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Harrison Ford's Feelings about the Holiday Special — Page 2

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I put the Holiday Special on yesterday. I haven't seen it since about 1994. And I have to say it makes me cringe so much. It's like watching a film where all the stars are contracted to do it and clearly non of them want to be there and are just going through the motions. (is this the case?)

I must say I don't really know much about the 'why'.

Also, lets hope that the make-up artist on the Holiday Special is no longer in the business. Did they own shares in an eye-liner company?! Blimey!

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Originally posted by: battlewars
so adam when did you become interested in the holiday special?

Well, I had heard of it for a long time, but first watched it last March. I first got a copy from e-bay, thinking the thing was rare. HA! I payed $30 for the thing, which I later found out was a copy of Rikter's first transfer (sorry Rik). I became obsessed with it, and have watched it around 100 times since then. And so I read everything I could about it, both on the net, and from old magazine articles. I was overjoyed when I found this site, where I was able to get a copy of the KCCI transfer.

Originally posted by: Jambe Davdar
Also, lets hope that the make-up artist on the Holiday Special is no longer in the business. Did they own shares in an eye-liner company?! Blimey!


A little known piece of trivia is that Stan Winston created the wookiee costumes for the special.
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I would like to see an official release of Holiday Special, though I dont think I would watch it as it a struggle to sit through I would just like to have it for the novelty value. I know Lucas hates it with a passion and wont but the Ewok movies arent exactly good so I dont see how it could hurt.
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Originally posted by: Mr Bungle
but the Ewok movies arent exactly good


I wouldn't say that. The Ewok films are designed to specifically be children's/family films. Comparing them to the theatrical films does not work. They are two totally different things. The Ewok films are just "sidequels," so I don't think they should be compared to say, ESB... or even TPM.
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I actually really liked the Ewok movies when I was a kid. Not anywhere near a scale that you could measure the OT. That was always a universe away. It seems retarded now, but I guess I have to admit that maybe, just MAYBE, if I had been a kid when the prequels came out I MIGHT have liked them. MIGHT. And it only may have been like, not love.

George Lucas you have been responsible for so much turmoil within my soul.
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Yeah, I do actually. I rarely watch them tho.
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I do as well. Except I watch them as regularly as I do Episodes I-VI.
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That scares me in many ways.

And I don't scare easily.
There's good in the Original Trilogy, and it's worth fighting for.
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No need to be alarmed. I watch them because they are fun and uplifting, yet they aren't stupid like a lot of modern kids movies. A lot of the more modeernkids/family films try to be too clean about things, while the ewok films still have that darkness to them.

Plus, I mean, it's Star Wars. That fact alone should explain it.
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I feel that Harrison Ford feels a slight discontent about his early blockbuster films, and I belive that a man who feels like that would NEVER play Indiana Jones again, not with the same spirit anyway. Is it me, or is Harrison Ford THIS close of becoming a post-1978 Marlon Brando?
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