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#155578
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THE ALL NEW PSYCHO REVIEW HAS MOVED
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/155578/action/topic#155578
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Originally posted by: PSYCHO_DAYV
I SHOULD HAVE SERENITY IN A FEW WEEKS.


I recognise that your CONSTANT CAPITALISATIONS is the way of things, but I was just wondering...for all intensive purposes, do you simply leave your capslock on ALL the time? Or do you use 'Shift'? Or do you turn it on and off all the time? Or do you have a little rock that you put on your keyboard or something?
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#155454
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Clive Revil
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/155454/action/topic#155454
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I prefer Ian McDiarmid's image being used instead of a woman superimposed on a chimpanzee (that's actually what it was before), but it is too large, like all the holograms in the PT. I think Clive Revil's lines should have stayed no matter what. Or at least Ian saying the same lines.

Does anybody know the new dialogue? I have a feeling it gives away the 'I am your father' revelation too early. A friend of mine watched Star Wars for the first time (order IV, V, VI, III), and figured it out from that scene.
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#154787
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Changes you want (or don't want) to the 2007 archival editions
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/154787/action/topic#154787
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Originally posted by: Mr Bungle
It baffles me too why he came up the idea and made Greedo become one of worst shots in filmaking history.


I am with the guys on the thread that Shaw, to me was out of order, saga or no saga, Even putting up with 4 or 5 things I didnt like, this was personally the straw that finally broke the camels back as far as George's S.Es of Star Wars for me.


Fer shaw! I think that's what finally got me on this site. I think I found it when I googled 'prequels suck' or something like that!
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#154784
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Was that really the first Death Star in ROTS?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/154784/action/topic#154784
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Originally posted by: sybeman
Or maybe "supply issues and union troubles" could mean just that. With the brand new empire, there may have been suppliers who weren't all that enthused about the idea, and perhaps there were many union troubles. Call it "Galactic Empire Growing Pains". Just because it wasn't finished for 20 years doesn't mean it took 20 years to build. There could have been exhaustive strikes and the like, which Vader "took care of" during those 20 years. Who knows?

I know EU is canon, but I haven't read any of them, so frankly, they're not my canon.


I wouldn't worry about it, dude - the EU is NOT canon, and probably never will be. The only elements of EU that are canon are those used in the films.

Although, in my mind, the O-OT is the only thing that should be canon. It's the only way it won't contradict itself.
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#154684
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Changes you want (or don't want) to the 2007 archival editions
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/154684/action/topic#154684
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Originally posted by: Han Solo VS Indiana Jones
I tried to ignore the whole Greedo shoots first thing, but I can't deny that it's impossible for Greedo to have missed Han even slightly when they were so close together.

Yet Han still shoots first at Darth Vader in ESB when Vader was just occupying the physical space, making no move to attack Han, yet Han shoots at him anyway. Why isn't that murder? It was murder for Han to shoot Greedo first when Greedo so clearly wanted to waste Han but it's not murder for Han to shoot at Vader when Vader did not display any signs of attacking Han. That's just screwed up.

I fear that all the Alec Guinness ghosts will have Guinness replaced with a ghost of the young Ewan McGregor.

The special editions suck, the worst offenses being the digital replacements of Clive Revill as the ESB Emperor and Sebastian Shaw as Anakin's ghost in ROTJ. These changes were uncalled for and are disrespectful to the original actors. George Lucas is a hypocrtical asshole.


Let's not forget that Greedo is a professional killer (i.e. he kills as a profession), so for him to miss at such a range is criminal in itself!
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#154682
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Was that really the first Death Star in ROTS?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/154682/action/topic#154682
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The retarded thing about ROTS is that I'm pretty sure Darth Vader had no part in building or overseeing the construction of the first Death Star. It seems implicit in the dialogue of ANH:

VADER
Don't be too proud of this
technological terror you've
constructed. The ability to destroy
a planet is insignificant next to
the power of the Force.

By the sounds of it, Motti had it constructed, and he looked about 30-something years old in ANH by my estimation.
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#154568
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Changes you want (or don't want) to the 2007 archival editions
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/154568/action/topic#154568
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Yeah, except the dialogue in the new Emperor scene sucks. Why couldn't they have just got him to read the same lines? The new dialogue completely gives away the "I am your father" revelation. I showed a friend Episodes IV-VI for the first time and she figured out from that dialogue that Vader was Luke's father.

If you were an Australian, you'd realise just how irritating it is to hear a New Zealander's voice in a Star Wars movie, let alone a good Star Wars movie. It ruins ESB for me. I would have been able to watch my 2004 ESB DVD if it wasn't for Temeura Morrison. Does anyone else realise how much cooler the original voice of Boba Fett is in comparison?
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#154437
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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/154437/action/topic#154437
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Originally posted by: Adamwankenobi
redbarron, I don't care for the 97' versions becuase they don't really add anything to the original films, IMHO. The Jabba in 97' looks horrible as well. Mainly, I like the 2004 versions becuase of the correct Palpatine in ESB, the new and improved Jabba, Hayden as Anakin in ROTJ, EXTREMELY good picture quality, etc. I just can't can't see how the 97' versions really improved upon the originals. That's the main differenc between me and many here. I have no OOT nastalgia that blinds me. I can see that the OT films are great, no matter what format, but do have the ability to be improved upon.


You *could* say that nostalgia blinds us. You could also say that an affinity for special effects blinds you. *OR* you could say what all of us O-OTers have been saying all along: updated effects are great, so long as they don't alter the plot points or characterisations. The only part of Star Wars I have nostalgia for is a storyline untampered with, without distractions or extraneous crap, where Han shoots first. I would swallow re-rotoscroped lightsabers and CG Bespins whole if the plot points were preserved.
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#154417
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THE SUPER SPAM THREAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/154417/action/topic#154417
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Originally posted by: Warbler
Originally posted by: theredbaron
There you go again. Duhhh...I know...DEAD THREAD. Yeah, that should do it.

Let the moderator deem which thread is or isn't dead. All we can do is simply deem whether or not a thread is crap, and choose to ignore it if need be.


the "Dead Thread" thing is a normal practice on this forum. Most of the time it is respected. Although of course it is unofficial. It is used to end duplicate threads, threads that are useless, or to prevent flaming. I believe this is a useless thread


DEAD THREAD. DO NOT POST HERE. DEAD THREAD


You're kidding me? So any old idiot can just waltz into a thread and proclaim it to be deceased? How does that work?
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#154408
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Your Favorite Star Wars Film
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/154408/action/topic#154408
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I see what you're getting at, but no.

If someone says 'Empire definitely' they're just answering the question with their opinion. They don't need to say it's their opinion, 'cause it's their writing next to their username, so of course it's their opinion.

But you were actually imploring people to all of a sudden change their minds and agree with you that ROTS is at least equal to ESB.

"Oh, actually, come to think of it, I agree with you. ROTS IS at least equal to ESB!"

This, of course, has nothing to do with the price of eggs in China.