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I see what you did there, with that "Michael Caine's valet" thing. Well done.

And Lucas called it murder, but it was clearly self defense. Greedo had a gun on Han, and essentially said, "I'm about to shoot you." No jury in the galaxy would convict Han.

YES! I loved "Lapti Nek!" Not only that, but the original Sy Snootles was a truly impressive piece of puppeteering from the Jim Henson Creature Shop, and they just erased it in favor of some shitty CGI. Imagine how the puppeteers who worked on that scene must feel?

Yeah, the Jabba scene sucks for the reasons you mention. As a kid, I always loved that fact that we hear about Jabba in the first two films, but don't actually meet him until the third. It really builds up the anticipation. With the Jabba-in-the-landing-bay scene added back into Episode IV, it totally destroys that.

Biggs on Yavin is one of the only changes to the films that I like (the other is the cleaning up of some of the f/x in Empire, like the see-through dashboards of the snowspeeders). The Biggs scene on Yavin is brilliant, though, and Luke's reaction to Biggs' death makes so much more sense with that scene included.

John Landis? Is that you?

By the way, Pope Francis: I just looked at your avatar. Brilliant!

Ok, you both hate Star Wars. Get a room already!

That "I'll see you in Hell!" line spoken by Han raises all sorts of theology questions about the Star Wars universe.

If you don't like hearing nerds going on and on about things, you're on the wrong website.

If I ever finish working on my time machine, I'm going to make sure you get to write Episode III in the new timeline. You cool with that?

Yeah, it was my first Bond movie too, even though I never did become a huge fan. Still, I'll always love A View To a Kill for that bitchin' Duran Duran title song.

You've got it backwards. Alien: Ressurection is underrated, in my opinion anyway, but Alien3 is fucking awful. Not only is it boring compared to its two predecessors, but it completely shits all over the second film in its treatment of Newt. Remember how Ripley, and the audience, were so invested in Newt's survival?

I kinda liked Robocop 3. I mean, it was shit compared to the original, but it has some charm to it, and was certainly better than the godawful Robocop 2.

Hey-oooo!

YES! The snowspeeder's transparent dashboard annoyed the hell out of me as a kid, as did the sort of halos around the TIE Fighters and asteroids in the asteroid belt sequence. Cleaning up those f/x was one of only two good changes in the "Special Editions" (the other was the restoration of the moment in Star Wars

My 8-year-old niece just saw the trilogy for the first time, and she loves them. So do a lot of her and my nephews' classmates.

Yeah, I hate to say it, but that's absolutely true. I still love it on some level, but yeah…it doesn't hold up as well as I thought it would.

It has one of my favorite, and most often quoted, movie lines: "Even in the future, nothing works!"

Some think that, per the prequels, all Stormtroopers should look like that Maori guy who played Jango Fett. (I'm glad they abandoned that, personally).