Star Wars: The Complete Saga (1977-2005)

[welcometothepartypal]

Originally Posted by Nicolawicz

It also ruins the presentation of the Falcon later. Just another example of Lucas' stupidity.

Totally! Also ruins the Jabba reveal in ROTJ. I remember gasping as kid when I finally saw Jabba. Now my kids have already seen him in ANH so when they saw him in ROTJ it was....nothing.

[bobbyh64]

Originally Posted by welcometothepartypal

Totally! Also ruins the Jabba reveal in ROTJ. I remember gasping as kid when I finally saw Jabba. Now my kids have already seen him in ANH so when they saw him in ROTJ it was....nothing.

Didn’t you know that Lucas always intended for you to see Jabba in The Phantom Menace for the first time?

[Gold Ranger]

It's been a few months, lol, but I don't remember the Falcon being fully seen in that scene.
Besides, with Solo now, we see it much earlier.

[Arawn]

It was also briefly seen in ROTS... unless we're supposed to assume Solo retconned that.

[hanshotfirst1138]

Originally Posted by welcometothepartypal

Totally! Also ruins the Jabba reveal in ROTJ. I remember gasping as kid when I finally saw Jabba. Now my kids have already seen him in ANH so when they saw him in ROTJ it was....nothing.

Jabba worked so much better as an evil presence who was only mentioned in hushed whispers. Sometimes, less really is more.

[bobbyh64]

I wonder if we’ll get 20th Anniverary Special Editions of the PT. They could add ten times as much CGI to all the films and also re-edit the dice game between Qui-Gon and Watto so that instead of Qui-Gon cheating, he notices that Watto was trying to cheat so decides to undo the cheating using the Force so that the dice roll is random. That’s how it was always supposed to be anyway. They just didn’t have enough time to shoot the necessary angles. I don’t know why anyone would have a problem with this. Qui-Gon was never supposed to be a cold-blooded cheater.

[Bobbyjoe766]

Originally Posted by bobbyh64

I wonder if we’ll get 20th Anniverary Special Editions of the PT. They could add ten times as much CGI to all the films and also re-edit the dice game between Qui-Gon and Watto so that instead of Qui-Gon cheating, he notices that Watto was trying to cheat so decides to undo the cheating using the Force so that the dice roll is random. That’s how it was always supposed to be anyway. They just didn’t have enough time to shoot the necessary angles. I don’t know why anyone would have a problem with this. Qui-Gon was never supposed to be a cold-blooded cheater.

The scene wouldn't be complete without a fat-assed dino worked into a shot.

[bobbyh64]

Originally Posted by Bobbyjoe766

The scene wouldn't be complete without a fat-assed dino worked into a shot.

A non-CGI dino for irony.

[Martoto]

No dino = No party.

[drush9999]

Originally Posted by bobbyh64

A non-CGI dino for irony.

Has to be a Harryhausen style stop motion dino or re-use the chess-pieces from the first SW

[Ernest Rister]

Originally Posted by bobbyh64

I wonder if we’ll get 20th Anniverary Special Editions of the PT. They could add ten times as much CGI to all the films and also re-edit the dice game between Qui-Gon and Watto so that instead of Qui-Gon cheating, he notices that Watto was trying to cheat so decides to undo the cheating using the Force so that the dice roll is random. That’s how it was always supposed to be anyway. They just didn’t have enough time to shoot the necessary angles. I don’t know why anyone would have a problem with this. Qui-Gon was never supposed to be a cold-blooded cheater.

I don't know, I think it's pretty clear Watto was up to no good and Qui-Gon was just thwarting him. Technically, they're both cheating, but....Watto Cheated First.

[IndyMLVC]

Originally Posted by welcometothepartypal

Totally! Also ruins the Jabba reveal in ROTJ. I remember gasping as kid when I finally saw Jabba. Now my kids have already seen him in ANH so when they saw him in ROTJ it was....nothing.

That's what you get for not showing them the original versions first....

[stvn1974]

Originally Posted by IndyMLVC

That's what you get for not showing them the original versions first....

[bobbyh64]

There’s no point in showing the special editions to someone as their first Star Wars movies. Otherwise they’re gonna say, “Who’s that creepy young ghost hanging out with Obi-Wan and Yoda?”

[Martoto]

Originally Posted by bobbyh64

There’s no point in showing the special editions to someone as their first Star Wars movies. Otherwise they’re gonna say, “Who’s that creepy young ghost hanging out with Obi-Wan and Yoda?”

[Show spoiler]"It's the ghost of Hayden Christensen"

[Krypton_Son]

Originally Posted by Martoto

[Show spoiler]"It's the ghost of Hayden Christensen"

Yeah, he haunts me too.

[Ernest Rister]

I think Hayden is a fine actor (and if you think about it, a pretty great athlete). Believe it or not, he didn't like the screenplay for Attack of the Clones, either. What was that quote? "This isn't what I signed up for." And the response was something along the lines of, "Well, that's the role."

[IndyMLVC]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

I think Hayden is a fine actor (and if you think about it, a pretty great athlete). Believe it or not, he didn't like the screenplay for Attack of the Clones, either. What was that quote? "This isn't what I signed up for." And the response was something along the lines of, "Well, that's the role."

Where is that quote from?

[Ernest Rister]

Originally Posted by IndyMLVC

Where is that quote from?

Gist of it -- Hayden finally got the screenplay for Attack of the Clones, had concerns. Said it wasn't what he thought the role was going to be. Response back was, well, that's the character. I haven't touched the commentary tracks on the DVDs in a billion years, but I think that tiny factoid is there.

Point is, Hayden signed on to play the Anakin Skywalker people imagined -- noble, tragic action hero -- and then got a screenplay with a character created with a heavy emphasis on teenage emotional nuttery, and Hayden was concerned. He signed on to play Tragic Hero Anakin. Got something else...emotional impulsive teenager Anakin. Nothing to really make a big deal of (it makes total sense, in hindsight, that Lucas went that way), but apparently the Anakin of Episode II wasn't what Hayden was expecting.

[Fang Zei]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

I hope that we'll see some of them on 4K disc, given that there's another movie due which may well be the end of the Skywalker saga, at least for the foreseeable future. Primo cash-in opportunity. If they don't at least get Force Awakens and Rogue One out there on 4K disc then I am going to be PISSED.

My TFA bd has already rotted. I didn’t bother buying Rogue One the first time around since I wasn’t as crazy about the movie and Disney had yet to start supporting UHD a full year into the format. I wanted to future-proof.