Ewan deserves a lot of credit for somehow channeling Alec Guinness, yet making the part his own. In spite of all the ways the prequels fell short, I always believed I was seeing a younger Obi Wan.
And Lucas had to have Obi Wan ride one up the the moisture farm at the end of Episode III. Big emotional scene, and I'm having flashbacks to that damn thing farting on Jar Jar. :lol:
There were still a few titles released domestically in 2000. (Pioneer kept a DVD/LD combo player in their product line for years past that.) And my local home theater showroom sold every copy of TPM they got in. The rumor making the rounds was Lucasfilm nixed the U.S. release, not Fox.
And it's...
That's still the only legal way to get the original theatrical cut, unless you track down the VHS. It was a low blow to not release it in the states, as Laserdisc was nowhere near being dead at the time.
Whatever Lucasfilm's rationale was, it was more of an annoyance than an obstacle, as most...
One potentially overlooked legacy of TPM is it gave birth to the fan edit. If anyone had done one for a movie before that, I haven't heard about it. The rise of the internet helped of course.
I've probably watched a certain "ridiculous" edit of TPM more than the original movie at this point...
I don't know about Episode III, but there were some fans camping out in line on the first two to benefit charity. Somebody even made a documentary about them.