Omni

lol

The way I see it, they don’t use canon as a “this happened, non-canon stuff didn’t happen” way, it’s just what new creatives have to take into account when making new things.

Yes, Moth3r has sadly passed away. This is a topic dedicated to him.

https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Moth3r/id/91933

I think it was very mature and noble of Lucas to explicitly pass on the torch like this, to let other people tell stories in this universe in a more high profile manner as opposed to just EU comics and books. Don’t care for most of what’s been released since the sell, and the biggest offenders to me are the very much cash grabs VII - IX (wish they were never made, very much products of someone else having SW now and doing the more obvious thing that would make money) while the stuff I like most comes from old Lucas concepts and scripts (Underworld turned into R1, Mandalorian, Andor, Lucas having developed Bad Batch, etc.) but I understand that’s not where his heart was at anymore, and I totally get it. He definitely deserves the rest and I’m glad he was able to put all of this behind him.

Spuffure said:

A Hard Days’ Night is honestly one of the most boring movies I have ever seen. I get it was very influential in the development of music videos, but just because something is very influential doesn’t mean it necessarily is enjoyable to most modern viewers.

Man, I love it.

Omni said:

1. Star Wars
2. The Empire Strikes Back
3. The Last Jedi
4. Revenge of the Sith
5. Rogue One
6. Return of the Jedi
7. Attack of the Clones
8. Solo
9. The Phantom Menace/The Force Awakens
10. The Force Awakens/The Phantom Menace
11. The Clone Wars
12. The Rise of Skywalker

Haven’t done this in a while. My opinion has indeed changed in the meantime.

1. Star Wars
2. The Empire Strikes Back
3. Revenge of the Sith
4. Attack of the Clones
5. The Last Jedi
6. The Phantom Menace
7. Rogue One
8. Return of the Jedi
9. Solo
10. The Force Awakens
11. The Clone Wars
12. The Rise of Skywalker

Rewatched the prequels some time ago and the movies hit all the right notes, everything made sense for some reason, can’t even explain it. Rewatched ROTJ recently and actually half-expected it to get a bump, but sadly it seems I keep getting less and less from that movie every time I see it. Rest remains the same. Every time I consider TFA I want to place it higher for how much I like those first 30 minutes, but on another hand the hope they always give me just makes the subsequent 1h30m really, really hard to stomach. But I can’t make it any lower than that because those are really good 30 minutes.

Would suggest switching to a 5.1 mix that doesn’t include the added music to the scene between Luke and Obi-Wan, as that was never present in any mix from any version of the movie that we know of, certainly not the theatrical mixes.

In any case, this is truly an incredible release and achievement, Harmy. Thank you so much for sharing.

Just came here to post the same thing, that subtitle is missing.

To those still looking to get this, some folks over at TheStarWarsTrilogy.com managed to snatch it and have found a way to share it as well.

Prequels, not even close. The story they tell is just far more engaging to me than the story 7 - 9 tell.

I second that request, would love a high bitrate version Ady. At some point in the past you mentioned releasing high bitrate versions of all three when ROTJ:R releases, but do you consider doing so for ANH:R HD?

Showrunner Tony Gilroy Ceases Producing Services on ‘Andor’

Tony Gilroy had previously stepped down from all writing duties, but is stepping away from the production entirely now too. The bad news? Production is not shutting down with him. Scripts have already been written but we all know they’re almost living, malleable things that get changed all the time. Greedy bastards, this is probably one of the few legitimate “fuck Disney” angles since the sell. Just shut the fucking production down. Goddammit they’ll ruin this. Hoping for the best, but I’m very, very skeptical now.

JadedSkywalker said:

The Beta 3 version is very good. I was skeptical it could be as good as 4K77 and 4K83. I was blown away. I’m sure a finished version will be even better.

You might be interested in this then - Beta 5 dropped on May 4th on the TN1 forum, and it’s leagues better than 3.

Yes.

I despise them.

These threads are quite interesting time capsules! Lots of disliking, but lots of liking too:

https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/episode-3-was-disappointing-on-many-levels/id/2260
https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Things-you-DID-like-about-Episode-III/id/2336
https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Things-you-DID-NOT-like-about-Episode-III/id/2335
https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/My-review-of-Episode-III-minor-minor-spoilers/id/2261

Of course, this is just for ROTS, but it was the only PT movie that was released when this forum was operational. Interesting perspectives. Many thanks for oojason for those index threads.

I think the two biggest things I want to see made for this movie would be a good version of the ghost (don’t like Hayden but Shaw isn’t really good, either), possibly an older Hayden deepfake or something yeah, and then the “Your mother once thought as you do” line from Vader.

Minor correction, the name of the episode is Jedi Night 😛

I’ve often wondered if watching the Prequels is a better experience if you’re a non-native English speaker, or if you watch it in a different language, so that the worst tendencies of the dialogue don’t necessarily register as overly childish or obnoxious.

From my experience, having lived years in both the United States and abroad, having attended conventions in multiple countries and all, Prequel reception is way, way more positive if you’re not from an English speaking country. You stop evaluating the lines by the quality you perceive in them, and only focus on what they’re trying to convey to the story, and the lines in the PT are very competent in that regard. So people watching the movie dubbed or subbed get a very different perception of the characters and story, probably the one Lucas wanted everyone to.

CloakedDragon97 said:

Futurama is better than The Simpsons ever was, even in the early seasons.

Agree 100%.

For what it’s worth, I’m also firmly against the youngling bit being re-inserted.

I liked the finale well enough I guess. Wonder if Pascal was on set a single day. Doesn’t look like it, lol.

PT movies are incredibly important technologically and in how pioneering their production workload was, they’ll no doubt be remembered in 50 years, but I don’t think that to the degree of the OT at all.

Great stuff Ady, thanks for the update.

Well, unless the Filoni-verse can pull off a miracle and make me care about the ST setup, this movie will be a hard pass, possibly an unpleasant pass. Still trying to ignore and forget about TROS completely, but we’ll see.

I will say it is indeed painful to see Rey take on this mantle of “first of the new” that was fully meant for Luke - regardless of what is text or isn’t, Luke wins in ROTJ by defying his elders, and they all look proudly back to him at the end, which symbolizes how right he was to go against their wishes. It’s been the major understanding of the franchise for decades - that Luke would be the first of the new, his masters the last of the old. It makes sense, the Empire that they were unable to stop was defeated by Luke, the status quo completely changed, everything changed. Luke has a clear path and a blank page to make a better Jedi Order than ever before. Even Timothy Zahn saw this way when writing Thrawn, and I don’t think anybody objected, because I’m pretty sure that’s how everyone interpreted Return of the Jedi.

Sadly for some inexplicable reason the sequels took that away from him, and while seeing Rey at the end of TROS explicitly on this same exact path felt really bad, actually getting, to her, what we should’ve gotten for post-ROTJ Luke is… hard to stomach. Ugh.