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Episode 33 - Star Wars

AprecheApreche
edited December 2005 in GeekNights
Discuss the great movie trilogy here. It's our only hope to avoid the trap!

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  • TheWhaleSharkTheWhaleShark
    Greedo didn't shoot a goddamn thing.

    There is no further discussion.
  • ErwinErwin
    Reviving the holy trilogy by the sheer use of the geek force from this forum.
    I am watching the history channed docummentary of the Legacy revealed of Star Wars and I must say that it is most impresive.  Yesterday I marathon the original trilogy and today at my brother's birthday we did it again an my little causins that are 5 to 10 love these movies that are more than 20 years old. Why is that? why does these movies have that other movies from the past lack?
  • AprecheApreche
    Why is that? why does these movies have that other movies from the past lack?
    It's the same reason why Dick Tracy comics from 1931 are awesome and hardcore while Batman comics from the 60's are corny as all hell. Sometimes people make works of art that are truly timeless. It's just generally difficult to do so.
  • ErwinErwin
    I see, the first time I watcheed Star Wars was bak in 1989 and by that time it was a 10 years old movie and sadly I was the only one in my whole class that watched a long with ahother friend. IT looks like our parents where the only ones that let us stay until 12 a.m. on Sunday before a school day so we would watch Star Wars, I was in first grade at the time and I was 6 years old. My friend and I were the only ones that new about Star Wars until we were in 5th grade. Everytime I used to play at "lightsabers" with my friedn the rest looked at us weird and just went to play soccer. But once they were on 5th grade they were doing the same thing we were doing 4 years before and it was funny to see them but we still went and played with them, because the more the merrier right?
    So how was your first star wars experience?
  • tuttle88tuttle88
    edited June 2007
    Mine was at my friends 12th or 13th birthday. So that wouldn't have been until like 1995 or so. I come from a very un-geek culture family so came late to a lot of geekery. I also went to an all girls school and didn't have much to do with boys. I think back then it was just not 'done' for girls to like Star Wars et al. I hope things have changed for young girls. I should start a movement.

    On an unrelated matter I wish my laptop wasn't broken the guy that just sat at the computer next to me smells.
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  • raquorraquor
    "I FEEL THE CONFLICT WITHIN YOU LET GO OF YOUR HATE!"

    Ah...the corniest line in the entire Star Wars Mythos. How well ingrained in my head it became from the age of 12 to about 16 when the only Star Wars I knew of was "Return of the Jedi". I must've watched that one with or without my father a zillion times via a VHS tape my dad had made when it appeared on TV long ago (in a galaxy far away ;) ). I was stunned when I finally saw the entire trilogy, particularly the final episode and discovered that so much had been cut out for the TV airing. I had no idea Jabba had a torture room with a red funny looking robot (droid as we all well know) or a Fat Rancor keeper that was saddened by the Rancor's death.

    Return of the Jedi is thus my favorite although much to many people's dismay I like Revenge of the Sith nearly as much, although I'll grant you that it certainly has it's problems. I still can't believe how lame Grevious was. Sometime in here I found my first Star Wars novel, Timothy Zahn's "Dark Force Rising" at a K-Mart. That remains to this day my favorite star wars book and I've read and own all 80+ novels.

    Funny how our first experience with something is often the most ingrained and the most well liked. It explains quite a bit about the general distaste for sequels though I suppose, it certainly taints our future experiences with the same material or franchise. Explains why the introduction to something like Anime/Manga can be so terrifically important. ;)
  • NeitoNeito
    edited June 2007
    My first SW experience, for the longest time, was a novelization of the movies I borrowed from a friend. Then, I started reading the novels as soon as I found out they existed. I still remember quite clearly running into the school library every day, asking the librarian if the new book in the Han Solo trilogy was out yet.  Sadly, I seem to have fallen out of reading the books, even though, until Hitchhiker's, they where my only sci fi. I should look them up now that I've got cash to buy them with.
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  • HungryJoeHungryJoe
    edited June 2007
    I saw Star Wars in the summer of '77. It's just indescribable how different it was from anything out at the same time. I saw that History Channel deal that chrono mentioned. They're right that there are all sorts of good story elements. The problem is that the dialogue in every movie except Empire is just godawful.

    I second Whaleshark: Han shot first. That was one of the most memorable things in the movie. At the time, it was as shocking as when James Bond shot the assassin in Dr. No after the assassin had emptied his gun and then shot him in the back for good measure. Heroes just didn't act like that, and when Han shot first, we all thought, "That's a cynical bastard."

    *Edit* Will someone skilled with Photoshop please paste Nancy Pelosi's head on Slave Leia's body for me?
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  • Hitman HartHitman Hart
    edited June 2007

    *Edit* Will someone skilled with Photoshop please paste Nancy Pelosi's head on Slave Leia's body for me?
    I'll see what I can do for ya
    Post edited by Hitman Hart on
  • rhinocerorhinocero
    I think my first real experience with Star Wars was the re-releases in 1997, although I'm sure I saw them on VHS or TV before then - I just don't really remember doing so.  It was super cool, particularly Return of the Jedi.
  • zombie a gogozombie a gogo
    I wonder if they will ever do a good animated or CG adaptation of the Shadows of the Empire book.
  • JasonJason
    *Edit* Will someone skilled with Photoshop please paste Nancy Pelosi's head on Slave Leia's body for me?
    I find your lack of taste disturbing.
  • HungryJoeHungryJoe
    edited June 2007
    You know what would be even better? Nancy's head on Daisy Mae's body:

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    Hootchie Mama!

    . . . maybe Moonbeam McSwine:

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    OH LAWDY! That pipe is HHHAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHTTT!
    Post edited by HungryJoe on
  • AndrewAndrew
    I made something for you Joe:
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  • HungryJoeHungryJoe
    YOWZA! Thanks Poison Boy!

    *Opens fresh tube of Ben-Gay* . . . Uhhh . . . a little privacy please?
  • JasonJason
    Hey Joe, I think you've Ben Gay about this Nancy Pelosi thing.

    WIP gets +15 points for that PS.
  • KapitänTimKapitänTim
    Ok Im about to go to bed. Well not bed. But I am going to watch Episode 4. The OOT. (non special edition)
  • WalkerWalker
    edited September 2010
    Ok Im about to go to bed. Well not bed. But I am going to watch Episode 4. The OOT. (non special edition)
    Were the original versions of 4-6 ever released on DVD or do we still have to break out the VHS tapes to avoid that horrible song-and-dance number on Tatooine?
    Post edited by Walker on
  • KapitänTimKapitänTim
    They are on DVD. You need to get a special 2 disk version and they were all released separately. The bonus disk has the OOT version.
  • KapitänTimKapitänTim
    It is good to see Han shoot first.
  • ChurbaChurba
    It is good to see Han shoot first.
    That's not what Leia said.
  • TechparadoxTechparadox
    It is good to see Han shoot first.
    That's not what Leia said.
    Yeah, but he came in that thing, so he's braver than she thought.
  • ChurbaChurba
    It is good to see Han shoot first.
    That's not what Leia said.
    Yeah, but he came in that thing, so he's braver than she thought.
    Hey, She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts, kid
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