As far as I can tell, Mark Hamill has been a kid his entire life, and Harrison Ford has been a grumpy old man his entire life, and I respect them both for it.
I literally can't imagine what it was like seeing the first trilogy with no prior knowledge of it. I remember joking about this very topic with my dad who was 10 or 11 when Empire Strikes Back came out. He talked about how everyone's mind was blown when they found out about Vader being Luke's father yet to anyone born after these movies came out...its hard to even call it a plot twist because it's one of the most iconic/quotable/memeable moments in all of cinematic history. Like let's be honest, most of us under the age of like 50 already knew going into the first movie whether we had previously seen any other star wars movie or not, that Vader is Luke's father. It almost makes me envious in a way that people got to experience that twist while it was still actually a twist.
I was there...it was such a big surprise because you really didn't see it coming. Nobody expected Star Wars to be any more than a space adventure, that plot revelation came out of nowhere.
To all those saying it was only the Disney+ versions that had the line, y’all are wrong. It was added in the last special edition before D+, so it’s been there for a few years
@@actaeondiomedes4270 www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cinemablend.com/news/2484984/greedo-actor-is-confused-by-maclunkey-and-star-wars-in-general It was only added when D+ came out
R’lyehian Bunnyman he meant the setting and idea of Star Wars allows for the perfect franchise. Not necessarily that the groundwork that was set has always been used well. You can have an amazing beach front property and still build a crappy house that ruins everything except what the setting provides.
The franchise as a whole is pretty perfect. The movies aren’t, but there are a TON of fantastic Star Wars games and books, a few fantastic TV shows, etc. The setting and concept of Star Wars is amazing
Fun fact: When "A new hope" came out, the tech for the scrolling text in the beginning, hadn't been invented yet. So the crawl effect was accomplished with the camera moving longitudinally along a 6 foot long model.
A New Hope is by far my favorite, because I saw it in the theater as a 9-year-old, and it’s impossible to overstate just how obsessed EVERY kid suddenly became with it. The toys and action figures and references were suddenly everywhere, we knew every line, and Darth Vader was the coolest bad guy EVER. It was unreal.
That’s pretty much what I wanted to ask. Why is it so hard to watch the original version of the movie? Didn’t millions of people buy the a VHS or copy of the original release first?
I have the 2005 dvds. So I don't have to anymore. Do you know if you can get punished for having the harmy despecialized editions? Or is it only illegal for the seller but not the buyer.
@@sunwukong5518 yeah you get punished George Lucas breaks in your house with a baseball bat smashes up your DVDs while screaming “Jar Jar is the key to everything”
Fletcher Gillespie episode 3 is far from “literal dogshit” even with the flaws in the film like the acting, dialogue, asinine romance and too much cgi everywhere. There’s way too many good scenes and moments and has phenomenal art direction, visuals and music. Even with its problems, there’s a lot to praise and love.
Fletcher Gillespie That’s not a hot take. I hate the original trilogy and love the new movies, that’s a hot take. (That’s actually true, and a much better example)
The Luke, Vader and Emperor scenes in Return of the Jedi were legendary and i think thats the problem, George Lucas knew exactly how their story goes but didn't know what to do with everyone else so it ended up being middling
Must be because he doesn’t think it is that bad, but he’s also really disappointed in a sad way. Also he’s not fucking YMS who’s like: “yeah it was good 5/10”
I really liked RotJ, I think a lot of the criticism is overinflated. The ending is so, so satisfying. The Jabba battle is contrived but really imaginative, the speeder chase was the shit when I was a kid, Luke vs Vader vs Emperor is iconic. There's lots to love. Meh.
@@finze1 okay, now I will tell you what I think: -The whole Jabba part is indeed contrived and kind of a shitshow but yes it’s fun. -They just skipped Luke’s transition into a proper Jedi because they had no time for that but they also couldn’t do a time skip because they had to save Han right away “we should just pretend he’s superior to Darth Vader now and he even made a lightsaber god knows how in a matter of a couple of weeks tops, and then let’s make him go back to Yoda because we can’t skip that, but he’ll just say he’s ready and die immediately so we can get that out of the way”. -The previous point would be less worse if they made it work with Han, but no, Han doesn’t do anything apart from running around in the woods and be jealous of Luke. If you’re thinking “oh but he helped destroy the bunker it was full on Han Solo greatness, you idiot” I invite you compare his involvement in the previous movies and how of an integral character he used to be, that’s why Harrison Ford himself thinks Han should’ve just died and closed his arc in a really tragic and satisfying way instead of all that tomfoolery. Even Force Awakens was a better movie for Han. -Endor is a very unimaginative location. If you don’t agree that’s okay but compare how fantastic were Tatooine, the Death Star, Hoth, Dagobah and Cloud City were next to the fucking Redwood forest full of Teddy Bears and that’s it. -I personally think the speeder bike chase is pointless and not exciting at all, and the green screen looks like shit. The only “consequence” is that Leia crashes and meets an Ewok before the rest, I put that on quotes because that has no impact on the story at all. Later on when they capture the rest, she tells them to let them go but they don’t listen anyway so what’s the point? -I hate the “from a certain point of view” scene. They don’t know what to do with the things they keep retconning and they just make the Jedi look like a bunch of hippie fools who lie to Luke about EVERYTHING. He is not the last Jedi, Darth Vader did not literally kill his father, and Leia is his sister now?! Plus ghost Obi-Wan sits on the log, wtf is that? -Now that I’m talking about that, I don’t love that “Leia is actually also Vader’s daughter and Luke’s twin sister” I like how they used that to make Luke snap at the end but I don’t quite like how it’s handled with how Luke’s behavior changes immediately from his friend that he obviously fancies to the sister she always knew she was?! What? -They waste like 15 minutes with the Ewoks. They get captured in a giant net like a cartoon and then the teddy bears take them to their camp and plan to eat them. Thank god two seasoned smugglers (of which one is a giant bear dog) and a oh so powerful Jedi Knight had a golden droid with them to pretend he’s a god, because the Ewoks would’ve killed them all. And then another five minutes of 3PO explaining the whole story so far in another language without subtitles but with sound effects. That whole part is prequel-bad if you ask me. -In my opinion, the final battle is wrong. We have our known and loved characters in a tensionless scenario with teddy bears killing the empire like in a cartoon on the ground, and the battle in space which has bigger stakes on paper is carried on by characters we don’t know at all except Lando, and he’s not an awesome character if you ask me, so how about at least WE PUT HAN AND CHEWIE ON THEIR FUCKING SHIP and get Lando on the ground, ain’t that better for the audience? The characters we know and love are in real danger and Lando does his job as a not so main character. -Palpatine is just a really old and evil guy, and he dies without having a character beyond that, this complaint is not so big because the point was Vader’s redemption, not Palpatine himself (but I can’t understand why they complained about Snoke but not about this though, it’s exactly the same PREQUELS DON’T COUNT) -there’s nothing to tempt Luke with??? Palpatine’s just like “come on Luke become evil, please” “come on Luke kill me please” “come on Luke fight your father” Luke of course says no and that leads to Vader’s redemption, which again that was the point, but there’s no tension, there’s no reason for us to think that Luke might actually turn evil and make us worried that he might just do it, making the scene much less interesting. -So because they blew up the Death Star again AND killed Palpatine, the Empire is immediately done for all over the galaxy, what? That’s so dumb they’ve been trying to correct it ever since in all kinds of new stories including the extended universe, Battlefront 2 (EA) and The Mandalorian but that doesn’t count. -After everything is over, the heroes get back together without a single word. They just dance and clap and it ends, pretty unsatisfying for me. -That’s about it.
can we please take a moment to thank marcia lucas (george lucas’s ex wife) for editing the original triology, and in particular a new hope, as well as she did? most people tend to credit movies to just directors and actors, and in doing so fail to realize that well written and well directed moments in film will still fall flat without good timing and editing. marcia gave the films so much heart and really helped structure them into something watchable. edit (ironically): isnt it funny how after they split up george lucas decided to fuck with the movies and now they’re not as good anymore because he ruined the pacing and tension .
Imagine if Han died in Empire, then the emotional weight of this transferred into ROTJ, and Luke lost his shit in the final battle against Vader... Something to think about.
I was there in 1977 to see the original Star Wars when it was brand new in theatres. It was so incredibly awesome! Over the next six months I must have gone to 15 or more theatres to see it again and again, taking friends and family to see this amazing thing.
The Cosmonaut: The only people who like the prequel trilogy are children or people who grew up watching them as children Me a person that grew up with them on VHS and watched The Phantom Menace so many times the tape stopped working: Well he's not wrong
@@Naafidy And theres nothing wrong with that^^ The Prequels have so much great Stuff in them to love^^ Not all of it of course, but still^^ ROTS is still my favorite SW Movie^^.
While I can agree with shitting on first 2 movies, when people call ROTS bad, I just can't understand these people It has the best lightsaber duel till this day, it has great action and story is not that bad either(except some awful dialogs between Anakin and Padme but it's just George being awful dialogs writer) And it has freacking Palpatine rocking everyone in the movie and succeeding If Palpatine wouldn't have been that good, we wouldn't have him again in the episode 9. I really hope that The Cosmonaut will not blindly shit on the third movie without saying good stuff about it.
Marcus: Why didn’t Luke Just Kill Jaba Then? Well Uncle Cosmonaut, It’s because he wanted the pleasure of looking at Slave Leia. Little did he know Yoda would tell him 5 minutes laters that’s his damn sister.
“The only people that like them are children and people who watched them as children” As a person who was a child when the prequels released and absolutely loves them, I can say with certainty that this sentence is absolutely correct.
The prequels were made FOR children, so in essence, they are great movies cuz they pleased the target demographic. I saw the originals and prequels as a child, and liked the prequels better cuz they were more exciting. I got super bored watching Han and Leia fix the Falcon inside a space slug, and Luke lifting rocks on Dagobah. The bad writing/dialog things weren't apparent to me until I was an adult. HOWEVER... on re-watching the originals, I noticed that many of those same flaws existed. A lot of the dialog in ANH in particular is super cringey (which CVH's biased ass didn't even comment on). The universe in the Originals also just seems so empty and boring, now that the prequels have established and built up so much lore.
Props to George Lucas’s exwife. The only reason the original trilogy was as good as it was. These cinematic “geniuses” are only as good as their editor.
I've kept saying that Star Wars has only been as good as the people around George make it. Every time Lucas has a lot of the final say in the films we get stuff like the Prequels and ROTJ.
Tayo Jones not really, all behind the scenes and everything shows how not interested in anything george was with the prequels, complain about TLJ all you want, but Rian Johnson was very happy and loved doing Star Wars unlike george during the prequel era
I was 12 when A new Hope came out. It was the coolest thing ever. I would pick up glass bottles along the side of the road and turn them in at the convenience store to get the deposit back (remember when that was a thing) so I could go see it again. Very few movies have made me feel like that since. It's so sad to see where the franchise has gone.
Yeah Prostitutes/One Night Stands are ok, Wifes/Husbands and Girl-/Boyfriends not. Ki-Adi-Mundi was married but that was because his species needed every member to procreate since they were endangered.
@@Stone-TheThird yep, I loved the prequels as much as humanly possible, and now aotc is my least favorite star wars movie, but rots was the only one that stuck with me
@@Stone-TheThird i came back to Star wars after years and believing that the prequels are very good and fun to watch. So, i made a Star wars marathon, the OT was awesome i loved every second. I thought the prequels would have the same effect. Jesus Christ i could barely watch them without falling asleep. Finally i got why people call them bad. They are so boring and bad
@Joseph Tacitus tell me where in my comment I said the prequels didn't suck? I'm just tired of the children whining when the sequels are clearly worse.
@@Anthonest1 ehh the sequels are mostly just retreads of the OT, so they are predictable (unless the director has a boner for SuBvErTiNg ExPeCtAtIoNs), but the prequels were a special kind of suck that happens when you give a guy like Lucas, who has good grand vision but is shit at fleshing it out, too much creative control. IMO, the prequels are worse
Wow. You're experience with A New Hope is almost exactly my experience with it. Saw it more times than grains of sand in all the Earth but then watched with a GF many years ago who hadn't seen them. I completely wiped my mind of any opinions on the movie, pretended it was 1977 and gave it a go. I have never watched any Star Wars movie since without putting myself in the mindset of the time of its release, sitting in my imaginary theater, cranking the volume, and being absolutely stunned. Doing that with the Harmy Despecialized blew my little mind.
Even with the stuff he hated, he still had to admit that the movie was better than average. There was some really good stuff in it, like seeing Luke doing his Jedi thing to rescue Han, the speeder bike scene, the Yoda scene that has Luke beginning to come to grips with the fact that Vader is his father, the Obi-Wan scene with Luke having to deal with the fact that he can't kill his father, the scene with Luke and Vader reuniting for the first time since their fight, the throne room fight, and let's not forget the amazing space battle to end the film. I can see why the Ewoks aren't too popular with people, and maybe George did make a mistake by not having that battle on Kashyyyk so that the Wookies would be fighting the Stormtroopers, but overall, there's a lot of really good stuff in ROTJ. It's not as bad as his hatred makes it out to be. Plus, Lando was just so awesome in this movie. Billy Dee Williams' acting was so good. Also, can we get some love for 3PO growing as a character in this film? In Star Wars, 3PO tells Luke that he's not much for telling stories, but in ROTJ, 3PO does a fantastic job of telling stories to the Ewoks. So, even 3PO grew as a character throughout the trilogy.
I appreciate that a scene was added on Hoth because of an external event. For those who don't know, Mark Hamill was in a car accident before filming started on Empire Strikes Back that resulted in damage that permenantly altered his face. So Lucas added the scene with the yeti thing abducting Luke which caused the damage to his face.
They did technically release the original versions on DVD but they were in the absolute WORST version possible in terms of clean up, sound quality, and visuals. Worth it though
@@vinogr00nko93 BAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Hey guys look at this man out here saying f*cking attack of the clones is a quality movie, there’s a difference when you say you like something, (for example I kinda like watching the prequels) vs their critical quality which is pretty shit
3:55 Fun fact: George Lucas had written some very bloated garbage for the opening crawl. It was actually heavily edited to the concise and engaging version we know by his pal [Edited: Brian De Palma]. Plus the text format is directly borrowed from Flash Gordon.. but you, savvy youtube viewer, already knew about that. As much as 5 (my favourite) and 4 are the quintessential Star Wars, the best moment to me MIGHT be in 6 when Luke rejoins Vader on the forest moon before the final showdown. It's a slow sequence of genuine discussion between good and evil, between father and son. Most movies would have gone straight to fighting. But that's not what those characters are about at that point. I like this.
@Vincent H. Goddamn you're actually right, I mixed up the two. De Palma edited the opening crawl. Coppola got in my head because Lucas based Han Solo's attitude off him and he gave some feedback on the movie, but wasn't involved with the crawl. Thanks for pointing that out mate!
Hell yeah, I'm glad other people appreciate that scene. It's one of my favorites in the original trilogy. It is slow, like you said, but I think the cinematography, acting, and writing are all beautiful. You really get to see the maturation of Luke as a person/jedi, the maturation of Luke and Vader's relationship, and a peek into Vader as a human for what feels like the first time.
I'm glad you're doing this. These movies are way too caught up in the hype machine to get any kind of real coherent thought, good or bad. I'm used to Star Wars reviews being always very hyperbolic and I I'm excited for part 2.
When I took my little brother to his first Star Wars movie (TLJ), he was talking to me, not looking at the screen as the opening Lucasfilm logo came up. When the opening title popped up onto the screen, he jumped about 8 inches out of his seat. One of the hardest laughs I've ever had.
@@MrTkillian Well no argument there. I consider it the worst of the franchise myself. Couldn't tell ya for the life of me who any of the important side characters are.
@@Sam-im5tc I agree, though ATOTC is pretty bad, but it was the first SW movie I saw in theaters so it has that nostalgia going for it. My biggest problem with TLJ is that I actually was interested in the main characters after TFA, but TLJ did next to nothing to build on it. Plus what it did to Luke. Plus just overall bad writing and disjointed narrative, tone and acting.
"Imagine you were sitting in a theater in 1977..." I don't actually have to imagine it. ;p The film broke half-way through and we had to come back another time to see it in its entirety. It was *excruciating*. I also vividly remember when our parents took us to see Raiders of the Lost Ark, and at the first shot (of the mountain), my brother whined, "You took us to see a *nature* movie?! :(:("
I enjoy this movie cus it’s Star Wars, I also enjoy the prequels even though they’re not that good. ROTJ isn’t terrible by any means but it has boring moments and Han is so much worse. He’s my favorite Star Wars character but in this movie he’s just not nearly as good
Its pretty good now, but only some of it. The sequel trilogy stuff is shit and no one cares, the OT era stuff isn't fleshed out enough, GA is annoying restrictive and boring, most of the smaller modes aren't played anymore, the campaign and arcade are DOGSHIT they make me want to harm myself. The only good stuff is the clone wars content, but it's so annoying because you have like 110 GB game but like 80% of it is shit. Honestly they should have just made this a clone wars only game. Just like how the first one was a OT only game if they just did cw for the second they could have focused on it more and given us even more content, then the next game could be ST or KOTOR.
@@rishabhpoikayil7621 unless you have the original VHS of the trilogy there is literally absolutely no way to watch the theatrical cuts of the movies. Although there is a version of the 2004 special edition box set that has both the 2004 rereleases and the theatrical cuts on dvd but the quality of the dvd is a bit wonky and that version of the box set is more rare than the original VHS's
It took us 2months to get to see it in 1977....the lines where crazy long and every showing would sell out. When we did finally see it it blew my mind. It was an experience that I had never seen before. I will never forget that viewing.
Here's an idea for Disney to make an extra boatload of money: Re-release the theatrical cut, with just the special effects for the lightsabers, blasters and space battle updated, for the original trilogy. Maybe clean Vader's helmet a little bit. Not to the point it shines under the light, but enough to remove the fingerprints.
Late to comment but yeahhhhhhh Star Wars has been around for a long ass time it has it's good parts , bad parts, and really really really weird/dumb stuff. Though to be expected this is what happens to a franchise that goes on for a while.
I like how underused the force was compared to the other movies in A New Hope. Basically it was used for mind control, chocking ppl, and miraculous stunts. And the only light saber battle was between obiwan and Darth Vader which was pretty funny because of how stiff the fight was relative to other movies.
The vast majority of Star Wars movies have only one lightsaber fight.Phantom Menace had two but the First was super brief, and The Last Jedi technically had three but one was a flashback, one didn’t actually use lightsabers, and one had a ghost just dodging the lightsaber. Revenge of the Sith is the only one too really capitalize on lightsaber duels, having a massive total of five.
It worked so well too because they're both old as shit now. It's been 18 years. When you see them in the prequels, the way they fight was so dynamic and fast. In the books, Darth Vader misses the way he used to be able to fight. So it just works so well
@@cybercery5271 That's not How Force Works, So The penis is the male organ used for urination and sexual intercourse. The penis is located above the scrotum. It is made of spongy tissue and blood vessels. The shaft of the penis surrounds the urethra and is connected to the pubic bone. The foreskin covers the head (glans) of the penis. During an orgasm, the muscles beneath contract (tense) rhythmically. As soon as a woman is sexually aroused, the small Bartholin's glands at the opening of the vagina release a fluid. The vagina becomes moist, making it easier for the penis to enter during sex.Sexual excitement reaches its peak. You feel a series of intense muscle contractions as your body releases the tension. The muscles of the vagina and the uterus contract. Muscles at the base of the penis tighten and release, releasing semen in an ejaculation.
Im Gen Z so the prequels were my childhood 😭 Attack of The Clones, Revenge Of the Sith and 'Star Wars Clone Wars' (Cartoon Network) especially hold a special place in my heart 💚 I never knew these films were hated until I discovered the Internet 😂 In hindsight they are very wooden, cringe and boring at times. But the nostalgia carries me through!
Nice to see ya enjoy them. For me they are terrible movies, and I did grow up with them, but if you acknowledge their flaws and like them regardless, good for you
@@clunkwestweed4541 As much as i want to say i hate it the good moments are peak star wars. Love the fights they have so much meaning to them especially obi wan vs anakin
"These are the rebels. This is the Empire. And the Empire is really big and really scary. An-- damn he's really tall" ^Love that Spider-Verse reference. Thank you. I take for granted how well thought out your commentary is.
Lmao my dad was 11 when he saw A New Hope in 1977 and he's loved Star Wars from then. He loves all of the movies. Even the new ones. Hell, he thinks TLJ is one of the best in the franchise.
@@Phantom-qr1ug I'm tired of all these sweaty nerds trying to hate the new stuff when literally every movie in Star Wars is stupid in one way or another. But it's part of what's great about it.
@@seanoconnor5730 I feel exactly the same way. It's perfectly fine to not like the sequels, or the prequels or the originals but don't try to convince people that they're not allowed to like any of those. Same goes the other way around.
@@Jones183 There is no VHS version of Star Wars. The first VHS release was already called Ep IV: New hope. All the Vhs releases differ in one way or another from the original. Now to be fair the laserdisc versions aren’t exactly 1:1 either but those and the DVD versions made from them are the closest that have ever been available for home viewing.
“You cannot watch the original 1977 cut of A New Hope legally” Me: *owns a dvd of A New Hope with the original 1977 cut on the second disk* “Are you sure about that?”
Except that version isn't that great. I have that too in fact, with the entire trilogy with the special editions as the main feature and the unaltered versions as a bonus disc. What sucks though is the quality isn't that great and there is motion smearing along with dryed out color.
@@sanchobanana3507 i0.wp.com/nerdvanamedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/dvd_saga.jpg?w=640 this image shows the box sets of both trilogies that I have
Why? You’re a brave soul who either has stayed with the games for over a decade or managed to wade your way through microtransactions to get to the point where the game got good.
“You cannot legally watch the original version of this movie” Does everyone forget the original unedited trilogy was released on DVD in 2006?? I still own it!
Yeah, but they weren’t TECHNICALLY the original theatrical versions. They were cut from the Laserdisk releases, which have the smallest amount of change since being ported for home entertainment
They are not in print though. That is the point he is making. The only version currently on the market and being made are the special editions. And even the home releases that came out from Laser Disk to now still aren't the original versions.
@@TheZebbga Lucas specifically prohibited Disney from releasing any of the six episodes in any version made earlier than at the time of purchase. That's why they were forced to keep the atrocious last-minute McClunkey addition by Lucas and can't legally re-release the unedited originals on the market.
Apparently the opening crawl to Star Wars (1977) was heavily rewritten by Brian De Palma, a good friend of George Lucas who disliked the film's first edit. If the film had kept its original opening crawl, it would've been just as boring and uninteresting as the opening crawls for the prequels.
I think I just find some of the more ridiculous stuff in Return of the Jedi more endearing that Marcus does. Perhaps it’s nostalgia or a difference in taste, but I just find it to be an immensely fun and satisfying film
I agree. While I know V is a better movie and IV really is a perfect starting point, VI is my personal favorite. The finale usually has the best moments since it can show the Hero at their best. In V, Luke could barely move his lightsabre, but in VI, he can lift C-3PO in a wooden throne. I know everyone hates on the prequels but it's my love of the original trilogy that makes me rethink the early 2000 ones. The first Star Wars movies I saw were the prequels and they were great! I understood most things and, tho I know the dialogue is bad and didn't have editors to fix such things, the badly written things were easy to understand. For me, the original saga (first six episodes) are the movies I enjoy, that I watch on my own or with others. And so far, The Mandalorian has a similar feel to the original three. If you've never seen a Star Wars thing before, the setting is weird, but it draws you in. There's a charm to it; one that all three movies have.
@Geralt of Trivia iblove the ewoks. They were my childhood. We all loved the awoke back then. I don't get this sudden hate for them. It must be this new generation of fans that wasn't there
@Geralt of Trivia Ooo... I really disagree with that one. If we're removing the ewoks can we also remove the puffin-merchandise that is porgs? They were only added due to the native birds being in every stinking shot and, unlike ewoks, don't add anything to the plot. Real question, in Legends Boba didn't die and had actually been eaten a few times before, has this been changed with Disney's new canon or do we simply not know?
@Geralt of Trivia That's too bad, Boba was an awesome character. You & I have very different definitions of embarrassment if you think the ewoks are but the porgs aren't. In the OT, no one brought the ewoks with them, so yeah, their cute and they don't blink but there only on one tiny moon of the planet Endor. Porgs are everywhere and unlike ewoks they aren't real. You can't what's on screen b/c they're computer generated, but ewoks? Ewoks are practical, at least there's something for the actors to look at. Porgs should've stayed on the island just like the puffins do...
the main thing i love about the prequels is the era before palpatine rose to power its soo interesting to me and thats a part of the rason i love clone wars cuz it expands that era all in all i love every star wars movie exept the sequels
I loved Attack of the Clones because as a kid I loved military stuff. Oh man, seeing a futuristic battle with space wizards and badass clones and scary droids was the stuff of my dreams! I still love a lot of Star Wars battles because it's just cool stuff to imagine and think about. Even the boring politics made the universe feel real and lived in imo. All the battles and stuff got me re-emersed to the point that I forgot about the goofy and awkward dialogue or dumb scenes
Came back to watch this masterpiece again and I just noticed the Father Gascoigne theme when you were roasting the prequels at the end! 😂😂 Been playing Bloodborne nonstop for the past week which is why I picked up on it. Good taste in music and in games, brother!
The one criticism I have of this movie is, Luke Skywalker lived his whole life on a sand planet and we never learn how he feels about sand.
“I like the way sand feels in my teeth-“
@@Firefly07 darth vader: nooooooo
He does kick a pile of sand before looking at the binary sunset. Like aunt beru said, there’s to much of his father in him
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It’s coarse.. and it gets everywhere
As far as I can tell, Mark Hamill has been a kid his entire life, and Harrison Ford has been a grumpy old man his entire life, and I respect them both for it.
Those are two of my favorite types of people!
and diehard star wars fans have been both for their entire life
I was Luke and now Harrison.
Hell yah
@@faye61 True 😂
"I like the sith because they aren't boring and can have sex"
Marcus predicted The Rise of Skywalker
...how?
@@robinanwaldt Palpatine somehow banging a chick some point in time and being the father to Rey's father I guess
Bang bang bang
OpTmizeD_SonDre 420 pull my devil trigger
@@bimgusfriestad7132 sounds like the kitchen gun
I literally can't imagine what it was like seeing the first trilogy with no prior knowledge of it. I remember joking about this very topic with my dad who was 10 or 11 when Empire Strikes Back came out. He talked about how everyone's mind was blown when they found out about Vader being Luke's father yet to anyone born after these movies came out...its hard to even call it a plot twist because it's one of the most iconic/quotable/memeable moments in all of cinematic history.
Like let's be honest, most of us under the age of like 50 already knew going into the first movie whether we had previously seen any other star wars movie or not, that Vader is Luke's father. It almost makes me envious in a way that people got to experience that twist while it was still actually a twist.
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@@koolaidking4555 askers?
tha fawk... Vader is lukes father>?!?!
@@steggyweggy yuri asked
I was there...it was such a big surprise because you really didn't see it coming. Nobody expected Star Wars to be any more than a space adventure, that plot revelation came out of nowhere.
1977: Greedo dies without shooting
2011: MACLUNKEY
Matthew M
2019: MACLUNKEY!
MACLUNKEY was 2019 for Disney Plus
He only said Maclunkey in 2019, idiot
To all those saying it was only the Disney+ versions that had the line, y’all are wrong. It was added in the last special edition before D+, so it’s been there for a few years
@@actaeondiomedes4270 www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cinemablend.com/news/2484984/greedo-actor-is-confused-by-maclunkey-and-star-wars-in-general
It was only added when D+ came out
Marcus: Star Wars is the perfect franchise
Also Marcus: hates over half of the saga
R’lyehian Bunnyman he meant the setting and idea of Star Wars allows for the perfect franchise. Not necessarily that the groundwork that was set has always been used well. You can have an amazing beach front property and still build a crappy house that ruins everything except what the setting provides.
The franchise as a whole is pretty perfect. The movies aren’t, but there are a TON of fantastic Star Wars games and books, a few fantastic TV shows, etc. The setting and concept of Star Wars is amazing
I don't think there is a Star Wars Fan in existence that likes more than 50% of the movies
Paynovski
Kevin Smith
1/3rd actually. He hates the prequels
"It's the perfect movie, flaws and all"
wait, that's illegal
"I will make it legal"
Imperfections make it perfect.
•Vï •Mo• kinda not true at all bud you’ve just contradicted yourself
It is illegal
@@normanosborn3181 I was gonna chew you out for posting cringe but I can't hate someone with a Jay profile pic.
I remember as a little kid being really freaked out and scared of that floating black ball with the needle that tortured Leia in ANH
Fun fact: When "A new hope" came out, the tech for the scrolling text in the beginning, hadn't been invented yet. So the crawl effect was accomplished with the camera moving longitudinally along a 6 foot long model.
If this is true how did they keep the stars from moving
@@leaffinite2001 They probably moved the actual text instead of the camera
@@cheesy6122 so this person is just wrong? Or what
@@leaffinite2001 using practical effects, not an editing program
@@asongforthemostbeautifulwo6476 i know. In fact my question is predicated on that fact
"These children grew up into people with very strong opinions..."
*_Shows the Younglings_*
_Well... these kids didn't_
AlistairAI BRUH
ive seen holographic recordings of him ...... killing younglings *covers mouth*
*A wild FBI bot has appeared*
Master skywalker what are going to do there are too many of them
Sick youngling burn. Unpopular opinion here, but those younglings got what they had coming.
Rocky Reyes * Master Skywalker they’re are to many of them what are we going to do?
“It has a timeless setting...”
No.
It’s obviously a long long time ago
yeah the new stuff helps
@@GamingWithCalvin1 you missed the joke
In a galaxy far far away...
Lol
Let’s unpack this;
Sorry sweetie
This.
A New Hope is by far my favorite, because I saw it in the theater as a 9-year-old, and it’s impossible to overstate just how obsessed EVERY kid suddenly became with it. The toys and action figures and references were suddenly everywhere, we knew every line, and Darth Vader was the coolest bad guy EVER. It was unreal.
“Says can only watch illegally” me: looks over at my vhs copy
Bodhi you are so lucky
Same my three
I’ve got the I think it’s from 2004 version which came with a bonus theatrical release disc
That’s pretty much what I wanted to ask. Why is it so hard to watch the original version of the movie? Didn’t millions of people buy the a VHS or copy of the original release first?
aye!
Who else can’t stop watching this guy
The Last Reaper Been subbed for a while his reviews are so awesome and detailed
He's great, he definitely does his research, but he seems more generous in rating movies. For that I got my Sardonicast bois.
Mep
me e
Love his voice and humour
“Imagine if you are sitting in the theater and this is what you see,”
Ad plays
It is like that
Ya you see
I laughed far too long at this comment
Yeah, sounds about right.
@@livingforchrist31 Imagine sitting in the theater, and this is what you see:
"You've Unlocked Luigi!"
The original has the best world-building of any movie I’ve ever seen. The fact that it’s so weird and unique but it never feels confusing is awesome.
Yoda is a weird goblin that steals Luke’s hotdogs
I have never been so offended by something I 100% agree with.
When you realized you’ve watched the special editions your entire life
I have the 2005 dvds. So I don't have to anymore.
Do you know if you can get punished for having the harmy despecialized editions? Or is it only illegal for the seller but not the buyer.
@@sunwukong5518 yeah you get punished George Lucas breaks in your house with a baseball bat smashes up your DVDs while screaming “Jar Jar is the key to everything”
@@mmmRobe You know what I mean by punished. Maybe a fine or whatever
@@sunwukong5518 No lol. And you don’t actually have to buy them. Although you can pay for someone else to burn the discs and make a bluray box though.
@@sunwukong5518 you can always torrent it
When Marcus started ranting about how it’s a hot take to dislike the prequels, I really felt that
It still utterly baffles me that disliking the prequels is now a hot take.
Something Fierce I think it’s because the kids who watched it are finally old enough for nostalgia.
Jay Sutter ya I’m one of those kids and I enjoy the prequels, I just think that as movies, they’re literal dogshit
Fletcher Gillespie episode 3 is far from “literal dogshit” even with the flaws in the film like the acting, dialogue, asinine romance and too much cgi everywhere.
There’s way too many good scenes and moments and has phenomenal art direction, visuals and music.
Even with its problems, there’s a lot to praise and love.
Fletcher Gillespie
That’s not a hot take.
I hate the original trilogy and love the new movies, that’s a hot take. (That’s actually true, and a much better example)
The Luke, Vader and Emperor scenes in Return of the Jedi were legendary and i think thats the problem, George Lucas knew exactly how their story goes but didn't know what to do with everyone else so it ended up being middling
Yea coupled with Lucas’ signature directing (shit) and some of the actors loosing interest, the side characters are very underused
@@wisegoongala4305lucas didn't direct return of the jedi you dumb b1tch, look it up
The outburst of “I’m Han Solo” at the end made me like the video
literally same
And it being combined with vader and the stormtroopers dancing 👌
I've loved it ever since JonTron showed it lol
It’s I’m riding solo
"Return Of The Jedi sucks"
"6/10"
Maclunkey
Mackunkey
Must be because he doesn’t think it is that bad, but he’s also really disappointed in a sad way.
Also he’s not fucking YMS who’s like: “yeah it was good 5/10”
I really liked RotJ, I think a lot of the criticism is overinflated. The ending is so, so satisfying. The Jabba battle is contrived but really imaginative, the speeder chase was the shit when I was a kid, Luke vs Vader vs Emperor is iconic. There's lots to love. Meh.
@@finze1 okay, now I will tell you what I think:
-The whole Jabba part is indeed contrived and kind of a shitshow but yes it’s fun.
-They just skipped Luke’s transition into a proper Jedi because they had no time for that but they also couldn’t do a time skip because they had to save Han right away “we should just pretend he’s superior to Darth Vader now and he even made a lightsaber god knows how in a matter of a couple of weeks tops, and then let’s make him go back to Yoda because we can’t skip that, but he’ll just say he’s ready and die immediately so we can get that out of the way”.
-The previous point would be less worse if they made it work with Han, but no, Han doesn’t do anything apart from running around in the woods and be jealous of Luke. If you’re thinking “oh but he helped destroy the bunker it was full on Han Solo greatness, you idiot” I invite you compare his involvement in the previous movies and how of an integral character he used to be, that’s why Harrison Ford himself thinks Han should’ve just died and closed his arc in a really tragic and satisfying way instead of all that tomfoolery. Even Force Awakens was a better movie for Han.
-Endor is a very unimaginative location. If you don’t agree that’s okay but compare how fantastic were Tatooine, the Death Star, Hoth, Dagobah and Cloud City were next to the fucking Redwood forest full of Teddy Bears and that’s it.
-I personally think the speeder bike chase is pointless and not exciting at all, and the green screen looks like shit. The only “consequence” is that Leia crashes and meets an Ewok before the rest, I put that on quotes because that has no impact on the story at all. Later on when they capture the rest, she tells them to let them go but they don’t listen anyway so what’s the point?
-I hate the “from a certain point of view” scene. They don’t know what to do with the things they keep retconning and they just make the Jedi look like a bunch of hippie fools who lie to Luke about EVERYTHING. He is not the last Jedi, Darth Vader did not literally kill his father, and Leia is his sister now?! Plus ghost Obi-Wan sits on the log, wtf is that?
-Now that I’m talking about that, I don’t love that “Leia is actually also Vader’s daughter and Luke’s twin sister” I like how they used that to make Luke snap at the end but I don’t quite like how it’s handled with how Luke’s behavior changes immediately from his friend that he obviously fancies to the sister she always knew she was?! What?
-They waste like 15 minutes with the Ewoks. They get captured in a giant net like a cartoon and then the teddy bears take them to their camp and plan to eat them. Thank god two seasoned smugglers (of which one is a giant bear dog) and a oh so powerful Jedi Knight had a golden droid with them to pretend he’s a god, because the Ewoks would’ve killed them all. And then another five minutes of 3PO explaining the whole story so far in another language without subtitles but with sound effects. That whole part is prequel-bad if you ask me.
-In my opinion, the final battle is wrong. We have our known and loved characters in a tensionless scenario with teddy bears killing the empire like in a cartoon on the ground, and the battle in space which has bigger stakes on paper is carried on by characters we don’t know at all except Lando, and he’s not an awesome character if you ask me, so how about at least WE PUT HAN AND CHEWIE ON THEIR FUCKING SHIP and get Lando on the ground, ain’t that better for the audience? The characters we know and love are in real danger and Lando does his job as a not so main character.
-Palpatine is just a really old and evil guy, and he dies without having a character beyond that, this complaint is not so big because the point was Vader’s redemption, not Palpatine himself (but I can’t understand why they complained about Snoke but not about this though, it’s exactly the same PREQUELS DON’T COUNT)
-there’s nothing to tempt Luke with??? Palpatine’s just like “come on Luke become evil, please” “come on Luke kill me please” “come on Luke fight your father” Luke of course says no and that leads to Vader’s redemption, which again that was the point, but there’s no tension, there’s no reason for us to think that Luke might actually turn evil and make us worried that he might just do it, making the scene much less interesting.
-So because they blew up the Death Star again AND killed Palpatine, the Empire is immediately done for all over the galaxy, what? That’s so dumb they’ve been trying to correct it ever since in all kinds of new stories including the extended universe, Battlefront 2 (EA) and The Mandalorian but that doesn’t count.
-After everything is over, the heroes get back together without a single word. They just dance and clap and it ends, pretty unsatisfying for me.
-That’s about it.
@@jorgegranados4547 Tbh I don’t think anyone is gonna read that 🤡
"Imagine watching this movie without knowing anything about Star Wars"
I've already done that mate.
Yeah if I get alzheimer's my wife or kids should just let me watch my favorite movie for the first time every day. Make the most of it.
can we please take a moment to thank marcia lucas (george lucas’s ex wife) for editing the original triology, and in particular a new hope, as well as she did? most people tend to credit movies to just directors and actors, and in doing so fail to realize that well written and well directed moments in film will still fall flat without good timing and editing. marcia gave the films so much heart and really helped structure them into something watchable.
edit (ironically): isnt it funny how after they split up george lucas decided to fuck with the movies and now they’re not as good anymore because he ruined the pacing and tension .
When you said “weird goblin that steals his hotdog” a lot of drink flew out of my nose from laughter
I always thought they looked like fish sticks.
@@GuardianTam What do you prefer? Hotdogs or fish sticks?
Imagine if Han died in Empire, then the emotional weight of this transferred into ROTJ, and Luke lost his shit in the final battle against Vader...
Something to think about.
Bruce Quayle “losing his shit” is not the Jedi way though
Revenge and anger is not the Jedi way. Much to learn, you still have.
@@IngvarMar except that's exactly what he did in the final battle.
But that means no Kylo ren bc he wouldnt have existed if Han died in Empire
Goosegg 46 yeah Luke freaked out at how close he came to the dark side while looking at his hands.
"And an evil cyborg samurai wizard".
Thats, oddly accurate
Never heard it put that way and it's perfect
Yeah
@@GallosPole57 oddly?
I was there in 1977 to see the original Star Wars when it was brand new in theatres. It was so incredibly awesome! Over the next six months I must have gone to 15 or more theatres to see it again and again, taking friends and family to see this amazing thing.
Episode 6: the empire kind of just chills out
They just straight vibin' tho.
Chuckles oh yes
I know this has nothing to do with conversation but I love your gumball profile pitcher 😂
Sebas Giraldo “Pitcher??” Dont u mean...”picture!?” Lmfaoo
@@MerkhVision my bad
The Cosmonaut: The only people who like the prequel trilogy are children or people who grew up watching them as children
Me a person that grew up with them on VHS and watched The Phantom Menace so many times the tape stopped working: Well he's not wrong
I watched episode 1 in the theaters as an 11 year old and loved it. Still do.
He called me out.
@@Naafidy And theres nothing wrong with that^^ The Prequels have so much great Stuff in them to love^^ Not all of it of course, but still^^ ROTS is still my favorite SW Movie^^.
While I can agree with shitting on first 2 movies, when people call ROTS bad, I just can't understand these people
It has the best lightsaber duel till this day, it has great action and story is not that bad either(except some awful dialogs between Anakin and Padme but it's just George being awful dialogs writer)
And it has freacking Palpatine rocking everyone in the movie and succeeding
If Palpatine wouldn't have been that good, we wouldn't have him again in the episode 9.
I really hope that The Cosmonaut will not blindly shit on the third movie without saying good stuff about it.
@@Amandor2011 Anakin's fall is the dumbest thing in the world and it needed more time to be fleshed out
Everybody loves the worldbuilding and Obi Wan. THATS IT
Marcus: Why didn’t Luke Just Kill Jaba Then?
Well Uncle Cosmonaut, It’s because he wanted the pleasure of looking at Slave Leia. Little did he know Yoda would tell him 5 minutes laters that’s his damn sister.
your opinion is immediately devalued because you have a fortnite prof pic
@@nali2076 why should a picture dictate what you think of a joke?how picky are you?calm tf down
Red_Roses Even if I dislike Fortnite, (I hate it a lot) I don’t judge the people that do. People have their own opinions, you know.
holy shit it was a fucking joke I don’t care what his profile picture is
@@nali2076 redditor found
1:37-Star Wars
11:37-The Empire Strikes Back
16:44-Return Of The Jedi
You're an angel.
Cosmonaut in his last Jedi vid: I think every Star Wars movie sucks
Also cosmonaut in this vid: a new hope is the perfect movie
Geralt of Trivia it is a joke. He just wanted to point out that Star Wars has always been cheesy
I know you, youre Jimmy Neutrons Dad
“The only people that like them are children and people who watched them as children”
As a person who was a child when the prequels released and absolutely loves them, I can say with certainty that this sentence is absolutely correct.
Jude Gorman as a person who watched the prequels as I child, I disagree
The prequels were made FOR children, so in essence, they are great movies cuz they pleased the target demographic. I saw the originals and prequels as a child, and liked the prequels better cuz they were more exciting. I got super bored watching Han and Leia fix the Falcon inside a space slug, and Luke lifting rocks on Dagobah. The bad writing/dialog things weren't apparent to me until I was an adult. HOWEVER... on re-watching the originals, I noticed that many of those same flaws existed. A lot of the dialog in ANH in particular is super cringey (which CVH's biased ass didn't even comment on). The universe in the Originals also just seems so empty and boring, now that the prequels have established and built up so much lore.
nahor88 that’s exactly true, that’s why I feel like a lot of strengths in the prequels is as good as the originals (some even better)
@@nahor88 what did you think of the long ass politics in the prequels
yup, was 8 in 99
Props to George Lucas’s exwife. The only reason the original trilogy was as good as it was. These cinematic “geniuses” are only as good as their editor.
Yep the original cut of the film edit was horrible.
I've kept saying that Star Wars has only been as good as the people around George make it. Every time Lucas has a lot of the final say in the films we get stuff like the Prequels and ROTJ.
Does George not know he's a hack?
At least he loves SW unlike those greedy Disney pigs
Tayo Jones not really, all behind the scenes and everything shows how not interested in anything george was with the prequels, complain about TLJ all you want, but Rian Johnson was very happy and loved doing Star Wars unlike george during the prequel era
I was 12 when A new Hope came out. It was the coolest thing ever. I would pick up glass bottles along the side of the road and turn them in at the convenience store to get the deposit back (remember when that was a thing) so I could go see it again. Very few movies have made me feel like that since. It's so sad to see where the franchise has gone.
this series is the best gift i could ever imagine receiving
Bonnie Lennox IKR
Marry me
Kiwi S. FBI open up!!!!!!
Everyone's going to pretend they didn't see the fan art of Han and Luke making out on his computer in the intro?
Cool.
hold up
Oh I saw it alright. Please send help.
Nicholas Foong 0:19
😂😂😂 I legit didn’t see it until you pointed it out!
☠️☠️☠️
Cosmonaut: "You can't watch the original version of this movie legally."
Me with my THX VHS tape set: "Oh, I don't think so."
Probably meant in HD, you either have the original VHS scans or Special edition DVD cuts in 360/480p
Exactly, the original VHS tapes don't even look bad at all. Hell with my VCR they're upscaled to wide-screen and look as good as any DVD.
My dad had one bit we lost it 😔
@@TheKingOfRooks they're stretched to 16:9??? 🤮🤮
@@robbiefl2001 there's no image loss it's just a VCR that makes em fit with the screen as best they can
Marcus going crazy as Obi Wan and Anakin use their lightsabers as helicopter blades is my new favourite thing
The Jedi can have sex just not have an attachment, Yoda ain't spend them 900 years celibate
Yeah Prostitutes/One Night Stands are ok, Wifes/Husbands and Girl-/Boyfriends not.
Ki-Adi-Mundi was married but that was because his species needed every member to procreate since they were endangered.
Yoda: “Destroyed, the Jedi will be. Create offspring, I had better”.
*FIFTY YEARS LATER*
Everyone: BABY YODA MEMES!!!!!!!!
@@gokbay3057 ironic, but I geuss attachment would make it more likely for you to fall to the dark side.
None of the shit from the prequels is canon, in my eyes.
@@cynicaltheastrocreep4504 Ok boomer
I actually liked the Prequels.
Granted I was 12.
And hadn't seen the original trilogy.
And was a bit of an idiot.
We've all had that moment where we watch the prequels and we like them until we rewatch them. You're not alone
@@Stone-TheThird yep, I loved the prequels as much as humanly possible, and now aotc is my least favorite star wars movie, but rots was the only one that stuck with me
@@Stone-TheThird i came back to Star wars after years and believing that the prequels are very good and fun to watch. So, i made a Star wars marathon, the OT was awesome i loved every second. I thought the prequels would have the same effect. Jesus Christ i could barely watch them without falling asleep. Finally i got why people call them bad. They are so boring and bad
@@Cheffingtondathirdorso27 younglings scene?
@@רחלחזן-י1ח well they certainly never got the chance to rewatch the prequels and see all the flaws
Prequel Trilogy: **chuckles** I'm in danger.
As if the prequel trilogy hasn't had a random teenager on TH-cam shit on it.
Anthonest I’m pretty sure Cosmonaut is more than just a random teenager
Joseph Tacitus HEY they gave us memes!
@Joseph Tacitus tell me where in my comment I said the prequels didn't suck? I'm just tired of the children whining when the sequels are clearly worse.
@@Anthonest1 ehh the sequels are mostly just retreads of the OT, so they are predictable (unless the director has a boner for SuBvErTiNg ExPeCtAtIoNs), but the prequels were a special kind of suck that happens when you give a guy like Lucas, who has good grand vision but is shit at fleshing it out, too much creative control. IMO, the prequels are worse
Wow. You're experience with A New Hope is almost exactly my experience with it. Saw it more times than grains of sand in all the Earth but then watched with a GF many years ago who hadn't seen them. I completely wiped my mind of any opinions on the movie, pretended it was 1977 and gave it a go. I have never watched any Star Wars movie since without putting myself in the mindset of the time of its release, sitting in my imaginary theater, cranking the volume, and being absolutely stunned. Doing that with the Harmy Despecialized blew my little mind.
"you can only watch illegally"
me: *stares at all original versions my nerd dad owns*
Og gangster
Same, bro. My dad has to buy a VCR just to watch them
*Do you want to see the most illegal thing I own?*
Me
@@archivist_13 i'm not even sure where my dad got it from and i think it's the thing that scares me the most
Words can’t describe the sudden release of dopamine upon seeing this in my notifications
"Return of the jedi is bad"
*gives it a better than average score.*
MrOffice Ikr. On my channel, 6/10 is good but not great. He made it sound like he hated it 😂
MrOffice it’s the best of the trilogy...
Wtf TH-cam I get that it’s your opinion and that’s fine. But it’s wrong.
@@monty3916 I get that your criticism of your comment is an opinion, and that's fine... but you're wrong
Even with the stuff he hated, he still had to admit that the movie was better than average. There was some really good stuff in it, like seeing Luke doing his Jedi thing to rescue Han, the speeder bike scene, the Yoda scene that has Luke beginning to come to grips with the fact that Vader is his father, the Obi-Wan scene with Luke having to deal with the fact that he can't kill his father, the scene with Luke and Vader reuniting for the first time since their fight, the throne room fight, and let's not forget the amazing space battle to end the film. I can see why the Ewoks aren't too popular with people, and maybe George did make a mistake by not having that battle on Kashyyyk so that the Wookies would be fighting the Stormtroopers, but overall, there's a lot of really good stuff in ROTJ. It's not as bad as his hatred makes it out to be. Plus, Lando was just so awesome in this movie. Billy Dee Williams' acting was so good. Also, can we get some love for 3PO growing as a character in this film? In Star Wars, 3PO tells Luke that he's not much for telling stories, but in ROTJ, 3PO does a fantastic job of telling stories to the Ewoks. So, even 3PO grew as a character throughout the trilogy.
I appreciate that a scene was added on Hoth because of an external event.
For those who don't know, Mark Hamill was in a car accident before filming started on Empire Strikes Back that resulted in damage that permenantly altered his face. So Lucas added the scene with the yeti thing abducting Luke which caused the damage to his face.
9:45
“We are pirates! We don’t even know what that means!”
"dispite the graphic male nudity I thought it was pretty good"
*the reylo theory has been confirmed*
Eww.
you mean Finnpoe
@Geordie walker absolutely tf not
@@colonelstarsandstripes5379 too late it's confirmed
Lmaoooo
"You cannot legally watch the original version of this movie."
Me: *laughs in laserdisc*
Didn't even know what that was until I saw this comment and Googled it.
*Laughs in VCR*
@@katanafourzeronine I thought it was another word os dvd or something until I saw *this* reply and the one below it
They did technically release the original versions on DVD but they were in the absolute WORST version possible in terms of clean up, sound quality, and visuals. Worth it though
Holy fuck, that is one well aged reference
20:04 Thank fucking Christ, took the words out of my mouth. I don’t get why saying the prequels are absolute shit is suddenly a hot take either.
Prequels are amazing
@@zini__Compared to the sequels yes, but they’re pretty bad movies
@@merfblaster "compared to something else" doesn't mean shit but also they're really not so it doesn't matter anyway
@@vinogr00nko93 BAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Hey guys look at this man out here saying f*cking attack of the clones is a quality movie, there’s a difference when you say you like something, (for example I kinda like watching the prequels) vs their critical quality which is pretty shit
3:55 Fun fact: George Lucas had written some very bloated garbage for the opening crawl. It was actually heavily edited to the concise and engaging version we know by his pal [Edited: Brian De Palma]. Plus the text format is directly borrowed from Flash Gordon.. but you, savvy youtube viewer, already knew about that.
As much as 5 (my favourite) and 4 are the quintessential Star Wars, the best moment to me MIGHT be in 6 when Luke rejoins Vader on the forest moon before the final showdown.
It's a slow sequence of genuine discussion between good and evil, between father and son. Most movies would have gone straight to fighting. But that's not what those characters are about at that point. I like this.
@Vincent H. Goddamn you're actually right, I mixed up the two. De Palma edited the opening crawl. Coppola got in my head because Lucas based Han Solo's attitude off him and he gave some feedback on the movie, but wasn't involved with the crawl. Thanks for pointing that out mate!
That is a very underrated scene, and Vader's response of it being too late for him is heart breaking.
Hell yeah, I'm glad other people appreciate that scene. It's one of my favorites in the original trilogy. It is slow, like you said, but I think the cinematography, acting, and writing are all beautiful. You really get to see the maturation of Luke as a person/jedi, the maturation of Luke and Vader's relationship, and a peek into Vader as a human for what feels like the first time.
I'm glad you're doing this. These movies are way too caught up in the hype machine to get any kind of real coherent thought, good or bad. I'm used to Star Wars reviews being always very hyperbolic and I I'm excited for part 2.
I mean he did call ANH "the perfect movie" and said he was going to be hyperbolic. SO....
I agree but the way he talks in most of his videos I doubt that he’s going to be taking anything close to a nuanced view of the prequels.
“I like KOTOR and Clone Wars” a very cultured man I see
He said "that new mandalorian show" like he was a quirky dad.
20:03 Count Dooku riding a space scooter gets me everytime
Star wars logo comes up
Everyone: Ahh!!! WhAt tHE FuCk
When I took my little brother to his first Star Wars movie (TLJ), he was talking to me, not looking at the screen as the opening Lucasfilm logo came up. When the opening title popped up onto the screen, he jumped about 8 inches out of his seat. One of the hardest laughs I've ever had.
@@MrTkillian I'd get a kick out of that but I'd start em on the OT.
@@Sam-im5tc Trust me. I've tried. But it's pretty telling that at 15 even he thought TLJ was pretty weak.
@@MrTkillian Well no argument there. I consider it the worst of the franchise myself. Couldn't tell ya for the life of me who any of the important side characters are.
@@Sam-im5tc I agree, though ATOTC is pretty bad, but it was the first SW movie I saw in theaters so it has that nostalgia going for it. My biggest problem with TLJ is that I actually was interested in the main characters after TFA, but TLJ did next to nothing to build on it. Plus what it did to Luke. Plus just overall bad writing and disjointed narrative, tone and acting.
I felt a disturbance, as if millions of /r/prequelmemers cried out at once
Those people remind me of a cult. A funny cult but a cult none the less.
P Allen we most certainly are a cult, brainwashed and all
Goos Actually, they all do. Just look at what they think of the sequel trilogy by comparison.
Ceiling Fan you offended me for calling me an idiot
@@Aryan_Psycho88 that's Reddit for ya
"Imagine you were sitting in a theater in 1977..."
I don't actually have to imagine it. ;p The film broke half-way through and we had to come back another time to see it in its entirety. It was *excruciating*.
I also vividly remember when our parents took us to see Raiders of the Lost Ark, and at the first shot (of the mountain), my brother whined, "You took us to see a *nature* movie?! :(:("
"Nature movie" 😂. LITTLE DID HE KNOW-
“I’ve got a bad feeling about this”
@ComplicatedInfo ok boomer
@@everythingalldwight4939 lmaooooooo
@ComplicatedInfo you okay buddy?
@ComplicatedInfo profile pic checks out
Same profile pic mate!
I personally like ROTJ, but some of your critisisms definitely are solid, especially with Han. Great video man!
This is a great way to watch these videos not go to war just cuz someone has a different opinion. Sparrow201 knows what’s up.
I enjoy this movie cus it’s Star Wars, I also enjoy the prequels even though they’re not that good. ROTJ isn’t terrible by any means but it has boring moments and Han is so much worse. He’s my favorite Star Wars character but in this movie he’s just not nearly as good
@@brandonschinnour6044 completely agree, you can dislike others opinions but getting mad and upset over them is just stupid
It has a lot of flaws but i like it just because of how good the final act is.
Same, I know it is a flawed movie, but the final battle was awesome and all the plotpoints of the previous two movies had a pretty satisfying pay-off.
The “maclunkey” tangent made me ugly laugh
Grant Van I swear I was in the middle of a Dunkey crossover
A man shouldn't say ugly laugh when talking about themselves. Unless you're gay, which is fine, but still..
@@trod146 uhhhhhhhh what. The oddness of your comment made me ugly laugh
20:26 This extended saber swing in the background of his angry prequel rant kills me every time.
What if
You went to Heaven
But God said
Maclunkey
Thats what he said😂
“Maclunkey!”
Proceeds to plunge down at Mach 10 speeds down into the underworld
I would leave heaven and put my soul into someone else.
I always thought that God was a rodian
“There is still those brave souls playing Battlefront”
I am a brave soul then
J L Lol same honestly I would say it’s a good game and it’s rlly disappointing it didn’t launch the way it is now
Xploding Sushi agreed
Its pretty good now, but only some of it. The sequel trilogy stuff is shit and no one cares, the OT era stuff isn't fleshed out enough, GA is annoying restrictive and boring, most of the smaller modes aren't played anymore, the campaign and arcade are DOGSHIT they make me want to harm myself. The only good stuff is the clone wars content, but it's so annoying because you have like 110 GB game but like 80% of it is shit. Honestly they should have just made this a clone wars only game. Just like how the first one was a OT only game if they just did cw for the second they could have focused on it more and given us even more content, then the next game could be ST or KOTOR.
I would be but the game broke for me for some reason the mouse courser doesn't work
@@-LAH bossk is pretty good, gunplay is super casual and not enough weapons, but it's decent fun.
“You can ONLY watch illegally”. (Unless u and ur dad bought the original VHS tapes and burned the original versions onto discs to keep).
Hehe😏
@@rishabhpoikayil7621 unless you have the original VHS of the trilogy there is literally absolutely no way to watch the theatrical cuts of the movies.
Although there is a version of the 2004 special edition box set that has both the 2004 rereleases and the theatrical cuts on dvd but the quality of the dvd is a bit wonky and that version of the box set is more rare than the original VHS's
Even the VHS has some slight edits to the theatrical versions. Not as much as the 97 re-releases, but just some subtle ones
actually that too is illegal you arent allowed to copy the vhs so still ilegal just nobody cares if it is
@@rishabhpoikayil7621 See the 'Despecialized' Versions.
Yvng Armz
That’s exactly what I’m going to do this week 😂
It took us 2months to get to see it in 1977....the lines where crazy long and every showing would sell out.
When we did finally see it it blew my mind. It was an experience that I had never seen before. I will never forget that viewing.
Here's an idea for Disney to make an extra boatload of money:
Re-release the theatrical cut, with just the special effects for the lightsabers, blasters and space battle updated, for the original trilogy.
Maybe clean Vader's helmet a little bit. Not to the point it shines under the light, but enough to remove the fingerprints.
No. No edits. Just the original.
@@ajzeg01 I would never pay for those ugly ass lightsaber effects, or for those absurdly obvious miniatures during space scenes.
nah keep the fingerprints
They did it.
I would pay good money to see the unaltered original trilogy.
The fact that nearly every Star Wars video on this channel features some sort of mental breakdown says a lot about the franchise
Late to comment but yeahhhhhhh Star Wars has been around for a long ass time it has it's good parts , bad parts, and really really really weird/dumb stuff.
Though to be expected this is what happens to a franchise that goes on for a while.
"Hi I'm Saul Goodman, did you know the trans have rights? Twitter says they do."
Real gamers have those special edition dvds with the theatrical cuts
True but real gamers also have the harmy’s despecialized editions
Diarrheawizard 101 I love those versions I’m also kinda sad he picked on them
Mine is the one with a demo for LSW2 and the theatrical cut of A New Hope
Or you can just buy the original off ebay lol
I have the VHS tapes for the original cuts of 4, 5, and 6. They were left over from my dad after he passed.
I love coming back and watching these big sprawling franchise reviews. Soooo much content on TH-cam but I can't help but rewatch these lol
"I like KotoR and clone wars", a man of culture.
Smooth Yoda Game Journalists in a nutshell
Overbite it's an rpg game set ages before any of the movies, it's great
I like how underused the force was compared to the other movies in A New Hope. Basically it was used for mind control, chocking ppl, and miraculous stunts. And the only light saber battle was between obiwan and Darth Vader which was pretty funny because of how stiff the fight was relative to other movies.
The vast majority of Star Wars movies have only one lightsaber fight.Phantom Menace had two but the First was super brief, and The Last Jedi technically had three but one was a flashback, one didn’t actually use lightsabers, and one had a ghost just dodging the lightsaber. Revenge of the Sith is the only one too really capitalize on lightsaber duels, having a massive total of five.
Look up scene 38 re-imagined on TH-cam. They remade the fight between obi-wan and Vader and it's the coolest thing ever
It is between two senior citizens and one is a walking iron lung, so it checks out.
It worked so well too because they're both old as shit now. It's been 18 years.
When you see them in the prequels, the way they fight was so dynamic and fast.
In the books, Darth Vader misses the way he used to be able to fight. So it just works so well
@@rune0742 definitely something that wouldve been attempted if the technology was better at that time
If Han had died in Empire I think it would’ve made 6 better. More depth from leia and like and the impact his death would’ve had on their emotions
And the new trilogy wouldn't exist
Good point
@@cybercery5271 they would just say that han got Leia pregnant before his death or some contrived shit like that
@@hamstersandwich9917 it was the force
@@cybercery5271 That's not How Force Works,
So The penis is the male organ used for urination and sexual intercourse. The penis is located above the scrotum. It is made of spongy tissue and blood vessels. The shaft of the penis surrounds the urethra and is connected to the pubic bone. The foreskin covers the head (glans) of the penis. During an orgasm, the muscles beneath contract (tense) rhythmically. As soon as a woman is sexually aroused, the small Bartholin's glands at the opening of the vagina release a fluid. The vagina becomes moist, making it easier for the penis to enter during sex.Sexual excitement reaches its peak. You feel a series of intense muscle contractions as your body releases the tension. The muscles of the vagina and the uterus contract. Muscles at the base of the penis tighten and release, releasing semen in an ejaculation.
@@cybercery5271 Same energy as "Mary got knocked up by the holy spirit"
Im Gen Z so the prequels were my childhood 😭
Attack of The Clones, Revenge Of the Sith and 'Star Wars Clone Wars' (Cartoon Network) especially hold a special place in my heart 💚
I never knew these films were hated until I discovered the Internet 😂
In hindsight they are very wooden, cringe and boring at times. But the nostalgia carries me through!
Nice to see ya enjoy them. For me they are terrible movies, and I did grow up with them, but if you acknowledge their flaws and like them regardless, good for you
@@harveyfox6856 Oh these movies are terrible. Prequels are garbage.
Fucking love them. You do too, admit it
I felt like Luke after he found out that Vader is his dad when i found out that ROTJ & ROTS aren't good movies.
@@clunkwestweed4541 As much as i want to say i hate it the good moments are peak star wars. Love the fights they have so much meaning to them especially obi wan vs anakin
Yeah. They're goofy, totally ridiculous, poorly written nonsense films but dammit sometimes they're fun
"These are the rebels. This is the Empire. And the Empire is really big and really scary. An-- damn he's really tall"
^Love that Spider-Verse reference. Thank you. I take for granted how well thought out your commentary is.
"Imagine you're watching this film with me in 1977."
-Takes out cigarette and bagged alcohol
Lmao my dad was 11 when he saw A New Hope in 1977 and he's loved Star Wars from then. He loves all of the movies. Even the new ones. Hell, he thinks TLJ is one of the best in the franchise.
@@seanoconnor5730 Wait a minute. A Star Wars fan that DOESN'T hate Star Wars?! What kind of alternate reality are we living in?!
@@Phantom-qr1ug I'm tired of all these sweaty nerds trying to hate the new stuff when literally every movie in Star Wars is stupid in one way or another. But it's part of what's great about it.
@@seanoconnor5730 I feel exactly the same way. It's perfectly fine to not like the sequels, or the prequels or the originals but don't try to convince people that they're not allowed to like any of those. Same goes the other way around.
A little goblin that steals your hotdogs sounds like a new movie idea
Or just a normal Earth housecat
Thank you for saying A New Hope is amazing! So many people nowadays act like it’s boring, but it’s so good.
”You can’t watch this legally”
*laughs in LaserDisc*
Laughs in 2006 original version re-releaee on DVD
I actually have the OG trilogy on VHS
@@Jones183 There is no VHS version of Star Wars. The first VHS release was already called Ep IV: New hope. All the Vhs releases differ in one way or another from the original.
Now to be fair the laserdisc versions aren’t exactly 1:1 either but those and the DVD versions made from them are the closest that have ever been available for home viewing.
The Laserdisc & 2006 DVD releases aren’t actually the original versions, the effects were slightly altered
@@aquajus do u remember me
The more I look at marcus the more I think he's just lando calrissian's lost offspring
“You cannot watch the original 1977 cut of A New Hope legally”
Me: *owns a dvd of A New Hope with the original 1977 cut on the second disk* “Are you sure about that?”
But...how?
Except that version isn't that great. I have that too in fact, with the entire trilogy with the special editions as the main feature and the unaltered versions as a bonus disc. What sucks though is the quality isn't that great and there is motion smearing along with dryed out color.
Get rid of it before the fbi come and arrest you
@@sanchobanana3507 i0.wp.com/nerdvanamedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/dvd_saga.jpg?w=640
this image shows the box sets of both trilogies that I have
@@colonelstarsandstripes5379 it's the best legal release we have of them tho
I can't believe no one was talking about how perfectly Marcus sync the word "sex" and the pelvis movement at 15:32.
"One of those brave people still playing battlefront"
That is me and i felt insulted
Why? You’re a brave soul who either has stayed with the games for over a decade or managed to wade your way through microtransactions to get to the point where the game got good.
@@Gemnist98 it never had microtransactions
@@deadshot0908 You're thinking of the old one. I may be mistaken, but I think he's talking about the new one.
Luke Dias new one got rid of microtransactions within the 6 months. Game is so worth it now
@@Gemnist98 the new One has no microtransactions they never did it, they removed it before the game came out
“Mark Hamill, and underneath the floor is Miss Piggy” I legit can’t stop laughing
“You cannot legally watch the original version of this movie”
Does everyone forget the original unedited trilogy was released on DVD in 2006?? I still own it!
Yeah, but they weren’t TECHNICALLY the original theatrical versions. They were cut from the Laserdisk releases, which have the smallest amount of change since being ported for home entertainment
ZachtheKingsfan what changes?
They are not in print though. That is the point he is making. The only version currently on the market and being made are the special editions. And even the home releases that came out from Laser Disk to now still aren't the original versions.
Those versions are of low qaulity, contain motion smearing and colours are washed out.
@@TheZebbga Lucas specifically prohibited Disney from releasing any of the six episodes in any version made earlier than at the time of purchase. That's why they were forced to keep the atrocious last-minute McClunkey addition by Lucas and can't legally re-release the unedited originals on the market.
i love how casually the emperor says "yes i know"
20:04 - 20:07 Me on my bike when I’m late for school
When your trilogy isn't the most hated trilogy anymore
Anakin: *"I see this as an absolute win :D"*
@Padison 6 LIAR!
ᎷᎡ.KᎪ- ᏴᎾᎾᎷ I was raised with the first 2 trologied
It should be.
Alibey Bal cringey writing is nothing when compared to having no set story
@@laundrybasketgamers I'd rather have no set story. Both waste the viewer's time but at least good performances can make it somewhat worthwhile.
I remember being 6 and my parents were just like. "It is the time."
Same, my uncle was a huge star wars fan, and I can remember watching it for the first time at his house during a family reunion
Apparently the opening crawl to Star Wars (1977) was heavily rewritten by Brian De Palma, a good friend of George Lucas who disliked the film's first edit. If the film had kept its original opening crawl, it would've been just as boring and uninteresting as the opening crawls for the prequels.
I think I just find some of the more ridiculous stuff in Return of the Jedi more endearing that Marcus does. Perhaps it’s nostalgia or a difference in taste, but I just find it to be an immensely fun and satisfying film
I agree. While I know V is a better movie and IV really is a perfect starting point, VI is my personal favorite. The finale usually has the best moments since it can show the Hero at their best. In V, Luke could barely move his lightsabre, but in VI, he can lift C-3PO in a wooden throne.
I know everyone hates on the prequels but it's my love of the original trilogy that makes me rethink the early 2000 ones. The first Star Wars movies I saw were the prequels and they were great! I understood most things and, tho I know the dialogue is bad and didn't have editors to fix such things, the badly written things were easy to understand.
For me, the original saga (first six episodes) are the movies I enjoy, that I watch on my own or with others. And so far, The Mandalorian has a similar feel to the original three. If you've never seen a Star Wars thing before, the setting is weird, but it draws you in. There's a charm to it; one that all three movies have.
@Geralt of Trivia iblove the ewoks. They were my childhood. We all loved the awoke back then. I don't get this sudden hate for them. It must be this new generation of fans that wasn't there
@Geralt of Trivia Ooo... I really disagree with that one. If we're removing the ewoks can we also remove the puffin-merchandise that is porgs? They were only added due to the native birds being in every stinking shot and, unlike ewoks, don't add anything to the plot. Real question, in Legends Boba didn't die and had actually been eaten a few times before, has this been changed with Disney's new canon or do we simply not know?
@Geralt of Trivia That's too bad, Boba was an awesome character. You & I have very different definitions of embarrassment if you think the ewoks are but the porgs aren't. In the OT, no one brought the ewoks with them, so yeah, their cute and they don't blink but there only on one tiny moon of the planet Endor. Porgs are everywhere and unlike ewoks they aren't real. You can't what's on screen b/c they're computer generated, but ewoks? Ewoks are practical, at least there's something for the actors to look at. Porgs should've stayed on the island just like the puffins do...
Same
17:37 - "It really would have solidified his character arc." ...said as Han Solo is literally being solidified into carbonite.
When you like return of the Jedi
“I’m in danger”
i mean i like the jabba stuff unironically.
I mean it was the first movie of the trilogy I saw, so I have a soft spot. Jabba’s palace was a hella intriguing opening for 12 year old me
For many years it was my favorite Star Wars movie lol
@@megamike15 that's cool and dandy but the main point was that Luke's plan was dumb
I love Jedi because of the Jabba Stuff, final fight and emotional beats, even if the middle parts slow
Love how he explains yoda as "a weird goblin that steals Luke's hotdogs"
How to think star wars is new
1: Laser swords
2: Teddies with sticks
3: Robots
I honestly thought you would talk about Mandalorian before the previous movies
ComplicatedInfo Angry much?
@ComplicatedInfo wat
Why? New episodes are still coming out he will probably wait until it's finished and then talk about it. That makes more sense.
@ComplicatedInfo wow.
Ya
Even growing up with 1, 2 and 3. I never liked 1 or 2. Only revenge of the sith
Same here
the main thing i love about the prequels is the era before palpatine rose to power its soo interesting to me and thats a part of the rason i love clone wars cuz it expands that era all in all i love every star wars movie exept the sequels
The prequels would've been perfect if all 3 movies were the same quality as clone wars.
Same man
I loved Attack of the Clones because as a kid I loved military stuff. Oh man, seeing a futuristic battle with space wizards and badass clones and scary droids was the stuff of my dreams! I still love a lot of Star Wars battles because it's just cool stuff to imagine and think about. Even the boring politics made the universe feel real and lived in imo. All the battles and stuff got me re-emersed to the point that I forgot about the goofy and awkward dialogue or dumb scenes
Came back to watch this masterpiece again and I just noticed the Father Gascoigne theme when you were roasting the prequels at the end! 😂😂 Been playing Bloodborne nonstop for the past week which is why I picked up on it. Good taste in music and in games, brother!