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Post #336313

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Gaffer Tape
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We should sue George Lucas.
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Date created
13-Nov-2008, 12:13 PM

Since everyone's addressed the Hayden issue to death, I guess I'll pick on the Star Wars Jabba scene.  In some ways, I find it worse than Hayden because while that's pandering and annoying and disrespectful (things we expect from George Lucas), adding back in the Jabba scene is just bad filmmaking and editing (well, things we also expect from him lately, but since it's his job to be a filmmaker, he should know better).  It's redundant as hell.  When the scene was cut, some of Han's lines were edited into the Greedo scene, so now he says the exact same thing twice.  No new information is presented.  It also destroys the pacing of the movie by sidelining the real focus of the movie at that point:  to get to Alderaan.  It also screws up the reveal of the Millenium Falcon by having it just appear in this random scene before Luke and company arrive to see it.  There were so many things wrong with this scene in 1976 that it's no wonder it ended up on the cutting room floor... where it belonged.  Adding a horrible-looking CG Jabba just made it even worse.  It was clearly done as a test to see if CG characters interacting with humans could be done in the prequels.  Oh, and this scene is pandering too by compositing in a Boba Fett mugging the camera.  Sooo many things wrong with this scene.  The fact that it was changed again in 2004 should tell you that.