General Star Wars Random Thoughts Thread — Page 235

LOL!

Even though TPM ended up being a horrible disaster, seeing old images and footage of its advertising still brings back a lot of fun SW-related memories. To anyone on here too young to remember, the hype was intense, and the advertising really made it seem like TPM was going to be a real movie. Of course we all know what happened, but it’s fun to think about how excited everyone was to see how it all began.

It is a real movie, just a mediocre one. And at least it was shot on film. Somebody forgets to back up the hard drives for AOTC and ROTS every so often, and they could go poof!

Sadly, TPM was the last time I saw a lightsaber battle break out inside the theater.

It still has some nostalgic watchability for me. It’s so low-stakes that it’s hard to actively despise it. For the past several years I’ve been meaning to put in Episode I and give it a watch again. I’ve yet to do this.

I remember the lead up to TPM very fondly. The fun I had opening night still outweighs my disappointment in the film. I was 18, finishing high school and the world was opening up in exciting ways.
I was disappointed in the film, but the disappointment didn’t feel as heavy and final as it did when walking out of AOTC or ROTS. After AOTC it was apparent that TPM wouldn’t be remembered as the rocky start to the series, but as the best the PT had to offer.

The fact that nothing of consequence happens in the movie makes it very inoffensive once the shock wore off. Clones and Sith are so nonsensical, yet have such dramatic content related to Star Wars that they are incredibly miserable to watch.

The space battle at the end does feel like old school Star Wars though.

SilverWook said:

The space battle at the end does feel like old school Star Wars though.

I suppose, but minus the five year-old brat. I especially enjoyed the cutting between cockpits.

When Anikan said that Jar Jar picked a fight with a “Dug”, I always thought that he was saying, “thug”.

moviefreakedmind said:

When Anikan said that Jar Jar picked a fight with a “Dug”, I always thought that he was saying, “thug”.

An EX-PECIALLY dangerous thug.

The circle is now complete.

Real comedy is like a fine wine.

A proposition submitted for consideration:

George Lucas said in 2007 (when interviewed for The Making of Star Wars), “It was at that moment [while writing the third-draft script in 1975] that I came up with the idea that Luke and the princess are twins. I simply divided the character in two.”

For once he wasn’t exaggerating or stretching the truth. He was simply being honest - after all, the 1975 second-draft script of The Star Wars featured Luke Starkiller rescuing his brother Deak from an Imperial prison, with Deak essentially playing the Princess Leia role. And Ralph McQuarrie’s sketches of Luke and Leia from 1975 show the two characters as both blonde with identical bowl cuts.

So – although the idea was likely abandoned during the production of ESB, and then hastily resurrected for ROTJ – I think GL might actually be telling the truth when he suggests that he considered having Luke and Leia be siblings (well, half-siblings at least) from the very beginning.

With all the incest that implies.

I heard that the part where Anakin built a podracer was cut from the original script too.

I’ve always found it a little funny (though understandable) that we call nonhuman species in the SW universe “alien.” Given what the word actually means, even Han Solo is an alien from the perspective of an earthling.

They all speak english though, so I have to assume that they were originally from either the U.S. or U.K.

flametitan said:

ATMachine said:
So – although the idea was likely abandoned during the production of ESB, and then hastily resurrected for ROTJ

I would assume it was cut out earlier than that, considering the good luck kisses Leia gives Luke in The Death Star and before he Departs to his X-wing.

Did you read my post all the way through?

Anakin’s podracer flag at Maz’s castle has apparently been removed from the DVD/Blu-ray release.

http://www.starwarsnewsnet.com/2016/05/anakin-skywalker-reference-cut-from-star-wars-the-force-awakens.html

Any thoughts?