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Topic: About Star Wars. And a girlfriend.

My girlfriend has decided she's gonna watch Star Wars, to once and for all properly understand all the damn puns, references, parodies and whatnots, and to.. well, have seen the films.

Problem is, I don't know which versions to show her.

Now, before y'all go "THEATRICAL VERSION ZOMG!", let's look at the subject here. My girlfriend was hesitant to watch the Back the Future trilogy, based on the fact that "they're old!". She was also drawing her "old" film experience based on "King Kong" (The ancient one), and not being apt in the film world, I suppose she automatically assumed all "old" films looked as terrible(now, not then). She was pleasantly surprised by the trilogy, though, and didn't mind the old vfx as much as I feared.

But SW is another bag. The theatrical versions, although superior, are aged, at least when you look at the vfx. I'm worried they might take her out of the experience and make her laugh or writhe in pain, instead of being taken into the story.



Also, note that the Blu-Ray versions were never even considered. It's the Theatrical DVD's, or the 2004 DVD's.

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Re: About Star Wars. And a girlfriend.

2004 DVDs, skip the Jabba scene in Star Wars.

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Re: About Star Wars. And a girlfriend.

skip the Jabba scene in Star Wars

And the musical number in Jabba's Palace.  I love Muppet Show musical numbers, but not in Star Wars.

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Re: About Star Wars. And a girlfriend.

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Re: About Star Wars. And a girlfriend.

I'm not a Star Wars fan and I don't have a girlfriend, so I'll never have this problem.....

Oh, wait a minute.......<cries>

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Re: About Star Wars. And a girlfriend.

are you gonna show her ALL of them, or just the originals or...?

If the plan is to do all of them, then go for the Machete sequence (episode order = IV, V, II, III, VI with no episode I)

Personally I think the remastered versions without all the stupid cartoon dinosaurs and deleted scenes inserted are the best versions. The inserted CG stuff makes those movies look terrible. So long as the effects are consistent, I doubt she'd have much of a problem. There are only a few shots in those movies that don't really work for me, and they're usually short (probably cause they realized they didn't work all that great, hehe)

But if you fear for her oldnessphobia killing the mood, just show her the new ones. There's cartoon dinosaurs in them, but they're still Star Wars. Sorta.
I would never date a girl who hadn't seen Star Wars.

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Re: About Star Wars. And a girlfriend.

Make it a test, show her the originals - if she doesn't laugh, she's a keeper.

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Re: About Star Wars. And a girlfriend.

Welcome to the boards, Liam!

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Re: About Star Wars. And a girlfriend.

A newbie! Welcome, Liam smile

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Re: About Star Wars. And a girlfriend.

Teague: Noted, but with the influence of Marcus' post.

Squiggly: As far as I'm concerned, there really only are 3 SW films, but if she's interested, those other 3 are her choice, not mine.

Liam: welcome, but... I don't know about that. She was already a keeper over a year ago wink

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Re: About Star Wars. And a girlfriend.

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Re: About Star Wars. And a girlfriend.

Yes, I got that, but I'm not going to the extreme levels of checking out Adywans edit, a revisited edit, or the phantom edits. It's the films as they are, or nothing.

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Re: About Star Wars. And a girlfriend.

Figure the Adywan has the best aspects of everything, and is the newest, best looking version of that film I've seen.

But I'm really not too into Star Wars.

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Re: About Star Wars. And a girlfriend.

Nor am I, it was her idea, but I'm not going to show her a damn fan-edit, no matter how much it improves the original.
It's like showing her Scary Movie, telling her it's Scream.

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Re: About Star Wars. And a girlfriend.

If she prefers Episode I, then... "you need some space but you still want to be friends"

not long to go now...

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Re: About Star Wars. And a girlfriend.

It's not as much 'converting her to love SW' as it is 'hope she enjoys the films enough to sit thru them'. I really don't care about star wars anymore anyway.

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Re: About Star Wars. And a girlfriend.

There's a lot to be said for the 'you had to be there' school of film criticism. That is, classic films seen for the first time decades afterwards quite often appear just 'okay' to a newbie. Citizen Kane is a fine respectable film,  but I doubt many young people love it the way they love films from their own generation.

If you were there for Star Wars or Jaws or The Godfather in the 1970s, they're going to mean more to you than seeing them on TV for the first time in 2012.

There's probably many exceptions, but I think statistically it's less likely (all else being equal) to fall in love with an old old movie than it is with a movie from your own time. Movies don't just age due to VFX or resolution, there's... average edit-times, how sentimental v cynical/edgy it is, how PG-13 or R-rated it is, etc.

not long to go now...

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Re: About Star Wars. And a girlfriend.

rtambree wrote:

Citizen Kane is a fine respectable film,  but I doubt many young people love it the way they love films from their own generation.

Yeah, but young people never loved Citizen Kane. Critics and new wave directors did. The kids were going to see The Wolf Man and the Bowery Boys.

(But everybody SHOULD have been going to see The Lady Eve, one of the best comedies of all time.)

Warning: I'm probably rewriting this post as you read it.

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Re: About Star Wars. And a girlfriend.

I'm not wanting her love for the films. As you know(pun intended), this was her idea, not mine. She wants to know what all the fuzz is about, and has the lowest expectations for the films possible. It's like any of us, upon pressing unpause on the remote after we loaded 'Twilight'.

On a side note; I'm completely okay with the clone wars and the prequels.

Now, why would I be that? It's not that _I_ enjoy them at all. In fact, I don't even want to watch them ever again, but the joy and enthusiasm I see in my son's face when he wathes them, is what I felt when I watched the originals as a child. If the new films and crappy ass TV-series can bring forth in my son what the originals did with me, I think Lucas is still, in spite of all his flaws, doing at least something right.

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Re: About Star Wars. And a girlfriend.

I'm way more excited than I should be about getting a shout out haha  clap

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Re: About Star Wars. And a girlfriend.

Yoda will now pimp anything for cash

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/cele … 2051827568

not long to go now...

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