I don't think I have watched any of them for 2-3yrs now. I will probably watch them all again when Ady releases ESB:R. I am bit on the fence though, as dark_jedi has yet to also release the GOUT V3 blu-ray too, so may end up waiting for that as well.
I hadn't watched any of Star Wars films in their enitrety for a long time, a couple years. ANH:R I've watched countless times, because I can actually stand it. I recently tried watching the ESB bluray, and I got through it all, but it was hard to get through all the crappiness of the transfer and the SE changes. I can't watch Empire again till ESB:R comes out, and it will only be ESB:R.
I have watched Episodes II and I within this week though, and will probably watch III soon. It's not as much hard as to watch as it is to stay awake. THE PT is completely boring for the most part. Those movies are so bad yet still have a good movie somewhere in there, it's just a matter of finding it.
But, I certainly won't be watching ROTJ for a while, unless there is currently a good HD edit floating around. ROTJ has always been my least favorite Star Wars films, for its incredibly slow pace and action scenes that lack any tension whatsoever.
You guys don't watch Harmy's despecialized?
SpilkaBilka said:
You guys don't watch Harmy's despecialized?
I realised what I previously said is not true. I have seen Harmy's Sar Wars despecialized edition in the past 2yrs but not ESB or ROTJ (I was going to watch his despecialized editions but decided to wait and see what he impoves/changes). As said before, I want to see how Ady's ESB:R and dark_jedi's projects turn out as well.
I don't remember the last time I watched the OOT, it's been years. What's happened to the franchise has become such a bitter point for me that I've divorced myself from all things Star Wars, and haven't watch since at least 2004 or so, if not longer. I try not watch Indiana Jones stuff either, blockbusters always hang in the specter of the films Lucas says "don't exist anymore," they all sadly remind me of Star Wars though. I know, I know seek therapy :p. But the joy has been sucked out of it for me.
“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one.”
Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death
Not trying to belittle you or anything- just genuinely curious- if you're that sick of SW and haven't watched it in 10 years... why exactly are you posting on a SW website?
It's a legitimate question. If the OOT came out again, I'd watch in a heartbeat, and I certainly share the desires if everyone here in hoping that it'll come out. But I just have trouble seeing past the bullsht right now, all of this stuff has taken the magic away. If the originals come out and I can finally just watch them properly for what that they are, it'd probably come back to me.
“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one.”
Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death
SpilkaBilka said:
Not trying to belittle you or anything- just genuinely curious- if you're that sick of SW and haven't watched it in 10 years... why exactly are you posting on a SW website?
I hear off-topic is entertaining...
Maybe once every 2-3 years.
Tomorrow I'm going to see Return of the Jedi in a theater. It doesn't say "Special Edition" but looking at the website it has the dates "1983/1997" so meh. "Special Edition" should be required by law, else it's false advertising and negligent infliction of emotional distress (Warbler can debate these points with me in Politics).
And tonight, I'm going to see Mad Max :D At least that's not Special Edition.
The blue elephant in the room.
SpilkaBilka said:
Not trying to belittle you or anything- just genuinely curious- if you're that sick of SW and haven't watched it in 10 years... why exactly are you posting on a SW website?
Well, I went a good decade or so myself before I found this place. For a lot of people, Star Wars died when their VCR broke and they didn't know to look around in the dark corners of the Internet, because they remember the day Lucas told them their VHS tape was the end of the line for Star Wars, and they knew Star Wars was living on borrowed time even back then. Yes, a True Believer would have scoured Goodwill for functional VHS players and eBay for replacement tapes, but that level of commitment, I felt, just made the whole situation of the trilogy seem more sick. I let it die.
When I found this site years later, I still had a lot of misgivings that it was even possible that something like "fan preservations" could even really exist ("better than any commercial release? pschaw! how can it be?"), and just lurked for a bit. But fast forward a little while later and I'm much happier now.
EDIT: Oh yeah, and what brought me back? Having kids, and thinking to myself, "Oh God, they're going to be exposed to the Special Editions. What a friggen nightmare... well, off to the Internet to see what I can do about this." You can inoculate your kids against anything these days. There's a chicken pox vaccine AND a Special Edition vaccine!
I barely ever watch the movies. The only time I watch them now, is if there is a great preservation like Harmy has done, or the occasional fan edit.
I'm still a fan, but I don't really feel the need to watch them. It's like I love Blade Runner, but I try not to tarnish it by watching it 50 times.
"The other versions will disappear. Even the 35 million tapes of Star Wars out there won’t last more than 30 or 40 years. A hundred years from now, the only version of the movie that anyone will remember will be the DVD version [of the Special Edition], and you’ll be able to project it on a 20’ by 40’ screen with perfect quality. I think it’s the director’s prerogative, not the studio’s to go back and reinvent a movie." - George Lucas
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I watch the OOT "faces" VHS movies about twice a year. I'd watch em' more but Im afraid of wearing out the tapes! They're good pacifiers until Disney gets their wits about them and produce the OOT on bluray. I never watch the PT or any of the clone wars cartoon crap.
"There's no cluster of midiclorians that controls my destiny!" -Han Solo, from a future revision of ANH