Originally posted by: Tiptup
Uhg, and that horrible cgi head of Han's! It makes a very unnaturtal twitch in an effort to dodge the gun blast that wouldn't have even hit his head whether it twitched or not! It was so much better before.
I really thought the 97 SE was fairly jarring, but find the 2004 version to be a bit more smoothed out. To tell you the truth, the way they cut to the "exploding Greedo" shot was always pretty jarring to begin with even in the original version of the sequence.Originally posted by: Go-Mer-Tonic
As far as not understanding the simple elegance of the way the Han/Greedo sequence played out before, I do understand that. I didn't mind it the way it was, but at the same time I can see why Lucas wanted to change it and in the end it's not that big of a deal to me. It's a big deal to me! We're supposed to believe that Greedo, probably well accustomed to aiming his blaster, was holding it two feet or less away from Han and missed, shooting at the wall?! That's very hard to believe. If anything, Lucas' alteration makes me wonder if Greedo was even trying to shoot Han at all.
The way I roll along with this is blasters are just "clumsey and random". At first I thought there was a huge contradiction between Ben's "And these blast points too accurate for sand people.", and the way Han Luke Leia and co. just keep running all over the Death Star with nothing hitting them the whole time. Then I explained it with the idea that they were just letting them escape which was the case, but it never sat well with me that they never seem to get better in the rest of the saga. Now the way I see it is that blasters are just really hard to aim because the energy bolts themselves have a bit of randomness to them. And Ben's statement about the "blast points" were really reffering to the locations they chose to take out on the Sandcrawler. They knew exactly where to hit it, not that their aim was "so precise". Now I'm all good with all of it.Originally posted by: TiptupAs far as not understanding the simple elegance of the way the Han/Greedo sequence played out before, I do understand that. I didn't mind it the way it was, but at the same time I can see why Lucas wanted to change it and in the end it's not that big of a deal to me. It's a big deal to me! We're supposed to believe that Greedo, probably well accustomed to aiming his blaster, was holding it two feet or less away from Han and missed, shooting at the wall?! That's very hard to believe. If anything, Lucas' alteration makes me wonder if Greedo was even trying to shoot Han at all.
Uhg, and that horrible cgi head of Han's! It makes a very unnaturtal twitch in an effort to dodge the gun blast that wouldn't have even hit his head whether it twitched or not! It was so much better before.
I do think it works just fine the way it was originally, it's just that it also works for me the way it is now too.