General star wars talk/discussion/complaining

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That 2006 DVD version is pan and scan. So, still not the original theatrical release.

The article makes a good point about the "special editions" revitalizing the brand imo

 

[MarkB]

i do not have roku nor do i have any interesting in watching that version.

I'd watch it just to see Han shoot first.

 

[pukunui]

That 2006 DVD version is pan and scan. So, still not the original theatrical release.

I've got that DVD box set (tin), and I never noticed that the edges were cropped off!

 

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That's not even world building. World building expands the lore of the world. This gave no real insights into it, other than Woody Harrelson tossing him a blaster.

IIRC the blaster is also part of a set that can be modified for carbine or rifle configuration, but Han didn’t get those parts. Would have been handy sometimes but really not part of the gunslinger vibe he was going for.

I really liked Solo and wish we’d seen more of Ehrenreich as Han (not to mention Clarke as Qi’ra and Glover as Lando). PWB as L3 was fantastic and I’d like to see her as the Falcon in future too.

Favourite lines:

“I hate you.”
“I know.”

Honestly I’d be totally on board with a reboot of Star Wars with McGregor, Ehrenreich, Glover, Clarke, and a couple of fresh-faced kids as the twins. I’d be very happy to see Ingram back as Reva from Kenobi too. Take the plot in different directions, have Kenobi survive, whatever.

(I’ll stop now since this is a MCU thread, not a SW thread.)

The blaster did not cause the problems with the film. If it had been a different blaster it wouldn’t have made it a better movie.

As I said, the movie’s problem was trying to cram in shedloads of backstory (and more was cut). The actual story started with the failed train heist. It would have been better to start with that as a pre-credits sequence, then have the occasional flashback to fill in only the parts of the backstory that are relevant to the plot.

why not talk about it here instead?

 

[jian]

Sure enough!

As mentioned above, I’d be quite happy to see an Abrams ST style reboot of the original trilogy (but not with Abrams). I think there’s a lot you could do with it. Of course, it will probably never happen while George still breathes.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Sure enough!

As mentioned above, I’d be quite happy to see an Abrams ST style reboot of the original trilogy (but not with Abrams). I think there’s a lot you could do with it. Of course, it will probably never happen while George still breathes.

I'm good with that outcome. I don't think Abrams style is a good fit for the kind of Star Wars I want.

 

[Scribe]

I'd watch it just to see Han shoot first.

I'd buy the original, correct, trilogy for sure.

 

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‘Star Wars’ Boss Says It’s ‘Remarkable’ the ‘First Print’ of George Lucas’ 1977 Original Was Found and Screened After Decades; Discovery Called a ‘Miracle’

Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy made a surprise appearance on opening night of the BFI Film on Film Festival in London, where the ultra-rare, original first print of George Lucas’ “Star Wars” was being screened. The BFI’s shocking discovery of the print and the announcement that it would be...

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[doctorbadwolf]

As I big fan of The Last Jedi I would argue that it is the farthest the main episodic franchise got from a "children's movie". Unless there are a bunch of children's shows I don't know about out there that are making pointed takedowns of war profiteering and tackling Battlestar Galactica-style cat-and-mouse war paranoia and the cost of a single soldier's life in both large and small scale.

But I will refuse to engage with this thread if it becomes yet another debate about The Last Jedi so instead I'll talk about SW5e campaign I ran a while back that was set 30-or-so years after The Rise of Skywalker in a galaxy that has been slowly drifting apart from the power vacuum left by the destruction of both the New Republic and the First Order and people have begun to strongly mistrust Force users due to over a half-century of highly-destructive war and political turnover/turmoil that always seems to be centered the Jedi (the Sith, never being particularly well-known among the general public, are never really thought of as seperate from the Jedi). Petty religious squabbles that have scorched the galaxy basically thrice over, and where there are exact names to blame, the two that most people know of, even if only in whispers, are "Palpatine" and "Skywalker". Very KoTOR II inspired (in fact the big bad turned out to be the spirit of Darth Traya, still trying to obliterate the Force entirely, primarily through the corruption of the Jedi Knight the PC's trained under, who was actually the kid with the broom at the end of The Last Jedi).

I ended up getting ultimately disillusioned with SW5e as a system (like with A5e, what I want from 5e is not more tactical complexity) but it was a fun campaign while it lasted.

I really enjoyed watching Dimension20 use SW5e to run a “Starstuck Odyssey”, but it does feel a lot like playing SWSE (which makes sense) with 5e character options. I do plan on using basically its ship combat/rules simplified to do airships in Eberron, as the campaign is now in an era where there are non-elemental+dragonmark powered/controlled airships, though they are so expensive it’s like airplanes before WWII. Not exactly widespread yet.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

It's 1994. George Lucas calls saying he's going to direct a new SW movie and he needs YOU to write it.

What direction would you have gone?

I’d take his basic ideas and have the alien sidekick be a conman that slowly turns hero but is never all that cool, Anakin would be around 12 and would be doing escort runs in a old beat up fighter he made from scrap, fighting to be taken seriously in spite of his age.

Assuming Maul is one of George’s ideas early on, he would last and be more than a brute, or would be replaced by a Dathomiri/Sith witch rather than by a second old man (all love to Cristpher Lee).

Obi-Wan would be exactly the same, Quigon….maybe would have been a woman to distinguish the character from every other Jedi master in the franchise, and maybe not human. She’d die in the second film, right at the beginning.

The Trade Federation would have been more…Western. European coded with average types of aliens instead of one, and I’d have drawn more parallels with CIA Cold War actions in “3rd World” countries. Bananas. IYKYK.

I’d have fought for practical effects enhanced by CGI wherever possible.

Jedi garb would be different from Obi-Wan’s in the OT.

Padme was perfect.