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[–] Zagam@piefed.social 74 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Yeah, no. That green fucker never even had a chance to pull his trigger. Han capped him in the coldest of blood then sauntered out with less bothers than Winnie-the-Pooh with a tummy full of hunny.

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[–] dalekcaan@feddit.nl 28 points 7 months ago (2 children)

God forbid a character start out as an asshole so he has room for character growth.

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 9 points 7 months ago

What I hate so much about the modern versions is that not only do they try to make him not a bad guy, but they out that stupid scene with Jabba in right after it. Narratively it serves the same purpose as the previous scene and the dialogue is nearly identical. Plus it really cheapens how big of a threat Jabba should be. Han steps on him. Jabba was throwing people into a pit just for shits and giggles. Why would he let someone step on him? Some scenes really should stay deleted.

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[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

I wouldn't call that being an asshole.

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[–] red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I know. But back when Lucas first changed it, "Han shot first" was the slogan people used. It's short, as slogans should be. What else would you use? "Greedo never shot"? "Only Han shot"? Those don't sound as good, at least to me. "Han shot first" can also mean that Greedo never got to fire his gun, because Han was quicker. So I'll stick with that.

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[–] Zagam@piefed.social 1 point 7 months ago

I get you. I think my problem with Han Shot First is that it forgives the ret-con and I don't want to do that. I'd rather be pedantic about it. But I have no hate to people that make the pithy Han Shot First comment, its better than Han shot in self-defense beccause Mos-Eisley is a stand your ground state.

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[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

Han shot only. It's supposed to show how cold of a bastard Han is. Portraying it as self-defense undercuts that.

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[–] red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 6 months ago

I don't think that's correct English. And it kind of was self-defense, as Greedo was a bounty hunter for Jabba who didn't exactly wanted to invite Han for some tea and biscuits.

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[–] Davel23@fedia.io 43 points 7 months ago

Only Han shot.

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[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 28 points 7 months ago

Han shot ~~first~~.

FTFY

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[–] Klear 19 points 7 months ago (5 children)

And he was so full of shit when talking about the Kessel run.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 18 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Han: "I did the Kessel run in under 12 parsecs. smug grin"

Luke: "Isn't a parsec a unit of distance, not time?"

Han: "Shut up, kid."

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[–] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

It was so dumb that they tried to justify that comment on the Solo movie.

There was a lot of dumb shit in that Solo movie.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

Chewwie never gets tired of hearing about that one.

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 7 points 7 months ago

No! And the reason I say no is because Greedo didn't shoot at all! In some versions they both shoot and in some Han shoots first and in some second. In the one I grew up with (VHS box set, face edition) he is the only one to shoot.

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[–] Tetragrade@leminal.space 2 points 7 months ago

Maclunkey!

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[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 1 point 7 months ago

Damn right!

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[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

The arizona ranger did

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[–] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

With the big iron on his hip?

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[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 1 point 7 months ago

Big iron, biiig iiron!

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[–] SatyrSack 34 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Eli from Stargate: Universe saying "Whoa! Looks like we entered the Hoth system. Empire Strikes Back. The second Star Wars movie. Okay, I refuse to call it 'Episode Five'."

Stargate: Universe S1E6 "Water"

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I would not look to characters from SG:U for a healthy outlook on anything.

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[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago (1 child)

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[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 1 point 7 months ago

Daniel Jackson's demands

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[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 26 points 7 months ago

This. This is exactly why people pick the guy in the Star Trek shirt.

[+] username_1@programming.dev 13 points 7 months ago (3 children)

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[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

I remember being utterly distraught after the first one came out and Lucas said it was the first of nine movies. The thought of having to wait that long to see them was a torment. And then I didn't give a shit any more by the time Return of the Jedi came out; I only saw that one years later on VHS and I was like "why the fuck are muppets in this movie?" Have still never seen the prequels or the recent ones.

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[+] username_1@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

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[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

No, I meant the cackling muppet in the Jabba the Hutt scene.

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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Those of us who saw it in the theater in 1977 all agree.

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[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I was so young, my mom took me there

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[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Same. We made popcorn at home and brought it to the theater in paper shopping bags. We had to wait in an insanely long line. The film broke during the trash compaction scene and we had to just sit there for ten minutes until they fixed it.

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[–] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

Dude same. Your mom was awesome.

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[–] Maiq@piefed.social 4 points 7 months ago

I saw it years later when it was released on HBO in 1983 and I agree.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago (3 children)

There is only one Star Wars movie. The rest is fanfiction.

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 5 points 7 months ago

Yes

Idk why they called it Christmas “special”, since it’s a single movie-

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[–] rosco385@lemmy.wtf 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

There is only one Star Wars movie.

It's Caravan of Courage, right?

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[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 1 point 7 months ago

That was "The Ewok Adventure" and that was the only name it ever had. There was no caravan. There might have been some courage. It was Dollar Store Drew Barrymore, Dollar Store Luke, and Wicket selling VHS tapes and add spots on the ABC Sunday Night Movie of the Week spot in the 80s.

I don't know when this "Caravan of Courage" stuff started, but the VHS box I had as a kid didn't say that at all.

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[+] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago (7 children)

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[–] friedmag@lemmy.ml 11 points 7 months ago (6 children)

That's kind of his point. The original release didn't say that. The rerelease in 1978 did.

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[+] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago (5 children)

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[–] Saryn@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago* (4 children)

No, it didn't because at the time Lucas didn't expect to make more movies. He did have the basics for a larger story on his head, but the first movie was made as a standalone, telling the middle part of a larger story. If i remember correctly, when the first movie was being made, Lucas hadn't even decided that Vader would be Luke's father. He thought of that after the movie's success and when it became clear it would become a series.

Edit: To finish the story - the title credits for the first movie were added later, after the original release, when it was clear that more movies would come out and that each one would need its own title. But before all of that, the first movie was simply titled "Star Wars"

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[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago*

Also Luke was "Starkiller" for most of the length of the development of the movie.

The scene where Luke rescues Leia from the jail, they filmed it with him being called "Luke Starkiller". Here's Mark Hamill himself telling the story.

https://youtube.com/shorts/w3pvz7rM48Y

Also, don't you mean before that, titled "The Star Wars"? (I honestly don't know, but didn't someone earlier say the original had "the" in the title?) (Edit oh yeah there is a comment saying that but it's another thread on this same post, dk about the veracity)

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[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

As I remember it, the original title crawl did indeed say "Episode IV A NEW HOPE." This was despite it being the first movie made -- to give it the feeling of starting in the middle of a larger drama.

When you went outside the Marquee said Star Wars. The VHS says Star Wars. But the movie calls itself STAR WARS Episode IV A NEW HOPE.

Is this splitting hairs? Yes.

EDIT. I was wrong. In 1977 there was no subtitle in the crawl because of FOX. In 1981, there was.

The opening crawl in the first Star Wars film is very different from Lucas's original intention. The original text, used in the rough cut he showed to friends and studio executives in February 1977, appears in the Marvel Comics adaptation of the film. When originally released in May 1977, the first film was simply titled Star Wars, as 20th Century Fox forbade Lucas to use a subtitle on grounds that it could be confusing, since there had been no other Star Wars movies prior to 1977.^[2]^^[10]^ In addition, it was not certain if the film would be followed with a sequel. When The Empire Strikes Back was released in 1980, the episode number, "Episode V", and subtitle "THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK" appeared as the first two lines of the opening crawl.^[citation needed]^ To match its sequel's crawl, the episode number "Episode IV" and subtitle "A NEW HOPE" were added for the film's theatrical re-release in April 1981.

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[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Fox and now Disney made such a good job of erasing it from memory that it has been almost forgotten. But here in this video you can still see how it was back in 1977. Also, other very subtle stylistic choices on font, crawl movement, etc. that were changed for the re-releases. Modern streaming versions are also different from the ones originally on theaters.

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