+Billy Cobb I actually got my information from the foreword of The Complete Visual Dictionary(2006) where Rob Coleman(one of Lucasfilm's animation directors) says "...we knew Lucas had written a fabled nine episodes, but there was only speculation back then[1983] as to whether he would ever return to the series." From that I gathered that George Lucas planned ad wrote 9 films, but never told anyone that he actually was going to make more after ROTJ
when I saw Return of the Jedi in the theater opening week i remember when Vader saves Luke and picks the Emperor up and throws him over into the reactor the entire audience stood up and cheered for Vader until the Emperor was dead the roof nearly came off the Building,,lol-it was an epic moment if there ever was one-glad I was part of it-those were the days
walter w God that sounds great. I hope these new ones can one day pull that off. There's been some terrific moments. But haven't pulled that off quite yet for me. Maybe just because those were such a big deal then an there was nothing like it at all back then. Now there's tons of space type monies. But I think the third one of this new trilogy will be incredible and be an amazing film.
Jason Malmberg Lol I wonder why he said that it was random lol. He should have stated. “Oh yeah after I get back from london visiting the royal family. What’s up Diana.”
There was nothing "predicted." Lucas stated all along that he had nine parts in mind, loosely, and intended to work on the prequels. The divorce and technological stalling kept that from continuing at the time.
The Dude 7 even Mark hamil said In the 80s that 7 8 and 9 we’re gonna start happening by 2011-2012 and that was when Disney bought Star Wars. George is from the future. From a galaxy far far away
My mom used to work at movie theaters and I'd seen so many major 80's movies (Raiders, Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, Beverly Hills Cop) and I was fortunate to see Return of the Jedi 8 times when it was first released. The 80's were amazing.
$4.50 in 1983 is equivalent to $11.18 today when adjusted for inflation. An adult matinee at the theater in Highland Mall currently costs $9.00 and an evening ticket is $11.
What I meant to say is that so many viewers today only ever criticise Lucas for his faults (namely the countless changes that he made for the Special Editions and some of his creative choices for the Star Wars Prequels). Many people forget about his great accomplishments in the film industry.
One of the happiest memories I have was Me and Dad going to see this in 83 when I was a young kid. He was only on this earth for 58 years, and we were just lower middle -class, but we had enough fun and great memories to fill 10 lifetimes.
MASSEFFECTfan101 well back then it was hard to believe that George wouldn’t make more Star Wars movies. Especially with out the internet and dirt sheets. People probably expected more Star Wars movies every two or three years. Not having to wait thirty years
Agree, it was the good old days where everyone has that exciting enthusiastic atmospheric feeling, i watch movies back then when i was a kid, and some movies were cool, i never read critic's review back then, like for example Ghostbusters 2, it was a great sequel and now decades later, i saw the review in the internet it was kind of negative, critics back then are just the same as today
I saw Empire and Jedi in a theater with a bigger screen than today's IMAX. It also had quadrophonic sound and I'll never forget how the walkers battle shook the theater!
Those were the days of good imagination...remember when we were kids we used to actually interact and go outside to play..ride bikes..hide and go seek..I miss being a kid..this world today sucks
Everyone liked "Return of the Jedi" then and it was regarded as the biggest of the trilogy, but since the '90s it has become the cool thing to say everyone hates it and because of the Ewoks.
Space Cats what the hell kind of theater do you go to that costs almost $20 for tickets? any idea got to are less than $10! Maybe with popcorn it's that much, cheaper to just smuggle food in
Keywell Coins It was for the 3D showing of Star Wars the Force Awakens. I didn't buy anything extra with it. I also live in a expensive state in the US.
"9 part series". Lucas always intended to create 9 films. His plan was: - Create the middle 3 first. - Create a backstory to Darth Vader to explain the lore with 3 more movies. - Use the aged actors from the first 3 to make a final 3 part series concluding the story.
BS excuse. Took me 2 minutes to amplify the audio, downmix to mono because only one track had any audio in it (in audacity) and remux into the video file.
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I remember reading, I think it was Electric Company Magazine, an article from 1980 or so, describing a story meant to be covered in 9 movies. Star Wars, Empire, Jedi then three before and three after.
Tickets go from $4.50 to $5?! What is this madness?! Can you just imagine if tickets here in Australia today were sold for $20?! What is this world coming to...?
Since CZcams didn't exist in 1983, it wasn't possible to sign up to be a CZcams star to make money ironically by complaining about people who make movies to make money.
A little off the subject, but growing up in Austin as a kid in the 70’s and 80’s, I thought it was a sleepy place and Dallas and Houston was where all the action was with professional baseball and football, AstroWorld, and Six Flags. I was blessed to live there and didn’t even know it!
You have NO IDEA. Internet & social media desensitized youth to violence/pornography and ruined human interaction/manners. There was always trouble makers, but at least they had some respect & FEAR of authority. Now when i leave my house i have to worry about whether a 12yo & his friends might try to kill me if i confront them for doing something bad! Our neighbor had his throat slashed in THE SUBURBS for confronting young teens drinking beers & vaping in the school playground at 3 in the afternoon. Turning away from Jesus/The Bible brings societal destruction.
When I was a kid in 1977, I paid ¢.50 to watch Star Wars at the matinee at the Base Movies, I found that in the seat cushions, plus another ¢.50 cents I had in my piggy bank for popcorn and a coke.
I remember gladly paying $4.50 to $5.00 in those days to get into the Movie theater, and never thought anything of it! Although, the Movies were far better back then, then they are today. Good Movies are much rarer today, than they were in the 1980's. Compared to what we pay today, it was a bargain! My, how times have changed!
Dang. I was born way after the original trilogy came out, but if I could only time travel back to that time and experience those films in a theater... That just sounds so incredible to me.
Ya since the second film Lucas spoke to multiple writers and actors about writing and planning for 40-50 years down the road to finish the saga as a soft of passing the torch for generations
qwe6348 you’re probably right. My point was I paid $5-6 extra dollars for an experience that felt the same as if I’d just seen a normal showing. I didn’t notice any HD sound or video compared to a normal showing. Maybe I would need to watch one in RPX and then immediately go watch a normal showing to see the difference? 🤷🏻♂️
SEAtown Rider yeaa I feel the same sometimes, sometimes it's hard to tell but when you go to a standard showing the frames per second are weird , sometimes things will look more blurry and things kinda slide in a weird way
When i saw this with my friend at the cinema, we were both blown away by this movie. It was a SCI FI roller coaster ride ! Certainly one of the greatest Cinema experiences i've ever seen.
I really miss these kind of days. When people would walk into a theater with an open mind. No obnoxious cell phones, nobody texting/snapchatting/tweeting during the movie. When people left the theater, some might not have enjoyed it, but the vast majority did. This was before it was "cool" and "edgy" to see every new movie in the franchise and desperately search for reasons to hate it. The internet has poisoned the movie going experience. We feel better about ourselves when we can go home, sign up to be a CZcams star so we can make money from bashing and hating the new movies, and hating the people that made them because "Oh they don't care about making a good movie all they care about is money". I miss the days when people just watched movies to be entertained. If you didn't like it, great. Nobody has to enjoy anything. But it really seems like back in this era people who didn't enjoy these movies would just tell you they didn't like it, rather then writing a thesis about how horrible it is and ironically trying to make money from your criticisms of people making movies to make money.
Philip Gregory Exactly right. The new edgy is treating a lame corporate product like a masterpiece, and denouncing all criticism as invalid. The bandwagon is all the rage today.
Dantius The difference between you and me is that I waited for the movie to be released to form an opinion about it, whereas you went into the "corporate driven" movie with that in your head so of course you didn't enjoy it. The proof of my post, is the criticism of Disney people are giving the last jedi. They all claim the force awakens was a copy, yet for some odd reason they decided to continue to give these "corporate driven" movie makers their money after they have demonstrated they "copied a new hope" and continuously see each new movie they release just to upload videos on CZcams begging for subscribers. Then they say they hate how Disney is only making these movies to make money, which is damn ironic because the CZcams reviewers make their complaining videos to, of course, make money!
All the people seem so friendly, social, and well spoken back then. I wish things could be like that now. and the $5 movies. No wonder there so much high expectation now a days. :D
I can mostly agree. Can’t say I miss the perms and public hair bushes. But overall the people were way cooler, much more relaxed and happy. I see girls today with short shorts hiked up over there belly buttons, ass cheeks hanging out, looking like hookers in cold climates glued to their phones and they are dull and boring. Everything they say or do comes right off the internet. They don’t know the difference in sexy vs sexual. Like Salsa vs Twerking. Know what I mean? They have these weird fucked up high expectations, swiping left or right, when they are typically lazy chunkers. The future sucks.
Wow, Lorraine Woodward. I used to watch her when she broadcast out of Sacramento in the late 80's and early 90's. Didn't know she had been in Austin before that.
Those were the good old days. It’s 2018. They killed Star Wars. ORDER 66 issued on Rian Johnson. He will go down as one of the worst directors/writers in the history of sci-fi.
If you look at the original,movies today for rjr first time you wouldnt be saying such stuoid things. You hold an attwchment to them because you were probably much younger. They werent better, its sentimental value that makes you believe its better.
Its interesting how people didn't understand/didn't love Empire Strikes when it first came out; then they fell in love with Return of the Jedi three years later. Now the relationship is the reverse with Empire being the best, and Jedi being the worst of the best. Really shows you how perspectives change over time. Maybe the same could be said over the Sequel Trilogy????
Oh it certainly will. People are more positive about the prequels these days. I think the sequels have some genuine issues but I do foresee the reactionary internet mobs dying down eventually. But then again maybe not, our movie-going culture is entirely different these days, especially with the internet.
I went to the movies with someone in 1993 to see "Cliffhanger" and almost laughed when the guy took with the intention of reading outside the theater until the movie started. No, that's when you go in the theater to get your seat.
I know this theatre is renovated by now, but I'm looking out for any buildings in the distance to see where this was. That building in the background at 0:36 looks like a boat rental, so it's defiantly near the theatre, and the bridge at 0:08
and not one person was edited in to say what an *overhyped, rotten piece of doodah* it was but at least the folk of Austin were very snazzily dressed for the occassion
Notice how she called it a 9-part series in 1983, interesting
i know right? had to triple check that
+Billy Cobb George Lucas always intended 9 movies
Isaiah Sheddy not entirely true, in an interview after ROTS came out he said the saga was over
+Billy Cobb I actually got my information from the foreword of The Complete Visual Dictionary(2006) where Rob Coleman(one of Lucasfilm's animation directors) says "...we knew Lucas had written a fabled nine episodes, but there was only speculation back then[1983] as to whether he would ever return to the series." From that I gathered that George Lucas planned ad wrote 9 films, but never told anyone that he actually was going to make more after ROTJ
Billy Cobb that’s because he was annoyed with the reception of the prequel trilogy. He had planned from the very beginning 9 movies.
Legend has it that kid is still in London to this day
+Ugly Coyote I am the little kid you mention you have no idea how hard my life has been keep your opinions to yourself
+Gandalf the white -_-
Ugly Coyote Wait a minute is he on Thatchers staff?
England is his city
Gandalf the white I'm sure you were
My right ear enjoyed this video
You made me realize I had each earphone in the other ear
On yo feet maggot My right nut enjoyed that TV reporter.
Lol. Mine too
I agree idk why they just mix it to dual mono why not...
I was looking for this comment.
when I saw Return of the Jedi in the theater opening week i remember when Vader saves Luke and picks the Emperor up and throws him over into the reactor the entire audience stood up and cheered for Vader until the Emperor was dead the roof nearly came off the Building,,lol-it was an epic moment if there ever was one-glad I was part of it-those were the days
walter w God that sounds great. I hope these new ones can one day pull that off. There's been some terrific moments. But haven't pulled that off quite yet for me. Maybe just because those were such a big deal then an there was nothing like it at all back then. Now there's tons of space type monies. But I think the third one of this new trilogy will be incredible and be an amazing film.
David Norris Not to mention social media is everywhere these days so spoilers run like wildfire.
Dude, spoilers
JohnBillings true that. It sucks
Id be pissed if people stood up
That kid is an international baller. "As soon as I get back from London"
Jason Malmberg Lol I wonder why he said that it was random lol. He should have stated. “Oh yeah after I get back from london visiting the royal family. What’s up Diana.”
lmao its probably the town london texas.
CWA hahah how far is London Texas from Austin
2 and a half to 3 hours, depending on traffic
Fighter Pilot o hi mark
"9 part series" damn
They predicted the prequel and sequel trilogy!
There was nothing "predicted." Lucas stated all along that he had nine parts in mind, loosely, and intended to work on the prequels. The divorce and technological stalling kept that from continuing at the time.
RedHotSackboy
No they didn't. George Lucas did mention he was planning a 9 part series during he was filming Return of the Jedi....
The Dude 7 even Mark hamil said In the 80s that 7 8 and 9 we’re gonna start happening by 2011-2012 and that was when Disney bought Star Wars. George is from the future. From a galaxy far far away
TheSmokeyS's
Yeah true.
My mom used to work at movie theaters and I'd seen so many major 80's movies (Raiders, Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, Beverly Hills Cop) and I was fortunate to see Return of the Jedi 8 times when it was first released. The 80's were amazing.
They sure were
Andre Wallace The 80s were awesome my dude. The best in my mind anyways
The 80s were good when it came to SOME music and MOST movies. The fashion? Forget about it! The car designs? FUCKING forget about it!
You are a blessed guy
Kaven Haul 83-89 iroc camaro(black) is my favorite ride. But I hear ya , for the most part the cars not real great
Lmao "Tickets are going from $4.50-$5.00, but no one seems to mind" if only she knew
$4.50 in 1983 is equivalent to $11.18 today when adjusted for inflation. An adult matinee at the theater in Highland Mall currently costs $9.00 and an evening ticket is $11.
william mckinley amc here is $14
50 years from now it'll be $50 but no one will seem to mind.
That's almost $16 in 2024
Most ticket were only $1 at this time.
0:57 "Lucas, total genius", Wow, you never hear that about him anymore.
Beau Ferret Well Lucas and John Lennon both had their bad moments
What I meant to say is that so many viewers today only ever criticise Lucas for his faults (namely the countless changes that he made for the Special Editions and some of his creative choices for the Star Wars Prequels).
Many people forget about his great accomplishments in the film industry.
.
He is still a genius, but that doesn't mean he's a good director.
He's still a genius, as The force awakens and The last jedi confirm.
Damn, lady says that the price increase from 4.50 to 5 bucks will be felt in their wallets...hah...and here we are now spending about 15 on a ticket
Thomas Rowlands Yeah But a dollar went a lot further than it does now. I mean you could get a large corn and pop for 4$.
CaptainMyCaptain I know, it’s just funny to see where we are now
Thomas Rowlands I used to pay 50 cents to go watch a movie.
Glad I live in a small town with $6-9 tickets!
Thomas Rowlands its called inflation dumbass
damm $5 for a ticket how am i supposed to pay my rent?
Eric Dubiton Yeah and with gas prices at 35¢ a gallon and my car payment of $50 how am I supposed to go see Star Wars
That bitches head be rolling when I told her I paid 24 dollars for 2 tickets to see last Jedi
I got bills to pay very penny counts literally
Eric Dubiton loool standard ticket here is £15 for me, wow wish I lived in a time where 5 bucks was considered expensive!
No popcorn for you.
1:09 I wanna hear about that kid's trip to London
One of the happiest memories I have was Me and Dad going to see this in 83 when I was a young kid. He was only on this earth for 58 years, and we were just lower middle -class, but we had enough fun and great memories to fill 10 lifetimes.
❤
I didn't see one cell phone or iPhone. Weird people stood in line probably just talking to each other.
people......talked to eachother?.....with their mouths?....strange.
Rogue Skywalker very strange indeed. however did people survive without phones.
gabriel sanchez it was a much more better time with out social media ruining everything
Dave Albright It's weird. You can somehow do both now.
Don't really see many people talking to each other
It’s funny how people now, think that the 80s were so different but if you look at this. That boy acts similar to the way people act today
True, despite that fashion, and other evolving trends changed throughout the decades, there is something about us people that never change
Yeah, kids these days. Always going to London and shit
Tk Gaming ancient Romans drew dick pictures, so, yeah...
I don't suppose that he'd have celebrated a Gaddafi snuff video like today's inhuman nihilists.
Yeah, nostalgia is a lie
Yea nah....I've got some business in London, but I'll try to check it out again.
720 Zone he actually grew up to be a pretty famous architect in England.
His name is James Bourne
RIP the phrase “Lucas is a total genius” 1977-1999
1977- forever and ever. Shut the fuck up
lanee boyle tell that to the prequels
Munchy
Tell that to disney.. they look like they are shitting their bed
Tell that to Kanjiklub
Rodrigo Ele I’m weak😂😂
My favorite Star Wars movie. My favorite movie of all time.
Also, nine part series? Even back then? They weren't wrong.
MASSEFFECTfan101 well back then it was hard to believe that George wouldn’t make more Star Wars movies. Especially with out the internet and dirt sheets. People probably expected more Star Wars movies every two or three years. Not having to wait thirty years
They were wrong anyway, as a new trilogy is being developed for after episode 9.
greyeyed123 they’re still right since it’s not part of the same saga
But they are still wrong because 7, 8, and 9 are not part of Lucas's saga.
greyeyed123 it’s not apart of the Lucas trilogy but he still wrote his 7 8 and 9 but Disney refused to take it
I wish it was 83 again.
I wish it was 1 BBY and I was still alive...
THIS!! ^^^ We love you Porkins!! RIP
RandomUser M The 7/7 bombings in London and Hurricane Katrina happened though but other than them, great year
Me too, Uncle Rico
I wish i was 83 again
Ah, the lovely positive world back in the 80's where people were not influenced by a negative internet full of hate this or that..
Agree, it was the good old days where everyone has that exciting enthusiastic atmospheric feeling, i watch movies back then when i was a kid, and some movies were cool, i never read critic's review back then, like for example Ghostbusters 2, it was a great sequel and now decades later, i saw the review in the internet it was kind of negative, critics back then are just the same as today
No IMAX, no stadium seating, no Dolby. Just a mall. And they were blown away.
Story is everything.
Agree, yeah man, that is what really matter and sound dolby THX
I saw Empire and Jedi in a theater with a bigger screen than today's IMAX. It also had quadrophonic sound and I'll never forget how the walkers battle shook the theater!
Stadium seating is a huge upgrade to the viewing experience though. Ever been stuck behind a tall person or somebody with big hair? Distracting.
Stereo 3-Channel Dolby with noise reduction was commonplace.
That kid who went to London grew up to become William Shakespeare
Jimmy Valentime
Underrated comment
dude what?
Respect
Jimmy Valentime Let that sink in.
This comment is so stupid
We all know he grew up to be the first president of London Steven Hawking
$5? Forget that. I'll wait till tape.
Dude tickets today are 11.50 to 12.50 lol.
They didn't have tape back then. You would have waited a decade.
Geoffrey Sloan There was BetaMax and VHS had just kicked off. It didn't take a decade thankfully, but it usually felt like it 👍
Nah bro laser disc ftw
Those were the days of good imagination...remember when we were kids we used to actually interact and go outside to play..ride bikes..hide and go seek..I miss being a kid..this world today sucks
Everyone liked "Return of the Jedi" then and it was regarded as the biggest of the trilogy, but since the '90s it has become the cool thing to say everyone hates it and because of the Ewoks.
Misteri dell' umanità! XD
I know right ,! such jackasses
Its true in the 80s it was widely regarded as the best in the series. But then came the trendiesm
degree7 the town room is the best theses movies get better over time
Captain Howdy You were 2 when the first Star Wars came out... :-/
I remember missing a day of school for this. The only day I missed in 6th grade.
I was 11 in 1983. I loved it when my parents and I went to see this movie. Still love Star Wars today. Especially the Mandalorian series.
It broke new ground.
Nitai Gauranga c'mon you set it up so perfectly but didn't say it!? Fine
It broke....the high ground...
Nitai Gauranga I have the high ground
Fucking tumblrtards
Very cool, very cool.
Nitai Gauranga *I applauded it for being different!*
Still my favorite of the Star Wars movies, even 30+years later.
Nothing beats that ending. Well, George ruined it by adding oin the "NOOOOOO NOOOO!!!!" but yeah, it used to be perfect.
Nothing beats that ending. Well, George ruined it by adding oin the "NOOOOOO NOOOO!!!!" but yeah, it used to be perfect.
I remember people screaming when luke started beating vader after threatening Leia..even my mom went nuts in the theater..I think I was 7 lol
To think that $5 was expensive back then. Now its $17.50 that is expensive. Times fly.
Inflation my man.
It fucks with us all.
Space Cats what the hell kind of theater do you go to that costs almost $20 for tickets? any idea got to are less than $10! Maybe with popcorn it's that much, cheaper to just smuggle food in
Keywell Coins It was for the 3D showing of Star Wars the Force Awakens. I didn't buy anything extra with it. I also live in a expensive state in the US.
IMAX 3D tickets cost that much.
Tr00peroid Yes. It wasn't a bad price considering the movie was really good.
Star wars.... Awesome
"9 part series".
Lucas always intended to create 9 films. His plan was:
- Create the middle 3 first.
- Create a backstory to Darth Vader to explain the lore with 3 more movies.
- Use the aged actors from the first 3 to make a final 3 part series concluding the story.
$4.50 to $5.00! Outrageous!
$11.14 - $12.38
You could always see it on Two Dollar Tuesdays
Why is the audio so low?
+Josh Looman Because this was recorded on a 3/4 inch Beta Max tape in 1983.
+FOX 7 Austin Thanks! So glad you guys posted this.
BS excuse. Took me 2 minutes to amplify the audio, downmix to mono because only one track had any audio in it (in audacity) and remux into the video file.
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Sancho 1983 duh
I remember reading, I think it was Electric Company Magazine, an article from 1980 or so, describing a story meant to be covered in 9 movies. Star Wars, Empire, Jedi then three before and three after.
Tickets go from $4.50 to $5?! What is this madness?! Can you just imagine if tickets here in Australia today were sold for $20?! What is this world coming to...?
Damn, and I thought 12$ bucks was bad!
Back when people left the theater happy because they saw a real SW movie... how time has changed....:(
Jerome Astolfi I actually saw a real SW movie a few weeks ago...
A re run from the originally trilogy? :)
Jerome Astolfi i think the StarWars movies today are also very good
Since CZcams didn't exist in 1983, it wasn't possible to sign up to be a CZcams star to make money ironically by complaining about people who make movies to make money.
ricky Hyppa good point , thx
A little off the subject, but growing up in Austin as a kid in the 70’s and 80’s, I thought it was a sleepy place and Dallas and Houston was where all the action was with professional baseball and football, AstroWorld, and Six Flags. I was blessed to live there and didn’t even know it!
Thank you for this. Brings back memories.
Is it me or were the people at that time more polite, friendlier and more civilised than today?
certainly. the world is a colder place now
Thinner too.
You have NO IDEA. Internet & social media desensitized youth to violence/pornography and ruined human interaction/manners. There was always trouble makers, but at least they had some respect & FEAR of authority. Now when i leave my house i have to worry about whether a 12yo & his friends might try to kill me if i confront them for doing something bad! Our neighbor had his throat slashed in THE SUBURBS for confronting young teens drinking beers & vaping in the school playground at 3 in the afternoon. Turning away from Jesus/The Bible brings societal destruction.
0:17 So, Lucas planned the sequel trilogy back in '83 ??
Nicolò Giani yep, he was setting it up from ESB
was originally about luke finding his sister(before leia was his sister).
This is a glimpse into a world we've lost.
I love how when the guys said great visuals the screen glitches
rofl $5? My ticket to The Force Awakens was $19 bucks.
Yeah. That 19 dollar ticket wasn't even counting my $6 medium drink and $8 medium popcorn.
westcoastOGee yeah but adjusted for inflation 5$ is about the same
When I was a kid in 1977, I paid ¢.50 to watch Star Wars at the matinee at the Base Movies, I found that in the seat cushions, plus another ¢.50 cents I had in my piggy bank for popcorn and a coke.
I know this comment is old, but what kind of theater do you go to? I only pay 7 dollars, and it used to be just 6 until a couple years ago
why are people so amazed by the effects of inflation?
Turn the damn volume down, geez. my ears!
I remember gladly paying $4.50 to $5.00 in those days to get into the Movie theater, and never thought anything of it! Although, the Movies were far better back then, then they are today. Good Movies are much rarer today, than they were in the 1980's. Compared to what we pay today, it was a bargain! My, how times have changed!
Dang. I was born way after the original trilogy came out, but if I could only time travel back to that time and experience those films in a theater... That just sounds so incredible to me.
that footage made me want to watch rotj again
“It will also be felt in your wallets. Tickets are going for $4.50 - $5.00.” Hahahahahaha!
Look at them, just fans living in the moment, not a cell phone in sight.
Watching this takes me back to when I was 11. Those were incredible times.
"Darth Vader should shout 'nooooooooo' before throwing the Emperor down that shaft. It ruined the film for me that he didn't" - Nobody
0:15
Nine part series
Strangely enough, it will be a 9-part series come December 2019 :O
Little did they know what they're beloved franchise will turn in to though.
Drake Jones *their
Drake Jones star wars: the Last sjw
Ya since the second film Lucas spoke to multiple writers and actors about writing and planning for 40-50 years down the road to finish the saga as a soft of passing the torch for generations
God I miss the 80's in my youth.......when the real Star Wars was with us, good times.....good times.
I was 11 in 1983 and saw Return Of The Jedi like 20 times.
4.50 to 5 bucks...wow
There 15 now
Boondock Taint I just paid $17.50 for some stupid RPX experience that felt like the same.
Well you have to remember about inflation.
SEAtown Rider yeaa but they didn't have HD sound and HD movies back then either , the theaters back then must've smelled and probably lacked shit
qwe6348 you’re probably right. My point was I paid $5-6 extra dollars for an experience that felt the same as if I’d just seen a normal showing. I didn’t notice any HD sound or video compared to a normal showing. Maybe I would need to watch one in RPX and then immediately go watch a normal showing to see the difference? 🤷🏻♂️
SEAtown Rider yeaa I feel the same sometimes, sometimes it's hard to tell but when you go to a standard showing the frames per second are weird , sometimes things will look more blurry and things kinda slide in a weird way
I wish I was there! Return of the Jedi is one of my most favorite Star Wars movies!
Ian Preston My Favorite is Either A New Hope Or Empire Strikes Back
You can watch it everytime you want in your home, I love this times.
Lord Pol i love rogue one better than any of your
the best Any of your what?
When i saw this with my friend at the cinema, we were both blown away by this movie. It was a SCI FI roller coaster ride !
Certainly one of the greatest Cinema experiences i've ever seen.
This is awesome! Thanks for sharing Fox!
I really miss these kind of days. When people would walk into a theater with an open mind. No obnoxious cell phones, nobody texting/snapchatting/tweeting during the movie. When people left the theater, some might not have enjoyed it, but the vast majority did. This was before it was "cool" and "edgy" to see every new movie in the franchise and desperately search for reasons to hate it. The internet has poisoned the movie going experience. We feel better about ourselves when we can go home, sign up to be a CZcams star so we can make money from bashing and hating the new movies, and hating the people that made them because "Oh they don't care about making a good movie all they care about is money". I miss the days when people just watched movies to be entertained. If you didn't like it, great. Nobody has to enjoy anything. But it really seems like back in this era people who didn't enjoy these movies would just tell you they didn't like it, rather then writing a thesis about how horrible it is and ironically trying to make money from your criticisms of people making movies to make money.
Talk about Irony 👆😂
Philip Gregory you are an example of what he just said
Philip Gregory Oh fuck off. That’s not fact, that’s an opinion. There are amazing movies still, even to this day.
Philip Gregory
Exactly right. The new edgy is treating a lame corporate product like a masterpiece, and denouncing all criticism as invalid. The bandwagon is all the rage today.
Dantius The difference between you and me is that I waited for the movie to be released to form an opinion about it, whereas you went into the "corporate driven" movie with that in your head so of course you didn't enjoy it.
The proof of my post, is the criticism of Disney people are giving the last jedi. They all claim the force awakens was a copy, yet for some odd reason they decided to continue to give these "corporate driven" movie makers their money after they have demonstrated they "copied a new hope" and continuously see each new movie they release just to upload videos on CZcams begging for subscribers. Then they say they hate how Disney is only making these movies to make money, which is damn ironic because the CZcams reviewers make their complaining videos to, of course, make money!
0:38 OH MY GOD ITS MR PLINKET BACK IN THE 80'S
Before his wife died in a freak car accident. He bought a cat soon after.
TheCosmicFireStar Before his son hanged himself.
+The Model Kit Base before he even met Bambi at the Trump Taj Mahal Casino in Jersey.
I think he's around 80 years old in this clip.
Prequel Plinket.
my left ear really enjoyed this.
Kody Eldridge 🤣
All the people seem so friendly, social, and well spoken back then. I wish things could be like that now. and the $5 movies. No wonder there so much high expectation now a days. :D
1:05 “...as soon as I come back from London”....sadly, Little Timmy never made it back 😄
whoa! this is rare footage of an alternate reality where barbs from stranger things is a dude!
These were simpler times when people could just enjoy a movie without nitpicking it to death.
Now your talking!
Man, the 80s were an amazing time for pop culture...
I had my first movie experience at this same theater. Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice!
9 part series...how did they know
Just finished watching return of the Jedi for the first time, now I’m starting the prequels tomorrow
The 80s were awesome...
1:27 Damn those girls in the background with the shorts. I miss this decade so much.
The shorts are shorter and tighter in 2017. Do you just miss that style from 1983 or your youth?
Hibbs4Prez The style and the fact the people were more relaxed and didn’t get triggered and politically correct
The guys have tight shorts too. And people complain about skinny jeans now. Lol
I can mostly agree. Can’t say I miss the perms and public hair bushes. But overall the people were way cooler, much more relaxed and happy. I see girls today with short shorts hiked up over there belly buttons, ass cheeks hanging out, looking like hookers in cold climates glued to their phones and they are dull and boring. Everything they say or do comes right off the internet. They don’t know the difference in sexy vs sexual. Like Salsa vs Twerking. Know what I mean? They have these weird fucked up high expectations, swiping left or right, when they are typically lazy chunkers. The future sucks.
CaptainMyCaptain well that's modern women BTFO
Complaining about $5 movie ticket prices.... if they only knew the power of the Price Gouge
Nick Manzo In 35 years going up $5 isn't too bad . Now the pop corn and soda, That's just ridiculous!
Inflation, you mean
This video makes me so happy
Wow, Lorraine Woodward. I used to watch her when she broadcast out of Sacramento in the late 80's and early 90's. Didn't know she had been in Austin before that.
0:15 "3rd flick of a 9 part series"
Trevor Cutler And 35 years later still one to go!
Those were the good old days. It’s 2018. They killed Star Wars. ORDER 66 issued on Rian Johnson. He will go down as one of the worst directors/writers in the history of sci-fi.
So did George Lucas in the era of the prequels. Look at how people view him now.
I was only 3 years old back then. Must have been a great time
And now 35 years later,Star Wars is still the greatest movie franchise in history.
AAAAAnd 34 years later Luke's whole character would be shit on before being killed off. Long live Disney Wars!!!
Back when star wars was actually worth watching.
ThomettProductions no I meant like back when Star Wars was actually good
ThomettProductions he’s just being dumb about the newer movies
If you look at the original,movies today for rjr first time you wouldnt be saying such stuoid things. You hold an attwchment to them because you were probably much younger. They werent better, its sentimental value that makes you believe its better.
Ben Duenes its stil
before the dark times... before the last jedi
Its interesting how people didn't understand/didn't love Empire Strikes when it first came out; then they fell in love with Return of the Jedi three years later. Now the relationship is the reverse with Empire being the best, and Jedi being the worst of the best. Really shows you how perspectives change over time. Maybe the same could be said over the Sequel Trilogy????
Oh it certainly will. People are more positive about the prequels these days. I think the sequels have some genuine issues but I do foresee the reactionary internet mobs dying down eventually. But then again maybe not, our movie-going culture is entirely different these days, especially with the internet.
this vid makes me feel good
I CAN'T HEAR ANYTHING
Yoda dies.
❗SPOILER ALERT ❗
chemistryguy SON OF A BITCH
And now, Return of the Jedi is 40!
And I'm comment #1,000!
fire whoever did the audio for this
And why is that guy carrying a book?
+Josh Looman Because he wanted something to read while he was waiting in line???
+Josh Looman Why aren't you?
+Josh Looman That's called a book? What is a book? Like files?
I went to the movies with someone in 1993 to see "Cliffhanger" and almost laughed when the guy took with the intention of reading outside the theater until the movie started. No, that's when you go in the theater to get your seat.
If one comment on CZcams could encapsulate stupid millenials yours is it.
Before the pequils and the sequels, before the dark age
They didn't have movie theaters in London.
Stevan Glez no electricity either.
An elegant video from a more civilised age.
This is before pc and feminism took over.
Now everything is corrupt...degenerated. Our favorite saga is dead. RIP Star Wars.
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I know this theatre is renovated by now, but I'm looking out for any buildings in the distance to see where this was. That building in the background at 0:36 looks like a boat rental, so it's defiantly near the theatre, and the bridge at 0:08
Amazing how Star Wars influences different generations
and not one person was edited in to say what an *overhyped, rotten piece of doodah* it was
but at least the folk of Austin were very snazzily dressed for the occassion
Back when movie goers weren't spoiled brats like they are today!
Wait wait, did she "...of a nine-part series"? Channel 7 News knew about The Force Awakens before I was even born!
What a beautiful piece of history.