'Out Of Gas'
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I like the scene added to SW 1 with Han Solo talking to Jabba and climbing on his tail.
I liked this also, but mostly because I'd seen it somewhere before, either in the comic books or maybe some TV special (like the Biggs Darklighter scene), back before TESB came out. Jabba was a white guy in a fur poncho, but otherwise it was the same scene.
Wow...I didn't even know they'd taken the yub-nub song out, since I only watched the "extended/director's/re-imagined" version once.
It was kinda lame that they digitally modified the Death Star's destructo ray into a giant walkie-talkie, though.
I like the scene added to SW 1 with Han Solo talking to Jabba and climbing on his tail.
I disliked it for the reason Hayden cites, but also, it doesn't look like Jabba the Hutt. I saw that movie, and I remember what he looks like, and that isn't it. It is sort of like having a cardboard cutout of an actor and pretending it is the real thing. Also, dude can move? What is the point of making him freakishly corpulent and self-indulgent, then?
Also also, it's supposed to be shocking when he's revealed in the yucky flesh in movie #3. If we know he's basically just Cookie Monster with the color on the fritz, he is not nearly so shocking.
It's the sort of change one makes because one can, and not because the story needs it, and therefore Lucas needs to STOP TINKERING.
It was kinda lame that they digitally modified the Death Star's destructo ray into a giant walkie-talkie, though.
Hmmm, not remembering that one... maybe I was still blind with rage over Greedo shooting first and missed it?
It's the sort of change one makes because one can, and not because the story needs it, and therefore Lucas needs to STOP TINKERING.
Damn straight.
Hmmm, not remembering that one... maybe I was still blind with rage over Greedo shooting first and missed it?
Psst, Matt. It's a stolen South Park joke.
I kind of liked the new Mos Eisley also. But that's about it for good things to say.
If we know he's basically just Cookie Monster with the color on the fritz, he is not nearly so shocking.
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He actually looks more like Snuffleupagus.
it's supposed to be shocking when he's revealed in the yucky flesh in movie #3.
With this, and issues like Greedo shooting first and Han losing motivation to get off Tattooine, it is like Lucas is losing track of his own storytelling imperatives. I mean, to me, he's saying "I already said that, let's move on", when the things he is changing are important to the original narrative. The pieces don't fit together as well. Jazzing up the CGI a bit doesn't bug me as much, although I think it is unnecessary. SW will always be a movie from 1977. You can't make it into the Matrix with a few touched up special effects.
You can't make it into the Matrix with a few touched up special effects.
This is my thing. He can't make it compete with Terminator 2 or Jurassic Park, so why even bother? I guess he thinks he's tightening the story, etc, but it really makes the success of the original three seem more and more sheer luck.
I reckon part of the blame lies with Chris Carter. Lucas has obviously watched the X Files and figured if Carter can blatantly disregard everything he wrote a few years earlier, then he can do the same. Clearly he, like Carter, considers the fans to be stupid and irrelevant.
Having said that, I'd still rather watch 9 seasons of the X Files, than half-an-hour of Phantom Menace or AotC.