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This latest nonsense with Steve Martin is so 'eyeball rolling' that they just did a complete 360 in my head!
I'm still processing all that's happened. Carrie Fisher's bad stroke on the plane, a few days later we learn she has died, then her fabulous mother Debbie Reynolds :(
When I went to see Rogue One yesterday, I thought about Carrie quite a bit even if the movie totally sucked me in.
Needless to say, I was in tears when the end credits started to roll.
Rogue One is clearly the best Star Wars film together with the original from 1977.
It's mind-blowing, I would rank TFA at the bottom and RO on top.
Unbelievable how they went from mainstreamed children's crap to seriously dark and deep stuff within one year.
So I have hopes now for Episode VIII, if it is only half as good as Rogue One it still will be way better than TFA or PM and ROTJ
ROTJ is a great movie, man! Even more epic on the Blu Ray where the Ewoks actually blink sometimes. The added finale by Lucas showing all the systems celebrating is so cool. I just don't get the disdain for it. Okay, the reveal of Leia being Luke's sister seemed a little forced, but we already knew from the first two films that Han & Leia would end up together anyway, so what?
Don't make me use a Jedi Mind Trick on you Jason!!
=))
@chrisisall :))
Actually here is my ranking, never done it before...
1. Rogue One
1. Star Wars 1977 (a tie for now)
3. Attack Of The Clones
4. The Empire Strikes Back
5. Revenge Of The Sith
6. Return Of The Jedi
7. Phantom Menace
8. The Teen Force Awakens
Good. It worked. :D
Oh, but @DarthDimi, don't call her beautiful before you call her witty and smart, because those two things are way more important. Women are more than just a body and some curves, you animal! They're not designed to be your damn play thing for the fixation of your fantasies. Grow up, man!
Oh Christ, I don't want to know what it must be like in the mind of these feminist types if that's their thought process. Martin commented on her beauty, mind AND talent, but that didn't stop them from using it as a random time to show outrage. But he was right to call her beautiful, as Carrie was and always will be one of the female figures in film who graced posters on many growing kids' walls as they faced puberty looking at her in the films, metal bikini or not. She's up there with Ursula Andress, Raquel Welch and Farrah Fawcett in that regard. Add to that what she did for female characters on screen, showing that they can do everything the boys can do, and sometimes better, and you've got a woman that deserves such a wide range of compliments.
As a non-Star Wars fan who has tried to get into the films several times, one of the many things that have gotten in my way of enjoying the films is down to all the stupid alterations Lucas has made over time. I want to see the real Star Wars films, and experience them as there were before he got his grubby hands on them. Is that possible? Because at this point it feels like there's twelve director's cuts of each damn movie and my head spins keeping straight what he added and what he didn't.
This is the kind of thing that has kept me off of Blade Runner for so long. Just make one goddamn movie, and at the most, a director's cut if you're unhappy with studio fixes. But no more, please.
It's a curse, ever since the industry discovered they can milk the customer twice or even more with Director's Cuts, Special Editions, Extended Cuts, and however they name them, you get various versions of a movie to choose from.
I hate it.
There are only a few exceptions where it makes sense.
The black & white edition of Mad Max Fury Road is such an exception. It's called Chrome Edition and the film works perfectly that way. It's a totally different experience.
I am SO SO SO SO HAPPY there is only one version each for the Bond films!!!
Blade Runner I would advise to get the Blu-ray where you have the various cuts included. Then go for the original theatrical version. It will then be fascinating to watch the different endings, but that's all. For me it's always the first version.
Star Wars the 1997 editions are great, the newly done sound and special effects were necessary, except some overly enthusiastically done new CGI beasts and humans. But that's a minor complaint.
But what was done beyond 1999 is a crime.
I am not sure which version there are on Blu-ray. Certainly the latest versions from 2003 I believe. Maybe the untouched versions are out in HD as well. If that is so, go for it.
So unless Fox decides (they still own the first three films) to put out the theatrical versions of Star Wars, they are not available any longer.
Seeing Hayden Christensen at the end of ROTJ next to Alec Guinness is always the icing on the rotten cake. Why not putting Ewan McGregor on Alec Guinness as well for Jabba's Sake.
Anyway, at least now Disney rules and as Rogue One has proven, they can provide a Star Wars movie that is much better than most of the first 7.
Lucas is too focused on marketing multiple film additions and selling action figures than respecting the art he helped create, which is one of the worst things about his character. He represents himself as a film lover first, but his greed and what he is willing to sacrifice creatively for a profit is disgusting at times. He's one of the rare cases of a creator who shits on his own work instead of someone else doing it for him. People think all the hate he gets is derived from the prequels, but a lot of that also has to do with how he's callously and meaninglessly altered the classic films he once was respected for. It's like a father taking his beautiful daughter to get plastic surgery she doesn't need. Surgery that makes her look worse coming out of operation.
You know, The release of Rogue One got me thinking. Is it possible we could see a Shadows of the Empire movie? That would be so great. That's one of my favorite Star Wars expanded universe stories.
What year did "A New Hope" actually become tacked on?
The 1981 re-release added the new title. Lucas was actually pretty sure that the film was going to be a complete failure - but once it became the success we all know it to be now, he started making adjustments pretty much immediately. He knew he was going to make the prequels back in the 80s, thus the new "Episode" titles were born.
It has a lot of charm and iconic scenes, but the performances from Hamill, Fisher and Ford are a bit hit-and-miss (Ford does indeed like his finger pointing). Alec Guiness and to a lesser extent Peter Cushing are certainly the best people in it.
https://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Episode-IV-Limited/dp/B000FQJAIW/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1483183268&sr=8-4&keywords=star+wars+dvd
Far more appropriate. Never liked the original Ewok song.
He's all about money, so why not set it up for the originals to be released as they were and watch the cash flow in? I'm kind of glad I'm not a Star Wars fan, because this kind of thing would just make me livid. Well, more livid.