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Post by Grim Wanderer on Jan 21, 2019 15:39:39 GMT -5
Was is the operative word.
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Post by mindboggled on Jan 21, 2019 22:46:45 GMT -5
I find all of them to be snoozefests. 1980's Flash Gorden is more my kind of sci-fi!
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Post by Grim Wanderer on Jan 22, 2019 9:35:07 GMT -5
Gordon's alive! Love that film.
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Post by themirrorthief on Jan 22, 2019 14:45:32 GMT -5
creativity is a dirty word to the star wars universe...Lucas simply does not allow it...true
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Post by johnnypt on Jan 22, 2019 15:13:54 GMT -5
creativity is a dirty word to the star wars universe...Lucas simply does not allow it...true To be fair, George hasn't really been involved since he pocketed the $4 billion.
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Post by Grim Wanderer on Jan 22, 2019 15:31:13 GMT -5
creativity is a dirty word to the star wars universe...Lucas simply does not allow it...true To be fair, George hasn't really been involved since he pocketed the $4 billion. To be fairer, he shat all over Star Wars with the risible prequels.
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Post by themirrorthief on Jan 22, 2019 17:35:34 GMT -5
well Lucas was pretty smart, combining Flash Gordon and Wizard of Oz...into something sorta new in a retro kind of way...I saw the original three times...not bad for me
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Post by johnnypt on Jan 22, 2019 17:37:45 GMT -5
well Lucas was pretty smart, combining Flash Gordon and Wizard of Oz...into something sorta new in a retro kind of way...I saw the original three times...not bad for me I saw it a few more than that...75...but most on TV, only saw it six times in the theater (7 counting the special edition in 1997)
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Post by themirrorthief on Jan 22, 2019 17:47:31 GMT -5
best babysitter your parents could have found IM sure!!!
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Post by themirrorthief on Jan 22, 2019 17:50:37 GMT -5
ps, you are my kind of nerd...when my daughter was little I think I might have broken that record with a number of those disney channel movies
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Post by johnnypt on Jan 22, 2019 19:26:44 GMT -5
best babysitter your parents could have found IM sure!!! The vast majority of that number came when I was in high school and college! 😆
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Post by themirrorthief on Jan 22, 2019 20:55:18 GMT -5
I liked return of the Jedi...I could never get into the second one for whatever reason...the last one I went to I actually started to feel bad for the storm troopers...the poor saps had no chance blinded by their helmets....totally unfair...I think a lot of them were shot by their fellow troopers
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Post by kemp on Jan 23, 2019 5:14:03 GMT -5
In my opinion George Lucas went over the top with the digital stuff, screwing with the original trilogy, new editions, sometime it seemed like he just wanted to fill in space with things that just did not relate very well with the things already happening. Look at the some of the shit added to Star Wars A New Hope. Here is a good breakdown between the original 1977 version and the 2011 doodled edition. For instance at 6 minutes when Luke, Ben and the droids arrive at Mos Eisley. After all this time I still like the prequels made later on, but even Lucas admitted he may have gone too far in some places after he saw a rough cut of 1999's Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. Lucas felt it was too late to make cuts. Having said that, I don't think he was so much critical of the ( over ) use of digital effects as much as how it was all edited and fitted into the time frame that they where working with. www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/star-wars-george-lucas-admitted-he-went-far-phantom-menace-screening-1070589
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Post by Grim Wanderer on Jan 23, 2019 14:45:29 GMT -5
Gone too far is putting it mildly. He shat the bed with a race of teddy bears in RotJ, then he took it up a notch with the Special Eds. By the time the prequels came about he'd lost all sense of proportion.
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Post by andys on Jan 23, 2019 15:37:11 GMT -5
Eh, saying something like "gone too far" or making other critical comments strikes me as pretty ordinary for a rough cut screening. That's the whole point of the rough cut - to see what mistakes were made and make plans to tighten up the editing and such. This is not to say, of course, that the prequels don't suck, because they do
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