grifter

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Join date: 23-Mar-2005
Last activity: 19-Apr-2016
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Post: #139877
Topic: Has anyone now second guessed the prequels
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/139877/action/topic#139877
Time: 20-Sep-2005 11:34 AM

well...back in the late 90's:
_97:SE, it was cool to see the movies on the big screen again, but some things were very bad moves from GL (Greedo, bad CGIs,Jabba scene,Jedi rock....)
_99:summer holidays in NY, saw the movies (the french release was in october!),i was disapointed, i thought :it looks like SW but it's missing something(s), maybe episode2 will be better...
_'02:saw episode 2:more stimulating movie than 1 but doesn't survive a second viewing, looks like a bad attempt to repair the disapointment from episode1
_'04:the infamous dvd set! ('nuff said!)
_'05:i've lost hope to see a good SW, movie confirms that.

in least than 10 years, GL turned my favorite movies into my worst nightmare!

Post: #139871
Topic: revenge of the sith font?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/139871/action/topic#139871
Time: 20-Sep-2005 11:04 AM

ok thanks! i needed that to make for myself a nice "revenge of the shit" t shirt!
there's one convention coming up in Paris, so the t shirt will be ready!

Post: #139393
Topic: Episode III Caption This
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/139393/action/topic#139393
Time: 18-Sep-2005 10:24 AM

_ok....this is the sixth movie, which comes before the first but it's the number 3!.....that means...aw fuck! i've lost it!!!

Post: #139342
Topic: Episode III Caption This
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/139342/action/topic#139342
Time: 18-Sep-2005 2:22 AM

_Anakin, what's wrong?
_You said you're 3 months pregnant....but i've been gone for 6!....you s***!!!

Post: #138990
Topic: revenge of the sith font?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/138990/action/topic#138990
Time: 16-Sep-2005 12:30 PM

i'm sure somebody already gave the info, but can you tell me what font was used in the "jedi" type logo for "episode3"?

this one:

Post: #121234
Topic: Who are your 10 favorite and least favorite characters from all six SW films?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/121234/action/topic#121234
Time: 6-Jul-2005 8:48 AM

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Originally posted by: grifter

wooooops!!!

Here's my list:

the best:
1 Darth Vader/Old Anakin (Shaw)
2 Luke
3 ObiWan "Ben" Kenobi
4 Yoda
5 Han
6 the Emperor
7 Boba Fett
8 R2
9 3PO (ep4 to 6)
10 Admiral Ackbar

i'm sorry for:Chewie, Tarkin, Leia, Jabba pre-SE, Plo Koon (one of the few cool characters from the PT)etc....

the worst:

1 the PT Anakin
2 Jar Jar....and...yes! all the Gungans!
3 "baby" Fett!
4 Jango Fett
5 Watto
6 the two headed alien during the pod race, can't remember the name....
7 3PO (from 1 to 3)
8 the battle droids (all this technology to be that dumb!!!)
9 the kids with the young Ani on Tatooine
10 Jabba and Greedo (post SE)

Post: #121231
Topic: Who are your 10 favorite and least favorite characters from all six SW films?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/121231/action/topic#121231
Time: 6-Jul-2005 8:27 AM

Post: #121198
Topic: I'm liking the prequels more and more....
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/121198/action/topic#121198
Time: 6-Jul-2005 3:24 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.

...Jerry Goldsmith.....

Post: #120929
Topic: What about you? The moment when you "divorced" from the Lucas policy about SW?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/120929/action/topic#120929
Time: 5-Jul-2005 4:29 AM

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Originally posted by: greencapt
And then the rumblings that the OT 'didn't exist' anymore started from GL and I assumed he had fallen over the proverbial edge.

yeah, i remember the commercials for the '95 THX remastered release: "for the last time in its original version!!!"
I still can't believe they mean it...

Post: #120923
Topic: What about you? The moment when you "divorced" from the Lucas policy about SW?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/120923/action/topic#120923
Time: 5-Jul-2005 4:04 AM — Edited 31-May-2020 7:24 AM

What was the moment when you “divorced” from the Lucas policy about SW?
Personally,i hate the 97 SE,i was disapointed by the prequels, but it’s the dvds that made me go:“Oh! F… you,George!! That’s it! you’ve lost a fan!!!”

Post: #120118
Topic: What killed Mace - the Lightening or the fall?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/120118/action/topic#120118
Time: 1-Jul-2005 12:23 AM

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Originally posted by: buddy-x-wing
Fett's Dead Baby,
Fett's Dead!

Leia: whose jetpack is it?

Han: it is Fett's...

Leia:who is Fett?

...

Post: #119870
Topic: Am I the only one who thinks the CGI effects look fake?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/119870/action/topic#119870
Time: 30-Jun-2005 10:06 AM

no matter how good is a CGI it'll always looks fake and more important COLD! no feelings of a real light interaction, of the grain of the film, of the "real thing"!
i don't like the CGI Yoda, it's over animated, it draws to much intention to itself ("look!!! i'm a big CGI that took months and hundreds of peoples to animate where a puppet works 100 times better!"), it 's the imperfections of the puppet that makes the OT Yoda "real" like a character, and not special effect.

Post: #119862
Topic: What killed Mace - the Lightening or the fall?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/119862/action/topic#119862
Time: 30-Jun-2005 9:48 AM

I don't know why i thought about this when Mace dies...

Post: #118502
Topic: HI-Res Poster Art
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/118502/action/topic#118502
Time: 26-Jun-2005 8:52 AM

thanks!

Post: #118298
Topic: HI-Res Poster Art
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/118298/action/topic#118298
Time: 25-Jun-2005 2:02 PM

Does anybody have this pic in good quality?

http://massassi.yavin4.com/sw_img/e6star15.jpg

Post: #118132
Topic: HI-Res Poster Art
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/118132/action/topic#118132
Time: 24-Jun-2005 3:31 PM

Originally posted by: Wer-Al_Zwowe

Originally posted by: grifter
Do you know where i can find pics and stills from the OT in good quality?

By searching on Google I found a site with some great stills. You can find them below the 2004 DVD screengrabs. Unfortunately there are some special edition only stills between them, but there is enough unchanged material to get a few good stills.

The Star Wars Trilogy on Outnow.ch

thanks! but i still cant' find some pics; like the sunset in New Hope, and the emperor sitting in his throne in Jedi.
I'm making cd covers for the soundtracks, and these two pics would be great on the back covers!

Post: #117811
Topic: HI-Res Poster Art
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/117811/action/topic#117811
Time: 23-Jun-2005 3:49 PM

Do you know where i can find pics and stills from the OT in good quality?

Post: #117809
Topic: Most Powerful Quote in all the Star Wars films.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/117809/action/topic#117809
Time: 23-Jun-2005 9:34 AM

my favorite quotes:

Luke: "i'm not afraid..."
Yoda: "you will be..."

Admiral Ackbar: "it's a trap!!!"

i love this one; watching Vader kneeling in front of the hologram, and the way he says this.....

VADER: "What is thy bidding, my master? "
EMPEROR: "There is a great disturbance in the Force."

Post: #116742
Topic: Why Direct?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/116742/action/topic#116742
Time: 20-Jun-2005 2:30 AM

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Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
I was wondering if anyone had any documented reasons (i.e. interviews) that explains why George Lucas decided to direct all three prequels. This is something that's always interested me. In the Leonard Maltin interviews on the Faces release, he asks George what would get him back in the director's chair, and George said that if he directed any of them, it would be the first one, so he could set the stage for the other directors to follow him. Now, this isn't a pro-Lucas directing thread or an anti-Lucas directing thread. I'm just curious to know if there is any documented evidence as to why he changed his mind.

maybe he realized that other directors can make better movies...

Post: #114010
Topic: what would you do if george reshot the OT with new actors & CGI so it flowed with the PT?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/114010/action/topic#114010
Time: 10-Jun-2005 11:51 PM

i know some people won't mind new changes if the OOT is released, but to me i think he should stop theses useless "improvements" it's only masturbation.

mmm... sounds like Tyler Durden!

Post: #114006
Topic: what would you do if george reshot the OT with new actors & CGI so it flowed with the PT?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/114006/action/topic#114006
Time: 10-Jun-2005 11:45 PM

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Originally posted by: Shimraa
i wonder what people would do if gorge reshot ep 4 throu 6 with new actors and CGI all so that it flowed right with the PT.

would you guys see it.

also what if he released the OOT on DVD would that change your minds.

i'll probably hire a hitman and send him to Marin County....

Post: #111526
Topic: What if Lucas directed _____ ?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/111526/action/topic#111526
Time: 3-Jun-2005 7:51 AM

in Raiders, Indy dodges a CGI sword before shooting the bad guy...(mmmm....sounds familiar!)

Post: #110703
Topic: Fett's "Death" in ROTJ
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/110703/action/topic#110703
Time: 1-Jun-2005 9:46 AM

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Originally posted by: greencapt
Quote
Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
Fett died when I watched AOTC and saw that he was an annoying little clone dude.

Vader died when I watched AOTC and ROTS and saw that he was an annoying little whiny Canadian dude.

it was a very bad move to "unmask" Boba Fett and make him a clone...it kills the mystery of the character, just like the recent origins of Wolverine.
In SW some characters need background and origins and some don't, because they exists only because of this mystery around them.

ps: don't forget, George : "less is more"

Post: #109937
Topic: What did you think the Clone Wars were gonna be?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/109937/action/topic#109937
Time: 29-May-2005 3:05 AM

Well...based on the OB1 speech in "new hope" and the preSE/PT stuff that i have, i pictured something that looks like more the designs and the feeling of "new hope".
A war in which the Republic/jedis fights rogue sith-influenced system who have a new dangerous technology: clones!
I always dreamed to see the battle between the jedis and the mandalorian warriors ( where Boba Fett gets his armor),space battles with Z95 fighters.
And where Anakin meets OB1 at the end of CloneWars, and is only 5 years younger than him.
(see the different chronology thread)

Z 95 headhunter:

Post: #109769
Topic: ROTS: Incoherence ... (attention, a little bit of spoiler inside)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/109769/action/topic#109769
Time: 27-May-2005 10:58 PM

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Originally posted by: ricarleite
For every French and Italian reader here: WHY did they re-named the characters in Star Wars? Did they sound like curse words?

In the portuguese version, Dooku is renamed Dookan (although he is referenced as Dooku on Clone Wars sometimes), and Sifo-Dyas was renamed to Zaifo-Vias, because both names sounded similar to curse words. Also, Panaka was not renamed, but he souds like "panaca", which means something like "jerk", "stupid", "idiot".

it was common at the time to "frenchise" the names; exemples in "new hope" novelization:
Han = Yan
Luke = Luc
Chewbacca = Chiktabba
Millenium Falcon = Millenium Condor
Darth Vader = Dark Vador (this being so popular in France stayed: Darth Maul = Dark Maul, same for Tyrannus, and Sidious)

but by the time of Empire Chewie gets his true name, the falcon is called "the falcon", but the names didn't changed for 3PO and R2 (except now 3PO is called "3PO" in the PT and "6PO" in the OT)