i’m one of those people who said Lucas should have stuck to his original concept of Palpatine and Yoda not having lightsabers. At the same time i love the line from Palpatine to Yoda. I’ve been waiting for this moment a long time my little green friend. And how Ian plays it to the hilt.
He is my second favorite director after George Lucas and i love so many of his films. Raiders is probably my favorite. I also love Close Encounters and ET, Jaws. Catch me if you can, Minority Report.
I guess i would say Return of the Jedi. Where you learn it wan Obi Wan’s pride and hubris that led to the creation of Darth Vader. How he had tried to persuade Anakin back to the good side. None of that was in the prequel films.
Nor was Owen Lars Obi Wan’s brother, and Leia’s real mom did not live beyond the birth of Darth Vader.
I kind of wanted to see Anakin as a good friend, a great starpilot and a cunning warrior. That he wanted to have a son and leave him his lightsaber. But i don’t want to rehash the problems i have with the prequels.
It wouldn’t make sense now that Rey is the adopted Skywalker, but before ROS i would have said i would have wanted to see Luke as a father. Whether he would have had a son like in the EU or a daughter i don’t really care. His wife deceased or not could have been sort of like Mara but didn’t have to be Mara.
I never liked the celibate monk prequel thing.
Would have liked to see Luke rebuild the Jedi order, search the galaxy for the lost temples and artifacts. Learn the deeper mysteries that the prequel Jedi had forgotten.
I’m planning on watching a double feature of Raiders of the lost ark preservation and 4K77 Star Wars, in my home when i can find the time.
I like the classic posters for the first 3 films. Including the 76 poster by Howard Chaykin.
Be nice to be able to afford originals, not reprints someday. They are scarce and expensive. Far far too many repros and bootlegs.
I read Solo a Star Wars Story, and Rogue One. They were pretty darn disappointing. I’m still hoping someday we will get extended cuts of the films, or all the deleted scenes.
Rise of Skywalker was so so like the movie in book form, of all the ones i read the only one that truly added anything was Last Jedi.
I want to read Heir to the Jedi, Bloodline and Last Shot.
I finally saw Tenet. I liked the film and i still was confused as hell as to what was going on.
The time travel and moving backwards made no sense.
Haven’t seen your name yet. I did see Weathering with you. It was good but the anti environmentalist anti Miyazaki theme was kind of off. Maybe i just didn’t get it.
I also have the theater program for Star Wars and i also have the Mcquarrie portfolio.
The first printing of the paperback of Han Solo at Star’s End.
I liked it as well. But then again i’m a Torchwood fan.
Heir to the Empire
Dark force Rising
The Last Command
Specter of the Past
Vision of the Future.
Outbound Flight
Survivor’s Quest
Scoundrels
Allegiance
Choices of One.
I guess my favorites of these are Heir to the Empire, Last Command and Vision of the Future.
Greedo was going to kill Han for the Bounty that Jabba placed on him, and take Han’s ship.
What was he supposed to do ask Greedo to a dance off like Star Lord.
Isn’t there an alternate take of Obi Wan Kenobi in a Revenge of the Sith trailer, an outtake from Star Wars 77.
And there is also an alternate angle of Vader leaving his shuttle arriving at the death star in the revenge of the jedi teaser. Or Luke’s blue lightsaber from revenge of the jedi teaser, or that frame from the deleted sandstorm sequence.
Threepio taking the warning sign off the door about the Wampas is also in a trailer for Empire Strikes Back.
I have the 1994 printing with the George Lucas forward. Though it isn’t stated on the title page. It is a reprint of Splinter of the Mind’s Eye. I also have the 1976 novelization of Star Wars signed by Alan, with the McQuarrie female Luke cover. A well read copy. I have the Force Awakens hardback, and i think i might have the Approaching Storm prequel EU novel.
I hope they eventually pay him his royalties.
I recommend Last Jedi if you can pick up a copy of the paperback cheaply, ROS doesn’t add much. To be honest i was disappointed in ROS novel like i was by force awakens.
The same problem i had with the books i had with the films too little of Luke, Han or Leia. But it was nice to get more Leia and Luke in the books how ever little there was.
I’m reading all the expanded novelizations i read Last Jedi, And the Rise of Skywalker. This week i’m going to read Solo and Rogue One.
I added Goldfinger deluxe edition THX Japanese Letterbox release Sealed with OBI.
Spy Who loved me First issue Japanese pressing pan and scan with OBI, opened and used copy.
Dirty Pair OVA Affair on Nolandia sealed with OBI
Dirty Pair OVA Conspiracy of Flight 005 sealed with OBI and Calendar.
Ghost in the Shell 4K got it for 12 bucks on Amazon, if i hadn’t snoozed i could’ve gotten it for 9.
Kiki’s Delivery Service 30th Anniversary box. Studio Canal. locked to region B, blu ray disc. With stills and artbook.
Raiders
Temple
Crystal Skull
Young Indiana Jones
Last Crusade
Yeah from transfers done on D1 tape in 1992-93 for laserdisc.
There never was a transfer done for DVD, blu-ray and there never will be an official one for 4k UHD.
There never has been a restoration done of the original films, and there probably won’t ever be one.
Lucas doesn’t want it to happen it isn’t about the money.
I’m sorry to hear that. I myself had to stop all buying of goods from Japan due to EMS to USA being almost permanently on hold due to Japan post being closed to us here. I have no idea when service will resume.
I just bought something from good squid via Kuroneko Yamato service.Not cheap mind you 48 dollars.
My other order with the owner of LDDB in Japan has been on hold since aug or so. It is just Japan though, had no problem whatsoever buying a game through playasia and Fedex express from Hong Kong.
We must have seen a different movie. Rey as Luke’s heir is going to keep the jedi flame alive.
Finn, Rey and Poe will rebuild the Republic along with all their friends. The balance has been restored by Palpatine finally being defeated once and for all. The last gasp for the Empire and the Sith.
It isn’t that Luke and co failed, its that the next generation has to pick up the torch and now its their job to secure the future that Han, Luke and Leia fought for.
It is just my opinion and your mileage may vary, you could just as easily say Rise of Skywalker was just a remake of Return of the Jedi. And Han, Leia and Luke were replaced by Poe, Rey and Finn, and that everything ends up the same.
I always felt like Yoda was testing Luke by being impatient with him. And like the trial he faced at the force cave he failed.
He also has some doubt that Luke would complete his training because of him being the son of Skywalker.
Luke is a bit of a hothead. Very impulsive and brash.
He is Anakin’s son through and through. Much anger in him like his father.
Kenobi seems to be the one who thinks Luke has the potential to defeat Vader and the Emperor, the same kind of pride that Kenobi felt over Anakin which led to him becoming Darth Vader.
Yoda knows Luke could easily fall to the Dark Side and into the clutches of Palpatine, and suffer his fathers fate.
I thought John Cygan made a decent Luke Skywalker in the radio drama for Dark Empire. I also liked him as Canderous Ordo in Kotor.
I liked the Kyle Katarn series of games. Starting with Dark Forces.
I also really liked Tie Fighter and X-wing games. They were on floppy disc. If i could find a computer with a floppy drive i wonder if they would even still work at this point.
The Snowspeeder no longer being so transparent and see through. Its the only change i like. Other than improvements in audio fidelity in the 97 edition, or how the prints were not as murky and dirty, nicer colors.
The standard Eastman prints of Empire were absolute crap. I’ve never actually seen a nice 35mm print that was not severely faded. Dirty looking, never the same colors, splicy.
If only there was a way to get the 1980 version restored to the same level of quality as the special edition from 97.
Maybe that is why George always had co-writers and people to help him with his weakness for dialog.
He himself would admit to being an overall good filmmaker except for in the area of writing.
He described the process as painful, said he was not a gifted writer like Francis.
He was lucky to have friends like Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz, and to have almost by luck found Lawrence Kasdan to take over scripting of Raiders and Empire.
The process for him is incredibly slow he began writing Star Wars in 1973, and did not finish the script til 1975 or so. Phantom Menace took from nov 1994 to about 1996-97 to be filmable.
The sequel process would have taken him about as long about 2 to 2 and a half years to get the Episode 7 script done, Disney didn’t want to wait and they did not want his story anyway. 2 to 3 years pre production on a new trilogy plus 9 years to get it all done. Disney did their series in half the time.