Something You Would Change About Your Favorite Star Wars Movie?

[CorporalCaptain]

The Jabba scene belongs on the cutting room floor with the Tosche Station scene. The tantalizing promise from the stills of events unseen exceeds their reality. Some things are just like that.

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.

Absolutely.

 

[fireproof78]

guess I've always felt the timeline during the middle of the film is a little muddy. Luke is on Degoba for some unknown amount of time, but it's enough for him to pick up Jedi skills. Meanwhile, the Falcon makes a sub-light trip to another system (?) that seems to only take a day or two (??). It's not terribly important to the story, but it does all feel rather hand-waivy and it would be nice to see certain things cleared up. Were Han and Leia cooped up in the Falcon for weeks? Or did Luke really do his training in a couple days?

I definitely think Luke's training needs something more to it in Empire. The problem is that it would slow down pacing to try and expand on his training but it's such a whiplash effect from Empire to Return of the Jedi.

 

[Set Harth]

He still got more training than Rey did!

 

[B.J.]

I would've let the post-Exogol conversation between Lando and Jannah be more ambiguous as to whether or not she might be his daughter.

Ruling out that possibility pretty much conclusively was a misstep, IMO.

I'm fine with it. Doing otherwise would be going too far into the "small universe" realm for me.

As for what I'd change, I wish they'd finally fix the various CGI Jabbas (ANH, TPM) to actually match the original RotJ physical version. I know the ANH one has gone through several revisions, but not one has looked right. Nor do any of them move quite right either. If Jabba had been a CGI character from the beginning (I know, not really possible in 1983), this wouldn't be an issue, but since they started with a physical model, they need to match! I don't know how they managed to get it right with the T-Rex in Jurassic Park going back and forth between physical and CGI, but somehow completely and repeatedly face-planted on Jabba.

 

[fireproof78]

He still got more training than Rey did!

Rey at least had combat experience.

 

[Set Harth]

You mean hitting people with a stick?

 

[fireproof78]

You mean hitting people with a stick?

That's not combat?

What combat experience did Luke have?

 

[Turtletrekker]

You mean hitting people with a stick?

A staff. And her fighting style was based upon actual martial arts techniques. Even her lightsaber moves were improvised staff moves.

 

[HIjol]

Absent cutting the Jabba Throne Room scene completely, I never liked Leia in the CFM outfit at Jabba’s “feet”…

 

[Set Harth]

Christian Formation Ministries?

 

[HIjol]

Nope

 

[Set Harth]

cubic feet per minute??

 

[CorporalCaptain]

I had to Google it. CFM = Come Fuck Me? As in for example, pumps aka fuck-me shoes (there's even a whole Wikipedia article with that very title)? I'm not sure that's an accurate description. Number one reason is, this isn't an outfit that Leia chose to have worn.

 

[HIjol]

That’s the one!!!
My objection was the outfit itself. Whether she chose it or not…

 

[Turtletrekker]

Except...

Didn't she?

This whole thing was clearly and obviously meticulously planned out in advance by Luke and the bunch. I don't think any of them expected Leia to actually escape from the palace with Han. It seems to me that Leia was exactly where she wanted to be and would have taken into account things like the outfit.

Now Carrie Fisher, on the other hand, didn't choose or care for the outfit...

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Except...

Didn't she?

This whole thing was clearly and obviously meticulously planned out in advance by Luke and the bunch. I don't think any of them expected Leia to actually escape from the palace with Han. It seems to me that Leia was exactly where she wanted to be and would have taken into account things like the outfit.

Now Carrie Fisher, on the other hand, didn't choose or care for the outfit...

Ugh. So therefore CFM is an accurate description?!?

 

[Ithekro]

I wonder if Leia jumped the gun, so to speak. Seeing an opportunity to free Han and escape, she took it, but that failed. The original plan looks more like they were getting her and Chewie into the palace, where both she and Lando would be undercover for when Luke arrived. Though that doesn't cover getting Han out of the carbonite slab. Nor R2 having Luke's lightsaber.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Luke tells Han that he has "taken care of everything".

 

[JD]

I definitely think Luke's training needs something more to it in Empire. The problem is that it would slow down pacing to try and expand on his training but it's such a whiplash effect from Empire to Return of the Jedi.

For a long time I had assumed Luke went back and trained more with Yoda between Empire and Return, but apparently he never did, in both the old Expanded Universe, and the Disney canon.

 

[DonIago]

Rogue One: That Jyn leaves her father's holorecording behind before fleeing Jeddha feels like a weak point in the plot, one used to foster doubt amongst the Rebels later ("Oh, so you have no evidence!"). I'd have Jyn take the recording but have it get damaged or destroyed while they're fleeing Jeddha.