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#195589
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ROTJ is Luke or Anakin?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/195589/action/topic#195589
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I always thought of it as the return of the Jedi Order, but personifying the title, I thought of Luke. Because the Jedi Order was returning, but it was being led by Luke. So both of those, I guess. I never thought of Anakin being the Jedi that returned. And, since according to Lucas logic, Anakin died as a young man, it really can't be him, now can it?
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#195072
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HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE
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Originally posted by: ADigitalMan
The movies aren't inconsistent in any way. A few minor things get changed for simplicity's sake, but not out-and-out inconsistencies. That's one of the great things about them. But if you're a reader of the novels as we are in this house, you'll find yourself watching the movies and saying "why did they take [x] out of it?" This is more a problem since Christopher Columbus left. He may not have the eye for stunning filmmaking that Alfonso brought (or that Newell continued) but he was at least slavishly faithful to the books, which I found to be a refreshing change for the film industry.

Once movie seven comes out, you definitely should read the books though. So many great subplots that may not matter but certainly are fun.


Yes, but the difference is that when Columbus was directing the movies, the books that were being adapted were much shorter. Trying to make a book three times as long into a movie of the same length is a bit different. But shouldn't the credit or disdain go to Steve Kloves instead, since he's written the actual screenplays for all four movies so far? Because wasn't Columbus, or Cuaron, or Newell just working with what they were given?
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#195062
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What time frame do the OT movies take place in?
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I can see how Star Wars wouldn't have a very long duration, but how could Return of the Jedi possibly take place in only five days? Well, I guess I can see them putting the plan into action immediately, but it still seems like, with the Jabba storyline and then the Endor storyline, with Yoda in between, that there had to have been more time there.

Ah, it's good to be back.
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#190180
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What do you drive?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/190180/action/topic#190180
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Wow, that's a creepy story, Dayv.

My current car is a 1998 maroon Toyota Camry with about 150,000 miles on (I got it at 125,000), which I affectionately call Serenity (looking for a logo sticker to place on it). It replaced my previous car, a 1998 white Pontiac Sunfire right before I graduated from high school when an F-150 pulled out of a Shell station and broadsided it into the oppposing lane of traffic, totalling it. That was a fuuun day. The horn got stuck when it was struck, and it wouldn't stop wailing. Almost as if it was screaming in agony. And leaking oil like a big pool of blood. My poor, poor Sunfire!

*shudder* I just relived that. I feel a bit creeped out now.
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#189671
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Natalie Portman hosting SNL this weekend...
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Originally posted by: CO
Originally posted by: ricarleite
Originally posted by: CO
Originally posted by: CO
But when you watch it, you'll notice when Natalie says, "Everyone remembers me in the three SW movies.......(a couple of second pause from the audience) and then they clapped, it was very awkward.


Really? I wish they didn't clap at all, but in a way that it would be clear that it was not something like a deliberated joke about the prequels. I wish she really bombed there. Why didn't she say "you guys remember me from Closer and Vendetta and" other movies?


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The whole jist of the joke with the Q&A from the audience is that Natalie knew more about the PT than SW fans. They had these loser looking nerdy fans ask her questions (The way they looked was actually really funny, they just looked like complete losers), but they would ask a question like, "When Kenobi goes to Kashykk....?" and Natalie would interrupt, "No, Kenobi went to Utapau to find General Grevious....."

But to me the average person watching SNL would have no idea about that joke because General Grevious, Kashykk, or Utapau are not pop culture references, and it just didn't come off as funny, unless you were a diehard SW fan.

If this were Carrie Fisher in 1977, and they asked about Chewbacca, or the Death Star, or even the Millenium Falcon, anyone would get the joke because they were all pop culture references back then, and you didn't need to be a diehard fan of SW to get the joke.

I thought if would have been funny if they had the audience member, who was planted there of course says, "What was it like working with Harrison Ford & Mark Hammill?" Natalie would reply, "Uhh, that wasn't my trilogy, that was the original SW, mine was the prequel SW." The member would say, "The prequel SW? What was that?......." and then he just sits down.

But then again I guess that would mock Natalies own movie she was in, so why would she do it.


They do that all the time to their hosts, though. I remember when Ben Affleck hosted one time, they had a whole skit devoted to Gigli. It took place in the past, and he was visiting this mental rehabilitation ward, and one of the patients was sure that Gigli was going to flop, while Ben remained adamant. Finally, Ben just started beating the crap out of him and was written up in all the papers for beating up a mental defect. And Gigli flopped too.