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Something You Would Change About Your Favorite Star Wars Movie?

ANH is my second favorite, and I don't like Leia calling Chewie a "walking carpet,"

She was trying to assert control by being specist; whether she really believed in her slur could be up for questioning, as ANH has Imperials treating Chewbacca as some "disgusting" creature ("...this....thing?"), so Leia--despite her freedom-fighter mentality, was extending her full respect to Wookies,


While I appreciate Anakin ultimately renouncing the Dark Side, I don't think he should have joined Yoda and Obi-Wan as a Force Ghost; I think that's too much redemption.

I've always believed Vader did not deserve that kind of redemption, since he was still trying to corrupt his son's own soul, and had no intention of turning back at the last moment if Luke turned. It would have been evil business as usual, only with Vader ruling with his son.


In fact, I'd prefer not to end with any Force Ghosts at all, and to keep the focus on the living heroes

Obi-Wan and Yoda were the structure around Luke and his journey, and probably knew him better than anyone else, so it made sense for their Force Ghosts to watch their star pupil/friend return after succeeding in the very task he was intended to complete, while restoring strength to the Light Side of the Force..


I also think Anakin telling Luke to tell Leia "you were right about me" is too much. You murdered her parents and family, a**hole! The scene plays better if he doesn't talk after the mask is removed:

Agreed; Luke may have been "right" about some spark of good in Vader, but that does not erase his decades of mass murder, including--as you point out--his direct involvement with the death of her family.



That reminds me -- I'd take the Jabba scene out. :lol:

It undercuts his reveal in ROTJ and is completely redundant given that half the dialogue is repeated in the scene with Greedo, some verbatim. I don't see any upside to including it.

^This.

The Jabba ANH scene was pointless, but not as pointless as the shameless fanwanking addition of Fett to that scene.
 
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Episode 1:

Start off with Obi Wan becoming a Jedi knight and taking on a teenage Anakin as his first apprentice. You can keep most everything else that happened, but its Obi Wan and Anakin that we see in the beginning trying to force a settlement with the Trade Federation. Anakin meets Padme and the two instantly hit it off.

They still make it to Tatooine, his mother is still there, but she was never a slave. That whole "chosen one" and "virgin got pregnant", holy bible ripoff BS is gone.( I REALLY hated that part) Chlee Lars and Schmi were Anakins parents. Owen was his brother. The two of them have always been at odds because Anakin chose to become a Jedi rather than stay and help with the family business. After Anakin wins the pod race, he bids his family goodbye again. Rest stays the same except the final battle. Anakin is helping Gungans fight while Obi wan and his old master Qui Gon take on Darth Maul. Maul kills Qui Gon and escapes while Obi wan is trapped. (Mauls defeat was SO lame. He just stands and watches Obi Wan leap over him like as if he's never seen that before.) Maul does not get defeated until Episode 3.

Episode 2:

Movie opens with the Clone Wars already going on. Anakin and Padme have married in secret. Count Dooku is not a pawn of Darth Sidous, but a for real political idealist who leads the separatist movement. Darth Sidous is furious and sends Darth Maul to track Dooku down, who is always a few steps ahead. There is no hints of any kind that Palpatine is the Sith lord. Only Star Wars nerds know the truth. Meanwhile, we get to see the other heroes of the Jedi that never got real screen time. The friendship between Obi Wan and Ankin deepens further when Obi Wan as a member of the jedi council proposes that Anakin is ready for an apprentice of his own. We meet Asoka, who is more like we see in the current series than the way she was introduced in the animated movie. Anakin starts having the bad dreams, Padme tells Anakin that his mother has been kidnapped and they both go back to Tattoine. Same events happen, except we see Owen Lars listening in to the conversation Anakin has with Padme. The film ends with Maul cutting Dooku down and stealing the Death Star plans. The world celebrates because the Clone Wars have ended.

Episode 3:

Film opens with the Senate demanding that Palpatine do as he promised and lay down his emergency powers. He of course refuses. Anakin has the nightmares about Padme, who is pregnant with twins. Maul shows up at Anakin and Padme's secret home. Maul has the upper hand. but when he moves to strike Padme, Anakin defeats him using hate and anger. After it is over ,we see Anakin feel satisfied from the rush that has come over him. He wants more. The deleted scenes with the Senators upset over the Chancellors powers are put back in. The Jedi arrive to force Palpatine's hand, but Anakin intervenes. Seeing the Jedi as traitors, he attacks and cuts down the whole group with the help of a now revealed Darth Sidious. Order 66 is given, Palpatine announces that the Republic is now an Empire and clone troopers arrive to execute all dissenters . Bail Organa, Mon Mothma and Padme escape along with some others. Meanwhile, Anakin/Vader is slaughtering all Jedi in the Temple. Knowing what Anakin has done, Padme confronts him on Mustafar and says that she can't live with him anymore and is divorcing him. He chokes her, and the rest plays out like it did except a last shot of the surviving senators forming the rebel alliance.

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Episode 6:
Replace the Ewoks with Wookies on Kashyyk. Drop the Luke/ Leia brother and sister angle.
 
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Pretty close to what actually happened...
Only to people not paying attention. Even the actor himself said it was obvious.

How could you not know after

"Which was destroyed? The master or the apprentice?"

What would any other reason be for focusing on Palpatine after that line? It pretty much spells it out for you
 
Probably change Vader's cadence in A New Hope so his voice matches up better with the other movies and shows.
 
I have a lot of things I would do differently, but if it's one thing, I would change the ending of Episode 6 and put Sebastian Shaw back at the end of ROTJ and then just have him morph into Hayden Christensen, but I would also do the same with Obi-Wan, where he morphs into Ewan McGregor. It throws you off if you are looking at the originals first and get to Christensen at the end and he looks nothing like the face of Vader the audience just saw.
 
I have a lot of things I would do differently, but if it's one thing, I would change the ending of Episode 6 and put Sebastian Shaw back at the end of ROTJ and then just have him morph into Hayden Christensen, but I would also do the same with Obi-Wan, where he morphs into Ewan McGregor. It throws you off if you are looking at the originals first and get to Christensen at the end and he looks nothing like the face of Vader the audience just saw.
I think if there is one thing that is universally agreed to by most fans, its that Lucas went way too far with those changes. The only changes I agreed with was putting Ian McDiarmid into TESB for continuity sakes and cleaning up the effects shots. That's really all those films needed. The rest seemed to be change for the sake change. A lot of them ended up being distractions and made scenes worst.
 
Only to people not paying attention. Even the actor himself said it was obvious.

How could you not know after

"Which was destroyed? The master or the apprentice?"

What would any other reason be for focusing on Palpatine after that line? It pretty much spells it out for you
It wasn't helped by the action figure giving away the plot.

I have a lot of things I would do differently, but if it's one thing, I would change the ending of Episode 6 and put Sebastian Shaw back at the end of ROTJ and then just have him morph into Hayden Christensen, but I would also do the same with Obi-Wan, where he morphs into Ewan McGregor. It throws you off if you are looking at the originals first and get to Christensen at the end and he looks nothing like the face of Vader the audience just saw.
That's a fair compromise. I appreciate Lucas but his anxiety of the unfinished work went too far. Which, that's how artists are. They'll tinker forever if allowed.
 
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