oojason

‘Clive James: Australian broadcaster and author dies aged 80’:-

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-50578512

Anybody watched the 2019 BBC mini-series of ‘The War of the Worlds’?

Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-yas0yPbLU

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8001226

Only 3 episodes at 55 minutes each - and some quite mixed reviews. May have to get around to watching this…
 

‘John Boyega Admits His ‘Rise of Skywalker’ Script Ended Up on eBay’:-

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/john-boyega-fesses-up-ebay-star-wars-rise-skywalker-script-listing-1258257

or the GMA video interview itself - https://twitter.com/GMA/status/1199689409446039552

(a few more videos of John Boyega’s GMA appearance on there too - https://twitter.com/GMA)

The Mandalorian ‘Yoda Baby’ merchandise released…

https://www.starwars.com/news/the-child-merch-from-the-mandalorian-is-here
 

Quite pleasing to know they held off on the release of merchandise for the character… to maintain the surprise of it being in the show… nice one 😃

Intriguing that the article refers to Yoda Baby as ‘The Child’ - and nothing else is given away on him/her…

‘Wait — Why Can’t I Buy a Baby Yoda Toy from ‘The Mandalorian’?’:-

https://collider.com/are-there-baby-yoda-toys

Jon Favreau: "I have to thank Disney and Lucasfilm, because the way the cat usually gets out of the bag with that stuff is merchandising and toy catalogs and things like that. So they really back us up. We really wanted to have it be that you had to watch it yourself, so that every time you watch the show, there are new twists and secrets that come out. That requires a lot of restraint from the people who are footing the bill, saying they’re gonna hold back on certain things so that the public doesn’t know ahead of time. Part of that was holding back on some of the merchandise and holding back on some of the characters.”

Runtimes for the actual screentime of each episode so far (without pre titles & logos, ‘last week on The Mandalorian’ type reminders, and the end credits):-

1. Chapter One - 35m 46s
2. The Child - 27m 01s
3. The Sin - 31m 00s
4. Sanctuary - 35m 04s
5. The Gunslinger - 29m 10s
6. The Prisoner - 37m 35s
7. The Reckoning - 34m 19s
8. Redemption - 42m 03s

‘Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker TV Spot Trailers 10 - 11’:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR13lGA9wdU

^ a nice bit of humour in TV Spot 10… 😃

BranBillington said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UcZPCgB4D0

check out my old cringe worthy video on the Despecialized edition.

Nothing cringe-worthy about that mate - a very nicely done video, and fair play to you for putting all the links & info in there as well 😃

Z6PO said:

35 years…

Damn… must be getting old 😉

Some of the poster artwork for these two Ewok films weren’t bad at all…
 

The blurb for both ‘Caravan Of Courage’ and ‘Battle For Endor’ (as taken from the official 2004 Double Feature DVD release)…

Caravan Of Courage: ‘In Caravan Of Courage, the Towani family are separated when their shuttlecraft crashes on Endor. While the parents are soon captured by the giant known as Gorax, and Mace and Cindel, the son and daughter, are missing. When the Ewoks discover the missing Towani children in the remnants of the shuttlecraft, it becomes clear that the children must establish trust with them in order to embark on an adventure to rescue their parents.’

Battle For Endor: ‘In The Battle For Endor, an army of Marauders, led by King Terak and the witch Charal, attack the Ewok village. Cindel and Wicket escape into the forest, where they meet Teek and Noa. They must befriend Noa in order to team up to defeat the Marauders.’

According to https://on-this-day.com/cgi-bin/otd/starwarsotd.pl 25 35 years ago to the day as Z6PO point out below… 😃
 

1984 - ‘The Ewok Adventure’ (aka Caravan Of Courage) aired as The ABC Sunday Night Movie.

‘The Ewok Adventure trailer’ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HenB3gt6SAY

Proteus7 said:

Neglify said:

1. Aliens ***** - Perhaps the most perfect sequel.
2. Alien ***** - #2 gets the edge because it’s faster and more intense, but the first one is more brilliant.
3. Alien vs Predator ***1/2 - What can I say, I liked it.
4. Alien 3 ** - I should rewatch it as it’s been a long time since I saw it and I don’t know if I ever actually watched the “Special Edition”.
5. Alien: Resurrection ** - I highly highly recommend TMBTM’s fanedit “Alien-Ate”.
6. AvP Requiem ** - So bad I barely remember it.
7. Prometheus ** - I wish I barely remembered it.

Where may one view this “Alien-Ate?”

Information on TMBTM’s Alien-Ate Edit can be found at FanEdit - https://ifdb.fanedit.org/alien-ate

and TMBTM also has a great website, here - http://tmbtm-fanedits.blogspot.com

It may be worth PMing / contacting him to see how this Edit can be obtained.

Good luck with it.

Vladius said:

oojason said:

EddieDean said:

Sorry if I’ve not been up with recent discussions, but what was broken about Holdo’s hair being purple?

Nothing mate.

Though some may want to tackle it as a technical challenge / exercise (apparently it is quite a difficult, labour-intensive task to to do - and get right).

Others don’t like the Holdo character and wish to make changes to her.

An aesthetic choice - some seemingly don’t like (through to some not being able to stand) people having purple hair in their Star Wars space opera / fantasy films.

A few have problems that the purple hair meant that the Holdo character was a lesbian; an oft-mentioned comment when making racist, sexist, homophobic or other derogatory comments on other female characters in the Sequels too.

I like to think most on here doing this change for Edits see it as an aesthetic choice or a technical exercise / challenge…

I think it’s really dishonest to reduce anyone who doesn’t like The Last Jedi to a bunch of politically motivated epithets like “racist,” “sexist,” “homophobic,” etc.

I suggest you read my post again - because I am not sure how you claim to that conclusion based on what I wrote.

‘Doctor Who: Series 12 Trailer’:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkEB0ysv7sM

‘Doctor Who. Coming early 2020.’

‘All The Doctor’s Regenerations (UPDATED) | Doctor Who’:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcggi9kXiaY

‘George Lucas Himself Gave Greedo the Last Word in Controversial New Star Wars Edit’:-

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/11/greedo-han-solo-star-wars-edit

‘Greedo Shoots First, Take 4: Maclunkey’ (a study article on the whole Maclunkey scene, by doubleofive):-

https://starwarsviscomp.wordpress.com/2019/11/23/maclunkey

Where can I buy a ‘Sebulba said #Maclunkey first’ t-shirt? 😉
 

Though this may suffice…

doubleofive’s cracking breakdown on the Maclunkey…
 

‘Greedo Shoots First, Take 4: Maclunkey’:-

https://starwarsviscomp.wordpress.com/2019/11/23/maclunkey

‘George Lucas Himself Gave Greedo the Last Word in Controversial New Star Wars Edit’:-

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/11/greedo-han-solo-star-wars-edit - by Anthony Breznican (on 12th November, 2020)
 

‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker | “Fate” TV Spot’:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qphC39PJf4 at the Star Wars youtube channel; 30 seconds long, with some new footage.
 

Hal 9000 said:

Kill Red Leader in Rogue One.

And replace him with Jar Jar for the sequel.

Jmarsh2001 said:

So this happened in what, 2016. Its still not available at any source that the common non 12yo person has time to try to access?! I haven’t been on myspleen since…2007? 08? When all of these pussy repositories went private in the late oughts what did it accomplish? Nothing but closing off access because I never ran into too many normies there to begin with. If THEY want them shut down they will be shut down. You don’t think that all of the posts across the internet saying what copyrighted property was available where is enough to get these things destroyed? I don’t belong to any private trackers so how do I even attempt to sign up to blutopia etc. This is all very shortsighted. Frankly these things should be spread across the web so they have a better chance of surviving the inevitable destruction of these dinosaur sites. There are multiple scans of Song of the South on internet archive for crying out loud. Man up zoomer-boomer internet, the only ppl that fall into these cliques on the internet are 12/55yos. Even this site does the thing where “oh, we don’t post things that these companies can use to take us down” but…you allow ppl to collect money to scan films to distribute them? You know ppl have been caught up in a lot of legal problems for less than that right? Why can’t the scan just have a nice searchable name and file size attached to it and ppl can find them where they may. Its 4 years later and this shit is still unfindable. Very sad, boomers.

Strange… especially as looking through this thread members on here have helped fellow members acquire this Edit - and also even pointing out it is available publicly on usenet. So not quite ‘unfindable’.

It seems you did not try PM’ing the thread creator / Editor to see what options there are on how to acquire this?

Nor did you read the Welcome to the OT.com; Introduce yourself in here thread - where a lot of useful info and helpful links are located.
 

Though you did fancy having a rant instead…

And alienating the helpful members on here who would have likely provided you with assistance in finding this Edit… probably to the point your rant may have made them think twice about doing so.
 

Strange that these ‘dinosaur sites’ and ‘pussy repositories’ have been around so long - and are still going strength to strength…
 

Good luck on your lengthy quest in finding and acquiring the Edit - and whatever ‘normies’ are too.
 

EddieDean said:

Sorry if I’ve not been up with recent discussions, but what was broken about Holdo’s hair being purple?

Nothing mate.

Though some may want to tackle it as a technical challenge / exercise (apparently it is quite a difficult, labour-intensive task to to do - and get right).

Others don’t like the Holdo character and wish to make changes to her.

An aesthetic choice - some seemingly don’t like (through to some not being able to stand) people having purple hair in their Star Wars space opera / fantasy films.

A few have problems that the purple hair meant that the Holdo character was a lesbian; an oft-mentioned comment when making racist, sexist, homophobic or other derogatory comments on other female characters in the Sequels too.

I like to think most on here doing this change for Edits see it as an aesthetic choice or a technical exercise / challenge…

Hi mate - there are a few preservation projects for the theatrical version of The Phantom Menace on here.
 

Many can be found in the An Index Thread (and more) for Star Wars Preservations thread…

in the Star Wars Preservations (non-Original Trilogy) - from any source (Prequels, Sequels, Beyond the Main Saga, Deleted Scenes, Misc) section.
 

Good luck with it 😃
 

Some beautiful artwork up on the official Mandalorian twitter page - https://twitter.com/themandalorian
 

ChainsawAsh said:

dgraham414 said:

New poster from Germany (I think). It looks painted which looks really pretty!

Ooooooh - does anyone have this in higher res? I can’t find it anywhere. Definitely the one that’s going to be used on my custom BR cover if I can find it in decent quality.

It is also one of the TROS IMAX posters mate - so should be more available in a higher res (and in English), soon:-

https://milnersblog.com/2019/11/21/new-star-wars-the-rise-of-skywalker-posters-and-banners

theprequelsrule said:

oojason said:

Eva Green

Not only did she steal scenes in Penny Dreadful - she stole the whole show.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1200692/

You show much better taste here.

My taste is fine, thanks. I find there is usually more to finding something beautiful than just the physical or ‘superficial’. YMMV.

oojason said:

^ two of the more beautiful people in the thread - for me anyway.

Fiona Hill - with a beautiful northern accent still, too.

Vultural said:

I don’t mean to derail, and this may be answered elsewhere, so bear with me.
Does buying the digital copy equate with DVD purchase?

Yes mate, it does - Fan Edit / Preservation Forum Rules and FAQ (See Number 6) 😃

ZkinandBonez said:

oojason said:

screams in the void said:

this guy mentions the forums here …is he a member here ?..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg6wNw_uRu4

Huh - I wonder who that is… cool video 😃

The RetroBlasting youtube channel… looks a good watch!
 

Their Kenner SW videos are really fun, especially the “Star Wars follies” series.

They made a really good video recently talking about how the Spitfire inspired the X-Wing;
https://youtu.be/eKeZxupUSaA

Ireland is great from the sky - though better whilst in a good cozy pub - before finding your way to the next one, and then the next… 😉

Edit: was this the X Wing inspired by the Spitfire video, mate?:-

The Spitfire: History’s Real X-Wing Fighter – Star Wars Meets World War II

^ Absolute cracker of a video - and quite an emotional watch too.