I’d go with sometime in the 70s or 80s, but I kind of like the Internet, so…
And here we have the tradeoff. The 2000s have the Internet (great) and other great technology (HD, 4K TVs, etc.) but everything else besides tech sucks.
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Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this Wall! 80s power! Economy booming
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I’d actually be down for an edit that does away with episode numbers altogether.
Do something like this:
Very nice. Always loved that logo!
I’m wondering when the fan edits are going to come out that use the original opening crawl for SW (1977), Ep. 2 for ESB and 3 for ROTJ, and then retitle TFA as Ep. 4, thereby creating a 6 film saga with no prequels.
Got my Star Wars 7 DVD in the mail, looking forward to relaxing with the movie in the upcoming days and posting a revised review. Only saw it once in theaters.
imperialscum said:
I really couldn’t care less about it not following any established classical dramatical structure or elements. The film story took a dofferent approach and the end product is one of the best films ever made.
Yeah, I don’t think so. But if you like it!
-TM
I don’t think BR stunk but I do find it to be overrated quite a bit.
Fair.
I think Blade Runner is properly regarded. It’s got a complex and adult script, odd and compelling characters (nobody is really likeable as such but they are interesting). The acting is top drawer throughout and then comes the environment which is astonishing. When it first came out it was under-rated.
I showed it to a friend of mine who had come from a little village in India and hadn’t seen many western movies and he genuinely thought that American cities had flying cars while watching this.
Clearly Scott is a visualist only. The level of visual perfection in Blade Runner is still evident in Prometheus (if you ignore the makeup job on Guy Pierce) but with Alien and Blade Runner there were proper writers and actors that could cope with very limited character direction.
If younger Harrison was in Prometheus he would have probably not allowed his character to as much as a twit as the crew of Prometheus. That’s the difference between an artist and a professional, both can make money but it’s usually an accident when a professional makes art.
There is no question that the film looks astonishing, and if you’re in the mood you can watch just for the visuals. I’ve done that before.
What I can’t get over is the script. It doesn’t have a large climax. It doesn’t have small climax. It is just a flat line all the way through. Worse, it seems to diminish in intensity all the way through.
I came up with a KICKASS dystopia film in 2006 just by looking at the Blade Runner DVD COVER and imagining what kind of movie that would be like. I still intend to make it. When I actually saw Blade Runner a couple of years later, I was hugely disappointed that they took such a strong sense of style and SQUANDERED it!
-TM
As someone who did a fan-edit and changed literally each plot point, each line, each music track, each color in each frame…EVERYTHING!!!
I would also suggest Blade Runner, but deciding which version to watch could be terribly difficult 😉.
I know I’m in the minority saying this, but I thought Blade Runner sucked. It’s got A+++ cinematography and prod. design on an F- movie. Maybe that makes me unsophisticated, but I know a little about filmmaking…
-TM
P.S. Alien on the other hand…beyond reproach
True. Anyway, for any flaws, I think this one is redeemable, unlike The Phantom Menace! -TM
I only saw it once, but wasn’t there another Death Star capable of mass destruction? The movie felt like there was one guy that came up with a complete rehash, and then another guy that wrote comments on the side of the script that made it good, like Han Solo’s “So it’s bigger.” Essentially making fun of the movie.
My review:
It was not a classic, but I found it to be stylistically pretty good. I LOVED the character with the mask with shoulder-length hair…like an evil John Travolta. What made the movie for me was Han Solo. What a great thing to see him finally acknowledge that “It’s true…all of it.” And then he gets stabbed by his son because he sticks his nose out…something Han would never have done in the OT (maybe ROTJ). In other words, it wasn’t an unnecessary movie. It progressed things.
What I didn’t like and I’m sure others have mentioned is the borrowing from other films, such as the cantina sequence, and etc. It felt a little too much like an homage to Star Wars rather than a Star Wars. As bad as the PT was, nobody could fault them for not being original (some would say originally bad). Hopefully Ep. 8 is less this way and with Luke as the bearded Jedi master, I am very excited to see what Ep. 8 brings.
-TM
Hello,
I am the old user Trooperman (Joined this forum in 2005 and was welcomed by Moth3r who sent me the mono mix to 1977’s Star Wars…a thrilling thing for a teenaged SW fan. While I was here I also did a rough cut of a new edit of Episode 2: Shroud of the Dark Side.
I understand there is a great DVD edition out of the trilogy, restored, original versions (by Harmy). DVD-5 and everything (I can’t handle much else besides that). Since this was my original reason for joining the site, I was wondering if someone might be able to PM me about the spleen or whatever method is used now. Thanks.
(and I own at least 4 different versions of the SW trilogy commercially).
