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#50214
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DVDs of 2004?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/50214/action/topic#50214
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Not an HP fan, but Cuaron is a great director, so I'm actually looking forward to this one. Little Princess (his best work, IMO) is a marvelous film, and everyone I've shown the DVD to has loved it. If you like films for the whole family that have a magical quality, but also a real edge then I can't recommend it enough.


Finally caught Win a Date with Tad Hamilton and Not Another Teen Movie. I'll probably write up reviews for 'em, but just to end the suspense...

Motti, yep NATM was surprisingly funny.

Sorry Dayv, but WADWTH wasn't.

HOWEVER, I thought Sugar and Spice was frickin' hilarious and better than both. So there ya go
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#50005
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Star Wars...The TV series!!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/50005/action/topic#50005
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Yeah, Young Indy wasn't too bad (not very Indiana Jones-like though), but after twenty years they can barely get a decent two hour movie right, I dread what they'll do pumping out a new 45mins worth week after week after week.

Star Wars turn into a series of fan film skits, don't we have too much of that already? (Not dissin' the fan films, they're fun stuff, just Lucasfilms lack of creativity)
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#46458
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Out of town...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/46458/action/topic#46458
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I haven't read Crichton in a long time. In fact I wasn't even a reader of his until one summer when I was visiting my uncle in Hong Kong. But wouldn't you know it, the second I step foot off the plane I get sick. Now I'm stuck inside, semi-feverish with absolutely nothing to do. I eventually check out my uncle's bookshelf and there he has a bunch of bestsellers (stuff I don't normally touch with a ten foot pole).

Well I had nothing better to do so I crack one open, and go. Before you know it I've finished the Great Train Robbery, Andromeda Strain, Sphere, Jurassic Park, Congo, Disclosure, and a few others I can't think of. I enjoyed them. He has a great easy style that makes for perfect brain candy, but too much and that sameness of style becomes all too apparent. They tend to be structured the same and populated with similar characters. For the most part, I found them dramatically lightweight and therefore forgettable. The one I remember best and liked the most was the Great Train Robbery, it was the most distinctive and unlike the others was a caper book, always a fun genre. The one I liked the least was Disclosure with its forced situations and heavy handed sexual politics. Nonetheless, they were all good page turners and much better than the bunch of Grisham’s I read after finishing all the Crichton’s (but that’s another story). Now that it’s been a number years, maybe it’s time to try another one again. So Prey is good, huh?
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#45598
Topic
Plot holes in the SW saga
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/45598/action/topic#45598
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Originally posted by: BosskTo bring down the Empire, Obi Wan knew he'd have to give Luke reason to want to fight them. Not exactly the way of the Jedi, true. But times were bleak like the opening crawl of ANH said.

I agree with that, but the way you got it there Bossk, it sounds like Ben is manipulating Luke to his own ends.

My take on it, Lucas-making-stuff-up-as-he-goes-along and back-peddling-like-crazy-to-cover-his-ass aside, the way it's presented I think Obi-wan was being as honest as possible without telling Luke the whole traumatic truth.

Is Vader unbelievably bad? No question, even if you weren't related. Does Vader's existence have anything to do with his lack of a father? Heck yeah. Would telling you who your dad really is, right this minute when you're just a country bumpkin with no maturity or experience to handle it, help you in any way? No. It was more of warning Luke about the dark side, how it can conquer and defeat you if you let it. In ANH Ben tells Luke that Vader was his own fault, and that he felt responsible for it. That's why Ben fell on his sword. And in ROTJ, Ben pretty much said that Vader was beyond hope and redemption. Remember, both Ben and Yoda didn't think that Luke would even know the truth anyway. It was unexpected and unfortunate in ROTJ.

So Ben and Yoda was trying to protect Luke from something that would have hurt him, being on opposing sides with his own father, Luke as a good guy and his dad being bad. If they fought knowing, they believed this would have hampered Luke.

And they were right.

Although Luke's compassion ultimately did win over his father, it was a gamble. If it hadn't play out, the Emperor would have killed Luke with Vader watching from the sidelines, and Yoda and Ben would have lost their 'only hope.' (Well not really. Han still would have lowered the shields, and Lando and Wedge would still have blown up the Death Star.

Emperor:
"Now young Skywalker... you will die! Okay, job done. Moving on... Oh no, what's going on? Death Star 2 is blowing up?! But I just killed Luke instead of doing my job to eradicate the rebels, how could this have happened?! I didn't forsee this!!! Aaaarrrgghhh!"

So really it was everybody else who saved the galaxy, rendering the whole 'self-centered family' greek tragedy Luke-Vader-Emperor love triangle moot. Talk about plot holes.)


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#45595
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What is wrong with Return of the Jedi?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/45595/action/topic#45595
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Yeah, early script drafts had versions of the Imperial City as Alderaan, Cloud City, and the Emperor's Throne room in ROTJ before they moved it over to Death Star 2. It was Zhan using those early descriptions who coined the name Coruscant. I'm not a big fan of those books or Lucas even, but he does admit who used the name first.
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Originally posted by: motti_soL
ESB and then ROTJ for me as well...

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Originally posted by: DocCovington
Ditto.

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Originally posted by: Samatar
ESB and ROTJ seem more "stylish" to me than the earlier ANH. I think that is why I like them better in some ways too. I definitely like ESB best, it has so many great elements; the introduction of the Imperial March alone is almost enough to justify this IMO. And Vaders helmet seems so much shinier in ESB than the other two! Hmmm perhaps I have an unhealthy fixation there...

Already now, everybody with me... Return of the Jedi is number 2! NUMBER 2! NUMBER 2... !