As far as I can tell, Mark Hamill has been a kid his entire life, and Harrison Ford has been a grumpy old man his entire life, and I respect them both for it.
I literally can't imagine what it was like seeing the first trilogy with no prior knowledge of it. I remember joking about this very topic with my dad who was 10 or 11 when Empire Strikes Back came out. He talked about how everyone's mind was blown when they found out about Vader being Luke's father yet to anyone born after these movies came out...its hard to even call it a plot twist because it's one of the most iconic/quotable/memeable moments in all of cinematic history. Like let's be honest, most of us under the age of like 50 already knew going into the first movie whether we had previously seen any other star wars movie or not, that Vader is Luke's father. It almost makes me envious in a way that people got to experience that twist while it was still actually a twist.
I was there...it was such a big surprise because you really didn't see it coming. Nobody expected Star Wars to be any more than a space adventure, that plot revelation came out of nowhere.
To all those saying it was only the Disney+ versions that had the line, y’all are wrong. It was added in the last special edition before D+, so it’s been there for a few years
@@actaeondiomedes4270 www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cinemablend.com/news/2484984/greedo-actor-is-confused-by-maclunkey-and-star-wars-in-general It was only added when D+ came out
R’lyehian Bunnyman he meant the setting and idea of Star Wars allows for the perfect franchise. Not necessarily that the groundwork that was set has always been used well. You can have an amazing beach front property and still build a crappy house that ruins everything except what the setting provides.
The franchise as a whole is pretty perfect. The movies aren’t, but there are a TON of fantastic Star Wars games and books, a few fantastic TV shows, etc. The setting and concept of Star Wars is amazing
A New Hope is by far my favorite, because I saw it in the theater as a 9-year-old, and it’s impossible to overstate just how obsessed EVERY kid suddenly became with it. The toys and action figures and references were suddenly everywhere, we knew every line, and Darth Vader was the coolest bad guy EVER. It was unreal.
That’s pretty much what I wanted to ask. Why is it so hard to watch the original version of the movie? Didn’t millions of people buy the a VHS or copy of the original release first?
The Luke, Vader and Emperor scenes in Return of the Jedi were legendary and i think thats the problem, George Lucas knew exactly how their story goes but didn't know what to do with everyone else so it ended up being middling
can we please take a moment to thank marcia lucas (george lucas’s ex wife) for editing the original triology, and in particular a new hope, as well as she did? most people tend to credit movies to just directors and actors, and in doing so fail to realize that well written and well directed moments in film will still fall flat without good timing and editing. marcia gave the films so much heart and really helped structure them into something watchable. edit (ironically): isnt it funny how after they split up george lucas decided to fuck with the movies and now they’re not as good anymore because he ruined the pacing and tension .
The Cosmonaut: The only people who like the prequel trilogy are children or people who grew up watching them as children Me a person that grew up with them on VHS and watched The Phantom Menace so many times the tape stopped working: Well he's not wrong
@@Naafidy And theres nothing wrong with that^^ The Prequels have so much great Stuff in them to love^^ Not all of it of course, but still^^ ROTS is still my favorite SW Movie^^.
While I can agree with shitting on first 2 movies, when people call ROTS bad, I just can't understand these people It has the best lightsaber duel till this day, it has great action and story is not that bad either(except some awful dialogs between Anakin and Padme but it's just George being awful dialogs writer) And it has freacking Palpatine rocking everyone in the movie and succeeding If Palpatine wouldn't have been that good, we wouldn't have him again in the episode 9. I really hope that The Cosmonaut will not blindly shit on the third movie without saying good stuff about it.
I was there in 1977 to see the original Star Wars when it was brand new in theatres. It was so incredibly awesome! Over the next six months I must have gone to 15 or more theatres to see it again and again, taking friends and family to see this amazing thing.
I was 12 when A new Hope came out. It was the coolest thing ever. I would pick up glass bottles along the side of the road and turn them in at the convenience store to get the deposit back (remember when that was a thing) so I could go see it again. Very few movies have made me feel like that since. It's so sad to see where the franchise has gone.
I have the 2005 dvds. So I don't have to anymore. Do you know if you can get punished for having the harmy despecialized editions? Or is it only illegal for the seller but not the buyer.
@@sunwukong5518 yeah you get punished George Lucas breaks in your house with a baseball bat smashes up your DVDs while screaming “Jar Jar is the key to everything”
Fun fact: When "A new hope" came out, the tech for the scrolling text in the beginning, hadn't been invented yet. So the crawl effect was accomplished with the camera moving longitudinally along a 6 foot long model.
I appreciate that a scene was added on Hoth because of an external event. For those who don't know, Mark Hamill was in a car accident before filming started on Empire Strikes Back that resulted in damage that permenantly altered his face. So Lucas added the scene with the yeti thing abducting Luke which caused the damage to his face.
"Imagine you were sitting in a theater in 1977..." I don't actually have to imagine it. ;p The film broke half-way through and we had to come back another time to see it in its entirety. It was *excruciating*. I also vividly remember when our parents took us to see Raiders of the Lost Ark, and at the first shot (of the mountain), my brother whined, "You took us to see a *nature* movie?! :(:("
Fletcher Gillespie episode 3 is far from “literal dogshit” even with the flaws in the film like the acting, dialogue, asinine romance and too much cgi everywhere. There’s way too many good scenes and moments and has phenomenal art direction, visuals and music. Even with its problems, there’s a lot to praise and love.
Fletcher Gillespie That’s not a hot take. I hate the original trilogy and love the new movies, that’s a hot take. (That’s actually true, and a much better example)
Must be because he doesn’t think it is that bad, but he’s also really disappointed in a sad way. Also he’s not fucking YMS who’s like: “yeah it was good 5/10”
I really liked RotJ, I think a lot of the criticism is overinflated. The ending is so, so satisfying. The Jabba battle is contrived but really imaginative, the speeder chase was the shit when I was a kid, Luke vs Vader vs Emperor is iconic. There's lots to love. Meh.
@@finze1 okay, now I will tell you what I think: -The whole Jabba part is indeed contrived and kind of a shitshow but yes it’s fun. -They just skipped Luke’s transition into a proper Jedi because they had no time for that but they also couldn’t do a time skip because they had to save Han right away “we should just pretend he’s superior to Darth Vader now and he even made a lightsaber god knows how in a matter of a couple of weeks tops, and then let’s make him go back to Yoda because we can’t skip that, but he’ll just say he’s ready and die immediately so we can get that out of the way”. -The previous point would be less worse if they made it work with Han, but no, Han doesn’t do anything apart from running around in the woods and be jealous of Luke. If you’re thinking “oh but he helped destroy the bunker it was full on Han Solo greatness, you idiot” I invite you compare his involvement in the previous movies and how of an integral character he used to be, that’s why Harrison Ford himself thinks Han should’ve just died and closed his arc in a really tragic and satisfying way instead of all that tomfoolery. Even Force Awakens was a better movie for Han. -Endor is a very unimaginative location. If you don’t agree that’s okay but compare how fantastic were Tatooine, the Death Star, Hoth, Dagobah and Cloud City were next to the fucking Redwood forest full of Teddy Bears and that’s it. -I personally think the speeder bike chase is pointless and not exciting at all, and the green screen looks like shit. The only “consequence” is that Leia crashes and meets an Ewok before the rest, I put that on quotes because that has no impact on the story at all. Later on when they capture the rest, she tells them to let them go but they don’t listen anyway so what’s the point? -I hate the “from a certain point of view” scene. They don’t know what to do with the things they keep retconning and they just make the Jedi look like a bunch of hippie fools who lie to Luke about EVERYTHING. He is not the last Jedi, Darth Vader did not literally kill his father, and Leia is his sister now?! Plus ghost Obi-Wan sits on the log, wtf is that? -Now that I’m talking about that, I don’t love that “Leia is actually also Vader’s daughter and Luke’s twin sister” I like how they used that to make Luke snap at the end but I don’t quite like how it’s handled with how Luke’s behavior changes immediately from his friend that he obviously fancies to the sister she always knew she was?! What? -They waste like 15 minutes with the Ewoks. They get captured in a giant net like a cartoon and then the teddy bears take them to their camp and plan to eat them. Thank god two seasoned smugglers (of which one is a giant bear dog) and a oh so powerful Jedi Knight had a golden droid with them to pretend he’s a god, because the Ewoks would’ve killed them all. And then another five minutes of 3PO explaining the whole story so far in another language without subtitles but with sound effects. That whole part is prequel-bad if you ask me. -In my opinion, the final battle is wrong. We have our known and loved characters in a tensionless scenario with teddy bears killing the empire like in a cartoon on the ground, and the battle in space which has bigger stakes on paper is carried on by characters we don’t know at all except Lando, and he’s not an awesome character if you ask me, so how about at least WE PUT HAN AND CHEWIE ON THEIR FUCKING SHIP and get Lando on the ground, ain’t that better for the audience? The characters we know and love are in real danger and Lando does his job as a not so main character. -Palpatine is just a really old and evil guy, and he dies without having a character beyond that, this complaint is not so big because the point was Vader’s redemption, not Palpatine himself (but I can’t understand why they complained about Snoke but not about this though, it’s exactly the same PREQUELS DON’T COUNT) -there’s nothing to tempt Luke with??? Palpatine’s just like “come on Luke become evil, please” “come on Luke kill me please” “come on Luke fight your father” Luke of course says no and that leads to Vader’s redemption, which again that was the point, but there’s no tension, there’s no reason for us to think that Luke might actually turn evil and make us worried that he might just do it, making the scene much less interesting. -So because they blew up the Death Star again AND killed Palpatine, the Empire is immediately done for all over the galaxy, what? That’s so dumb they’ve been trying to correct it ever since in all kinds of new stories including the extended universe, Battlefront 2 (EA) and The Mandalorian but that doesn’t count. -After everything is over, the heroes get back together without a single word. They just dance and clap and it ends, pretty unsatisfying for me. -That’s about it.
Wow. You're experience with A New Hope is almost exactly my experience with it. Saw it more times than grains of sand in all the Earth but then watched with a GF many years ago who hadn't seen them. I completely wiped my mind of any opinions on the movie, pretended it was 1977 and gave it a go. I have never watched any Star Wars movie since without putting myself in the mindset of the time of its release, sitting in my imaginary theater, cranking the volume, and being absolutely stunned. Doing that with the Harmy Despecialized blew my little mind.
Im Gen Z so the prequels were my childhood 😭 Attack of The Clones, Revenge Of the Sith and 'Star Wars Clone Wars' (Cartoon Network) especially hold a special place in my heart 💚 I never knew these films were hated until I discovered the Internet 😂 In hindsight they are very wooden, cringe and boring at times. But the nostalgia carries me through!
Nice to see ya enjoy them. For me they are terrible movies, and I did grow up with them, but if you acknowledge their flaws and like them regardless, good for you
@@clunkwestweed4541 As much as i want to say i hate it the good moments are peak star wars. Love the fights they have so much meaning to them especially obi wan vs anakin
Props to George Lucas’s exwife. The only reason the original trilogy was as good as it was. These cinematic “geniuses” are only as good as their editor.
I've kept saying that Star Wars has only been as good as the people around George make it. Every time Lucas has a lot of the final say in the films we get stuff like the Prequels and ROTJ.
Tayo Jones not really, all behind the scenes and everything shows how not interested in anything george was with the prequels, complain about TLJ all you want, but Rian Johnson was very happy and loved doing Star Wars unlike george during the prequel era
It took us 2months to get to see it in 1977....the lines where crazy long and every showing would sell out. When we did finally see it it blew my mind. It was an experience that I had never seen before. I will never forget that viewing.
@Joseph Tacitus tell me where in my comment I said the prequels didn't suck? I'm just tired of the children whining when the sequels are clearly worse.
@@Anthonest1 ehh the sequels are mostly just retreads of the OT, so they are predictable (unless the director has a boner for SuBvErTiNg ExPeCtAtIoNs), but the prequels were a special kind of suck that happens when you give a guy like Lucas, who has good grand vision but is shit at fleshing it out, too much creative control. IMO, the prequels are worse
Came back to watch this masterpiece again and I just noticed the Father Gascoigne theme when you were roasting the prequels at the end! 😂😂 Been playing Bloodborne nonstop for the past week which is why I picked up on it. Good taste in music and in games, brother!
Imagine if Han died in Empire, then the emotional weight of this transferred into ROTJ, and Luke lost his shit in the final battle against Vader... Something to think about.
“You cannot watch the original 1977 cut of A New Hope legally” Me: *owns a dvd of A New Hope with the original 1977 cut on the second disk* “Are you sure about that?”
Except that version isn't that great. I have that too in fact, with the entire trilogy with the special editions as the main feature and the unaltered versions as a bonus disc. What sucks though is the quality isn't that great and there is motion smearing along with dryed out color.
@@sanchobanana3507 i0.wp.com/nerdvanamedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/dvd_saga.jpg?w=640 this image shows the box sets of both trilogies that I have
Apparently the opening crawl to Star Wars (1977) was heavily rewritten by Brian De Palma, a good friend of George Lucas who disliked the film's first edit. If the film had kept its original opening crawl, it would've been just as boring and uninteresting as the opening crawls for the prequels.
Its pretty good now, but only some of it. The sequel trilogy stuff is shit and no one cares, the OT era stuff isn't fleshed out enough, GA is annoying restrictive and boring, most of the smaller modes aren't played anymore, the campaign and arcade are DOGSHIT they make me want to harm myself. The only good stuff is the clone wars content, but it's so annoying because you have like 110 GB game but like 80% of it is shit. Honestly they should have just made this a clone wars only game. Just like how the first one was a OT only game if they just did cw for the second they could have focused on it more and given us even more content, then the next game could be ST or KOTOR.
When I took my little brother to his first Star Wars movie (TLJ), he was talking to me, not looking at the screen as the opening Lucasfilm logo came up. When the opening title popped up onto the screen, he jumped about 8 inches out of his seat. One of the hardest laughs I've ever had.
@@MrTkillian Well no argument there. I consider it the worst of the franchise myself. Couldn't tell ya for the life of me who any of the important side characters are.
@@Sam-im5tc I agree, though ATOTC is pretty bad, but it was the first SW movie I saw in theaters so it has that nostalgia going for it. My biggest problem with TLJ is that I actually was interested in the main characters after TFA, but TLJ did next to nothing to build on it. Plus what it did to Luke. Plus just overall bad writing and disjointed narrative, tone and acting.
The reason I love empire strikes back is because of the cinematography. Almost every scene is just a work of art, I mean I want a picture of cloud city or Han and leia before Han is frozen in carbonate hung up in my room
Finally watched Star Wars for the first time as a 37 year old. So happy to see one of my favourite content creators has made a series on it! Can’t wait to catch up!
Marcus: Why didn’t Luke Just Kill Jaba Then? Well Uncle Cosmonaut, It’s because he wanted the pleasure of looking at Slave Leia. Little did he know Yoda would tell him 5 minutes laters that’s his damn sister.
First saw 'Return of the Jedi' on VHS in the 1980's at a neighbour kid's house, and thought it looked mind-blowing. Then years later at school the Lord of the Rings-reading kid in my class brought 'Star Wars' on VHS to play and I'm like "this is just 2 robots walking in the desert, boring!" and didn't watch the rest. Then when I was 20 I finally watched all 3 movies in a row, and clearly 'Empire' is the best, but my adult opinion of the first and third movies also completely flipped. Gotta say tho, if you watch something like hover-bikes flying through forests at a formative age, like 4 years old, you're gonna be fond of that imagery forever. It was the perfect preparation for the first movie I ever saw in a real cinema, "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids", which had similar looking special FX, with blue screen, miniatures, stop-motion, etc. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk, I turned 38 today.
I remember hearing somewhere a really fascinating point about the opening scene of A New Hope that has stuck with me since. The point they were making was about the impact of the star destroyer's design. We see this tiny rebel ship, and then following behind is an Empire ship that starts large, but because it's a wedge shape the ship slowly grows larger and larger from the perspective of the audience. Combine this with this being the first time most in the audience had experienced Dolby surround sound, with the big bassy rumbling of the star destroyer's engines, and I can imagine the impact must've been immense.
@@rishabhpoikayil7621 unless you have the original VHS of the trilogy there is literally absolutely no way to watch the theatrical cuts of the movies. Although there is a version of the 2004 special edition box set that has both the 2004 rereleases and the theatrical cuts on dvd but the quality of the dvd is a bit wonky and that version of the box set is more rare than the original VHS's
I had a very similar experience with A New Hope. I watched the clone wars, the prequels, and the sequels before the originals. But when I did I tried to see it as a movie that just came out back in the day and that really pulled me into it. Instead of scoffing at the weird acting and bad choreography, I was legitimately hyped for the future of the series even though I already knew where it would end up.
Yeah Prostitutes/One Night Stands are ok, Wifes/Husbands and Girl-/Boyfriends not. Ki-Adi-Mundi was married but that was because his species needed every member to procreate since they were endangered.
“The only people that like them are children and people who watched them as children” As a person who was a child when the prequels released and absolutely loves them, I can say with certainty that this sentence is absolutely correct.
The prequels were made FOR children, so in essence, they are great movies cuz they pleased the target demographic. I saw the originals and prequels as a child, and liked the prequels better cuz they were more exciting. I got super bored watching Han and Leia fix the Falcon inside a space slug, and Luke lifting rocks on Dagobah. The bad writing/dialog things weren't apparent to me until I was an adult. HOWEVER... on re-watching the originals, I noticed that many of those same flaws existed. A lot of the dialog in ANH in particular is super cringey (which CVH's biased ass didn't even comment on). The universe in the Originals also just seems so empty and boring, now that the prequels have established and built up so much lore.
I'm happy I watched a new hope when I was 7, that's 10 years ago now and I can still remember the feeling of not knowing anything, and the universe growing on me over the last years is so awesome
They did technically release the original versions on DVD but they were in the absolute WORST version possible in terms of clean up, sound quality, and visuals. Worth it though
I feel I have to defend the Twilight special edition re-release. Not all the changes were necessary; Adding all those CGI bats throughout the film was frankly gratuitous. But I think the scene where Edward reveals his face in full light, and his skin burns off, really fixed one of my big problems with the original.
Even with the stuff he hated, he still had to admit that the movie was better than average. There was some really good stuff in it, like seeing Luke doing his Jedi thing to rescue Han, the speeder bike scene, the Yoda scene that has Luke beginning to come to grips with the fact that Vader is his father, the Obi-Wan scene with Luke having to deal with the fact that he can't kill his father, the scene with Luke and Vader reuniting for the first time since their fight, the throne room fight, and let's not forget the amazing space battle to end the film. I can see why the Ewoks aren't too popular with people, and maybe George did make a mistake by not having that battle on Kashyyyk so that the Wookies would be fighting the Stormtroopers, but overall, there's a lot of really good stuff in ROTJ. It's not as bad as his hatred makes it out to be. Plus, Lando was just so awesome in this movie. Billy Dee Williams' acting was so good. Also, can we get some love for 3PO growing as a character in this film? In Star Wars, 3PO tells Luke that he's not much for telling stories, but in ROTJ, 3PO does a fantastic job of telling stories to the Ewoks. So, even 3PO grew as a character throughout the trilogy.
my childhood. had the movies on VHS like many other 80s movies i grew up with and watched them all the time. Luke was my first crush and that feeling hasn't changed. can't wait to rewatch them all again with my niece this year (the original unedited versions of course).
I think 6/10 is fair for Jedi. The end is absolutely incredible - the space battle is one of the best ever put to film, Luke's confrontation with Vader and the Emperor is epic, and the movie just ends extremely strong all around. But it only really begins once this battle begins. Everything before that is an absurd mess, just missed opportunities and baffling decisions left and right.
@@OhCityGround yep, I loved the prequels as much as humanly possible, and now aotc is my least favorite star wars movie, but rots was the only one that stuck with me
@@OhCityGround i came back to Star wars after years and believing that the prequels are very good and fun to watch. So, i made a Star wars marathon, the OT was awesome i loved every second. I thought the prequels would have the same effect. Jesus Christ i could barely watch them without falling asleep. Finally i got why people call them bad. They are so boring and bad
I like how underused the force was compared to the other movies in A New Hope. Basically it was used for mind control, chocking ppl, and miraculous stunts. And the only light saber battle was between obiwan and Darth Vader which was pretty funny because of how stiff the fight was relative to other movies.
The vast majority of Star Wars movies have only one lightsaber fight.Phantom Menace had two but the First was super brief, and The Last Jedi technically had three but one was a flashback, one didn’t actually use lightsabers, and one had a ghost just dodging the lightsaber. Revenge of the Sith is the only one too really capitalize on lightsaber duels, having a massive total of five.
It worked so well too because they're both old as shit now. It's been 18 years. When you see them in the prequels, the way they fight was so dynamic and fast. In the books, Darth Vader misses the way he used to be able to fight. So it just works so well
I think I just find some of the more ridiculous stuff in Return of the Jedi more endearing that Marcus does. Perhaps it’s nostalgia or a difference in taste, but I just find it to be an immensely fun and satisfying film
I agree. While I know V is a better movie and IV really is a perfect starting point, VI is my personal favorite. The finale usually has the best moments since it can show the Hero at their best. In V, Luke could barely move his lightsabre, but in VI, he can lift C-3PO in a wooden throne. I know everyone hates on the prequels but it's my love of the original trilogy that makes me rethink the early 2000 ones. The first Star Wars movies I saw were the prequels and they were great! I understood most things and, tho I know the dialogue is bad and didn't have editors to fix such things, the badly written things were easy to understand. For me, the original saga (first six episodes) are the movies I enjoy, that I watch on my own or with others. And so far, The Mandalorian has a similar feel to the original three. If you've never seen a Star Wars thing before, the setting is weird, but it draws you in. There's a charm to it; one that all three movies have.
@Geralt of Trivia iblove the ewoks. They were my childhood. We all loved the awoke back then. I don't get this sudden hate for them. It must be this new generation of fans that wasn't there
@Geralt of Trivia Ooo... I really disagree with that one. If we're removing the ewoks can we also remove the puffin-merchandise that is porgs? They were only added due to the native birds being in every stinking shot and, unlike ewoks, don't add anything to the plot. Real question, in Legends Boba didn't die and had actually been eaten a few times before, has this been changed with Disney's new canon or do we simply not know?
@Geralt of Trivia That's too bad, Boba was an awesome character. You & I have very different definitions of embarrassment if you think the ewoks are but the porgs aren't. In the OT, no one brought the ewoks with them, so yeah, their cute and they don't blink but there only on one tiny moon of the planet Endor. Porgs are everywhere and unlike ewoks they aren't real. You can't what's on screen b/c they're computer generated, but ewoks? Ewoks are practical, at least there's something for the actors to look at. Porgs should've stayed on the island just like the puffins do...
You can make just about any movie set anywhere about any subject by modelling it on the Star Wars template. It's not just Hero's Journey but a whole blueprint for world-building.
The long lead-in with Luke is mirrored in the paperback tie in that came out in Dec 1976. It works better there at establishing his character, and giving his experience more of a grand scale as the farm boy goes from observer to participant, but for the film, Lucas bet correctly that the sweep of the special effects and relentless action sequences would pull us in. Lucas was blending his two prior films in "Star Wars" namely "THX 1138" and "American Graffiti." Most of the latter references, like Luke hanging with Biggs and his buds Tatoonie-side, were cut out. Like you say, the pacing was found to be wanting. But it's part of the backstory you sense even now watching what's on screen.
I'm glad you're doing this. These movies are way too caught up in the hype machine to get any kind of real coherent thought, good or bad. I'm used to Star Wars reviews being always very hyperbolic and I I'm excited for part 2.
"I like the sith because they aren't boring and can have sex"
Marcus predicted The Rise of Skywalker
...how?
@@robinanwaldt Palpatine somehow banging a chick some point in time and being the father to Rey's father I guess
Bang bang bang
OpTmizeD_SonDre 420 pull my devil trigger
@@bimgusfriestad7132 sounds like the kitchen gun
The one criticism I have of this movie is, Luke Skywalker lived his whole life on a sand planet and we never learn how he feels about sand.
“I like the way sand feels in my teeth-“
@@Firefly07 darth vader: nooooooo
He does kick a pile of sand before looking at the binary sunset. Like aunt beru said, there’s to much of his father in him
@@wrenren2112 i'm guessing you've never seen this, then: czcams.com/video/kh4CU4cO0O0/video.html
It’s coarse.. and it gets everywhere
As far as I can tell, Mark Hamill has been a kid his entire life, and Harrison Ford has been a grumpy old man his entire life, and I respect them both for it.
Those are two of my favorite types of people!
and diehard star wars fans have been both for their entire life
I was Luke and now Harrison.
I literally can't imagine what it was like seeing the first trilogy with no prior knowledge of it. I remember joking about this very topic with my dad who was 10 or 11 when Empire Strikes Back came out. He talked about how everyone's mind was blown when they found out about Vader being Luke's father yet to anyone born after these movies came out...its hard to even call it a plot twist because it's one of the most iconic/quotable/memeable moments in all of cinematic history.
Like let's be honest, most of us under the age of like 50 already knew going into the first movie whether we had previously seen any other star wars movie or not, that Vader is Luke's father. It almost makes me envious in a way that people got to experience that twist while it was still actually a twist.
Didn’t read that
@@koolaidking4555 askers?
tha fawk... Vader is lukes father>?!?!
@@steggyweggy yuri asked
I was there...it was such a big surprise because you really didn't see it coming. Nobody expected Star Wars to be any more than a space adventure, that plot revelation came out of nowhere.
1977: Greedo dies without shooting
2011: MACLUNKEY
Matthew M
2019: MACLUNKEY!
MACLUNKEY was 2019 for Disney Plus
He only said Maclunkey in 2019, idiot
To all those saying it was only the Disney+ versions that had the line, y’all are wrong. It was added in the last special edition before D+, so it’s been there for a few years
@@actaeondiomedes4270 www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cinemablend.com/news/2484984/greedo-actor-is-confused-by-maclunkey-and-star-wars-in-general
It was only added when D+ came out
Marcus: Star Wars is the perfect franchise
Also Marcus: hates over half of the saga
R’lyehian Bunnyman he meant the setting and idea of Star Wars allows for the perfect franchise. Not necessarily that the groundwork that was set has always been used well. You can have an amazing beach front property and still build a crappy house that ruins everything except what the setting provides.
The franchise as a whole is pretty perfect. The movies aren’t, but there are a TON of fantastic Star Wars games and books, a few fantastic TV shows, etc. The setting and concept of Star Wars is amazing
I don't think there is a Star Wars Fan in existence that likes more than 50% of the movies
Paynovski
Kevin Smith
1/3rd actually. He hates the prequels
I remember as a little kid being really freaked out and scared of that floating black ball with the needle that tortured Leia in ANH
A New Hope is by far my favorite, because I saw it in the theater as a 9-year-old, and it’s impossible to overstate just how obsessed EVERY kid suddenly became with it. The toys and action figures and references were suddenly everywhere, we knew every line, and Darth Vader was the coolest bad guy EVER. It was unreal.
“Says can only watch illegally” me: looks over at my vhs copy
Bodhi you are so lucky
Same my three
I’ve got the I think it’s from 2004 version which came with a bonus theatrical release disc
That’s pretty much what I wanted to ask. Why is it so hard to watch the original version of the movie? Didn’t millions of people buy the a VHS or copy of the original release first?
aye!
"It's the perfect movie, flaws and all"
wait, that's illegal
"I will make it legal"
Imperfections make it perfect.
•Vï •Mo• kinda not true at all bud you’ve just contradicted yourself
It is illegal
@@normanosborn3181 I was gonna chew you out for posting cringe but I can't hate someone with a Jay profile pic.
The Luke, Vader and Emperor scenes in Return of the Jedi were legendary and i think thats the problem, George Lucas knew exactly how their story goes but didn't know what to do with everyone else so it ended up being middling
Yea coupled with Lucas’ signature directing (shit) and some of the actors loosing interest, the side characters are very underused
The original has the best world-building of any movie I’ve ever seen. The fact that it’s so weird and unique but it never feels confusing is awesome.
"These children grew up into people with very strong opinions..."
*_Shows the Younglings_*
_Well... these kids didn't_
AlistairAI BRUH
ive seen holographic recordings of him ...... killing younglings *covers mouth*
*A wild FBI bot has appeared*
Master skywalker what are going to do there are too many of them
Sick youngling burn. Unpopular opinion here, but those younglings got what they had coming.
Rocky Reyes * Master Skywalker they’re are to many of them what are we going to do?
Who else can’t stop watching this guy
The Last Reaper Been subbed for a while his reviews are so awesome and detailed
He's great, he definitely does his research, but he seems more generous in rating movies. For that I got my Sardonicast bois.
Mep
me e
Love his voice and humour
"I'm gonna go ahead and say it, I think A New Hope is a perfect movie."
Everyone: "So anyways, I started liking."
can we please take a moment to thank marcia lucas (george lucas’s ex wife) for editing the original triology, and in particular a new hope, as well as she did? most people tend to credit movies to just directors and actors, and in doing so fail to realize that well written and well directed moments in film will still fall flat without good timing and editing. marcia gave the films so much heart and really helped structure them into something watchable.
edit (ironically): isnt it funny how after they split up george lucas decided to fuck with the movies and now they’re not as good anymore because he ruined the pacing and tension .
The Cosmonaut: The only people who like the prequel trilogy are children or people who grew up watching them as children
Me a person that grew up with them on VHS and watched The Phantom Menace so many times the tape stopped working: Well he's not wrong
I watched episode 1 in the theaters as an 11 year old and loved it. Still do.
He called me out.
@@Naafidy And theres nothing wrong with that^^ The Prequels have so much great Stuff in them to love^^ Not all of it of course, but still^^ ROTS is still my favorite SW Movie^^.
While I can agree with shitting on first 2 movies, when people call ROTS bad, I just can't understand these people
It has the best lightsaber duel till this day, it has great action and story is not that bad either(except some awful dialogs between Anakin and Padme but it's just George being awful dialogs writer)
And it has freacking Palpatine rocking everyone in the movie and succeeding
If Palpatine wouldn't have been that good, we wouldn't have him again in the episode 9.
I really hope that The Cosmonaut will not blindly shit on the third movie without saying good stuff about it.
@@Amandor2011 Anakin's fall is the dumbest thing in the world and it needed more time to be fleshed out
Everybody loves the worldbuilding and Obi Wan. THATS IT
“It has a timeless setting...”
No.
It’s obviously a long long time ago
yeah the new stuff helps
@@GamingWithCalvin1 you missed the joke
In a galaxy far far away...
Lol
Let’s unpack this;
Sorry sweetie
This.
I was there in 1977 to see the original Star Wars when it was brand new in theatres. It was so incredibly awesome! Over the next six months I must have gone to 15 or more theatres to see it again and again, taking friends and family to see this amazing thing.
1:37-Star Wars
11:37-The Empire Strikes Back
16:44-Return Of The Jedi
You're an angel.
Episode 6: the empire kind of just chills out
They just straight vibin' tho.
Chuckles oh yes
I know this has nothing to do with conversation but I love your gumball profile pitcher 😂
Sebas Giraldo “Pitcher??” Dont u mean...”picture!?” Lmfaoo
@@MerkhVision my bad
“Imagine if you are sitting in the theater and this is what you see,”
Ad plays
It is like that
Ya you see
I laughed far too long at this comment
Yeah, sounds about right.
@@livingforchrist31 Imagine sitting in the theater, and this is what you see:
"You've Unlocked Luigi!"
I was 12 when A new Hope came out. It was the coolest thing ever. I would pick up glass bottles along the side of the road and turn them in at the convenience store to get the deposit back (remember when that was a thing) so I could go see it again. Very few movies have made me feel like that since. It's so sad to see where the franchise has gone.
20:04 Thank fucking Christ, took the words out of my mouth. I don’t get why saying the prequels are absolute shit is suddenly a hot take either.
Prequels are amazing
@@zini__Compared to the sequels yes, but they’re pretty bad movies
"Imagine watching this movie without knowing anything about Star Wars"
I've already done that mate.
Yeah if I get alzheimer's my wife or kids should just let me watch my favorite movie for the first time every day. Make the most of it.
@ROCCO De MAYO yikes
The outburst of “I’m Han Solo” at the end made me like the video
literally same
And it being combined with vader and the stormtroopers dancing 👌
I've loved it ever since JonTron showed it lol
It’s I’m riding solo
Marcus going crazy as Obi Wan and Anakin use their lightsabers as helicopter blades is my new favourite thing
I love coming back and watching these big sprawling franchise reviews. Soooo much content on CZcams but I can't help but rewatch these lol
When you realized you’ve watched the special editions your entire life
I have the 2005 dvds. So I don't have to anymore.
Do you know if you can get punished for having the harmy despecialized editions? Or is it only illegal for the seller but not the buyer.
@@sunwukong5518 yeah you get punished George Lucas breaks in your house with a baseball bat smashes up your DVDs while screaming “Jar Jar is the key to everything”
@@mmmRobe You know what I mean by punished. Maybe a fine or whatever
@@sunwukong5518 No lol. And you don’t actually have to buy them. Although you can pay for someone else to burn the discs and make a bluray box though.
@@sunwukong5518 you can always torrent it
Fun fact: When "A new hope" came out, the tech for the scrolling text in the beginning, hadn't been invented yet. So the crawl effect was accomplished with the camera moving longitudinally along a 6 foot long model.
If this is true how did they keep the stars from moving
@@leaffinite3828 They probably moved the actual text instead of the camera
@@cheesy6122 so this person is just wrong? Or what
@@leaffinite3828 using practical effects, not an editing program
@@asongforthemostbeautifulwo6476 i know. In fact my question is predicated on that fact
I appreciate that a scene was added on Hoth because of an external event.
For those who don't know, Mark Hamill was in a car accident before filming started on Empire Strikes Back that resulted in damage that permenantly altered his face. So Lucas added the scene with the yeti thing abducting Luke which caused the damage to his face.
"Imagine you were sitting in a theater in 1977..."
I don't actually have to imagine it. ;p The film broke half-way through and we had to come back another time to see it in its entirety. It was *excruciating*.
I also vividly remember when our parents took us to see Raiders of the Lost Ark, and at the first shot (of the mountain), my brother whined, "You took us to see a *nature* movie?! :(:("
"Nature movie" 😂. LITTLE DID HE KNOW-
When Marcus started ranting about how it’s a hot take to dislike the prequels, I really felt that
It still utterly baffles me that disliking the prequels is now a hot take.
Something Fierce I think it’s because the kids who watched it are finally old enough for nostalgia.
Jay Sutter ya I’m one of those kids and I enjoy the prequels, I just think that as movies, they’re literal dogshit
Fletcher Gillespie episode 3 is far from “literal dogshit” even with the flaws in the film like the acting, dialogue, asinine romance and too much cgi everywhere.
There’s way too many good scenes and moments and has phenomenal art direction, visuals and music.
Even with its problems, there’s a lot to praise and love.
Fletcher Gillespie
That’s not a hot take.
I hate the original trilogy and love the new movies, that’s a hot take. (That’s actually true, and a much better example)
"Return Of The Jedi sucks"
"6/10"
Maclunkey
Mackunkey
Must be because he doesn’t think it is that bad, but he’s also really disappointed in a sad way.
Also he’s not fucking YMS who’s like: “yeah it was good 5/10”
I really liked RotJ, I think a lot of the criticism is overinflated. The ending is so, so satisfying. The Jabba battle is contrived but really imaginative, the speeder chase was the shit when I was a kid, Luke vs Vader vs Emperor is iconic. There's lots to love. Meh.
@@finze1 okay, now I will tell you what I think:
-The whole Jabba part is indeed contrived and kind of a shitshow but yes it’s fun.
-They just skipped Luke’s transition into a proper Jedi because they had no time for that but they also couldn’t do a time skip because they had to save Han right away “we should just pretend he’s superior to Darth Vader now and he even made a lightsaber god knows how in a matter of a couple of weeks tops, and then let’s make him go back to Yoda because we can’t skip that, but he’ll just say he’s ready and die immediately so we can get that out of the way”.
-The previous point would be less worse if they made it work with Han, but no, Han doesn’t do anything apart from running around in the woods and be jealous of Luke. If you’re thinking “oh but he helped destroy the bunker it was full on Han Solo greatness, you idiot” I invite you compare his involvement in the previous movies and how of an integral character he used to be, that’s why Harrison Ford himself thinks Han should’ve just died and closed his arc in a really tragic and satisfying way instead of all that tomfoolery. Even Force Awakens was a better movie for Han.
-Endor is a very unimaginative location. If you don’t agree that’s okay but compare how fantastic were Tatooine, the Death Star, Hoth, Dagobah and Cloud City were next to the fucking Redwood forest full of Teddy Bears and that’s it.
-I personally think the speeder bike chase is pointless and not exciting at all, and the green screen looks like shit. The only “consequence” is that Leia crashes and meets an Ewok before the rest, I put that on quotes because that has no impact on the story at all. Later on when they capture the rest, she tells them to let them go but they don’t listen anyway so what’s the point?
-I hate the “from a certain point of view” scene. They don’t know what to do with the things they keep retconning and they just make the Jedi look like a bunch of hippie fools who lie to Luke about EVERYTHING. He is not the last Jedi, Darth Vader did not literally kill his father, and Leia is his sister now?! Plus ghost Obi-Wan sits on the log, wtf is that?
-Now that I’m talking about that, I don’t love that “Leia is actually also Vader’s daughter and Luke’s twin sister” I like how they used that to make Luke snap at the end but I don’t quite like how it’s handled with how Luke’s behavior changes immediately from his friend that he obviously fancies to the sister she always knew she was?! What?
-They waste like 15 minutes with the Ewoks. They get captured in a giant net like a cartoon and then the teddy bears take them to their camp and plan to eat them. Thank god two seasoned smugglers (of which one is a giant bear dog) and a oh so powerful Jedi Knight had a golden droid with them to pretend he’s a god, because the Ewoks would’ve killed them all. And then another five minutes of 3PO explaining the whole story so far in another language without subtitles but with sound effects. That whole part is prequel-bad if you ask me.
-In my opinion, the final battle is wrong. We have our known and loved characters in a tensionless scenario with teddy bears killing the empire like in a cartoon on the ground, and the battle in space which has bigger stakes on paper is carried on by characters we don’t know at all except Lando, and he’s not an awesome character if you ask me, so how about at least WE PUT HAN AND CHEWIE ON THEIR FUCKING SHIP and get Lando on the ground, ain’t that better for the audience? The characters we know and love are in real danger and Lando does his job as a not so main character.
-Palpatine is just a really old and evil guy, and he dies without having a character beyond that, this complaint is not so big because the point was Vader’s redemption, not Palpatine himself (but I can’t understand why they complained about Snoke but not about this though, it’s exactly the same PREQUELS DON’T COUNT)
-there’s nothing to tempt Luke with??? Palpatine’s just like “come on Luke become evil, please” “come on Luke kill me please” “come on Luke fight your father” Luke of course says no and that leads to Vader’s redemption, which again that was the point, but there’s no tension, there’s no reason for us to think that Luke might actually turn evil and make us worried that he might just do it, making the scene much less interesting.
-So because they blew up the Death Star again AND killed Palpatine, the Empire is immediately done for all over the galaxy, what? That’s so dumb they’ve been trying to correct it ever since in all kinds of new stories including the extended universe, Battlefront 2 (EA) and The Mandalorian but that doesn’t count.
-After everything is over, the heroes get back together without a single word. They just dance and clap and it ends, pretty unsatisfying for me.
-That’s about it.
@@jorgegranados4547 Tbh I don’t think anyone is gonna read that 🤡
Wow. You're experience with A New Hope is almost exactly my experience with it. Saw it more times than grains of sand in all the Earth but then watched with a GF many years ago who hadn't seen them. I completely wiped my mind of any opinions on the movie, pretended it was 1977 and gave it a go. I have never watched any Star Wars movie since without putting myself in the mindset of the time of its release, sitting in my imaginary theater, cranking the volume, and being absolutely stunned. Doing that with the Harmy Despecialized blew my little mind.
Im Gen Z so the prequels were my childhood 😭
Attack of The Clones, Revenge Of the Sith and 'Star Wars Clone Wars' (Cartoon Network) especially hold a special place in my heart 💚
I never knew these films were hated until I discovered the Internet 😂
In hindsight they are very wooden, cringe and boring at times. But the nostalgia carries me through!
Nice to see ya enjoy them. For me they are terrible movies, and I did grow up with them, but if you acknowledge their flaws and like them regardless, good for you
@@harveyfox6856 Oh these movies are terrible. Prequels are garbage.
Fucking love them. You do too, admit it
I felt like Luke after he found out that Vader is his dad when i found out that ROTJ & ROTS aren't good movies.
@@clunkwestweed4541 As much as i want to say i hate it the good moments are peak star wars. Love the fights they have so much meaning to them especially obi wan vs anakin
Yeah. They're goofy, totally ridiculous, poorly written nonsense films but dammit sometimes they're fun
When you said “weird goblin that steals his hotdog” a lot of drink flew out of my nose from laughter
I always thought they looked like fish sticks.
@@GuardianTam What do you prefer? Hotdogs or fish sticks?
Props to George Lucas’s exwife. The only reason the original trilogy was as good as it was. These cinematic “geniuses” are only as good as their editor.
Yep the original cut of the film edit was horrible.
I've kept saying that Star Wars has only been as good as the people around George make it. Every time Lucas has a lot of the final say in the films we get stuff like the Prequels and ROTJ.
Does George not know he's a hack?
At least he loves SW unlike those greedy Disney pigs
Tayo Jones not really, all behind the scenes and everything shows how not interested in anything george was with the prequels, complain about TLJ all you want, but Rian Johnson was very happy and loved doing Star Wars unlike george during the prequel era
20:26 This extended saber swing in the background of his angry prequel rant kills me every time.
It took us 2months to get to see it in 1977....the lines where crazy long and every showing would sell out.
When we did finally see it it blew my mind. It was an experience that I had never seen before. I will never forget that viewing.
"And an evil cyborg samurai wizard".
Thats, oddly accurate
Never heard it put that way and it's perfect
Yeah
@@GallosPole57 oddly?
Prequel Trilogy: **chuckles** I'm in danger.
As if the prequel trilogy hasn't had a random teenager on CZcams shit on it.
Anthonest I’m pretty sure Cosmonaut is more than just a random teenager
Joseph Tacitus HEY they gave us memes!
@Joseph Tacitus tell me where in my comment I said the prequels didn't suck? I'm just tired of the children whining when the sequels are clearly worse.
@@Anthonest1 ehh the sequels are mostly just retreads of the OT, so they are predictable (unless the director has a boner for SuBvErTiNg ExPeCtAtIoNs), but the prequels were a special kind of suck that happens when you give a guy like Lucas, who has good grand vision but is shit at fleshing it out, too much creative control. IMO, the prequels are worse
He said "that new mandalorian show" like he was a quirky dad.
Came back to watch this masterpiece again and I just noticed the Father Gascoigne theme when you were roasting the prequels at the end! 😂😂 Been playing Bloodborne nonstop for the past week which is why I picked up on it. Good taste in music and in games, brother!
Yoda is a weird goblin that steals Luke’s hotdogs
I have never been so offended by something I 100% agree with.
“I’ve got a bad feeling about this”
@@effecteyvee864 ok boomer
@@everythingalldwight4939 lmaooooooo
@@effecteyvee864 you okay buddy?
@@effecteyvee864 profile pic checks out
Same profile pic mate!
Thank you for saying A New Hope is amazing! So many people nowadays act like it’s boring, but it’s so good.
i love how casually the emperor says "yes i know"
Imagine if Han died in Empire, then the emotional weight of this transferred into ROTJ, and Luke lost his shit in the final battle against Vader...
Something to think about.
Bruce Quayle “losing his shit” is not the Jedi way though
Revenge and anger is not the Jedi way. Much to learn, you still have.
@@IngvarMar except that's exactly what he did in the final battle.
But that means no Kylo ren bc he wouldnt have existed if Han died in Empire
Goosegg 46 yeah Luke freaked out at how close he came to the dark side while looking at his hands.
“You cannot watch the original 1977 cut of A New Hope legally”
Me: *owns a dvd of A New Hope with the original 1977 cut on the second disk* “Are you sure about that?”
But...how?
Except that version isn't that great. I have that too in fact, with the entire trilogy with the special editions as the main feature and the unaltered versions as a bonus disc. What sucks though is the quality isn't that great and there is motion smearing along with dryed out color.
Get rid of it before the fbi come and arrest you
@@sanchobanana3507 i0.wp.com/nerdvanamedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/dvd_saga.jpg?w=640
this image shows the box sets of both trilogies that I have
@@colonelstarsandstripes5379 it's the best legal release we have of them tho
Apparently the opening crawl to Star Wars (1977) was heavily rewritten by Brian De Palma, a good friend of George Lucas who disliked the film's first edit. If the film had kept its original opening crawl, it would've been just as boring and uninteresting as the opening crawls for the prequels.
I will always love the original trilogy. Even with it’s problems, I still really like return of the Jedi.
“There is still those brave souls playing Battlefront”
I am a brave soul then
J L Lol same honestly I would say it’s a good game and it’s rlly disappointing it didn’t launch the way it is now
Xploding Sushi agreed
Its pretty good now, but only some of it. The sequel trilogy stuff is shit and no one cares, the OT era stuff isn't fleshed out enough, GA is annoying restrictive and boring, most of the smaller modes aren't played anymore, the campaign and arcade are DOGSHIT they make me want to harm myself. The only good stuff is the clone wars content, but it's so annoying because you have like 110 GB game but like 80% of it is shit. Honestly they should have just made this a clone wars only game. Just like how the first one was a OT only game if they just did cw for the second they could have focused on it more and given us even more content, then the next game could be ST or KOTOR.
I would be but the game broke for me for some reason the mouse courser doesn't work
@@-LAH bossk is pretty good, gunplay is super casual and not enough weapons, but it's decent fun.
Star wars logo comes up
Everyone: Ahh!!! WhAt tHE FuCk
When I took my little brother to his first Star Wars movie (TLJ), he was talking to me, not looking at the screen as the opening Lucasfilm logo came up. When the opening title popped up onto the screen, he jumped about 8 inches out of his seat. One of the hardest laughs I've ever had.
@@MrTkillian I'd get a kick out of that but I'd start em on the OT.
@@Sam-im5tc Trust me. I've tried. But it's pretty telling that at 15 even he thought TLJ was pretty weak.
@@MrTkillian Well no argument there. I consider it the worst of the franchise myself. Couldn't tell ya for the life of me who any of the important side characters are.
@@Sam-im5tc I agree, though ATOTC is pretty bad, but it was the first SW movie I saw in theaters so it has that nostalgia going for it. My biggest problem with TLJ is that I actually was interested in the main characters after TFA, but TLJ did next to nothing to build on it. Plus what it did to Luke. Plus just overall bad writing and disjointed narrative, tone and acting.
The reason I love empire strikes back is because of the cinematography. Almost every scene is just a work of art, I mean I want a picture of cloud city or Han and leia before Han is frozen in carbonate hung up in my room
Finally watched Star Wars for the first time as a 37 year old. So happy to see one of my favourite content creators has made a series on it! Can’t wait to catch up!
Marcus: Why didn’t Luke Just Kill Jaba Then?
Well Uncle Cosmonaut, It’s because he wanted the pleasure of looking at Slave Leia. Little did he know Yoda would tell him 5 minutes laters that’s his damn sister.
your opinion is immediately devalued because you have a fortnite prof pic
@@nali2076 why should a picture dictate what you think of a joke?how picky are you?calm tf down
Red_Roses Even if I dislike Fortnite, (I hate it a lot) I don’t judge the people that do. People have their own opinions, you know.
holy shit it was a fucking joke I don’t care what his profile picture is
@@nali2076 redditor found
this series is the best gift i could ever imagine receiving
Bonnie Lennox IKR
Marry me
Kiwi S. FBI open up!!!!!!
First saw 'Return of the Jedi' on VHS in the 1980's at a neighbour kid's house, and thought it looked mind-blowing. Then years later at school the Lord of the Rings-reading kid in my class brought 'Star Wars' on VHS to play and I'm like "this is just 2 robots walking in the desert, boring!" and didn't watch the rest. Then when I was 20 I finally watched all 3 movies in a row, and clearly 'Empire' is the best, but my adult opinion of the first and third movies also completely flipped. Gotta say tho, if you watch something like hover-bikes flying through forests at a formative age, like 4 years old, you're gonna be fond of that imagery forever. It was the perfect preparation for the first movie I ever saw in a real cinema, "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids", which had similar looking special FX, with blue screen, miniatures, stop-motion, etc. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk, I turned 38 today.
I remember hearing somewhere a really fascinating point about the opening scene of A New Hope that has stuck with me since. The point they were making was about the impact of the star destroyer's design. We see this tiny rebel ship, and then following behind is an Empire ship that starts large, but because it's a wedge shape the ship slowly grows larger and larger from the perspective of the audience. Combine this with this being the first time most in the audience had experienced Dolby surround sound, with the big bassy rumbling of the star destroyer's engines, and I can imagine the impact must've been immense.
“You can ONLY watch illegally”. (Unless u and ur dad bought the original VHS tapes and burned the original versions onto discs to keep).
Hehe😏
@@rishabhpoikayil7621 unless you have the original VHS of the trilogy there is literally absolutely no way to watch the theatrical cuts of the movies.
Although there is a version of the 2004 special edition box set that has both the 2004 rereleases and the theatrical cuts on dvd but the quality of the dvd is a bit wonky and that version of the box set is more rare than the original VHS's
Even the VHS has some slight edits to the theatrical versions. Not as much as the 97 re-releases, but just some subtle ones
actually that too is illegal you arent allowed to copy the vhs so still ilegal just nobody cares if it is
@@rishabhpoikayil7621 See the 'Despecialized' Versions.
Yvng Armz
That’s exactly what I’m going to do this week 😂
Words can’t describe the sudden release of dopamine upon seeing this in my notifications
I love how you did a Star Trek reference to start the video. Two of my favorite franchises.
I had a very similar experience with A New Hope. I watched the clone wars, the prequels, and the sequels before the originals. But when I did I tried to see it as a movie that just came out back in the day and that really pulled me into it. Instead of scoffing at the weird acting and bad choreography, I was legitimately hyped for the future of the series even though I already knew where it would end up.
Everyone's going to pretend they didn't see the fan art of Han and Luke making out on his computer in the intro?
Cool.
hold up
Oh I saw it alright. Please send help.
Nicholas Foong 0:19
😂😂😂 I legit didn’t see it until you pointed it out!
☠️☠️☠️
Hot take: That Star Wars Kinnect Han Solo song is actually unironicly good
I've never met a person who doesn't love that song, whether it be straight up or a secret guilty pleasure.
Google MC Chris, Boba Fett
Uuuuh okk i think we’ve gone far enough with agreeing that the prequels are somewhat good. This song reallly shouldn’t get the same treatment
I agree shit slaps a little too hard
Yes, i think it's really funny and selfaware
Great Video! I LOVE THIS TRILOGY SOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!! It's so Iconic!
Love how he explains yoda as "a weird goblin that steals Luke's hotdogs"
The Jedi can have sex just not have an attachment, Yoda ain't spend them 900 years celibate
Yeah Prostitutes/One Night Stands are ok, Wifes/Husbands and Girl-/Boyfriends not.
Ki-Adi-Mundi was married but that was because his species needed every member to procreate since they were endangered.
Yoda: “Destroyed, the Jedi will be. Create offspring, I had better”.
*FIFTY YEARS LATER*
Everyone: BABY YODA MEMES!!!!!!!!
@@gokbay3057 ironic, but I geuss attachment would make it more likely for you to fall to the dark side.
None of the shit from the prequels is canon, in my eyes.
@@cynicaltheastrocreep4504 Ok boomer
“The only people that like them are children and people who watched them as children”
As a person who was a child when the prequels released and absolutely loves them, I can say with certainty that this sentence is absolutely correct.
Jude Gorman as a person who watched the prequels as I child, I disagree
The prequels were made FOR children, so in essence, they are great movies cuz they pleased the target demographic. I saw the originals and prequels as a child, and liked the prequels better cuz they were more exciting. I got super bored watching Han and Leia fix the Falcon inside a space slug, and Luke lifting rocks on Dagobah. The bad writing/dialog things weren't apparent to me until I was an adult. HOWEVER... on re-watching the originals, I noticed that many of those same flaws existed. A lot of the dialog in ANH in particular is super cringey (which CVH's biased ass didn't even comment on). The universe in the Originals also just seems so empty and boring, now that the prequels have established and built up so much lore.
nahor88 that’s exactly true, that’s why I feel like a lot of strengths in the prequels is as good as the originals (some even better)
@@nahor88 what did you think of the long ass politics in the prequels
yup, was 8 in 99
I'm happy I watched a new hope when I was 7, that's 10 years ago now and I can still remember the feeling of not knowing anything, and the universe growing on me over the last years is so awesome
I'm rewatching this series again for some reason, and that prequel meltdown just has me in tears. Again.
"You cannot legally watch the original version of this movie."
Me: *laughs in laserdisc*
Didn't even know what that was until I saw this comment and Googled it.
*Laughs in VCR*
@@katanafourzeronine I thought it was another word os dvd or something until I saw *this* reply and the one below it
They did technically release the original versions on DVD but they were in the absolute WORST version possible in terms of clean up, sound quality, and visuals. Worth it though
Holy fuck, that is one well aged reference
20:03 Count Dooku riding a space scooter gets me everytime
I feel I have to defend the Twilight special edition re-release. Not all the changes were necessary; Adding all those CGI bats throughout the film was frankly gratuitous. But I think the scene where Edward reveals his face in full light, and his skin burns off, really fixed one of my big problems with the original.
I can't believe no one was talking about how perfectly Marcus sync the word "sex" and the pelvis movement at 15:32.
I honestly thought you would talk about Mandalorian before the previous movies
ComplicatedInfo Angry much?
@@effecteyvee864 wat
@@effecteyvee864 "Imma beat that attitood up outchu bittchh you big fat biitchh oompa loompa body-ass bitch"
Why? New episodes are still coming out he will probably wait until it's finished and then talk about it. That makes more sense.
@@effecteyvee864 wow.
Cosmonaut: "You can't watch the original version of this movie legally."
Me with my THX VHS tape set: "Oh, I don't think so."
Probably meant in HD, you either have the original VHS scans or Special edition DVD cuts in 360/480p
Exactly, the original VHS tapes don't even look bad at all. Hell with my VCR they're upscaled to wide-screen and look as good as any DVD.
My dad had one bit we lost it 😔
@@TheKingOfRooks they're stretched to 16:9??? 🤮🤮
@@Maisonikkokufan there's no image loss it's just a VCR that makes em fit with the screen as best they can
It's tradition to return to the masterpiece of a video once in a while. Thanks for this creation Cosmonaut
"evil cyborg samurai wizard" is *chef's kiss*
Your breakdown of the repeated Han/Greedo edits was amazing.
"Return of the jedi is bad"
*gives it a better than average score.*
MrOffice Ikr. On my channel, 6/10 is good but not great. He made it sound like he hated it 😂
MrOffice it’s the best of the trilogy...
Wtf CZcams I get that it’s your opinion and that’s fine. But it’s wrong.
@@monty3916 I get that your criticism of your comment is an opinion, and that's fine... but you're wrong
Even with the stuff he hated, he still had to admit that the movie was better than average. There was some really good stuff in it, like seeing Luke doing his Jedi thing to rescue Han, the speeder bike scene, the Yoda scene that has Luke beginning to come to grips with the fact that Vader is his father, the Obi-Wan scene with Luke having to deal with the fact that he can't kill his father, the scene with Luke and Vader reuniting for the first time since their fight, the throne room fight, and let's not forget the amazing space battle to end the film. I can see why the Ewoks aren't too popular with people, and maybe George did make a mistake by not having that battle on Kashyyyk so that the Wookies would be fighting the Stormtroopers, but overall, there's a lot of really good stuff in ROTJ. It's not as bad as his hatred makes it out to be. Plus, Lando was just so awesome in this movie. Billy Dee Williams' acting was so good. Also, can we get some love for 3PO growing as a character in this film? In Star Wars, 3PO tells Luke that he's not much for telling stories, but in ROTJ, 3PO does a fantastic job of telling stories to the Ewoks. So, even 3PO grew as a character throughout the trilogy.
Cosmonaut in his last Jedi vid: I think every Star Wars movie sucks
Also cosmonaut in this vid: a new hope is the perfect movie
Geralt of Trivia it is a joke. He just wanted to point out that Star Wars has always been cheesy
I know you, youre Jimmy Neutrons Dad
my childhood. had the movies on VHS like many other 80s movies i grew up with and watched them all the time. Luke was my first crush and that feeling hasn't changed. can't wait to rewatch them all again with my niece this year (the original unedited versions of course).
I think 6/10 is fair for Jedi. The end is absolutely incredible - the space battle is one of the best ever put to film, Luke's confrontation with Vader and the Emperor is epic, and the movie just ends extremely strong all around. But it only really begins once this battle begins. Everything before that is an absurd mess, just missed opportunities and baffling decisions left and right.
I actually liked the Prequels.
Granted I was 12.
And hadn't seen the original trilogy.
And was a bit of an idiot.
We've all had that moment where we watch the prequels and we like them until we rewatch them. You're not alone
@@OhCityGround yep, I loved the prequels as much as humanly possible, and now aotc is my least favorite star wars movie, but rots was the only one that stuck with me
@@OhCityGround i came back to Star wars after years and believing that the prequels are very good and fun to watch. So, i made a Star wars marathon, the OT was awesome i loved every second. I thought the prequels would have the same effect. Jesus Christ i could barely watch them without falling asleep. Finally i got why people call them bad. They are so boring and bad
@@billnyetherussianspy1596 younglings scene?
@@user-nx9jt6dm3q well they certainly never got the chance to rewatch the prequels and see all the flaws
9:45
“We are pirates! We don’t even know what that means!”
saw all them for the first time last year (spinoffs too) binged them at one sitting. started at midnight and ended at 2 am the next day
I like how underused the force was compared to the other movies in A New Hope. Basically it was used for mind control, chocking ppl, and miraculous stunts. And the only light saber battle was between obiwan and Darth Vader which was pretty funny because of how stiff the fight was relative to other movies.
The vast majority of Star Wars movies have only one lightsaber fight.Phantom Menace had two but the First was super brief, and The Last Jedi technically had three but one was a flashback, one didn’t actually use lightsabers, and one had a ghost just dodging the lightsaber. Revenge of the Sith is the only one too really capitalize on lightsaber duels, having a massive total of five.
Look up scene 38 re-imagined on CZcams. They remade the fight between obi-wan and Vader and it's the coolest thing ever
It is between two senior citizens and one is a walking iron lung, so it checks out.
It worked so well too because they're both old as shit now. It's been 18 years.
When you see them in the prequels, the way they fight was so dynamic and fast.
In the books, Darth Vader misses the way he used to be able to fight. So it just works so well
@@rune0742 definitely something that wouldve been attempted if the technology was better at that time
I felt a disturbance, as if millions of /r/prequelmemers cried out at once
Those people remind me of a cult. A funny cult but a cult none the less.
P Allen we most certainly are a cult, brainwashed and all
Goos Actually, they all do. Just look at what they think of the sequel trilogy by comparison.
Ceiling Fan you offended me for calling me an idiot
@@andrea_ottaviano_augusto88 that's Reddit for ya
This is how I saw the original trilogy, I went into it as a kid without know a single thing. I was 7 when my mind was blown.
2:03 , This moment literally have this mindset anytime I was rewatching something.
Just throwing it out there, Star Wars battlefront 2 is a completely different game now. And not only that but a fun one too
I honestly can't give DICE enough credit for turning one of my most hated games into one of my favorites. It's really, really fun
Bought it last week for 20$ and I'm enjoying it
I agree
It's even worse
@@matthewstephen4014 bruh how
I think I just find some of the more ridiculous stuff in Return of the Jedi more endearing that Marcus does. Perhaps it’s nostalgia or a difference in taste, but I just find it to be an immensely fun and satisfying film
I agree. While I know V is a better movie and IV really is a perfect starting point, VI is my personal favorite. The finale usually has the best moments since it can show the Hero at their best. In V, Luke could barely move his lightsabre, but in VI, he can lift C-3PO in a wooden throne.
I know everyone hates on the prequels but it's my love of the original trilogy that makes me rethink the early 2000 ones. The first Star Wars movies I saw were the prequels and they were great! I understood most things and, tho I know the dialogue is bad and didn't have editors to fix such things, the badly written things were easy to understand.
For me, the original saga (first six episodes) are the movies I enjoy, that I watch on my own or with others. And so far, The Mandalorian has a similar feel to the original three. If you've never seen a Star Wars thing before, the setting is weird, but it draws you in. There's a charm to it; one that all three movies have.
@Geralt of Trivia iblove the ewoks. They were my childhood. We all loved the awoke back then. I don't get this sudden hate for them. It must be this new generation of fans that wasn't there
@Geralt of Trivia Ooo... I really disagree with that one. If we're removing the ewoks can we also remove the puffin-merchandise that is porgs? They were only added due to the native birds being in every stinking shot and, unlike ewoks, don't add anything to the plot. Real question, in Legends Boba didn't die and had actually been eaten a few times before, has this been changed with Disney's new canon or do we simply not know?
@Geralt of Trivia That's too bad, Boba was an awesome character. You & I have very different definitions of embarrassment if you think the ewoks are but the porgs aren't. In the OT, no one brought the ewoks with them, so yeah, their cute and they don't blink but there only on one tiny moon of the planet Endor. Porgs are everywhere and unlike ewoks they aren't real. You can't what's on screen b/c they're computer generated, but ewoks? Ewoks are practical, at least there's something for the actors to look at. Porgs should've stayed on the island just like the puffins do...
Same
You can make just about any movie set anywhere about any subject by modelling it on the Star Wars template. It's not just Hero's Journey but a whole blueprint for world-building.
A long time ago my dad bought the Star Wars films on VHS. It was a packaged set, episodes 4 5 and 6.
I think it was the OG theatrical versions.
"you can only watch illegally"
me: *stares at all original versions my nerd dad owns*
Og gangster
Same, bro. My dad has to buy a VCR just to watch them
*Do you want to see the most illegal thing I own?*
Me
@@archivist_13 i'm not even sure where my dad got it from and i think it's the thing that scares me the most
"dispite the graphic male nudity I thought it was pretty good"
*the reylo theory has been confirmed*
Eww.
you mean Finnpoe
@Geordie walker absolutely tf not
@@colonelstarsandstripes5379 too late it's confirmed
Lmaoooo
The long lead-in with Luke is mirrored in the paperback tie in that came out in Dec 1976. It works better there at establishing his character, and giving his experience more of a grand scale as the farm boy goes from observer to participant, but for the film, Lucas bet correctly that the sweep of the special effects and relentless action sequences would pull us in.
Lucas was blending his two prior films in "Star Wars" namely "THX 1138" and "American Graffiti." Most of the latter references, like Luke hanging with Biggs and his buds Tatoonie-side, were cut out. Like you say, the pacing was found to be wanting. But it's part of the backstory you sense even now watching what's on screen.
Star wars was a very interesting movie it entertained me and I liked how the intro tells you how this universe/galaxy works
I'm glad you're doing this. These movies are way too caught up in the hype machine to get any kind of real coherent thought, good or bad. I'm used to Star Wars reviews being always very hyperbolic and I I'm excited for part 2.
I mean he did call ANH "the perfect movie" and said he was going to be hyperbolic. SO....
I agree but the way he talks in most of his videos I doubt that he’s going to be taking anything close to a nuanced view of the prequels.