Yet another Star Wars movie re-release

[ManOnTheWave]

Can't say I'm terribly excited. He's starting with the prequels and releasing one a year. This just means that sometime in 2015, I might kill an evening by seeing Star Wars again. This gives me a good excuse not to see that movie again for five years.

 

[Greylock Crescent]

I've been calling myself Yoda online for far longer than the Prequel Trilogy was around to stink up the franchise. But c'mon, making 30 year old movies '3D' is kind of like colorizing old black and white movies. It's just not going to look right. I mean yeah I'm sure they can redo a lot of the special effects, especially the space stuff, but the original models have a lot more character and charm than what they added in the late 90s and I don't expect this to be very different. Especially if they bring prequel trilogy design sensibilities into the remake. Ugh.

I can't wait for the Indy 3D remakes! Just think of how awesome Harrison Fords lethargic 'action' scenes from the Crystal Skull will look. Imagine his wrinkles POPPING OUT AT YOU IN 3D!!!

Gooooood! Your hate has made you powerful.

 

[Tom]

Lightsaber fights in 3d could be cool. would ne better if they filmed specidicaly with 3d in mind but still.

 

[davejames]

I'd rather he put all this time and energy into a new OT cartoon instead. Enough with reworking and retouching the previous movies.

 

[RandyS]

I'd rather he put all this time and energy into a new OT cartoon instead. Enough with reworking and retouching the previous movies.

Agreed.

 

[KB24]

I agree you are shooting yourself in the foot to go through all this 3d restoration attempt and then expect The Phantom Menace to do well enough to support the rest of the releases. I don't think so! No one want to see TPM now. Goodness if you are going to do this, ignore the prequels and make one special year and release the original trilogy in select different cities every quarter. Don't insult your fanbase this way. Frankly I don't know that I'd go to see any of them. What makes this 3d any better than the old stuff that looks so hokey?

 

[The Wormhole]

Well, this is by no means a good idea, but of course I'm not that big on 3D anyway. But this whole thing just sounds like horrible.

But regardless, I'll probably check these out anyway. I don't really want to, but my obligations to the Star Wars franchise compell and require me to. Besides, with the quality of most movies in recent years, these will likely be the best damn films in theatres from 2012-2017. Yes, even the prequels will be better than the "original" filth studios will be crapping out in those years. Star Trek XII, Avatar 2, what a wondrous time that will surely be.

Oh right, knowing James Cameron we won't see Avatar 2 until 2031.

 

[Gaith]

But c'mon, making 30 year old movies '3D' is kind of like colorizing old black and white movies.

Not quite. Colors carry precise emotional tones; simulated depth of field in a shot our brains "already see in 3D" (as Dean Ebert never tires of pointing out), not so much. The difference between a 3D-converted Casablanca, for instance, would be far less from the original than the colorized version.

I mean yeah I'm sure they can redo a lot of the special effects, especially the space stuff, but the original models have a lot more character and charm than what they added in the late 90s and I don't expect this to be very different.

The original ship models would almost certainly still be used. I don't see their personality suffering at all.

I can't wait for the Indy 3D remakes! Just think of how awesome Harrison Fords lethargic 'action' scenes from the Crystal Skull will look. Imagine his wrinkles POPPING OUT AT YOU IN 3D!!!

Steven probably wouldn't go for that, but would I like to see the boulder chasing Indy right off the screen? Hell yes, I would!

 

[Yoda]

But c'mon, making 30 year old movies '3D' is kind of like colorizing old black and white movies.

Not quite. Colors carry precise emotional tones; simulated depth of field in a shot our brains "already see in 3D" (as Dean Ebert never tires of pointing out), not so much. The difference between a 3D-converted Casablanca, for instance, would be far less from the original than the colorized version.

Precise emotional tones? What the new age fuck are you talking about?!?

I don't know. I've only seen Avatar in 3D, and I liked the effects well enough, but it just seems that a 'conversion' is going to look really bad. I could be wrong.

I mean yeah I'm sure they can redo a lot of the special effects, especially the space stuff, but the original models have a lot more character and charm than what they added in the late 90s and I don't expect this to be very different.

The original ship models would almost certainly still be used. I don't see their personality suffering at all.

I really wouldn't be shocked for them to pull out as much as they can and replace it with CGI. We'll have to bump this thread in 5 years.

I can't wait for the Indy 3D remakes! Just think of how awesome Harrison Fords lethargic 'action' scenes from the Crystal Skull will look. Imagine his wrinkles POPPING OUT AT YOU IN 3D!!!

Steven probably wouldn't go for that, but would I like to see the boulder chasing Indy right off the screen? Hell yes, I would!

I'd rather a real boulder crushed Skywalker Ranch...

 

[Xavier_Storma]

@ Gaith

ROTS canon violating? Where? When?

 

[TheBrew]

I'd rather a real boulder crushed Skywalker Ranch...

Damn, that is cold. I don't think anyone there deserves to die, no matter what questionable content is put out from there.

 

[Zombie]

Well it is Lucas and he's had a huge effect on the industry as a whole when it comes to special effects. We could see 3D done spectacularly that sets the standard for all 3D movies to follow.

With that said I don't care to see the prequels again unless this 3D is so good that I can shoot JarJar and a bunch of other characters and they actually fall down dead in the movie and are erased from the following movies.

 

[B.J.]

Hmmm.... I know most people (here at least) would rather see ANH done first. But maybe they're doing them in this order so they can get the bugs worked out before they get to that one?

 

[Captain Craig]

What would really be nice is if episode 6 was followed up by an all new SW movie, episode 7.

After all the re-release of the 90's was done in part as a build up to the prequel trilogy.

How cool would it be to see all 6 episodes, in order theatrically followed by an all new installment?

 

[Gaith]

@ Gaith

ROTS canon violating? Where? When?

Surely, you jest?

Reason #5: R2 Leaps Out of Ship
Reason #57: Anakin Helps the Empire "Hunt Down and Destroy" the Jedi Knights
Reason #77 "She has lost the will to live..."
Reason #84: Princess Leia?
Reason #85: Leia's Award-Winning Memory
Reason #87: Yoda's Training & Jedi Apparitions
Reason #91: The Death Star

And, of course, one must factor in the violations of Eps. 1 and 2...

 

[RoJoHen]

Exactly how do those things violate canon?

 

[Gaith]

If you follow the links, read the entries and still don't get it, I'm not sure I can help you, though I'd be happy to debate any particulars after you do so.

 

[Whofan]

Wasn't Bail's wife a Queen?

Also, Order 66 did not destroy all the Jedi Knights. The film implies, and the Expanded Universe confirms, that a few other Jedi survived apart from Obi-Wan & Yoda, and were either hunted by Vader and the Empire in the interim between trilogies, or survived until after the OT. Some even survive to the Legacy Era.

The writer of the web site does use a lot of Expanded Universe arguments so I use the same.

Also Lucas might change his mind about the releases. Remember when he said that the special editions would be released once a year? Instead one was released each month in early 1997....(I think so George could get them out of the way to start production on TPM).

 

[Skywalker]

@ Gaith

ROTS canon violating? Where? When?

Surely, you jest?

Reason #5: R2 Leaps Out of Ship

No arguments, there. This was pretty dumb, especially after seeing R2 very slowly pulling himself out of Luke's X-wing on Dagobah.

Reason #57: Anakin Helps the Empire "Hunt Down and Destroy" the Jedi Knights

Order 66 didn't kill all of the Jedi. Vader was sent to hunt down all the survivors they could find after the war was over.

Reason #77 "She has lost the will to live..."

Very dumb, but doesn't belong in a list of "canon violations." The fate of Luke and Leia's mother was never explicitly described; Leia's statements about her in ROTJ can be attributed to the Force.

Reason #84: Princess Leia?

Bail Organa was the Viceroy of Alderaan. His wife was the Queen of Alderaan. Though, personally, if I could go back and change things I'd turn Naboo into Alderaan and make Padme an actual queen who abdicated the throne (leaving it to her cousin/brother, Bail) to take a more active role in the Senate.

Reason #85: Leia's Award-Winning Memory

Also dumb, but the Force works in mysterious ways. Not important enough to get worked up over.

Reason #87: Yoda's Training & Jedi Apparitions

I don't get this one. There's no canon violation here, since it was never explained how Obi-Wan, Yoda, and Anakin appeared as apparitions. This is more of a case of fans being upset that their accepted theory was incorrect. Anakin retained his identity in the Force because he was the Force (its physical embodiment, at least).

Reason #91: The Death Star

Also not a violation. Maybe the second one was constructed in a different manner because the Empire figured out a faster, cheaper way of doing it than they did the first.

 

[Gaith]

The fate of Luke and Leia's mother was never explicitly described; Leia's statements about her in ROTJ can be attributed to the Force.

Nope, sorry, don't buy that at all. Not one bit.

Bail Organa was the Viceroy of Alderaan. His wife was the Queen of Alderaan.

Okay, that makes some sense.

Order 66 didn't kill all of the Jedi. Vader was sent to hunt down all the survivors they could find after the war was over.Very dumb, but doesn't belong in a list of "canon violations."

Okay, but how would Obi-Wan know about these subsequent hunts, assuming he never left Tatooine? ... Never mind, I don't care.

Reason #91: The Death Star

Also not a violation. Maybe the second one was constructed in a different manner because the Empire figured out a faster, cheaper way of doing it than they did the first.

Yeah, sorry, don't buy that either.