Rodney-2187

Barbara Stanwyck
Mads Mikkelsen

1.Coen Brothers
2.Ridley Scott
3.Quentin Tarantino
4.Wes Anderson
5.Alfred Hitchcock

6.John Huston
7.Howard Hawks
8.Mel Brooks
9.Denis Villeneuve
10.Woody Allen

11.Terry Gilliam
12.The Wachowskis
13.Rian Johnson
14.Jordan Peele
15.Taika Waititi

16.Guillermo del Toro
17.Russo Brothers
18.James Gunn
19.Edgar Wright
20.Kevin Smith

My top 100:

1.Rogue One (2016)
2.The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
3.Star Wars (1977)
4.Return of the Jedi (1983)
5.Blade Runner (1982)
6.The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
7.The Last Jedi (2017)
8.The Force Awakens (2015)
9.Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
10.Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

11.The Clone Wars (2008)
12.The Fifth Element (1997)
13.Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
14.Avengers: Endgame (2019)
15.Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
16.The Phantom Menace (1999)
17.Attack of the Clones (2002)
18.Revenge of the Sith (2005)
19.Casablanca (1942)
20.Alien (1979)

21.Ladyhawke (1985)
22.Excalibur (1981)
23.Conan the Barbarian (1982)
24.RoboCop (1987)
25.Ghostbusters (1984)
26.Tron (1982)
27.TRON: Legacy (2010)
28.Ghost in the Shell (2017)
29.Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
30.Captain Marvel (2019)

31.Atomic Blonde (2017)
32.John Wick (2014)
33.Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
34.Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
35.Space Sweepers (2021)
36.Time Bandits (1981)
37.The Princess Bride (1987)
38.The Last Starfighter (1984)
39.The Thing (1982)
40.Total Recall (1990)

41.The Lost Boys (1987)
42.It Happened One Night (1934)
43.Citizen Kane (1941)
44.The Maltese Falcon (1941)
45.Network (1976)
46.Interstellar (2014)
47.Murder, My Sweet (1944)
48.Double Indemnity (1944)
49.The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
50.Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

51.The American Friend (1977)
52.Le Samouraï (1967)
53.Young Frankenstein (1974)
54.Life of Brian (1979)
55.The Meaning of Life (1983)
56.The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
57.The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
58.The Thin Man (1934)
59.Caddyshack (1980)
60.Mallrats (1995)

61.The Big Lebowski (1998)
62.Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
63.Man on the Moon (1999)
64.American Splendor (2003)
65.Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
66.A Warm December (1973)
67.Harold and Maude (1971)
68.The Crow (1994)
69.Mandy (2018)
70.Joker (2019)

71.Pulp Fiction (1994)
72.The Hateful Eight (2015)
73.Inglourious Basterds (2009)
74.Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
75.North by Northwest (1959)
76.His Girl Friday (1940)
77.The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
78.The Joker Is Wild (1957)
79.The Detective (1968)
80.Tony Rome (1967)

81.The Avengers (2012)
82.X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
83.Watchmen (2009)
84.Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
85.Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
86.Die Hard (1988)
87.Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
88.Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
89.Galaxy Quest (1999)
90.The Matrix (1999)

91.The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
92.Strange Days (1995)
93.Midnight in Paris (2011)
94.The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
95.Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
96.On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)
97.From Russia with Love (1963)
98.Casino Royale (2006)
99.Deadlier Than the Male (1967)
100.The Roaring Twenties (1939)

That’s deep.

Make your predictions regarding Star Wars X, XI, and XII.

The High Republic will be bigger and better than most imagine.

I’m currently rewatching The Mandalorian. It’s simply the best thing I’ve ever seen on any screen, big or small.

I’m a Disney+ subscriber for life, but I’d pay a hefty amount for The Mandalorian on 4K UHD disc.

Freedom of speech protects against prosecution. Disney and Lucasfilm are in business to sell a product. If someone’s actions put that product in a negative light and potentially impact sales, of course they will fire that person. it’s just business. I’m sure they would rather have not fired her. It probably wasn’t just one thing she said, but the cumulative effect and not showing any sign of stopping.

I love the character of Cara Dune. Despite not having the most acting talent, I also was a fan of Gina Carano’s work in the movie Haywire and her appearance in the Almost Human series. The whole thing is very unfortunate.

I wonder what the plans for Cara Dune were in the third season of The Mandalorian and upcoming series like Rangers of the New Republic. Don’t think I’d be a fan of recasting. Probably best to replace with a new character.

jedi_bendu said:

Looks really nice! I wish my star wars collection was that organised.

Thanks!

I’ve got a ton of stuff in boxes and not enough room to display them. I also have more posters than I have walls for. I switch things around from time to time.

Added a Mando poster to my movie room.

Knight of Kalee said:

Rodney-2187 said:

YellowYoda said:

Rodney-2187 said:

Reading the High Republic novels has increased my already high interest in this.

What high republic novels would you suggest?

I’d only recommend the High Republic for anyone interested in an entire new era of Star Wars. It doesn’t have that OT atmosphere of rebellion against an oppressive regime. It still feels like Star Wars, just during a time when the Jedi and the Republic were at their peak. There are adversaries though, and even tragedy.

I’d start with the first one, “Light of the Jedi.” It sets everything up and introduces a lot of new characters.

Link to High Republic thread here:
https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/star-wars-the-high-republic-era-publishing-project-was-aka-project-luminous/id/73043

Has nothing to do with the thread but only now with your new avatar I realise your nick is an anagram of Yendor 😄

Thanks for noticing. Thought I was the only one that knew who Yendor was.

I had to google Kalee to learn the significance of your screen name. Maybe there should be a thread for people to discuss their name origins?

I enjoyed “Into the Dark” very much. It has a few surprises and a character named Geode that I think is awesome.

I love talking Star Wars, but I purge all the debates from my mind so I can truly escape into that galaxy far, far away. What’s in there? Only what you take with you.

I’m glad we got something new instead of adapting the old EU. If they had done that, I think there would have been more complaints regarding lack of creativity and imagination.

YellowYoda said:

Rodney-2187 said:

Reading the High Republic novels has increased my already high interest in this.

What high republic novels would you suggest?

I’d only recommend the High Republic for anyone interested in an entire new era of Star Wars. It doesn’t have that OT atmosphere of rebellion against an oppressive regime. It still feels like Star Wars, just during a time when the Jedi and the Republic were at their peak. There are adversaries though, and even tragedy.

I’d start with the first one, “Light of the Jedi.” It sets everything up and introduces a lot of new characters.

Link to High Republic thread here:
https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/star-wars-the-high-republic-era-publishing-project-was-aka-project-luminous/id/73043

Reading the High Republic novels has increased my already high interest in this.

I’ve read not only does Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon sync nicely with The Wizard Of Oz, but also The Force Awakens. I’ve never tried either of these, but maybe I’ll give it a go just to try something new. I wonder what else would work well? Maybe I’ll try Empire Strikes Back with the Vangelis Blade Runner soundtrack or Rogue One with Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours.

Someone should start a food thread where we post Star Wars related food items we’ve seen. I bet there are a lot of weird ones.

The wait for these series is excruciating.

The Drew Struzan documentary is excellent.

His Blade Runner: Final Cut poster is gorgeous too.

I wanted better Rogue One posters. I’m not crazy about any of them.

Isn’t Mickey Mouse supposed to enter public domain soon? Will Disney ever let that happen? Will Disney have to release the unaltered OT to keep it out of public domain? I don’t know about copyright laws, not that they matter. Disney can probably get whatever extensions they want passed.

NeverarGreat said:

Rodney-2187 said:

If the OT was released in today’s climate, it would receive the exact same level of ridicule as the prequels and sequels.

Sorry, but this isn’t a sentiment that makes sense to me. To focus just on the original film; it was like nothing people had ever seen in '77 with special effects that were invented for the movie and made by a group of world-class talents at the pinnacle of their skills, and which tapped into the zeitgeist so deeply that most of the people in the US had seen the movie, mostly through word-of-mouth, by the time it left theaters.

To extract the film from its historical context and compare it to something released today is ludicrous, especially since it would undoubtedly suffer John Carter issues where it is seen as predictable due to the multitude of films that had been made in emulation of the elements which made Star Wars great. It’s like saying the moon landing wasn’t actually that great because we know how to make better spaceships and would do that differently today.

Finally, you say ‘in today’s climate’, but I assume you mean in the climate of the Star Wars fandom or movie fans in general. People are always comparing new movies in a franchise to the originals, so these films couldn’t be released ‘in today’s climate’, because that same climate has been built out of expectations set by…the originals.

Here’s an acid test - if the originals were objectively no better than the prequels or sequels, with rudimentary and sometimes embarrassingly dated effects, then I guarantee that there would be talks to remake them. Robocop, The Thing, Final Recall…they all got the remake treatment. But films like Blade Runner, 2001, Indiana Jones…nobody even considers a remake even though they would have massive name recognition, and I think we all know the reason for that isn’t some arcane legal one.

Read my comment just before this one where I said I like the originals more than the prequels or sequels. I also said my comment was more of a critique of movie reviews in general.

I like your NASA analogy. Yes the OT was a groundbreaking achievement, certainly more so than the prequels or sequels. I’m a fan of the Saturn V rocket. I have a model of it displayed in my movie room. The moon landing was an incredible achievement. But to use your same analogy, would be like saying the Space Shuttle or Falcon 9 are inferior to the Saturn V, even though technologically superior, just because they weren’t around for the moon landing. I’m sure the SR-71 is superior to what the Wright brothers flew. I’m just saying if you evaluate them on their own, side by side. But I see your point about being groundbreaking for their time.

Again though, my comment was more of a critique of the mudslinging reviews that are popular now. How people go on a seek and destroy mission with a hate-for-clicks revenue stream. I’m not one who thinks movie making has significantly declined. I think reviews have become too critical. I love the Original Trilogy. But when I look at them objectively, I see similar flaws in them that people lambaste other movies for. If social media was around back then, the contrarians would have had plenty to say about the OT.

Not so sure your comment about remakes will stand the test of time though. I think everything will be remade eventually. Interstellar is extremely similar to 2001. They wouldn’t remake Blade Runner because slow brooding noir isn’t known for box office results. Look at BR 2049. Blade Runner is another of my favorites by the way. I think Indiana Jones will get rebooted with another actor very soon actually.

I love the OT, but I don’t think it’s irreproachable, and I also think other movies, especially those in the Star Wars franchise, get critiqued on a whole other level.

If the OT was released in today’s climate, it would receive the exact same level of ridicule as the prequels and sequels.

Please don’t mistake my comments for hating or trolling. I love all of Star Wars and I do prefer the originals to the prequels and sequels. I’m just saying the originals are often given a pass on certain criticisms. A lot of it has to do with them being well established before social media was prevalent. They are more engrained in our brains. I think a lot of classics would suffer similarly if released today.

This isn’t to invalidate the movies themselves. This is to put in perspective the amount of criticism being handed out regularly to almost everything.