The end with Vader slicing and dicing all of the Rebels was the stuff out of radio dramas, books, etc. We had always heard about how ruthless Vader was killing all of the rebels. To see it play out on the screen made me grin ear to ear.
The rest of the movie was meh.
Logan’s Run-A+. 70s dystopia along the lines of The Omega Man and Soylent Green, but more escapist. The society is perfect, of course…but there’s one catch. The 70s feel of the film is palpable, but that’s what makes it so intriguing (to me, anyway). Jerry Goldsmith delivers a wonderful score.
Strangers on a Train-A. Hitchcock from 1951. Interesting. The bad guy is a real weirdo. To me, not as good as the Hitchcocks with Bernard Herrmann on board.
Lord Haseo said:
Ever since then the obsession has taken hold of me and has been steadily increasing to the point of being unhealthy.
Hehe…welcome to the club!
Just found out from Amazon it pulls $55 new today, so not that rare–but I thought it was! TM
Interestingly, it was another kid’s mom who sent the Original Trilogy home with me and my brother because she wanted us to see it. The purchase happened soon afterwards.
One of my favorite possessions is a Star Wars comic book I got when I was a kid. Perfect condition, had the complete movie in comic book form, 1st printing in 1977–and my mom picked it up for 10 cents at a book sale.
I was born in 1990 and my childhood was an OT paradise. There were playsets (Death Star, Hoth base, etc.) with bullets that fired when you touched the back of them (same for the toy Millenium falcon). There was the 1995 Faces trilogy to grow up on with exceptional quality on VHS. There were the toy lightsabers so heavy they could kill a kid (I remember the first time I saw the wimpy little sticks kids were playing with and I thought “We had it good”).
And all the kids talked about it. 1990s boy’s upbringings were all basically the same, we were all raised on Star Wars. Cool? Definitely.
-TM
“I want to know what happened to the 8-track tapes they sent you.”
That would have dated it.
It was below-par for the DVD format unless the year was 1998-1999.
They should have left the originals alone in the first place! I haven’t seen the OT in six years because the originals are no longer accessible.
The OOT is available pretty cheap on amazon. They were out for a long time so they aren’t even that rare.
But that’s just VHS/laserdisc releases and the GOUT, which I already have.
I think the worst part about the GOUT (2006) is that they were packaged as disc 2 and labeled “bonus disc.”
I would think:
-Star Wars (original cut)
-Empire Strikes Back (original cut)
-Return of the Jedi (original cut)
-Caravan of Courage
-Battle for Endor
-The Force AwakensIf you wanted to do an alternate-quality marathon, you could try:
-The Phantom Menace
-Attack of the Clones
-Revenge of the Sith
-The Holiday SpecialEach set you’ll notice has its own flavor. Namely, one set is good and another is not so good, or rather, bad.
Your first set puts the best movies first, while your second set puts the best movie last. While I can appreciate the concept of a “worst of the worst” Star Wars marathon, you’ve got to put that sort of marathon in order of quality so that you can bail out at any point, knowing it would have only gotten worse if you’d kept watching.
So I’d recommend going straight chronological on that one too, so that you have the chance to hear Leia sing, but have the option to quit before the marathon hits rock bottom with ROTS.
That the Star Wars prequels are all worse than the Holiday Special is a position I’m not willing to take yet.
I would think:
-Star Wars (original cut)
-Empire Strikes Back (original cut)
-Return of the Jedi (original cut)
-Caravan of Courage
-Battle for Endor
-The Force Awakens
If you wanted to do an alternate-quality marathon, you could try:
-The Phantom Menace
-Attack of the Clones
-Revenge of the Sith
-The Holiday Special
Each set you’ll notice has its own flavor. Namely, one set is good and another is not so good, or rather, bad.
“Robin Hood-Men In Tights” (1993). Very funny. The lame Errol Flynn impression is almost as good as Prince John or the Sheriff of Rottingham. Girl is hot. Very good all around. TM
I would be very curious as to what NTSC DVD trilogy version of the 97 SEs, with the proper colors, is available, with as high resolution as possible. Maybe there is an impending release. TM
He managed to lock himself out of his original account, or something like that. The 37 is new but the Trooperman is not.
Right. My avatar is even the same-the yellow stormtrooper from Empire Strikes Back. It was that movie that made me fall in love with filmmaking back in 2001-I saw the carbonite scene and replayed it over and over and said, “This is good.”
By the way, I really like the new forum design. Very much in the same spirit as the old software. TM
I arrived in early 2005. The place was already thriving. Jay has done a real service to everyone by allowing this to flourish. I learned the art of filmmaking on this site, including actually being coached by working screenwriters (Star Wars fan of course). What a wonderful place for a teenager to grow up. Thank you, Jay, and all those who have made this such a wonderful place over the years.
-TM
GL tinkered with TESB between the 70 mm interpositives and the 35 mm interpositives. Likely they needed the 70 mm before he was truly done with the film and he had some additional time to fine tune (like virtually all movies go through before release). There is no evidence he touched either version after it was in release. And what edits to TPM are you speaking of? I’m aware of some edits to ATOC between the 35 mm distribution and the digital distribution (the digital one is basicly the DVD).
TPM used to feature a shot of Maul tumbling down the reactor shaft in one piece. It was quickly swapped out with a shot of two pieces to indicate he was dead.
I didn’t even remember the edits to AOTC but as you said, that was not a change midstream but changes that corresponded to the format of release.
I’m just saying it wouldn’t have been out of character if something like the grappling hook scene was inserted for opening day and then taken out, that’s all I’m saying. The man has a history. But maybe Star Wars escaped last-minute changes except for the various audio mixes.
Not being alive at the time, I can neither confirm nor deconfirm😉
Maybe it didn’t happen, but people are discrediting what are now many, many people who remember this scene rather than suspecting…the master tinkerer GL who is recorded as having altered both ESB and TPM very soon after release.
I have heard first-hand from a die-hard fan that on opening day, there was a grappling hook missed scene and williams’ score was looped in and around that area.
I am not saying what is and isn’t true, but isn’t it odd that we are more suspicious of many people who remember the grappling hook scene than of the man who was PROVEN to have altered TPM right after its release, who puts changes into each home video release, who purportedly isn’t happy with anything until the very last minute (who put changes into the 35mm release of ESB, PROVEN).
-TM
Have a blessed Memorial Day.
John Doom said:
I want to believe: I knew Lucas was actually an alien, this explains everything from Jar-jar slowly taking on the Senate, to the alien in Indy 4!They’re his movies and he can do what he wants to with them.
THIS IS BECOMING MORE ANNOYING THAN A HUMAN THAT THINKS HES A COMPUTER
Hehe…well it’s his account and he can do what he wants with it😉
But no, GL just had to replace the voice. It was so incredibly important and necessary!!!
They’re his movies and he can do what he wants to with them.
(crosses arms stubbornly)
John Doom said:
I want to believe: I knew Lucas was actually an alien, this explains everything from Jar-jar slowly taking on the Senate, to the alien in Indy 4!
They’re his movies and he can do what he wants to with them.
TIE FIGHTER was a really great game for DOS/Windows in the 90s. I spent hours in front of it. Whoever designed the game really understood Star Wars and what makes it cool.