I find 'A New Hope' hard to watch nowadays

[Tosk]

Pity that the SE version of the scene suuuucks. And that the Greedo dialogue which had been altered to help fill the deletion of the Jabba scene stayed altered, which makes the Jabba scene extremely redundant.

 

[JD]

This. It is certainly not technological limitations keeping an official release of an "Archival Edition" of the saga away from the fans.

Sadly, I tend to believe that Lucas has a clause in the contract with Disney keeping that edition buried. Otherwise we likely would have seen it already. And I would LOVE to be wrong about this.

There must be or they probably would have released it about 3 or 4 times by now. There's nothing Disney loves more than releasing the same movie a million different times in different editions.

 

[Campe]

There must be or they probably would have released it about 3 or 4 times by now. There's nothing Disney loves more than releasing the same movie a million different times in different editions.

To be fair, because of the ANH rights, they could have been waiting for the Fox sale to be completed. A 4K saga set of some variety is rumored for release alongside TRoS.

However, the new covered blu-ray single releases do not necessarily back that up.

 

[JD]

That could be it. Wasn't there still some stuff related to A New Hope that was still tied to Fox?

 

[Tosk]

That could be it. Wasn't there still some stuff related to A New Hope that was still tied to Fox?

The first movie belonged to Fox completely. Which is now moot.

 

[nutshell]

This will make me unpopular.....

The last two times I have re-watched Star Wars I have been tempted to just skip EP IV, I have just re-watched EP IV (Can't bring myself to skip it). Seriously this movie is so lame, I remember loving it as a child but as an adult?? Honestly the first and final 'act' are fine, it's the middle bit on the death star, especially the whole detention level scene. I think it's in dire need of a remake.

Anyone else feel this way?

You’re right. You’re unpopular now. Lol

 

[Ithekro]

Is that the one Mystery Science Theater 3000 made with this 80's beefcake jock guy running around in a spaceship that looks like a factory? They even use Battlestar Galatica footage. Which also is something that could be a SW remake. Jason

That was "Space Mutiny" a terrible film, but salvageable via MST3K treatment.

 

[Set Harth]

This will make me unpopular.....

The last two times I have re-watched Star Wars I have been tempted to just skip EP IV, I have just re-watched EP IV (Can't bring myself to skip it). Seriously this movie is so lame, I remember loving it as a child but as an adult?? Honestly the first and final 'act' are fine, it's the middle bit on the death star, especially the whole detention level scene. I think it's in dire need of a remake.

Anyone else feel this way?

 

[Tuskin38]

What you feel about ANH is what I feel about the prequels.

 

[Tallguy]

I feel that Star Wars holds up as well as anything that's 40 years old. If you can watch The Wizard of Oz (or The Wrath of Khan) you can watch Star Wars. It's certainly a picture of it's time, although it's a leap forward. (You can't watch Star Wars? Taken a look at Logan's Run lately?) I suppose if you can only watch break neck paced movies, well, there's a remake of Midway that you might be interested in.

As for The Real Movie: I will lose hope the day that Disney does their own Blu Ray (4K, whatever) and it's only the Special Edition. But it's been seven years and they haven't done that. As someone said, perhaps waiting on merging with Fox? Or maybe with Disney + launching with all of the Saga Films it's a moot point. But I kinda doubt it.

 

[Smellmet]

I love the Jabba scene in A New Hope. That scene, or a variation thereof, had appeared in every single adaptation of the story to date. It was in the comic version, it was in the novel, it was in the radio adaptation. After having experienced that scene so many times in other mediums, I loved that we finally got to see it incorporated into the final product.

I've got mixed to negative feelings about that Jabba scene. When I first saw it in '97, I was like, oh cool a new scene (and who doesn't like a bit of Jabba), but when I watch ANH now it ruins the build up to the introduction of the falcon, and the overall pacing of that part of the film too, to say nothing of the repetition of lines from the Greedo scene, or the fact that the score when Luke says 'what a piece of junk' is still trying to convey that it's the first time we've seen this ship.

I like it in isolation, and at least they've improved the CGI to something approaching an acceptable level (the '97 version is frankly embarrasing), but it sits awkwardly in the film for me now and I'd happily watch a version of ANH without it these days.

 

[thribs]

It may be a tad dated but it’s not like it’s the Last Jedi. That one just makes me angry.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

I have Harmy's version on blue ray. maybe dated, but only in the best ways, as it has charm to make up for the flaws

 

[Campe]

Which fan cut is the one that they added all of the stuff to? They basically added more SE crap to it? The one where they decided to cast themselves (I believe) as the Emperor in TESB?

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

idk.. Harmy's is the one that they laboriously tried to restore the theatrical originals for hi-def

 

[Campe]

idk.. Harmy's is the one that they laboriously tried to restore the theatrical originals for hi-def

Yeah, I have that one. Only watched it once but it is amazing.

 

[Tallguy]

Which fan cut is the one that they added all of the stuff to? They basically added more SE crap to it? The one where they decided to cast themselves (I believe) as the Emperor in TESB?

If you're talking Adywan's, he takes McDiarmid from Jedi so it actually looks like the same person. (I HATE the Revenge of the Sith Emperor makeup.)

He adds a ton of stuff (and gets super obsessive about flopping shots and adding in appropriate backgrounds so they actually match continuity which most people didn't notice in the first place which is why Marcia did it) but he does it by either shoot new model shots (in ESB) or by expanding on original shots. I don't like it as much as the originals but I like them way better than the Special Editions.

 

[Campe]

That's the one. Never watched the whole thing but his take on the Battle of Yavin annoyed the crap out of me. And for some odd reason Palps didn't look like the ROTJ version to me either. And yes, the ROTS Palps makeup is a little strange.

 

[valkyrie013]

I don't watch it to much lately.. but thats because I have seen it 500 times Plus in my life, so I guess a bit of burn out sometimes
Now Attack of the Clones.. Ugh..

 

[Smellmet]

I don't watch it to much lately.. but thats because I have seen it 500 times Plus in my life, so I guess a bit of burn out sometimes
Now Attack of the Clones.. Ugh..

I put ANH in a select few films that I think I'm impossible to burn out to alongside the first two Indy films, TWOK, Aliens, the first two Superman films among a few others.