Re: Most disappointing films.

On Wed, 5 Mar 2025 18:18:59 -0800, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

On 3/5/2025 8:46 AM, Paul S Person wrote:

On Tue, 18 Feb 2025 19:59:32 -0600, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
 

On 2/18/2025 3:30 AM, D wrote:

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On Tue, 17 Feb 2025, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
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In article <f0dc1e8c-b338-1261-cf4d-5ff6d5f503e4@example.net>,
D  <nospam@example.net> wrote:

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On Mon, 17 Feb 2025, William Hyde wrote:
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In a conversation the other day I came up with a list of these, and
to my
surprise they were all SF/F.
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(1) The Return of the Jedi
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(2) The Lord of the Rings (Bakshi version)
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(3) Dune (Lynch version).
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Not that I haven't seen far worse movies, but in each of these cases
I was
expecting something better.
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Of course other people may have different lists.  And I did like Dune
somewhat more the second time I saw it.
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William Hyde

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I agree with Dune. LOTR (b) I saw when I was 12, haven't seen it
since, so
cannot say. I like 1. On my list are all the new star wars movies.
Absolutely horrible! They should have let the original 3 stand, and not
produce prequels that dishonored the memory of hte original. =(

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Rogue One is pretty good.

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Maybe I shall have to look into Rogue one. Andor is pretty good. Maybe
Rogue one is too?
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I actually quite enjoyed TFA, but then I didn't believe Han was
actually dead (I was pretty sure that with the big build-up on Maz,
her connection with the Force and having gotten a light saber
possibly through teleportational menas that she was going to pull
some mojo that would be revealed later.  TMF me.)

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"Rogue One" is awesome.  It is based on the single line in the Star Wars
IV movie (the first one), "Many Bothans ??? gave up their lives for this
information.".

 
/A New Hope/ (aka Star Wars IV) came up for viewing about a week ago.
That line was not in it.
 

Lucas kept re-editing the original trilogy so one can no longer be
certain exactly WHICH version you will be watching unless you have it on
disc.

Which is why I specified the LD version on the secondary disc of the
DVD package. This applies to IV, V, and VI.

On my 4:3 NTSC TV, I see it letterboxed stretching from side to side.
But it is not "16:9", that is, not anamorphic.

This does /not/ have "Episode IV A New Hope" at the top of the initial
scrolling text. This is ironic because this is the only one I would
like to have that on, to fit in with the "IV" on the spine.

Still, that does imply that the LD was based on the one original true
version of the film!

These packages include the revised versions (or, rather, one set of
the revised versions) and I did watch them. They aren't different
enough to be worth watching when the originals are available.

Some directors, like Hitchcock, actually /know/ what they are doing.
Most have no idea. Lucas belongs to the latter category.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"