skyjedi2005

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Post: #151305
Topic: Info Wanted: has anyone tried a Star Wars Super 8mm to DVD preservation project?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/151305/action/topic#151305
Time: 30-Oct-2005 4:27 AM

Post: #151303
Topic: Info: Does Anyone Have The Old Original Theater Bootleg '77 Tape? (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/151303/action/topic#151303
Time: 30-Oct-2005 4:18 AM

the closest thing we have to the theatrical release in good quality is ocpmovies star wars classic edition, which among other things re-creates the original opening crawl pre-anh. Then theres the edit droid with the mono mix.
now if only at some point in the future someone could come across a print of a pre-anh 16mm or 35mm star wars print.

too bad the 70mm's no longer exist because i'd love to see the whole trilogy in this format.

Post: #151302
Topic: Help Wanted: 1997 Special Edition Soundtrack that matches the 2004 DVD video?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/151302/action/topic#151302
Time: 30-Oct-2005 4:11 AM

why not just pick up the deliberate creative I.s. edition of a new hope?

Post: #151280
Topic: Superman II and Superman III extended (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/151280/action/topic#151280
Time: 29-Oct-2005 10:54 PM

does anyone have the extended cut of supergirl that is now out of print?

it was a two disc set I believe.

It is going for way too much money on the secondary market,

an it can't be bought officialy any more so why not include it in the extended fan set of superman 1-4?

Post: #151273
Topic: If George had only changed Special effects for the SE and DVD, would people have complained as much?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/151273/action/topic#151273
Time: 29-Oct-2005 9:59 PM

quote "i agree the prequels suck, pretty pointless exercises except to help make george richer "

I can't completely agree with this statement. I think the prequels were good as an idea, but were they executed effectively?

The myth, the grandeur, just was'nt there at least for me.

Post: #151269
Topic: Who knows most about Star Wars??
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/151269/action/topic#151269
Time: 29-Oct-2005 9:37 PM

I think I know more about star wars, thats the original trilogy not the prequels, than most anyone except for mr. lucas.

I've read all the leia/luke/han solo centric novels and comics, seen every film a gazillion times and can probalbly run them back and forth in my mind with my eyes closed. I have probalbly watched them even frame by frame to study the effects at least three times.
I used to have the credits memorized and all the characters lines I still mostly remember when watching the films.

I've collected the action figures, the original ones when i was a kid I had all of them except the death star playset and the return of the jedi vehicles and figures. I've read all the marvel and dark horse stuff, played all the video games. owned all the video casette and audio tape/ record releases, but not the laserdiscs, laserdiscs when I was in high school where too cost prohibitive and players where outrageously high.

This was when the vhs tapes for movies were 20.00-30.00 a piece, and the letterbox ones were even more never mind the hundred dollar plus price of the early release rental tapes. when they became affordable I had already owned enough copies of the films on vhs that I purchased fan preservation dvd's in 1999-2000 when I first got a dvd player, of course these were cheap asian imports and I have gotten way better ones since the advent of originaltrilogy.com came along.

Years ago I even wrote and drew my own vision based on what info was then available of the prequels/sequels.

I've researched all the films to the point of rediculousness, including collected from the internet, books portfolios all the mcquarrie artwork, joe johnston etc., the prototype scripts for a new hope empire and jedi currently available not published fan collected drafts. I've found all of them to be authentic by the laurent bouzereau book annotated screenplays except for one draft of revenge of the jedi that appears to be a fake, the one with lando's death scene, which has a lot of real "deleted scenes taken from the novelization or story conference details published in skywalking". I've traced the majority of lucas's sources and even considered writing a book about it at one point.

Star wars is one of my mutitudes of interest, in fact it made me serious about becoming a writer of science fiction and fantasy, and even propelled my to the point of wanting to be become a film major and filmaker. My other interests are mythology, sci fi and fantasy authors such as tolkien, burroughs and others including star trek. I am a small time next gen/classic trek fan, but a huge star wars fan. My favorite filmakers growing up were steven spielberg and george lucas and they were my heroes.

Post: #150988
Topic: What You're Reading Now: Revisited
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/150988/action/topic#150988
Time: 28-Oct-2005 4:01 AM

I too am looking forward to A feast for Crows and don't know why it's taken so long. It had a couple of previous release dates that were bumped up. Supposedly the book has been done for a while, and he is working on the next one in the series.

Post: #150940
Topic: Idea: Lord Of The Rings trilogy edit...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/150940/action/topic#150940
Time: 27-Oct-2005 11:06 PM

quote "There was already a fan edit done that brought the films closer to the tone of the books" friggin sweet man, I hope someday someone who has these can p.m. me, I want a copy.

Post: #150737
Topic: Info Wanted: anyone done a OT betamax and from star wars to jedi preservation?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/150737/action/topic#150737
Time: 27-Oct-2005 5:48 AM — Edited 4-Jul-2020 12:02 PM

has anyone ever done a preservation of the beta trilogy I’ve heard that quality is better than the original vhs releases.

I know they have from star wars to jedi on beta as well.

Post: #150732
Topic: What You're Reading Now: Revisited
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/150732/action/topic#150732
Time: 27-Oct-2005 5:25 AM

I'm Reading Straken by Terry Brooks

and war of the rings the history of the lord of the rings part3 by Christopher Tolkien.

Books I intend to read soon are:

Knife of Dreams by Robert Jordan

Eragon and eldest by Christopher Paolini

the rest of the history of middle earth series and anything tolkien

I finished the new harper collins edition of smith of wootton major by J.r.r. Tolkien and edited by Verlyn Flieger with tolkiens original notes, it was quite good.

Post: #150731
Topic: Idea: for an edit of Batman Begins
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/150731/action/topic#150731
Time: 27-Oct-2005 5:10 AM

Agreed, I think Hans Zimmers score is awesome.

Post: #150729
Topic: Idea: Revenge of the Sith: Extended Edition
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/150729/action/topic#150729
Time: 27-Oct-2005 4:59 AM

I definetely would like a copy of your edit sluggo, I don't care either vhs or dvd.

Post: #150459
Topic: This Movie must be stopped!!!!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/150459/action/topic#150459
Time: 26-Oct-2005 5:39 AM

the rocky series is'nt the only sequel ridden film series, bond has more than 20 films. Jaws should've ended with the first one, heck even batman and superman, and back to the futures sequels are not as good as the first one.
the only 2 movies ever to defeat the sequel rule were empire strikes back and godfather II.

Post: #150458
Topic: Discussion: 5 Star Collection Trilogy
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/150458/action/topic#150458
Time: 26-Oct-2005 5:27 AM

the quality is typical of chinese bootleg releases very bad. it is better than the vhs tapes but not by much, it certainly does'nt come close to the official laserdiscs and is'nt that the point with preservation? I'm sure there are many better releases on these forums of the 1997 special editions trilogy.

Post: #150457
Topic: Interested in everyones opinion when ROTS DVD Comes after Nov 1
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/150457/action/topic#150457
Time: 26-Oct-2005 5:13 AM

the rules have not changed, that does not stop people who work at warehouses where this stuff sits till it's shipped for it's release date to steal a copy and make money by selling it on ebay clearly unscrupulous. Or even worse the review people they send them to early, the magazines, the testers, and reviewers sell there copies or people get one of the review copies burn off more copies and piracy wins.

Post: #150456
Topic: Info: Anyone Have The Fight Club Workprint? Or any workprints for that matter?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/150456/action/topic#150456
Time: 26-Oct-2005 5:06 AM

If only I could get my hands on any "real" workprints of the star wars films. I know the revenge one posted was called a workprint but it was not.

Imagine having the workprints for a new hope, the empire strikes back, return of the jedi and revenge of the sith. the only good star wars movies. Forget clones or p.m.

Post: #150455
Topic: Idea: for an edit of Batman Begins
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/150455/action/topic#150455
Time: 26-Oct-2005 5:03 AM — Edited 10-Jul-2020 12:55 PM

has anyone ever considered doing a fan edit of batman begins so it does’nt contradict the first batman movie by tim burton. Batman’s Parents are killed by some no named bum after leaving the theater, not by the joker, and i KNOW THAT IN THAT MOVIE IT IS’NT A THEATER.

Post: #150454
Topic: Idea: Lord Of The Rings trilogy edit...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/150454/action/topic#150454
Time: 26-Oct-2005 4:57 AM — Edited 10-Jul-2020 9:01 AM

too bad all of the shot footage, deleted scenes have not surfaced because I for one would like to see an edit of the films closer to the tolkien books, in fact they should be re-edited or resequenced to fit his entended story not jackson’s.

This christian symbolism of the books was absent as well, tolkien was a devout catholic.

I only hope the christian themes for narnia are not weeded out by the people in hollywood, that was the whole reason lewis wrote the books to begin with.

Post: #150453
Topic: ***The Official NON-Star Wars FAN EDIT*** Release Thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/150453/action/topic#150453
Time: 26-Oct-2005 4:49 AM

I love the second evil dead movie "army of Darkness" too bad there is not a special edition on dvd as far as I know.

a for your edit of all three into one movie, someone should do this with back to the future. I would love a fan edit that made Raiders of the lost ark and the last crusade into one movie.

Post: #150452
Topic: Star Trek V - Re-Edit (InThyImage) (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/150452/action/topic#150452
Time: 26-Oct-2005 4:45 AM

don't you know that "In thy image" was the name of the script that was eventually made into star trek the motion picture? it was written by alan dean foster, who i credit with authorship of the film. I could care less what paramount says.

Paramount would'nt give william shatner the funding to finish his original vision of star trek V when it was released on dvd. He wanted to replace the totally unconvincing effects with new digital cgi shots of a terrifying vision of the alien/god/the devil creature and complete his shots of the rock men and his dante inferno hell concept, they thought they had journeyed to heaven but only found hell instead. The studios made him change satan into an alien just pretending to be god, weakening the story.

Paramount also would'nt let him have ILM for the movie, who did the effects on all of the biggest star trek top grossers. Star treks II, III IV, and VI, as well as generations, and first contact. THe effects in Insurrection, the final frontier, and nemesis were truly less than spectacular. Star Trek I had great artists doug trumbell from 2001, and fromer ILM'er John Dykstra who worked on the first star wars, that is one reason why people generally mistake the first movie to be a ILM job.

Then again paramount only cares about bleading the fans dry, like getting water out of a stone or blood out of a rock, and cares only about money. They killed star trek with there cost cutting and greed, look at how much they charge for the box sets a hundred dollars or more good grief. and they even cancelled my current favorite show on television enterprise. They clearly missed the boat, but that always happens when banker types and suits don't permit storytellers or artists to realize their vision.

Berman did nothing to lobby them for the fans, too bad gene's dead because he would be livid and outraged.

to end this rant I ask as i did in a previous post "anyone want to send me a copy of this on dvd? pm me" please if anyone would be so kind.

Post: #150448
Topic: Help: looking for... 'hearts of darkness - a filmaker's apocalypse' (APOCALYPSE NOW)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/150448/action/topic#150448
Time: 26-Oct-2005 4:29 AM — Edited 15-Jul-2020 8:11 AM

Has anyone out there ever put the documentary of the making of apocalypse now on dvd?

it was called hearts of darkness: a filmaker’s apocalypse

and i can’t remember exactly what web site has it but there is a much longer cut than either available versions on dvd of the film apocalypse now.

Post: #150447
Topic: Idea: Mallrats TV Cut - with deleted scenes added back in?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/150447/action/topic#150447
Time: 26-Oct-2005 4:25 AM

i'd love to see an extended edit of jay and silent bob strike back, with all the deleted scenes reinstated. It would have to be recreated from the dvd release unless someone out there has the cut smith submitted which was rejected and had to be recut for an R rating.

Post: #150446
Topic: Info & Help: looking for... other ld-rips to dvd movies ex. blade runner int cut, songs of the south, frighteners dir cut - and much much more...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/150446/action/topic#150446
Time: 26-Oct-2005 4:22 AM

how about putting the h.r. giger documentaries which were only available as japan releases on ld on dvd?

there was one about him being an artist and another one about his work on alien. I've seen some guy selling them on ebay for mucho cash.

Post: #150445
Topic: Info & Wanted: Titanic - a 4th disc from new set?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/150445/action/topic#150445
Time: 26-Oct-2005 4:19 AM

how about a fan edit where leo decraprio is completely edited out?

Post: #150444
Topic: Idea & Info: star trek the motion picture - preservation
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/150444/action/topic#150444
Time: 26-Oct-2005 4:15 AM

I think it is a very good cerebral story, very reminiscent of roddenberry trek before the action film took over. Alan Dean Foster wrote the original script for the then star trek phase II t.v. series, called "in thy image". He got the idea from the classic episode with the robot called nomad. roddenberry's idea for the first star trek to be about going back in time to stop the assination of j.f.k., or his script "the man thing" where kirk meets god, never happened. But i think some of the religious overtones of the first movie, and star trek V were liberally borrowed from his ideas for the first film.

Anybody out there who does'nt know who alan dean foster is? he wrote the novelization for the first film of the star wars trilogy.