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One thought kept coming back to my mind amidst the movie…
How can George Lucas ever dare to call himself a film maker after this? Peter Jackson takes a book written half a century ago by a man no longer with us, and does a masterful job. Meanwhile George Lucas can’t even keep up with the plot holes introduced in his own movies.
Jackson takes CG and makes it breathtaking.
Lucas brings a pathetic looking Jaba the Hut, a pixelated Mos Eisley, and Natalie Portman eating a floating piece of fruit from 6 inches away.
Jackson brings us an outstanding performance combining computer animation and real life acting in Gollum, via Serkas.
Lucas brings us… Jar-Jar? Wtf?
Lucas brings us the directors cut: Greedo shoots first, Han walks all over Jaba (literally), a few longer scenes of freaky dancing aliens, including one seemingly pop-star-esque one in Jaba’s Palace, including new scenes of Darth Vador with someone other than James Earl Jones doing the voice(!), adding in old and unnecesary friends of Lukes, and other nitpicks too numerous to mention.
Jackson instead of trying to reinvent the movies, adds the details that the true fans will appreciate. Things that would have been nice to see in the film, an hour of footage that you just can’t expect normal people to sit through, in addition to the rest of the 3 hours they just saw.
So any Star Wars fans still out there? Why?