Coby is back for THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (1980) Movie Reaction FIRST TIME WATCHING
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 เม.ย. 2024
- The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
The Empire Strikes Back (also known as Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back) is a 1980 American epic space opera film directed by Irvin Kershner from a screenplay by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan, based on a story by George Lucas. The sequel to Star Wars (1977), it is the second film in the Star Wars film series and the fifth chronological chapter of the "Skywalker Saga". Set three years after the events of Star Wars, the film recounts the battle between the malevolent Galactic Empire, led by the Emperor, and the Rebel Alliance, led by Princess Leia. Rebel ally Luke Skywalker trains to master the Force so he can confront the Emperor's powerful disciple, Darth Vader. The ensemble cast includes Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, David Prowse, Kenny Baker, Peter Mayhew, and Frank Oz.
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Back when I was a kid there were only three television channels and no cable. The only video game systems were Pong and the Atari 2600. There were only two movie theaters in town, both had only one screen, and there were no VCRs or DVD players. So, when a movie like Star Wars, Jaws, E.T. or the Empire Strikes Back came to town, everbody including your grandmother got dressed up and went out to see it. And if it was a good movie like Star Wars or Empire, everybody would be talking about it for months, and every kid in every yard would be outside playing lightsaber duels with sticks or pretending a gun shaped stick was a blaster. Back then, films like Star Wars brought entire communities together into a huge shared experience. It was a different time.
It was a better time.
And we would go back and watch Star Wars again and again and again, and then brag to our friends "I've seen it 20 times"
@@DeusExMachina50 Not as clumsy or random as streaming. A more civilized time.
Its true. Its all true!
Same here. The days of 3 channels.
Waiting for the newest movie to hit town. Worked in a pizza place 15 years old 1980. Theater next door.
The theater manager would let us watch the newest movie on Thursday night after closing.
Nobody in town had gotten to see yet. Good times.
Q: What is the internal body temperature of a Tauntaun?
A: Luke warm
You're tauntaunting us with your bad puns.
Dad jokes got to love them
well played
Thanks, that was new to me. Maybe something I can pull out on May 4th.
I laughed way too hard at that.
" The force is with you young Skywalker, but you are not a Jedi yet". Perfectly delivered line by the legend James Earl Jones.
Among many lines that I love to repeat. That and "Impressive.... most impressive."
Waiting 3 years for Return of the Jedi was rough.
I still get chills. Best fight in all of Star Wars. The whole encounter is like a three-act tragedy via action.
@@Jon_FM It wasn't that tough to wait. Few people hyper-fixated on what today we call fandoms. There was a broader area of interest for most people and they didn't sit in front of their computers or phones and spend all day obsessed with one story, film, or book.
@@Jon_FM I always say "That's it. The rebels are there." whenever I find something I've been hunting for. I genuinely can't help muttering it at this point haha.
I remember hearing that line for the first time, and of course, seeing Vader standing atop that platform in silhouette. Friggin' chilling.
The Luke kiss was both a “glad you’re ok” as well as Leia trying to piss off Han/make him jealous because he was being an ass
It was during the sexual revolution. After the birth control pill and before aids. The 70s were a different time. I was born in 1972.
It was just because she was angry and wanted to make Han jealous
And some incestuous attraction. Somehow I always knew - Leia in Return of the Jedi
#BlueHarvest "I know ... somehow, I've always known" .. .. .. "I'm from Alderann, it's kinda the Mississippi of the Galaxy."
Han wasn't really a a$$ hole though. Man had a price on his head and he had to clear his debt.
Greatest dialog: “I don’t believe it.” “That - is why you fail.” Still chokes me up.
For me it's "Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter".
(even though i'm a pretty strict physical materialist in worldview - in other words I think we really _are_ "this crude matter". Doesn't mean we can't be luminous too though :)
"Whatever you think about yourself; you're right."
Law of Attraction stuff - right there
"Do, or do not, there is no try" is an epic line. And words to live by.
This is my least favorite Star Wars movie as it's too much running away. But all the scenes with Luke and Yoda's training were excellent.
In 1977, when Star Wars was first released, it wasn't called "A New Hope" or "Episode IV". It was just Star Wars. It was a gamble, and Lucas went out on a big limb to get it done. He had a story in his head, but as he flushed it out into a screenplay, he really saw a trilogy, and couldn't put all off it into one movie, so he hoped it would be successful enough for him to be able to do the rest of the stories, but he really had no idea whether the original movie would fly or not.
After release, it of course just blew completely apart. It changed the world - or at least the world of movies. He would have more gambles to come with the next movies, but it was renamed to "A New Hope" and "Episode IV" after "The Empire Strikes Back" was released. This gave everyone the impression that we were in the middle of a story, and that there was more to come. We ate it all up.
Yes, and when Lucas was a child, movie serials like "Commander Cody" and "Trader Tom" were a very popular in theaters. They were released in chapters and kids would go to the movies regularly to watch the latest chapters of their favorite serials. Later renaming of the first SW "Episode IV: A New Hope" was a nod to those old movie serials. It was only nearly two decades later that popular demand (and of course, the sense of huge money to be made) prompted the making of the prequel trilogy I-III. (And later, imho, the obscenities Disney birthed that were episodes VII-IX.) That's why the release order is mixed up.
He wrote a massive script and it was after his pals Coppola, Spielberg and another pal read the script, told him to cut the beginning and end off and just do the middle part, which he did, and this was how the original trilogy ANH, ESB and ROTJ got made first.
@@kristinaF54 Actually NO.
@@kristinaF54 The idea I have picked up from a video about the Force is the early story was more about a grizzled veteran going to help a group of Rebels. That early concept got revised, Luke Starkiller became the young and idealistic Luke Skywalker, and a lot got reworked. I imagine in that, ideas of the backstory were floating around in Lucas' head, but really only got ironed out when the prequels were a serious plan to be filmed.
I think the rename was before Empire, for the re-release
Bear in mind, it took 3 YEARS to find out what happened to Han; from my freshman to junior year of HS.
I'm curious, were people good about not spoiling the 'father' twist?
@@nickinskeep Nope. I learned about it in the lunch room in school before I could see it
@@nickinskeep Yes I knew in the theater that Darth Vader was his father and I told everyone around me.... they kept saying be quiet Kid... I was 16 in 1980. Then I felt proud when everyone looked at me and acknowledged my ability to reason through everything. Back then no internet... no advance knowledge. We had to wait 3 years for each film, so 1977, 1980 and 1983.... six years. I went from junior high school, toe high school to college. From a teenager to a young adult. No one spoiled the "I AM YOUR FATHER" twist outside of the theater. It was great back then....
50:26 -- it wasn't called Episode IV when it was released. It wasn't even called "A New Hope." It was just called Star Wars. That's it. No one expected it to have sequels, let alone to change the course of movie history.
@@alexp601Yeah, Lucas was never sure if the 1st would do well enough to get a sequel so he just called it Star Wars but then, before Empire came out, he went back and numbered A New Hope as 4 and called 5 ESB from the get go like you said. He always planned on doing a 4,5,6 then going back for 1,2,3 and hopefully eventually 7,8,9 but it all obviously depended on how the 1st did. Also, there is a book called i believe "Splinter of a Minds eye." It was kind of like a book based on a script of a much more toned down, kinda lowbudget version of episode 5 he would have done incase A New Hope did well enough to get a small budget sequel.
People always give Lucas TOO MUCH credit when it comes to just how well and how much he had planned out for an over all story. Han was frozen because they weren't sure if Ford would come back for Return of the Jedi, and Yodas whole "No, there is another" wasn't referring specifically to Leia but instead Luke's twin sister who wasn't originally Leia. Mark Hamill had gotten into a bad car accident between episode 4 and 5, that's why he gets clawed by the Wampa, they turned his real-life scar Into the Wampa scar to explain it. So, he was a bit of a daredevil and to cover the studios butt's incase something worse happened to him, they had planted the seed for "another" potential savior but when everything worked out they just made Leia be the other.
So, when it was first released did it not have "EPISODE IV, A NEW HOPE" in the title card?
@@alexp601 Not the name of the movie, I have seen title on movie theatres at the time, but I mean the title card. The title card is the intertitle usually written at the start of the movie. In this case it is the start of the opening crawl. I was wondering if it was in the original or was it placed in the crawl after one of Lucas' "updates".
@@nathanc8478 You can search around the TH-cams and see a clip of what the original intro would have looked like minus the Episode IV and A New Hope
@@nathanc8478 Just "Star Wars" then straight into the main text of the crawl originally. Then it was re-released in 1981 with "Episode IV: A New Hope" under the "Star Wars".
(I saw it on original release and still basically think of this as "Star Wars" - among friends my own age we'll often use that interchangeably with "A New Hope" or "Episode IV")
Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.
Not only is "The Empire Strikes Back" the best picture in all of Star Wars, it's one of the best films ever made. Absolute perfection.
100%. It was listed in the top 10 greatest movies of all time for many years
@@Mr_Kennethtop 5
today we get to add Andor up there next to it
I would put Rogue One ahead of Empire. But that is just me. Best films ever made? Well, among the most entertaining, yes! But there are a LOT of good movies out there if you look. Some famous, some obscure. But it definitely was a good followup to the first movie made which was necessary to convince the world it was a worthwhile franchise and hence was a necessary step to everything that followed.
"The Empire Strikes Back" is, hands down, THE BEST film in the Star Wars saga! That's why you liked it so much -- the best story, the best cinematography, the best humor, and THE BEST REVEAL IN MOVIE HISTORY! It was the best written, the best directed and the best scored of them all (with The Imperial March, and the romantic theme for Han and Leia). It is still to this day my favorite movie of all time, not just my fav Star Wars episode. And BTW, you mentioned the confidence to title the first as Episode IV, etc., when, in fact, the title of Episode IV- A New Hope was added years later, after the major success in 1977, and Lucas knew he could then continue with more films.
James Earl Jones was Vader's voice but the actor in the suit was 6'6" British weightlifter, bodybuilder and actor David Prowse.
Darth Farmer from Yorkshire
Netflix had a great documentary on David prowse a year ago I don't know if it's still available or not
No one ever filled out the suit quite like he did, that's for sure.
Vader was physically played by multiple people and more and more as the sequels were made. ANH was the only time he was the main guy.
George Lucas purposefully let the actors pronounce the names as they do. In real life everyone says things differently. So it's Haan or Hawn. Lay-uh or Lee-uh. Makes it a more believable real world.
This is a good point. People pronounce my name differently, and its relatively common!
Even George mispronounces his own name...
When I heard Lucas pronounce the planet Hoth as “Hoath” one time, I knew he was just messing with us. I’m like dude, you’ve totally said it the other way for 40 years.
Really though? You tell someone how you pronounce your name and then they do the same. They don't just pronounce it however they want
People mispronounce my name all the time and I don't bother correcting them. I've had people I work with call me by the wrong name for weeks and just didn't care enough to tell em otherwise.
"C3PO is underappreciated" and "Shhhh, let him fix it" is a good summary of how I feel about him. He walks the line of annoying but is also family.
C3PO's biggest problem is he mealy mouths around too much being polite, because protocol droid duh, instead of being aggressive and just getting to the point so serious people get annoyed and tell him to shut up.
If Jar Jar Binks had been in Episode IV everyone would love him. If C3PO had turned up in the prequels, he would be hated.
made me really sad to see him in rise of Skywalker because he has that heartfelt moment but the "friends" around him in that scene don't know or care about him at all
What people don't realize is that Vader never actually kills Obi-Wan. He disappears right before the lightsaber strikes. He became one with The Force.
This isn't true at all
This is the first time I’ve seen a reaction of Luke being able to move his lightsaber in the beginning of the movie that was accurate to how all of us who originally saw it in the theater reacted. Seeing Luke be able to move something with his mind was an awesome display of his progress!
I just can't figure out if HAN using the lightsaber is something I reacted to the first time, or if it's more something you do after seeing everything else then you go "yeah Han! the ONLY non-Jedi who gets to use a lightsaber" haha.
As a kid you can't imagine how many times I tried to use the Force (the good side)
As a kid I found it very confusing because the first movie hadn't established force telekinesis (apart from choking) or explained the practical side of being a force user at all. I didn't connect it to the force at all. Additionally the first movie had come out a long time before this (almost half my life at that point) so I couldn't recall much, apart from that it was cool.
@@hattenkofer Understandable. We’re likely about the same age then. I had a group of friends in elementary school and ALL we did was talk Star Wars and reenact it. I think between the force choke, the Jedi mind trick, and Obi making a random noise to distract those storm troopers from tractor beam controls, we just assumed anything was possible.
@@o0pinkdino0o Yeah "as a kid". Cuz I _definitely_ don't _occasionally_ still try it now :).
It's okay to like Empire Strikes Back better. Empire Strikes Back is almost everyone's favorite Star Wars movie out of the 9.
And deservedly so.
The Star Wars saga has seven movies. Eps 1-6 and optionally, Rogue One.
Apart from that, there are some really expensive and officially licensed fanfics that, somehow, made it to theaters.
@@NMAforever Those other movies are a case study in Disney having more ego, lawyers and money than planning or good sense.
@@jamesbellefeuille2926 so accurate!
Haha, then I'm the only one here who likes it least😂. My favourite as a kid was always Return of the Jedi. Today, it's the prequels because: Liam Neeson and Ewan McGregor!
By the way; like your profile picture. It's always great to meet people who appreciate Piccolo😉
Han "SHUT HIM UP OR SHUT HIM DOWN!"
Leia "SHUT UP!"
Coby "Shoosh! Let him fix it"
Watching this in a theatre really made you feel like you were in the ship battles yourself. It was so great.
19:43 Chewie's "scream" is one of my favourite Chewbacca moments- Han and Chewie have been together for years and have been through a lot of exciting adventures, but *THIS* crazy move is too much for Chewie and he's freaking out!
They even showered together (in the 'Solo' movie)....and possibly did more (but they never showed that because young children watching).
You may have seen the video clip already, but on The Graham Norton show, Benedict Cumberbatch does an excellent Chewbacca scream impression
When Darth Vader sliced Obi-Wan Kenobi down, Obi-Wan became part of what's called the Living Force and he has the ability to make himself become a Force Ghost, so he's not technically gone. That's why he told Vader that if he cut him down, he'd become more powerful than even Vader could imagine.
The Living Force comes from all life. Obi-wan became part of the Cosmic Force.
Coby, fun fact: they didn’t know there would be a sequel. When the first movie came out in 1977, it was just called “Star Wars”. In the original film, there is no episode IV in the original crawl or subtitle (a new hope). It did so well, they re-released it in theaters againI think a year or two later as Episode IV with the new subtitle because it was a hit. Lucas chose “the middle” of his massive story.
Yep. The "Episode IV: A New Hope" subtitle was added in 1981 when it was re-released.
No matter what other Star Wars movie is released, this will ALWAYS be my FAVORITE of the Star Wars films!!
I first saw this movie in its original run in 1980, when I was ten. It's my favorite STAR WARS film and I've seen it COUNTLESS times since then. I have NEVER noticed that Leia is introduced in this movie with her hair representing a crown. I LOVE your intelligent observations and also seeing one of the best sequels and films of all time through brand new eyes. THANK YOU!
I'm here for Coby and her fun comments... Her smile and cute giggle on Yoda's "size matters not" 😉❤
The movie was pretty much like this with some special effects added. Keep in mind that we didn't have the Internet back then and didn't know when or if there was going to be another one. Plus we had to wait 3 years for the next one. I still remember where and what I was doing when the trailer for Return of the Jedi came on T.V.. I was playing with my brother on the living room floor and it came on. We both screamed!!! We set up our VCR so we could record it if it ever came on again. It took us a week to catch it. We watch that thing so many times till it came out at the theater a couple months later. Saw it opening day.
I love how Chewie laughs when Leia says "I don't know where you get your delusions, laserbrain" lol
The revelation of Darth Vader being Luke's father is one of the biggest, if not THE biggest "Say whaaaaaaaaa?!" moment in movie history.
Often quoted as the biggest reveal. In Pitch Perfect, Anna Kendrick’s character claims she predicted it based on the often mistaken idea that Vader means father in German, but it doesn’t. That’s Vater, pronounced Fa-ter. The name Vader was based on water. It does mean father in Dutch, but it’s pronounced differently. But there’s been a few answers as to where the name came from. Thing was, in early Star Wars drafts, Vader was not supposed to be Luke’s father, and his name was created before the connection.
My dad said that when he saw it during the initial release in the theaters the audience collectively gasped.
@@katel141Darth Vader = Dark Invader -- according to George Lucas
"No, I am your father" (often misquoted as "Luke, I am your father") is quite literally the biggest twist in cinematic history. Even people who have never seen Star Wars know it or have heard it because it became part of the pop culture lexicon. It's been so endlessly referenced, homaged, and even parodied that it's taken on a certain irony that it isn't even much of a twist anymore because it's so well known.
@Nexus-1068 - There's literally hundreds of "top ten" lists of the most shocking twists in film history, and none of them agree with any of the others. None of them are based on actual data or hard polling. They are all just various writer's opinions.
Even if there was a web-based poll, it still wouldn't mean much... especially today when pop culture and social media spoil so many plot twists that it's rare for any film to really shock us anymore. So you claiming this guy's opinion is "wrong" based on something you think you read somewhere "some years back" is pure ignorance.
There are far more shocking plot twists in various obscure films throughout history, that beat both Empire and Planet of the Apes in pure shock value... but they aren't as iconic or memorable. Planet of the Apes might make a few "top ten" lists, but isn't even in most folks top hundred when it comes to actual cultural impact.
Annoyingly, if it wasn't misquoted it would be less obvious which movie was being spoiled.
@Nexus-1068 Planet of the Apes is a good one though. I might personally rank that twist above Vader/Luke reveal
That bloody Homer Simpson spoiled it for everyone! 😉
@Nexus-1068 Lack of attention span is such a weird flex...
When Star Wars first came out, it was not labeled Episode IV. It wasn’t until after the sequels started that the credits went back and the Episode IV was added to the opening credits.
It was added in 1981.
@Nexus-1068 Incorrect, it was given the title “Episode IV - A New Hope” in its April 10, 1981 theatrical rerelease, not 1982
Still she is right. He had the 6 stories in mind right from the beginning but felt Episode IV was the most self-contained and had the best change of success. So, he did have that confidence. Although he did give Episode IV its own satisfying ending in case it would be the only one. Apparently he had Episodes 7-9 in mind as well, but sadly Disney decided not to use his story for those.
How can someone be so much fun having a monologue with a camera? You are the most natural and entertaining solo reactor ever. I want your reaction to every movie ever made!!! So awesome.
She has an acting career of some sort back from Australia. Yeah, i looked her stuff. She's great 👍
A note about the X-Wing appearance:
X-Wings have four "wings" or "S-foils" which can be "closed" or "opened," depending on the situation. During combat, the foils are "opened" (giving it the "X" appearance). The opened wings keep the four laser cannons (one per wing tip) from being too close so they don't overheat. It also increases aerodynamic drag, allowing for greater maneuverability in atmospheric flight. For non-combat situations or flights, the foils are "closed" (as shown here), which provides increased speed. However, the cannons won't fire in this configuration.
The ships used during the Battle of Hoth are "T-47 speeders" or "snowspeeders." They're a different type of ship, and can't fly outside of atmospheres.
You cannot even begin to imagine how good it was seeing these films when we knew nothing at all. Wwe didnt know who Yoda was. We didn't know who Darth Vader was. It was all new.
Saw Star Wars, I was 13.
Epic. We left the theater speechless.
It's always a moment to see Leia's face wracked with grief as Solo's last painful moment is laid before her.
Empire by far is my favorite Star Wars movie. It’s a shame that the big twist is now ingrained in pop culture so much that many people going into the movie for the first time already knows it. As a kid I saw it and I had no clue it was coming and even when it happened I was like “is it true? Is he lying? I mean he is evil so it might be a lie.”
And we had to wait 3 years to find out if what Darth Vader said was true.
This is why I disagree with people who nowadays insist release order is the only proper way to watch Star Wars movies.
What else can be said about how entertaining this lady is. Kobe 🐐 #8, #24. MaLady you make it seem like we are watching movies together and that is appreciated. The shriek when Darth tells Luke he is his father was priceless to see for those who have already seen this movie dozens of times. To me this is the best Star Wars movie ever made, followed by Rogue One which is absolutely amazing
The ships they use to fight the AT-AT Walkers on Hoth are airspeeders (commonly called snowspeeders), they mentioned they were having trouble adapting them to the cold when Han asked if they could use them to search for Luke.
The ship Luke uses to fly around is an X-Wing, the same as the one he used to destroy the Death Star, the wings just fold down when he’s not in combat. You can see them opening in the original when Red Leader says, “Lock s-foils in attack position.”
The bounty hunter chasing Han is called Boba Fett, he’s got much more mythology and backstory than is shown in the movies. His ship is called Slave I, it’s a very unique design, even for a Star Wars ship.
Boba Fett is the helmeted bounty hunter who took Han Solo's frozen body, and he turned out to be very popular background character from the movies. He's from a race known as Mandalorians and almost everyone's heard of that series on Disney+!
Bob Fett is actually not a Mandalorian. He just wears the armour used by Mandalorian soldiers.
When the original trilogy appeared in theaters, there were no episode numbers just titles.
This movie caused the audience to scream when Darth Vader said he is Luke's father! The movie became a classic on that last line alone. Darth Vader did not kill Luke. He used the Jedi method of cutting off his hand. The lightsaber cut the hand but it chorterized the wrist. Jedi's were forbidden to kill. Okay next is Return Of The Jedi! Can't wait to see it!
Jedis or Siths perform over 15 dismemberments in the first 6 chapters of the saga...
I don’t remember any screams. What I remember is a packed theater of completely silent people. Everyone was in shock and processing what they just heard.
I guarantee she cries during the next movie at the end. Anyone with a heart does.
As a five year old, I remember gasping with disbelief. I never saw any of them in the theater, I either wasn't born, or, as in the case with Jedi, too young. I was 2 when it hit my country, but it was still very, very much in toy stores when I grew up to be five or six. I watched them on VHS - rented.
WHOOOAAAAA WAIT YOU SAY DARTH IS LUKES FATHER??????!!!!!!!! SPOILER ALERT MUCH????? JESUS YOU'VE BLOWN MY MIND!!!! WHY YOU GOTTA LIE LIKE THAT? I DON'T EVEN KNOW YOU???? 😢😢😢😢
It’s so cute when Coby goes “This was in the Seagull video! 😂😂😂
From all the reaction to the Original Trilogy movies I have seen yours is the one a love the most. Your charisma, your joy, your charm, your reaction, you were such a treat! Thank you! ☺
Coby is cute her laugh when she puts the references together
"He's gonna fix it and jump to lightspeed!"
😅
Coby not yet picking up the theme of Empire - failure
The Falcon's constant state of disrepair is my favorite part of Empire. It doesn't really have that problem in New Hope or Jedi, but I love that in Empire it is the most fickle ship in the galaxy.
It's all those Solo special modifications that make her a fast but fickle ship.
This is nearly every car or truck I've owned over the last 30+ years. My latest pride and joy/bane of my existence is a neglected high mileage 99 F350. I've named her the Perennial Piglet.
The rule of three "woooooomp wooomp womp womp womp"s just makes R2D2's victory all the more sweet :)
I love seeing the smile on her face watching this. Someone realising they've been missing out and really enjoy the ride 😁
11:08 - Getting to see John Williams in concert at the Hollywood Bowl. Now that’s a little slice of heaven. 😇
Coby, you do not yet realize your importance. You have only begun to discover your power. Join me, and I will complete your training. With our combined strength, we can end this destructive conflict and bring order to the galaxy. It is your destiny..
Coby dressed as a sith would be hot
Darth Stalker, is that you?
I enjoyed watching your skin melt on Mustafar.
The fact that the Bad Lip Reading channel is Coby's main star wars exposure is hilarious, very millenial, scary, and brilliant all at the same time
She’s almost 40. Insane that she’s never seen these
@@crispy_338 Dang, I thought she was 30 max
@@tru3sk1ll Same. She barely looks 30
No it's more than that since she recognized all the main characters faces and names. Probably over the years seeing it referenced all over
@@joshr8666 Sorry "main" experience, she definitely knew other things but she knew the lip reading video VERY well, super funny
You got to see the LEGENDARY John Williams TWICE?? How incredibly awesome! Super jealous. Great reaction, Coby!
Star Wars films were never grainy! A good print of much older films than this can look fantastic. The 'updated' edition of Empire has far less aesthetic changes than the other two. Most of what you see is how it looked in cinemas in 1980. There's a good reason these films blew peoples minds on their original release. So glad you're enjoying them!
Now imagine waiting for the next movie to find out if Vader was lying or not.
Yeah, even James Earl Jones had to wait to find that out (just not as long as we had to). Well, that’s Vader for you. Couldn’t even be trusted by his own voice.
yeah, it was the source of endless debate in the years leading up to Jedi. Everybody was talking about it.
coby + empire? yes please
Coby with her feet resting on my shoulders - 🤤
My favorite part of this one is undoubtedly Harrison Ford's improvised "I Know" ... ... It's so in line with his character!!
I have also heard John Williams at the Hollywood Bowl. Along with many other great performances, thanks to my mother. But not for a LONG time (I now live in NYC).
Lawrence Fishburne....I think his first movie was Apocalypse Now. watch it and see if you recognize him!
If you notice Luke looks a bit different here than in Episode IV, and his face even looks injured before he encounters the Yeti-like beast, it is because Mark Hammill had been in a major accident that required reconstructive surgery to his face between the first movie and this.
The big reveal really was a HUGE surprise when this first came out. Now the line is iconic, but it was one of the best kept secrets in movie history at the time.
Another big reveal in episode VI (my least favorite movie of the franchise) is less iconic but in retrospect pretty important.
41:39 L O V E D her facial expression when Luke activated his lightsaber! She was like, “A for effort, kid, but you ain’t even close to ready.”
Empire was always the best Star Wars film. Even after 7 more episodes, still the best.
meh, ROTJ always for me.
A New Hope! :)
The one where Jar Jar is tortured to death is mine. Oh wait, that's only in my head.
You know it was a great movie when the credits roll before you're ready.
Fun fact you might not have noticed... The guy who tripped the AT-AT Walker is Wedge Antillies. He was the only other X-Wing Pilot to survive attacking the first Death Star with Luke. He was the one who's X-wing got damaged and he had to peel off and Vader said "Let him go. Stay on the leader." He also saved Luke earlier in that fight when he flew strait at the Tie Fighter and blew it up barky in time to avoid hitting it himself. Wedge is tha man when it comes to flying X-Wings. And obviously he is good enough in a speeder to trip walkers. Excellent pilot.
Apparently, Frank Oz had a car that had the letters PYK on its license plate, and he would tell people they stood for "Piggy, Yoda, Kermit"
He didn't play Kermit though. He was one of Henson's.
That was amazing! Like watching it for the first time... For the 50th time.
Thank you!
I saw The Empire Strikes Back a day before it was released to the public. Some friends and I cut high school and were the first to arrive at the theater where TESB was opening. We arrived at 4pm the day before and slept in the parking lot. But before that happened, the theater had a midnight showing for the Press, and the theater manager let us sit in with them.
Afterwards, when we came back out, which was after 2am, there were 3 to 4 more cars full of Star Wars fans who flipped out after we told them we had just saw TESB! By noon the next day, (technically same day) there were a few hundred people in line now and word spread that we had seen TESB. We felt like rock stars! Everyone wanted to talk to us, including the tv news reporters! It was the most amazing movie going experience of my life!
"He doesn't know he is going to be a little frog!" ,😂 Loving your reactions to these films. Can't believe you hadn't ever watched them before.
Mark Hamill was in a bad car accident just before production started and they weren't sure he would be able to do the movie. When it looked like he could keep the film schedule, they wrote in the snow monster scene to explain Hamill's very visible scars.
Please quit pushing this false info.
This is not true, and no matter how many times people say it, it will not ever be true.
His accident was in January 1977, more than 2 years before Empire Strikes Back was filmed. In fact, the accident was before A New Hope even came out. Hell, because of when the accident happened, some of the pick-up shots for A New Hope that are from behind Luke are a body double.
As for the wampa scene, it was part of the first draft of the script, written nearly a year after the accident. You can say that this would add credence a timeline where it was added because of the accident, but the opposite is true. Look up the movie "Corvette Summer." This is a film Hamill made after the accident but before Empire. He looks fine. So, when the first draft of the script was written by Leigh, they already knew what Hamill would look like on camera and would know there was no reason to come up with some storyline to explain a "change in his appearance."
So, no: the accident was not right before filming began on empire. No, it didn't cause them to add a scene to explain the scars (which ended up being such a non-issue, the make-up department had to actually highlight the scars more to get the desired effect. He wasn't scarred enough.
Anyway, please, for the love of God, quit saying these things about the accident and how it affected Empire.
@@aceldamia9114 And this is an easily-verifiable fact, from a pop culture icon film. Just imagine how much people get wrong about historical or science facts. It's no surprise people can't handle the basics of reality.
@@aceldamia9114 All 100% correct - just had to give basically the same explanation on another reaction video for Empire a few weeks ago, lol. The only thing that would even stand out and let you know his appearance changed is his nose is slightly "fatter" for lack of a better word from the original Star Wars to everything else he did after.
@@tranders65so show us the proof if it's 100%
A) Hamill has explained it himself in a ton of interviews, most of which you can search for on TH-cam; 3) check out the book The Making of Star Wars by JW Rinzler that goes into amazingly intricate detail on how the movie came together- whole story is in there as well
Let's go to space! Thrusters a full power.
22:12 I love that video from Bad Lip Reading! Every time I see “Seagulls” I end up in stitches!!! 🤣
No matter what movie the launch or how incredible spfx got - NOTHING ON EARTH will ever cimpete with the thrill of seeing a New Hope back in 1977, or Empire in 1980 on the big screen. We were fortunate to see lightening strike twice!
Coby, seeing a Star Destroyer: "so, Darth Vader has a nice big, new ship again".
Executor: "hold my beer".
She's referencing the loss of the Death Star, so Executor doesn't really compare... :'D
and "hold my beer" is played out.
Coby crushn' on Vader🤣
Women can have the hots for Vader it must be all that black leather.
Batman was wrong, it's not the car, it's the suit. Chicks love the suit.
John Williams wrote the music for "Star Wars". When he wrote the beginning notes, he purposely chose the same brassy instruments, in the same key, as "20th Century Fox's" theme. He did this so they would blend seamlessly together. To this day, every time I hear 20th Century Fox's opening refrain, I hear "Star Wars" in my ears, too. LOL.
Darth Vader is English actor David Prowse, James Earl Jones was never on set, he was just the voice in post-production. So many people do not realize that for some reason.
When Empire 1st came out, some people didn't like it because it did not have a "proper" ending like the typical movie. They didn't realize it was the middle chapter in a Trilogy. Now, the majority of people today consider this to be the best of the three.
Like folks who stare at the screen in disbelief when Fellowship of the Ring ends... lol
ROTJ will always be my favourite, then ANH, then ESB.
BS. What people?
Throughout the years, I've seen many different surveys which ranked the Star Wars movies (1st six) and usually ESB is either #1 or #2. Doesn't mean your opinion isn't valid- it's just what I've PERSONALLY notice. Peace. P.S. My favorite is ANH.
That was a snow creature. Known as a Wampa. It is native to the Hoth planet.
Yeah, think of a Yeti on steroids! ;op
"Wampa beast"
A snow wookie.
Glad you're enjoying the films so far! Here's some facts I like about this film:
-Mark Hamill was in a horrific auto accident before shooting started for this film, that left him with the scar on his face after recovering from surgery. The scene on Hoth with the big Wompa monster clawing him across the face was made up relatively last minute to explain the scar he has now.
-The reveal of Vader being Luke's father was kept out of the scripts all the way to the day of shooting, George Lucas told Mark Hamill that day, in order to get a more genuine delivery of the line.
-Harrison Ford improvised his response of "I know." to Leia saying "I love you." to Han.
-George Lucas' ex-wife, Marcia Griffin Lucas, was arguably as much, if not more responsible for the style and success of the final product of the original films as George himself. Being the lead editor (thanks to her for all the classic wipe transitions) and the voice in George's ear for a lot of the rewrites of the final scripts. Empire Strikes Back was also the film that had the least direct, hands-on control from George, and is widely regarded as the best Star Wars film, an irony that I don't think gets credited enough.
18:00 - Don't worry, Cobie, they're going, they're going.
19:50 - Han Solo is such a skilled pilot that I sometimes wonder if he's using the Force without even knowing it.
22:15 - I saw that seagulls video. It's hilarious.
29:20 - "I want them alive. No disintigration. I'm looking at you, Fett."
36:52 - "He IS a bad dude! Lando!"
41:00 - Fun fact. The Imperial officer who pulled Leia away as she was saying "It's a trap" is Jeremy Bolluch, the actor who played Boba Fett.
George Lucas said that the classic triilogy formula goes like this: In part one, you introduce the characters. Part two, you put them in a perilous situation and leave them there. Part three, you get them out.
We had to wait 3 YEARS between movies, with no answers! No social media, not even conventions yet. Lots of lore was only being created at the time. (This is why release order is important).
Great reaction to this great classic Coby. Looking forward to your 'Return Of The Jedi' reaction now.
Movie triva facts....
In between films Mark Hamell (Luke) was involved in a car accident which did leave some scars on his face, so in order to explain why Luke looks a little different, writer/producer George Lucas, co-writer Lawrence Kasdan and director Irvin Kershner came up with the idea of a ice Wampa creature attacking him in the beginning of the film.
Frank Oz did the voice of Yoda in all the Star Wars films (he also was the voice Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal & Sam Eagle in the Muppets & Grover, Bert and Cookie Monster on Sesame Street). Also he was a good director as well (making such classics like The Muppets Take Manhattan, Little Shop Of Horrors, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, What About Bob? Housesitter, In & Out, Bowfinger, The Score, The Indian in the Cupboard and co-directed The Dark Crystal with Jim Henson).
No one but Gegore Lucas, Irvin Kershner, Mark Hamell & James Earl Jones knew the reveal of Darth Vader. It was kept a secret from everyone (including the full cast and crew) until they filmed that iconic scene (in fact Mark Hamell didn't know until the actual day of shooting about that secret). And boy did that shock movie audiences in 1980.
Harrsion Ford (Han) ad-libbed "I know" to Leia (Carrie Fisher)after she says "I Love You". After trying take after take after take of various variations of "I love you too", Gegore Lucas, Irvin Kershner and Ford himself were never satisfied with the scene as it was being filmed, so the cast & crew broke for lunch, which allowed for Ford to come up with the iconic line. Before filming the scene yet again, Ford told Lucas & Kershner his idea for the line and they all agreed that is what Han would exactly say in a moment like that. And the rest is movie history.
Atari came out with a series of popular arcade games for each film in the 80s (Star Wars & Empire games used vector style graphics, whereas Jedi used overhead isometric style). What was also unique about the arcade games was that they used early style digitized voice samples from the actors (saying things like "use the force Luke", "I can't shake 'em", "feel the power of the dark side", "never tell me the odds", "here goes nothing" & "Wonderful, we are now a part of the tribe").
A young John Ratzenberger (Cliff Clavin from 'Cheers') has a bit part as rebel alliance soldier in the planet Hoth sequence.
Dennis Lawson (who played Rebel Pilot Wedge Antilles in all 3 of the original Star Wars trilogy) is actually the real life uncle of Ewan McGregor (who would play a young Obi-Wan Kenobi in the prequel trilogy & the prequel Obi-Wan TV series).
Convenient you left out Leigh Brackett's role in writing Empire, considering it is how you can debunk the whole "Wampa attack was to explain a car wreck" BS.
You have a great laugh - I envy you, seeing these for the first time. I still remember what it felt like, as a kid, seeing these on the screen in 1977, 1980, 1983
Always loved how when R2 fixes the hyperdrive at the end of the film the front of the ship lifts up and everything falls backwards like it popped a wheelie!
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Which, when you learn about L3 and her personality, kind of makes sense.
Where is Cami?
Cami is on hiatus but she will be back!
A couple of fun facts... The original SW was only titled Star Wars they didnt think it was going to be as successful as it was enough so that George Lucas and Steven Spielberg did attend the premiere but went to Hawaii to discuss another pic "Raiders of The Lost Arc". They added to episode numbers prior to the release of ESB when the original was re-released before the premiere of ESB and it became EP4 - A New Hope. As far as getting Han Solo Harrison Ford fid not sign on for any of the OG trilogy sequels like Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher. The character of Lando was created in case HF decided not to do Return of The Jedi. HF eventually did sign on for EP6. 😊
Another common misconception. Not true about why Lando was added. You are right that Ford didn't sign up for three films like Fisher and Hamill did, but not long after A New Hope came out, there was no question that he would be in Empire. Well before even the first draft of Empire was written. This would mean there would not have been any Han-related reasons to add him to Empire and even less reason for Jedi. The way Empire ended, they had to know that Ford would be back for Jedi.
It seems like the only proof anyone ever seems to have about "Lando replacing Han" is a picture of Lando wearing Han's vest, which is totally taken out of context (mostly as to why Han is wearing it in the first place).
@@aceldamia9114 I've read differently and heard George Lucas say as much... That is why Han was not revived at the end. If HF decided to not be a part of EP6 then his character could be written off. I don't understand why you think the end proves that HF/HS would be back. He was frozen and not seen.
These movies are awesome and were astounding at the time. Easy to see why it is such a beloved and classic trilogy. And yes, the Seagulls ba lip reading song is hilarious!
That four-legged walker was the biggest and most expensive Star Wars toy in 80s toy stores!
My older brother preferred Star Wars, and I, Empire Strikes Back. Maybe for Gen Xers, it's more revealing than your zodiac sign
You were clearly correct.
Empire is the hero's mistep opposed to New Hope's hero's journey. Luke has room to fail and get back up here, where NH is all or nothing.
Your brother chose, poorly.
Hi Coby hope you are having an great and awesome day ❤
Before Star Wars IV came out, Lucas was sending his minions out to science fiction conventions around the country touting the film and explaining how the special effects would be done. (They bought every Revell model kit in the country and kitbashed them into space ships, no matter what they were originally supposed to be.) At the end of the presentation the guy begged us all to go see the film- so that George would make enough money to be able to make "A good one" for the sequel.
I remember watching with a packed theatre back when this came out and the whole auditorium erupting into cheers when the first AT-AT went down.
Now I kind of want you to watch the "despecialized" edition of the original trilogy. I like the practical effects a lot better than the cartoonish CGI.
Empire has the least changes, and I generally feel that they work well here, opposed to New Hope and Jedi. Adding windows to Cloud City gives it a more realistic look, and updating the Emperor is a nice fix.
@@LordVolkov That's why I mentioned it on this reaction. This one's a lot more true to the original. Makes me wish Coby had been able to see it before the changes.
The original movies were great without the enhancements. That didn't make a bit of difference to the popularity, or the cultural phenomenon that Star Wars became. CGI is nice, but there is something to be said for the hard work of makeup & model making. As a 12 year old seeing Star Wars for the first time, the "effects" didn't make a difference. I was only interested in seeing what was going to happen next. It was about the story, not how "real", or "good" the effects looked.
Watching in the theater was incredible! Imagine having to wait 3 years between each movie, uuuughh, thanks!
My Lady, I can not express with mere words how utterly delightful watching, nay experiencing ESB (geek shorthand for Empire Strikes Back, FYI Episode 4 is ANH and Episode 5 is ROTJ) again so many years later with you. Your enthusiasm is seemingly boundless and refreshing in a way that warms my cold, black cynical heart. Forgive a middle-aged fuddy-duddy his flights of fancy, but your smile could light all of NYC through the darkest of blackouts. And the word enthusiasm scarcely seems sufficient to convey your excitement. It takes me back to a time, so pregnant with heady escapism and a sense of wonder that I thought only a 12 year old little boy could manifest. Movies today rarely possess such capacity to exite and hearten the way the OG Star Wars trilogy did and, with your help, clearly still can. So, thank you so very much for sharing so very much with the 12 year old little boy that still haunts my desiccated soul. The beauty of your soul and personality is matched only by your physical beauty. I am in your debt beyond measure. God bless you and never let go of your youthful enthusiasm and joy.
-Jamie
This reaction brought me so much joy. I grew up with these movies. Seeing someone enjoy watching them for what they are was a happy way to end a tough day. Thanks.
Ah....the Incom T-47 snowspeeder. One of my favorite star wars ships when I was a kid. I had the toy. I never got an AT-AT walker as a kid. I now have a vintage one, a Power of the Force model and the larger version with the Z-74 speeder bikes. As well as 3 vintage snowspeeders, 2 different Hoth base playsets, vintage and POTF Tauntons and a Wampa. Hoth is my favorite sequence of the film. Living in Michigan our winters were long and all I needed was a baseball cap, a scarf and old safety goggles and I was Luke Skywalker.
As far as the image quality looking good on these, there was a very intensive painstaking restoration done on them in the early 2000's. They got a lot of film prints of it to find the least degraded ones, did a lot of cleaning, color brightening, etc. to get them ready for scanning to digital. So they do look very much improved from how 20 or 30 year old film would look if it were just scanned to digital as-is.
The action figure toys from this series were great and had a lot of attention to detail in the story. Those creatures they ride on in the snow are called tauntauns. There were two versions of the toy. One was Luke's and one was Han's. Han's had a rubber belly panel with a slit in it so you could reenact that scene with stuffing Luke inside to keep him warm.
And there was a version of C3PO that had removable arms and legs, and it came with a little plastic mesh bag with shoulder straps, so you could do that thing with carrying broken C3PO on Chewbacca's back.
He didn't call the first film episode 4 initally. When I saw it as a child, it was just Star Wars. The episodes came a bit later.
They did episode 4 first because they never thought the movie would be a success and so they did the episode that they thought would be the best if they never got to make another. Then when the movie was released in '77 it was a monster. I was living in LA at the time and this movie was a phenomenon that took Hollywood by storm. I got to see it in the original theater where it was first shown in Westwood. Seeing it on a huge screen is the only way to truly appreciate how groundbreaking the movie was.
It's immensely enjoyable to see you discover these old...er movies.
I love how c3po tells r2 to switch off, like it's a droid's way of saying f off.
*That smile could win awards!*
39:43 : The timing on this is funny because she says, "I must admit I'd choose Han Solo over Luke," and then it cuts to Harrison Ford saying, "I know." 🤣
🎶 Now run, run, run, jump
I can be a backpack while you run 🎶
Yes! I love those BLR videos and "Seagulls" is probably my favorite! That and the Walking (And Talking) Dead, too 😆
"Seagulls, hmph, stop it now!" Classic BLR.
Make sure you watch "Bushes of Love," you'll be humming it for days!
You're right about the pronunciation of the princess's name. It was not consistent throughout the trilogy. In Episode IV, everyone called her Lee-ah. But in Episodes V and VI, she tended to be called Lay-ah (though as you noted with C3PO, there are still occasions where she was called Lee-ah. Han's named also changed. In the first movie it rhymed with ban. But in Empire and Return it tended to rhyme with dawn.
The Seagull video is next level, I found it a few months ago and watched it about 20 times. Hysterical!
49:30 one of the most perplexing scenes in all of cinema. It is never explained why Lando is suddenly wearing Han Solo's attire during the escape in the Millennium Falcon.
Oh man, TESB is in my top five all time favorite movies. I watch it religiously every Christmas Eve while wrapping presents.