Troopers with ties would have made for a nice obscure Spaceballs reference. š
And there was this gemā¦
https://makingstarwars.tumblr.com/post/42857438667/1980s-fantastic-films-collectors-edition-20
Wow , just read that article and while it got a lot wrong , it did predict the episode 1 plot of Darth Vader starting out as a slave boy , and the pain inducing collar is not too unlike the chip that blows you up if you try to escape . Interesting that they knew the name Anakin Skywalker at this time . Where did that name first appear ?
Thatās a good question, as I never heard it before ROTJ came out. Maybe Lucas dropped it in an interview at some point?
Star Wars Poster Monthly also went off on a lot of crazy speculative tangents, and that was an officially licensed publication! The only one I recall off the top of my head was one about the OT troopers being clones and how they were trained. Not sure if they were getting notes from Lucasfilm or making stuff up.
There are only three issues online that I know of.
http://www.theforce.net/timetales/misc/arcana/arcana.asp
Fantastic Films did a series of articles attempting to predict what would happen in ROTJ. This is the only issue I could find.
https://archive.org/details/Fantastic_Films_028_April_1982_vol4_no4_c2c-Tranzor-HQS
Yeah the scene where Luke says he can see one of the sand people through the scope always confused me since it was cut off at the edges.
Unless you were watching the HBO version where that shot was squeezed. š
Whoosh!
This might be the better sub forum to ask in.
https://originaltrilogy.com/discussion/Case-Covers-Disc-Labels-and-Fan-Art/id/20
If you want me to move this post, let me know.
I had no idea anyone was trying to do the Beggarās Canyon run for real. š
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a28570775/f-18-jet-crash-death-valley/
What irritates me the most is that the cable synopsis always says āStar Wars (1977)ā. If theyāre going to show the 1997 version, it should say so.
I may just shoot TCM an irate email later tonight. LOL.
Theyāve done that with THX-1138 as well.
They have inexplicably run a pan and scan version of Close Encounters more than once in recent years. I can see grabbing the wrong tape on the shelf, but why would they even have a full frame version in the first place?
They have also let their standard definition feed go to pot. It often looks like someone turned on the soap opera effect on, and some widescreen movies get cut off on the sides or academy ratio ones get stretched and squeezed.
Speaking of Ewoks, if the wrecked Death Star is in fact the Death Star II and that planet is Endor, a small part of me would love it if Warwick Davis briefly reappeared as an old battle-scarred Wicket, now the chieftain of his tribe, who has grey, matted hair, is blind in one eye and is missing an ear. Maybe 3PO could use his god credentials and ask them for directions to the Haunted Coast!
Bring on the Aubree Miller and Eric Walker cameos!
Would be cool if we saw some live action Duloks.
Some of the vintage speculation I read in various magazines about how Episode 6 was going to go was pretty out there and would sound a bit crazy now. Boba Fett being the other for example.
I wonder if Ron Howard is going to become known as the troubled movie fixer now. Regardless of how Solo did at the box office, it was a pretty daunting task he took on.
Itās on again tonight. Part of a salute to 20th Century Fox. One bright spot in the Disney deal is they already have a relationship with TCM which shows deep catalog Disney films and tv specials every few months. We might see all sorts of obscure things from the Fox vaults now.
Hardware Wars recreated in LEGO with a few new sight gags old techies should enjoy.
https://youtu.be/_Roe4gtsD_8
Have they just been sitting on a bunch of decent non-Lowry 007 remasters? Like the one for TSWLM?
It was Hardware Wars that had fuzzy dice.
Donāt those two Ewoks who were with him get a little side credit? They even beat up the director! š
So long as the scene doesnāt end up looking like this. š
ā¦ on a side note, right after Star Wars they showed Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. The print they used seemed to be unique to TCM. It wasnāt blue like the original blu-ray. And it wasnāt bland/dark like the later Directorās Cut blu-ray. It was quite nicely color balanced (leaning more to a warm earthy amber color) ā¦ they mustāve had that archived from way back somewhere. But at least CNN used some original Star Wars clips for their broadcast, which was super cool.
Was it HD? I hope somebody recorded itā¦
Wow, I thought it was the crappy SD feed my crappy cable company has for TCM. This is more embarassing than when they air the 2004 version of THX-1138.
A puppet being operated by the real villain?
But why have a dime store Palpatine if the plan all along was to use the real thing?
Because thatās how Palpatine operates. Masks, deceptions and lies. Snoke was just a more sophisticated version of wearing a hood and keeping his face in a strategically placed shadow.
Thatās a nice in-universe explanation, but in reality itās almost certain, that JJ intended for Snoke to be the big bad, and when RJ dispatched him, they had to bring back Palpatine in some form to up the ante. Had it been their intention to bring back Palpatine, they would logically have introduced him as the puppet master in a cameo at the end of TLJ. Additionally RJ clearly made TLJ with the intention to break free from what came before, whilst TROS seems to do the opposite promising a whole host of connections to the past.
Unless JJ or RJ bare their souls in an interview, weāll never know for sure.
Whatās unclear with Dooku are his motivations. He reveals Sidiousās plot to Kenobi, but then we learn heās actually working for Sidious, so why did he reveal the plan? For the majority of AOTC we are lead to believe that he is seeking civil war against the Republic (for independence I guess? Unclear the Separatist motivations), and then we find out heās enacting out Sidiousās orders. So we are I guess left to believe itās just galaxy domination/Sith at last getting revenge? Which is fine, but itās messy and muddled for him.
For Snoke, first of all heās not the primary villain of either film heās in, second, his plan is clear from the start - eliminate the Jedi and destroy the Republic.
Exactly! I wasnāt sure if he was trying to turn Obi-Wan or being honest with him in the detention cell scene. If he wasnāt playing at being a double agent of sorts, laying out all the cards about Sidious controlling the senate was a pretty risky move, unless he was pretty certain Obi-Wan would never live to share that intel.
That the Jedi Council never seemed to have actually done anything with that info is beside the point. š
And you know for sure Serkis wonāt be back?
If one invests time in an lengthy animated series in which he appears. The character ought to be able to stand alone without benefit of watching TCW.
You keep bringing up the show for no reason. Pretty much everything contextual we learn about him comes from one movie. And itās more than we get with Snoke.
Plus heās not even played by Lee in that show and heās still fun to watch, so there goes that.
What did we learn about him in AOTC other than he was Qui-Gonās master, left the Jedi for some reason, and now henches for Sidious? Even Lucas canāt seem to decide if heās totally evil at times.