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Sure, They could have an all Jedi episode of Blind date. All the hotties will say the same thing in their post-date interview: "He was such a sweet guy, I felt I had to go down on him.....and something about not looking for droids and giving up Deathsticks and rethinking my life...."
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As a Star Wars Fan, I don't see a problem with the hairdos. I've watched the original Star Wars numerous times, the Special Editions just as many, and of course Episode I and II. I see nothing wrong with it.
quote:Originally posted by AndrewR: OMG! Yes! Again, someone else who agrees with me about the absurdity of Yoda in the fight seen. It was so obvious they sped his movements up so the audience's eye couldn't linger on the CGI creation for too long.
Sped up his movements from what? The stunt double tiny green man that was originally there?
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quote:Originally posted by Triton: I won't be seeing Episode III, period.
Triton, I love you like an enthusiastic leper. But if that's true, I will eat my mouse mat.
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I was thinking about QuiGonn's attempted mind trick on Watto in Ep1 and about how bad that really was. The only reason we knew what he was trying to do was because we've all seen Episode 4. My guess is that people who watch the episodes in order for the first time won't get much of what's going on.
quote:Originally posted by Aban Rune: I was thinking about QuiGonn's attempted mind trick on Watto in Ep1 and about how bad that really was. The only reason we knew what he was trying to do was because we've all seen Episode 4. My guess is that people who watch the episodes in order for the first time won't get much of what's going on.
Well technically Watto does give an explanation as to what Qui Gon was trying to do about half a second later. "What, you think you're some kind of Jedi, waving your hand around like that? I'm a Toydarian! Mind tricks don't work on me, only money." The fact that he was being sarcastic doesn't matter, the audience gets the joke.
Mind you, the Jedi mind trick was never really explained in the original trilogy either, all Kenobi said was:-
"The force can have a strong influence on the weak minded."
The term "Jedi Mind Trick" wasn't even coined until RotJ, by Jabba and by then the trick is old hat.
So I think it works fine whichever order you view the films in. Of course the best JMT moment has to be in AotC, during the Outlander club scene.
"I don't want to sell you death sticks"
I laughed my arse off the first time I saw that.
"I want to go home and rethink my life."
I still love it.
EDIT: I just remembered that the first time (chronologically) we saw the JMT was at the beginning of TPM, with Boss Nass. So you're right, that might not make sense. Oh well.
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Although I will admit to that going completely over my head during my initial viewing. Although that might have been due to my brain having been numbed by a combination of really pretty CGI, hoardes of Gungans, and Brian Blessed playing...a CGI Brian Blessed.
One thing I never got about that is how come Boss Nass managed to "set them up" if he was being influenced? Or was he not being influenced, and Qui-Gonn just thought he was?
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Perhaps Qui-gon wanted to go through the Plaaaaanet Corrrrrrrre because he wanted Obi-wan to get training. That would also explain why Obi drove.
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Or then Qui-Gon's Jedi powers don't include Driving @ Insane Speeds 101, while Obi-Wan's (and Anakin's) do. Or then the padawan is simply always supposed to drive. And polish the shoes.
As for the hairdos, I'm all for a 70s look in a movie that wants to "recapture the magic". The overwhelming reason T3 is such a flop is because it is a 2000s eye-candy movie trying to act out a 1980s paranoia/dystopia plot. It's visually completely wrong. Flashy convertibles, impeccaple hairdos and colorful flat-display computers filmed from flattering angles don't cut it.
Flashy convertibles, impeccable hairdos and colorful flat-display computers filmed from unflattering angles, thrashed for good, portrayed as uncool and expendable... Now that would work, as in T1. Cameron at least tried with T2. Those rotating computer graphics, mobile phones etc. were not "showcased" even though they were hot at the time. (And the guns were real, and had correctly sized magazines!)
Lucas shouldn't stop at hairdos, though. 1970s camera angles; harsh lighting; "American night" and true darkness only instead of the "real night" shots enabled by modern film types; long lenses with objects between the target and the camera; targets off-center... All that should still work just fine. SW is a nostalgia piece first and foremost, not cutting-edge sci-fi.
(And even cutting-edge sci-fi looks best when it's "non-modern" visually. "Modern" is just another word for "utterly outdated in a year", after all. "Old" is the word for "something that didn't completely disappear in a year".)
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But how would he manage those nostalga shots when his entire backdrop is CGI?
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Deliberate de-rezzing of CGI and modern film in general, to emulate a variety of past techniques, is a challenge yet to be properly tackled. DS9 did rather nicely with "Trials and Tribble-ations", in a limited sort of way (although I'd have liked more grease-lens shots of Dax, of course, not to mention the almost-upskirt angles TOS cameramen so loved).
Maintaining the hairdos across I-III and IV-VI doesn't seem to be necessary from the continuity point of view, really. The trilogies are temporally clearly separated. Seventies was in for IV-VI, that's clear - but there's no reason it should be in for I-III Coruscant, even if the backwater (backsand?) Tatooine maintains the same fashion from century to century.
OTOH, many things in the Republic/Empire, especially in the Jedi Order, could be expected to stay the same across millennia. And fashions on Coruscant in turn could be expected to change by the hour.
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The fact of the matter is that Lucas already screwed up IV, V, and VI by making I and II look more advanced. What I'm asking myself is what difference will the hairdos do?
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