oojason

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you - I thought I’d already replied - doh!

This is the somewhat old request thread, here:-

https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/The-Custom-DVD-Cover-Request-Thread/id/3808/page/1

Though please fee free to create a new request thread, if you wish mate.

IlMonco said:

Anybody got some good german covers of ANH “Krieg der Sterne”, ESB “Das Imperium schlägt zurück” and ROTJ “Rückkehr der Jedi-Ritter”?

I’d much prefer the original theatrical posters and fonts as a cover and spine with maybe just the plot and some harmy info on the back, but I’ll look into anything suggested. 😃

Also: Especially leaflets in german would be AMAZING!

I know this is mainly an english speaking board, but I’ve noticed some german users anyway.
Thanks in advance for the help!

This thread may be of interest mate?:-

https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/GERMAN-Krieg-der-Sterne-Despecialized-LogoArt-ClearArt-CDArt-Cover-Banner-Thumb/id/48018

^ it may be also be worth sending a PM to to see if he still has any of the covers he could send you?
 

Also, our members in the German preservation threads for Harmy’s Despecialized will hopefulyl be able to help too:-

https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Krieg-der-Sterne-Despecialized-Edition-27-German/id/15914

https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Das-Imperium-schlagt-zuruck-Despecialized-Edition-21-German/id/47944

https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Die-Ruckkehr-der-Jedi-Ritter-Despecialized-Edition-25-German/id/48573
 

TK-949, also has a German set, here - https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Star-Wars-DVD-Covers/id/741/page/173#660070

Good luck - I hope you find something that you’ll like mate.

darthrush said:

DrDre said:

yotsuya said:

DrDre said:

SilverWook said:

I’m almost at the point where I will have no use for the community at all. I hope that guy gets paid by the word.

I’m not even sure that guy is part of the community. He seems to be writing about film in general, but I share his view, that Star Wars has become a franchise, that doesn’t go forward, because it’s obsessed with looking in the rearview mirror.

Funny, I thought TLJ moved to new territory and broke the pattern. And Solo should be fun, not epicly serious.

I disagree. An Empire vs rebels/new hope vs fallen Jedi apprentice replay is not my interpretation of breaking new ground. TLJ’s calculated story twists don’t alter the fact, that it still shares a lot of narrative and visual similarities with TESB and ROTJ. It’s less derivative than TFA, but the fact that TLJ is seen by many as moving to new territory, imo proves that Star Wars has become so limited in scope, that the slightest deviation from the mold is now seen as visionary, and creative.

I seriously wonder if we will ever get a Star Wars film, that isn’t in some way a remix of Lucas’ greatest hits. What’s wrong with just telling a story about a new smuggler type character (or any other new character for that matter) set in the Star Wars universe, where we don’t know where all the characters end up? How about getting people to view your film simply on the merit of telling a good original story with good original characters, rather than relying on the classic characters, story tropes, nostalgia, and fan service to draw people in for another deja vu experience.

I actually really agree with you here. TLJ does take more risks than TFA, but it also could have taken some real chances that would have really shaken up the SW universe.

Firstly, after TFA, with Starkiller base destroyed, and the Republic gone, there was a vacuum of power that could be explored by Johnson in whatever way he saw fit. JJ gets a lot of criticism for writing RJ into a corner but the political situation was wide open. Johnson could have literally gone any direction with the overall story but instead went in such a boring and safe direction. The First Order now just rules over basically the entire galaxy, the Resistance is small and on the run the entire movie, and RJ basically just doubled down on the Rebels.V.Empire concept.

Secondly, RJ still had a second chance to really turn the story around with Kylo and Rey. Imagine if Rey accepted Kylo’s call to join him? Both the light side user and dark side user in the sequel trilogy, truly joining forces to eradicate what came before and start something entirely new?

Overall, RJ took a few risks but didn’t go nearly far enough to get away from remixing elements of other SW movies. I will admit that killing off Snoke was a great surprise and a really good decision by RJ that did something new with Star Wars.

I thought I was the Solo thread for a while - yet no, of course members here have no other threads to discuss TLJ/TFA and the choices of the respective directors & writers in.

DrDre said:

oojason said:

DrDre said:

yotsuya said:

DrDre said:

SilverWook said:

I’m almost at the point where I will have no use for the community at all. I hope that guy gets paid by the word.

I’m not even sure that guy is part of the community. He seems to be writing about film in general, but I share his view, that Star Wars has become a franchise, that doesn’t go forward, because it’s obsessed with looking in the rearview mirror.

Funny, I thought TLJ moved to new territory and broke the pattern. And Solo should be fun, not epicly serious.

I seriously wonder if we will ever get a Star Wars film, that isn’t in some way a remix of Lucas’ greatest hits. What’s wrong with just telling a story about a new smuggler type character (or any other new character for that matter) set in the Star Wars universe, where we don’t know where all the characters end up? How about getting people to view your film simply on the merit of telling a good original story with good original characters, rather than relying on the classic characters, story tropes, nostalgia, and fan service to draw people in for another deja vu experience.

Well, this is the just 2nd Standalone film so far - and it seems Lucasfilm/Disney will be making more, so I’m not questioning why they haven’t made a ‘wholly new’ Star Wars film yet. I didn’t know most of the R1 characters, and I didn’t know most of the Solo characters either - and was quite happy to let the story tell me about them.

Yes, but the problem is, that except for Qi’Ra these new characters have no future, because they’re either killed in the film, or have been killed in other media. As such these new characters don’t stand on their own, but were created in the service of expanding the canon of classic characters (Solo -> Han & Chewie) or stories (RO -> ANH). In many ways they are equivalent to the redshirts in Star Trek - the original series:

Solo continues the trend of RO, where a good villain in the form of Krennic is ultimately the warmup act for Tarkin & Vader. In Solo Dryden Vos, another good villain played by a good actor who might have had a bright future, turns out to be the warmup act for another legacy character Maul, who we know is going to die at the hands of Obi-Wan, meaning he’s another dead end.

How can Solo continue ‘the trend’ of R1 - where the trend is one film previously?

I see where you’re going in trying to establish a pattern - though that pattern has been just the two films - like your complaints that we’re not getting new stories or characters… yet we are, and have. Now you point out some characters will die - will it’s kind of the nature of the film and the universe they are set in (especially R1) - some characters will die, some will live - all part of the emotional aspect of the story. The same would likely happen if set in a different era or story. And besides, not everyone died in Solo; I’d like to see more Enfys Nest and her crew - those few bands of people coming together… more Maul / Crimson stuff too - and to be honest if the films want to re-write/ignore the events of Rebels then they should.

2 standalone films in, 2 new separate trilogies to come, likely more standalone films to come, a tv series filling in between events of ROTJ and TFA (?) - seems strange to ask for new stories and characters - when they are in fact coming already.
 

Anyway back to Solo - what aspects did you enjoy about it, Dre?

DominicCobb said:

Ryan-SWI said:

DominicCobb said:

flop is a word used to loosely these days

I’d say that considering the film is now only projected to make 450 mill worldwide max, yeah, that’d be a pretty apt definition of the word flop.

If that ends up the case I might be inclined to agree. But as it stands I don’t think these things should be declared immediately.

Indeed, the film hasn’t been out a week yet (well, nearly a week).

DrDre said:

yotsuya said:

DrDre said:

SilverWook said:

I’m almost at the point where I will have no use for the community at all. I hope that guy gets paid by the word.

I’m not even sure that guy is part of the community. He seems to be writing about film in general, but I share his view, that Star Wars has become a franchise, that doesn’t go forward, because it’s obsessed with looking in the rearview mirror.

Funny, I thought TLJ moved to new territory and broke the pattern. And Solo should be fun, not epicly serious.

I seriously wonder if we will ever get a Star Wars film, that isn’t in some way a remix of Lucas’ greatest hits. What’s wrong with just telling a story about a new smuggler type character (or any other new character for that matter) set in the Star Wars universe, where we don’t know where all the characters end up? How about getting people to view your film simply on the merit of telling a good original story with good original characters, rather than relying on the classic characters, story tropes, nostalgia, and fan service to draw people in for another deja vu experience.

Well, this is the just 2nd Standalone film so far - and it seems Lucasfilm/Disney will be making more, so I’m not questioning why they haven’t made a ‘wholly new’ Star Wars film yet. I didn’t know most of the R1 characters, and I didn’t know most of the Solo characters either - and was quite happy to let the story tell me about them.

There are two new Star Wars trilogies in the pipeline - which may be set past the events of the Sequel Trilogy, or may fill in in the gaps between the OT and ST, again maybe with new characters - who knows - as yet?

I’m patient enough to wait until we have a couple more releases before all new characters and stories after 2 films (and understand why the 2 standalone films covered familiar ground before hopefully branching out into fresh ground - though I also wouldn’t mind a Kenobi film or a Jedi Purge film before newer stories are released - or that of the long past (perhaps KOTOR timeline-ish).

Though again, this topic is probably best suited to a more relevant thread outside of this, the ‘Solo - review and opinion’ thread.

‘Atari VCS throwback console attracts $2m in pre-orders’…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-44311478

On the back of the NES-Mini, SNES-Mini and forthcoming N64-Mini ‘reboots’ doing well I hope the Atari release also is a hit (and the new online play mode could be fun too).

Nostalgia overload 😃
 

Anyone reckon they’ll fix that ET game for this? 😉

^ not one for the footballing purist that Super Cup game 😉

(Marseille vs Liverpool would have made for a better spectacle 😃)

Zidane steps down as Real Madrid manager - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44315700

My nephews love the stuff - and are just at the age where they are building their own ships, houses and bases with lego bricks - rather than just sticking to the instructions.

Bloody expensive though. Also quite funny to see all the middle aged men (myself included) in the Lego stores looking at all the lego goodness - with their kids looking on - knowing they won’t get a chance to get near them as their dads take over and build it all 😃

Haven’t seen the Atlantis film, paja (though thoroughly enjoyed the 2014 Lego movie), is it worth a watch?

^ I saw a bit of France vs Ireland (towards the end - when it was really lashing down with rain! 😃) - the depth of the French squad looks superb, and easily brushed aside Ireland who only really offered the occasional counter-attack and set-pieces -though a good warm-up vs a defencive minded side.
 

Am off to se Brazil vs Croatia this Sunday in a pre-World Cup match - may be worth putting a couple of £ on Croatia to do well in Russia - and they plays some decent attractive footy with some quality players.

The bookies odds for winning the World Cup (as of today)…

Brazil & Germany both at 9/2, Spain & France at 6/1, Argentina 10/1, Belgium 12/1, England 16/1 (likely because of the amount of bets the English put on them rather than odds of actually winning it), Portugal 28/1, Croatia 33/1, Uruguay & Colombia at 33/1, Russia at 40/1, Poland 80/1, Denmark 100/1, Egypt, Senegal & Serbia at 250/1, Iceland 400/1, Australia at 750/1, with Saudi Arabia at 2000/1.

Judge said:

bromeo said:

Seems like many people voted with their dollars this weekend. I’ve read some opinions saying that they won’t be watching any Star Wars in the cinema if Kennedy remains in the cockpit. Would things really get better if… let’s say, Filoni replaced her?

Current US box office: $103,016,812

Current worldwide: $172,697,257

(Apologies if there is a box office discussion elsewhere…)

No, I don’t think Dave Filoni is the right man for the job. Kevin Feige on the other hand…

oojason said:

bromeo said:

Seems like many people voted with their dollars this weekend. I’ve read some opinions saying that they won’t be watching any Star Wars in the cinema if Kennedy remains in the cockpit. Would things really get better if… let’s say, Filoni replaced her?

Current US box office: $103,016,812

Current worldwide: $172,697,257

(Apologies if there is a box office discussion elsewhere…)

Discussions of Filoni, Kennedy, Disney, Lucas, the management - and any perceived shortcomings of them etc - are probably best suited to a more relevant thread than this, the ‘Solo review and opinion’ thread - which is more suited to discussing the film itself.

bromeo said:

Seems like many people voted with their dollars this weekend. I’ve read some opinions saying that they won’t be watching any Star Wars in the cinema if Kennedy remains in the cockpit. Would things really get better if… let’s say, Filoni replaced her?

Current US box office: $103,016,812

Current worldwide: $172,697,257

(Apologies if there is a box office discussion elsewhere…)

There is a decent thread here on that subject mate - ‘Star Wars at box office’ which may be of interest?

Discussions of Filoni, Kennedy, Disney, Lucas, the management - and any perceived shortcomings of them etc - are probably best suited to a more relevant thread than this, the ‘Solo review and opinion’ thread - which is more suited to discussing the film itself.

I’d like to see tougher sentences for mime artists and ventriloquists

Lego Star Wars II (The Original Trilogy) was a blast on the GameCube (yeah, I admit to owning one a long time ago! 😉)
 

A really enjoyable and fun pick-up-and-play game - with some good humour in there, easy playability and could play for a quick 10 minutes or go for a full hour or so before getting bored (or sidetracked with real life!)

Makes me almost want to go out and buy one again - almost…

A top idea for a thread, DZ-330 👍

Some other Lego Star Wars threads from around the OriginalTrilogy•com…

 
• A thread for the Lego Star Wars films, specials, series, shorts, and curiosities… (2018 thread)
• Lego Star Wars: ‘All Stars’ (2018 Animated Short TV Series)
• Lego Star Wars: Droid Tales (2015 thread)
• Lego Star Wars: Revenge of the Brick Mini-Movie (2007 thread)
• Lego Star Wars: Mini Movies (animated series of shorts from across the GFFA)
• ‘Lego Star Wars: Holiday Special’ - a general discussion thread (17th November, 2020)
• ‘Lego Star Wars: Terrifying Tales’ - The Halloween Special (1st October, 2021)
• ‘Lego Star Wars: Summer Vacation’ - thread to be created? (2022) : SW.com page : IMDB page : Wookieepedia page
• Lego Star Wars releases (IMDB pages) - Yoda Chronicles : Droid Tales : Freemaker Adventures : All Stars

• The Official LEGO Star Wars Discussion and Review Thread - games, books, lego sets etc
• The ‘Lego Star Wars’ series of games… - Lego video games info post; in the ‘EU Discussion’ forum
• A thread for the Lego Star Wars films, specials, series, shorts, and curiosities…
 

underworld - sock of previously banned member.

Ronster, you make some interesting points - though as others have said previously… perhaps it is better to make them in a new and separate thread, so you and interested parties can continue in there.

canofhumdingers said:

TV’s Frink said:

L3 was obnoxious? Huh, that’s a weird interpretation.

Yeah, I wouldn’t have expected you to understand or agree with that opinion because (and I mean no personal offense by this) you kinda have a similar personality.

Mate, please keep any personal comments about fellow members out of the thread - thank you.

Number 4 for me - has an intriguing ‘show me more’ vibe to it.

^ Brilliant 😃

darthrush said:

Here is another try at the “Skywalker Lives” ending which finishes on the wide shot of the binary sunset. In my opinion, I like the musical timing of the first version better but like the ending shot of this second version better. I’d love to hear everyone’s thoughts.

https://vimeo.com/272150746

Whilst I don’t agree with the premise of keeping him alive - I think you knocked it out of the park there - really well done. The emotions and timing of the shots and the scene overall - really immersive and professional.

I would say it seems the clouds have changed direction from appearing on 14s (left to right), to appearing on 29s (right to left), and disappeared quite quickly before the shot on 36s (maybe another shot inserted to give an impression of long time passing there?)

Still, impressive stuff darthrush 😃

SPOILERS for S2xE06…

Wow. Bringing him back was always a possibility - yet that was very nicely done. Poor Maeve - she finally found what she’s looking for and then… that. Also enjoyed that Teddy may be have been ‘fixed’ a little too well. The opening scene too - 💫

So much occurring, and all of it so immersive.

trimboNZ said:

oojason said:

trimboNZ said:

TV’s Frink said:

L3 was obnoxious? Huh, that’s a weird interpretation.

A caricature of modern SJW’s to whom the term obnoxious does easily apply.

How so? Please explain this, and the difference between that and your ‘droid believed in a worthy cause (freedom from slavery)’ statement.

Sorry if I’ve upset anyone.

To be clear, I’m not talking about equal rights campaigners. I mean people who actively seek out things to be offended about, then complain about them loudly and persistently.

You don’t have those?

No worries (and you haven’t upset me) - am just asking what the difference is between the two? - As in equal rights campaigners will complain loud and persistently to get their point across or highlight or promote their cause - how do they differ (in being recognised) from those who seek out things to be offended about?

As it seems in the film she was only highlighting the droid rights/equality issue, yes?

trimboNZ said:

TV’s Frink said:

L3 was obnoxious? Huh, that’s a weird interpretation.

A caricature of modern SJW’s to whom the term obnoxious does easily apply.

How so? Please explain this, and the difference between that and your ‘droid believed in a worthy cause (freedom from slavery)’ statement.

‘‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ Writer Reveals Why Tag and Bink Scene Was Cut’…

http://comicbook.com/starwars/2018/05/26/solo-a-star-wars-story-deleted-scene-tag-and-bink/

(with direct quotes from Jonathan Kasdan)