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WWHHAAATT? This is first lol
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Good night, sweet Prince | 7 June 1958 - 21 April 2016
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Canby needs to get laid. there was danger, mystery, excitement. It wasn't supposed to be like A New Hope. | |
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The Empire Strikes Back is overwhelmingly the favorite of Star Wars fans The one in which pop achieves mythic grandeur, in part due to tight screenwriting (by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan) and in part to director Irvin Kershner's insistence on mining deeper, more primal emotions. The movie needed them because, as the middle installment of a trilogy, it had to leave audiences satisfied while ending on a downbeat note, a note of irresolution. The characters — maimed, carbonized, equipped with traumatizing information about lineage — had slunk off to rethink this whole rebellion thing. Almost every sequence is a tour de force, something that hadn't been seen before onscreen, from Han stuffing Luke inside (amid the innards) of a camel-like beast to keep him from freezing to death to the battle with the Imperial Walkers — terrifyingly implacable giants inspired by construction machines Lucas passed many days in San Francisco Bay. (Have the effects dated? Sure, but compare them to the big set pieces in Return of the Jedi and you'll see what a difference it makes when a director knows how to storyboard and edit an action sequence.) The capture and freezing of Han is even more devastating for being preceded by the trilogy's best line, which was conceived by Harrison Ford himself. Kershner stages and shoots Luke's climactic lightsaber fight with Vader so magnificently that it's worthy of its patriarchal punch line, which has entered the lexicon. The Empire Strikes Back isn't just the best Star Wars film. As a piece of filmmaking, it's all by itself. Lucas has since denied that he complained about Kershner's slow pace and obsession with detail, saying, "You're making it better than it needs to be." But a comparison with the shoddy look and feel of Return of the Jedi suggests that if Lucas didn't literally say that, he conveyed it to the next director he hired. Although this was Lucas's universe, he needed opposing forces (his ex-wife, perhaps, and pains in the ass like Kershner) to take it to the next level — to make Star Wars really as good as it is in our dreams. | |
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He is the Jedi who Returned. Good night, sweet Prince | 7 June 1958 - 21 April 2016
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2. The Empire Strikes Back 3. Return Of The Jedi 4. Rogue One 5. Attack Of The Clones 6. Revenge Of The Sith 7. The Force Awakens 8. The Phantom Menace 9. Solo 11. The Rise Of Skywalker 14. The Last Jedi Not dead, not in prison, still funkin'... |
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Well yeah, 4 5 6 are perfect. The ending was supposed tobe powerful.
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It was darker, I love mystery. And every planet visited was full of mystery in the visuals and actuals. | |
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Return of the Jedi concept art
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Just a quick question for longtime Star Wars fans. When you first saw Return of the Jedi, were you disappointed when Darth Vader took off his mask? The reason I ask, is because I was bitterly disappointed and I kind of knew what to expect because I'd seen the prequels first. So I had a vague idea. But for those of you old enough to have seen it upon release, were you expecting him to look, I don't know, "cooler"? He had the voice of James Earl Jones. He wore a cape. He was physically imposing in that outfit. He was the coolest guy in the Galaxy. Even more than Lando. But then he took off the mask and looked like a little egg. | |
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Not me. It made me sad for the character. Then I understood more, Anakin being 'trapped' in that 'body armor' I read more later about how the Emperor would play mind games to break him, because he knew Anakin did still have light in him. Then also think of ROTS where Darth Sidious is laughing at Darth Vader when he realizes Padme was killed etc | |
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I like:
1. Empire 2. A New Hope 3. Rogue One
Don't really like the other movies much. I also like the Genndy Tartokovsky Clone Wars series.
For me, I like the mythology of Star Wars much more than the actual plot.
I really dislike ROTJ (except for the attack on the death star... best looking aerial battle I've ever seen). Think Lucas really screwed the pooch there on the plot.
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To be fair I was 6 when I first saw it and it was my first SW, so I had no expectations and I kind of grew up accepting it as a natural thing, but with some perspective I like the fact that he looked pathetic. Not dark and goth and sexy but old and lame and pathetic. And later I found out that young Anakin is pathetic, too, as soon as he's grown in Ep2, and I liked this portrayal as well. Vader was never the coolest guy in the galaxy to me, he's scary, he's dangerous, he's a wonderful villain with a powerful might, but the beauty of it is that he's just a poor idiot who had an awesome potential for good, but got manipulated, got amputated and lost everyone he loved, then had to spend the rest of his depressing existence being another man's puppet while suffocating in a claustrophobic suit in order to survive. That's the sad truth behind the cool armor. A COMPREHENSIVE PRINCE DISCOGRAPHY (work in progress ^^): https://sites.google.com/...scography/ |
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To be fair I was 6 when I first saw it and it was my first SW, so I had no expectations and I kind of grew up accepting it as a natural thing, but with some perspective I like the fact that he looked pathetic. Not dark and goth and sexy but old and lame and pathetic. And later I found out that young Anakin is pathetic, too, as soon as he's grown in Ep2, and I liked this portrayal as well. Vader was never the coolest guy in the galaxy to me, he's scary, he's dangerous, he's a wonderful villain with a powerful might, but the beauty of it is that he's just a poor idiot who had an awesome potential for good, but got manipulated, got amputated and lost everyone he loved, then had to spend the rest of his depressing existence being another man's puppet while suffocating in a claustrophobic suit in order to survive. That's the sad truth behind the cool armor. That's actually a brilliant point you made there. For as cool as he looked in the suit, underneath he was nothing more than the Emperor's puppet. He had all the physical might in the world as both Anakin (in the prequels/Clone Wars) and as Vader (in the originals/Rogue One) but in both stages of his life he was weak-minded and easily manipulated. | |
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Originally Lucas planned to use the wookiees and Kashyyyk for the battle in ROTJ, something that was logistically too difficult to film in 1982 and so it was changed to ewoks and Endor. Not dead, not in prison, still funkin'... |
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Return of the Care Bears is when Star Wars officially 'jumped the shark'. Teddy bears taking down military-trained stormtroopers? Yeah, right. Should've used Wookies instead, but the technology at the time probably prevented it. | |
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Some OT images from Marvel Comics for you desktop:
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