30 Years of Star Wars!

[Spanky The Dolphin]

The thing that'll prevent me from watching that History Channel special is the fact that I expect it to turn out to be just a string of Famous Names strung together, dropping sound bites about how much they love the movie, combined with talking head professors going on about myth and theme connections that have already been covered endlessly.

[CmdrWilkens]

Well its (pm on a Monday night when we all have to be at work the next morning...what the heck else are you gonna watch? The BBQing is already over by that point. Anyway I'll be watching it in the luxury of my new couch in order to break it in, possibly watching ANH as a precursor.

[ray245]

Damn...I thought they are releasing a 3D version of the movies for the anniversary

[Warsie]

Damn...I thought they are releasing a 3D version of the movies for the anniversary

They are doing that in ~2008, next year man the IMAX movies.

[Ritterin Sophia]

I wonder how Emperor Palpatine is celebrating the 30th Anniversary?

[Lord Relvenous]

From this piece in BBC News, a man gives his thoughts about the movie after watching it for the first time:

47:30
Han Solo - or Indiana Jones as I had thought of Harrison Ford until now - has arrived as captain of the Millennium Falcon. This is a very fast ship which Obi wants to charter. But he's not very good at bargaining. Hans wanted to charge him 10,000 units but Obi offered 17,000, the cash-rich fool.

Lolz, ANH came out before Indiana Jones. Someone goofed.

[Mange]

From this piece in BBC News, a man gives his thoughts about the movie after watching it for the first time:

47:30
Han Solo - or Indiana Jones as I had thought of Harrison Ford until now - has arrived as captain of the Millennium Falcon. This is a very fast ship which Obi wants to charter. But he's not very good at bargaining. Hans wanted to charge him 10,000 units but Obi offered 17,000, the cash-rich fool.

Lolz, ANH came out before Indiana Jones. Someone goofed.

And? The man hadn't seen ANH and thought of Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones (a character he obviously was familiar with). Why would he think of him as Han Solo when he hadn't seen the movie?

[Elfdart]

The thing that'll prevent me from watching that History Channel special is the fact that I expect it to turn out to be just a string of Famous Names strung together, dropping sound bites about how much they love the movie, combined with talking head professors going on about myth and theme connections that have already been covered endlessly.

You can count on a pretentious peckerhead like Elvis Mitchell to trash Lucas. I'll wager Leon Wieseltier does, too.

[Lord Relvenous]

From this piece in BBC News, a man gives his thoughts about the movie after watching it for the first time:

Lolz, ANH came out before Indiana Jones. Someone goofed.

And? The man hadn't seen ANH and thought of Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones (a character he obviously was familiar with). Why would he think of him as Han Solo when he hadn't seen the movie?

He says he always thought of him as Indiana Jones until ANH, but Indiana Jones hadn't been created yet, therefore he couldn't think of him as that could he?

[Bounty]

He says he always thought of him as Indiana Jones until ANH, but Indiana Jones hadn't been created yet, therefore he couldn't think of him as that could he?

The article was about someone who first saw ANH *today*. And last time I checked, Indiana Jones has been around a lot longer than "since yesterday".

[Lord Relvenous]

He says he always thought of him as Indiana Jones until ANH, but Indiana Jones hadn't been created yet, therefore he couldn't think of him as that could he?

The article was about someone who first saw ANH *today*. And last time I checked, Indiana Jones has been around a lot longer than "since yesterday".

oops, i thought it was a repost of his initial response, way back in the 70's. Curse my inability to completely read OP.

I must redeem my honor! Hari-Kari it is then!

HURRRRKK! Bleh!

[Jade Falcon]

If you want a good idea of where at least the basis for the Trench Run came from, watch the 60's war film "633 Squadron".

I remember seeing ANH when it first came out, in an old cinema in Saltcoats, a town on the west coast of Scotland. It was a really nice old place, it had a huge subtly curved screen with great sound effects, ideal for a film opening like that.

[The Dark]

And for a slightly lighter-hearted view of things:

The Unsung Heroes of Star Wars

[CmdrWilkens]

Nothing from that was more hilarious than this bit:

2. Jimmy Smits (Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith)
If you thought the black characters had it rough, check out Star Wars' entire Hispanic population: Jimmy Smits. (Fun fact: Also network TV's entire Hispanic population.) And, of course, he gets little to do besides hang around long enough to scream "No!" and adopt a white baby.

[Spanky The Dolphin]

So did anybody happen to watch the History Channel program? I'm curious to know if it turned out at all according to my expectations.

[The Dark]

Nothing from that was more hilarious than this bit:

2. Jimmy Smits (Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith)
If you thought the black characters had it rough, check out Star Wars' entire Hispanic population: Jimmy Smits. (Fun fact: Also network TV's entire Hispanic population.) And, of course, he gets little to do besides hang around long enough to scream "No!" and adopt a white baby.

I also liked this one:

7. Fake Mace Windu (Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace)
With all of Naboo celebrating Anakin Skywalker's (cough) entirely accidental (cough) space fighter heroics, Mace Windu sent a body double to take his place. He's a major Jedi, man, he can't be attending every fucking ceremony. So what if he tries to pass off another brother as himself—with only about four black people in the entire galaxy, it's not like anyone's going to notice.

The useless wampa factoids had me chuckling, too, since I had just read a book about Cheers.

[Lord Poe]

So did anybody happen to watch the History Channel program? I'm curious to know if it turned out at all according to my expectations.

It was alot like you envisioned, and coupled with trying to marry every facet of Star Wars to every bit of mythology ever shown on the History Channel, including Hitler. It was a ponderous 2 hours, which could have easily been a 1 hour program.

That said, the History Channel program "Star Wars Tech", legitimized the size of the Death Star 1 to 160km in diameter!!

[Jim Raynor]

So did anybody happen to watch the History Channel program? I'm curious to know if it turned out at all according to my expectations.

It was alot like you envisioned, and coupled with trying to marry every facet of Star Wars to every bit of mythology ever shown on the History Channel, including Hitler. It was a ponderous 2 hours, which could have easily been a 1 hour program.

I didn't think it was bad, although a lot of it has indeed been covered already. They spent a lot of time talking about story and character archtypes that are pretty obvious and well known to anybody familiar with SW (Luke goes on a "hero's journey," Han Solo is like a cowboy, etc.).

BTW, did anybody think Dr. Joan Breton Connelly was hot?

That said, the History Channel program "Star Wars Tech", legitimized the size of the Death Star 1 to 160km in diameter!!

I was really surprised to see that. Suck it EU wankers!