I was 8 in 1977. I can clearly remember seeing Star Wars (I still think of it as that, rather than "A New Hope". 😁) at the cinema. It completely blew my mind! That opening shot of the star destroyer...I'd never seen anything like that!! I still haven't.
I love comparisons like this. I find that remakes/reboots are some of the best ways to learn about storytelling because the differences are so fine. You notice stuff you otherwise wouldn’t. Like there are great things about Psycho (1960) that even the biggest fans won’t appreciate until they see the remake of it. I love this channel. As a screenwriter it helps a lot to get insight as to what could’ve been and to be able to compare it to what we got.
@@Bulletsandblockbusters I’n not really interested in that route. I want to be a director too, so I plan on making a short (like 5-7 mins) horror movie to show that I’m at least capable of the basics of directing. I think it’s much easier to stand out with that then trying to compete against thousands of screenplays. I think of how that Lights Out movie was made from a TH-cam short. Also that Smile movie from a few months ago was largely greenlit off of two quick horror shorts the director made. I’m 100% confident in the few screenplays and ideas I have, I just want to direct them too so I’m going the long way round.
Great content! I preferred the original opening to The Force Awakens, where Luke Skywalker's lightsaber floats aimlessly through space while still in the clutches of his perfectly preserved severed hand. As it enters Jakku's atmosphere, it picks up speed, effectively transforming itself into a sort of makeshift anvil torpedo which lands on Rey's head with the force of a thousand moons, killing her instantly.
Even though I agree that the prequels did overuse CGI a bit, they still have *ton* of practical effects that people tend to overlook. The practical effects in the PT are just a lot more subtle than in the OT or ST.
100% I think they look better in phantom menace though because that one was shot on film while the two other ones were shot on early HD cameras, which makes a lot of the vfx look “faker”
@@Bulletsandblockbusters Fair enough. Plus, while all of the prequels use tons of miniatures and other practical effects, TPM used the most real sets and practical explosions of the PT to my knowledge. Also, and I'm pretty sure TPM is the SW movie with the most puppets in it. We all know about Yoda being a puppet in the theatrical version, but a couple of the podracers were puppets and at least one of the Naboo sea creatures is a puppet.
I just watched, like, 10th video from you. I love your content on "What could have been..." on Batman, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Alien, The Hobbit, Ghostbusters. I even remember reading about Ghostbusters 3's plans by Dan Aykroyd in early days of Internet in 2000s. I also read the Alien: Engineers script. It was entertaining to see your detailed update on all these. It's surprising that there are so low Likes and Subscribes. I just did both. Wish you much success! 💙💯
You know. I believe Force Awakens was just a soft reboot/loose remake of A New Hope. It did bare a couple of similarities. Rey living on the desert planet Jakku was written to mirror the beginnings of Anakin and Luke Skywalker's journeys as they both lived on the desert world Tattooine and that's where their adventures began.
There was a review by DX which comes to mind, you can’t replicate the same scenes / plot with different characters cause the context will be different. It’s unfortunate how messy the sequels are as films. Most of the force awakens problems happen in the 3rd act, feeling very similar to ep4 but in doing so hampers it’s own story. Arguably once star killer fired the issues started to become more pronounced but yeah, really unfortunate. They cared more about being like the originals than doing something with their own story and it suffered for it.
Thank you for using the pre-special edition footage of the first film. Small detail, but people need to understand that 1977 Star Wars is the ONLY Star Wars.
@@نادرالیراحمان The movie that played in theaters in 1977 was titled "Star Wars." It has later come to be called "A New Hope" or "Star Wars: A New Hope" or "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope," but none of those were its original title. It's not wrong to refer to this movie by any of those newer titles, but it's also not wrong to refer to it simply as "Star Wars," especially if you're talking about its original theatrical release.
Same can be said with Terminator 1 and Terminator 2. They both have beginning fight scene with thugs to get clothes, motorcycle chase scene, truck chase, shoot out with police,factory scene ending.
there are similarities because it's the same scenario: another droid sent back in time to kill somebody, police involved, chases, etc; nobody wanted/expected the SAME scenario of SW'77 in 2015...it's a Galaxy, FFS, not LA.
@@Bulletsandblockbusters hey man, making fun of them is the only way they entertain us these days. So keep it up until they figure out how to make decent content.
Yep when I saw this movie the first time I literally said this was nothing more than a reboot point for point but different characters and still feel this way now
The Starkiller Base cannon destroying six or seven planets in one blast was over the top. Like, way-over the top of the top. At least the sequels made me like the prequels more. Maybe Jar Jar wasn't really that bad...
Did this channel used to be called bullets and rum? As someone who watches too much TH-cam this is quality content and you have a great cadence in your delivery. I could see this channel blowing up anytime.
Ok, I need to correct you, because this has long since been debunked. The Prequels didn't overuse CGI. They used more practical effects than CGI. Just because blue screen and green screen was used does not equal CGI. The scenes where they used blue and green screen were imposed over miniatures. Even The Originals used a lot of blue screen. You can easily find all the photos and videos of practical effects used. One of the guys from Mythbusters worked on the miniatures. In behind the scenes commentary on Revenge of the Sith the person head of the miniatures who works on Star Wars since ep4 talks about how actually The Prequels used more miniatures than the Originals.
@@tyrannozilla The real quality of the poetry is up for debate. As it started, TFA seemed more like an homage than a remake in disguise. The characters were very interesting, their dynamics were on point, etc. Everything looked like a great setup for a very exciting and different trilogy. The whole thing with the Starkiller Base annoyed me quite a lot - “Do we really need another Death Star raid?” - but while the ships were attacking, another story was developing in parallel, that had a promise to be very good, and I forgave this unnecessary plot point. Neither did I know that this would be the least annoying and unnecessary plot point in this whole trilogy…
I would’ve preferred it if The Force Awakens was a 100% remake of A New Hope like some commenters call the film as it would’ve done done properly everything that A New Hope does properly. This is as opposed to the film we got, which tries to emulate A New Hope with slight yet significant changes that are ultimately for the worse, like the convoluted writing of starting at Jakku yet immediately flying back to Jakku and Han Solo not mentoring Rey in the way that Obi-Wan did before dying.
FA was not good, it was corporate vandalism. Every character in it was not a new character, but just an extremely simplified variant of the OG ones wearing skinsuits. The movie, and everything disney has been producing since, was made for simpletons.
Star Wars The Force Awakens is not the exact same story from A New Hope because they have exact same Death Star as same characters and Luke's introduction.
Star Wars told a story. The Force Awakens presented us with a collection of story beats. There’s a big difference but don’t ask JJ to explain it to you.
True. Luke a macguffin. That never paid off. And RIan was like he didn't give a crap. The map to Luke Skywalker and First Jedi Temple. What was that all about. No he went to that Island to die. And to destroy the Jedi religion once and for all. Who was Rey, who were her parents. JJ had no answer until he shot the end of Rise of Skywalker. Not a very satisfying answer.
A new hope is the quintessential story of good vs evil. For the life of me I can't understand why Disney didn't just pay the authors of the EU and continue the next trilogy with the Thrawn saga.
In my opinion it didn't matter if the Force Awakens reminded me of Star Wars or not... I enjoyed the movie because it had some elements of Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi as well... I just had to look at it in an alternate universe, and that is how I got over it... I try to keep an open mind about movies.. Sometimes it works, and other times it does not
Actually, ep 7 works perfectly as a remake of all original trilogy. Think about it. The first half we have the search of a droid in the desert who carries valuable information, wich is basically the first act of a new hope. Then the second half starts with the heroes going to find help to a planet where a friend of han solo runs a businness, pretty much like the second act if empire strikes back in bespin. And it ends with someone being taken as well (rey instead of frozen han). Then of course, we have the final showdown in a giant planer killer superweapon, where a tiny group of heroes infiltrates to shut down the shield generator, while the heroe faces the dark warrior who messes with her feelings. That pretty much summarizes the final act of return of the jedi. Cause rey, just like luke, defeats the dark warrior, the superweapon is destroyed and the good guys win. Seriously, jj is a genius for doing all of this unporpuse xd. And i'm actually glad, cause he left the road clear for rian to make something entirely new, wich he did
I know this would probably never happen because the OG movies are sacred but I’d love to see the original trilogy be remade with modern cgi and practical effects. I imagine it would be similar to Rogue One in terms of cinematography.
It would be an interesting experiment. It reminds me of when they remade Psycho shot for shot with a new cast. Strangely, it didn't work as well as the original even though it was literally exactly the same.
In who’s hands though? Unfortunately, I guarantee you a modern remake would lose all of the heart and charm of the originals. We kind of know what remakes would look like - “The Force of the Last Skywalker”.
I respectfully disagree with you. The Force Awakens isn't a rehash of A New Hope. It has already been done by Return of the Jedi. The Force Awakens is a rehash of Return of the Jedi. 1. Opening scene to TFA and ROTJ reminds us the might of the bad guys. 2. R2 and BB8 carry information about Luke Skywalker 3. R2 and BB8 are on a mission on a sandy planet where their counterparts have no idea about their real motives. (Finn is basically C3PO of TFA.) 4. Starkiller Base is another Death Star 2. Repeating another planet destroying weapon 5. Death of daddy: Vader and Han are visciously attacked by their sons. 6. Battle of Endor and Starkiller Base are just backdrop while our protagonists' fight takes main stage.
The Sequel trilogy is mostly forgettable. However, playing through this trilogy and the prequel trilogy in the Lego:The Skywalker Saga video game is a ton of fun!! Much better than the movies themselves.
*Subverts our expectations* -- yep..... what a stupid idea *that* was to spread around Hollywood. That's why everyone fahking quit on so many movie franchises... subversion.
Holy crap I'm only halfway through the video but just hearing someone bring up the stark difference between the two films that are similar in so many ways you don't realize that while The Force Awakens isn't a bad film it's just clearly a middle if the road film when compared to A New Hope. In fact this video could be used in lecture as a compare contrast of two films to not say I'm biased and think the original is better. No you stack both films against each other and show this is what The Force Awakens lacks while A New Hope has it in spades. Truth be told if the Force Awakens was handed in as a final assignment it would probably be a C, because it technically has everything that you need but lacks a ton of things whereas A New Hope would be an A because it has everything and more.
In my opinion.... Not really. It's more a rehash and remix, but the similarities are still there. And I'm sorry to all the Fandom Menacers and their "JarJar Abrams" ranting in the comments... But although I genuinely prefer the prequels as an adult, The Force Awakens is still one of the better Star Wars movies.
What I didn’t like about in particular was the powers of rey against Kylo but more importantly the first order destroyed 3 or more planets and all though star killer base was destroyed we are made to believe that Finn, Rey and the resistance fighters have one when billions of lives were extinguished. Plus I hate that Rey was so upset about Hans death and we barely get to see chewie being consoled or coming to term with it
how it should've went: (Apologies if my Sequels knowledge is rusty, I haven't seen them in ages) -In the starkiller base forest fight, since Kylo's arm is injured from Chewie's shot, he got a little weaker, so as Finn and Rey fight Kylo Ren, Rey gets the lightsaber, they duel for a bit, then Kylo Ren kills Rey in front of Finn, Finn then gets the lightsaber, he tries to attack Kylo but Kylo blocks the path with the force. Soon after Finn gets BB-8 to lead him to Luke himself, they both go to his home on that Island, Luke doesn't want them in his space, soon after Luke eventually trains Finn the ways of the force and becomes The Last Jedi. With Rey gone, all Finn has left are Poe, Leia and Chewbacca and of course Luke's ghost after he dies. Soon into the Rise of Skywalker, Kylo Ren turns to the light side, him and Finn turn to fight Palpatine's clone. Palpatine kills them both, but the Jedi force ghost then come out, Anakin Skywalker's ghost then kills Palpatine. The end. Please correct me if anything sounds wrong.
...i think "Remake" is being too kind, how about "Rehash"...? ...Jedi Master Lucas made Six Excellent STAR WARS Films (actually, Nine, in my opinion!!!) ...Sithleen Kennedy made Five KNOCKOFF Flicks (so far) 《Animate The Lucas Sequels!!!》
Kennedy messed everything and i know frank marshal had to have flipped on her at least once over this id divorce her just for making luke drink that crap LMAO
What if - and hear me out here - Star Wars was always a bit shit and never made much sense? And I don't say that to be condescending - I found it genuinely liberating when I came to the realisation that "oh, even the original trilogy was pretty crap, storytelling-wise, and I should really stop expecting these movies to be good."
I think the first two are solid, then Jedi feels a little less than before the prequels drive off a cliff. So ya, I hear you. I generally think it’s ridiculous considering we really only got two solid movies that have been holding up this IP ever since.
Just getting more angry with each video about how disappointing and uncreative the sequels were. The prequels were awful, but I came to that conclusion on my own. I never knew how to think about the Sequels, except that I didn’t feel much connection to them.
I agree Star Wars The Force Awakens was a cheap imitation of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope and the political situation in the galaxy didn’t even make any sense. I’m writing a Star Wars story and it deals with the light side and the dark side. The Star Wars story that I’m writing about is influenced my own life including real life events and the movies and tv shows that I loved and watched when I was growing up and when I was an adult. When you’re telling a story you’re telling a story using the tools. You don’t use the tools to tell a story. George Lucas.
It is, and not a very good one. Each scene they recreate is just a shallow reflection of what came in the original without bothering to earn the plot point or exposition. It makes no sense that the First Order would be able to build Starkiller Base in secret, it makes no sense for Rei to think Luke is just a myth, it makes no sense for Luke to just run away after one student turned evil (his reasoning in the Last Jedi doesn't count, that wasn't written yet). JJ is one of the worst directors working in hollywood today. He's not even interesting when he's bad like Zack Snyder is, he's just bland and shallow.
Max von Sydow......!! He'll bring some gravitas to the film! .....no? OK.....Daniel Craig? 007? Wow! .......yeah too much!.........Wait a minute!! Simon 'Pegging' Pegg in a fat and ugly gimp suit being absolutely talentless? Awesome! JJ knows talent!
U🤫 gotta be the wrong kinda high to say that ludicrously silliness. Prequels offered synergy to the Original Trilogy while the sequels offer disjointed, uninspired, derivations. Sell me what you inhaling 😂🤣🫡
Yes, yes it is. Give me the massively controversial but at least legitimately new & exciting Rian Johnson's The Last Jedi over this bland, reductive crap any day of the week. 🤷 At least TLJ made me actually feel something. J.J. is always at his absolute WORST when working with pre-existing IP ala Star Wars or Star Trek.
I can't believe they didn't go with that original opening scene. It would have been so much better and started the film off in exactly the right way.
Agreed!
I was 8 in 1977. I can clearly remember seeing Star Wars (I still think of it as that, rather than "A New Hope". 😁) at the cinema. It completely blew my mind!
That opening shot of the star destroyer...I'd never seen anything like that!!
I still haven't.
Game changer!
such a beautiful memory, good sir 😲🫡
JJ basically remade a New Hope twice. Once as Star Trek 2009 and again as 2015 Force Awakens. He is a one trick pony.
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He also has a tendency to have a good start and a bad ending in a lot of his projects.
And it's a trick he copied from someone else.
how is "Star Trek" from 2009 similar to "A New Hope"?
Abrams is the very definition of a hack.
I love comparisons like this. I find that remakes/reboots are some of the best ways to learn about storytelling because the differences are so fine. You notice stuff you otherwise wouldn’t. Like there are great things about Psycho (1960) that even the biggest fans won’t appreciate until they see the remake of it.
I love this channel. As a screenwriter it helps a lot to get insight as to what could’ve been and to be able to compare it to what we got.
Thanks! Glad you find it helpful too! Enter any screenwriting contests this year?
@@Bulletsandblockbusters I’n not really interested in that route. I want to be a director too, so I plan on making a short (like 5-7 mins) horror movie to show that I’m at least capable of the basics of directing. I think it’s much easier to stand out with that then trying to compete against thousands of screenplays. I think of how that Lights Out movie was made from a TH-cam short. Also that Smile movie from a few months ago was largely greenlit off of two quick horror shorts the director made. I’m 100% confident in the few screenplays and ideas I have, I just want to direct them too so I’m going the long way round.
That’s awesome. Good luck my friend. I’ll be here to critique your movie once you’re famous haha
@@Bulletsandblockbusters yep. I will revisit this comment in a few years hopefully.
Great content! I preferred the original opening to The Force Awakens, where Luke Skywalker's lightsaber floats aimlessly through space while still in the clutches of his perfectly preserved severed hand. As it enters Jakku's atmosphere, it picks up speed, effectively transforming itself into a sort of makeshift anvil torpedo which lands on Rey's head with the force of a thousand moons, killing her instantly.
HAHAHAH
Even though I agree that the prequels did overuse CGI a bit, they still have *ton* of practical effects that people tend to overlook. The practical effects in the PT are just a lot more subtle than in the OT or ST.
100% I think they look better in phantom menace though because that one was shot on film while the two other ones were shot on early HD cameras, which makes a lot of the vfx look “faker”
@@Bulletsandblockbusters Fair enough. Plus, while all of the prequels use tons of miniatures and other practical effects, TPM used the most real sets and practical explosions of the PT to my knowledge. Also, and I'm pretty sure TPM is the SW movie with the most puppets in it. We all know about Yoda being a puppet in the theatrical version, but a couple of the podracers were puppets and at least one of the Naboo sea creatures is a puppet.
I always think it's funny how JarJar said he wanted to reintroduce star wars in a familiar way...by literally remaking the first movie.
Haha yup
I just watched, like, 10th video from you. I love your content on "What could have been..." on Batman, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Alien, The Hobbit, Ghostbusters.
I even remember reading about Ghostbusters 3's plans by Dan Aykroyd in early days of Internet in 2000s. I also read the Alien: Engineers script. It was entertaining to see your detailed update on all these.
It's surprising that there are so low Likes and Subscribes. I just did both. Wish you much success! 💙💯
Thank you!!! Happy to have you aboard.
You know. I believe Force Awakens was just a soft reboot/loose remake of A New Hope. It did bare a couple of similarities. Rey living on the desert planet Jakku was written to mirror the beginnings of Anakin and Luke Skywalker's journeys as they both lived on the desert world Tattooine and that's where their adventures began.
There was a review by DX which comes to mind, you can’t replicate the same scenes / plot with different characters cause the context will be different.
It’s unfortunate how messy the sequels are as films. Most of the force awakens problems happen in the 3rd act, feeling very similar to ep4 but in doing so hampers it’s own story. Arguably once star killer fired the issues started to become more pronounced but yeah, really unfortunate. They cared more about being like the originals than doing something with their own story and it suffered for it.
I actually loved the cgi and green screen of the Prequels. It’s what made them stand and bring out character
There’s absolutely nothing unique about the sequel trilogy. Just a Disney crappy remake.
Thank you for using the pre-special edition footage of the first film. Small detail, but people need to understand that 1977 Star Wars is the ONLY Star Wars.
Agreed!
It's *A New Hope* Star Wars is the franchise.
@@نادرالیراحمان The movie that played in theaters in 1977 was titled "Star Wars." It has later come to be called "A New Hope" or "Star Wars: A New Hope" or "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope," but none of those were its original title. It's not wrong to refer to this movie by any of those newer titles, but it's also not wrong to refer to it simply as "Star Wars," especially if you're talking about its original theatrical release.
Really solid comparison and analysis!
Thanks!
Same can be said with Terminator 1 and Terminator 2. They both have beginning fight scene with thugs to get clothes, motorcycle chase scene, truck chase, shoot out with police,factory scene ending.
Except T2 is good and TFA isn't
there are similarities because it's the same scenario: another droid sent back in time to kill somebody, police involved, chases, etc; nobody wanted/expected the SAME scenario of SW'77 in 2015...it's a Galaxy, FFS, not LA.
A new Star Wars B&B vid?
A surprise to be sure… But a welcome one!
Haha how many times can I shit on Disney before my fans get bored?
@@Bulletsandblockbusters hey man, making fun of them is the only way they entertain us these days. So keep it up until they figure out how to make decent content.
Done and done!
1977 > 2015
Yep when I saw this movie the first time I literally said this was nothing more than a reboot point for point but different characters and still feel this way now
1:20 I *was* fortunate enough to see Star Wars in 1977, and there's no need to explain to me "the sheer awe that swept over audiences." 🙂
The Starkiller Base cannon destroying six or seven planets in one blast was over the top. Like, way-over the top of the top.
At least the sequels made me like the prequels more.
Maybe Jar Jar wasn't really that bad...
Did this channel used to be called bullets and rum? As someone who watches too much TH-cam this is quality content and you have a great cadence in your delivery. I could see this channel blowing up anytime.
Yup! Changed the name to better represent the content. And thanks!!!
Ok, I need to correct you, because this has long since been debunked. The Prequels didn't overuse CGI. They used more practical effects than CGI.
Just because blue screen and green screen was used does not equal CGI. The scenes where they used blue and green screen were imposed over miniatures.
Even The Originals used a lot of blue screen.
You can easily find all the photos and videos of practical effects used. One of the guys from Mythbusters worked on the miniatures. In behind the scenes commentary on Revenge of the Sith the person head of the miniatures who works on Star Wars since ep4 talks about how actually The Prequels used more miniatures than the Originals.
It's like a cover of poetry. And you know the thing about poetry: "It rhymes".
In this case, crappy poetry.
@@tyrannozilla The real quality of the poetry is up for debate. As it started, TFA seemed more like an homage than a remake in disguise. The characters were very interesting, their dynamics were on point, etc. Everything looked like a great setup for a very exciting and different trilogy. The whole thing with the Starkiller Base annoyed me quite a lot - “Do we really need another Death Star raid?” - but while the ships were attacking, another story was developing in parallel, that had a promise to be very good, and I forgave this unnecessary plot point. Neither did I know that this would be the least annoying and unnecessary plot point in this whole trilogy…
I would’ve preferred it if The Force Awakens was a 100% remake of A New Hope like some commenters call the film as it would’ve done done properly everything that A New Hope does properly. This is as opposed to the film we got, which tries to emulate A New Hope with slight yet significant changes that are ultimately for the worse, like the convoluted writing of starting at Jakku yet immediately flying back to Jakku and Han Solo not mentoring Rey in the way that Obi-Wan did before dying.
Alright 🤘What a *EXCELLENT* analysis 👏...Kudos to you sir
Thank you kindly!
There are 3 Star Wars movies, and 3 Indiana Jones movies.
FA was not good, it was corporate vandalism. Every character in it was not a new character, but just an extremely simplified variant of the OG ones wearing skinsuits. The movie, and everything disney has been producing since, was made for simpletons.
Star Wars The Force Awakens is not the exact same story from A New Hope because they have exact same Death Star as same characters and Luke's introduction.
I grew up with the force awakens; I like to think of it was a “requal” a remake/sequel to reintroduce Star Wars to a new generation of kids!
Star Wars told a story. The Force Awakens presented us with a collection of story beats. There’s a big difference but don’t ask JJ to explain it to you.
Most people when the prequels came out "Oh No! Now we have to actually think!!"
Yes. Always has been. People just lived in denial until Honest Trailers did a side by side of both.
Imagining militarizing an entire planet just to see it be blown away because it was build with a fuse.
Excellent video. More evidence JJ is a hack. Lack of originality, favouring questions he hopes to never have to answer; a massive BS artist
True. Luke a macguffin. That never paid off. And RIan was like he didn't give a crap. The map to Luke Skywalker and First Jedi Temple. What was that all about. No he went to that Island to die. And to destroy the Jedi religion once and for all. Who was Rey, who were her parents. JJ had no answer until he shot the end of Rise of Skywalker. Not a very satisfying answer.
Agreed.
For you next Star Wars video after Rogue One you should do What Could've been: The Force Awakens
Short answer... Yes. Yes, it is.
I knew this movie was a ripoff when I saw the force awakens
1:51 It would've been cool if you also used Tiny Toons' "The audience is now deaf."
You have got to do videos on:
Edgar wright - Antman
Justic league 2,3
yes
Simple Answer: yes
A new hope is the quintessential story of good vs evil. For the life of me I can't understand why Disney didn't just pay the authors of the EU and continue the next trilogy with the Thrawn saga.
Star Trek 2009 is the best Star Wars movie JJ ever made.
Can’t argue with that
In a word: yes - modern and slightly out-of-order - but yes, around 80% identical tbh
Yes. Next question
Well, I think the Prequels are of course some of THE movies of all time!
In my opinion it didn't matter if the Force Awakens reminded me of Star Wars or not... I enjoyed the movie because it had some elements of Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi as well...
I just had to look at it in an alternate universe, and that is how I got over it...
I try to keep an open mind about movies.. Sometimes it works, and other times it does not
Actually, ep 7 works perfectly as a remake of all original trilogy. Think about it. The first half we have the search of a droid in the desert who carries valuable information, wich is basically the first act of a new hope. Then the second half starts with the heroes going to find help to a planet where a friend of han solo runs a businness, pretty much like the second act if empire strikes back in bespin. And it ends with someone being taken as well (rey instead of frozen han). Then of course, we have the final showdown in a giant planer killer superweapon, where a tiny group of heroes infiltrates to shut down the shield generator, while the heroe faces the dark warrior who messes with her feelings. That pretty much summarizes the final act of return of the jedi. Cause rey, just like luke, defeats the dark warrior, the superweapon is destroyed and the good guys win. Seriously, jj is a genius for doing all of this unporpuse xd. And i'm actually glad, cause he left the road clear for rian to make something entirely new, wich he did
I know this would probably never happen because the OG movies are sacred but I’d love to see the original trilogy be remade with modern cgi and practical effects. I imagine it would be similar to Rogue One in terms of cinematography.
It would be an interesting experiment. It reminds me of when they remade Psycho shot for shot with a new cast. Strangely, it didn't work as well as the original even though it was literally exactly the same.
In who’s hands though? Unfortunately, I guarantee you a modern remake would lose all of the heart and charm of the originals. We kind of know what remakes would look like - “The Force of the Last Skywalker”.
Agreed
Sounds awful. They're fine the way they are
I respectfully disagree with you. The Force Awakens isn't a rehash of A New Hope. It has already been done by Return of the Jedi. The Force Awakens is a rehash of Return of the Jedi.
1. Opening scene to TFA and ROTJ reminds us the might of the bad guys.
2. R2 and BB8 carry information about Luke Skywalker
3. R2 and BB8 are on a mission on a sandy planet where their counterparts have no idea about their real motives. (Finn is basically C3PO of TFA.)
4. Starkiller Base is another Death Star 2. Repeating another planet destroying weapon
5. Death of daddy: Vader and Han are visciously attacked by their sons.
6. Battle of Endor and Starkiller Base are just backdrop while our protagonists' fight takes main stage.
The Sequel trilogy is mostly forgettable. However, playing through this trilogy and the prequel trilogy in the Lego:The Skywalker Saga video game is a ton of fun!! Much better than the movies themselves.
les gooooooo
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Beat for beat it is!
*Subverts our expectations* -- yep..... what a stupid idea *that* was to spread around Hollywood. That's why everyone fahking quit on so many movie franchises... subversion.
Great video, but my guy, don't give credit where it's not due. Lucas had no idea Luke and Leia would be brother and sister when filming ANH.
Thank you for giving Finn the deserved praise. He was the only good character in this terrible movie.
He was awesome, then wasted in the sequels
@@Bulletsandblockbusters I mean, he repeated his arc verbatim in the Last Jedi...
Yup. Was dumb. His arc had a decent ending in the duel of the fates version of episode 9
I wouldn't call it a remake... but I was definitely calling the major story beats before they happened based on my knowledge of A New Hope.
Yeah, I’d call it a soft reboot
Holy crap I'm only halfway through the video but just hearing someone bring up the stark difference between the two films that are similar in so many ways you don't realize that while The Force Awakens isn't a bad film it's just clearly a middle if the road film when compared to A New Hope. In fact this video could be used in lecture as a compare contrast of two films to not say I'm biased and think the original is better. No you stack both films against each other and show this is what The Force Awakens lacks while A New Hope has it in spades. Truth be told if the Force Awakens was handed in as a final assignment it would probably be a C, because it technically has everything that you need but lacks a ton of things whereas A New Hope would be an A because it has everything and more.
In my opinion.... Not really. It's more a rehash and remix, but the similarities are still there.
And I'm sorry to all the Fandom Menacers and their "JarJar Abrams" ranting in the comments... But although I genuinely prefer the prequels as an adult, The Force Awakens is still one of the better Star Wars movies.
What I didn’t like about in particular was the powers of rey against Kylo but more importantly the first order destroyed 3 or more planets and all though star killer base was destroyed we are made to believe that Finn, Rey and the resistance fighters have one when billions of lives were extinguished. Plus I hate that Rey was so upset about Hans death and we barely get to see chewie being consoled or coming to term with it
Yes.
Hey, even if it is, I still enjoyed it
Just say yes
how it should've went: (Apologies if my Sequels knowledge is rusty, I haven't seen them in ages)
-In the starkiller base forest fight, since Kylo's arm is injured from Chewie's shot, he got a little weaker, so as Finn and Rey fight Kylo Ren, Rey gets the lightsaber, they duel for a bit, then Kylo Ren kills Rey in front of Finn, Finn then gets the lightsaber, he tries to attack Kylo but Kylo blocks the path with the force. Soon after Finn gets BB-8 to lead him to Luke himself, they both go to his home on that Island, Luke doesn't want them in his space, soon after Luke eventually trains Finn the ways of the force and becomes The Last Jedi. With Rey gone, all Finn has left are Poe, Leia and Chewbacca and of course Luke's ghost after he dies. Soon into the Rise of Skywalker, Kylo Ren turns to the light side, him and Finn turn to fight Palpatine's clone. Palpatine kills them both, but the Jedi force ghost then come out, Anakin Skywalker's ghost then kills Palpatine.
The end.
Please correct me if anything sounds wrong.
It didn’t take rocket science to do a sequel trilogy. But of course Disney shit the bed.
Remake? No. Direct plagiarization? YES
The weekend only Road off of the brand of Star Wars. Ended up in another movie, it would’ve been easily forgettable.
The Force Awakens is like a New Hope remake if a 6 year old did it.
*Who else wants Kathleen Kennedy fired?*
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This is why, even though, The Last Jedi had its flaws, there were some good writing in the film that differentiated the original trilogy
TFA was crap ..has always been crap.
All three of them are pretty much remakes, just done badly!
Jar Jar Abrams
...i think "Remake" is being too kind, how about "Rehash"...?
...Jedi Master Lucas made Six Excellent STAR WARS Films (actually, Nine, in my opinion!!!)
...Sithleen Kennedy made Five KNOCKOFF Flicks (so far)
《Animate The Lucas Sequels!!!》
Kennedy messed everything and i know frank marshal had to have flipped on her at least once over this id divorce her just for making luke drink that crap LMAO
a new hope a souless cash cow.
What if - and hear me out here - Star Wars was always a bit shit and never made much sense? And I don't say that to be condescending - I found it genuinely liberating when I came to the realisation that "oh, even the original trilogy was pretty crap, storytelling-wise, and I should really stop expecting these movies to be good."
I think the first two are solid, then Jedi feels a little less than before the prequels drive off a cliff. So ya, I hear you. I generally think it’s ridiculous considering we really only got two solid movies that have been holding up this IP ever since.
Just getting more angry with each video about how disappointing and uncreative the sequels were. The prequels were awful, but I came to that conclusion on my own. I never knew how to think about the Sequels, except that I didn’t feel much connection to them.
Can Lucasfilms redo the sequels or is it too late?
Too late
@@Bulletsandblockbustersit time for Star Wars to get a reboot just like how the transformers did
The sequels sucked. George Lucas never should have sold it.
Amen, man.
As blatant a remake as TFA was,....much worse was to come (TLJ and ROTJ)...
I agree Star Wars The Force Awakens was a cheap imitation of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope and the political situation in the galaxy didn’t even make any sense. I’m writing a Star Wars story and it deals with the light side and the dark side. The Star Wars story that I’m writing about is influenced my own life including real life events and the movies and tv shows that I loved and watched when I was growing up and when I was an adult. When you’re telling a story you’re telling a story using the tools. You don’t use the tools to tell a story. George Lucas.
Prequels were good.
Remake? No, lesser than that. I'm sure the word you were looking for there is _rehash._
It is, and not a very good one. Each scene they recreate is just a shallow reflection of what came in the original without bothering to earn the plot point or exposition. It makes no sense that the First Order would be able to build Starkiller Base in secret, it makes no sense for Rei to think Luke is just a myth, it makes no sense for Luke to just run away after one student turned evil (his reasoning in the Last Jedi doesn't count, that wasn't written yet). JJ is one of the worst directors working in hollywood today. He's not even interesting when he's bad like Zack Snyder is, he's just bland and shallow.
Force awakens = lazy writing.
It was Disney’s cash grab… they played it way too safe.
Max von Sydow......!! He'll bring some gravitas to the film! .....no? OK.....Daniel Craig? 007? Wow! .......yeah too much!.........Wait a minute!! Simon 'Pegging' Pegg in a fat and ugly gimp suit being absolutely talentless? Awesome! JJ knows talent!
Yes it is, but not nearly as good.
The Force Awakens was a huge letdown. And completely absurd.
I thought ALL 3 were some side hustle remakes.. the stories are qiite similar.. pretty boring.
Force Awakens is uninteresting and boring
Only 3 Star Wars films for me
Same thing but 77 version is the Real deal while Shitney Star Wars is trash
I like the prequels
Force Awakens is my 3rd favourite Star Wars movie
The sequels are still better than the prequels.
disagree
No
@@Lance37a Yes.
U🤫 gotta be the wrong kinda high to say that ludicrously silliness. Prequels offered synergy to the Original Trilogy while the sequels offer disjointed, uninspired, derivations. Sell me what you inhaling 😂🤣🫡
@@licowumaccabee7789 Synergy? Another poor argument to defend poor writing. The prequels are far worse than the sequels.
Yes, yes it is. Give me the massively controversial but at least legitimately new & exciting Rian Johnson's The Last Jedi over this bland, reductive crap any day of the week. 🤷 At least TLJ made me actually feel something. J.J. is always at his absolute WORST when working with pre-existing IP ala Star Wars or Star Trek.
yes