Star Wars: EPISODE III Thread

[Blackthorne]

Perhaps final resting proof that Lucas is completely bonkers, I present to you...

Lifeday - The Star Wars Holiday Special.

Warning: This may be the worst thing you'll ever watch.

It was the 70's, man!

Bt

[Ponch]

Lifeday!

God, I remember the Holiday Special. As a kid, my love of Star Wars was so great that even the awful, awful Holiday Special couldn't dim it. I look back on it now and I giggle at how BORED Harrison Ford looks and how high Carrie Fisher is. Mark looks pretty high (and painted up like a cheap whore) but I think he was on pain killers at the time.

Wookiee VR cybersex! Hee Hee!

Oh, and so as not to derail this thread completely, I really like Episode III. Obi Wan is the man! It still didn't have the impact that the first ones did, though in fairness, I was just a kid when they came out.

Still, watching that "A long time ago..." come up on the screen for the last time ever, I couldn't help but think that a door had closed in my life and that this moment might be the first step on the road to my mid-life crisis.

Sniffle.

[Potch]

Ha ha... even Lucas himself admits that the Holiday special was a big mistake.Ã,  I was reading an interview somwhere... I can't remember... but the interviewer asked him about the holiday special, and I guess Lucas got all flustered and was... well, we're just not going to mention that ever again or something like that.

By the way.. when I click on that link, all I get is a blank page. :-(

[Ponch]

I just clicked the link and I got the Holiday Special in quicktime goodness. Do you have quicktime installed? Or maybe the link was down for a while. As of this moment, it seems to be working just fine.

Try again. The Holiday Special is not to be missed! The power of Life Day compels you!

[Snarky]

Oh yes! The holiday special. Many drunken fond memories of it, I have.

It's truly a psychedelic experience. Bea Arthur singing schmaltzy show tunes to crappy-looking aliens in the bar on Tattoine? Check! Tiny holographic acrobats (clearly related to the little people who drive Naomi Watts insane in Mulholland Dr.) doing a sexually suggestive act in front of a grotesque muppet monster? Check! Luke Skywalker in drag? Check! A "hilarious" skit about house searches and police kidnappings, possibly inspired by Anne Frank? Check! Virtual Wookie porn? Check! Carrie Fisher coked up to her eyeballs? Triple-check!

I mean, this is the show where we learn Chewie has family members called Lumpy and Scratchy (sorry, Lumpy and Itchy), who live in a tackily decorated middle-class apartment inside a tree. The geniuses behind this 3-hour special decided to make all the main character Wookies, who DON'T SPEAK, and therefore spend most of the running time GRUNTING at each other. Monkeys throwing poo would have been far more exciting, not to mention intellectually stimulating.

And buried in the middle of this crapfest, a real golden nugget: an animated short in the style of Heavy Metal, featuring the first appearance of Boba Fett. (Later sampled to great effect by UNKLE: "You are alone?...Ã,  Maybe I can help you.")

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

What took me so long to post this...

http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=150

[Potch]

Ah.  Stupid quicktime... no don't have it installed.  I only have internet at work for the time being and they have all sorts of blocks on installing things, quicktime being one of those things.  So, unless there's a different format out there, then alas I will still not be able to see it.  *sniff*

[Ozwalled]

Perhaps final resting proof that Lucas is completely bonkers, I present to you...

Lifeday - The Star Wars Holiday Special.

Warning: This may be the worst thing you'll ever watch.

Is this the thing where Boba Fett was supposed to have made his first appearance?

Also, i'm guessing that what we're seeing there is just snippets of the full version, right? Otherwise, it's disgustingly disjointed.

[Pesty]

The full version is an hour and a half long (and you can get it here: http://www.blueharvest.net/video/original.shtml ). I tried to watch it all the way through, but every fifteen minutes I had to take a break because I could feel my brain trying to escape through my ears (seriously true).
I can truly say it's the most worst thing ever and it will make you cry. You can read reviews and they will agree with me and you'll be like me and think "Oh, golly, it couldn't be that bad!" but you are a naïve Pollyanna and a fool!!

I will never be the same. I am a hardened, soulless woman thanks to this crap. It's no wonder George Lucas wants to explode every copy in existance.

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

Not that he'll succeed, thanks to the miracle of the internet...

[Potch]

wow.  I had read all the reviews, and listened to all the warnings... and I still couldn't fathom that it would be THAT bad.  It's a Star Wars thing, so the fangirl in me REALLY wanted to like.  I mean, I REALLY wanted to find something good in it..... oh well.

[Gord10]

I have just seen the movie. Really impressive... I don't remember I had almost cried in the cinema before. (especially when Anakin fell into the lava and got burned)

[Tom S. Fox]

Does anybody wonder why Yoda speaks so funny?
I'm sure, he had an apoplexia.

[Phemar]

I wish there were other aliens of the same race as Yoda in Star Wars so we can see if they all speak funny.

[Blackthorne]

I wish there were other aliens of the same race as Yoda in Star Wars so we can see if they all speak funny.

Too much into this, you think.


Bt

[Babar]

there was, wasn't there? Yiddle or Yaddle or something. But I don't think he/she said anything.

[Blackthorne]

there was, wasn't there? Yiddle or Yaddle or something. But I don't think he/she said anything.

Yaddle, it was.  Weird looking bad puppet in Phantom Menace, she was.


Did anyone else think the Yoda puppet in Phantom Menace blew ass, by the way?  I like the digital Yoda much better.


Bt

[PsychicHeart]

Quote from 'The Simpsons: Mayored to the Mob':
Do it for Chewie and the Ewoks... and... all the other puppets....

[jetxl]

Does anybody wonder why Yoda speaks so funny?
I'm sure, he had an apoplexia.

I think it's because of Lucas obsession with Japaniese films.
In the english language, a sentence is build as Object-Verb-Object, while in japaniese a sentence is build as Object-Object-Verb.
Just like Yoda speaks (I think?)

[Kinoko]

Subject-verb-object and Subject-object-verb