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Originally posted by: electrictroy
(1) 2001 made in 1969 was more realistic (there are no sounds in space!).
now that would be an exciting space battle. Like lucas said in an interview (baby hum's 3rd release i think it was)...when you create a universe you get to make up the rules. In his universe there is sound in space. He made that choice and now he has to keep consitant with it.
plus, like he said, i like the sound of the tie fighters zipping by.
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(2) Although I enjoy playing old 8-bit games like Super Mario, given a choice, I'd rather play the 16-bit versions. Same Game. Better Looks.
The same applies to Star Wars. Why settle for the primitive model technology & black squares around the ships, when you can have the same movie, but with better looks & no squares?
Nostalgia is nice.
Progress is better.
i like my hi quality 8 bit games. despite what the video game companies tell you graphics dont make a game good, its the story and gameplay.
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My only objections are when Lucas actually *changed the scene* like deleting the Yub-Yub Song I disagree with that. But where he left the scene intact, merely enhanced with CGI, I think it's good.
Wont get any arguement from me on the first part of that statement.
but let me ask you something, if you object to the Yub Nub deleting because its a change in the scene. Wouldnt stuff like the intro to mos eisley be a change...or is that a CGI enhancement? Where does the line get drawn? Also, you said you dislike the missing Yub Nub song, but what about the rest of the changes to that scene, ie the celebrations in other cities, you said you liked these, or at least the toppling Emperor statue. What makes these more obvious visual changes acceptable but not an audio change, especially since there have been over time many different audio mixes of the star wars movies causing people to remember different lines of dialogue. Again, you have to draw a line somewhere, and as Bossk said, if fixing up the (by today's standards) 'low-quality' special effects means changes to the rest of the film than ill take the 'low quality' special effects.
and how is adding in cgi different than 'changing a scene'. when you get down to it, it isnt, add or subtract, the end result is something new. if you think about it, what makes 'changing a scene' different then changing the movie.
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All I know is what Lucas said in an interview, and he said he wanted the Han-Jabba scene in the first movie, but couldn't make it work, due to limited technology.
an interview where he was probably promoting/hyping the SE's. What do you want him to say, "Yeah, i wanted to test out this CGI Jabba for a movie im gonna make in 2 years when i give the world the prequals they've been waiting 20 years to see so i figured id just revive this scene that we couldnt make work because it didnt flow right with the movie, i mean now that i have this great CGI technology that ought to change the flow/redundency issues we had with the scene."
'couldnt make work' can mean many things (not that that's even necessarily his exact wording). It doesnt necessarily have to be related to the ability of special effects at the time. you also only addressed a small part of my post there. what about the fact that ive seen interviews that have said that Jabba as we know him wasnt designed yet? was that because in '77 they didnt have the technology to think up a giant slug? guess that was only available when ROTJ came out in '83.
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If that's not true, I'd have to conclude Lucas is lying, and I'm not prepared to make that leap. ;-)
because lucas has never given us any reason to think he might be lying. i mean, when has lucas ever contradicted himself in an interview
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