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Post: #121856
Topic: Batman Begins
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/121856/action/topic#121856
Time: 8-Jul-2005 10:00 AM

uh... uh.... uh....

Have you heard the rumor that Bruce Willis is going to play Mr. Freeze in the new Batman franchise?

No?

Neither have I- just made it up... looking for a segue!

Post: #121855
Topic: whatever happened to Corey Feldman??
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/121855/action/topic#121855
Time: 8-Jul-2005 9:58 AM

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Originally posted by: Cable-X1

I did like License To Drive though....that was their height of popularity.

I thought that film would suck but wound up liking it a LOT.

Plus it had an early chance for me to see and fall for Heather Graham!

Post: #121829
Topic: Star Wars Ewok Adventures - double feature DVD (2004) - official release
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/121829/action/topic#121829
Time: 8-Jul-2005 8:34 AM

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Originally posted by: Trooperman
Yes- I remember starting a thread related to this earlier and that was the consensus- the films were probably cropped for the theatrical release.

Maybe that's why the films starred kids- so that their heads wouldn't be cut off the screen in the cinema!

(anybody remember the TV series 'Police Squad!' that the 'Naked Gun!' movies were based on? There was a really tall character who always had his head cut out of the shot.... lol!)

Post: #121814
Topic: Star Wars Ewok Adventures - double feature DVD (2004) - official release
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/121814/action/topic#121814
Time: 8-Jul-2005 7:19 AM

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Originally posted by: Arnie.d
Isn't every film shot in widescreen?

Actually not really. The most common type of film stocks are in the essentially 4:3 ratio. Take for instance 35mm film stock- there is no difference (other than audio tracks) between 35mm *movie* stock and 35mm *still* stock. What filmmakers generally do is only compose their shots in the center area of the frame. Some cameras physically block the top and bottom of the screen and others shoot the whole image only to be cropped later. In the latter case when a film is composed for widescreen there might be things off-frame that the director does not want to be seen (there's a bit in Pee-Wee's Big Adventure in which he pulls a unrealistically but humourously long chain out of his bicycle's cargo box- shown in widescreen the effect works but the 'fullscreen' version allows you to see that the bottom of the box is hollow and the chain is being pulled up from off camera, thus ruining thr image.) OAR traditionally was a matter of *choice* rather than size of film stock. In fact as rare as it is, some film directors actually *choose* to use the whole film frame for composition even though they know that in theaters some of the image will be lost! Stanly Kubrick did just that in 'The Shining'. That is why the director-authorized DVD of 'The Shining' is 4:3... Kubrick uses the entire frame effectively to convey mood instead of just leaving useless space at the top and bottom.

Of course there are a gazillion exceptions to what I've said, as I'm sure many people will point out.

The nutshell is that the Ewok movies were probably shot 35mm (or at least no more than 70mm) and in that UK theartical run the image would have been cropped down to fit the cinema screen. Sorta the same but opposite of how we understand Pan and Scan and fullscreen movie releases.

Post: #121791
Topic: Batman Begins
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/121791/action/topic#121791
Time: 8-Jul-2005 5:52 AM

Honestly I've never seen it either, and I'm a Bruce Willis fan! ALL I remember about the film when it came out was the controversy about how, after seeing the dailies, balding Bruce Willis supposedly insisted that his receding hairline get digitally painted over to look not so bald.

Actually this is the first real controversy/situation I can remember regarding CGI and/or digital painting being used to 'doctor' a film- with the exception of colorization and the whole Ted Turner fiasco.

Post: #121212
Topic: Info: MagnoliaFan on MF.com
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/121212/action/topic#121212
Time: 6-Jul-2005 6:22 AM

Why do mosquitoes buzz in people's ears?

Post: #121206
Topic: I'm liking the prequels more and more....
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/121206/action/topic#121206
Time: 6-Jul-2005 4:33 AM

Somehow I think we've 'composed' a different thread than the title would imply...

Post: #121204
Topic: Babylon 5
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/121204/action/topic#121204
Time: 6-Jul-2005 4:29 AM

I never could get into that show. Not that I tried too hard, but all my friends loved it and were always trying to get me to watch it.

I guess part of what put me off was them telling me I had to watch all the previous episodes to figure out what was going on in the middle of the series run.

Post: #121203
Topic: Info: MagnoliaFan on MF.com
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/121203/action/topic#121203
Time: 6-Jul-2005 4:22 AM

And, as a part-time video editor myself, I will say if you don't have the 'bug' for editing than you can never really understand how addictive it is. Here I can understand GL, MagFan, etc's feelings- when an editor is given raw materials, no matter how crappy they may be (ie wedding footage, vacation footage, the PT films), you have a burning desire to play and tweak and design and redesign and so on and so on...

I have spent too many nights literally awake ALL NIGHT just working on a scene or two- much to my wife's chagrin.

I have friends who are the same way with video games, building models or many other hobby pursuits. Do they consume your life? No, not usually. Can you waste some of your time working on your hobbies? Sure. Does it hurt anyone? Nope.

Klingon_Jedi hit it on the head about this debate though- if you don't like what you're reading... STOP reading it! Turn the channel! That's one of the things that sets the OT.Com forums apart from so many others- as a whole people are civil and get along, or if they don't they just post where they can be constructive. I hope it stays that way.

Post: #121013
Topic: I'm liking the prequels more and more....
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/121013/action/topic#121013
Time: 5-Jul-2005 11:18 AM

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Originally posted by: Anakin's Mannequin
Favorite 2 composers of modern day:

1. John Williams

2. Danny Elfman

With those two, there's no need for a third.

Hmmm... as a body of work I personally prefer Hans Zimmer to Danny Elfman (apart from his Boingo days!). And Howard Shore has come a long way from Saturday Night Live..

Post: #120978
Topic: CANADA DAY
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/120978/action/topic#120978
Time: 5-Jul-2005 8:50 AM

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Originally posted by: Mackey256
I was in the boundry waters doing some fishing, camping and whatnot. I wasn't near a single living person for four days. It was great.

You mean to say the bears and fish and moose didn't tell you the origins of Canada Day?!?!?!

oh Canada... for shame.....

Post: #120959
Topic: What about you? The moment when you "divorced" from the Lucas policy about SW?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/120959/action/topic#120959
Time: 5-Jul-2005 6:14 AM

Funny thing is, growing up I loved GL and SW, but after the SEs and the PT I dislike what Lucas has become but I've grown to appreciate the OT in a different manner- not more exactly but differently. Still good though.

Post: #120927
Topic: What about you? The moment when you "divorced" from the Lucas policy about SW?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/120927/action/topic#120927
Time: 5-Jul-2005 4:20 AM

The Star Wars trilogy had just become sorta a fond memory for me prior to the '97 SE's. I had bought the Definitve laserdisc set which satisfied me at the time

but when the SE's came out I started to worry. And then the rumblings that the OT 'didn't exist' anymore started from GL and I assumed he had fallen over the proverbial edge.

Then the PT. Saw 'em all in the theater on opening day, gave them chances, liked 'em less and less. And now here we are.

Post: #120291
Topic: The Annie Angst Thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/120291/action/topic#120291
Time: 1-Jul-2005 11:25 AM

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Originally posted by: DarthAstuart
my conjecture based on what i've read is that hayden may have had a good performance in him, but that lucas specifically instructed him to dial back the anger and become more the petulant teenager.

haven't they both said stuff to the effect of hayden wanting to be angry bad ass vader in AOTC, but Lucas making him wait until ROTS?

So why didn't he do it in ROTS then?

Does anyone else but me *cringe* every time Hayden pronounces the word 'master' in the PT? <<shudder>>

Post: #119917
Topic: Super Healing Obi-Wan!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/119917/action/topic#119917
Time: 30-Jun-2005 11:40 AM

The sad thing is it not only lands on him, but pushes him several feet!!! I would have at least liked him to be in a healing tank like Luke in ESB or something.

Come to think of it, people in general just seem to suffer more 'real' damage in the OT vs the PT- in the PT you'd think you were watching Futurama (vastly superior IMHO

) where limbs and heads get cut off and stuck back on with little consequence.

Post: #119903
Topic: What killed Mace - the Lightening or the fall?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/119903/action/topic#119903
Time: 30-Jun-2005 11:19 AM

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Originally posted by: miochza
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Originally posted by: starkiller
SLJ said he had a worthy death.

I was disappointed on seeing it (assuming he does die, as you seem to theorize).

But what about Unlimited Power!!! lol

No.

No no no no no NO NONONONONONOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!"

Post: #119896
Topic: DVD Burning help...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/119896/action/topic#119896
Time: 30-Jun-2005 10:58 AM

Actually I missed this before. Chaltab, have you figured it out? If not you should read up at http://www.videohelp.com/ where they have LOTS of great tutorials about all aspects of DVD.

Post: #119877
Topic: Anakin & Obi-Wan: The Friendship We Never Really Saw
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/119877/action/topic#119877
Time: 30-Jun-2005 10:15 AM

I think the argument here is not that people want obvious stuff spoon-fed to them (as GL tended to do in the PT and somewhat in ROTJ) but indtead that the PT should have *focused* more on the friendship instead of Gungan wars and trade disputes and long useless speeches.

Post: #119852
Topic: Super Healing Obi-Wan!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/119852/action/topic#119852
Time: 30-Jun-2005 8:47 AM

I suppose that's much of what bugged me about the PT. The use of CGI along with the 'idea' that the Jedi are all now super-jumpy-twisty-hero types just adds to the cartoon nature of the films. That's great if you're filming 'The Mask' but not if you want to draw audiences into a story. There's just no weight to anything in the films.

Post: #119836
Topic: Super Healing Obi-Wan!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/119836/action/topic#119836
Time: 30-Jun-2005 6:32 AM

Hmm... don't know about the healing thing either way, but still- anyone see what I'm talking about in ROTS?

Post: #119834
Topic: War of the Worlds
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/119834/action/topic#119834
Time: 30-Jun-2005 6:19 AM

Originally Independence Day was released on July 4th, and all the teaser posters shortened the name to ID4.

The studios like people to be able to refer to their films in a 'hip' and 'catchy' manner- started with Terminator 2 (aka T2), resulting in X-Men 2 being called 'X2', and amusingly the studio trying it with 'League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' by thinking people would call it 'LXG' (obviously they couldn't spell or thought calling it 'LEG' would just be silly... lol)

Post: #119831
Topic: What killed Mace - the Lightening or the fall?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/119831/action/topic#119831
Time: 30-Jun-2005 6:10 AM

As much as anything else does (or doesn't) make sense in the PT, I think there's no reason that Mace wouldn't have been able to survive. Actually I assumed we'd see Boba trying to track him down to get revenge for Jango's death. Maybe GL will use that idea for the TV series?

Post: #119816
Topic: Super Healing Obi-Wan!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/119816/action/topic#119816
Time: 30-Jun-2005 5:03 AM

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Originally posted by: Hardcore Legend
I think it landed on his thighbone and pushed him.

Also, I thought Jedi could heal each other, I thought that was what Obi Wan did to Luke.

Eh... when? In what scene? When they first meet?

Post: #119813
Topic: Super Healing Obi-Wan!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/119813/action/topic#119813
Time: 30-Jun-2005 4:57 AM

I can't remember seeing anyone else mention this, but it has bothered me at every viewing of ROTS. Why the hell isn't Obi-Wan paralyzed and/or in traction for the rest of his life?

During the ROTS Dooku duel, when Dooks sends Obi flying across the room and he crashes into the catwalk, Obi would have been hurt. BUT, to add insult to injury, when the catwalk falls down on Obi-Wan IT CLEARLY LANDS ON HIS PELVIS AND PUSHES HIM ABOUT 5 FEET ACROSS THE FLOOR! For someone who was nearly unconcious already (or even not) this would have not only pulverized his pelvis and legs but most likely severed the lower half of his body!

For those of you who have the ability to, go and re-watch this. Seriously now... c'mon. Obi was toast! But instead Anakin declares "He seems to be all right. No broken bones, breathing's all right." LOL... riiiight! PUH-lease!

Post: #119806
Topic: Batman Begins
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/119806/action/topic#119806
Time: 30-Jun-2005 3:49 AM

You live in Bizarro World... good is bad... bad is good...