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#924195
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What Didn't You Like About ROTS?
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suspiciouscoffee said:

Scott109 said:

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.

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#923567
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The Force Awakens: Official Review Thread - ** SPOILERS **
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ratpack1961 said:

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.

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#922260
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The Force Awakens: Official Review Thread - ** SPOILERS **
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Lord Haseo said:

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. 😃

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#920363
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In what way I should watch a Star Wars Marathon?
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LuckyGungan2001 said:

moviefreakedmind said:

LuckyGungan2001 said:

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.

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#920277
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Peter Mayhew Tweeting Star Wars "Journal of the Whills" script. "Big announcement" to follow...
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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.

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#920178
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Peter Mayhew Tweeting Star Wars "Journal of the Whills" script. "Big announcement" to follow...
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Darth Lucas said:

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.