I remember reading somewhere that there's a saying in some EU novel about how you should "never tell a Corellian the odds." It made me so mad! It reduces Han's awesome outburst to just a mantra that presumably everyone on the whole planet recites from birth, as though there's an entire civilization of people with an arbitrary lack of respect for statistics. It makes Han just one of literally billions. Who would ever want that?!
Yes, plenty of people like the prequels. It's about time to deal with it. Sorry.
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Some details on the IMAX release.
http://makingstarwars.net/2015/08/star-wars-the-force-awakens-imax-presentation-details/
Oh man.... They better do a full-screen Blu-Ray release that opens up to the IMAX sequences, at least for the 16:9. I know that's not the IMAX screen ratio, but at least something to open that up to show. That looks like it's going to be incredible.
I have a rather sad story to tell.
I have a cousin (in her early 30's) who hasn't seen Star Wars much and only saw episode 4 about 2 months ago.
That's not the sad part, as much as that in itself is sad...
I have a media room and one of my other younger cousins wanted to watch Episode 2. Partway in she comes in seeing a young Obi Wan talking to Dex at the diner and was asking about traveling back in time for that episode and had to explain it was the prequels and is him as a Jedi Master before the original films. She looked for a few seconds more and then said, "Well gosh if the other ones looked like this I would have watched the others a long time ago!" I shook my head and said, "I can't believe you said that."
That hurt. I was pretty surprised given our age gap isn't that far apart.
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I was born in 1975 and while I never saw the originals in the theater I can honestly say...for me the prequels are what SW SHOULD be,some of it bugged me,some of it was awful but I can't help be bored watching the old films now,pretty much each film is a sequence of two or three things that happen in a line and after a few views you should be going "ho-hum"
I was born in 1975 and while I never saw the originals in the theater I can honestly say...for me the prequels are what SW SHOULD be,some of it bugged me,some of it was awful but I can't help be bored watching the old films now,pretty much each film is a sequence of two or three things that happen in a line and after a few views you should be going "ho-hum"
The prequels are a bit more jumbled and you see a whole lot more of places and beings,in a way it reminds me of the Marvel comics SW in the 80's which I got to like more then the movies,nothing wrong with them but I never got just why we never went beyond the Skywalker story and the enraptured almost-creepy-to-see fixation on the Jedi.
We've NEEDED new films and we've NEEDED SW that focuses on other things besides the Jedi and Skywalker,the first three parts and the clone wars bring that out,hopefully seven,eight,and nine keep up that pace.
And we need a Boba Fett and a Stormtrooper film,just sayin'.
I was born in 1975 and while I never saw the originals in the theater I can honestly say...for me the prequels are what SW SHOULD be,some of it bugged me,some of it was awful but I can't help be bored watching the old films now,pretty much each film is a sequence of two or three things that happen in a line and after a few views you should be going "ho-hum"
The prequels are a bit more jumbled and you see a whole lot more of places and beings,in a way it reminds me of the Marvel comics SW in the 80's which I got to like more then the movies,nothing wrong with them but I never got just why we never went beyond the Skywalker story and the enraptured almost-creepy-to-see fixation on the Jedi.
We've NEEDED new films and we've NEEDED SW that focuses on other things besides the Jedi and Skywalker,the first three parts and the clone wars bring that out,hopefully seven,eight,and nine keep up that pace.
And we need a Boba Fett and a Stormtrooper film,just sayin'.
Um...In Attack of the Clones they went to the desert on the exact same locations the Lars homestead was filmed for ANH. I would say most people, probably 90 some percent don't notice the difference between film and digital, especially on a screen that is less than 20 feet. And tons of model/miniatures were built for EPII and III, and I don't wanna have to do a search for the photos of them and show you the documentaries. Often a blue/green screen was used to impose a person inside a practical model, like the Geonosis Arena for one.
Wow, I can't imagine a world where anyone could think the prequels are what Star Wars SHOULD be. I find that really sad. To me, that would be like some poor kid whose first exposure to Batman was Shumacher's Batman and Robin and had it engrained in their mind that this is how Batman SHOULD be. Poor poor lost souls....
I think the blame can be laid on Lucas's lap since he never did diddly with it after ROTJ,I did like the Marvel comics but still to me none of it,I repeat NONE of it was "real" unless it was a movie from the man himself.
So the original films have gotten stale after thirty odd years,then he started to fool around with the originals and he spat out the prequels...well I can say he's a genius in some ways and in others is an idiot savant,there were many problems with those three films and the "add ons" in the older ones ranged from good (I liked seeing mos isley and sorry I liked seeing Jabba and Han added back in) to horrid (Han's physics defying head jerk,adding in young Hayden in place of the original)
But it was new SW and I am liking what I see (mostly) in the Clone Wars TV show-this is what SW needs more,official,new stuff and things we never seen before.
With the prequels I liked three best,one is a throwaway and two could be chopped a bit and lose some parts.
As we get closer to the new movie I'm going to sit back and watch ALL of the past ones from one to six and then go watch seven and be happy with all of them,even the warts! it's Star Wars and gawd dammit we deserve more,and we deserved it sooner!
I just hope it proves to be better now that Lucas has been given a cookie and told to go sit in a corner......
I think I've watched my prequel discs once each, and that was when I bought them. I don't think I've ever touched them since. However, the OT I can throw in the player and watch anytime.