Chat corner 30: A New Hope

[annathecrow]

Welcome to this week’s chat corner!

Optional prompt

This week’s topic, should you accept it, is “Star Wars: A New Hope”. The very beginning of everything!

Have you seen it? (I think it’s perfectly possible to be a SW fan without seeing the OT, for the record!) Was it your first SW? What made you watch it? How old were you?

…did you like it? Do you like it now, if your first watch was a long time ago?

 

Comments

[annathecrow]

Me and my little brother had a VHS set as well, although ours was... either late 90s or early 00s, I can't recall. We used to quote it at each other as well, although I've forgotten all of that by now.

I was always so confused by the whole SW "improvement" thing! I still don't know what changed when and how the movie looked originally, and at this point I'm too afraid to look it all up. XD

[yourlibrarian]

Being an older film, it could definitely use some improvement in remastering, particularly for the SFX sections. But Lucas decided to change certain things and insert some previously deleted content. I can't say I minded getting deleted stuff back but you've probably heard of the big controversy over the Han and Greedo scene.

I know that in 2019 when I saw ST: TOS remastered it made me quite happy, because I'd seen some older versions where, for example, there was a semi white box around the Enterprise in all its external shots, making the effects they had really obvious and clunky.