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

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[–] 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...