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Just get Mark Hamill and have him do his Joker voice.

Okay, jokes aside, I think Jake Gyllenhaal would have been an interesting choice. This was around when Donnie Darko came out, so he can definitely pull off the dark side of Anakin.
At first I wasn’t sure about DiCaprio, but after thinking about it this was around when he did Gangs of New York and The Aviator, so I can sort of see it, since this was when he was playing more intense and dramatic roles.
Someone else said Heath Ledger, who I think would have been good. Probably wouldn’t have happened at that time, but it’s an interesting proposal.
Or hell, just do a few rewrites and I think Hayden would have been fantastic. He looks the part and he has some good moments when the dialogue isn’t getting in the way.

As the younger Anakin, Haley Joel Osment would have been a better choice than Jake Lloyd. Or Devon Michael (the other kid they had in the Phantom Menace making of.) His audition showed a lot of promise. Especially when he said the line “I won’t always be.” That part made me genuinely sad when I first saw it.

Grogu13 said:

Which actors who played Imperial officers, other than Mark Jones, were ever on Dr. Who? I don’t believe Tom Mannion was. Michael Culver wasn’t. Was Leslie Schofield, Julian Glover, Pip Miller, Alan Flyng, or Michael Sheard on Dr. Who?

He wasn’t on the show, but Peter Cushing played The Doctor in two movies (Dr. Who and the Daleks, Daleks’ Invasion of Earth 2150 AD) if that counts. Although they apparently took the title too literally and his name is actually “Dr. Who” in those movies.

JadedSkywalker said:

What I found terrible was her excusing him killing Tusken children as animals, and then she couldn’t believe Obi-Wan about the younglings.

That was also pretty ridiculous. And how you can tell Ewan McGregor is stifling laughter when he says the line “I have seen a security hologram of him killing younglings.”

There’s so many lines between Anakin and Padme that I could choose from, but these are the ones that stick out in my mind:

“You are so beautiful.”
“It’s only because I’m so in love.”
“No, it’s because I’m so in love with you.”
“So love has blinded you?”
This is the one scene I consider skipping whenever I rewatch that movie. It’s mercifully short, but that dialogue is painful. And it doesn’t even make sense either, it’s like a line or two got cut.

But the more baffling one is this one:
“Hold me, like you did by the lake on Naboo; so long ago when there was nothing but our love. No politics, no plotting, no war.”
The first sentence is already bad, but then it has to go the extra mile. No politics, no plotting, no war? Did Padme get knocked on the head and forget everything that happened in the previous two movies?

There’s one that I can’t believe nobody ever brings up. Although granted there’s a lot to choose from.

Padme: “You come from a warm planet, Ani. A little too warm for my taste. Space is cold.”

One idea I thought of was adding him to that meeting scene with the imperial officers. So instead of Tarkin saying that The Emperor dissolved the senate, The Emperor himself is there to announce it. And have him sitting in a chair, but not showing his face, like they did with Blofeld in the earlier James Bond movies.
Or I’d have an after credits scene where Vader goes to talk to The Emperor about how the Death Star was destroyed. He gives him a Cerveza Cristal.

What would be funny is if he sold the rights to Francis Ford Coppola or Steven Spielberg. See what kind of stir that would cause.

I rewatched them again a few months ago and my ranking changed slightly:

1. Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. Last Crusade
3. Temple of Doom
4. Dial of Destiny
5. Crystal Skull
   Last Crusade and Temple of Doom seem to switch places for me.

Re-reading One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest because I was thinking about watching the movie again recently.

I’ve gone back and forth on the prequels. As a kid I loved them, then later I started hearing that a lot of people hated them and it rubbed off on me for a few years. Now I’m kind of in the middle on them. I’m now of the opinion that they aren’t as bad as some people say they are, nor are they as good as some people say they are.
I did not like Rogue One the first few times I saw it. It just seemed like a boring and pointless spinoff that distracted from the sequel trilogy. It wasn’t until I saw Andor when I finally came around to enjoying it. I still don’t think it’s as great as some people think it is, but it’s a decent movie.
I loved The Last Jedi when I saw it in theaters, but it didn’t hold up on rewatches. I can only bear to watch fan edits of it now.

Very interesting. A bit long, but well-cited. I learned a lot about George from reading it. There’s too many tidbits I’d like to mention.
Just reading about the alternate directions they might have taken the movies was fascinating. Especially alternate ideas for Return of the Jedi and the prequels. One thing that was baffling to me is that originally Obi Wan was supposed to be the one that found Anakin, and Qui Gon didn’t show up in the movie until they got to Coruscant. That makes so much more sense, why would you change that?
Another idea I found interesting was the prequels were supposed to be structured differently. The first episode was about the history of the Jedi, the second was Obi Wan’s life story, and the third was Anakin’s life story. Maybe there was just too much material to cover in each of those, but that probably would have made the movies more focused.
There were also some telling quotes in there from George Lucas himself. At one point he mentions after making Return of the Jedi that he was thinking of selling Star Wars to someone else, almost 30 years before, you know. He comes across as very stressed and overworked in a lot of this.
There’s also the infamous quote from Harrison Ford criticizing George’s dialogue in the original movie. Apparently Ford regretted this comment after the movie came out. He said “I told George ‘you can’t say that stuff, you can only type it.’ But I was wrong. It worked.”
I’d put the screen shots in there, but I don’t know how.

The first copies I owned of them were the 2004 DVDs and I didn’t know there were any changes made to the movies until I saw a Cinemassacre video on the Star Wars movies. I was very upset about it, but I eventually found out about the 2006 DVDs and decided to look for those. I managed to track them down and that’s how I was able to watch the theatrical versions for the first time. They were expensive and not the best quality, but at the time I was fine with just watching those as that was the only way I was able to find the original cuts at that time. Now I just watch the despecialized versions.

Got a few for Christmas. By coincidence they all ended up being Johnny Depp movies:
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Ed Wood

Anybody else remember this one?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Math:_Jabba's_Game_Galaxy

I’d watch a Futurama episode of just “Palpatine vs Nixon”!

“I AM the senate!”
“I’m not a crook.”

I already knew beforehand what Yoda looked like, so I just remembered being confused why Yoda didn’t just say who he was.

If he does have a name, it’s either Frank or The Senate.

JadedSkywalker said:

I hate the name Sheev

I’m glad I’m not the only one that doesn’t like that name. I just call him “The Emperor” or “Palpatine.”

The Crystal Star

FDR, maybe? Gave inspiring speeches about how they’d make it out of a crisis, while also staying in office for a long time while a war was going on (granted they didn’t have term limits yet, but it was controversial at the time).

I’ve only ever been able to watch the entire thing once. Reading about the production of it and watching reviews of it is much more fun (the Red Letter Media review of it is hilarious for example). Whenever people ask me about it I always warn them not to watch it.
I am very interested in that documentary. I’m not sure when they’re releasing it, but the production history of that thing is so fascinating to me.
I love that when Harrison Ford was asked whether he’d seen it, he said “I was there, man. I didn’t have to see it.”

My ranking changed slightly:

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. Return of the Jedi
3. Star Wars
4. Revenge of the Sith
5. Rogue One
6. Solo
7. Attack of the Clones
8. The Phantom Menace
9. The Force Awakens
10. The Last Jedi
11. The Rise of Skywalker
12. The Clone Wars movie

Update: I moved The Force Awakens down a few spots. I don’t think I’ll ever watch the sequel trilogy again.

I do see a bit of overlap between Palpatine and the Futurama version of Nixon.

Updated to include Ahsoka:

1. Clone Wars (2003)
2. Andor
3. The Mandalorian
4. The Clone Wars
5. Ahsoka
6. Rebels
7. Visions
8. Obi Wan Kenobi
9. The Book of Boba Fett
10. Ewoks
11. Forces of Destiny
12. Droids
13. Resistance

I rewatched them about a month ago. There’s some good jokes and I agree with some of their points. Before those videos I hadn’t really seen a long form review of a movie like that, so it was very new at the time. Also the first time I saw them I didn’t really understand why people hated the prequels so much, so seeing those reviews helped me understand the criticisms. I do enjoy a lot of Red Letter Media videos, although I think they can be too cynical sometimes.