lucas, as many in hollywood still consider ROTS to be the next masterpiece and well-crafted, which it is not.
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#309115
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Jim Ward steps down
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/309115/action/topic#309115
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Well, we'll have to accept the laerdisc ports for the next 20-30 years; maybe someday well get a remastered OOT, but probably not in the first half of this century. Unfortunately, they'll have to try to recreate what it was in 1977 from the GOUT. But until hell freezes over Im jumping over to the star trek crowd until then.
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#306912
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Fall to the Dark Side?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/306912/action/topic#306912
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The unfortunate truth is that Lucas was simply trying to make an americanized version of The Hidden Fortress back in 1973, and intended to have it as a one-shot deal. The SW became one wildly sucessful and then he decided to spend the rest of his life milking it into a franchise, adding the Paradise Lost element betwwen SW and ESB.
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#305476
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Star Wars: The Best of 2007 (Looking Back at 30 Years)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/305476/action/topic#305476
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This frustration really makes me wish SW never existed at all, had we known 30 years ago that we'd have to deal with all the junk Lucas would give us. In the end, it was LFL who won, not the fanbase that could have saved the OOT. Its a shame that the one thing that madeLucas sucessful has bitten the dust locked in shoddy DVDs, never to exist again, and the facade of the SE has become its permanent destiny. The only real hope now is to bite down the bullet, find the GOUT on ebay, dig out the old 4:3 TV's, and hope they won't suffer from next year's digital conversion. It'll be bad, but maybe in the next 50-100 years they can salvage what's left of the OOT. Deny it or not, Lucas has absolutely suceeded in destroying the OT. Makes me want to wish film never existed.