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I prefer the acting and characterization from Browning’s version, but the Mexican does make more sense. I suppose the American would have, too, had it been edited correctly.

To be specific, I would have liked to see a confrontation like this one to take place (minus the “arrrgh” part):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzb3rASU-pM

Bingowings said:

Even then Yoda is probably not your man. In the Hammer Dracula Van Helsing is a very physical person. Running along tables leaping up to pull down heavy curtains etc.

1931 Van Helsing isn’t, though.

I was thinking more about a battle of wills like that of Dracula and Van Helsing in the 1931 film, not so much a physical fight.

The Giant Claw is another classic. Straight faced actors against that ridiculous looking monster is one the reasons I love the genre so much, and something these modern “good” bad movies seem not to get. It would be nice if someone could debunk the myth about Jeff Morrow and the cast not knowing how terrible the puppet looked until the film’s premiere. It’s featured prominently in the trailer, so what gives?

Also, with the recent debacle about AotC’s love story, let me tell you this B-movie has a much better written and acted romance, with some real chemistry between the leads.

There’s nothing inherently wrong about the two of them fighting, but they shouldn’t have had a saber duel.

I have heard lots of bad things about TFN. But what’s the real deal?

Sompote “Sands” Saengduenchai’s Crocodile. How can you not love a movie where this happens?

Almost everything, from the writing, to the directing and the editing. I do like Rose Byrne, though.

He does take the executioner’s sword for a brief moment, when they’re about to off Proculus. But still, that burning Coliseum is balderdash.

I will say it’s much more sensible than this, however:

GRRR, Peter O’Toole is a monster!

Sony’s Godziller covers are classic photoshop nonesense:

Universal didn’t do much better:

Seriously, both the Thai and US posters are a wonder to behold, why this generic tripe?

No, that image in not in the movie. Besides, it’s 7 Doors of Death.

Why would they use anything other than the gold coin?

This one’s just plain stupid:

Rogue - That killer crocodile film everyone praises as though it was the next Jaws.
Black Water - Same as above.
Gone With The Wind - There are much better ways to fill 3 hours.
The Wizard of Oz (Technicolor) - Give me the silent versions any time over it.
The Lion King - What’s all the fuzz about this one? It’s not even Disney’s best.
King Kong '05 - Not that any Jackson’s post LOTR film is great, but often I see people excusing it with “Well, it’s much better than the DeLaurentiis version”. It is really?

Yes, it does. But, then again, you’re limiting yourself if you let such a superfluous detail affect your enjoyment of the scene.

To be fair, Jabba’s death is quite brutal and down to earth. People are thrown into an implied painful death. That pretty much compensates the lack of severed limbs during the scene. Also 3P0 gets an eye pulled out, there’s that.

Ryan McAvoy said:

Another mistake of the prequels was filling the screen with wall-to-wall Jedis, it diminished the power they had in this one scene from ROTJ. The PT had them protecting the galaxy with force of numbers… instead of just protecting it with THE FORCE.

The prequels had more CGI backflips and people swinging swords over their heads, though.

“At least he’s wearing black armor and not white robes like what’s-his-name suggested.”
“what’s-his-name” would suggest it’s either a stupid name, or one that’s nor worth copying and pasting. But for the record, I’ve never suggest “what’s-his-name” should wear white robes, I said it wouldn’t be a problem if he did. But go back to writing that really good Star Wars film, though.

Return of the Jedi is clearly a film where the positives far overweight the negatives. The entire first act, the duel, the Emperor, World War III in space, etc; all ring classic Star Wars to me.

Beg to differ…

Thanks! I thought of that, but the only versions of the script I’ve been able to find are either the early drafts or just transcripts of the finished film.

“He also wore black. Do you want Kylo to wear something else just to emphasize the unnecessary points of originality?”
Originality/subversion alone doesn’t do anything. However, if we’re dealing with a good film that features competent writing, direction and acting, would you think its quality be hurt if you saw the villain wearing white robes and using a blue lightsaber?

We’re trying to make a Star Wars film? That’s news to me.

In any case, I don’t see how giving the villain a blue or green lightsaber would in any way make it feel like a fan fiction.

And again, just because they were slightly important in the first film, there’s no reason to feature them again other than “Hey cool! It’s CP30 and R2D2!”.

It feels like an afterthought to me. I suppose not many people in the theater were like "Hey, wasn’t this going to happen in the prequels? Overrall it’s a fairly minor thing.

If we’re to retain to same basic plot and story similarities, then the changes ought to be purely cosmetic:
-Kylo’s saber ought to be a different color, to eliminate the “bad guise use red” cliche.
-No visual callbacks, like the binary sunset, the chessboard, the cantina, etc.
-Starkiller base ought to be a decoy, “These rebels will think we’re stupid enough to build yet another Death Shhtar!”. Ideally they could come up with a more clever way to be threating.
-No “landing after coming our of hyperspace”, it’s enough with the recycled OT moments, why insert an unused concept from TPM?
-No storm troopers, the enemy force would look like a Frankenstein’s monster of an army with many different species and uniforms. No ETs, though.
-No C3P0 or R2D2. Seriously, why are they so important to this universe? They’re just droids that happened to be in a few major battles.
-Have the Millenium Falcon heavily modified, after all the version Han had was not the original to begin with.

The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars (though sometimes I rank it higher than Empire).
Return of the Jedi

If we’re in the subject of cities, I was always bugged that the forest sanctuary was the Gungas’ hiding place, whereas the city underwater was were they “officially” lived. Wouldn’t it make more sense that they hid underwater on the other side of the planet, rather than outdoors in broad daylight?

Neither of the versions for the musical accompaniment as written by Williams match the action, and of course the final film features said cue in a heavily edited form, more so than other cues in the film. So if Williams indeed compose the track for an earlier version of the scene, are there any clues as to how it played, what the order of the scenes was, etc?