Which I thankfully have had for quite a while. Still it is mainly ep4 that has been fixed up.
WRONG, Empire and Jedi were fixed up in the same way......
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Which I thankfully have had for quite a while. Still it is mainly ep4 that has been fixed up.
The problems were -
1. He became a legend in a lot of peoples' eyes that wanted to work with him.
2. This led to him being surrounded by 'Yes People'. On the original trilogy he had people saying "George...you just can't do that!"
3. He's not that great a writer or Director if just left to his own devices. He needs the input of others whether he thinks so or not.
4. Trying to make even great actors work in a green painted hanger with just green felt covered boxes to work against for 6 months while you sit 20 feet away with a latte directing via a video monitor isn't going to work. Having real tactile sets really works to boost actors hence why Abrams decided to not got the total green screen route.
5. 563 other reasons blah blah blah...
I liked al of the star wars movies as well... annakin was annoying though.. he seemed too whiney to be darth vader. The darth maul fiqght scene was epic.
Ah right, no editing on front page threads
If you haven't heard; there's a despecialized edition.
I assume no linking to naughty sites, so a polygon article it is
http://www.polygon.com/2014/8/18/6030725/star-wars-hd-despecialized-edition
(I'd also recommend the "making of" that harmy posted along with it)
Ignore the jar jar bits 1-3 are decent enough (of course to each their own)
Don't forget that once he started ILM,
Most of the stuff that was great about the original trilogy came from other people and Lucas actually listening to their advice. For the special editions and prequels he was surrounded by too many 'Yes Men' who believed all his hype and I think it got to the point Lucas believed it himself.
Look at some of the "Making of" specials for the original trilogy and then read some interviews from the last 10 years and he totally lies about what he did himself and what he actually had planned for the series. The whole "soap opera family problems" wasn't a thing until writing for ESB was well under way and they wanted a surprise twist (same with Leia in RotJ).
The new movies probably won't live up to the massive hype (I don't think anything could), but I don't think they will suffer from the loss of Lucas.
I don't see why you think he's a dick. He's done a lot of really good things and donated a huge amount of money to charity. The last 3 Star Wars movies he made being subpar doesn't make him a bad person.
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...The darth maul fight scene was epic.
That fight scene and the song Dual of the Fates are still some of the best parts of the SW universe.
Qui-Gon did rediscover the old technique on how to transform into pure force power, enabling Obi-wan and Yoda an afterlife to guide Luke as ghosts. That scene unfortunately was never in theaters, but was part of the special features in the Blu-Ray releases and was later hinted at in the Clone Wars tv show.It's 'Duel.'
What makes it great? What makes the audience care about any of the characters involved? Qui-Gon never does anything wise or memorable, Obi-Wan spends most of the movie back on the ship whining on the radio, and we never learn anything about Darth Maul. The battle ends up just being a group of highly choreographed people we know next to nothing about jumping and spinning around around to theme music. Wow, so epic.
The Vader/Obi-Wan duel in ANH was more interesting than any of the prequel duels. The fact that Obi-Wan is old and can't just do spin-flips around Vader actually makes it better, IMO.
I didn't know the "making of" was on Youtube, check it out if you haven'tI still have the original, pre-special edition VHS copies. I have wanted for many years to try and figure out how to copy them 1st from VHS to digital, then taking the digital copies and upscaling them.
I didn't know the "making of" was on Youtube, check it out if you haven't
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHfLX_TMduY
No awful dialog. All of them cheesy and lame great action sci fi. Not the actors, it was Lucas horrible dialog. i grew up on the originals and they were no better or worse than the newer ones. but you know opinions and all.
Guess I'm in the minority but I loved Episodes 1-3. 3 is actually my favorite of all 6 movies.
The only Star Wars 1-3 that is great is the Robot Chicken version.
The third one was good up until the last 15 minutes or so.
You enjoyed watching Obi-Wan ride a dinosaur and fight a cartoon robot wielding 4 lightsabers? It's like Lucas felt he needed to top the awfulness of R2 flying around and Yoda/Count Dookie having a lightsaber danceoff in Attack of the Clones.
The only thing I find interesting about the prequels is the progression in special effects. The CGI is terrible in parts of Phantom Menace (particularly the battle at the end) but improve substantially with each movie. The whole trilogy is basically one big tech demo for Industrial Light & Magic.
I think it's hard to do a backstory or prequel and have it fit with the originals no matter the movie franchise.
There's a whole industry of talented writers and directors who would have loved to do Star Wars.
I'm hoping Disney will reboot the prequel trilogy. It seems inevitable if the sequel trilogy does well given how much profit a good prequel reboot could generate.
You enjoyed watching Obi-Wan ride a dinosaur and fight a cartoon robot wielding 4 lightsabers? It's like Lucas felt he needed to top the awfulness of R2 flying around and Yoda/Count Dookie having a lightsaber danceoff in Attack of the Clones.
The only thing I find interesting about the prequels is the progression in special effects. The CGI is terrible in parts of Phantom Menace (particularly the battle at the end) but improve substantially with each movie. The whole trilogy is basically one big tech demo for Industrial Light & Magic.
I have no problem with R2-D2 flying. In fact an Astromech droid being able to fly only makes sense for repairing ships. They'd need to be able to do it in space.
What good would rebooting the prequels do when Hayden Christensen and Jar Jar are still in the canonical version of Return of the Jedi? At this point in time, even the originals are tainted with stupidity so it wouldn't solve anything.
I'm hoping Disney will reboot the prequel trilogy. It seems inevitable if the sequel trilogy does well given how much profit a good prequel reboot could generate.
I have no problem with R2-D2 flying. In fact an Astromech droid being able to fly only makes sense for repairing ships. They'd need to be able to do it in space.
Just let this story line go! There is so much more to the Star Wars universe than this core group of events.
I for one, wish they'd let Bioware do the movies. At least there would be a decent story.
What good would rebooting the prequels do when Hayden Christensen and Jar Jar are still in the canonical version of Return of the Jedi? At this point in time, even the originals are tainted with stupidity so it wouldn't solve anything.
When is Jar Jar in Return of the Jedi?
But if it was a common thing that astromech droids can fly in the Star Wars universe, then why do they have to manually load the astro droids by hand with a droid lift into top of each X-Wing in the first Star Wars film?
I googled it and apparently his voice was added to the 2005 rerelease (During the celebration scenes, "Weesa free!").
Not about to watch it to confirm the change, mind you. The Vader 'Nooo' has already etched itself into my brain and negatively affected that pivotal scene for me. Even when I watch pre-Nooo ROTJ, I still hear it. Curse you, Lucas!
I googled it and apparently his voice was added to the 2005 rerelease (During the celebration scenes, "Weesa free!").
Not about to watch it to confirm the change, mind you. The Vader 'Nooo' has already etched itself into my brain and negatively affected that pivotal scene for me. Even when I watch pre-Nooo ROTJ, I still hear it. Curse you, Lucas!