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Originally posted by Kwicko:
Y'know, it's kinda funny, because I was watching some of the Star Wars trilogy over the weekend, and told my wife that I could've sworn that the third installment (Episode VI) was called "REVENGE of the Jedi" when I first saw it, not "Return of the Jedi". And it's kinda needled at me for years, so I finally did a bit of searching.

Sure enough, there's the poster I remember seeing at the theatre when the movie was still a coming attraction: "Revenge of the Jedi". Big red poster with a huge Darth Vader helmet as the main backdrop. Turns out "Revenge of the Jedi" was the working title, and the early pre-release posters referred to it as such. It was only changed closer to release date.

Woulda fit better with the later flicks that way - that way, each of the trilogies would have a third installment called "Revenge of the..."

Oh, and looks like that poster I saw way back when (and really wanted) goes for about $450 now. :shock:




Mike

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singate wrote:
Sunday, January 11, 2009 19:32
Obi-Wan was probably referring to his taking out the trade ship in episode I.

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Originally posted by jewelstaitefan:
Yes, it was to be Revenge of the Jedi. As such, when Star Trek wanted to make their sequel Revenge of Khan, they avoided that word to not make them sound like copycats, so it became Wrath. Although IIRC, the "working title" was actually something like "Blue Harvest" and everybody had caps and jackets with that name/logo on it, so that none of the rabid fans would disrupt the production - I think some was in the forests of Oregon.

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Originally posted by singate:
Lucas stated several years ago that the reason for the change was that Jedi do not seek revenge. I think "Return" ends up as the better title because until the very end of the film there wern't any Jedi left.

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singate wrote:
Sunday, January 11, 2009 19:32
Obi-Wan was probably referring to his taking out the trade ship in episode I.

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Is that the scene where 'little Annie' is sitting in the Naboo fighter, starts mashing buttons so as to shoot at some approaching droids, and ends up flying around and taking part in a large scale combat mission? I'm sorry, but that was yet another ridiculous moment for the prequels. It's one thing for a pre-pubesent son of a slave to drive hyped up hovering go carts,but to sit in the cockpit of an advanced fighter.... please. My nephew is in the AF, and flies a fighter, and he was tops of his class coming out of school. ( He was accepted to the AF Academy , but chose to get his education at a state U, and then enter the AF proper ) Point being, it takes years of training and study before a student can get into the most basic of jets, and we're to expect that a 7 yr old can just climb into seat of a craft he's NEVER even seen before, start flipping levers and pushing buttons, and some how the ability to operate such a machine just "comes" to the kid, even while he's in flight ?





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Originally posted by FlatTop:
What do Luke & Anakin have in common in their first space battle?

- Zero training in the operation of the crazy-expensive fighter they're strapped into.
- R2D2 being plugged into the ship's systems.

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Originally posted by AURaptor:

A great pilot ? He was like 7 yrs old, and, absurdly , had found time to become a pod racer. Now, if I'm a Jedi Knight, and meet some kid, no matter how gifted at driving a seat being pulled by 2 giant turbine motors, I'm still not going to refer to him as a " great pilot".

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
Y'know, it's kinda funny, because I was watching some of the Star Wars trilogy over the weekend, and told my wife that I could've sworn that the third installment (Episode VI) was called "REVENGE of the Jedi" when I first saw it, not "Return of the Jedi". And it's kinda needled at me for years, so I finally did a bit of searching.

Sure enough, there's the poster I remember seeing at the theatre when the movie was still a coming attraction: "Revenge of the Jedi". Big red poster with a huge Darth Vader helmet as the main backdrop. Turns out "Revenge of the Jedi" was the working title, and the early pre-release posters referred to it as such. It was only changed closer to release date.

Woulda fit better with the later flicks that way - that way, each of the trilogies would have a third installment called "Revenge of the..."

Oh, and looks like that poster I saw way back when (and really wanted) goes for about $450 now. :shock:




Mike

"It is complete now; the hands of time are neatly tied."

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FlatTop wrote:
Monday, January 12, 2009 02:05
What do Luke & Anakin have in common in their first space battle?

- Zero training in the operation of the crazy-expensive fighter they're strapped into.
- R2D2 being plugged into the ship's systems.

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
'Rap - Remember, it's Star Wars; it doesn't have to make sense! :)

What struck me most in watching ANH over the weekend was how really awfully bad the acting was, and how horrible the dialog was. Good thing it had great FX for back then, or it would have been one really shitty movie.

Mike

"It is complete now; the hands of time are neatly tied."

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