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I saw a video that said R5D4 was a Jedi or something. What even.

Grievous is just a villain, and Obi-wan fights him. It’s stupid but there it is, it exists for that reason. C3PO and the factory is ??? who even knows.

I seem to remember George wanted someone else to direct it? Ron Howard said no, maybe others. They knew what was up.

Lust-In-Phaze said:

Look at it this way: the single most compelling evidence of an OOT in the near future is John Landis, who said what he said nearly two years ago.

Yep. By now we have to assume he got the wrong idea, or this is so clandestine it defies most marketing logic.

DrDre said:

The writing’s on the wall. “I wouldn’t touch those. They will always be his films”.

Followed by nervous awkward laughter… jeez.

I can see why people might want to interpret this differently or discuss what the question was she was answering exactly, but to me she quickly brushed over the issue to avoid what he was getting at for a reason. Perfect CEO behaviour. They don’t care about it, and they just want to move forward to new products to please all the saber waving people at the celebration.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - all the points

Sure I was one of those kids. Kids are stupid. I saw the whole prequel trilogy in theatres and didn’t have a lot of complaints at the time. We hit each other with sticks after the screening, re-enacting TPM after seeing the climactic duel. It’s embarrassing but I was one of those ROTS fans when it came out. But people change and we grow up, some later than others. While something like The Lord of the Rings got better when rewatching, cementing its status as a high point for the genre, the prequel DVDs gathered dust and were eventually cleared out. I’m not being critical just as an OT fan, but as a film fan. All the lofty ideas can’t save them from becoming tedious and badly written.

If you look at it all as one whole, you have to admit that only certain things stick. Is Podracing still a thing? The Clone Wars might not have been so popular without all those TV episodes lifting it up. They made TFA the way it is exactly because of those ‘general audiences’. They are still making enough plastic R2D2 merchandise to destroy the world’s oceans several times over, so the real cultural impact is still 1977 not 1999.

Well that or Obi-Wan http://omegaunderground.com/2017/04/21/exclusive-mr-robot-creator-sam-esmail-might-pen-star-wars-anthology-script/

Having to sit through the prequels after the cliffhanger in Empire… now that’s something you need hospital drugs for.

The other one is probably the Boba Fett movie right?

NFBisms said:

I do think people don’t give the prequels enough credit. They’ve given me a lot of material to work with in writing academic papers for my film major, and while the crux of film studies and theory is over-scrutinization and analysis of what is essentially entertainment, there is a lot of stuff in the prequels that I’ve found has been significant and/or subversive to film form, production, and storytelling. Not in the context of Star Wars for original trilogy fanboys ofc, just in the context of film history. Obviously only in the last 20 years, and much quieter than the original’s immediate cultural phenomenon status.

Well it may be subversive to avoid giving your actors direction, or sets, or making concept art and models before the script is finished… I don’t see it myself. Entertainment doesn’t have to be massively intellectual, but it’s not always an exercise in blowing millions on a slapped together project; most cultural touchstones are a bit more meaningful and well planned. The cultural status of the PT is questionable at best. People know Jabba the Hutt, Princess Leia, Lando, Chewbacca. There isn’t anything to be said about Mace Windu, The Trade Federation or Little Ani…

GlastoEls said:

Disco_Lobot said:

Overall I’d like to see more new stories with Anthologies instead of exploring the backstory of a bunch of OT characters. There’s a lot of risk of de-mystifying characters in a bad way (See PT for a zillion examples of this)

Yep.

New stuff please Disney.

In a few years there will essentially be two prequel trilogies. Not a pleasing thought.

Beyond the apparently endless debate about resolution and film formats, this thread is basically in hibernation again right now. There has yet to be any real release details for any kind of restoration at all beyond the ‘yeah but I know a guy’ type of comments.

The only ones that make sense are where every line is dubbed. Which is why I can only watch the Auralnauts version.

Depheros said:

The Empire Strikes Back (10/10)
Star Wars (10/10)
Return of the Jedi (8.5/10)
The Force Awakens (8/10)
Rogue One (6.5/10)
The Phantom Menace (2/10)
Revenge of the Sith (1.5/10)
Attack of the Clones (1/10)

Oh now your talking my language

Anchorhead said:

Can’t find this if it’s already been posted. I thought this was interesting and I caught most if not all of the cues and callbacks he discusses.

https://youtu.be/SGVqPP-52No

Oh yeah we talked about that one. Somebody was like fuck that guy. And I was like eh maybe.

As for the whole repeat viewing and score listening sessions, I just don’t feel it. Star Wars is a perfect film. Or movie if you’re so inclined. But this is just sort of vaguely entertaining but mostly slapped together and not quite there as an average movie for me. It doesn’t have any Binary Sunset moments or even any Cantina Band type sequences.

imperialscum said:

???

Well then it’s time to put that to the test and throw the 6 year olds in the deep end 😛

Only you know your kids, you can’t really take advise on the internet about it. Some will see all the gruesome moments and really get into it, and their love of movie violence will flourish there. Others will shrink away from it and never be horror movie fans etc. Your call.

Darth Vader was supposed to be his first and last name right?

I should have expected to find you holding Vader’s leash

SilverWook said:

I don’t think these mildly perturbed images are working

LOL.

Okay so back to reality, I find it worrying that the headline says “triumphant return”. Meaning they think it ever returned. This with SE scenes being in the latest EA moneyspinner signals two instances where they have ignored there is such a new version, and would rather just forget the OOT.
I wonder how the article itself will describe the 1997 re-release…

DominicCobb said:

No hate, just things that bugged me the first time around I’ve realized actually are rather large problems that I can’t quite ignore on repeat viewings.

The things that bugged more were harder to overlook a second time