i can see that Starwars´quality is controversial even for fans.
When I first saw TPM i loved it but i thought only coz all my expectations to it. And I had to admit it didn´t feel much like a starwars film to me at all.I thought " if there were no lightsabres no r2d2 no obiwan no c3-po and no yoda it wouldn´t be starwars at all". it felt like a movie for kids, with no seriousness and deepness we love like in ESB, on the other hand it had more goofyness and stupid lines.
after i watched it over 3 or 4 times I realized I actually liked it ..I mean why would i watch it so many times...so I figured out that maybe it did have that starwars feeling I first thought it didn´t have. and it does.
I see now TPM as an operture to the starwars saga, instead of lots of action and serious stuff, it just sets up everything so you can enjoy the other movies even more. like GL said: "thats the story, it begins with a 9-year-old anakin and thats it, i cant change that, i have to start telling the story from there" (or something like that).
ive read also that AOTC will make TPM a better movie and if it does, then after EPISODE III and tha OT and PT connected we´ll forget about all that anti-jar jar propaganda and we´ll look at TPM as a great movie.
so you all quit wasting your time and forget about TPM.
The changes that have been made to the old trilogy are liveable, but ultimatly extravigant, in some cases distracting and in others outright annoying and not required.
But enough is enough, Yoda is amazing in the OT, the movie making craft is at it's best with Yoda, Frank OZ turns a lump of plastic into a great character actor and i feel that it needs not only to be left alone but praised for it's uniqueness and quality. Some of the shots of Yoda in the misty light of Dagobah are the best shots in the film.
I cant understand the obsession with adding to the movies:
1. they are long enough, easily long enough.
2. they tell the story well.
3. there are no glaring flaws in the production quality ( rancor being the exception, the matte is terrible )
If any changes are going to be made then change the few flaws that do exist and i might add they are mainly new items added from the special edition, you may recognise a few:
Make vaders sabber red all of the time.
Have ob1's sword look like a lightsaber in ANH when it looks like a stick at one point.
Redo the emperor's voice to Ian's in ESB. there's and idea.
Digitally remove GL's kids from the ewok village just for the hell of it🙂
Add in the Yoda question scene by the emperor to luke in ROTJ
Add in the lightsaber building scene in ROTJ and tie it into Qui Gons saber.
Remove the emperors scream from the luke falling scene in ESB, yes i noticed that george.
Remove the ROTJ scene from the ESB, you know where vader has to be shown to arrive back onto the star destroyer for some GL personel reason. Again yes george i noticed that it was From ROTJ stock and that vader is greated by the death star II Moff.
And "BRING MY SHUTTLE" not blah blah blah inform my star destroyer and all of that shit. Excuse my tone but why did it need changing?
Remove the .45 caliber magnum sound effect on leia's stormtrooper gun in ANH when they are trying to cross the bridge.
Remove vader's gesturing in ANH.
As far as the thread goes, all star wars rules, even the changed bits can be lived with, with clenched teeth at some points. I cant wait for another installment.
How about instead of farting around with 20 year old movies that are universally recognised as brilliant, have some guts and take on some new work that has some relevance to star wars or perhaps another project.