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But it’s not on brand. As a company they need to pretend all of this stuff is one clean Star Wars product from the spin-offs to the toys they sell. No weird dance-offs at their theme parks, no special features on DVDs that suggest any behind the scenes drama. And so it’s keeping with that line of thinking if they say yes, George Lucas created all of this and it was always this way. I’d love to think otherwise but I can’t imagine any other outcome. The theatrical release of the OOT is probably treated with contempt like the old EU now.

Chances of booze are 100%

Chance of OOT re-release is 0%

snooker said:

We never got the Maz Leia scene from TFA, did we? They’ll probably pull footage/dialogue from that.

Maybe. There’s also another deleted scene that was on the home release. The Oliver Reed in Gladiator treatment would be fine, depending on what they have to work with.

SilverWook said:

They have one less feeble excuse for not releasing it now though.

Or it could be even less reason. Once they control everything all off brand material can be finally wiped from existence. The X-Men and F4 series can be crushed so that the real versions can exist in their MCU, and any remnants of the old cuts of SW can be swept away.

Wrong thread.

Yeah I think he’s on the Falcon in the group shot.

Lando should have been in this trilogy from the start.

I totally expected Carrie to be back in one form or another. Personally I think it’s cool, there’s no need to have real life tragedy influence the story out of pure convenience. More worried about the writing quality of the overall plot more than anything else.

SilverWook said:

News of a body double dressed as Leia would no doubt also leak early. It’s a wonder Yoda being in TLJ didn’t leak at all, AFAIK.

Besides the John Williams score (which I didn’t hear before seeing it) I don’t think so.

What first time. Everything worked out just as planned.

My eyeballs had glazed over by that part in the film.

ALOL that escalated quickly

I haven’t seen a SW movie in full screen since the 1995 video releases. That line where Luke sees the sand people through his binoculars never made sense since they were cropped out of the frame.

In other random thoughts has anyone else ever noticed that the actor who play Jerec in Dark Forces II was the MI6 agent that tries to drug James Bond after he goes rogue in License to Kill? Probably just me.

Star Wars jumped the shark in 1997 where it struggled for air in the water for a while, before being chewed to death from the legs up in 1999. Years later the shark was reported to have said that this was all fine and it had always had limbs and internal organs missing.

Full Screen too. Talk about putting salt in the wound.

The problem is that certain audience members just expected to have their fan service brain centres massaged again, since that’s what a lot of what TFA and Rogue One offered. SW was back, and it was important. They were important as fans. But since TLJ didn’t end with Luke killing 400 dudes with a green lightsaber nobody cheered.

The alien face morph in that scene actually does remind me of ReBoot era CGI. How does anyone notice anything else? Maybe that was the idea.

No?

It’s better than it was between 1999 and 2005 but that’s not much of a benchmark to pass.

As a fan of John Carpenter movies I can say… Escape from LA is utter crap. Nobody would steal from it.

Collipso said:

do people hate dex’s diner’s scene because dex himself is a big pile of cgi shit or are there other reasons?

It’s the epitome of everything sequels get wrong. A bunch of random junk on screen just because they can render it, just so they can have a slew of boring expository dialogue with two characters sat on a couch. Millions of dollars burning on screen.

Mielr said:
Even with the prequels, it didn’t feel like SW was getting anywhere near jumping the shark.

Haha what.

I could barely listen to that guy for ten seconds.

Those pics aren’t showing /\

snooker said:

I once talked to someone who said that their least favorite Star Wars movie was Empire because it was ‘really boring’.

Their favorite was RotS.

Were they 9 years old?

Yeah Amy Hennig worked on Uncharted and Legacy of Kain, it could have been great.