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Post
#1190941
Topic
The Last Jedi: Official Review and Opinions Thread ** SPOILERS **
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1190941/action/topic#1190941
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adywan said:

You only have to look around places like facebook to see how the RT audience scores have been manipulated. Campaigns were started before the film even come out to give it negative reviews. Not just star wars pages either. 99% of the time, RT was the place they aimed for. After the film came out it got even worse. The amount of posts i had to delete on my page where people had posted links to these type of campaigns was astounding. They even added getting people to upvote the prequels on RT to make TLJ score look even worse. Just check out the ROTS reviews and see just how many new ones have suddenly appeared since TLJ.

There’s a real dark side to the Star Wars fandom and it came out in force after TLJ. The amount of the so called reviews and the negative comments/ attacks on social media that point their hatred for it towards the fact that there is more diversity, more women taking the lead roles, Disney is pandering to the SJW’s etc is disgusting.

On here too, unfortunately. There is a list of 15/20 or so new troll/wum banned accounts who came on here spreading hate and/or prejudice (often with making incorrect factual claims re the film - to the point you start to question if they actually watched it or not) - and that’s before getting into content with the ‘political’ aspects of SJWs, diversity, ‘true’ fans, & insights into Kathleen Kennedy’s secret feminist agenda, and other derogatory terms used for characters or people behind the camera.

And that’s all before addressing the film itself.

Thankfully most people on here likely never saw them (the troll/wum account content) - it was quite a busy time for the mods (probably like yourself on your twitter/facebook platforms) - deleting them was the right thing to do, of course - yet looking back at the thread apart from a few remnant troll posts - it’s like it never happened; they don’t exist.

Though of course, they do exist - and they’ll likely be back for Episode IX - maybe even for Solo…
 

Away from here, the rise of click-bait videos - with use of repeated key words to attract the hits/views - regardless of the content therein (videos / interviews / words taken out of context etc)… has upped the ante to new levels. Even those few who get called out enough to ‘apologise’ for their ‘inaccuracies’ seemingly do a short retraction/apology and then carry on as before, regardless (a bit like how UK papers print retractions and apologies in a 1 inch column - despite having done a multi-page spread spreading the ‘story’ previously).

Post
#1190342
Topic
PC Specs
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1190342/action/topic#1190342
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Sony VAIO PCG-807k laptop, Windows 2000, 14.1" screen, Intel Pentium 3 650mhz, 128mb ram (though I cheekily upgraded this to 192mb - that’ll teach them), a 12gb HD, an 8mb ATI graphics card, and it plays DVD discs! It even came with Office 2000 - for free.

It has 2 usb ports people - and it’s own detachable PCMCIA wireless card too - we are through the looking glass here…

 

Take that, Handman - Pentium III is where it’s at! Rad!

😉

Post
#1190335
Topic
Episode VIII : The Last Jedi - Discussion * <strong><em>SPOILER THREAD</em></strong> *
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1190335/action/topic#1190335
Time

‘Star Wars director Rian Johnson: I felt the force of fans’ fury with Last Jedi’…

https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/star-wars-director-rian-johnson-i-felt-the-force-of-fans-fury-with-last-jedi-a3800261.html

^ and some death threats too - though thankfully a lot more positive feedback amongst that.

Post
#1189960
Topic
Random Thoughts
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1189960/action/topic#1189960
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Our likely best hope of a professionally done restoration for a 4K theatrical version of the Original Trilogy probably lies here - with poita’s superb The Original Trilogy restored from 35mm prints ongoing project.

Solely as a member here, I’d recommend anyone & everyone to have a look through the above thread, to contribute to help bring about something that many of us here, if not near-on all of us on this site, want to see come to fruition.

 

(just a random thought, there…)

 

Post
#1189948
Topic
Revenge of the Sith (Compelete voiceover/New Dub edit) (* unfinished project *)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1189948/action/topic#1189948
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paja mate - Haqz hasn’t been here on the site for a couple of months - and is likely still busy going on his last post. Feel free to send him a PM to ask how he’s doing on the project etc - though am sure he’ll post something up here when he can.

It’s a cool project - like you am looking forward to seeing this 😃

Post
#1189943
Topic
I might have a way to get the OUT released.
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1189943/action/topic#1189943
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^ or…

Meanwhile, our likely best hope of a professionally done restoration for a 4K theatrical version of the Original Trilogy probably lies here - with poita’s superb The Original Trilogy restored from 35mm prints ongoing project.

Solely as a member here, I’d recommend anyone & everyone to have a look through the above thread, to contribute to help bring about something that many of us here, if not near-on all of us on this site, want to see come to fruition.

 

and we also save Bobson Dugnutt too 😉

 

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#1189904
Topic
The Last Jedi: Official Review and Opinions Thread ** SPOILERS **
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1189904/action/topic#1189904
Time

^ I have a similar feeling that they’d pull something like this if they were to ever release the OOT.

 

 

Meanwhile, our likely best hope of a professionally done restoration for a 4K theatrical version of the Original Trilogy probably lies here - with poita’s superb The Original Trilogy restored from 35mm prints ongoing project.

Solely as a member here, I’d recommend anyone & everyone to have a look through the above thread, to contribute to help bring about something that many of us here, if not near-on all of us on this site, want to see come to fruition.

 

Post
#1189864
Topic
Episode VIII : The Last Jedi - Discussion * <strong><em>SPOILER THREAD</em></strong> *
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1189864/action/topic#1189864
Time

^ Thought they were insightful and gave a good feeling for what they were going with and just how certain scenes are selected and then shot. Also, the work that goes into them - some very talented people there behind the scenes - and all the stuff goes into making the film that never actually makes it to screen (designs, concepts, models, scenes etc).

Really enjoyed the Director & The Jedi & the Balance Of The Force content.

 

 

 

‘Mark Hamill, Rian Johnson on ‘Star Wars’ haters and critics in the age of social media’… (interview & video)

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/29/entertainment/star-wars-last-jedi-rian-johnson-mark-hamill/index.html