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#157209
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Violence
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/157209/action/topic#157209
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First of all, I'm glad your brother is okay and that no one got hurt. THAT is the important thing, not the money.

I realize that this is a traumatic situation, and it's tough to act correctly when such things happen, but he did exactly what he had to do. While he should not doubt himself, as he acted bravely and correctly, I share his doubt on mankind. I have lost faith in it not only based on violent occasions such as my uncle's and your brother's case, but in how people act toward each other. It's all about satistying our own personal needs without thinking about other people. It's the abusive father, the tiranic boss, the bad teacher, the bully, the guy who cheats on his wife...

About the weapons issue, I could discuss it better on a different topic, but I have to say that if he had a weapon, things would turn out different. Not "could", WOULD. But would it be for better or worse?
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#157180
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Video Games - a general discussion thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/157180/action/topic#157180
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Are you saying X-Box 360 games are EIGHTY DOLLARS? That's highway robbery! I refuse to pay THAT much for a video game!


That's how much games cost here, due to ultra-taxation and protetionism - sometimes it can get to 100 dollars (and yes, I mean USD). In a shell, the government wants kids to spend money on locally produced agriculture than on loud, confusing, violent overseas videogames. Of course, that also goes for local softwarehouses and game producers and distributors, so if anyone tries to produce videogames here, the government quickly do everything they can to make sure he closes his business. Of course, the government supports piracy and bootlegging, so the videogame industry keeps absolutely away from this country. Our own freaking president was caugth watching a bootleg DVD on his plane by the press some weeks ago.
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#157028
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"You don't know the power of the dark side! I must obey my master"
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/157028/action/topic#157028
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Originally posted by: Mr Bungle
Instead of seeing Jar Jar,a Underwater boat ride,a Podrace fishmen throwing blue bowling balls at Robots,Anakin chatting up Padme for a good length and Droid Factory wouldnt it have been better to see the Power of the Darkside rather than leaving it to imagination.........................


And the funny part is, we made GL millions of dollars richer with the prequels. THAT is the power of the dark side, right there.
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#157026
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Lucas Did Not Think about It
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/157026/action/topic#157026
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That quote by GL shows how much of an hypocrite he is, and how much he is surrounded by people who support him blindly, I mean, didn't anyone said that he was contradicting himself at that time? If he said that to a news reporter, didn't the guy at least say "Oh, ok, how about YOUR movies?". I just wonder how he would react if we asked him about this contradiction. I bet he would cover his ears, and scream "I can't hear you na na na na!!" until you gave up.
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#156754
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Was the Frankenstein Walk Shortened in ROTS DVD?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/156754/action/topic#156754
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Originally posted by: MeBeJedi
Or maybe one take was all George wanted. Everything gets fixed in post-production.


Makes sense. He pretty much shot the whole movie in one, continuous take using a single camera and greenscreen, which took an our and a half, since fourty minutes of this film is composed of CGI-only scenes. Later, he altered the actors lips to match the audio looping he did with the actors, now saying the lines without cursing or laughing. This whole process took about three or four days. Then, he moved to a 2 and a half year post production. During that process, the script for the movie was written, writing based on the CGI that was already done by ILM, not the opposite as it usually works.

Is it me, or George Lucas works the EXACT OPPOSITE way as Stanley Kubrick did?
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#156750
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Clubbing version 2
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/156750/action/topic#156750
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Originally posted by: kev
Last thread was gone so this is the second version of the thread. So..has anyone been clubbing lately or going to nite clubs on the weekends?


Not any longer... I rather be in a pub with some good friends, chatting and having some beers all night, than to go to a packed nightclub playing bad house music (although I like electronic music), selling overpriced booze so I can get myself an unknown, empty-minded drunk chick for the night. I used to enjoy clubbing, but not anymore.
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#156703
Topic
Was the Frankenstein Walk Shortened in ROTS DVD?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/156703/action/topic#156703
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Originally posted by: 20th Century Mark
I agree! Personally, I was dissappointed with ALL the deleted scenes. I was hoping for one of Yoda 'talkin' to Qui-Gon. I also think the '1138' easter egg is lame. Where is the blooper reel? I love all the other blooper reels and I was looking forward to seeing one for Sith.


Maybe all the actors got their lines right on the first take.
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#156699
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The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/156699/action/topic#156699
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I hae that on this year's Electronic Gaming Show Brazil I wasn't able to go medieval on a Yu-gi-oh cardboard figure. Oh well.

At least I got to check out the XBOX 360, and, of course, play some Mario Kart DS before my copy arrives this friday, and play some DS with unknown people waiting on a line. I'm the one with the gray bag over my arm, by the way. If you interested in seeiing my new hair cut, here's me playing some donkey konga at a small booth at the place. The one on the right, yes.
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#156640
Topic
Was the Frankenstein Walk Shortened in ROTS DVD?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/156640/action/topic#156640
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My memories of the midnight premier I attended, plus the two other times I saw it on the theaters, are kinda fuzzy on that particular scene, so I cannot be sure. I belive it is unaltered. The only thing I don't remember hearing on the theaters is Jar Jar saying "excuse me". Apart from that, the movie seems to be pretty much what I've seen on the big screen.
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#156124
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Sometimes do you feel like you should give up on the cause?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/156124/action/topic#156124
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I have not seen THX-1138 yet, and I refuse to watch the "special edition", so I cannot comment on that.

American Graffitti to me was more due to great writting and acting, and because that was a straightfoward script, taken out of life. There was no real direction needed, and you can tell by Ron Howard and Richard Dreyfuss and the other actors how at ease they were with those parts because it was like playing themselves.

With Star Wars, he was deriving on a mere concept he had, on vague ideas, of an adventure serial. While he wrote a good script, he was lucky to have a few things at his favor:

1- He got some great concept art and could do wonders with that. He didn't come up with Vader at ALL, it was his concept artist (whose name I forgot at the moment) who came up with that figure, and he merely threw in a persona to that image. He didn't have anything planned.

2- He was starting ILM at the best moment possible, with the best people possible, and I'm sure he wasn't fully aware of that.

3- He was lucky to have a consistent cast of unknowns, which did a great job. He was very lucky with Anthony Daniels characterization, would you enjoy SW as much if he had been an "used car salesman"?

4- He was VERY lucky to get Alec Guiness. If made 5 years before, or 5 years later, Alec Guiness would have refused the part, and Obi-Wan wouldn't have that much impact.

5- The problems that came with the production made the film better. Imagine if we had a stop-motion Jabba talking with Han Solo, as he wanted to do... It's like, when the shark for Jaws broke down, Spielberg had to shoot it more mysteriously, same thing here. He had to suffer to make it the best way he could, and it did.

6- He had GREAT editors who cut up the film in a great way. Those who have seen the cantina scene from the classic b&w workprint know what I'm talking about...

7- He was LUCKY to get JOHN WILLIAMS, who gave Star Wars a huge leap foward. Try wathcing it without the musical soundtrack...

8- He had Lawrence Kasdan and Irvin Kershner for ESB. Kershner KNEW how to make the second film of a trilogy, he KNEW how to conduct the movie, and how to make it work.

9- He had Frank Oz doing Yoda, which made the character belivable.

I mean, I could go on and on... Now, the prequels are WATCHABLE, they are actually good movies, they are quite well paced, well made, not as bad acted as some people say, they are enjoyable pieces of film, GL is a competent filmmaker, but that's it. He is a mediocre/good film maker, he can do some good things, he has great ideas, he is an excelent producer, he knows how to make money out of films better than anyone in the film industry, but that's it.

He is NOT a sci-fi genius like Asimov or HG Wells or Arthur C Clark whoever. He has no idea how to conduct such a thing, and it shows. I mean, a good example is the "parseks" controversy, on how a parsek is an unity of distance not time, well, GL didn't know! As mucha s he lie, saying that he threw that in because he wanted to show how Han Solo didn't know what he was saying, oh, well, how many film viewers know what a parsek is? He didn't know, and the sad part is that he lies to cover it.

He has absolutely no control of a consistence between characters and how to make a huge saga. He is NOT Tolkien. He dosen't try to keep consistence of how long a Death Star takes to be built so it synchs up with the timeline of the official cannon, because he dosen't care, he dosen't know how to keep track of those things...

I just wish Irvin Kershner had directed the prequels...
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#156024
Topic
Sometimes do you feel like you should give up on the cause?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/156024/action/topic#156024
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Originally posted by: skyjedi2005
lucas is the one who has changed not the fans, why can't he open he damn eyes and see that.

I mean in an interview he even forgot the line ben kenobi says in a new hope " if you strike me down I shall become more powerfull than you can possibly imagine".

And in sith they forgot that obi wan was supposed to get the sword for luke, for they had to do reshoots.

Asolute Idiocy, completely unforgiveable and unexcusable.


This is just absolutely depressing, I mean, more and more I see that GL is a third-grade director and pseudo-writer who had an unbelivable strike of luck making a good film, thanks also for the assistance of those involved in ther movie and the bad conditions he was in, and that was fortunate enough to have the talents of such people as Irvin Kershner and Lawrence Kasdan behind the sequels. And when he came up to do the prequels, they ended up as good as the movies he is capable at, even though he had the assistance of good people. I mean, even more annoying Jar Jar, backstreet boys as Jedi, young Han Solo on Kashyyk, could you imagine how bad would those films be if he was allowed to do 100% of what he wanted to? And he dosen't know his own work for Christ sake, he can't keep continuity of it because he is not like a real sci-fi fan, he is not like Tolkien who could bring a huge universe to life, he's is JUST for the money. Makes me mad AND sad.