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Are we seeing the OT through nostalgic eyes?
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<blockquote data-quote="stormcab" data-source="post: 430117" data-attributes="member: 6519"><p>Met up with my brother and sister today for a meal out. I'm 38, she's 32, he's 27. I enjoyed Rogue One more than TFA, but still wasn't overall impressed with either. I told them to rewatch A New Hope as I knew they wouldn't have seen it in years, so would miss all the nods, easter eggs, and characters put in with CGI. </p><p></p><p>My sister said she was in tears during the scene Chirrut ïmwe walks out to hit the transmission switch. She was also in tears during the final saber battle in TFA. She's a real hardcore film goer, and she's working on becoming a director. While debating all the plot issues with them, and explaining others, when we got back to my place it was decided that we should watch A New Hope. I understandably put on the despecialized version. Immediately she was not impressed with the sound and film quality. We spent a lot of time pausing and chatting throughout, then at the end I played bits from the new revamped version - particularly bits like the enhanced sand-crawler sequence, a room full of troopers after Han chases a group of them, and final space battle. She was immediately impressed, and said "now, I could watch this". I then quickly put on the "It's a trap" scene from ROTJ. She thought the quality was hilariously bad compared to the space battle in Rogue One. The space battle in ROTJ is only my favourite film scene ever, so that didn't hurt much <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /> . I kept trying in vain to point out "but look at that, that's exactly what it would look like sitting in a cinema in 1977, this is the real deal". She just kept looking at me like "yeah, so?"</p><p></p><p>Of course the new OT versions' scenes look utterly amazing, but am I, or actually, we, seeing these new ones (TFA RO) through eyes that don't see that nostalgic film grain, with terrible blue-screening, and jittery stop-go animatronic action etc? Is this stopping us (well a good chunk of us) actually enjoying what are in fact great films? Film critics are pretty unanimous in their praise of these new films.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="stormcab, post: 430117, member: 6519"] Met up with my brother and sister today for a meal out. I'm 38, she's 32, he's 27. I enjoyed Rogue One more than TFA, but still wasn't overall impressed with either. I told them to rewatch A New Hope as I knew they wouldn't have seen it in years, so would miss all the nods, easter eggs, and characters put in with CGI. My sister said she was in tears during the scene Chirrut ïmwe walks out to hit the transmission switch. She was also in tears during the final saber battle in TFA. She's a real hardcore film goer, and she's working on becoming a director. While debating all the plot issues with them, and explaining others, when we got back to my place it was decided that we should watch A New Hope. I understandably put on the despecialized version. Immediately she was not impressed with the sound and film quality. We spent a lot of time pausing and chatting throughout, then at the end I played bits from the new revamped version - particularly bits like the enhanced sand-crawler sequence, a room full of troopers after Han chases a group of them, and final space battle. She was immediately impressed, and said "now, I could watch this". I then quickly put on the "It's a trap" scene from ROTJ. She thought the quality was hilariously bad compared to the space battle in Rogue One. The space battle in ROTJ is only my favourite film scene ever, so that didn't hurt much :( . I kept trying in vain to point out "but look at that, that's exactly what it would look like sitting in a cinema in 1977, this is the real deal". She just kept looking at me like "yeah, so?" Of course the new OT versions' scenes look utterly amazing, but am I, or actually, we, seeing these new ones (TFA RO) through eyes that don't see that nostalgic film grain, with terrible blue-screening, and jittery stop-go animatronic action etc? Is this stopping us (well a good chunk of us) actually enjoying what are in fact great films? Film critics are pretty unanimous in their praise of these new films. [/QUOTE]
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