Unless, of course, he fathered a child from the “netherworld of the force” by “manipulating the midichlorions to create life.”
Isn’t she too young to be Ben’s daughter? Granddaughter perhaps. That’s actually what I’m rooting for.
And in the OT, scenes with non humanoids were special. The cantina in SW, Jabba’s palace in ROTJ. It was an event even for the protagonists, not just the audience, to be in these environments.
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2.) First you criticize the characters for being in the same position they are in at the beginning of A New Hope, but then you criticize it for not being continuous with the Original Trilogy. Which is it?
There’s a difference between “The stories should not contradict each other” and “I want these characters to stand here and never move for ~20 years so that they can pick up exactly where the OT starts”
Precisely. IMO, a good prequel trilogy would have ended with Vader turning evil and only then a living Padme realizing she’s pregnant. The birth and distribution of the kids are completely unnecessary to depict.
It doesn’t even sound like the way 3PO normally speaks.
Maybe it was just Anthony Daniels speaking candidly when he thought the mic was dead after recording the sequence, and George decided to add it in.
That said, what about Rey? If one of the big parts of the prequels is that everyone is related, then it can be assumed that this new cast is related to nobody. And that includes Rey.
You mean that everybody who’s related in the OT is also related in the PT? I’m not a prequel sympathizer, but I don’t see how this is a prequelism.
The Force Awakens could have been more original by not being a Star Wars movie.
I meant no offense. I quite enjoy DE’s disdain for the EU. It’s just ironic, that’s all.
Ironic that your username is double batteries while so many of your posts are buzzkill.
I don’t know what’s more weird, that Luke looks like he’s going fly fishing in that vest, or Xizor’s freakishly long nails. He could maim himself just scratching an itch!
The vest kind of resembles the outer layer of the Hoth uniform, no?
If you’re grading on a 4-point scale 6-7/10 is a B-
Oh. Hm. I think maybe he’s saying that he’ll pretend for his own sanity that one beam destroyed the whole Hosnian system and the other four were errant/to other systems entirely.
I’d rather just accept that it’s a movie and that if Star Wars subscribed to physics it would be boring.
Huh?
He’s saying that you shouldn’t have been able to see the distinction between a sun and its planets from lightyears away in a different system, which is true.
About damn time 😃
EDIT: You should watch it a second time in like a week or two to reaffirm your position. It’s definitely a film that should be seen a second time.
Completely agree. For me, I found the initial Jakku sequence to be quite long and tedious on the first viewing. The second time the whole movie was phenomenal. Looking forward to seeing it a third time in just a week. 😃
I don’t like that they repeated the cliche trope of having a force-sensitive protagonist fly a spaceship. IT’S A REMAKE!!! bah humbug
The chimp from Empire, from David Prowse’s Twitter.
https://mobile.twitter.com/isDARTHVADER/status/708702145030172672
Whenever I watch the Star Wars movies, I usually include ROTS, mostly because it is not boring like TPM, and to a lesser extent AOTC, and also because of the nostalgia I have for it (apart from TFA, it is the only Star Wars film that I remember the hype for).
That seems so strange to me. Your generation does not remember the hype of the Phantom Menace, or its flop.
As a child I remember lumping TPM and the OT into the “old Star Wars” category, just because they were the ones released before I was born.
I was old enough that I remember the hype, but too young to register that it was a flop or to realize the masses considered it a flop. I was just like, Darth Maul’s lightsaber is so cool. Ah, to be young and clueless.
I’ve wondered if this Verta stuff has something to do particularly with Star Wars. Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t Star Wars worse for wear, even relative to the other two? Maybe they already have restorations of Empire and Jedi and are unhappy with what they have for SW given the source material and talent available to them.
I should look around and see if the Targets here carry as much. I suppose it would come in handy if Marty McFly and Doc Brown need a couple more VHS-C tapes. 😉
Or for converting your TFA Blu Ray to D-theater.
I do agree that summer 2017 would be nearly the perfect time to do some kind of theatrical release of the OOT.
I think before/alongside Rogue One would be the perfect time. A re-release won’t steal any of RO’s thunder, but it could perhaps draw some skeptical older fans into the theaters. In particular, a RO/STAR WARS marathon could be awesome.
Rob Ford, perpetually drunk mayor of Toronto.
To answer the original question:
I’d be surprised if Lucasfilm made a special pan and scan edition just for Delta. They could have played around with the 4:3 format and used the variable aspect ratio IMAX version though 😃
That’s a good question! Clearly there’s still a VHS duplication setup out there somewhere, or the airline tape wouldn’t exist. There could still be a warehouse full of blanks out there somewhere.
Who was still making audio cassettes in 2014 for that matter?
Come to think of it, I remember reading last year that Sony had finally ended production of blank Betamax tapes. Blank VHS aren’t hard to come by to this day. There must still be lines open, probably manufactured in waves and put in warehouses and not made again until they need more like various industries do for spare parts. If this is true, then a major VHS release would only mean opening the lines for an extended period to fill temporarily high demand.
Given the long history of Star Wars on home video, I could see some sort of limited edition VHS set coming out for the 40th anniversary. Some small indie horror video companies have done VHS releases in the past couple years.
If Marvel could make the Guardians Of The Galaxy awesome mix tape cassette a reality…
Are VHS tapes being manufactured in large enough quantities for that to be possible?