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#309652
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Political compass: interesting test
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/309652/action/topic#309652
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Originally posted by: C3PX.

That is not a half bad site. I didn't have much of a chance to look it over, but I read a few things and it seems very straight forward and unbiased (something way to hard to find these days). It gives some very good basics of what it means to hold certian social and economic viewspoints. It has a pretty heavty European slant to it, which lollygags it a bit for US politics, but also has the advantage of putting it all into a more universal perspective.


I really like that. Whenever people talk politics it always seems like theres such a USA-oriented perspective to things, so its nice to see somethat thats largely neutral in loyalties to everything including nationality, and I think it also puts US politics in perspective with the rest of the world by this comparison.
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#309602
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REALLY bad overscan, or a method error?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/309602/action/topic#309602
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Its kind of hard to tell what I'm looking at. Are the screenshots both lined up exactly? Because it looks like they are not, so its difficult to tell. A side by side might be better.

My opinion is that its an overscan thing. The 16x9 thing reveals the full picture because it letterboxes it, so you see all the way down to the top and botton edges, whereas in fullscreen 4x3 mode that info gets buried in the overscan. But a side-by-side comparison might be better to judge from.
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#309237
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Jim Ward steps down
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/309237/action/topic#309237
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Most people feel that the directors cuts of the ST films are superior, and aside from STTMP they are extremely similar to the original versions anyway. Plus the originals were already released (ST VI has a "home video cut"--the theatrical version has never been seen AFAIK, so don't blame the DVD), plus in 2002 no one did multiple cuts. Most likely when they are released again for HD they will have new transfers of both theatrical and directors cut versions.
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#309116
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Jim Ward steps down
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/309116/action/topic#309116
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I'm not sure if I'd be that pessimistic. In any case, we are very close to achieving our own virtually-recreated OOT: Adywans SWRevisited has some breakthrough de-SE'ing, which could be taken even further if someone was up to it, and if the X0 project ever moves beyond the realm of myth then a combination of these sources could yield a version of the OOT close in resolution to the 2004 version; such a version would be acceptable to upconvert to HD, or if someone was really ambition he could start from the beginning with HD sources. I'd say that if more than 4 or 5 years go by with nothing from LFL something like this will materialise. In fact, it ought to be a great joint project that everyone from OT.com should work on (how appropriate would that be?).
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#309079
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Jim Ward steps down
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/309079/action/topic#309079
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Originally posted by: Baronlando
But if Ward is leaving, it's hard to imagine the next guy giving up on the originals when presented with the facts. Here's an asset we happen to have that's not being exploited, what responsible executive can just ignore that? Especially when there's no sure thing (a new movie) on the horizon? It's comical that there is going to be a major star Wars merchandise push this year with the cartoon and game etc., but the actual movie doesn't warrant any attention. (You walk into the store and it's a 1993 laserdisc while the Family Guy Star Wars dvd right next to it is beyond deluxe. This is the bizarro world.)


True, but having said that all we got with Ward was a Laserdisk port.
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#309073
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Peter Jackson evidently IS returning for The Hobbit...sort of...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/309073/action/topic#309073
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Its being split in two.

I don't get it either. I hope this doesn't mean they will be forced to include every single scene from the book and drag everything out as much as possible. A two and a half hour adaptation ought to be fine for the Hobbit. But I guess its true that it could make much more money by dragging it out, but thats putting the cart before the horse.
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#309072
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The Secret History of Star Wars
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/309072/action/topic#309072
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Its changed in the revision I am working on. I'm just saying that describing a sex-less conception as an "immaculate conception" is not that inaccurate. Its not a catholic thing; its part of a public calloquialism. It has catholic etymological roots but it doesn't belong belong to catholics, and its used freely by catholics and non-catholics to describe miraculous sexless conception. Schmi is not a virgin birth, so you could call it a "divine conception" or an "immaculate conception", but people understand "immaculate conception" better.
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#309010
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Is George Lucas a fan of Star Wars?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/309010/action/topic#309010
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Originally posted by: Fang Zei
Here's my ultimate point with all of this: The fact that there are - even today - lots of kids who are into Star Wars doesn't help people (including Lucas) to take it seriously as a movie. Lucas hasn't shown it the proper respect because HE DOESN'T NEED TO. He has yet another generation of kids to make money off of before he worries about film fans, and no, I don't think that's being harsh of the guy. Not when we're carrying sets from The Force Unleashed and The Clone Wars many months in advance of their actual release and yet the best quality you can get the ACTUAL MOVIE in is 1993 am I being too harsh.



I think it comes down to Lucas being an insecure dick. Spielberg didn't have to release the original E.T. or Close Encounters, he was in the position to call the shots and even though people would protest the voices of dissent are comparitively low compared to Star Wars, so your average viewer would probably never even realise there was a controversy. But when Spielberg found out people were upset the original E.T. was not being included, he included it (with only a month to go before the release date, mind you). When he realised people wanted to see the original Close Encounters he let them. Its not just that Lucas can call the shots and get away with being a dick to us, its that he actually is being a dick to us.
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#309003
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The Secret History of Star Wars
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/309003/action/topic#309003
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Originally posted by: Kurgan
Something else I just noticed.... page 495 is blank.

The previous page states a Mark Hamill quote is coming... but the next page doesn't contain any text in the body area. What's up with that?


The page is there on the version I downloaded off the site yesterday. Possibly your version is corrupted or I corrected this mistake in the newer versions.

It may not be just a title, and it may be a decription, but even outside of Catholic doctrine it still simply means clean and doesn't refer to virgin

Outside the Catholic doctrine it is a colloquialism that is taken as meaning "virgin birth". I probably should use the term "virgin birth" so as to leave no doubt to what I am referencing (I believe its still in the book), but "immaculate conception" translates to "conceiving a child without sex" in the popular understanding (with regards to non-Catholicism), even if semantically the definition is technically not that specific.

Anakin wasn't even a virgin birth anyway (Schmi probably wasn't a virgin), he just was concieved without sex (an "undefiled" or "immaculate" conception). But thats the archetype it recalls. In fact not all "immaculate" conceptions in myth are virginal. And in some of them, like some of the Greek ones, they arent even immaculate, the gods actually have physical sex with women to sire a half-mortal son. "Divine conception" is probably a better term to all-encompass this stuff, but people identify meaning better with the term "immaculate conception", at least when it comes to Anakin.
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#308999
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Jim Ward steps down
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/308999/action/topic#308999
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If Blade Runner just put out the final cut it would make a ton of money. Thats all they planne to do, initially. The only reason BR got the royal treatment was because BR is Scott's home video manager and Final Cut producer Charlie DeLazaurika's favorite film. So he went the extra mile because he's BR's biggest fan. It would be like if you or me worked for Lucasfilm and were in charge of releasing the OT--we'd give it the same treatment DeLazaurika gave Blade Runner.

But neither the royal OOT or the royal BR is necessary. Blade Runner happened because someone high up wanted it to. And thats what we need. That was how the 2006 release happened--Jim Ward wanted it to.

EDIT

Also, BR happened because Ridley Scott is not a dickhead.
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#308866
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Jim Ward steps down
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/308866/action/topic#308866
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Always interesting to monitor regime changes at LFL and how they affect product...

TFN is reporting that Jim Ward is leaving Lucasarts (which I gather means Lucasfilm as well*) for personal reasons. Apparently, this was officially confirmed.

As you may or may not know, Jim Ward was one of the main pushers to get the OOT on DVD; he had been trying to get Lucas to release the originals for years, and finally was able to spearhead the infamous GOUT release in 2006 (lackluster as that was--it was out of Ward's hands). I wonder how this will affect the future of Lucasfilm, and how his replacement will measure up.


*actually this has me thinking--in addition to duties at LFL did he have a seperate Lucasarts post and therefore is only leaving the software division but staying with the larger company? My feeling is no, but the specific naming of Lucasarts only makes me wonder
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#308824
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STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/308824/action/topic#308824
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If it wasn't for the space battle, this might replace the SE for me. But the elegance of the Yavin battle has turned into a choatic jumble without any visual flow. For me, this will likely prevent this version from ever replacing any previous one. Having said that, this is the funnest time I've had watching ANH in a long while, if only to see a high-res version of the film with the proper coloring and without the SE stupidity, and some of the changes are marvellous. I did love the change in Bigg's death though--the effectiveness of this cannot be overstated. Seems like such a natural thing that its a wonder Lucas didn't hit upon this himself--maybe if he had a little more time to edit in 77 he would have.

Congratulations Adywan, you have a remarkable creation here. I'm still trying to figure out how you did all the stuff you did, and often I would become aware of something being different in a shot but it was so subtle that I couldn't even realise it. I don't agree with every change--not by a long shot--but seeing as you did this for yourself, thats not your problem. I think this simply underlines what should have been the original point of the SE back in 1997: its just a fun enhancement on the original, a fun modern update, but you wouldn't want it to replace the original.
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#308519
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Info: When does fullscreen show more than widescreen?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/308519/action/topic#308519
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99% of all FS releases are cropped from the widescreen version. You aren't getting more. In the vast majority of films shot in Super-35 you are never supposed to see the full area, only the widescreen area, its just a technical process and has little to do with composition.

Directors compose for the theater. Whatever the theatrical format is, thats what you are supposed to be seeing, and very few films have "open matte" fullscreen--half the time it reveals things like boom mikes and light stands that the matte bars are supposed to be obscuring anyway.