Since I have already sealed the deal on my geekdom, let me just chalk up what I consider to be George Lucas’s only real sin:
Han fired first.
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Since I have already sealed the deal on my geekdom, let me just chalk up what I consider to be George Lucas’s only real sin:
Han fired first.
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Stormy70
I didn’t think it was a mistake. Han was a streetwise, er, galaxy-wise smuggler. It was him or Greedo, and Greedo wasn’t the hot one, so Greedo needed to die.
rt
and that’s the one thing that pissed me off more about the movie re-makes more than anything.
han knew who he was dealing with and knew he was in danger: hence, greedo had to leave the feet first.
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Lesmorte
You are correct Stormy, and that is what John is referring to. In the true classic Han did indeed fire first, but in the remake they decided to make Han more “good” and so he fires second, after a galactic bounty hunter fires from point-blank range and misses mind you.
Stormy70
Sorry – I read that wrong. I noticed that in the remake, and I thought it looked contrived. Yeah, a bounty hunter missing at that range is entirely plausible, Lucas. He should not have meddled with the scene.
Dodd
Agreed. Making Greedo shoot first – or even simultaneously as I gather is how it’s presented in the new DVD collection – is not only insipid, it *ruins* Han’s story arc: He’s supposed to be the amoral, self-centered rogue who sets aside looking out for Number 1 and puts his life on the line for his friends and something larger than himself.
shark
Yousa liken Jar Jar Binksa?
Gary Farber
Jar Jar was an error in judgment, in deciding he would be useful comic relief, but on a different order of error from getting something right in your movie the first time, only to reverse it in a revision, only to revise yet a third time to half way in between the first two versions.
It was a similar bad judgment when Lucas inserted in a high-pitched scream from Luke as he fell at the end of his first reissued revision of The Empire Strikes Back only to (wisely) take it out again in the latest version.
you guys are
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