30th Anniversary of Star Wars

[JustJon]

30 years ago today, a film that was expected to be a small, throw away pulp sci-fi movie opened to lines around the corner at Grouman's Chinese Theater.

Star Wars turned into a cultural phenomenon that continues to endure today.

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I think I need to watch it again tonight.

[PapaBear]

Even in a little town like Winchester, the lines were unbelievable. I saw it on an old school large movie screen. One of the really big ones. I made the mistake of sitting in the front row. I could barely walk after the movie.

[drusilla]

do they have a $250 dvd boxed set of everything yet?

the only boxed set i have is the original vhs one. before the remastering & i dont even have a vcr to watch it on.

[BeerBandit]

So who all's going to pop it in and watch tonight?

I will. Married 5 years, never watched it with my chick.

[Hottub]

I saw it at the ONLY theater in Jersey that had 70mm and Dolby stereo.
When the 10 plex was still a 3 plex.


Oh yeah. $1,559 :wallbash:

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[Marc with a c]

this should be in mom's basement

[reillyluck]

i will be wearing my Princess Leia outfit tonight.

[King Hippos Bandaid]

Nice, Me and Star Wars, 2 Great things that Happened in 1977

:king:

[MadMatt]

Nice, Me and Star Wars, 2 Great things that Happened in 1977

:king:

Get of of my lawn!!!

Damn kid...

[weekapaugjz]

i will be wearing my Princess Leia outfit tonight.

wow! great mental image. are we going to get any pics?

[MadMatt]

"That's no moon. It's a space station."

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[Tenbatsuzen]

i will be wearing my Princess Leia outfit tonight.

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/1064/olivialeia1or3.th.jpg (http://img267.imageshack.us/my.php?image=olivialeia1or3.jpg)

Olivia Munn has you beat, dear.

[BeerBandit]

Nice, Me and Star Wars, 2 Great things that Happened in 1977

:king:

Make that three. :clap:

[Gvac]

I was never a big Star Wars fan, but I did see the 3 original movies in the theater. I hadn't seen them since, nor had I seen the 3 latest installments until recently. HBO was showing all 6 of them and I was home sick from work so during the course of the week I had the opportunity to see them all.

They all suck.

Seriously.

The writing is awful and the acting is embarrassing.

Even for sci-fi flicks they're bad.

I don't know what you Star Wars geeks see in these movies.

[MadMatt]

I was never a big Star Wars fan, but I did see the 3 original movies in the theater. I hadn't seen them since, nor had I seen the 3 latest installments until recently. HBO was showing all 6 of them and I was home sick from work so during the course of the week I had the opportunity to see them all.

They all suck.

Seriously.

The writing is awful and the acting is embarrassing.

Even for sci-fi flicks they're bad.

I don't know what you Star Wars geeks see in these movies.

Looking at them NOW they may not be that great, but in 1977 Star Wars was revolutionary. For the time it was a grand turnaround, pulling Sci-Fi out of the B-Movie era and into the realm of popular mass-culture.

OK, so "2001: A Space Odyssey" was a better movie that came out a decade earlier - but it didn't have cool fight sequences or light sabres.

[J.Clints]

Monday on the history channel there will be a show about star wars on.

[Mike Teacher]

I was never a big Star Wars fan, but I did see the 3 original movies in the theater. I hadn't seen them since, nor had I seen the 3 latest installments until recently. HBO was showing all 6 of them and I was home sick from work so during the course of the week I had the opportunity to see them all.

They all suck.

Seriously.

The writing is awful and the acting is embarrassing.

Even for sci-fi flicks they're bad.

I don't know what you Star Wars geeks see in these movies.

Pretty much Lucas' opinion of the first one all along.

As for 2001 not having fight sequences, true, but murder, plenty of murder.
2001 hasnt aged well recently either; Kubrick was ahead of his time but in his future it looked like The FOurth Reich and women seemed to exist just to serve food.

Anyone ever notice the dozens, literally dozens, of food/eating references, or shots, in 2001?

=

In November it's Close Encounters 30th; a far, far, far better movie, inexact and confusing in its original release, and RUINED by Speilberg when he re-cut it in 1980, it's still the one to beat for UFOs on the human-level, opposite of shit sandwiches like ID4 [an acronym I truly loathe; but I loathe the flick too, so...]

Watch Star-Wars, see how bad it is, agree with George, and then grab CE3K and be amazed and confused.

[JustJon]

Pretty much Lucas' opinion of the first one all along.



Nope, Lucas likes the first one. His least favorite is Empire Strikes Back, but mainly because Kirschner deviated from Lucas and made a better movie than the one Lucas wanted. Lucas has only stated that he didn't like the effects in the original because the technology didn't meet his vision.

Of course, this is all revisionist, and a book recently came out that really delved into the history. I picked it up but haven't read it yet.

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[reillyluck]

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/1064/olivialeia1or3.th.jpg (http://img267.imageshack.us/my.php?image=olivialeia1or3.jpg)

Olivia Munn has you beat, dear.

maybe so, but what i do with my lightsaber is my business. :wink:

[AnnoyedGrunt]

Nope, Lucas likes the first one. His least favorite is Empire Strikes Back, but mainly because Kirschner deviated from Lucas and made a better movie than the one Lucas wanted. Lucas has only stated that he didn't like the effects in the original because the technology didn't meet his vision.

Of course, this is all revisionist, and a book recently came out that really delved into the history. I picked it up but haven't read it yet.

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51+WGiSjdiL._SS500_.jpg


There's also a pretty good, free e-book tries to nail down the real origins of the series

http://secrethistoryofstarwars.com/

[Landblast]

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[booster11373]

True cultural phenomenon only because of constant marketing

Any joy that these movies gave as a child has been eroded away

[pennington]

I saw it at the ONLY theater in Jersey that had 70mm and Dolby stereo.
When the 10 plex was still a 3 plex.

The Stanley Warner Theater on Rt. 4 in Paramus, right?

I was in high school and that's where I saw it with 3 of my friends. The line went from outside the theater, across and around to the back of the carpet store that used to be next to the it. We even ate at Beefsteak Charlie's first which used to be a couple of buildings over in the parking lot.

It's hard to explain now, but even for people like me who weren't sci-fi geeks, it it really was exciting and loud and fast-paced like no other movie before it.

[Mike Teacher]

Nope, Lucas likes the first one.

Ugh I coulda sworn I remember him not liking something about the film, or how it had become a cultural phenom, I thought this was during the time of going back for the first time to add CGI to the 1977 version. Something about it not being worth the effort, that it was something he did to fulfill an idea he had early on, but he wanted to move on, to not keep going back to those prints. But I could be wrongy wrongerton again. Or wrong movie.

[TheRealEddie]

Boba Fett didn't die!!!

Tivo Alert: This discovery special sounds interesting

A few years ago I got back into SW after getting hooked on the World of Warcraft equivalent of Star Wars which was Star Wars Galaxies. No doubt theres something about the SW lore and universe that keeps me into the whole thing. The books are actually pretty good on the whole and keep the story line going beyond Return of the Jedi and also fill in backstory of events in the movie, for example, an explanation of the "dark side" cave on Dagobah and why Yoda as powerful in the force as he was was able to evade detection by the emperor and vader.

If you're looking for SW themed trashy sc-fi check out Timothy Zahn series the The Thrawn Triology...good stuff

[mdr55]

The books are actually pretty good on the whole and keep the story line going beyond Return of the Jedi and also fill in backstory of events in the movie, for example, an explanation of the "dark side" cave on Dagobah and why Yoda as powerful in the force as he was was able to evade detection by the emperor and vader.

Can you just save us the effort and tell us what it is???


Boba Fett was done after a blind Solo hit his jetpack and Fett "fell into" the Sarlac Pit! What the fuck was that about? He was supposed to be this bad ass bounty hunter and that's the way he went down in Jedi?? C'mon!! Bossk is the best baddest bounty hunter ever!

[TheRealEddie]

Can you just save us the effort and tell us what it is???


From wiki (which took this from the books, or otherwise known as the Expanded Universe (EU):
In the Expanded Universe, a Jedi of Yoda's race confronted a Bpfasshi Dark Jedi on Dagobah some millennia before the events in The Empire Strikes Back. Eventually, the Jedi defeated the Dark Jedi, who died on Dagobah. The cave where the Dark Jedi died became strong in the dark side of the Force, and Yoda used this spot to hide from the Emperor and Darth Vader.

Stories show Bossk as being somewhat inept and he met his demise by being turned into a rug after the Hound's Tooth was reprogrammed from a noob BH and a wookie.

Lucas is quoted as saying that had he known Boba Fett would become so popular he might have killed him in a more interesting way. Luckily he's alive and well in the EU...

[Tenbatsuzen]

Fett didn't die because you aren't "eaten" by the sarlacc. Threepio said you have a 1000 years of suffering, and he wasn't kidding - you actually become a part of the sarlacc to be slowly digested.

Apparently in the EU, Fett was starting to be digested before he fought his way out.

[weezcase]

best star wars books imo are the x-wing books by Micheal A. Stackpole and Aaron Alliston, they really capture the feel of the who rebellion and space combat, and there are like 12 of them that all run in sequence so they will keep you entertained for a good amount of time depending on how fast you read

Stackpole also has some really kick'n fantasy novels too, he is one of my favorite writers, check out talion revenant or dark glory war if you can find them

[docgoblin]

I really liked the Timothy Zahn books. The Thrawn series was excellent, but my favorites are Dark Force Rising and Specter Of The Past. Stackpole's X-Wing books are terrific as well. I wasn't crazy about The Han Solo Trilogy, or The Han Solo Adventures. The Lando Calrissian series was awful. I also liked Splinter Of The Mind's Eye by Alan Dean Foster. I remember my nerd friends and I thought that book represented the storyline for the second movie... Dumb nerds!

[TheRealEddie]

Apparently in the EU, Fett was starting to be digested before he fought his way out.

There's a series of books: The Bounty Hunters Wars which begins at the site of Jabba's sailbarge wreckage hours after it was destroyed.

[Fallon]

Tomorrow night on The History Channel is 'Star Wars Tech' and 'Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed'.

[Stankfoot]

Shouldn't this thread be in the Geek forum?

[cougarjake13]

Shouldn't this thread be in the Geek forum?

nah it was a movie so it fits in here

[Stankfoot]

i will be wearing my Princess Leia outfit tonight.


this one?

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or this one?

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[weekapaugjz]

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every nerds first wet dream

im just throwing in the episode IV. i haven't watched it in several years so i thought tonight would be as good of night as any.

[TheRealEddie]

Trailer for the CG Clone Wars TV series to come out was released...Looks great...

http://starwars.com/video/view/000478.html

[cougarjake13]

Trailer for the CG Clone Wars TV series to come out was released...Looks great...

http://starwars.com/video/view/000478.html

looks fucking bad ass

anyone know what time it will be on ????

[Don Stugots]

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/1064/olivialeia1or3.th.jpg (http://img267.imageshack.us/my.php?image=olivialeia1or3.jpg)

Olivia Munn has you beat, dear.

you can have whom ever that tramp is, but i will take Reilly any day of the week.

[TheRealEddie]

looks fucking bad ass

anyone know what time it will be on ????

Last time I checked the CG series was due out in 2008 and might have slipped even further. :unsure:

[ChimneyFish]

That looks pretty cool.

And Wookiepedia is a dangerous thing for a geek like me.
I went on there to look up who Bossk is, and 5 hours later I'm wondering what the hell I'm doing.

[cougarjake13]

That looks pretty cool.

And Wookiepedia is a dangerous thing for a geek like me.
I went on there to look up who Bossk is, and 5 hours later I'm wondering what the hell I'm doing.

god damn you

i just spent like 3 hours on that thing and i never knew it existed before

[ChimneyFish]

god damn you

i just spent like 3 hours on that thing and i never knew it existed before



Hahahaha!!!!:lol:
Sorry man. The first time I discovered it, I put in, I think, upwards of 8 hours just on the various Jedi I knew nothing about.

[A.J.]

I remember it was the first movie I wanted to go back and see again.

Hard to believe it's been 30 years.

[Fallon]

Vader sold out.

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[RingWraith]

Vader sold out.

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Was it a perfect pitch?????? Just wondering.

[ChimneyFish]

Was it a perfect pitch?????? Just wondering.

Had to be.



And I really dug that special the History Channel had on.

[TheMojoPin]

I fucking hated it. They might as well have called it "wanky crap to make George Lucas jerk off all over himself."

Here, I'll sum it up..."the Star Wars films are basically Cliff's Notes versions of several famous myths, films, books and social archetypes, just like thousands of other movies that have been made."

I'm not saying these films didn't have an impact, but goddamn, this particular special was such a weak sauce fluff piece that essentially said nothing except the painfully obvious. And for two fucking hours. Way to makes yourselves look like a joke, the HISTORY Channel. Put his garbage on something like Bravo or E!.

[ChimneyFish]

You do make a very good point.
But, admittedly, I'm a fanboy.


And I was drunk when I watched it.





Thanks for destroying all of my dreams.:smoke:

[Judge Smails]

I saw this on another site and I thought it was funny. Not worth a new thread so I figured I'd throw it in here.

So, is it a Star Wars character, a baseball player, or Thair food? Answers below in spoiler font.

Mee Krop
Admiral Schlei
Max Rebo
Van Lingle Mungo
Mungo Baobab
Kit Fisto
Bibb Falk
Larb
Dengar
Chalmun
Namtok
Choo-Chee Plah Ga-Pong
Putsy Caballero
Pote Snitkin
Sig Jakucki
Dud Bolt
Muddy Ruel
Kaeng Musuman
Pad See Ew
Ody Mandrell
Urban Shocker
Stass Allie
Voolvif Monn
Rad Na
Eppa Rixey
Sibby Sisti
Phat Kaphrao
Muftak
Pickles Dillhoefer
Fried Banana with Ice Cream
.
1. Thai food (Mee Krop)
2. Baseball player (Admiral Schlei)
3. <i>Star Wars</i> character (Max Rebo)
4. Baseball player (Van Lingle Mungo)
5. <i>Star Wars</i> character (Mungo Baobab)
6. <i>Star Wars</i> character (Kit Fisto)
7. Baseball player (Bibb Falk)
8. Thai food (Larb)
9. <i>Star Wars</i> character (Dengar)
10. <i>Star Wars</i> character (Chalmun)
11. Thai food (Namtok)
12. Thai food (Choo-Chee Plah Ga-Pong)
13. Baseball player (Putsy Caballero)
14. <i>Star Wars</i> character (Pote Snitkin)
15. Baseblall player (Sig Jakucki)
16. <i>Star Wars</i> character (Dud Bolt)
17. Baseball player (Muddy Ruel)
18. Thai food (Kaeng Musuman)
19. Thai food (Pad See Ew)
20. <i>Star Wars</i> character (Ody Mandrell)
21. Baseball player (Urban Shocker)
22. <i>Star Wars</i> character (Stass Allie)
23. <i>Star Wars</i> character (Voolvif Monn)
24. Thai food (Rad Na)
25. Baseball player (Eppa Rixey)
26. Baseball player (Sibby Sisti)
27. Thai food (Phat Kaphrao)
28. <i>Star Wars</i> character (Muftak)
29. Baseball player (Pickles Dillhoefer)
30. Thai food (Fried Bananas with Ice Cream)

[Doctor Manhattan]

Wasn't there going to be a big 30th anniversary edition of the Star Wars movies? I saw an image of a digital Yoda in Episode 1 (to replace the "younger yoda" puppet) and I heard about a bunch of changes that were going to be made (and piss off a bunch of fans) for a new set of movies.

It been a while since I paid money for these films, when will I get another chance?

[JustJon]

I'm sure you'll see new movie releases next year to coincide with the new tv show.

As an aside, I've decided to start selling my Star Wars collection. Two days in so far and a long way to go... (http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZjalazarQQfrppZ50QQfsopZ1QQfsooZ1QQrdZ0)

[Doogie]

best star wars books imo are the x-wing books by Micheal A. Stackpole and Aaron Alliston, they really capture the feel of the who rebellion and space combat, and there are like 12 of them that all run in sequence so they will keep you entertained for a good amount of time depending on how fast you read

Stackpole also has some really kick'n fantasy novels too, he is one of my favorite writers, check out talion revenant or dark glory war if you can find them

If you want a great series where authors are not contradicting each other check out the "New Jedi Order" series. Very dark. Very twisted. Got dark enough that Lucas himself had to interject and make it more "uplifting." Two words to sum it all up: Yuuzhan Vong.

[ChimneyFish]

Question from a person who has never gotten into anything in the whole EU, besides video games and Wookiepedia:

Where is a good place to start(post RotJ) so I can get into the whole Yuuzhan Vong thing????
From what I've read, it looks very interesting.

[Furtherman]

It been a while since I paid money for these films, when will I get another chance?

:laugh: So true... That leech Lucas has enough of my money.

[Doogie]

Question from a person who has never gotten into anything in the whole EU, besides video games and Wookiepedia:

Where is a good place to start(post RotJ) so I can get into the whole Yuuzhan Vong thing????
From what I've read, it looks very interesting.

Well it depends where you want to go. If you want to dive right into the New Jedi Order (aka NJO, the Yuuzhan Vong series), start R. A. Salvatore's "Vector Prime." But I warn you that there are many many characters in that book that came along before this series.

A lil real world history...when they first licensed the books to be written the publishing house was Bantam Spectra. The authors were allowed to do almost anything they want and sometimes seemed to do different things with the characters (ie. Luke one book has free reign of powers, next book he has little.) All of the Bantam Spectra books take place in the Star Wars universe after the end of Return of the Jedi, 4 years after the Battle of Yavin (better referred to as 4ABY), and go all the way up to 25 ABY.

Then Del Rey books came in and created the NJO series. And the pre-requisite was that all the authors had to keep it consecutive, one after the other. The good thing about the NJO is that they do give a quick synopsis of each character in a book in case someone is reading for the first time, so you get a background. So yes, start with Vector Prime. Great fucking book, and a surprise at the end of that book. Very dark series. I loved it, especially the Opus of the series "Star by Star." Best fucking book. Very dark, mass deaths, fantastic...

If you wish to venture back into the Bantam Spectra books to get a further understanding of what went down before the NJO, start with the Thrawn series. The three books are "Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, and The Last Command." Brilliantly written by Timothy Zahn, and once the X-Wing Series came out, you see a good collaboration and integration of the characters from both series (the series run somewhat parallel in the star wars chronology, but were published sepearately.) The next books are the X-Wing series. I personally like the Stackpole Xwings better, but they are good overall.

The Next book to parouse next would be "The Truce at Bakura." That book actually takes place starting one day after the end of Return of the Jedi. Now that I think about it, you might want to start with that first to be chronologically correct. But I feel it isnt as powerful as Timothy Zahn's series. The next books to read after all those are "Spectre of the past", and "Vision of the Future." Great duology that is a nice transition to the NJO. A lot of the other singular books from the Bantam era are so-so. I read them all and rarely go back and re-read some of those, and I include Kevin Anderson's Jedi Academy series. Talk about a comic guy gone amok into the book world...

I know what I have laid out here seems overwhelming, but to sum up I suggest go with the NJO and get the book "The New Essential Chronology"in case you need to refer back to something mentioned in the NJO. The NJO is great and ends in a way that is pretty fucking good. The only dissapointment I have with the series came years later when I found out there was a trilogy planned (some authors did 3 books in a row within the NJO, all part of the chronology too) but it was Lucas himself that stopped it cause the series was getting "too dark." It was a book with promise that would have of elaborated on some characters but was stopped.

That is my recommendation on how to attack the EU.

[JustJon]

I read quite a few of the Bantam books (hell, I may be dumping those soon too), but the thing with the majority of them is that they suck. The original Thrawn series is just ok. Then you have the Courtship of Princess Leia - where Leia almost marries Fabio, the Jedi Trilogy - where Luke trains the X-Men, the Han Solo Trilogy - where the villain of the piece is Han Solo's evil twin cousin, etc.

The only Bantams that were good (didn't read the X-Wing series, so can't invclude those) was the Black Fleet crisis. A great war book set in the Star Wars universe.

[Furtherman]

Star Wars: The Clone Wars Trailer (http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809991325/video/7744414)

[conman823]

Star Wars: The Clone Wars Trailer (http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809991325/video/7744414)

I don't know.
Some impressions:
- I can do a better Sidious voice over.
- Didn't we have a clone wars series already?
- When will they animate some of the New Jedi Order stuff, at least its something new.
- Ill watch this just because its new Star Wars content in my life.
- Animation look great. Love to see more Dooku/ Ventress.