Star Wars Day (UK) - Screenings of OT — Page 2

walking_carpet said:

adywan said:

GlastoEls said:

Disney does not want what just happened.

Boos for Greedo. Muttering at Jedi Rocks. But the ENTIRE theatre yelling and jeering Hayden SO loudly...

 Oh, i wish someone could have recorded that

 The horrendous re-cut that mixes vader going to a star destroyer (alert my star destroyer, blah, blah, blah)  in ESB is horrible too.  did the crowd boo at that?  people always say ESB had the least changes,  but that one is one of the worst

Agree with your point and opinion of that scene, but no.

They booed all mentions of the prequels during the panel discussions, and loudly clapped when the attending people (Biggs, Greedo, Jabba actors, plus second unit directors, etc) mentioned the OOT "originals" being better.

They grumbled during Mos Eisley swinging Jawa and Jedi Rocks, muttered during the "Wesa Free", and then it was chaos during both Greedo and especially Hayden (450 people pretty much all booing each time he came on screen - so funny and therapeutic for an originaltrilogy.com member!).

Like I say above, whereas this was a cine-literate crowd (film club members) it wasn't just Star Wars hardcore; surely this can't be sustainable for future releases at this point?

Even at the big Star Wars celebration conventions, which is about as hardcore as you can get, there have been negative crowd reactions to special edition nonsense.

Just to finish off this thread, here's the review of the day from the British Film Institute themselves:

http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/8-things-we-learned-star-wars-day?utm_content=bufferca05d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitterbfi&utm_campaign=buffer

Some quotes:

The special editions remain as controversial as ever.

Yet, with the 1997 special ditions of the Star Wars trilogy the only versions in official circulation, a big-screen viewing makes the dated anniversary additions stick out like a sore thumb. And didn’t the audience know it (the loudest boos saved for Hayden Christensen’s spectral appearance at the end of Return of the Jedi). Director George Lucas clearly meant to impose closer ties to his prequels retrospectively, but if you’ve just broken a leg, it’s hard to see the logic in breaking the other one in the name of symmetry.

(Do note, their accidental version error but the point remains; it was the 2011 versions on screen).

bkev said:

digitalfreaknyc said:

GlastoEls said:

Disney does not want what just happened.

Boos for Greedo. Muttering at Jedi Rocks. But the ENTIRE theatre yelling and jeering Hayden SO loudly...

As opposed to my screening where people applauded.

Cheering because it was the end of the film or because it was Hayden? No, seriously, I want to know. I wonder if there's a divide in the kinds of fans regionally.

Them hipsters and their irony :-?

There are a lot of people who support the change and Hayden, which is fine.  But to cheer for for a guy with a creepy stare in an otherwise happy moment... I'd probably accept the change more if Hayden had a warm smile on his face.

Somehow he'd make it look wierd.

You think so? ;)

I went to the exhibition that ran along side the showings of the films. The small exhibit featured the continuity work of Ann Skinner and featured polaroids and script details. The polaroids featured Blockade Runner, Cantina, Toshi Station, Trash Compactor, Rebel pilots.

Some of the polaroids and script details are here.

http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/set-star-wars-episode-iv-new-hope

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2845532/The-force-ve-never-seen-Incredibly-rare-pictures-filming-Star-Wars-revealed-new-exhibition.html