Raphael Argus
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I kinda liked that you could see the inside of the cantina a bit better than the actual movie, but the rest is all throw away stuff.
GOOD LORD...I Just watched the Star Wars Holiday Special for the first time
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Darn it! I was reading through the whole thread before posting that.
Actually you can eventually forget the show, but it takes a very long time. I saw it on tv when I was young and I only remember brief flashes of it. So give it 35 years or so and you will be ok.
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Welcome to the club. You will never be able to erase from your mind what you've just seen.
p.s. Happy Life Day. :lol
Shut up Brent.:lol
Funny it's called Life day...and you pray for death
Laspector
Master Member
When did this come out? 78? Somewhere around that time? I was about 12 years old and the only two things I cared about was Star Wars and KISS. To me those were the two best things in the entire world!! Then the Holiday Special came out, then KISS Meets the Phantom came out. Since I was THE Star Wars/KISS guy at my school, my life was ruined......I have never recovered.........
Brent M
Sr Member
I think we were separated at birth. Star Wars and KISS were my 2 favorite things in life then too(although I was quite a bit younger at the time) and those 2 specials were indeed the most horrific events that could have happened to either franchise.
Did they walk around you guys with cameras to get footage for That 70s Show? 
Mola Rob
Sr Member
Must have been a late seventies guy thing...Star Wars and KISS were huge to me as well. KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park, holy crap was that awful. I no longer thought Ace Frehley was cool after that.
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DuneMuadDib
Sr Member
I've seen most of it thanks to a copy on disc a friend lent me years ago. It actually crapped out around the Bea Arthur bit so I invested all that time to not even see the whole thing. I've repressed most of the memory of the thing, but part of me still wants to see the rest of it given how much I'd previously sat through. So rough though.
Darth Lars
Master Member
Seen it once ten years ago. That's enough. We were supposed to have a drinking game.. but when we got around to watch it there were kids present.
I still wonder if it is better if you watch it when drunk ... but I don't want to try to find that out for myself.
I still wonder if it is better if you watch it when drunk ... but I don't want to try to find that out for myself.
I saw it as a kid and, as a kid, I LOVED it. To me it was more Luke, more Han, more Leia and Chewbacca- plus a Star Wars cartoon !!
But I was 4 years old in 78. I was the target audience.
But I was 4 years old in 78. I was the target audience.
PHArchivist
Master Member
God the Ewok films were pretty bad too...
The prequels were all about expectation, anticipation. It had been 25 years. NEW SW films were coming out. The Ben/Darth fight was on the horizon...
Then Jake Lloyd hits the screen. And midichlorians. And dialogue like "What is he - brain dead...!?".
And we were hosed.
It taught me to never EVER get my hopes up for quality in a film ever again. And it allowed me to begin to realize that GL is not as creatively talented as we thought he was.
Oh so true! I remember watching a variety show (Circus of the Stars #4) in which Richard Kiel, the guy that played jaws in the bond films, did a trapeze act!
Check out the full cast on. IMDB! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0242372/
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PHArchivist
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Solo4114
Master Member
Yup. Or at least not quiet the creative monolithic genius we though him to be -- he had a LOT of help and a LOT of luck.
joshvanrad
Sr Member
I think he thrived off of the people who were around him at the time. Especially, during ESB. On his own, I think he is over-rated, and a bit of an egomaniac.
Solo4114
Master Member
I don't know that I'd say he's an egomaniac, but I think that, left unchecked, his ideas function in a range between "brilliant" and "godawful."
obiwan kowalski
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I figured hey, this looks like something for me and the kids to watch today. I made it twenty minutes into it before I realized the kids had left. I think I was hypnotized by the awefullness. I quickly found the Christmas Story marathon.
cayman shen
Master Member
Hahahahaha I almost just spit ice cream all over my ipad! (Yes, ice cream for breakfast, because it's Christmas!)
I feel like I watched it on youtube maybe, if anyone wants to roll the dice. It's astonishingly bad, but definitely gave me a mildly pleasant crack like hit of 70s nostalgia, even if for all the wrong reasons.
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