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most of my friends do. They’re pretty old films,

others that I wouldn’t have even expected though.

will they stand up to my lofty modern standards?

The final fight scene has Biggs and Wedge in it!

I have my doubts at the starting stage, let’s see

I’ve been a Final Fantasy fan for decades and I’d

if that changes as I watch through the films.

never realised that duo was an homage. There’s a
storage box in one scene that looks exactly like a

Part V: The Viewings

Weighted Storage Cube from Portal. The seemingly

but not inherently bad or good which fits more

DID YOU KNOW?
During the lightsaber duels in The
Phantom Menace, Ewan McGregor
made lightsaber sounds that had to
be removed in post-production.

in my mind. The “noooo” moments seemed a
bit forced but didn’t really detract from the film
for me. CG Yoda looks great, I think I prefer him
to puppet Yoda who looks a bit Henson-esque

simple English phrase “I have a bad feeling about

The films seem to have dated incredibly well.

this” seems to have originated from this very film.

Sure, special effects have moved on a bit, but they

is the sheer amount of other entertainment that

It’s astonishing just how many other creators

don’t feel like they’re all that old really. One of

references Star Wars. It’s everywhere and I never

borrowed elements of George Lucas’ universe.

So, the first thing that’s struck me watching this

realised it. There’s the obvious influence on other
science fiction of course. Han is kind of a bit like

I watched the 2003 remastered versions on

Han didn’t shoot first. For me, if he had, then I’d

my friends had previously told me that Star Wars

have to accept him as totally immoral and then his

“Isn’t a sci-fi film” and I wasn’t really sure what he

sudden reappearance at the end of the film would

meant. As far as I was aware, it was set in space

Zaphod Beeblebrox in Hitchhiker’s Guide. I can see

DVD and I’m aware there’s a number of changes

have been less believable. Instead, having him ready

with robots and starships etc so it’s clearly a sci-fi.

elements of C3PO in Marvin from the same book

that have been made in the films. I was keen to see

to shoot but not shooting until he had to made him

I see what he meant now, it’s a montage of multiple

as well as Kryten in Red Dwarf. There’s loads of

if anything seemed off to me. I think it’s right that

into a character who is capable of doing bad things

film styles which happen to be set in space! There

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