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walking_carpet
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star wars fan since age 2ESB
-flyover shot of luke riding the tauntaun
-han saving luke. han may rub people the wrong way with his ego. but if you got a friend in han, you got a friend for life
-the ATAT tripping over its feet and falling
-the asteroid chase. just think - this was made in 19-frickin-80 !!
-yoda going through lukes stuff looking for something to play with. tossing things out.
-"this one, a long time i have watched. all his life as he looked away. never his mind on where he was..what he was doing!"
-yoda knwoing luke f-ed up in the cave..and not being surprised at all by it.
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rH2PkjBFaU&feature=related perfectly written, acted, framed, staged, decorated, lighted, and scored. this scene is anti-pt.
-vader blocking laser shots with the palm of his hand
-no....there is another.
-we all know about -'i love you' 'i know' - but i also like when chewie howls in protest and gets violent. han tries to calm him down telling him it'll be alright and talking sense into him.
-seeing han frozen in carbonite for the first time. cinema buffs talk about what an unorthodox and controversial storytelling device it was for hitchcock to kill off janet leigh not even half way through pyscho. In 1980, being a 5 year old little kid and not knowing what was going to happen to han for at least 3 more years (when your less than 10, each year is a huge percentage of your life) was every bit as shocking. still the greatest cliffhanger.
-vader slowly ignites his lightsaber to duel with luke.
-the end-fight on the platform from beginning to end. i love that high overhead shot of vader and luke. the lightsabers just glow beautifully against the dark blue background. Vader telling luke the truth about hwat really happened. Luke refusing to join him (love the triumphant music).
-'bring my shuttle!' thanks harmy!!
walking_carpet
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star wars fan since age 2ROTJ (this is probably gonna get nasty cuz so many cool scenes are ruined)
-first seeing jabba after 6 years of hearing about him
-when the rancor dies, the pet-owner cries!! a big scary monster was someones pet!! bwaaaahaahahahahahahaaa.
-after they blowup jabbas sail barge - starting with luke saying 'lets go..and dont forget the droids' to the shot of the x wing and the falcon going in different directions. love the music. nowadays, the jabba storyline is kinda long and come off as filler. but the idea of a group of people doing what they can to help a friend thats in trouble is just something that sticks with me.
-yoda telling luke not to underestimate the emperor.
-the music when yoda dies and luke realizes what needs to be done. combine that with the thunder in the background. just beautiful and somber.
-why dont you use your divine influence...and get us out of this!! fords expression is just priceless.
-"i wonder if your feelings on this matter are clear, lord vader?" if ROTJ had a voiceover like goodfellas, we would have heard vaders narration say "when the emperor asked me that, I knew I was never gonna be alive after the battle of endor"
-3P0 telling the story of star wars to the ewoks. this was a great scene and im glad the droids were able to stay relevant even though ROTJ was mostly the luke and vader show.
-kinda torn about including this one --> Luke asking leia if she remembered her real mother. it was this scene that really made me curious of the PT and what happened to anakin skywalker, especially after we hear Bens story. it was a great way to start off the scene too.
[rant] I cant tell you how disgusted I was at how it got ruined cuz of lucas' completely uncaring attitude towards competant (if not decent) storytelling.
in 2004, we were all really concerned about this for ROTS because you couldn't realistically have padme die and leia remember her at birth. but you couldn't leave it open-ended either because it would have been bad storytelling - and given how non-dimensional padme was in the PT, none of us were convinced lucas could pull it off anyways. Carl Cunningham said that the resolution of padme was shot both ways and either padme survives but its contrived and ham-fisted. or one of the most pathetic plotholes in cinema history is created. and please spare me any apologist crap of leia using the force to remember her (the way it was written in the ROTS novel is absolutely ridiculous). It was scenes like this that made us all anticipate the PT and lucas knew that fucking well and thumbed his nose and laughed all the way back to skywalker ranch.
[/rant over] doesnt bother me as much anymore since I regard PT as EU and pretend ROTS and ROTJ are not same universe. I guess I'll leave it for old times sake.
-luke meeting the emperor for first time - gotta love that music
-Its a trap!! alright, alright- it was never really one of my "favorites", but with the internet meme and this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRvQKnsjYzM , I gotta add this in now!! bwaaaahaahhaahahahaahaahaahahahahahahahahahahaaaa!!!!!
-i love it when han taps the stormtroopers shoulder and ambushes him.
-when the 2 logs swing together and crush the AT-ST
-when the ewoks rope the trooper on the speeder - that was awesome.
-vader crossing the rubicon by threatening to go after leia. gotta love the music.
-luke NOT crossing the rubicon, refuses to let his emotions get the better of him and telling the emperor that he will never join the dark side.
-Darth Vader, Anakin Skywalker - after throwing it all away and spending most of his life ruining himself as much as his friends and loved ones, makes the ultimate sacrifice. perfectly staged, scored and shot. THANKS HARMY!!
-vaders funeral - early example of 'closure'
-the celebration - i like yub nub. i like seeing the rebels celebrate. i like the idea of seeing a group of characters we all came to know and love - those in the flesh and in spirit. Thanks harmy!!
silverwheel
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That's impossible, even for a computercaptainsolo said:
Nearly any moment in SW could be considered one, primarily due to the way the film was cut. There's an undeniable energy to even the slightest of gestures that makes the thing feel so incredibly alive. This is what really makes ESB and ROTJ seem different.
No kidding. This is why I love watching the Puggo Grande so much - it really allows one to focus on the energy of the editing. This is such a kinetic movie from start to finish - and the death star finale is a virtuoso piece of work. Sometimes I wonder if it's notable that this was edited by a woman...as rousing as this whole ending is, it's also very elegant, and I think that energy really puts the sequence over the top. Every single time Han shows up, I'm floored. And the old FX is so perfect - yeah, it's a big battle, but the ships always have a bit of that 2001-style "drifting" quality to them. The SE dogfight work is so...not elegant.
This energy is also why I think Star Wars works best when it's removed from any notion of a saga. I love the PG so much because it takes me to a place where Star Wars was just another movie, the new one from that American Graffiti guy. And the great leap from his previous work was largely in the editing.
"Somebody walks up and you say 'your number's 21-87, isn't it?' And boy, does that person really smile." - 21-87 by Arthur Lipsett
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legendary but little-known Jedi Mastersilverwheel said:
This is why I love watching the Puggo Grande so much - it really allows one to focus on the energy of the editing.
Thanks for the kind words about PG. Indeed, I have always maintained that the editing is what made the movie - even possibly saved it from being a disaster. And, that's why the SE is not only bad for movie history, it also made the movie tangibly worse.
walking_carpet
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star wars fan since age 2one cool editing scene is where all the rebel pilots get ready and take off in their x-wings.
its the sequence that shows on x-wing closing its canopy - you guys know it. its cut from all different angles and for a while I thought it was one of many x-wings getting ready. but its just one.
pretty cool.
also like the editing in ESB where vader causes lukes lightsaber to slip out of his hands and he charges after him. luke falls to the lower level and vader jumps down towards him. The editing of luke scaling the ATAT and blowing it up with grenade and then detaching is pretty cool.
someone already mentioned ROTJ where luke jumps off the speeder and cuts down the trooper with his lighsbaber.
wish there were animated gifs of all these.
DarkSky
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It is really difficult to point out any specific scene, the trilogy as a whole is so impressive. I particularly love most of the scenes with Yoda and Darth Vader. Luke's training period with Yoda is also amazing, especially the scene where Yoda demonstrates the power of the Force to doubtful Luke... :) And of course the epic scene where Vader says the F word after cutting off Luke's hand ;)
corellian77
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Has a smile 12 parsecs widewalking_carpet said:
-we all know about -'i love you' 'i know' - but i also like when chewie howls in protest and gets violent. han tries to calm him down telling him it'll be alright and talking sense into him.
I agree- this is a great scene. As a kid, when Han says, "Chewie! Chewie, this won't help me... Save your strength. There'll be another time," I remember thinking 'Hey, they're not getting out of this one this time.' It's a powerful moment that, as a kid, really drove home the concepts of sacrifice, acceptance, and resilience in the face of defeat.
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DARTH SLIM
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-luke NOT crossing the rubicon, refuses to let his emotions get the better of him and telling the emperor that he will never join the dark side.
-Darth Vader, Anakin Skywalker - after throwing it all away and spending most of his life ruining himself as much as his friends and loved ones, makes the ultimate sacrifice. perfectly staged, scored and shot. THANKS HARMY!!
-vaders funeral - early example of 'closure'
-the celebration - i like yub nub. i like seeing the rebels celebrate. i like the idea of seeing a group of characters we all came to know and love - those in the flesh and in spirit. Thanks harmy!!
I love all four of these scenes, when Luke tells the Emperor that he has lost because he won't turn to the dark side, even after years of watching the films. It still suprises me when the Emperor uses Sith Lightning to attack Luke, as the look on his face is that he is not phased by Luke's decision not to turn to the dark side and you know something is going to happen but not that.
I like yub nub too, why they felt it necessary to replace it with that awful piece of music when they "remastered" the trilogy is beyond me. That is why I bought the trilogy box set that included the Original Theatrical releases on the bonus disc, although the films are in 4:3 A little adjustment of my televisions settings and I am able to watch them at a reasonable size with reasonable quality sound.
Which is how I remember them as a child, yeah the film is a little grainy but that doesn't bother me it just adds to the overall effect to me, also you don't get all those CGI scenes and adjustments they insisted on adding in all the films in particular ANH which to me is a real Kick in teeth to the Special effects and puppet guys works. Also what is the deal with the whole Jabba at the falcon scene not necessary anyway, let alone the whole walking over the tail bit so stupid.
Han already knows the deal with Jabba and expresses that quite well, he needs to pay him off end of.
And Han definitely shot first!
Slim
I find your lack of faith disturbing
Ziggy Stardust
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My first thread. How cute.
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CP3S said:
You will not. None of us will, except for a very old and dying Ziggy Stardust who will watch it through teary eyes as he remembers us all.
pittrek said:
I seriously hope I will live enough to see the original Star Wars trilogy in this quality
rabscuttle1
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In the OT - when we first see Vader as he boards the Tantive IV. I was five when I first saw that & it blew me away.
Prequels - when the mask is first put on Anakin and we hear the iconic breathing begin. This scene made me feel five again.
I have many more but these are my two favorite.
TV's Frink
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Ointment FlyToo bad it's ruined two minutes later when he speaks.rabscuttle1 said:
Prequels - when the mask is first put on Anakin and we hear the iconic breathing begin. This scene made me feel five again.
rabscuttle1
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I grant you it wasn't his best moment, but I don't think it ruined the scene.
DuracellEnergizer
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Ce n'est pas DuracellEnergizerTV's Frink said:
Too bad it's ruined two minutes later when he speaks.rabscuttle1 said:
Prequels - when the mask is first put on Anakin and we hear the iconic breathing begin. This scene made me feel five again.
LOL ... well said.
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