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Star Wars is 30 Years Old
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Zonk
on Fri May 25, 2007 12:09 PM
from the how-old-does-that-make-you dept.
from the how-old-does-that-make-you dept.
javipas writes "On May 25th, 1977 the first film of the Star Wars Saga was released to theaters. Thirty years later, and celebrations are being held all around the globe. Wired has a series of articles entitled The Empire at 30, and many fans are posting about this particular birthday. For example, you can see the best 30 clips made by fans to celebrate this anniversary. The BBC is chronicling the journey of one man who had never seen Star Wars before. IGN has a rundown on some of the highlights of the Celebration convention, running this weekend."
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30 years old (Score:5, Funny)
Ha (Score:5, Interesting)
The second movie I took my fiancee too, and by the third movie we were married.
So much for your theory.
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Re:Ha (Score:5, Funny)
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Episode 1: she just wants to be friends
Episode 2: She will now only hang out with you in a group setting
Episode 3: Mace + Restraining order
Re:Ha (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Ha (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Ha (Score:5, Funny)
(Mazel tov on the 30th anniversary of your first date with her.)
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Oh, and yes, the opening credits in the first movie said nothing about Episode 4 in the original theather edition.
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Re:30 years old (Score:5, Funny)
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star wars virgin (Score:3, Insightful)
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Except it's Dr. Zaius.
You may hand in your geek card at the door.
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Re:star wars virgin (Score:4, Interesting)
2 and a half minutes into the movie he says he gets his first glimpse of the droids he ALREADY KNOWS are called C-3PO and R2-D2, but he doesn't know which is which. So obviously he's had at least some exposure to Star Wars before, even if just through pop culture references. However, I have a really hard time believing that he was able to glean the (rather cryptic) names of two droids from pop culture, but didn't know that Vader was Luke's father (he ends the article apparently still under the impression that Vader killed Luke's father). After all, what reference is more prevalent in pop culture, the droids or "Luke, I am your father"?
I think this guy knows more about the franchise, but is concealing that knowledge to make for a better story.
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No offence, dude, but Carrie Fischer was hot enough in the late '70s that NOBODY would have thought that the hand-solo was her primary sexual outlet.
I'll bet she could've even gotten a rise out of that pansy droid, '3PO.
Funny slashdotters (Score:4, Funny)
Star wars (Score:5, Insightful)
Star Wars has been such a great story and adventure since I was a child and I hope to continue that legacy. I still remember seeing the movies for the first time and the magic I felt.
Lets forget all the weird flames and just think about what a great adventure Star Wars has been.
Re:Star wars (Score:4, Funny)
C3PO is Luke's mother, and the stormtroopers are all Boba Fett's natural children. (He's an inspiration to us all.) Obi-Wan Kenobi thinks all astromech droids look alike (thus demonstrating a soft bigotry against mechanical beings). Darth Vader was incredibly angsty and annoying as a teenager. ("KHOOOOH... HSSSS... I don't wanna clean my room! KHOOOOH... HSSSS... You can't make me!") Killing a hundred sand people doesn't make you a bad person, because they look like mummies, even their children. The emperor's complexion has actually improved with age, IMO. Either that, or in his old age, he wanted a more natural look and stopped getting Botox.
I could tell you more, but I don't want to completely ruin it for you.
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I'll tell you why... (Score:5, Insightful)
Who knew a slave-girl costume could cause such a stir?
It wasn't the slave girl costume. It was the girl! The girl was built like a girl: not some emaciated waif. Carry Fisher had this cute tummy and hips and real boobs - not a body by Joe Schmoe, MD, Hollyweird, CA!
Geeze! And the irony is that, IIRC from one the Star Wars behind the scenes DVD extras, the producers wanted to or did send her to a fat farm.
Leia's Metal Bikini (Score:5, Informative)
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Specialized knowledge (Score:2, Funny)
Yeah, but this is Slashdot. Few slashdotters are familiar with such esoteric concepts as girls. Fewer still are familiar with how girls are shaped.
This is not the specialized knowledge you are looking for...
...laura
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Actually, I suspect more slashdotters are familiar with how girls are shaped (or at least a subset thereof) than they are with the concept of actual girls.
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Yeah! They're like short elves with round ears.
Let's give her mind credit instead (Score:4, Insightful)
It wasn't the slave girl costume. It was the girl! The girl was built like a girl: not some emaciated waif. Carry Fisher had this cute tummy and hips and real boobs - not a body by Joe Schmoe, MD, Hollyweird, CA!
My personal opinion is that this was so iconic because of how dignified Leia remained even in such a degrading and revolting situation. This is a princess and leader of the rebel alliance. A gangster has essentially stripped her naked, put her in chains, and routinely licks his lips with his revolving, rotten tongue. And through all of this, she remains cool headed, keeping her mind of the mission and playing her part. When Luke shows up at Jabba's lair, Leia gives him a look that doesn't convey embarrassment or anger but almost a sense of amusement as though only she and Luke are in on the joke that Jabba's about to fall for.
That was an unusual amount of strength for a woman to show in the 80s. Hell, even nowdays the movies show tough women as having a huge chip on their shoulder. Leia simply got the job done without worrying how she looks and she was willing to sit through anything. It's a bit interesting to compare how she faces adversity in this situation versus the trip to trash compactor in the original movie where she's nowhere near as calm and confident. Everyone focuses on how much Luke changes during the original trilogy, but Leia changes just as much.
Sure, there's a sexual aspect to the entire situation as well, but I don't think that has much to do with Leia's body. Quite frankly, it's fairly unremarkable. It's the fact that Leia remains calm and collected even in such an awful situation that makes her sexy, not her body. You can see better looking women every day just walking down the street. But how many everyday women would be able to act as heroic as Leia did?
GMD
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Despite Still Being Overhyped, To This Day... (Score:4, Interesting)
I'd like to say a couple things on this... (Score:4, Funny)
Carrie!
Star Wars is like a fine wine... (Score:4, Interesting)
Next, you have a bottle of the same vintage and let it age 20 years. It is suddenly a whole new wine, with greater complexity, and a much sharper taste.
Finally you decide to finish off that old bottle that has aged another ten years... too bad it has turned to vinegar...
Now Star Trek: TNG -- that is like Guiness. Great at any time! Always aged to perfection!
Firefly is kinda like Jack Daniels... Really good, but hard to follow up with anything else
Thanks George,
Sincerely someone who saw Episode I 5 times in the first week trying to find some of the greatness that I saw in the originals.
Re:Star Wars is like a fine wine... (Score:5, Funny)
yes, exactly the same thing...every.single.week. Cold and bitter.
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Well, right there's your problem. ST:TNG is best enjoyed tepid, just like Guiness. That way, you actually get to appreciate the flavor, which the slight bitterness accentuates. When you drink it cold, all you can taste is the bitterness.
This is why American-style lager is best served ice-cold -- so you can't taste it.
So, to bring this back around to Star Wars, I'd say that it's less like a fine wine and more like bourbon. A young bourbon
Careful calculation... (Score:4, Insightful)
It was a movie, and a good one, but move on!
Action figures (Score:3, Interesting)
Ah, nostalgia. When I was a kid, my little sister used to break the heads off of my Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker action figures. I chewed on their retractable lightsabers too, I think, but I grew out of that phase.
My friends and I got even by playing badminton with the severed heads of her Barbie dolls (which aerodynamically resemble shuttlecocks).
Now I feel OLD.
Happy Birthday Star Wars! (Score:2)
30 years (Score:4, Funny)
Ahh... (Score:5, Insightful)
In other Star Wars news... (Score:3, Funny)
Caught the Lego story on Digg today. Nice timing. I remember the first time Star Wars was re-released to theaters. My brother got caught running a red light on the way to the Uptown. I told him that the force was not with him. He didn't think it was very funny, especially when the cop found out he didn't have his license with him...
Good LORD that was a GREAT year in film. (Score:2)
A Bridge Too Far
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Goodbye Girl
High Anxiety
Saturday Night Fever
Smokey and the Bandit
The Spy Who Loved Me
Star Wars
How come we just don't get years like that anymore?
Who cares. (Score:2)
Celebrations. Seriously? (Score:2)
Seriously? I mean, other than PR operatives for LucasFilms and some paid Stormtroopers, does anyone really care enough to attend a "celebration"?
Stars Wars Tech on History Channel May 28th 8pm (Score:5, Informative)
Here's a link: Star Wars - The Legacy Revealed [history.com]
Michael is a professor of Physics and Astro-Physics at UCI and an all-around great guy.
Cheers Michael, if you read
Oh Yeah, that show kicks off the whole Star Wars History Channel event which starts at 9PM.
XM (Score:3, Funny)
Depends (Score:2)
Re:Seriously.. (Score:4, Funny)
As a gay man who is excitedly anticipating his time eating dicks in hell I would like to file an official complaint that I would have to share the dicks to be eaten with that sloth fat ass Lucas. That Porker? would undoubtedly take more than his fair share of cock.
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Get your head out of your arse. The films (IV..VI that is) were fun adventure films, and the special effects were just good enough to look realistic, without being too ambitious. (i.e., big scary space station? Show it from very far away so we don't have to model much, then show it from really cl
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I have to wonder who is in more need of a life: the fans, or people who feel the n