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You have to think of the first film in the context of it's time. When it was release it was unlike any other science fiction that had been released. The worlds felt dirty and gritty, as opposed to sleek and shiney. The score was orchestral instead of synthesizers. He also wanted it to feel like a serial where you're just dropped into the middle of the story. I understand your criticism but at the time it was revolutionary.
It was the first movie I saw in the theater and the film that made me fall in love with the movies.
i can see that perspective... i didn't grow up around the time of seeing the original, and I can see how after people watched it it was very important and different for the time, I am more kinda just surprised that 45 years later this was the movie that became one of the biggest and highest grossing franchises ever
Vader orchestrates the quick destruction of entire populated planet and forces Leia to watch everyone she's ever known die in front of her...that's pretty damn villainous. Later when he shows up at The Battle of Yavin he flies in and starts taking out Rebel fighters left and right. The Imperial officers are just pawns in a large fascist bureaucracy where Vader is the second and command the primary enforcer.
The force is everything, everywhere. What is luck but things happening in your favor? Force sensitivity is the ability to commune with the living force; the sith might say they're bending it to their will and the Jedi would say they're working in harmony for a common goal, but the result is the same. Just believing in it will get you nothing, it takes a force sensitive being to be able to interact with it in any meaningful way.
Trust me if you think the 97 CGI is dated you'd have a far worse time with the original. There's visible matte boxes around all the ships, the miniatures are obvious, the cantina looks much smaller, there's far less going on in Mos Eisley in general, the lightsaber effects are wonky etc. The 97 cut did wonders for ANH and Empire, it's mainly ROTJ that people have problems with.
Idk, it provides more throughline from New Hope to the latter 2 films, plus it's just a re-edit of an original deleted scene. The fact that Jabba puts up with Han stepping on his tail is out of character, but theres not much else to do since it was filmed with a human guy (and Jabba was only changed to a Hutt later down the line).
Fair enough.
Right. It's basically a restatement of the Greedo scene and unnecessarily redundant. Greedo says exactly what Jabba says about dropping the cargo when an Imperial ship confronted Han and the price being on his head being huge. That's why it was cut when they did the original edit. Then you have the terrible line "Jabba, you're a wonderful human being" when Jabba is clearly not that. You know from the Greedo scene that Han is on the run and needs to pay off Jabba. Then you know it's escalated when he mentions needing to leave the Rebellion on Hoth to pay off Jabba because he has a bounty on his head and just dealt with a bounty hunter on Ord Mantell.
thanks for correcting me.. i knew that it was a puppet but I just used animatronic as just a catch all term for "ways of doing these effects before CGI was invented"
