Star Wars: The Original Trilogy (1977-1983)

[The Fallen Deity]

Originally Posted by rodneyfaile

I uploaded a few pics to the Star Wars Celebration thread.

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...=277145&page=4

Those photos are great.

I still can't believe that the franchise is 40 years old!

[MPeriolat]

Originally Posted by The Fallen Deity

Those photos are great.

I still can't believe that the franchise is 40 years old!

I was born a week later. My parents carried me as a baby into a screening. It's been a part of my life to some degree ever since.

But please stop making me feel old. I'm not old.

Yet.

[dgoswald]

I forget there are some people like Malcolm in the world:

YouTube

[jon angell]

Originally Posted by MPeriolat

I was born a week later. My parents carried me as a baby into a screening. It's been a part of my life to some degree ever since.

But please stop making me feel old. I'm not old.

Yet.

you old no way, I drove my car to see it, at the time I was a freshmen in college and I do not think of myself as old

[OI8T12]

Originally Posted by MPeriolat

I was born a week later. My parents carried me as a baby into a screening. It's been a part of my life to some degree ever since.

But please stop making me feel old. I'm not old.

Yet.

Originally Posted by jon angell

you old no way, I drove my car to see it, at the time I was a freshmen in college and I do not think of myself as old

Old, young, what difference does it make? Age doesn't matter. I was 21 when Stars Wars was released, and I still love it as much as I did during my first viewing. What really impresses me is that the younger generation seems to enjoy these movies as much as I still do. I don't think age has anything to do with the Stars Wars empire. It's equally loved by the old, the young, and everyone in between. That's what impresses me.

[Raphdude]

Thank you Rodneyfaile!

[Moviefan2k4]

Originally Posted by MPeriolat

I was born a week later. My parents carried me as a baby into a screening. It's been a part of my life to some degree ever since.

But please stop making me feel old. I'm not old.

Yet.

I was born a few months after "Empire" was released, and first saw the OT on VHS at five years old. I saw the 1997 version of A New Hope in theaters with my Mom, but missed the other two until their VHS release. I stayed up past midnight in September of 2004 to grab the first DVD release, and was given the Blu-Rays as a gift five years ago.

[Michael24]

Originally Posted by dgoswald

I forget there are some people like Malcolm in the world:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Cg-pnGFbwMQ

Hilarious! I recognize Peter Capaldi but what is that from?

I know a guy who was under the impression "Resistance is futile" came from the Star Wars movies. Haha!

[KRW1]

Originally Posted by Michael24

Hilarious! I recognize Peter Capaldi but what is that from?

I know a guy who was under the impression "Resistance is futile" came from the Star Wars movies. Haha!

The Thick of It, from the creators of Veep which you might be more familiar with. If you've a taste for British humour of a political bent, and extremely creative swearing you could do worse than check it out, and the spin off movie, In The Loop, is also worth a watch. Malcom Tucker (Capaldi) is one of the great comic creations.

[The Fallen Deity]

Peter Capaldi and the writers of The Thick Of It have turned swearing into an artform.

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by MPeriolat

Fisher gave him the nickname that stuck with me: "Darth Farmer". Oh, that accent...

"Oi foind yer lack of faith disturbin'!" I LOVE that West Country twang but it's still so funny to hear it emanating from one of cinema's most bad-ass villains.

Originally Posted by rodneyfaile

Gold Leader Drops an F-Bomb! - Star Wars Celebration 2017: RARE Archival Footage - YouTube

Extended Death Star Meeting Scene - Star Wars Celebration 2017: RARE Archival Footage - YouTube

Grand Moff Tarkin (Peter Cushing) RARE Outtake - Star Wars Celebration: Archival Footage (1977) - YouTube

"And You Call Yourselves Human" - Star Wars Celebration: RARE Extended Archival Footage - YouTube

Thanks for those clips rodney, I would've loved to have seen the whole thing with John Knoll talking y'all through it.

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

Boy, look at all those pristine deleted scenes and alternate takes. Wonder where they found those?

It's almost as if LFL meticulously archived all this stuff and made sure it was kept in optimal conditions for all these years. Nah.

[chip75]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

It's almost as if LFL meticulously archived all this stuff and made sure it was kept in optimal conditions for all these years. Nah.

LucasFilm would have us believe a janitor found it whilst during the rounds ...

"Kathleen Kennedy! Kathleen Kennedy! Look what I found... all these films reels and hard drives."
Kennedy pulls the excited janitor to one side and waves her hand.
"These aren't important. They're not the negatives we've been looking for."
The janitor goes into a stupor and looks far off into the distance."
"These aren't important. They're not the negatives we've been looking for."
"Move along."
"Move along."
The janitor continues about their duties. Kennedy wipes a bead of sweat from her brow.
"Phew! That was close..."
She picks up one of the reels.
"B-Roll footage, that will keep 'em happy for another 40 years."
She taps the sign on the door before closing it. It reads "Hov wars mIllogh qonwI' qoSta' archive".
"I'm glad none of these Star Wars nerds can read Klingon."

[MPeriolat]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

"Oi foind yer lack of faith disturbin'!" I LOVE that West Country twang but it's still so funny to hear it emanating from one of cinema's most bad-ass villains.

It's almost as if LFL meticulously archived all this stuff and made sure it was kept in optimal conditions for all these years. Nah.

Still one of my favorite memories from fandom is watching the One Man Star Wars at Celebration III, recreating Luke taking the mask off in Jedi, then just stating "I thought you were black!".

Anyway, LFL and now Disney is preserving all this, have no fear. The issue is the long night of a thousand cuts as this trove of material comes out drip... by... drip... by... drip...

GIVE US THE 1977 CUT WITH ALL THE BONUSES AND AUDITIONS DAMMIT!!!

[Michael24]

Oh, the one-man Star Wars guy! I remember him. I saw him at San Diego ComicCon in 2006 during the fan film awards. He was great.

[Ernest Rister]

People still spelling my name wrong after all these years. CaptVeg will get a kick out of this....this comes from a message board post on IGN a billion years ago, just thinking out loud how I was going to show the Star Wars films someday to my newborn niece. It was a lark. Somebody copied and pasted it and spread it around. Then the dude who made a Machete Order blog post about it spelled my name wrong. Well, here we go again. "Ernst" Rister just made Empire Magazine.

http://www.empireonline.com/movies/f...-watch-movies/

[Geoff D]

"My name is Ernst Stavro Rister. Good BYE, Mistah BOND!"

[Geoff D]

Oh, having read that Empire article I like the 'Time Machine' order, I didn't know it had an official name but I've previously mentioned doing the same thing: original originals then the prequels, thus preserving all the narrative twists and turns of the OT, but then watch the SE's after the prequels to better integrate the jury-rigged originals into the saga.

[Rodney-2187]

R1, SW, TESB, RotJ, TFA, TLJ, IX

I only watch the PT every few years. It has grown on me somewhat. I don't hate those movies but they are even harder to watch than the SE.

[IndyMLVC]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

People still spelling my name wrong after all these years. CaptVeg will get a kick out of this....this comes from a message board post on IGN a billion years ago, just thinking out loud how I was going to show the Star Wars films someday to my newborn niece. It was a lark. Somebody copied and pasted it and spread it around. Then the dude who made a Machete Order blog post about it spelled my name wrong. Well, here we go again. "Ernst" Rister just made Empire Magazine.

http://www.empireonline.com/movies/f...-watch-movies/

I did that just yesterday. Or, at least, tried.

[Ernest Rister]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

"My name is Ernst Stavro Rister. Good BYE, Mistah BOND!"

Vee cannot vait fer der Episode Nein!!