Okay, I know it’s the 18th, but I started writing this yesterday and then proceeded to work for 16 hours, so I didn’t get to it until just now. (Sorry ’bout that)
Has it been 28 years already? Good grief. Many of us can remember the day. And many more can only refer to it as a legend that carries a huge mark / stain, depending on your point of view. No one can, however, deny the stake it has claimed in the fertile ground of what would become the lives of future geeks.
Not much needs said, but just as a reminder: Exactly 28 years ago at the time of this writing. 28 years +1 day at the time of your reading, The Star Wars Holiday Special punched holes into the heads of innocent and unsuspecting media starved children everywhere. Every year around this time, you can still hear them pissing themselves.
And every once in a while, to celebrate, ….. someone…. somewhere…. will actually:
Give you a LINK. (If you actually do it, do it fast)
Use cautiously. If you piss yourself, ’tis the Season to not be our fault.
Happy Anniversary. (Hey look, the review I wrote years ago is still here…)
I remember seeing some of the special on holidays on New Zealand TV back before the internet.
Not a single person believed me that there was such a movie.
Thank you internet for proving I wasn’t hallucinating.
Finished watching Transformers: The Movie. Forgot the holiday special even existed.
BTW, Campea has every reason to be upset over Prime’s fate! I knew what was coming, but I couldn’t help but think, “You BASTARDS!”
Rodney, In regards to the Ewok Tv films, I did say “post” Jedi, and the reference is to chonologically as far as being produced.
All this did is make me wanna watch A new Hope again today for the6 zillionth time. It is always will be, the best film of all time.
~Drewbacca
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apologies mr wormwood ,i thought it was a john post.
Darren, I hope that you meant that the Ewok Adventure, and Battle for Endor came out after Jedi, because in official chronology, the events there took place BEFORE RotJ.
The only reason Wormwood saw this movie to begin with is because I showed it to him. And it was never viewed again.
I still own it. But only just to say I do.
Oh, and beware the Dark Side of The Force.
The Muppets/Star Wars crossover episode was more enjoyable.
But about the Wookie Holiday: The road to hell is paved with good intentions. I wonder what would have happened if the script hadn’t been meddled with, and orginal director David Acomba hadn’t been fired by the producers due to “creative differences”. (Acomba went to USC with Lucas and they were friends). CBS, Gary Smith-Dwight Hemion Productions and new helmer Steve Binder strayed way off Lucas’ story and intent. The end result was television infamy.
I remember as a kid tuning in only to see the intro to Boba Fett, only to be disappointed. The Kenner plastic doll recall got more buzz.
But I still cut Bea Arthur some slack… her scene, as nice as it was, dancing with a Rodian (Greedo’s knd) was just that. But it still didn’t belong. It’s like a jigsaw piece in the wrong puzzle.
Let’s not celebrate the two post- “Jedi” Ewok films either…
I didnt even know that this existed. And now i am almost blind. What the HELL were they thinking? You know, in recent years my respect and admiration for George Lucas has dropped quicker than the iraqi stock market… But, in the end, i always said to myself and others “He gave us the Original Star Wars Trilogy… an almost instant classic” and he was sort of ‘saved’. But this… this is just… shameful. Instead of having just a teensy tiny bit of something left, i now feel that G.L. owes ME something. Money, an apology, a deep cleansing spa treatment… i dont know… poor poor George.
i feel violated,thanks john you sick sick man for including the link to this vile perverted shit…….
The scariest movie ever made~! The horror… the HORROR! Please, keep me away from seeing this at Google video! This equals Gamera Space Monster as the most Awful, NASTY, “PLEASE KILL ME, LEATHERFACE!”, SINFUL movies that God somehow let exist!
The pain… the sick pain~!
Why are you reading this?! Run, people! Get a Wii before the curse gets you!
YOU WATCHED IT~!? **sniff** You’re dead to me now. I’m watching Transformers: The Movie.
Had never even heard of this, but Happy Anniversary…
and yet…somehow i’ve never liked spaces..stars..and that stuff..i’ve never been appealed by this franchise
Haha, Awesome! Weird al would like this :P. Well… from his new vid. Very nice post.