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#178104
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New tactic for petitioning for the OOT?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/178104/action/topic#178104
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Originally posted by: ADigitalMan
I think his kids have access to the O-OT without a mass production wide release and marketing machine necessary to make it happen.


I wonder if they sell bootlegs of it at school? My family used to own a bakery and I'd take donuts to school and sell them. I can just picture Jett... "Hey dude... wanna buy a DVD of the OOT? Yeah... my dad has *millions* of them but we only give 'em to people who don't bitch about it!'
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#178062
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Conan: Red Nails
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/178062/action/topic#178062
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What I'd really like to see is just *one* animated film come out in the U.S. geared toward more mature audiences that has GOOD animation! There've been several films but I'm always left scratching my head wondering why U.S. studios take the time to animate kids films well but when aiming for an older audience the animation tends to look like crap (ie sloppy work, bad perspective, etc).
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#177977
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Does GL ever explain why...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/177977/action/topic#177977
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I have never watched the 2004 DVD of the OT nor do I intend to but I am curious about the audio commentary tracks. For those who have listened to them, does GL go into any details about WHY he added certain scenes or does he just focis on the technical details of the new or re-done scenes? I would be very curious to hear if there's ever been any logical explanations to why certain inserts or re-dos exist other than 'because my vision changed' or 'becasue I wanted to- nanny-nanny-boo-boo'.
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#177950
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New tactic for petitioning for the OOT?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/177950/action/topic#177950
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I had thought about the magazine technique as well, or at least something similar. Basically find someone or some publication like you said to champion the cause or at least explain it in a way that people can understand. Just as there are still plenty of people in the general public who don't understand why there are 'black bars' at the top and bottom of their screens when they watch some DVDs there are those (gasp! ) who don't really notice that anything has changed in the OT nor maybe even really care at this point. But I don't know about the rest of the world but in the U.S. at least when you start telling people what they 'don't' have or worse yet what they *can't* have then they tend to get up in arms, figuratively speaking (most of the time).
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#177942
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New tactic for petitioning for the OOT?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/177942/action/topic#177942
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As time passes and the chance of Lucas changing his mind about the OOT release in any new format seems further and further away, perhaps instead of petitioning and/or repeatedly asking LFL employees to relay messages we should collectively try something new- bring the cause to the people influential in Lucas' life.

Love him or hate him, we know that Steven Spielberg has influence to some degree in George Lucas' life. Also we know that Spielberg has been brought to his senses about original versions vs special editions on DVD with at least one of his films, E.T. which at the last minute he bowed to pressure and made the original version more readily available to the general public (and even he and the studio were at least making the original version available in a limited edition expensive package before that instead of saying 'it doesn't exist').

So what I propose it taking the top two or three people in life who George Lucas might listen to occasionally and writing to *them* and petitioning *them*. Write to Spielberg. Write to Francis Coppola. Write to Lucas' *kids* for that matter- anyone who might be able to put the bug in his ear.

I firmly believe that Lucas really doesn't understand the scope and meaning of his tinkering to the detriment of film history and that he truly feels that anyone who thinks otherwise are just a small band of mean-spirited geeks who don't know any better. I mean after all- people *do* keep buying his stuff.

What do you think?
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#177160
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Movies you enjoy even though you know they're bad
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/177160/action/topic#177160
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Originally posted by: sybeman
Originally posted by: Switch Radic
what do you mean by the phrase "telegraphed in his performance"? I'm serious here, not a joke...


Well, I'm more used to the phrase "phoned it in," but they're essentially the same. It basically means that you didn't put any effort into a performance. Like your body is there, but your mind is miles away. Sort of on the wavelength that you couldn't be bothered to show up and act, so you could be replace with your voice on a telephone (or -graph, apparantly)


Yeah, uh, what he said.

Sorry old version of the phrase. Must have left my newer phrasebook in my horseless carriage. ;P

There's just so many actors whose screen presence in bad films seems to cry 'Just give me my freaking paycheck so I can buy a drink and forget about being in this film.. and fire my agent.'

Some actors (seemingly Sydow) just enjoy doing some weird stuff from time to time and enjoy it for what it is. Even in 'better' films though you can find actors who don't put much effort into roles. In fact what bugs me almost as much is actors who just settle into playing themselves. I can't remember the last time people like Nicolas Cage or Jack Nicholson did *anything* other than just play a stereotyped version of themselves. Yet audiences support that by going to their movies.
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#177107
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Movies you enjoy even though you know they're bad
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/177107/action/topic#177107
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Originally posted by: JediSage
The one thing I'll never get over about Flash Gordon now that I'm old enough to "know" better is Max Von Sydow. So talented, I cringe when I think of him as Ming.

Babes everywhere in that movie though.

Favorite line:

"Bring me the BOOR worms..."

LOL


I'll have to differ there- he's one of the things that I LOVE about 'Flash'! In fact I consider those the Max Von Sydow 'fun years'. 95% of my favorite quotable lines come from Max in 'Flash' and 'Strange Brew'-
http://www.alicia-logic.com/capsimages/sbr_053Dooley_vonSydow.jpg
"I could crush your head... like a nut. But I won't... because I NEED you."

"Ironic- you came to me with a mouse in a bottle... now YOU'RE the mouse. Its a shame you won't live to see the whole world addicted to Elsinore beer."

Its not like he was desperate for work I think- I truely believe he thought 'hell why not?' And it doesn't seem like he telegraphed in his performances either. Not like Ben Kingsley in soooooo many films or any number of other fine actors.
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#176946
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Movies you enjoy even though you know they're bad
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/176946/action/topic#176946
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Originally posted by: Han Solo VS Indiana Jones

Didn't they make the 1980 Flash Gordon "bad" on purpose?


Heck I'd argue that its even 'bad' as I love the film. Unless something is a comedy (Like 'Lost Skeleton of Cadavra') I doubt any filmmaker sets out to make a 'bad' movie. FG was purposely done to be a cartoon-strip looking film with bright colors, etc. There are certainly camp elements and the acting is fun and over-the-top but I don't think they really strayed *too* far from the original strips. Now Flash's ever-evolving wardrobe... now THAT was funny!