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I give the side-eye to people who call it "A New Hope" or "Episode IV."

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[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As far as I'm concerned, that was a scene with a different Jabba, a big Irish guy in a fur coat. But it wasn't in the movie, so it doesn't matter.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was better without Jabba, leaves the buildup for later.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agreed, but then if you watch the movies in chronological order, which I think is what the expectation is at this point, absolutely none of the buildup in any of the original trilogy matters.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Best I’ve heard, if you’re watching the originals, is to watch them as 4,5,1,2,3,6 - the logic being that you don’t spoil the big revel and 1-3 are like a flashback to see how we got to “now”.

Then skip 7-9.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Then play Star Wars: Squadrons for at least 10 hours (you may split this up with sleep if you like, or a little ham), then watch Rogue One

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

7 is fine, it's just a rehashing of 1 for a new generation. It just needs to be followed up with a "and then Poochie died on his way home to his planet" single animation cell that explains what happened to Luke.

The end.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

I choose to believe that Luke was a ghost the whole time. He was killed with the other Jedi when Kylo Ren attacked the Jedi Temple. Rey is just seeing a Force ghost, and ghost Luke and confused and angry which is why he's acting so weird.

Probably doesn't line up perfectly with what happens in TLJ, but I only saw it once when it was released so I can just remember Rey visiting Luke at a bad time when he was an angry ghost. Nothing really happens in TLJ anyway so there's not much reason to watch it again.

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Precisely. If Lucas didn't bother to retain that actor/character for ROTJ, then it never happened.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I agree. That said, this fan did a 'fix' of the version with Jabba in a pretty ingenious way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKaJ2GC1C04&t=0s

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok, now that's clever and reasonable. More evidence that Lucas has always needed outside voices and not just "yes men" to reign things in.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

I just read this on Wikipedia about CG Jabba (apparently) being upgraded for a 2004 DVD release from the 1997 "special" edition-

ScreenCrush later reflected that the 2004 version "was an improvement, but only in the way that nausea is an improvement over vomit".

I love it.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

NEW Holo Jabba FIX | Episode IV A New Hope 4K Edit.

😏

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Yeah, well... kids today...

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This was such a stupid, stupid scene. Like all the other "humor" scenes he started injecting.

Jabba's way too small. And there's no way in hell he'd let him just stomp on his tail like that. And...sigh.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

The humor basically had to be added to the scene, otherwise Han would have stepped through Jabba's tail. It's a shot that is blocked just fine if you shot it with a big Irish guy who didn't have a tail.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On my Jellyfin server I edited that part out along with most of the bad graphics.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just got a copy of the Despecialized edition.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

My editing actually was pretty successful but I can't get rid of the dumb animal that walks in front of the camera when they are stopped by storm troopers.