I wonder how long this reservation thing is going to last? With alcohol being served, the whole being escorted out of GE by troopers could get ugly really fast.
I don’t think anyone is getting drunk with those drink prices.
Watch Star Crash, then Star Wars.
Every time I show the original film to any of my friends the reaction is the same: “pretty cool, but slow and several effects look dated”.
I remember when ANH was perceived as a SPFX milestone with breakneck pacing. Of course these days, especially to kids, it seems cheap and slow paced.
Really? It didn’t bother me or any of my friends when we were kids during the release of the PT movies. There were plenty of modern films to compete with, yet as far as we were concerned the OT was as good as it gets. (Ditto on the orig. Indy movies.)
I’m not saying everyone was/is bothered by it, but the perception obviously changed as the films and the technology evolved. In its day Star Wars felt the way something like Infinity War might feel today - just huge and fast and mind blowing. Now of course it seems so much simpler.
My two boys (ages 3 and 5) thought Star Wars was pretty huge and fast and mind blowing when I showed them 4K77 in February. Certainly quite far from simple.
Maybe it’s because at such an early age they’d seen nothing as mind blowing as Star Wars yet?
Are you showing them the special editions?
Maybe I’m single handedly skewing the average. Look at the rankings in this thread and I don’t think you can say that this is really a “pro-TLJ site.”
Are you the chosen one? Will you bring balance to the thread?
Park walkthrough:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKI9G6S-glA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BhRGI-MOqE
Build your own lightsaber:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3aVdh1OxyU&t=18s
Galaxy’s Edge wallpaper:
Opening dedication for Galaxy’s Edge:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFlzXfQb-UQ&feature=youtu.be
I want to build one of those lightsabers so bad.
I really love Rey’s speeder in The Force Awakens.
If someone went through this thread and tabulated all these lists into one ranking, I wonder what the results would look like?
There is certainly more than enough material for an excellent documentary. If told well enough, one that would even interest people outside of Star Wars fandom.
Thinking about this thread got me to watch “The People vs George Lucas” again. That documentary could have been a whole lot more harsh. Perhaps it should have been. It’s such a conflicting situation. I admire him for creating Star Wars and am grateful for all his contributions to cinema in general, but some of his comments, and more importantly his actions, are so counteractive to everything I believe made it all great to begin with.
I guess if you take a perfectionist and storyteller, they will give you some quality entertainment, but you might not get the truth about anything.
Happy 75th birthday to George Lucas!
So that’s a no on my western war musical concept?
Blazing Saddles 2!
JJ also said Cumberbatch wasn’t Khan. Best to just go into the movie open minded instead of deciding for yourself how everything should be beforehand. Only 224 days left!
I find thinking about the prequels better than watching them.
I used to try and ignore them entirely, but since The Clone Wars animated series factors into Star Wars so greatly with characters like Ahsoka, that era is pretty much impossible to ignore. Also, there are some really great aspects such as lightsaber battles, soundtracks, and memorable quotes from the prequels, I find myself referencing them often.
Over time, my opinion of the prequels has grown more tolerant. I have an appreciation of them as being unique products of their time and circumstances, even though I consider them to be poorly made.
I tried watching them again and just couldn’t. They’re too bad. Best to just remember the fun times I had during the hype leading up to them and just recall the good parts from time to time. I’ll just rewatch The Clone Wars instead.
A three year wait after TRoS for another trilogy? Sounds perfect. I love they will be released every other year during the holidays too. That time of year just feels perfect for Star Wars to me. Marvel feels right for spring and summer.
Rey has definitely been challenged. She just deals with it differently.
Her entire life on Jakku was a challenge just to survive. Luke had an aunt and uncle with a home, food, and jobs, and he had friends. He even had a Jedi master watching over him, waiting to take him under his wing. Even though Anakin was a slave, he still had Shmi and even Watto seemed to treat him decently. He even had his own racer.
Rey was left alone, got captured by the First Order, mind probed by Kylo Ren, watched her friend Han get impaled on a lightsaber and her other friend Finn get his back sliced. Luke was negative about training her. She felt helpless as the First Order targeted resistance escape ships and Kylo refused to call them off. Yes, Luke and Anakin both experienced adversity and great losses too. I’m just pointing out so did Rey, but she faced her’s without family or a mentor. There are no force ghosts talking her through anything.
Rey has had plenty of reasons to give up but she simply just does not quit. I love Luke Skywalker, but he was very whiny. Anakin was too. Rey just sucks it up and gets it done. She makes it looks easy because instead of complaining, she gets straight to solving the problem. I don’t think Luke or Anakin would have survived long on Jakku alone with their attitudes. If you dropped a young Rey, Luke, and Anakin into the middle of a zombie apocalypse, I’d put my money on Rey being the one who survives and probably becomes the leader.
The Force enhances your abilities. Rey was already shown to be a proficient fighter just to survive on Jakku. Of course she defeats an emotionally distraught Kylo who had just been shot by a weapon that we’ve seen can send bodies flying. She knows a lot about mechanics and ships from salvaging, so I have no problem with her being able to repair the Falcon. There’s no training better than experiencing something first hand. Kylo probes Rey’s mind aggressively, so her being able to get inside a weak minded stormtrooper for a second doesn’t seem surprising to me. It would be more surprising if she just sat there and did nothing while waiting to be rescued. Her abilities are no more surprising than a small boy being the only human that can pilot a podracer or a rural farmboy flying a combat mission in space or blocking lasers with a blast shield down just from a suggestion to reach out.
A great deal of the Jedi training we see in the movies deals with focus. Luke and Anakin both lacked focus. Rey is extremely focused. She is strong willed and determined. She is task oriented and has a can do attitude. All of that can take you a long way.
Jedi rocks from the RotJ special edition.
Vader saying “Nooooo!” when he stands up in RotS.
Anakin vs Obi-Wan lightsaber battle in RotS looks like synchronized swimming and jumping on a green screen Super Mario Bros game.
C-3PO’s dialogue and antics during the battle in AotC.
Anakin talking to Padme about their kiss.
*Honorable mentions to all things gungan and making R2-D2 cgi instead of practical.
There is one particular matte painting in Return of the Jedi where Han is telling Lando to take the Falcon that looks pretty bad. It sure seems George left it alone just to emphasize how much better his special edition changes were by comparison.
This is a great thread. Thanks for all the hard work.
Maybe add a section on the GOUT and George’s comments he made then?
https://savestarwars.com/gout.html
“The other version, it’s on VHS if anybody wants it. I’m not going to spend the, we’re talking millions of dollars here, the money and the time to refurbish that, because to me, it doesn’t really exist anymore. It’s like this is the movie I wanted it to be, and I’m sorry you saw half a completed film and fell in love with it.” - George Lucas.
“It’s just the original versions, as they were. We didn’t do anything to it at all. But we’re not sure how many people want that…Now we’ll find out whether they really wanted the original or whether they wanted the improved versions. It’ll all come out in the end.” - George Lucas
He’s being very disingenuous with these comments.
(I still love George Lucas anyway though.)
All of the trailers seem to be showing so much more that I don’t remember being in the first teaser I saw. Sounds like I have some sort of false memory, since no one else remembers it. Let me go take some Omega-3.
I feel like Obi-Wan looking for Kamino. I know there is another trailer. I remember it distinctly. I don’t know why it isn’t on youtube. There’s got to be someone else out there who remembers it.
I’ve looked at trailers, teasers and tv spots on youtube, and it’s none of those. Could the one they released online earlier be different? I think it was in quicktime? Maybe that’s why it isn’t around anymore?
I hope no one minds me starting a thread for this, but I have a question that is driving me crazy.
I remember enjoying the very fist trailer for The Phantom Menace immensely. I couldn’t wait for the movie. I remember it starting with the Gungans in the fog, the droid troop transports slowly coming over the hills with their distinct sound, then a close of up Amidala looking out a window. It ended with just a quick look at Darth Maul as he ignited the 2nd blade of his lightsaber.
I’ve been looking all over the internet this morning to find that trailer and I do not see it anywhere. All of the trailers I’m finding show far more that we got to see initially, I feel certain of it.
I’m starting to think I’m crazy. Does anyone else remember a different version of the trailer? I know I saw it first online and in those days I was only able to see it in a little window, not the full monitor, but I also saw it on TV later. I thought I would just come here and ask. If no one here remembers, then maybe I’m in the Matrix or something.
No idea of the legitimacy of this article, but it certainly sounds interesting.
https://www.thedigitalfix.com/film/content/105409/exclusive-skywalker-saga-4k/
Probably just someone trying to get clicks since it’s Celebration time.