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It also bodes well for a 50th anniversary re-release of A New Hope, and my kids would be the perfect age to see it for the first time then.

They show the 3D versions of the prequels at the Star Wars Celebration convention each year and I swear I am so tempted to go each year just for that. Bill Hunt reported at Digital Bits that Disney gave serious consideration to putting them on disc as bonus features when they did their nine...

It did reasonably well. What happened was that Lucas had intended to re-release both of his trilogies one film at a time (and all three prequel 3D conversions were actually completed) but then he sold Lucasfilm to Disney, and Disney canceled the rest of the re-releases in favor of making new...

Sounds about right.

It’s been a while but if memory serves, this was going to be explained in expository dialogue either in the Dooku-Obi-Wan scene and got dropped, or it was meant to be explained later but cut from the script from Episode III. I think it wound up as one of those things that wasn’t really needed in...

I said “still canon” because Disney de-canonized nearly everything outside of the first six films when they took over and I wanted to offer clarity to Scott that, unlike the EU novels, that this still “counted”.

The last time I watched the prequels with my wife, who historically didn’t care for them, I just said to her “Pay attention to what Palpatine says and does and how everyone responds to those interactions. That is the real story.”

The still-canon Clone Wars series (which is worth a watch despite the large number of episodes) goes a little deeper into this. Sifo-Dyas was a Jedi who had come to fear, following the events of Phantom Menace, that war was inevitable. He was thrown off the Jedi council for not letting this...

I’m just guessing but if you look at it from Boyega’s POV, TFA begins a character arc with Finn leaving the storm troopers and, after initially wanting to run away, decides to join something bigger than himself when he joins with the resistance and learns of the Jedi. But in TLJ, Finn’s...

I can’t imagine those will wind up being the final dates. That’s too much Star Wars, too close together. Iger admitted as much in the aftermath of Solo’s underperformance - he conceded that for Star Wars to be a cross-audience phenomenon that scarcity was important. A billion dollars’ worth of...

That’s all a bit bizarre. Avatar 3 is finished with principal photography and parts of Avatar 4 were already shot before 2 came out. That delay doesn’t make any sense. The marketplace could not sustain two Star Wars movies coming out six months apart in 2017-2018, and that was before it was...

I’ll be glad to see it but it’s still so weird to me that Star Wars didn’t get a 40 year re-release, Empire got booked into some theaters at the height of the pandemic when almost no one was going out, but Jedi gets a fully promoted reissue. I suspect @TravisR will see it more than I get to! :)

I’m a little skeptical if only because none of the original three films have been honored with theatrical rereleases for major anniversaries since 1997, and starting with Jedi seems like an odd choice. 100% it would be the 4K edition that’s been out on Disney+ and UHD disc for several years...

Duuude… 2002 me would have loved that so much. And 2022 me… yeah, I’d do it.

I still remember the excitement of seeing the midnight opening for Episode II. And then seeing it the next three nights in a row as different friend groups all had different plans for seeing it. I know that the prequels aren’t objectively perfect films (very few films are) but I had perfect...

Everything with Ewan in this film is gold.

RIP Yub Nub. We hardly knew ye.

There’s a lot of VHS stuff I wish I still had even though I have zero space for it. I can justify having Star Trek The Original Series because at least it’s not panned and scanned like Star Wars so it’s not painful to watch. But I loved the look of the different VHS editions.

I seem to recall sending in a bunch of cereal box tops to get a copy of that on VHS but I could be thinking of something else.

I think when you’re calling yourself Doomcock it’s time to maybe reevaluate your life choices. Reminds me of Taserface from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2.

I’m of two minds of the whole thing: the film, on its merits alone, has a messy beginning but it really comes together in the third act, and the last five minutes take it to another level. The payoff is good enough to justify the effort it takes to get there. On the other hand, I love the old...

It’s that same lunatic fringe group that felt it was normal human behavior to send death threats to Kelly Marie Tran because they didn’t like her character, the same group who drove Ahmed Best to suicide attempts because they didn’t like his character, the same group that bullied Jake Lloyd, a...

That wouldn’t pass muster for the Star Tours ride, let alone the film. Star Wars fandom is the only such group I can think of where people feel absolutely entitled to rampant copyright infringement and outright intellectual property theft in the name of “improving” something that isn’t theirs...

It's a wonderful series, and that was a tremendous finale. I couldn't have been more thrilled with it.

The generals who won victories for the separatists, like Grievious, and other characters seem on Clone Wars. If you’re a separatist, Count Dooku is a hero - from that point of view, Dooku discovered the Jedi were corrupt and rather than play along, did an unheard of thing by abandoning the order...

Oh, I wasn’t thinking that at all. Not intending on criticizing you for seeing that as a parallel. I just don’t ever think real world concerns circa today will ever impact my viewing of this film. I don’t really see it as “not aging well” personally because I think it works just the same as it...

What part didn’t age well? Crawl looks/reads fine to me.

Its amazing to be reminded that the Special Edition versions of Star Wars have now been the default versions longer than the originals. Yub Nub has been out of Jedi longer than it was in it.

That does ring a bell - thanks! Watched Empire last night, ROTJ tonight!

@TravisR <nerd question>In the prequels, the troopers are clones. In the sequels, they’re stolen children. Has it ever been established what they are in the original trilogy?</nerd question>