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Spartacus01 said:

Back to the Future’s version of Johnny B Goode is better than the original version. And I’m saying this as someone who loves Chuck Berry.

But the phone call that follows, even if it’s a time paradox, is an unfortunate racist joke. That short scene could have been left on the cutting room floor and the movie would not have been changed at all (besides being slightly less racist).

I can enjoy the movie (Star Wars ‘77) but still notice that its cast is dominated by white males, and that all the aliens live in a wretched hive of scum and villainy !

And did you realize that in each of the original trilogy movies there’s only 2 speaking female characters (one being obviously Leia) and that the 2 females don’t speak to each other?! Look up the Bechdel Test and the Smurfette syndrome…

And that the first black person we encounter (at last at the end of the second movie) cannot really be trusted?…

I love the OT, don’t get me wrong, but it has its fair share of problems.

I think the most complete non special edition of OT’s music on CD is the Star Wars Trilogy longbox. It definitely has Lapti Nek and Ewok Celebration (Yub Nub).

JadedSkywalker said:

Like in Return of the Jedi the matte painting standing in for a real set that looks fake even on laserdisc. The Millennium Falcon behind Lando is so atrocious, why didn’t they build it out as a physical model?

And to think that they effectively built a physical full size model of the Millennium Falcon for Return of the Jedi, used it for only one scene (the infamous sand storm scene) and then they cut that scene from the final film!

It seems that ROTJ not being a very good movie is slowly becoming not an unpopular opinion?

The French airing is legitimate. I saw it back in the day! There was much talk about it the day after at school! We were young, obsessed with Star Wars, and we were hungry for more: an hour of Star Wars, on TV, was quite the (pleasant?) surprise (I think I caught it by chance!). There wasn’t really a lot of content to consume in France 40 years ago: imagine, we only had 3 national TV broadcasts, and no local ones! So any new Star Wars (especially free on TV) was welcomed with enthusiasm!

Star Wars Outlaws is out on August 30th, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcdKEy-aJ6o

Squadrons ?

Leigh Brackett was a Hollywood legend, she was very ill when writing for Lucas (she passed away soon after IIRC), so as an hommage to a great lady, her name was kept in the credits even if none of her writing was used.

But ToD is a prequel, so it happened before Indy knew Marion?

Daisy Ridley excited for “fun direction” of new STAR WARS film (YouTube)

It’s even mentioned in the first line of the description for the video!

Matt Gourley invites Sona and Conan to his house to watch the “despecialized” edition of “Star Wars,” but they’re both planning to be busy that day.

It’s a lame cliffhanger. Especially if you can watch the following episode right away!

Acbagel said:

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Tldr; With those disjointed events that were obviously not intended to be placed in this order and the visual errors showing that R5 and Grogu were originally intended to switch places at certain plot points, it is clear that the reunion was not the original plan and that they had to massively rework Season 3 from top to bottom. It’s like they had originally shot whole planets with R5 and no Grogu at one point, and then re-shot half the scenes again to add Grogu in with a new storyline, but didn’t do a good job as Grogu is still missing from a ton of the new shots and R5 still in the background. This would also mean that Din was supposed to go to Tatooine before episode 2. Din also lands on Nevarro with Grogu still in the bubble instead of the droid port, but then R5 is following him in the next shot… So there are tons of different reshoots and VFX alterations going back and forth and it is a terribly messy presentation. There’s a lot of additional speculation/evidence out there, especially in terms of the S3 ending and some BTS leaks of Gideon scenes that were never used, but wow, from an editor’s standpoint it is crystal clear that this season was so stitched together in post production to become something that is was not originally intended to be.

Impressive detective work, but I have a problem in terms of production schedule: if they changed their plan to have Grogu in all episodes of Mando season 3 instead of R5, this decision should have occurred before or during production of Book of Boba Fett, because it’s during BOBF that we have a Mando episode showing Din being reunited with Grogu. And so if they had to rework some Mando S3 episodes, those were already filmed before BOBF was finished?

We don’t need another of those connections that offer nothing except shrinking the Star Wars universe even more.

Let people just be random people. Like it was originally in 1977. Luke being a nobody from nowhere is far more powerful than him being the lost son of space Goebbels.

fmalover said:

The Lost World: Jurassic Park is my personal favourite and I still don’t understand to this very day why it has so many detractors.

It’s my favourite too, but I hate the first Jurassic Park. The Lost World is pure action from start to finish, never trying to be smarter than it is. The first film is awfully written: the scientists have little to no purpose, no outcome to the end of the movie. They keep repeating that everything will go wrong for scientific reasons, but when it goes wrong it’s because of a petty treason for money by a disgruntled employee (the ridiculously (and insultingly) token geek). And don’t get me started on the female scientist: she’s here just to show her putting her arm fully inside a giant pile of shit (again she says that there’s something biologically wrong, and then it’s quickly forgotten).

Luke is a proxy for the audience, he doesn’t seem to know a lot about the galaxy, even about Tatooine except for his Uncle’s farm, and Tosche Station (where you can pick up some power converters), so presenting a strange weapon to him (and to the audience in the theater) and explaining where it come from, what it does, is an organic way of exposition, without it feeling like exposition to the audience. (It’s way better than say Luke noticing the lightsaber dangling from Ben’s belt and obnoxiously asking him about it)

It’s the magic of Star Wars, the 1977 movie, the necessary exposition to present this completely new universe to the audience is very natural, never feeling forced and dragging on. This is a feat that not a lot of fantasy movies are able to achieve with as near perfection as Star Wars (looking at you MCU).

I don’t understand: can’t you play them in an emulator? There’s even web-based emulators nowadays!

Speaking of similar scenes in the same movie: the sister reveal is explained 3 times! First Luke get the news, then he breaks the news to Leia, and then Leia has to explain it to Han. It makes sense for the characters to get this information, but for the audience it’s the exact same reveal repeated 3 times. And it’s boring.

You guys liked what they’ve done to IG-11? Turning him into an exo-skeleton to be driven around by Grogu? It’s more than ridiculous, it’s creepy as hell. Imagine the same thing done not to a metal body, but to a flesh and bones one…

The Last Jedi is the best Star Wars movie. I have spoken.

The Force Awakens has a lot of flaws, playing it mostly safe, but one bold move (to the credit of J.J. Abrams?) is to have made our (male) heroes some sad old losers! Luke is in exile, having failed to raise a new generation of Jedis (so to anyone lamenting that it should be Luke rebuilding the Jedi Order: no thank you), Han lost is beloved ship, and is back to his old job smuggling illegal and dangerous things, and being chased by half of the galaxy bounty hunters! Losers.

So, the planet is called Plazir, sounding like the french word plaisir, meaning pleasure… The royal couple (elected? again?) is ridiculously over the top, they have ridiculously over the top parties, like, as we say in french, une monarchie d’opérette, as if they were in a lighthearted comedic musical about royals. (If you though the casino sequence in The Last Jedi was over the top…)

And those royals said to Bo and Din: “we respect your gun culture”? Isn’t that absolutely tone-deaf in the current political climate in the US?

fmalover said:

Rewatching TPM I’ve noticed everyone dismisses the Gungans as a primitive race.

What’s so primitive about them? They have built an underwater city on their own and energy shields strong enough to withstand all sorts of blaster shots and lightsaber strikes.

Racist movie is racist?

Is the history and culture of the planet Mandalore called the mandalorelore?

So, Mando is going on a stupid quest just because of his stupid creed?

– From now on you should never ever remove your pants
– But, but… how do I pee?
– This is the way

On Kitbashed - The Origins of Star Wars there’s a comprehensive essay about Valérian & Laureline.