Star Wars in many ways is it’s own genre or sub genre. I don’t think there are really any hard rules about such things, which is why the Science Fiction vs. Sci-Fi debate has gone on for decades.
Some movies straddle the genres. Is Alien a horror or a SF film?
IIRC, Lucas was trying to differentiate Star Wars from hard science fiction, like 2001. Magazines like Cinefantastique took issue with the term, possibly because they felt the movie was a step backwards from THX-1138.
Flash Gordon is definitely space opera, and we all know Lucas originally wanted to make an FG movie, but couldn’t get the rights.
The asteroid belt in our own solar system was of concern with early unmanned probes until it’s actual composition was better known.
https://www.spaceanswers.com/solar-system/can-you-fly-through-the-asteroid-belt-unharmed/
No giant slugs of course.
If I learned anything from Escape From New York, a tiny charge going off will do.
Was it ever established how big a boom a slave implant would be? Enough to kill people nearby or cripple a spaceship?
Jabba wouldn’t want his Rancor to get a tummy ache. 😉
It seems like most “slaves” in the galaxy have implants that slave-owners can detonate if they try to escape. Anakin and Shmi mention having them in TPM
We really see slavery only once in the saga, which is in TPM, and there, slaves have bombs in them. Concluding that most slaves all over the galaxy also have bombs in them seems like a bit of a stretch. Especially since TFA takes place 60 years after TPM.
It’s given a passing mention in AOTC as Anakin goes to see Watto, who has long since sold her to Cliegg Lars, who freed her.
Whether anyone besides Oola, (and her royal replacement) in Jabba’s palace is a slave is up for debate.
Especially since the good guys never did a damn thing about the slave situation on Tatooine in the prequels. 😉
Not sure we should take anything said by Kylo as the gospel truth though.
Where is it said she was sold? We only hear Plutt’s voice in the Force vision flashback in TFA, so I don’t know who else could be her owner.
I don’t see any onscreen evidence to suggest that. She’s just one of many scraping out a meager living as a scavenger, and Plutt is the guy everybody sells their stuff to. (He may be the only person to do such business with.) The implication is there that she hasn’t taken any opportunity to get off-world before because of her forlorn hope her parents were coming back. It’s definitely not an Anakin/Watto situation.
If she was a slave, Plutt would have ordered her to hand over BB-8, not tempt her with bigger food rations.
Why she was left as a child with such a unsavory character we may never find out.
Chewie made a snuffling sound in Jabba’s dungeon that sounded like he was going to sneeze to me.
Who? Me? Wookiees can’t blush! 😉
History seldom remembers the second person to innovate though.
The segment I saw of it back in college was slow and plodding.
It’s a golden rule of fan editing to own the source material. AOTC can be had for around five bucks or less on Ebay these days.
I did spot this at my local drugstore recently. 😉
Watched a small portion back in college as part of a mass communication class. The irony is that you can get BOAN on Blu_Ray, but not Song Of The South.
My laptop just decided to die and corrupt the hard drive with it. It was relatively cheap, so I’m not too upset, but I’m never getting back those files.
Always a good idea to back up the important files at least once a week or save them to an SD card or USB stick.
Mods have lives, mostly. Contrary to popular belief, we don’t see every thread/post on here. Not to mention a mod just retired. That thread is now being discussed among the remaining staff, so keep your powder dry.
AFIK, the ones I’m aware of on DVD and Blu Ray have always been presented as an alternate audio track, not the default.
Let’s keep the outside drama to a minimum, so as to not derail Ady’s thread too much. These individuals are seeking attention, they should not get any from us.
If Ady wants it discussed at length here, then we’ll defer to his preference.
It would depend on the film. It might work for a fantasy film or horror. Music videos have borrowed silent film imagery from the beginning.
Maybe it’s just me? The first Laserdisc I ever bought in the 80’s was defective. Took over a year to get a replacement on backorder. I didn’t know about the well stocked Laserdisc shops up in L.A. at the time.
I wonder if there will be any official acknowledgement of the anniversary this year? 😉
Where I live humidity is seldom a problem. It’s mostly down to some dodgy disc pressing plants in the early days of the format. HD-DVD had similar problems, only the discs went bad much sooner.
Lucky you! I’ve had some old DVD’s go bad. All early editions of the 007 movies. Some choke on the second layer, one won’t play at all.
I think there’s a Nosferatu score out there done by a rock band.
A really creepy silent to watch around Halloween time is Haxan: Witchcraft Throughout the Ages (1922). Part documentary, part horror film, it’s surreal and disturbing imagery has been used elsewhere over the decades, even in music videos.
Criterion has a nice DVD release with the 1922 original, and an alternate version from 1968, with a jazz score and narration by William S. Burroughs.