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Post: #45219
Topic: Evil Empire...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/45219/action/topic#45219
Time: 22-Apr-2004 5:40 AM

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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Well. If they stand in America's way.
The lives of our people are more important than France's money deals.

Sorry if I offend anyone, but could you guys answer me this:

* Why can a solider kill women and children in a foreign country with no problems (My Lai massacre), and when he comes back home, if he snaps and kill someone, he's sentenced to death?

* Why in america dosen't a vote count as a VOTE? Why one person is not equal as one vote?

* Why are there so many countries interested in reconstruting Iraq with their own money (Iraq's oil)? Why was Halliburton in charge of reconstructing Kwait after the gulf war?

* Why did the CIA support and financed military dictatorships in south america (including Brazil), that resulted in debts and in the killing of thousands of innocent people? Why did the CIA financed the Al Qaida when the soviets invaded Afeghanistan?

* Why does mr. Bush refuses to talk about his business conection with the Bin Laden family back in the 70s and 80s?

* What happened to Enron?

* Who profits from war?

I could go on and on...

Peace dudes, its the only way. We gotta educate our children to live in peace, not in a permanent war.

(edited: corrected the closing quote tag)

Post: #45184
Topic: THX-1138 on DVD, please...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/45184/action/topic#45184
Time: 22-Apr-2004 4:48 AM

Oh, uh... never mind then.

Post: #45162
Topic: THX-1138 on DVD, please...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/45162/action/topic#45162
Time: 22-Apr-2004 3:19 AM

THX-1138. I never saw that movie - it was never released over here - and I'd love to see this early, different sci-fi aproach by GL. There's this petition here, http://www.PetitionOnline.com/THXDVD/, I think what they ask is ok... What do you guys think?

Post: #45161
Topic: King Kong a la Peter Jackson
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/45161/action/topic#45161
Time: 22-Apr-2004 3:15 AM

King Kong, eh? À la Star Wars.

"We have discovered a weak point on King Kong. You must shoot directly into his mouth. The target is 2 meters long."
"Thats impossible even for a computer."

The planes fly around KK:

"This is red 2, I'm going in..."
"Copy that red 2."
"Almost there... almost there... fire!"
"Did you hit it?"
"No, negative, he closed his mouth..."

Post: #45047
Topic: Plot holes in the SW saga
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/45047/action/topic#45047
Time: 21-Apr-2004 5:03 PM

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Originally posted by: Samatar
"I wouldn't say alternate universe, it says "a galaxy far, far away", leading me to believe that the notion of the movies is Star Wars is out there in space, somewhere."

That was sort of my point... the fact that this story wasn't set in another dimension, but in our universe, made it confusing.

Altough every movie states, in its begining, that this story happened a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away; one must ask: far away from who? From us? And how long ago did this happen? I still belive it's set in an hipothetical alternative universe (like, it dosent matter where it happened, but it surely wasnt here).

Post: #45042
Topic: Has anyone used Carrie's Official Chat Room? Yet.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/45042/action/topic#45042
Time: 21-Apr-2004 4:16 PM

If there's any celebrity I'd like to talk to, is Hugo Weavin, so I could make him angry:

"Hey Mr. Weavin, please, say 'Mr Anderson'..."
"No."
"Oh please."
"I said no."
"C'mon, say it, dammit!! I won't give your wallet back until you do."
"*sigh*... Mr. Anderson..."
"Yay!! Ok now say something from lord of the rings."

Post: #44992
Topic: Plot holes in the SW saga
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/44992/action/topic#44992
Time: 21-Apr-2004 12:41 PM

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Originally posted by: Bossk

VT, okay I should have been more specific. I didn't mean that he had the script written, but he had it all planned out when he did ESB. You would have to in order to justify having a cliffhanger ending like the one in ESB. You have to know ahead of time where you will take it. Maybe not the dialogue involved, but the story was pretty well planned with some exceptions.

He had some of it planned, but not everything. Example: Han surviving the carbonite freezing was not yet decided, as Harrison Ford was hesitating about signing to do a third movie. And I seriously doubt he had planned that Leia was Luke's sister.

Post: #44978
Topic: Plot holes in the SW saga
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/44978/action/topic#44978
Time: 21-Apr-2004 12:10 PM

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Originally posted by: Luke Skywalker

my opinion is he wrote ANH realized how much of a success it was... then wrote ESB, got more money and figured hell, why not make another, hence ROTJ..

This is from IMDB. I've heard this from other sources as well, and I belive this is the real story:

"Although it is often claimed by George Lucas that Star Wars was always intended as part of a series (originally nine parts, later six), producer Gary Kurtz claimed differently in a interview in 1999. According to Kurtz, Star Wars was meant to be a standalone film. It was only after the film's incredible success that he and Lucas got together to consider sequels. They came up with the idea that Star Wars was the fourth story of a nine-part series and penned rough outlines for each episode. After releasing the "fifth" episode (The Empire Strikes Back (1980)), Lucas made Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) with Steven Spielberg. The success of this film convinced Lucas to increase the emphasis on action in the "sixth" Star Wars episode. According to Kurtz, the Emperor was not originally going to make an appearance until episode 9. Luke and Leia were not brother and sister. There was no Death Star II. The search for Han Solo was the main plot of the film, during which Luke would have furthered his Jedi training. Solo was going to die in the final battle. Luke was going to go off to complete/continue his Jedi training and Leia was going to resume her position as Queen of her people, separating the major characters in a "downer" ending similar to that of Episode 5. Kurtz strongly objected to Lucas'schanges and insisted they should stay with the story they had originally planned. Lucas just as strongly disagreed and the two parted company. (Kurtz left to make Dark Crystal, The (1982) with 'Henson, Jim' and hasn't worked with Lucas since.)"

I have no idea why George keeps lying about this.

Post: #44971
Topic: What is wrong with Return of the Jedi?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/44971/action/topic#44971
Time: 21-Apr-2004 11:06 AM

Me, being an amateur stand up comediant, wanna perform at the alien Tatooine cantina.

"So, what's wrong with the Star Destroyer food, eh? And take my padawan learner.. please take him! Thank you, you guys have been great, I'm here 'till tuesday."

Post: #44969
Topic: The line of dialogue "I have a bad feeling about this"...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/44969/action/topic#44969
Time: 21-Apr-2004 11:01 AM

Wait a minute, if Vader is Han's father as well, that makes him Leia's brother, and therefore... yeeha! Redneck love!

Post: #44899
Topic: Heart Breaking Moments
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/44899/action/topic#44899
Time: 21-Apr-2004 6:34 AM

Save Ferris

Post: #44897
Topic: Your tombstone
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/44897/action/topic#44897
Time: 21-Apr-2004 6:28 AM

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Originally posted by: motti_soL
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I would put a visual sign forbidding people to dance or piss over the grave.

and because of that they will not do it.

Would you park your car where there's a sign saying "no parking"? Would you go through a door that says "do not enter"? WOuld you dance over a grave that has a sign saying "please, do not dance"? Altough I wouldn't mind a small, brief tapdancing number.

Post: #44895
Topic: Last line of episode 3?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/44895/action/topic#44895
Time: 21-Apr-2004 6:26 AM

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Originally posted by: Samatar
How about just a scene of the Emperor and Darth rubbing thier hands together and cackling with evil glee?

Then Palpatine puts his little finger next to his mouth and says "And now I will rule the... universe! Huahahah! Hahahaha!"

And he orders the kamino cloners to make him a Mini-me.

Palpatine and Vader are talking:

"Bring young Skywalker to me."
"But he'll never..."
"Shhh!"
"Luke will never..."
"Shhh!"
"Oh yeah very mature..."
"Zip it!"
"Look, the thing is..."
*takes an imaginary lightsaber, and as he swings it* "ziiipt it! ziiiip it!"
"Please could you stop..."
"Shut your pie hole! I have a plan here!"

Post: #44893
Topic: Plot holes in the SW saga
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/44893/action/topic#44893
Time: 21-Apr-2004 6:20 AM

Samatar, thats because star wars is supposed to be some sort of alternate universe, where humans do co-exist with those other alien races, and Earth never existed.

Post: #44750
Topic: Your tombstone
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/44750/action/topic#44750
Time: 20-Apr-2004 7:31 PM

Usually, for some creepy reason, on a tombstone, there is a star next to the birth date, and a cross next to the death date. Mine will have a picture of me smiling next to the birth date, and a picture of me with a sad face next to the death date. Below, besides the "Take me out of this, it's hot in here, it's dark, cant breathe!" line, I would put a visual sign forbidding people to dance or piss over the grave. Over the grave, a plastic leg would be placed, in a way that it seems I've been buried with one of my legs outside. I'm kinda obsessed with death, and somehow, I want people to laugh everytime they see the place where I'd be buried. So much, it would become a tourist attraction.

Post: #44748
Topic: Changes in 2004 DVDs
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/44748/action/topic#44748
Time: 20-Apr-2004 7:21 PM

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Originally posted by: Jedi Master DJR
And that alone makes it scary and worth deleting in his Definitive Special Edition I Will Rule The World versions. I of course though want it preserved since it is part of the original theatrical editions.

And still... won't be the end of it. Even after GL's death, they will keep adding scenes, removing scenes, adding more CGI, adding new characters to some scenes (Luke, Solo, Chewbacca, Obi-Wan, C3PO, R2D2 and Sylvester go into the death star), changing the plot some more, changing everything, and... in 100 years, Star Wars will be a b&w romantic comedy set in the 17th century, staring Woody Allen and a CGI Shirley Temple.

Post: #44742
Topic: Has anyone used Carrie's Official Chat Room? Yet.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/44742/action/topic#44742
Time: 20-Apr-2004 7:12 PM

Registration? Forget it. Won't give my e-mail adress to Carrie Fisher. She might sell it to spammers, in order to buy more booze (she had a drinking problem years ago).

Things would be different if this was a Mark Hamill or George Lucas online chat. Both love their fans, for some weird reason.

If Alec Guiness was still alive, he would probably be tearing and/or burning star wars fan letters... at this exact moment.

Post: #44711
Topic: The line of dialogue "I have a bad feeling about this"...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/44711/action/topic#44711
Time: 20-Apr-2004 4:19 PM

It's a cliche phrase, it was often used on the original trilogy. Because of that, it became a running joke, being said at least once in every movie at the new trilogy.

Post: #44709
Topic: How do obese people use the toilet?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/44709/action/topic#44709
Time: 20-Apr-2004 4:09 PM

Stop that. Silly. Too silly.

How much posts do I need in order to declare a dead thread? Is it the same number of roads tha a man must cross before he is called a man?

Post: #44591
Topic: Last line of episode 3?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/44591/action/topic#44591
Time: 20-Apr-2004 11:11 AM

Thats the one, I think... Thats why I mentioned it.

Post: #44584
Topic: Last line of episode 3?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/44584/action/topic#44584
Time: 20-Apr-2004 10:58 AM

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Originally posted by: Luke Skywalker
i think the ending of Episode III should have no talkin... maybe just have a photo montage of images...
quick glances of what each person i going through and what not...
i dont want too much information given away...

i figure a nice 30 - 50 seconds of just music and character montages...
perhaps anakin getting operated on, padme giving birth, sidious smiling.... stuff like that...

i dunno... im all about less is more so i find that dialogue may ruin the ending or give away too much..
just me though

LOL - with the "why cant we be friends" song?
Fans would go wild

Sounds too much like a TV series ending episode though

Post: #44526
Topic: Plot holes in the SW saga
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/44526/action/topic#44526
Time: 20-Apr-2004 8:45 AM

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Originally posted by: Luke Skywalker
hehe...
its sounds as bad as flinstones meets the jetsons!
anyone remember that POS?

I kinda remember it. They met thanks to some sort of time travel right? Ah, time travel is my second favorite "deus ex machina", makes anything possible. My favorite one is "it was just a dream" (which I used to belived to be the ending of episode 3, it was all a dream Luke had on the night after ROTJ).

Post: #44522
Topic: How does Grand Moff Tarkin fit into Ep 3?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/44522/action/topic#44522
Time: 20-Apr-2004 8:40 AM

Reminds me of a post-Phantom Menace crazy theory, that claimed that Jar Jar was Bobba Fett. This was before Jango was announced, obviously.

Post: #44512
Topic: Lucas to give the Oscars back to the Academy
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/44512/action/topic#44512
Time: 20-Apr-2004 8:26 AM

I go to the movie theater not only because of the big screen and the great sound system, I go because I enjoy going out with my friends, I enjoy the antecipation of standing in the line, waiting to watch a movie I always wanted to see... It's way better than downloading movies. I must confess I do download movies, but only those that are impossible to get over here (like dr strangelove, which was totally unavailable over here until about a year ago, or the mst3k movies/episodes, which are not aired here).

Besides, I never eat popcorn or drink sodas, and I'm always talking/joking during the ads, so...

Post: #44509
Topic: How do obese people use the toilet?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/44509/action/topic#44509
Time: 20-Apr-2004 8:19 AM

I once thought about how people with no arms go to the toilet.