I'm just glad that the directors that have been inspired by George Lucas are not following in his footsteps and destroying their creations.
I think that whole sequence is amazing. I'd still like to know how they got the fire effect with the camera pulling back as the ships flee. That stuff just amazes me.
Aaron Eckhart's portrayal of Harvey Dent.
The 2004 release was utterly disappointing. Even as soon as I got the boxset out of the plastic I was taken aback. Indiana Jones had just been released a few months prior as I recall and was in this really nice collectors case. Then I unwrap the star wars trilogy, the MOST WELL KNOWN AND RESPECTED TRILOGY OF MODERN CINEMA, only to find a folded cardboard box that looked like something a 12 yr old would put together. A millennium falcon here, throw in a couple TIE fighters. It was rediculous. I was flat out pissed.
I start watching A NEW HOPE and I get an even crappier Jabba then I has seen before in '97. First off that scene does not belong. It just reestablishes what Greedo already told us about five minutes ago. Secondly if it is forced in there then what happened to the digital Jabba from TPM. Did ILM lose it and have to come up with a new one?
Then I put in Empire. Palpatine bugged me, mostly because they changed the dialogue which flowed so well before but now seemed jarring. (not to mention it messed the flow of the music up) But what messed with me the most was replacing Boba's voice with Tumeara Morrison (SP?) Unneeded.
Finally I get to Jedi. The ending has begun. Luke burns the shell that has encased his father for decades as he stands alone in the woods. This is just as stunning a visual as when he watches the twin suns set. You can trully see how this young man has grown into a hero. Then as I'm immersed in movie magic I get a flash cut to Naboo where I hear and all-to-familiar voice shout WESA FREE! Wesa Free? George are you serious? Now I'm already upset when I get the mother of all face slaps. Hayden (I couldn't act if my life depended on it) Christensen's head covering up Sabastian Shaw. Shaw, a man with enough talent to make me feel for his plight even thouigh he's barely on screen even for five minutes.
Prowse is the body of Darth Vader
Jones is the voice.
& Shaw is the heart. He IS Anakin SKywalker.
Christensen doesn't even deserve to watch ROTJ let alone be in it.
But it could have been worse.
We could have seen Jake Lloyd standing there. YIPPIE!
My favorite Special effect is when the Tantive IV gets pulled into the underbelly of the Star Destroyer in A New Hope. I love how the Imperial ship seems to sprawl out over the tiny rebel ship when in fact the Blockade Runner model was much larger than the star destroyer since it was originally supposed to be the Falcon.
Ooooh. And also when Luke loses his hand in TESB. This is still the only limb loss in all six movies that is convincing. (and yes I'm talking primarily about Anakin's little "here let me hold my whole arm out and hope it doesn't get hacked off by this old guy" AOTC mistake.)
I used to think that ROTS was just filled with too much stuff. It seemed that both episode's I and II were both mostly just filler and then III had the bulk of the story. I never throught that someone's fall from grace could be covered in one movie, that is until 2008 rolled around and I saw Christopher Nolan's THE DARK KNIGHT. Now that I've witnessed a person believably go from good to bad I hate the prequels even more.
Here's what we as the viewer got.
1999 - a disney-esque kidflick with acting that is subpar to say the least.
2002 - a who-dunnit that never actually answers the big underlying question. (sifo-dyas??) (Kamino file??)
2005 - The movie George had been waiting to make but never actually sat down to hash out how Anakin would go to the darkside until just about the day of shooting. (and then redid in post)
I can only dream of what these movies could have been with just about anyone else writing and directing.
I remember being totally blown away by the scope of STAR WARS on the big screen. But even at that age (12) all it really did was make me long to see the original originals on the big screen. Something still to this day I have never been able to do.