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Post #577510

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doubleofive
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General Star Wars Random Thoughts Thread
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13-May-2012, 9:35 PM

The wife and I watched "People vs George Lucas" on Netflix tonight. In the post-movie conversation, my wife brought up this shot:

http://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-1hU9k82On6Q/T7Bc3X9OGUI/AAAAAAAAMWA/LIxgZ9iaggY/s640/gamblelose.jpg

She always felt like Qui-Gon was looking straight at the camera, when we hit on it: Liam Neeson wasn't talking to Watto, he was talking to George. "Sometimes when you gamble, eventually you lose" indeed.

She also brought up her big problem with the prequels: they look like completely separate movies with no visual continuity with the originals. Now this is a girl whose first experience with Star Wars was the SE VHSes, you know, the versions that are supposed to tie directly into the "visual style" of the prequels. She was a fan for less than two years before Episode I came out and immediately noticed.

Watching PvGL was pretty fun. I kept yelling at the TV, then they ended up saying what I was about to say. Nice to see Jay for quite a bit of time, TMBTM for a bit (subtitled!), and Adywan for a few seconds.