BUT GREEDO FIRED FIIIIIRST
Oh wait, all-positive.
BUT GREEDO POSITIVELY FIRED FIIIRST
BUT GREEDO FIRED FIIIIIRST
Oh wait, all-positive.
BUT GREEDO POSITIVELY FIRED FIIIRST
The internet is like a magic 8 ball where nine out of ten responses are “Go DIAF, asshole” and the last one is porn. I didn’t know the Meat Circus level was impossible until the internet told me, nor did I know that the Library level was totally awful. Sometimes a spoonful of sugar is better than medicine, that’s why I made this thread!
It probably helps that I consume fiction on pure instinct and don’t think very deeply about things most of the time. It never occurred to me that Han was supposed to be a morally questionable scoundrel, so the whole “Han shooting first” angle literally just sailed right by me as a kid. I mean, c’mon. We all saw the original movie 80 times before we were ten, right? He’s a good guy because even though he thinks about running away, he doesn’t! Of course he’s an unquestionably good guy.
The re-releases were very cool. I was too young to see the Star Wars movies in theaters originally. (I was 1, 5, 8 I believe). So the re-releases were my first chance to see them in a theater, and listen to those booming John Williams soundtracks at the same time. I really enjoyed that experience.
I honestly didn’t know about the differences (Greedo shooting first, etc.) until people told me on forums.
Jabba the Hutt’s tail really had some heft to it!
I missed this. Will you retire to the French Riviera or Bermuda?
Star Wars : Loved it. Was amazed by it. I saw it seven times in the theater.
The Empire Strikes Back - Really enjoyed it too, in many ways perhaps better than the first movie. Didn’t care for the famous spoiler at the end, though.
Return of the Jedi - Some great scenes, balanced by ewok scenes.
The Phantom Menace - It couldn’t really compare well to the original trilogy and it didn’t. Still, Star Wars after a long wait. The entire spectacle – marketing, new toys, long lines for opening night, etc., was fascinating.
Attack of the Clones - I really don’t even remember this one! Here’s my favorite moment from this film:
Revenge of the Sith - I will never forget Christopher Lee fighting a muppet!
The Force Awakens - Good in case I’ve forgotten the plot of the first Star Wars movie.
Rogue One - My favorite of all the post original trilogy Star Wars movies.
The Last Jedi - Some nice moments in this one. I cringed a bit at times too.
Solo - yet to see.
Oh God that Triumph bit is for the ages.
I had a really good coffee in the movie theatre when I saw TLJ. It was really good coffee.
Was it brewed or Espresso? I had a great Espresso while seeing Star Wars: Now with 100% More Lens Flare and 50% less Plot.
I got a free ticket. We have some money invested with a broker and every year he rents a theater for a movie screening as a thank you to his clients. I saw both Rogue One and Last Jedi that way. This will be the first year this December when there isn’t a Star Wars movie playing. I wonder what he will screen?
Oh, yeah, the rest: ESB is my favorite by quite a lot but I love ANH and I think RoTJ is underrated. The Anakin redemption scene is such a powerful scene and a great end to the saga (well, until it wasn’t the end anymore).
TPM’s pod race was fun and two Jedi on one Sith action was such a rush. All that lightsaber action had me giddy.
AOTC: beautiful scenery, that Jango vs. Obi Wan fight was great against the backdrop of that water world, and I don’t like sand either, it really does get everywhere.
RoTS: opera scene with Palpatine story telling was pretty mesmerizing…best scene for me in the whole trilogy. Some cool lightsaber battles and that opening space battle.
Hell yeah man!
I never got the Ewok hate either, but much like Armando I saw it for the first time on a big screen with the rerelease. I was 13? Man at 13 it was god damn amazing.
The only, only, special edition thing that I dislike. I mean I like Han shoots first. I also like how in the X-wing miniatures game (you knew I’d go there eventually) the Han crew ability is basically ‘Han shoots first’.
Also the long arc of the animated series is fantastic. They pay off so much. Dave Filloni realized the potential of the idea behind the clone wars, he made the fall of Anakin feel believable. He gave the real sense of pathos for the whole arc. They also paid off several long running character threads in Rebels. Ahsoka and Maul both get story arcs that span the two series. And does he deliver on them.
The end of Clone Wars, with what it means for Ahsoka with the backdrop of rising militancy and embracing a fascist state as evidenced by background imagery and iconography? Brilliant. It gives a context, it hints at things only lightly seen.
Just out of the frame is the rows of red flags lining the giant victory columns.
But the ends of season 2 and 3 of Rebels wrap up some real narrative heft. A story that uses the people involved to really evoke emotional depth.
Hey, the Animated series thinly references Indian history. There, that’s a positive!
Even when I was 8 years old I felt the Ewoks were pandering to kids, which annoyed me. Also I found it implausible that they would be able to defeat Stormtroopers in combat.
That said, the Jabba stuff was pretty cool, as was the Luke/Emperor/Vader component of the climax.
I was 11, and yes, concur. I still enjoyed the film tremendously and teared up a bit when ghost Anakin showed up with Yoda and Alec Guiness.
I teared up too, in a different way when live Anakin showed up later in the Lucas’ Folly Trilogy. I cried! That’s a positive. Its cathartic!
I never minded the Ewoks, nor did I find it all that implausible that the Ewoks, who were in their element, might fight off the bulkily-armored stormtroopers with poor visibility. Also, the empire was turning the tide back against the Ewoks toward the end, until Chewie and friends commandeered that walker.
Well, considering the general quality of Stormtrooper marksmanship, perhaps you have a point…
That was far better than I expected, and that it had any right to be.