• southsamurai
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    1410 hours ago

    Sorry mate, had to down vote because it isn’t an opinion, just a fact.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      612 hours ago

      So many people call it A New Hope.

      • Björn Tantau
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        1612 hours ago

        Because that’s the title of all subsequent altered versions of the movie.

        • Flying SquidOP
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          -212 hours ago

          And in my unpopular opinion, that’s not the title.

          • Rhaedas
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            711 hours ago

            As someone who watched it as a kid when it first came out, you’re correct that the title of the first movie was “Star Wars”. Also neither of the next two movie had “Episode” in their titles originally. However adding the extra in later helps when discussing the timeline with someone who hasn’t grown up with the franchise. Title changes are the least of the remastered problems with these movies, and I think came from the same era of Lucas thinking he could CGI everything and make it better.

      • @makyo
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        411 hours ago

        I just want an adult Star Wars for adults. Like get Lars Von Trier to do a miniseries.

        • NaibofTabr
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          1111 hours ago

          Andor was like this. The Imperials in the series feel genuinely threatening because they’re not delusional buffoons, they’re competent and have distinct goals.

          I doubt Disney will produce a lot more content like Andor - it’s a bit dark, and frankly won’t sell a lot of merch to families.

        • Flying SquidOP
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          411 hours ago

          I felt like Andor approached that.

          • @makyo
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            311 hours ago

            Interesting, a couple of you are saying that - I’ll give it a try.

        • Björn Tantau
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          211 hours ago

          I always thought Tarantino would have been great for Star Wars. He is such a movie nerd, I feel like he would get it.

          • Flying SquidOP
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            16 hours ago

            Tarantino almost made a Star Trek movie. And it was supposedly going to be a remake of Yesterday’s Enterprise. I still don’t know what to think about that.

          • @makyo
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            211 hours ago

            I’d totally be up for that too

      • @[email protected]
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        512 hours ago

        Depends on when you watched it, I guess. Initially it was Star Wars, but he NEEDED us to know it was not the beginning of the story. I still call it Star Wars

  • d00phy
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    28 hours ago

    Check out 4k77. When the crawler starts, I still get a tiny chill. It just says “Star Wars.”

    • Flying SquidOP
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      I have the whole restored trilogy they did. Really great stuff. As someone who has worked on the technical side of film-making, what interests me most is how the grain keeps changing in Star Wars, I’m guessing due to Lucas’ inexperience with a film project at that scale. Empire didn’t have that problem because Kirshner had a lot more experience. It comes back a bit in Jedi because apparently Lucas should have learned more.

      Edit: Never mind, I forgot Lucas didn’t direct Jedi.

      Too bad he never did.

      IMO, the real reason Star Wars was a successful film was Marcia Lucas’ amazing editing. She really deserved her Oscar. Also, she told dumbass George, who was going to let Obi Wan live, how basic storytelling works. And then dumbass Joseph Cambpell decided George was the genius because he really fucking hated women.

  • @Sanctus
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    410 hours ago

    Crazy, I was just on the phone with my cousin about this yesterday. Not that I was alive then, but he is a movie buff (he really is) and he somehow didn’t know that. But you are correct, everyone hates hearing it still.

  • @j4k3
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    311 hours ago

    He didn’t expect a “movie made for 13 year olds” to be so popular initially. After, he decided to roll the dice for “5 year olds” in the prequel series. I find those concepts so telling about the disconnect between art and film production. If ratings are an initial constraint where the arbitrary minimum age is considered a limiting factor, it explains why so much content lacks depth and complexity. To a large extent, that media sets the bar for cultural expectations which bleed into and permeate all aspects of society even a political sphere where the benchmark of preteen depth of argument is an illusive and fleeting expectation. Lucas’ comments on the age targets for SW really shed some light on Western culture. The naming just adds, it wasn’t some elaborately intricate plan from the start.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      I think it’s funny that Disney now has this ‘Jedi Tales’ show that is supposed to be ‘Star Wars for little kids.’

      Star Wars for little kids when I was a little kid in the late 70s and early 80s was Star Wars.