I find 'A New Hope' hard to watch nowadays
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Honest to God? I'm not even sure my TV has the non-HDMI component or composite hookups to plug one in. I would have to find an adapter, and we're starting to get into a lot of work for one movie.I find multiple VHS copies at thrift stores all the time. I pretty much save them allI would recommend that.
Or for low budget knock-off, there's always Starcrash. It definitely had a Star Wars vibe to it.
Really? I guess I'm really out of the tech touch, because the last two TVs I have have the RCA.
No. Just the opposite. I find this the most watchable.
It's more my choice of TV. We cut the cord and moved our library into Google Play, so we got a Vizio Smartcast TV with a built in Chromecast. It doesn't even have a built in TV tuner. It was essentially supposed to be a dumb terminal for the Chromecast. They've since added some apps and changed the UI, because apparently people wanted a more conventional TV experience.
Ah, I see.
Honestly.... as much as I love ANH, in terms of directing, editing, pacing.... it's a difficult movie to watch. It really show how George is a picturebased storyteller. Empire and Jedi had better directors, and didn't suffer from it nearly as much as ANH did. I love the movie for what it is, one of the best spacefantasies ever. But I can't call it a well made movie.
A fan made version does exist, as you probably know, given that you have the despecialized.
I am aware. I would prefer an official release myself.
It's not a well made movie.
And I love it. Technical proficiency is admirable, but SW is so much more than that.
That's why they should fully refurbish the original release and issue the films on branching Bluray so you can select which version of each scene plays, including all of the subsequent revisions (some have several) to put together your own bespoke cut.
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.
Probably right after the clause prohibiting the release of the Holiday Special.
Probably right after the clause prohibiting the release of the Holiday Special.
Bea Arthur's estate needs those royalties!
That's part of its charm.
Oh absolutely!! I watch it atleast once a year I think.
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
Starcrash was a 1979 release. Christopher Plummer and David Hasselhoff were the two biggest names IIRC. Robert Tessier was also in it. I recommend it to anyone who loves cheesy 70's & 80's sci-fi.
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.
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