Matt Lanter is Anakin, to me. Speaking of Anakin, he looks very strange.
Its like they prettied him up or something.
If Anakin must be in the Last Jedi, can Matt Lanter just do it instead? Then we can use CGI and paste over Hayden in II and III as well.
[…] I was actually softening a little in my heart on my stance against the prequels. I was even vaguely considering watching them again at some point.
Oh boy, the “giving-the-Prequels-one-more-chance” thing. That comes in my mind from time to time too. I have not seen the Prequels for quite a while now in order to forget them as good as possible. But on the other hand, i’m saying to myself: Hey, they can’t be that bad? Let’s rewatch them completely open-minded. I did this two times in the past … but those movies are not getting better
I made the mistake a few years ago of falling into the “maybe I’ll give them just one more go” trap. No, they were worse than I remembered. After that I physically threw the DVDs in the trash so I may never again be tempted. My household is officially prequel-free.
I almost bought Revenge of the Sith on blu-ray when the Steelbooks came out because I am a steelbook slut. Thank god I came to my senses before it was too late. Spent the money on a UK Firefly steelbook instead.
Why not the UK Steelbook of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy? Has great graphic design on it.
Because I have a crush on Adam Baldwin that even looking at his Twitter cannot deminish. I have a thing for burly brutes.
Peter Cushing was in a lot of films before Star Wars, especially the Hammer Frankenstein and Dracula movies. He was one of those character actors who was in a lot of crap sometimes but always gave a good performance and treated the material he was in with respect, a la Christopher Lee. Its weird, but seeing him never takes me out of the movie. He’s that good.
[…] I was actually softening a little in my heart on my stance against the prequels. I was even vaguely considering watching them again at some point.
Oh boy, the “giving-the-Prequels-one-more-chance” thing. That comes in my mind from time to time too. I have not seen the Prequels for quite a while now in order to forget them as good as possible. But on the other hand, i’m saying to myself: Hey, they can’t be that bad? Let’s rewatch them completely open-minded. I did this two times in the past … but those movies are not getting better
I made the mistake a few years ago of falling into the “maybe I’ll give them just one more go” trap. No, they were worse than I remembered. After that I physically threw the DVDs in the trash so I may never again be tempted. My household is officially prequel-free.
I almost bought Revenge of the Sith on blu-ray when the Steelbooks came out because I am a steelbook slut. Thank god I came to my senses before it was too late. Spent the money on a UK Firefly steelbook instead.
Maz finding the Skywalker Lightsaber would make for a good animated Forces of Destiny short because I could see the exposition dragging down a film and grinding the plot to a halt.
Mary Poppins Returns
wut
Yes 54 years later they will make a sequel to a movie that really didn’t need one. They will even shove Dick Van Dyke into a cameo somewhere because. I miss the days when Disney would do a rerelease of their classics instead of remakes.
Star Wars was known as Star Wars until at least the early 2000’s. Even the 1997 poster and advertising called it Star Wars: The Special Edition not A New Hope. I still call it Star Wars because I’m a pretentious jerk who likes be elitist.
It could get pushed back to Dec 2018 and move Mary Poppins Returns because no one gives a crap about that.
Kennedy has shown that she supports her directors when she likes their ideas. She’s the one who read the rough draft of Rogue One and asked why didn’t they all die. She’s the one who approved the last minute shooting of the Vader slaughter scene. She let JJ and Kasden dump most of Lucas’ draft. Rian Johnson seems happy with her. I trust Kennedy, she saw douche-bro Solo and was worried. Even the actor himself was worried and he was able to go to her and express his concerns and she didn’t brush him off.
Good on her.
Aren’t 21 and 22 Jump Street bro humor movies? Not something I’d equate with good Star Wars.
I’d side with Kasden over L+M anyday. He wrote 3 good Star Wars movies and Raiders. He understands the characters. If Lord and Miller were creating a douche-bro Han Solo then they needed to be fired. It should have happened earlier than now. I think Ron Howard will do a good job as long as he has a good script- which Kasden is likely to provide. If he can salvage some of the more expensive FX sequences the budget should be ok and as long as the film is good we are looking at another $1 billion box office success.
I’m betting Ron Howard reshoots at least 60% of the movie. They move it back to Dec 2018 to keep Star Wars at the spot where its done really well the past two years.
The EW article says they clashed with Kasden as well. Kasden was responsible for some of the best parts of Star Wars and he knows Han Solo like only 70’s Lucas and Brian Daley did.
They try to use the Ring Theory then bitch that TFA was a rehash in the same breath.
The pesky whipper-snappers who grew up on crap like Twilight and Harry Potter moved into other fandoms. Since they are easy to please the creators have little incentive to make good stuff when they can half ass any old garbage and make the bucks. They ruined Doctor Who and they tried to ruin Star Wars.
What the hell do you have against Harry Potter? Also, I have a Chrome plugin that replaces the word “millenial” with “pesky whipper-snappers”, so ignore the edit.
I like the books and I think that Rowling got so many kids excited about reading is a great thing. Its the movies I can’t stand and that Hot Topic had turned into nothing but Harry Potter central again. The last movie I saw, Goblet of Fire?, was only to on a date with a hot black dude.
The millennials who grew up on crap like Twilight and Harry Potter moved into other fandoms. Since they are easy to please the creators have little incentive to make good stuff when they can half ass any old garbage and make the bucks. They ruined Doctor Who and they tried to ruin Star Wars.
Lucas probably has final edits on any pictures. They will be released when the fit his “original vision.” They always wanted Jabba the Hutt to be there.
Mark has to walk a pretty fine line. If it were up to him, the OOT would be released because he wants as many people to be happy as possible. But he also has to not piss off people at Lucasfilm. Carrie gave zero fucks and got away with it.
Peter Mayhew? Billy Dee Williams? Aren’t they on twitter. HelloGreedo is pro OOT.
Okay, how does one confuse an open letter with a petition anyway? 😉
Its late and I’m tired but have insomnia.
I posted it to reddit. It might not do any good there, but who knows. We should post it to all postings on the official Star Wars Facebook page today.
Chewbacca looks a lot better this time around.
Carrie looks so wonderful. To see her with Mark in costume…sigh.
It would have been so easy to have Owen in TPM as one of those kids or an older brother sort and have him want Anakin to stay and not go off because Owen never looked beyond owning a farm on Tatooine. Maybe Anakin gave Owen some of his winnings to make the down payment. The he could still be “Uncle” like I’m Uncle to my friends little one.
I have a button thats from the convention I got on ebay sometime. I put it on my messenger bag.
George can make all the changes he wants. Just label it as a separate director’s cut, not the only version that should exist.
George isn’t the director for 66% of the OOT! ;D
Then call it The George Lucas Edition. Has a nice ring to it.
The Special Edition moniker still works- they are short bus special.
We should fund research into parallel dimensions and find the one where Lucas didn’t go nuts, no Special Editions, the original cuts are on Blu-Ray, the Prequels were really good and Carrie is still here.
Burger Chef did Empire Strikes Back Posters as well. The company was sold in 1982, so no Jedi posters sadly.
How is something called Burger Chef some of the most interesting artwork
Because Star Wars was huge that summer and posters were an easy Fast Food promotion. A lot of the artwork was used for the glasses as well.
