Star Wars Saga (OT/PT/ST) Discussion Thread

[TheDucky]

Anyone get any Star Wars gifts for Christmas?

 

[ironwez20]

If you weren't so blinded by your incorrect ST opinions you might actually realize that me, ajp, and JAWS have embraced the PT like never before. You should be glad.

I'm sure that will continue even more once the Obi-Wan series repairs even more of the damage.

If you weren?t so blinded by nostalgia you?d see how great Rots is and how mando saved Luke skywalker.

 

[ironwez20]

I?ve probably seen ROTS three times in its entirety; TFA as well. Bits and pieces of them since.

It feels like I?ve seen the OT a thousand times, but in reality probably ... no more than a dozen times or so for each film in its entirety? Then a LOT of partial viewings, beyond counting.

I don?t know...probably underestimating. Let?s say between 20 and 30 times then, from start to finish. I?ve maybe seen ANH and ESB more than ROTJ.

Saw TFA and TLJ twice in the theatre; TROS once in the theatre and haven?t viewed it or TLJ since, although I checked out the odd scene from TLJ probably.

TROS is like a ... it?s like a bad X-Men film for me.

Nothing really stayed with me.


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Yea tros is a terrible film. I can?t believe those idiots at Disney didn?t think to map out a trilogy before putting it out.

Stick a few OT characters and stupid references in and you?ll get people like JYE drooling over it . despite its terrible story

I keep saying the emporer was them scraping the bottom of the barrel for an OT connection to get butts in seats . I rolled my eyes when I heard the laugh in the trailer. It?s was a blatant

? you remember this guy right? Please watch our movie cause he?s in the movie. Give us your nostalgia money?

I feel like micheal bay could of directed a better trilogy lol.

 

[ironwez20]

Anyone get any Star Wars gifts for Christmas?

No sadly. I tried to get hot toys obiwan but yeaaaa

 

[ZE_501]

[...]I feel like micheal bay could of directed a better trilogy lol.

Let the hate flow through you etc.

Looking back on my previous post, it's starting to bug me. How many times *have* I watched each OT film all the way through?

If I take ANH as my case study, since it's the oldest one ... I would have seen it just once when very young in the theatre. Then I saw it again as a teenager when the trilogy was released back into theatres for the first time in ages. I must have been 18 or 19 ...

Then again when the Special Edition was released in theatres.

Definitely watched it twice more in its entirety -- once to introduce it to my girlfriend of the time, and again during a marathon just before TFA.

So that's five times I can remember. But prior to it finding its way back into theatres briefly when I was a teen, probably saw it twice more at least on television and maybe another couple of times on VHS.

Bought the DVDs so let's say twice again. That's eleven ... and say three times more all the way through since 2011, at least once being the Adywan version.

Throw in one more I may have forgotten and that's 15 full viewings since 1977. Even though I feel like it should be more, there were a couple of stretches I didn't even think about Star Wars that lasted years, so that feeling I have about having seen this thing a gazillion times is probably due to my watching select scenes repeatedly over time, either to reference screen accuracy for figures and customs or just for fun etc.

Even if I'm underestimating it's probably not more than 20 times, say the equivalent for ESB and slightly less for ROTJ.

*EDIT: Okay, plus one about a year and a half ago, watching ANH accompanied by a live orchestra playing the soundtrack.

 

[aussiebottt]

Anyone get any Star Wars gifts for Christmas?

Yeah I got a Mando & The Child jigsaw puzzle. Pity because I have no interest in either the Mandalorian or Grogu whatsoever...

 

[a-dev]

Of course 5% of zero is still zero.

I'm willing to embrace Padme's bare midriff, but that's my limit.

Not by a long shot. A3 characters (well character) had continuity. Ripley was still Ripley doing Ripley tings. She totally Ripley'd the entire time.

One can even argue that the 'Alien' narrative has always been bleak and nasty, so even that works.

Thank you ZE. I'm going with this. I think it was generally just easier to get on board with Alien 3 overall. Other than cruelly taking away the potential of Hicks and Newt - that being the 'undesirable' factor of my argument the other day - it does have be to said it was pretty consistent with the tone of what had gone before. Meanwhile the only JJ-like mystery box we had to overcome was how the eggs got in the Sulaco as opposed to a missing 30 years of (undesirable) major events informing the current state of the major characters and the galaxy at large.

 

[a-dev]

Oh who wants my covid update my beard and hair stopped growing and when they shaved my chest 30 days ago to place the ekg electrodes that area they shaved is not growing any chest hair back.

Doctors don't know if it's the covid or the antibody steroid mix treatment.

Dr said if memory loss starts in a few weeks to let him know.

Yay me lol

Brb wife giving me my 150th dose of Robitussin that **** is expensive I could've bought a HT already lol

That's a weird one.

Imma go get Covid to see what it can do about my back hair.

Anyway wishing you a speedier recovery Jye.

 

[jye4ever]

That's a weird one.

Imma go get Covid to see what it can do about my back hair.

Anyway wishing you a speedier recovery Jye.

Thanks a-dev

Covid makes you like the ST so be very careful lol

 

[punisher1974]

Anyone get any Star Wars gifts for Christmas?

I got 2 different Mandalorian t-shirts and the Star Wars Archive book for the original trilogy.

 

[JAWS]

Anyone get any Star Wars gifts for Christmas?

No SW but I got the great Inspector

 

[Wor-Gar]

 

[JAWS]

Lol nice call!

 

[ajp4mgs]

ROTS is the only one I can sit straight thru but even that takes extra daily vitamins.

Oh who wants my covid update my beard and hair stopped growing and when they shaved my chest 30 days ago to place the ekg electrodes that area they shaved is not growing any chest hair back.

Doctors don't know if it's the covid or the antibody steroid mix treatment.

Dr said if memory loss starts in a few weeks to let him know.

Yay me lol

Brb wife giving me my 150th dose of Robitussin that **** is expensive I could've bought a HT already lol

After reading this post, I Googled it and learned that slow hair growth is a fairly common consequence of the bodily trauma and stress during illness, and even actual hair loss has already been associated with fighting off covid specifically.

Makes me wonder if you're having slow nail growth as well. If so, they're both probably due to the stress that your body has been put through. Otherwise, I'd imagine that steroid treatments would certainly temporarily mess with your hormones and hair growth.

The further away you get from the worst of it, the closer you're getting to a full recovery and a return to normal. Light at the end of the tunnel, jye.

 

[nexus]

While it would be hugely controversial, I would actually be happy if Disney used the Mandalorian and spin-offs to retcon the sequels (maybe framing those movies as an “Alternative Universe”, which they did with Legends so the precedent is there). They could create an entirely new storyline that doesn’t rehash the Emperor as the big bad; possibly brings in characters like Mara Jade and some form of the Solo twins; introduces cool new characters and creatures; gives Luke Skywalker a more fitting story arc; creates a more threatening new Empire (was never crazy about the “First Order” moniker); and sets up a terrifying and powerful new ultimate villain. I’m sure Hamill would be on board. Unfortunately Leia, and possibly Han and Lando, would need to be recast, digitally de-aged and/or digitally recreated. Yes there would be an uproar, but Disney could just pull off the band-aid and make an announcement that they were going to allow Favreau and Filoni to take over the reins. Disney could say something along the lines that they had come up with an amazing pitch and they didn’t want to box in their ability to tell a “truly epic” story (whether or not it was true wouldn’t matter). That would then give them 3-5 years to actually hammer out a connected trilogy of movies rather that the haphazard way the sequels were handled. Disney would practically guarantee itself another multibillion dollar trilogy, fans who were unhappy with the sequels would get another crack, and the Abrams/Johnson sequels would be there for those who prefer. Favreau gets Star Wars and understands the fans. I don’t think Filoni has the same level of talent or instincts, but he’s a great Number Two. Imagine what they could do with a budget and a blank slate.

 

[jye4ever]

After reading this post, I Googled it and learned that slow hair growth is a fairly common consequence of the bodily trauma and stress during illness, and even actual hair loss has already been associated with fighting off covid specifically.

Makes me wonder if you're having slow nail growth as well. If so, they're both probably due to the stress that your body has been put through. Otherwise, I'd imagine that steroid treatments would certainly temporarily mess with your hormones and hair growth.

The further away you get from the worst of it, the closer you're getting to a full recovery and a return to normal. Light at the end of the tunnel, jye.

I wish I was driving a Lambo lol

 

[Prime Clone]

Belated Happy Life Day freaks!


TLJ > TFA > TROS

Though it's overall better made, the ST is a lot like the PT: some great individual sequences strung together by ordinary or awkward bits.

 

[jye4ever]

I always wonder had CEOTTK opened 6 months before SW if SW still would've caught the imagination as it did.

Is slow moving CEOTTK different enough from slow moving 2001 to have impacted SW in any way.

I wonder for myself if SW would have impacted me the way it did in 77 had I watched CEOTTK first.

Instead of Hot Toys making SW collectibles would the world be knee deep into high end Roy Neary with mashed potato and shaving cream accessories and exclusive uncaring wife Ronnie with yellow night gown and divorce papers.

 

[ajp4mgs]

I wish I was driving a Lambo lol

Different type of midlife crisis. Maybe instead of driving a Lambo, you could settle for watching a Rambo.

Belated Happy Life Day freaks!


TLJ > TFA > TROS

Though it's overall better made, the ST is a lot like the PT: some great individual sequences strung together by ordinary or awkward bits.

We have the same ranking order.

I always wonder had CEOTTK opened 6 months before SW if SW still would've caught the imagination as it did.

Is slow moving CEOTTK different enough from slow moving 2001 to have impacted SW in any way.

I wonder for myself if SW would have impacted me the way it did in 77 had I watched CEOTTK first.

Instead of Hot Toys making SW collectibles would the world be knee deep into high end Roy Neary with mashed potato and shaving cream accessories and exclusive uncaring wife Ronnie with yellow night gown and divorce papers.

I don't think it would've made any difference. Close Encounters was pretty much a terrestrial film, capturing the imagination in a completely different way. What made it compelling, imo, was the narrative and the way it taps into our existing curiosity and fascination with the subject matter.

Star Wars, on the other hand, was a fully immersive fantasy right from the very first shot. The world of SW was like taking the colorized section of Wizard of Oz and removing the dream context, setting it in space, and making it way more expansive (and much cooler).

Close Encounters is more like enjoying a gourmet dessert, where Star Wars was like a pure and total sugar rush from gorging on candy. Would having dessert on the evening of Halloween take away from the bouncing-off-the-walls effect of a trick-or-treat haul later that night? Not for me it wouldn't.

 

[ajp4mgs]

Got the recent Pablo Hidalgo "Fascinating Facts" book, and found quite a few little tidbits from all three trilogies that I either never knew or had totally slipped my mind. For example, these two from the OT.