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9-Mar-2004
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#48898
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Star Wars Trivia
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Allow me to say that I think it's a little unfair to ask questions that it is impossible to know the answer just by watching the movies. You either have to read some obscure card, or researched it on some webpage where most of the stuff was simply made up years (sometimes decades) after the movie was released...

I get your point, but if we did that the questions would offer little challenge to anyone here I think. Even as they are most of the q's are answered pretty quick...
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#47302
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MORE CHANGES!!! (for the 2004 OT DVD release)
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I read the SW novel some time ago, but from memory it had many differences from the movie. I recall that R2D2 had claws instaed of wheels, and Vader made some sarcastic remark about the Emperor at one point which I though really conflicted with his character in ANH, which is rather subserviant. Maybe I should read it again.

As far as GL not recieving enough credit, I must disagree... sure, SW is a great movie, and the guy had alot of great ideas and vision (not sure if "genious" is being too generous but it is a subjective term) but surely compared to, say, a heart surgeon or such, he recieves much more credit than he is due? Comparatively speaking. I think he has been more than compensated in terms of his fanbase, and his bank account.
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#47301
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Sequel Trilogy? Say it's so!
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As far as I'm concerned, GL can make all the prequels or sequesl he wants. If I don't like them I don't watch them/ignore them (TPM fits into that category for me. On the other hand I actually like AOTC, although I still don't consider it a prequel, but more a movie in it's own right). But I agree that he shouldn't be "allowed" to touch the originals anymore. Obviously I can't enforce that or anything, I just don't like what he's doing, especially when he tries to stop us from even seeing the OT the way it was. Actually, if he wasn't doing that, I probably wouldn't have any problem with the SE or the ultimate edition or anything else either; again I would just choose what I wanted to watch (The OT's) and ignore what I didn't (the SE's). So I guess my standpoint is, he can "touch" it as much as he wats... as long as I have the option of veiwing the "untouched" version...
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#47299
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How does Grand Moff Tarkin fit into Ep 3?
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As far as the Motti thing goes, I already said this before, but I think Vader definitely moves up in rank when the Death Star is destroyed, along with many of the high ranking Imperials. With power comes responsibility; In Vaders case the responsibility of choking anyone who screws up. Actually I just realized that in ESB one of Vaders first acts is to kill off one of his Admirals; something he was not allowed to do in ANH, assuming the above info about Motti is correct.
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#46958
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MORE CHANGES!!! (for the 2004 OT DVD release)
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When you say "Novelisation", are you referring to a novel that was based on the movie? Or the novel that was written before the movie was released?

And Hotrod... assuming you were serious, which I am unsure of... it is a bit silly to suggest that when GL cast the Emperor in ROTJ he had the idea in his head that he would use the same actor in the prequel movies later. It's not like he signed the guy up for TPM or AOTC at the time. He could easily have said no.
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#46451
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Sequel Trilogy? Say it's so!
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Actually Highlander had two sequels. The second one was set in the future where the main guy (Chris whateverhisnemis) invents a machine to replace the ozone layer. Sounds pretty stoopid already right? And Sean Connery, who was killed in the first movie, comes back to life to help him. Then there was a third that I haven't seen, which I imagine was probably even worse, and even a TV series, which was appalling. Ricarliette, the people were immortal, except you could kill them by chopping off their heads. Sort of worked in the first one, but after a while the premise wears thin since it doesn't really make any sense...
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#46291
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Sequel Trilogy? Say it's so!
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Just think of all the sequels that were better than the original:
Aliens
The Empire Strikes Back
The Two Towers
Gremlins 2
The Wrath of Kahn

I guess I could agree with those... But I can think of ALOT more sequels that were much, mcuh worse than the originals!!
Austin Powers
Highlander
Sister Act
Three Men and a Baby
Look whos talking
Batman...

I could go on forever... true some of these movies weren't very good to begin with, but the sequels were utterly apalling...

If they made a sequel trilogy, it would be done for the sake of it, not because anyone had a great idea. Most films where they decide to make a sequel, and then try to think of ideas, rather than the other way round, tend to be pretty awful...
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#46289
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How does Grand Moff Tarkin fit into Ep 3?
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I noticed he was listed as a cast member in "Top Secret!" although I don't remember his role. It was that very silly movie in the vein of "Flying High".

I think that in ANH, Vader is definitely not anywhere near the most powerful man in the Emperors command. He is more like, as Leia suggests, Tarkin's lap dog. The other officers neither respect or fear him, it's more like they're jealos of him or think he shouldn't be in his current position. That's the feeling I get anyway. However, after the Death Star is destroyed, most of the very senior officers would have been killed, so Vader moves into a position of much greater power, IE one level down from the Emperor. My feeling is that he probably would have acheived this position anyway, due to his "friendship" with Palpatine, but it would have taken longer if this had not happened.
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#45629
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When Han Solo was Frozen in Carbinite How did he survive so long without Water ?
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Yes I agree that's how it would work in the SW universe, but I was just saying that it doesn't happen in reality yet. There is a frog that allows itself to be frozen in winter and reanimates itself in spring, using antifreeze that it stores within it's body, but obviously a frog has much simpler anatomy than a human. I thinkk even if it were possible to reanimate a human they would not be the same person; ie their brain may begin to function again, but they would have no memory of who they were and would have to learn how to walk, talk etc. again. Which would make the whole thing sort of pointless.