Disagree. The scene was cut from the original version for a good reason - it establishes nothing that wasn’t already covered by the Han-Greedo scene. Putting it in just slows the pace of the film’s first act.
Yeah but my point is that all of that was already covered in Han’s conversation with Greedo. You don’t need two scenes where he says “you think I had a choice? even I get boarded some times”.
I think I’ve identified a key point of disagreement. You value shorter run times. I am the opposite. 3 hours min given the price point. Also, longer movies get to tell more complex stories and ought to be encouraged. Example: the last duel.
Different movies should be edited different and there isn’t a universally good movie length. Something like star wars should be 90 minutes to 2 hours. I can vibe with a long movie but I don’t think it’s how they all should be
I think I under appreciated your point earlier. Upon further reflection, I am projecting my own desire for what could have been upon what was.
Lucas didn’t give a shit about the EU. I was just coping and he probably did it for the sheer sake of more sales and getting fro play with new CGI toys.
Thank you for pushing back. Sometimes the best way to find the truth is being told you’re wrong.
I’ll die on the the hill that the smuggler elements are good content though.
Please think critically for a second. If in Episode 2 when Obi is arguing with that Droid about the location of a planet, after he left the camera just panned back to the robot who then spent 5 hours rattling of cosmology facts, explaining the precise orbits of a few dozen planets that are never otherwise mentioned, along with their moons, that would be “a more detailed world” and a shitpost of a bad film.
That scene sucks because Han would not fucking walk over jabbas tail and make him squeak without being iced by other members of the crime syndicate. It would be like some nobody runner pinching sonny and calling him a microdick and then just walking away unscathed.
Counterpoint: When the empire freezes him, they just put him on display and then repeatedly try to kill him when people try to break him out, and all this without basically any complicating of his relationship with Jabba prior. Han should have at least had the shit kicked out of him for what he did, especially since his debt was past due.
That scene was good even if the CGI was bad. Or maybe I’m biased because I read the novelization first that included it.
Disagree. The scene was cut from the original version for a good reason - it establishes nothing that wasn’t already covered by the Han-Greedo scene. Putting it in just slows the pace of the film’s first act.
Although still in the original you can see three or four Greedos in the background behind the millennium falcon while they escape.
Disagree because it ties into the, by the early 90s, established lore of Han’s time working as a smuggler for Jabba.
The old expanded universe had a lot of lore about Han’s time as a glorified drug dealer.
Yeah but my point is that all of that was already covered in Han’s conversation with Greedo. You don’t need two scenes where he says “you think I had a choice? even I get boarded some times”.
Eh, it adds additional details. A more detailed world is better.
It adds an unnecessary scene to the run time. It was a smart chop.
I think I’ve identified a key point of disagreement. You value shorter run times. I am the opposite. 3 hours min given the price point. Also, longer movies get to tell more complex stories and ought to be encouraged. Example: the last duel.
Different movies should be edited different and there isn’t a universally good movie length. Something like star wars should be 90 minutes to 2 hours. I can vibe with a long movie but I don’t think it’s how they all should be
I think I under appreciated your point earlier. Upon further reflection, I am projecting my own desire for what could have been upon what was.
Lucas didn’t give a shit about the EU. I was just coping and he probably did it for the sheer sake of more sales and getting fro play with new CGI toys.
Thank you for pushing back. Sometimes the best way to find the truth is being told you’re wrong.
I’ll die on the the hill that the smuggler elements are good content though.
Please think critically for a second. If in Episode 2 when Obi is arguing with that Droid about the location of a planet, after he left the camera just panned back to the robot who then spent 5 hours rattling of cosmology facts, explaining the precise orbits of a few dozen planets that are never otherwise mentioned, along with their moons, that would be “a more detailed world” and a shitpost of a bad film.
That scene sucks because Han would not fucking walk over jabbas tail and make him squeak without being iced by other members of the crime syndicate. It would be like some nobody runner pinching sonny and calling him a microdick and then just walking away unscathed.
The amount of money he was in the hole is a damn strong incentive to try and keep him alive tk lay you back eventually.
If I owe you 100 it’s my problems I owe you a 100k it’s your problem type shit.
Counterpoint: When the empire freezes him, they just put him on display and then repeatedly try to kill him when people try to break him out, and all this without basically any complicating of his relationship with Jabba prior. Han should have at least had the shit kicked out of him for what he did, especially since his debt was past due.