We Recommend: A Movie Podcast
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Star Wars: A New Hope
Journey back to 1977 with us as we explore the groundbreaking cultural phenomenon that forever changed cinema – Star Wars: A New Hope. This landmark film didn't just launch a multi-billion dollar franchise; it revolutionized filmmaking itself, creating an entirely new visual language for science fiction that continues to influence creators across all media decades later.
We dive deep into the fascinating production history of George Lucas's space opera, revealing how the director faced rejection from multiple studios before 20th Century Fox took a chance on his vision. Learn about Alec Guinness's private disdain for what he called "fairy tale rubbish" despite delivering one of the film's most memorable performances, and discover how Lucas's savvy decision to retain merchandising rights instead of a higher salary would eventually earn him billions.
What made the original Star Wars so magical? We explore the perfect storm of elements: the film's groundbreaking visual effects created through innovative practical techniques; John Williams' magnificent, emotionally resonant score; the charismatic performances of Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, and Mark Hamill; and Lucas's brilliant fusion of mythological storytelling patterns with science fiction tropes. The "used future" aesthetic presented a lived-in galaxy that felt authentic despite its fantastical elements, standing in stark contrast to the pristine futures depicted in previous sci-fi films.
Whether you're a lifelong fan who can recite every line or someone discovering this classic for the first time, our conversation celebrates what makes A New Hope such an enduring masterpiece while acknowledging how it spawned both a revolutionary approach to filmmaking and a sometimes problematic fan culture. From porkins to parsecs, from lightsabers to the legacy it created, we cover it all with both nostalgic appreciation and critical insight.
Ready to feel like a wide-eyed kid watching that Star Destroyer fill the screen for the first time again? Listen now and remember why this story from a galaxy far, far away continues to captivate our imagination nearly half a century later.
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Hello and welcome to the we Recommend podcast, a movie podcast where every week, we recommend a movie for you to watch and then come back here and listen to us discuss. I'm Jesse, I'm Jason, I'm Dakota. Hokey, religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid, because this week we recommend Star Wars, a New Hope. Yeah, our first Star Wars, baby's first Star Wars. So like this, is Y'all like this movie? Yes, it's pretty good, right Decent.
Speaker 3:Don't even play it.
Speaker 1:I don't want to try this right now. We already did this bit in the last episode that hasn't been released yet.
Speaker 3:I don't care.
Speaker 1:Prepare. I want to immediately start with our rankings. Jason, just the Skywalker saga, which is the nine films, prequels, sequels and originals. How would you rank them? Number one, Okay, what's number one? I rank them all one. I'll start for example, phantom Menace number one.
Speaker 2:My favorite.
Speaker 1:Number one. With a bullet, empire Strikes Back Obvi, then A New Hope, then Last Jedi, then I New Hope, then Last Jedi, then I guess I'll probably go. Return of the Jedi, force Awakens, probably Clone Wars, then probably what's the one that Revenge of the Sith, then Phantom Menace, then probably Rise of Skywalker, because it's just a deplorable movie and this is like very well, our lists are like the same, but you could definitely see the difference of like preference here in mine versus yours.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, the first two are perfect movies and the next one the rest of them. There's well, there's parts I like, obviously, of Last Jedi and Return of the Jedi, and then portions of it where I'm like they missed the mark here, and then everything after those two I'm like I don't know. I'll watch Clone Wars because it's funny, and the rest of them. I don't like sand it's rough and coarse.
Speaker 1:The rest of them are just like boring and just I don't enjoy. You do have to watch them. Specific rise of Skywalker is just everything wrong with me today.
Speaker 3:I didn't put notes, but I had because I didn't want to go crazy. But I have quick tangents for mine. My ranking Empire Strikes Back. I mean, it's just Empire Strikes Back.
Speaker 1:I'm so sorry. My second one is Revenge of the Sith hell yeah, dude, like fucking, put you in a coffin and bury you alive. Because of how good it is, I know, because of how boring and dumb it is have you watched Attack of the Clones. Alright, let's just keep going. This is a happy podcast. My third one is A New Hope. Okay, my fourth and fifth one, depending I don't know I have an arrow swapping.
Speaker 3:I was like my fourth one. I was like which one do I really watch more? I was like I do want to watch. I like Phantom Menace, not for reasons of being a good movie, but for reasons of just the Jedi stuff is more amped up in it. Yeah, that's my reason for liking it, which is, I think, our differences in movies is because you watch Star Wars for movie stuff, not for just all the nerdy extra shit.
Speaker 1:No, I just think those movies are bad man.
Speaker 3:They are bad movies Even for Star Wars.
Speaker 1:They don't even make Star Wars good anymore.
Speaker 2:Didn't they change the entire dogma with the Phantom Menace? Because the Force in this one and the New Hope is something you can learn, but in Phantom Menace you've got the midichlorians in your blood yeah, they kind of went back and kind of fixed that force babies yeah.
Speaker 3:Mannequins of force babies yeah, that was bad but it's just saying like this is what allows us. But you could say anyone has it. That's the thing. They've kind of come back and said anyone has midichlorians. It's just not enough. Yeah, that the whole thing which is one of my notes is I hate that part was I prefer the. I'm tired of bloodline stuff. We've been doing it for this long, even with grogu and stuff for nine movies. Even it's spilling out and everything's like. Can we just get away from this? Bring someone new in who doesn't have to be tied to anything. I'm done with it. I'm ready for a new person. I want it to be so, which is what I loved about, even though I don't, and that's exactly what they did in Star Wars triple x and from 2012 oh hell yeah, great cinematic.
Speaker 1:I actually thought it was more of a documentary.
Speaker 3:I have no idea.
Speaker 2:I went into the history of Star Wars based pornographies.
Speaker 1:The only research that does.
Speaker 2:I haven't seen any of them, but in 1977, after this movie came out, there was Star Babe, and then 85 was Space Nuts, and then in 2012 was Star Wars Triple X, which I think is a full feature.
Speaker 3:You said Triple X and I was thinking like the Vin Diesel movie Vin Diesel.
Speaker 1:Oh man, hell yeah. I was like what is this? Am I missing something? But I'm in them.
Speaker 3:Speaking of parodies, when Survivor was messing up the other day because of the weather, I typed in Survivor on my Apple TV and one of the first options of Survivor yes, yes.
Speaker 2:That's wild, that's wild.
Speaker 1:Is it 15 episodes long?
Speaker 3:I don't know what it is. Anyways, I have four for Phantom Menace, five for Return of the Jedi, six Clone Wars seven, force Awakens eight, rise of Skywalker nine.
Speaker 1:Last Jedi. Okay, what do you got, jason?
Speaker 3:Yep, he's like, I can't remember all these. I can't remember all these.
Speaker 1:I can't remember all these. It's all right, I had to look up Rise of Skywalker.
Speaker 3:How about this?
Speaker 1:Rank the original sequel and prequel Just the threes. Just the threes. Yeah, which ones do you prefer to watch?
Speaker 2:Well, I guess it's going to be Empire, then New Hope, then Return, return.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 3:Sounds good. Return the return okay, sounds good.
Speaker 1:I have so many things just like little notes, but we got moving, so um, yeah, uh star wars right?
Speaker 2:yeah, dude, some lasers and space wizards so my grandmother gave me the free movie box set for christmas. She didn't know shit about me. She was the worst at gift giving. The previous year she gave me Guitar Plays the Eagles, where it was an Eagles album but only guitar. But then this one Christmas she gave me the box set. I just fell in love with it.
Speaker 1:I actually have never owned any Star Wars until the sequels came out and I just started buying those because you know it's always been a box set and they're huge and I was kind of hoping they'd eventually get rid of the updated versions of the movies. So there's not CGI in it.
Speaker 3:That was my other note currently, so the original version. I heard about this. Yes, full, they've restored it like proper color correction and they're going to really really sit theaters. Can we also just release it out? Because, as you know, watching this I was like this CGI is so unnecessary it ruined a lot of scenes for me, like the Jabba the Hutt stuff come on there wasn't CGI.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I will say for 1977 the CGI looked pretty good. Yes, it was pretty good CGI in 1977 that. Jabba stuff. Jabba looked great for 77, you know, I don't even remember him being in there, it wasn't, it's just some guy.
Speaker 3:I think they filmed the scene and they never made it in the original right well, no, it was in the original it was.
Speaker 1:I feel like this is the first time I've ever seen it.
Speaker 3:I really never remember that scene.
Speaker 2:Get your shit together, jesse Maybe.
Speaker 1:I don't know, I don't think.
Speaker 3:Jabba's scene was in there. He added it because he had recorded talking to him and he added it in later for future build up.
Speaker 1:I just remember watching the scene, though with the guy where it was just the guy They've had. So many different versions. I just watched these so much as a kid I feel like I remember it. I don't remember it.
Speaker 3:I remember having the original VHS of each individual one. If I still had them, I would love it, because I did find, when I was moving, a triple pack of VHSs Like they were gold. I don't know when they released those. I've been meaning to like Just see if there's any edits in that one and see how good it is, mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:So I want to who's like y'all's favorite character in this movie? Like you got, obviously you got Chewie R2, C-3PO, leia, luke, han.
Speaker 3:He cusses like a sailor.
Speaker 1:So like who's y'all's like favorite Star Wars character, especially from these originals For the originals.
Speaker 3:So just solely on A New Hope, I would say I really like Alec Guinness.
Speaker 1:Oh, just as like your favorite character.
Speaker 3:Yeah, just like his character, Because I don't know what it is. I do like Han, but it's the same. He's scoundrel, it's the same thing. But something about Alec Guinness just feels like he has a different purpose, like a mysterious thing to him. I like it a little bit more. Lucas just got his set path. For him he's the destined person and I think it's just Alec feels like he's his own different thing going on.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because he's like what the fuck is this movie I'm doing here? What is this mumbo jumbo? Because he wasn't super into being in this movie at all and he still doesn't. He didn't like it even after. The movie made him much money, which I have a note here. It made him lots of money, but Alec Guinness hated Star Wars.
Speaker 3:I mean look what it did to their like that's all you get asked. Like Star Wars created the hardcore nerd annoying people culture.
Speaker 2:He had to deal with the rest of it.
Speaker 3:You don't understand. They're like I hate star wars, and I see why because it created those fanboys who, like I mean it's it created a whole genre and world of its own and it's it created.
Speaker 2:It created a subculture of porkins.
Speaker 1:Yes, so something guinness said so apparently he was super professional on set and like during production and all that. But he, when he he was sending letters to a friend of his called Ann Kaufman, criticizing, criticizing the film and everything about it. Blow is an excerpt. My dear Ann, I've been offered a new movie, science fiction, which gives me pause. But it is to be directed by Lucas who did American Graffiti, which makes me feel I should Big part fairytale rubbish but could be interesting. And then later he wrote new rubbish.
Speaker 1:Dialogue reaches me every day and none of it makes my character clear or even bearable. I just think of the lovely bread and that keeps me going. I must off to the studios now to work with a dwarf who has to wash in a bidet and your countryman mark hamill. And uh, harrison ford, a rangy, languid young man who is probably intelligent and musing. God, they make me feel so 90. Yeah, it's pretty wild. And uh, there's another one like famous story, uh, told in in Guinness's memoirs. In 1979, a sweet-faced boy of 12 told me he had seen Star Wars a hundred times. Looking into the boy's eyes I detected madness beginning to form and I said I would love you to do something for me and the guy said anything, sir?
Speaker 1:Do you think you could promise me?
Speaker 3:to never see Star Wars again.
Speaker 1:He burst into tears. His mother said what a dreadful thing to say to a child and drag the poor kid away. Maybe she was right, but I just hope the lad now in his 30s is not living in a fantasy world of secondhand childish banalities no, he's just sitting in his room throwing knives at a picture of him so should uh us 30 somethings keep talking about Star Wars? That we've been watching since we were kids.
Speaker 2:It's only permeated every area of society.
Speaker 1:It really created fandom, which was cool for a while, and now fandom is not cool anymore.
Speaker 3:No, because.
Speaker 1:Because you can't. Just I don't know. People were cuckoo crazy.
Speaker 3:They're were cuckoo crazy. They're still cuckoo crazy, like I. Still I'm on that side. It's so weird because when I sit here and talk about what I don't like, about like when I don't like the little stuff in the sequels, when I say I don't like the last jedi, and I have someone else talking about it, it's funny because it's like now there's different types of fanboys. There's the fanboys who don't like the Last Jedi because they're crazy right wingers and they're like I didn't like it because of this and I'm like no, no no, I don't want to be rubbed in with you.
Speaker 3:I just don't like it because I have certain complaints with it, no, no, with the fandom is when I try and have, like my, certain complaints, like Mandalorian. First two seasons I was like this is what we should be having had the theme with the sequels cool, and then now it's like we're all wearing everything out.
Speaker 1:Yes, everything from everything is gonna be in everything. It's like you know.
Speaker 3:Porkins, we're definitely getting in the prequel but you know what?
Speaker 1:We have a damn fine movie here called Star Wars. Why do they got to sound like donkeys? Dude, it's like he's my favorite, man we used to have imagination.
Speaker 2:The sad people in the Javas are my favorite. Yeah, love those guys.
Speaker 1:This movie, just we did it. Damn it fucking looks good it does.
Speaker 3:That's literally five of my notes is this movie and how it looks.
Speaker 1:It's like every time I turn it on. You know, and you know I get excited when the scrolls happen. It's scrolling through the words and stuff. You know those things.
Speaker 3:That I never read as a child.
Speaker 1:And then like man, as soon as you see that giant ship, it's just like I'm a kid again.
Speaker 3:It's amazing alright, hold on a second. My first note okay sorry that's me closing my book. I said that opening text crawl so good brings back kid memories.
Speaker 1:It's exactly what I said when people used to read you know it's funny that Return of the Jedi is my least favorite of the originals, because that was the one I watched as a kid a lot. Yes, my mom would always get a library. I didn't get no stupid books. What do you think? I'm a nerd, but I'd always like Explain why you can't talk yeah exactly, you're absolutely correct. But I'd always get like a movie and I got the third movie all the time, to the point where mom's like stop Watch anything else.
Speaker 3:So think about that, how often you watch that, but not to be that person who. It's weird how there's that line of the person who looks and lives in that Star Wars world, like that kid who Alec Guinness met, versus someone who appreciates the movie and can separate it and just enjoy it. I wonder what just tips you over in your worldview to change that.
Speaker 1:Because, Well, I mean, that's how I am. I just like I do love all the movies. I watch them all. I probably won't really watch Rise of Skywalker. That's just like the bane of all creativity.
Speaker 3:You know, even though I have Last Jedi as my last one, I have seen that one more than I have seen Rise of Skywalker. I have seen that one more than I have seen Rise of Skywalker. I have only seen Rise of Skywalker one time in theater.
Speaker 1:You should try to rewatch it. It makes you hate just movies.
Speaker 3:Well, so the problem with that is that you know how like I watch stuff and like I can remember it for a while. Well, there's been a lot of clips that have just popped up from the like Rise of Skywalker, and I'm like I.
Speaker 3:It's like say whatever you want about the last jedi, but at least there was vision by somebody I wish, instead of just like there's some good scenes. I went on the internet and I saw what people hated. Let me try it there's. There's a lot there. I think if ryan johnson got to, at least if he got to continue and do this the next one rises, not rise skywalker, fucking rip dude. It would have been something I even though I had my complaints for Rise of Skywalker or Last Jedi I feel like if he got to continue doing a vision, that's what they should have done you.
Speaker 1:You get a few complaints about Last Jedi. I have a lot. You have all the prequels in front of it. Those are like some of the biggest garbage on the screen. There's a difference.
Speaker 3:I enjoy the prequels mainly because they're just the early jedi stuff yeah, the blocking, directing, writing, all that. So you're talking about stuff that like is someone who watches it as a movie but I'm watching it as just enjoying it, for I watched it as a kid a lot.
Speaker 3:Those are the ones I watched a lot. After watching all of those you know, I remember being that I was probably that I could just say I anything, because when I was a kid watching Phantom Menace in the theaters, I was laughing my ass off to Jar Jar Binks. I bet you those hardcore fanboys are just sitting here like yes.
Speaker 1:It's just like so boring. All of them, all the prequels.
Speaker 3:Hey, you know what the problem was in the first one Trade wards and tariffs and all the problems with the blockades and stuff. It's almost like they can emulate real life.
Speaker 1:That's the worst part of it. Now it's like, damn now, I can't even find the funny.
Speaker 3:You love Andor because of the realistic take. It does everything. That's literally what the thing is for the first one.
Speaker 1:Political politics. I didn't even finish, andor, I thought you.
Speaker 2:I've been wanting to the Bad Batch was cool.
Speaker 3:I like the Bad Batch. I don't know if I ever got around to finishing that, though. Oh, they announced I don't know if you like it they announced a mall animated show, mall Darth Maul oh, I thought it was like oh damn, I love a nice mall movie, animated mall show.
Speaker 1:I made it.
Speaker 3:Mallrats. But Star Wars, hell, yeah, no thanks if you have, have you done Mall Rides yeah?
Speaker 2:we did Mall.
Speaker 3:Rides. I wish I had done that, because after watching it I was like this is so strange, because my girlfriend was like why it's like? This is Stan Lee there's not a line. Really. Do you know what this would be in modern day? He would be swarmed. It's that clicking moment of how much mainstream superhero nerd stuff has come. It's like that's an eye opener, right there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's pretty wild. So, all right, so we keep going off topic Probably won't really do too many facts Everybody knows everything about Star Wars, yeah, so I guess it's like, whenever you watch this movie, like, what is it about it that makes you like it? Right, Like, what is it specifically for you that you like? Why you like it? Cause I mean, it's pretty for me, especially now when you look back at all the other star Wars. It's so simple, cut and dry, just like you get good actors. It looks awesome and it's like it's. There's a lot of mumbo jumbo in it, but it's really not that bad, Especially compared to like prequels and stuff like that, and even like compared to superheroes movies. Now, it's just like what are y'all saying anymore? And it's like even this movie with a bunch of like, just like gibberish. It's just, it's simple, it's cut, it's dry. You just got here's your hero. He's not a hero yet. He's like wants to be going on the hero's journey, but he's like, oh, I don't want to. And then I do.
Speaker 2:It's like literally every hero's tale, and then he gives everyone shit for not wanting to do the same.
Speaker 1:But yeah. But then you put all these dope great charismatic actors around them and it just fucking goes right. You have a dope little lightsaber battle by two geriatric men and it's wonderful. I love it. I love the more realistic lightsaber battles for me.
Speaker 3:I don't really like them. That's not really realistic.
Speaker 1:Well, I don't like the prequels where they're just like whoo, Just throwing their swords in the air. I'm like, why are we fighting like?
Speaker 2:this Flipping around a lot, it's called.
Speaker 1:you know they're Jedi Knights. They're not Jedi like I don't even know what you'd call that type of sword fighting.
Speaker 3:They all have. Have you Like parkour? I wanted to go.
Speaker 1:I don't know. I just don't like the flippy sword battles Like it's to me. I'm just like there's no thrill in it. For me, it's just like this is so choreographed, it's whatever for me.
Speaker 3:There's no emotion in it. I don't believe in the over choreographed. If you say over choreographed is a thing, then you hate John Wick, cause that is what that is Over chore, who knows the role very well.
Speaker 1:But they're like using guns and stuff, Uh-huh.
Speaker 3:So it's so much cooler If it was fucking John Wick and being someone in Star Wars, you would say oh, this is great. It's the same thing. Lightsabers are fighting stances.
Speaker 1:There's a complete difference between the fighting in John Wick versus the fighting in the prequels. How so it's like more like a barbaric feeling, which is because it's guns and stuff, no, even just like punching and stuff, like in lightsabers hitting. It's like, it's just like and it's like. To me that's just not entertaining. It's because they're deflecting. I didn't like it.
Speaker 3:Have you ever so? When I used to do karate, you know what you had to do to display your skills. To get another belt, you had to do stances, and if you do the same, thing with.
Speaker 1:Oh, I'm just telling it, I think it looks like poopoo when I see him fighting prequels you go out there and do what they did, then see how well I know that's hard, but it's just like to me, like visually, I'm just like. I mean, how about y'all like just make this more interesting for me to watch? I, I mean, I get that as a kid. It's really like whoa Yoda's flipping and I'm like it's hard to hit someone.
Speaker 3:Yoda has a lightsaber.
Speaker 1:Why would Yoda have a lightsaber? Why is it tiny? Why wouldn't he?
Speaker 3:just be the ultimate force guy.
Speaker 1:To me that makes more sense than like I'm a tiny guy Can we? Just crush him like a tin, can you have?
Speaker 3:to focus, then you have other people's wills you're fighting against as well.
Speaker 1:I just think it'd be like whenever he goes against Count Dooku. It'd just be more interesting if it was a force battle instead of like a life saver battle.
Speaker 3:But they're like there's no, like he couldn't beat him in a force battle. But the thing is, is that Anakin the chosen one with how strong he is in the force? But there's only so much you can do when someone's about to come at your face going me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me me, because you have to concentrate and focus.
Speaker 3:Can't rip him apart one by one, because someone who's a Jedi could be weaker in the force, but a very strong combatant with a lightsaber that's what Mace Windu was is that he was able to be Palpatine Nice.
Speaker 1:I like the lightsaber battle on this one as much as I would love to see Samuel L Jackson come back.
Speaker 3:Please stop bringing back dead characters For.
Speaker 2:God's sake, stop it.
Speaker 3:They don't do that. I just said Maul got a new show.
Speaker 2:We're not bringing him back.
Speaker 3:He died, he was a teenager. He's got pimples. No, he's, it's gonna be after revenge. We're gonna have a pizza restaurant and he's slicing he's already got red face, I mean.
Speaker 1:So yeah, so what do y'all like about this movie? We got in a rant, sorry.
Speaker 3:I mean probably similar to you, yeah.
Speaker 1:I kind of said everything. I'm sorry well.
Speaker 3:Visual effects the story is like it works. Everything feels real. My big. The other thing I had was when we're on the desert planet, I'm like man, you don't feel like this is a real desert planet it feels like it's character it's real sand dunes, versus what we have now is the set and the CGI stuff in the background.
Speaker 3:It's it does. I was like anytime I watch newer Star Wars and we're on a sand planet. I'm like, I feel like it's alien. So I feel like they're on an alien world, but I also don't feel like it's real. We're on here on this planet that we'd never fucking leave anymore. Now, yeah, I felt like it was more realistic. It had character and C-3PO. When he was getting a bath I was like you know that's a good point, because I thought you were looking fucking dirty man.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so we'll talk about a little bit. So like Lucas struggled to get the film made Right, so in 1973, george Lucas directed American Graffiti. Have y'all watched it? Nope, it's got like the lead Stuff like that, the main character from that I think we need to talk about this. It's like it's a coming of age drama set in the 1950s American, american, americana, sorry, and it was just kind of like a movie that takes place over like one day.
Speaker 2:I haven't. I've seen parts of it.
Speaker 1:So it had a budget of like $777,000. It made over 140 million. Nice. So, george Lucas, just like budget to gross ratio. It was actually twice as successful as Star Wars. Nice, just in terms of budget. So, following this success, united Artists asked Lucas if he had any more ideas and he told him about a space opera. That's a bit like a Western and a bit like James Bond. Hell, yeah, agree, space opera, the James Bond part has got to be Han Solo. Yeah, that's.
Speaker 3:No, he's the Western part. The James Bond would be what Alec Guinness did he's secretly trying to take the bass out. I could see his more role being the. I guess I'd see it.
Speaker 1:Ford's character, Han Solo, comes off more James.
Speaker 2:Bond hey.
Speaker 1:Leia hey, Leia, you want to come back.
Speaker 3:I guess it's just a load and it's just like we need to nerd every time. I guess it's because I see my your interpretations Like most James Bond I've ever seen Is Daniel Craig. Yeah, so my interpretation Of James Bond Is not the want to have sex with everybody all the time and he's more reserved and kind of calm, but he does go out and shoot. That's why I think Alec Guinness. But I guess it depends on your version of James Bond that you grew up with.
Speaker 3:I was mostly Pierce Brosnan how many movies did he have? Like three. I just remember the one where he's like surfing with the fucking tent thing and I was like oh wow, these effects are terrible. Yes, they are, can't be golden eye which they're surfing with the fucking tent thing and I was like oh wow, these effects are terrible. Yes, they are.
Speaker 1:Can't be golden eye, which they're coming out with another one, oh no. So to continue where I was at at the so then, at that point he was like, oh, I'll turn in my like 14 page treatment called the Star Wars, and UA United Artists passed on it, so did Universal, so did Disney. There was a division of Paramount called the Director's Company that was owned by Francis Ford Coppola, godfather, William Freakin, exorcist, and Peter Bogdanovich, which I can't remember what he did and I really hate that. I don't. He brought it to them and they're like I don't think so. They didn't believe in him. And then Lucas then pitched the idea to the head of 20th Century Fox, alan Ladd. On that pitch, ladd says I had no idea what George was talking about, but I knew that he was talented, so I invested in him and he greenlit the film with an $8 million budget.
Speaker 2:You know, the picture I have in my head of Alan Ladd is a boy in a sailor suit.
Speaker 1:I'm the best lad around.
Speaker 3:Damn. That's exactly what I thought too, with a lollipop. Yeah.
Speaker 1:I like it, and then apparently Brian De Palma helped him out a lot. He did like Carrie, the first Mission Impossible blowout that you hate. Mission Impossible was amazing he really helped him with the film and, I guess, the last thing I know like. So Lucas agreed to get paid $150,000 by Fox for writing and directing the film. It's not a huge amount at the time. On two conditions Lucas would get full rights over any sequels to Star Wars Smart. He got rights to all Star Wars merchandise Toys, books, video games, clothing.
Speaker 3:I love that so much. I thought it wasn't Because, if you look at it, they're like sure who cares? And since 1977, george Lucas has made $6 billion off of toys, video games and stuff like that, but then he sold it for what? $4 billion or more.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so a total of like 10 billion Nice. But yeah, I mean there's a lot of other stuff that we could go into, but you know, you got any facts about Ralph McQuire?
Speaker 3:I can't remember his name, I've drawn a blank. It's the guy who did mainly all the art because if you look at the concept art for 3PO and them, it had more of that definite what people thought the future was going to look like in the 50s People in the 50s thought the future was going to look like he had more of that style with drawing it, Especially with 3PO and how they definitely carried it over.
Speaker 3:But his design for Vader I really like it. His mask was a lot more angular and sharp. I couldn't probably translate it to real world is why it looked like that, but never seen it, that sounds cool. They released a figure like years ago with, like the Ralph McQuarrie, I can't remember. I really love it. It's just concept, for it was really neat. Hell yeah.
Speaker 1:I had something on here for it.
Speaker 3:You can do control F to find stuff.
Speaker 1:Concept artists and sound designers played big roles. Ralph McQuarrie was the concept artist of the movie and designed, among other things, darth Vader, stormtroopers, the two droids, chewbacca, the X-Wings, tie Fighters, star Destroyers. Fox included Ralph McQuire's concept art to help visualize the idea. Alan said without that art there was no way it would have gotten past the board. So McQuire's importance to Star Wars is huge and there is some pictures that go with it that you know like show, like the lightsabers, like looked a little bit different when he was called Starkiller. He had like more of a suit with like almost like a gas mask type. Look to it and stuff.
Speaker 1:It's kind of badass darth vader looks pretty much the same. Um, there's also visuals of uh, stormtroopers with lightsabers. Um, and then the sound designer was ben burt and he created pretty much all the now iconic effects in star wars, like blasters, the breathing r2 beeps and whistles. Chewy's growls lightsabers is green. Burt won his first of four os Oscars on Star Wars. He also won for Raiders of the Lost Ark, et, extra Threshold, indiana Jones, last Crusade now. So George Lucas thought the movie was gonna be like terrible. He thought nobody was gonna watch it, nobody was gonna like it. So he took a trip to Hawaii with Steven Spielberg during the initial release of Star Wars. That's where they came up with Raiders of the Lost Ark, oh yeah. But then he got word that, like, star Wars is a mega hit and he's like I'm a genius, you think that inflated him a little bit.
Speaker 1:Well, I mean, he still did a good job on the next one.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:He just like I don't know if it was just like on Return of the Jedi. He's like damn son, that toy money is great.
Speaker 3:I think I could see like what you told me, because wasn't you said his wife was like a ghost. Writer. Co-writer.
Speaker 1:Well, his right. His wife ended up fixing this film, so he originally had a different editor for this film and then, like this, had a lot of the. If you go back and look at deleted scenes on it, like the whole beginning is being like the battle at the beginning, where Darth Vader's walking in on Leia and like there's shots and stuff that's being intercut with him Talk Luke talking to his friends, like the guy that he meets up later with the bigs, yeah, and it's just, if you look at that dialogue, he Mark Hamill's terrible in. It's just, oh, it's a poorly directed shot and everything. He's like trying to be drunk and it's so bad.
Speaker 1:Um, and that was intercut with, uh, the beginning of the movie and there was a lot of pacing issues. So she came in and, like her and, um, some of the editors that helped with, like Brian De Palma Brian De Palma huge Star Wars, by the way Like we owe a lot to him as well Like she, those three like sat down and edited it and made it faster paced and just got cleaned it up. Oh, yeah, yeah, she's. She's supposedly the woman that fixed Star Wars. She saved Star Wars Wars, she saved Star Wars and they got divorced, like I think, after the second movie or in the middle of the second movie or after it was done for the production, and then we got the rest of George Lucas's Star Wars and it shows you how much I don't know.
Speaker 3:I think that shows you more of like, how much this was like. It's one of those like you see, someone who, like, when someone leaves a project, you don't it's like man, it just feels like something's kind of different maybe the last person that could tell him hey, george, that's a bad idea.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no one was probably willing to tell him no, because look at people, idolize them and then, like you, always need someone around you. That's why you always see the joke of someone saying I want to keep this person around because they are willing to tell me how it is. They're the person who can keep you grounded to see your mistakes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, A couple things before we hop into the film. Some notes. I had R2D2, c-3po. They're totally our audience surrogate and I love that about them. It's how you come into the film with them. Essentially the first characters you meet. They just kind of are along for the ride for the whole time. They do a little few things and it will. They kind of save everybody's ass a lot. But I love that. They're two great characters.
Speaker 3:I love how a sassy bitch that's C-3PO is just sitting there like bonking.
Speaker 1:R2-D2 over the head all the time. He's so sensitive. I love that there it feels like there's actual stakes in this movie, um, it's just like it's hard not to watch this and think like, oh, three movies came before it and then it's like when you watch those three movies, it's like it doesn't really feel like there's that many stakes. There's like maybe like a couple like all of clone wars. I feel like there's no stakes in that movie. There's like you know, with the phantom menace there's obviously qui-gon, um, and then like the the end of uh, revenge of the sith, there's. It feels like there's stakes between the two actors, um, but outside of that, there feels like there's no sex during any of those movies.
Speaker 2:For me, yeah, that's a personal thing. This one, it's like millions of people are gonna die. Yeah, I mean, they blew up a planet. It's like holy shit.
Speaker 1:Um, also something I like aliens speak their own language. They're not just talking English like they do in.
Speaker 2:Like the rest of the movies outside of the first three, and if you ever stop to say, how can they understand each other? There's always someone there to say shut up.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah, it's like anytime C-3PO starts talking, it's like dude, we should fucking shut up. I love that Princess Leia has a lot of agency in this movie. Yes, and it's like compared to the prequels, like Padme is just mostly a wet blanket.
Speaker 3:Well, it is weird how Leia has so much more get up and go versus. I guess if you look at it they're trying to draw that line of, like Padme grew up, she is like straight up a princess and political versus Leia who also Bell or Dana, was a senator right.
Speaker 1:So, what makes her a prince?
Speaker 3:Well, she was a senator probably for, uh, well, like, maybe like a senator of like cause you know how like we have senators to represent it. Maybe he was a senator to represent them, but maybe he was higher up in on Alderaan in their own political world.
Speaker 1:I was like we had nine movies. We never figured that out. What's your point?
Speaker 3:the one thing you could draw for like Leia's character is that her other half of her genes is Anakin yeah, also love.
Speaker 1:I love how whiny and bitchy Luke is and literally Harrison Ford is a smoke show. And just if he wasn't in this movie, I don't think it would be nearly, as I don't think I would have liked it as much, even as a kid it's always been my favorite. I loved it.
Speaker 3:I loved his best in the way he carried a blaster, it was. I remember reading a thing. It was talking about Mark Hamill applying for the role and I think he saw Harrison Ford and he's like, oh, he's gonna be the leading character. He's like, damn it, he's more handsome than me.
Speaker 1:It's like wait, oh man. And then it's like I bet, during the movie though I'm gonna be the quirky little, like the quirky guy. That's like the hero, though, and it's like Han Solo's like quirkier and everything than him.
Speaker 2:It's like oh okay, I guess I'm just. They handed him the role of little bitch. Yeah, oh, so.
Speaker 1:I'm just a whiny, like blank sheet of a character. But I mean, that's how most heroes are. When they start, they're just like someone's, like bland little guy, and then they're like I'm just a boy.
Speaker 3:I don't.
Speaker 2:He says he doesn't want to farm.
Speaker 3:He says that. And then, when Obi-Wan presents him the opportunity he's been talking about leaving, he's like well, I can't leave, I was like oh, so you all talk.
Speaker 2:I bet Obi-Wan killed his uncle.
Speaker 1:And had to get that journey started somehow.
Speaker 3:He just gave Disney an idea.
Speaker 1:Another thing is that Luke is able to fly and do a bunch of stuff with almost no training or showing it visually on TV and no one had a problem with that, yeah, no, when I'm going back and watch to that not. I was like he blew up a Death Star and people are complaining about Ray.
Speaker 3:The only thing you can say about that is the force and that's the you're, because there's always that catch all thing like that's all he did in this like right to the same thing.
Speaker 1:Everybody's mad at the force of the gaps.
Speaker 3:Well, well, people like playing like devil's advocate is that when you watch star wars is a different time. You're trying, you can't show everything, obviously, so it's like as time goes on, you're like, okay, like we would need to see, because there's also been like a lot of in between, like in between, uh, a new hope and all that, all this lore that come out to show luke's training. But, as you like, okay, like when we get into newer movies, we need to see the training that is established, because the prequels show training that happened. Anakin doesn't show up again until Attack of the Clones. He had like 10 years of training. That's why everyone's I think it's people's wanting to see training is that at least you see an Empire Strikes Back it connects the ideas yeah, but I mean for Force Awakens being the first time we meet Rey.
Speaker 1:it's the same thing as Luke in A New Hope Everybody had a problem.
Speaker 3:Oh no, you're completely right. I thought you were saying like no, no, no.
Speaker 1:this I'm like no when.
Speaker 3:Rey starts flying the Millennium Falcon, I was like so she knows it flies, she's flown it before. Yeah, that's why she's like familiar. And when she starts to fly the ship, she's like I can do this, I can do this.
Speaker 1:She's obviously not confident, yeah, and she did have like a lightsaber battle with a Sith, essentially so.
Speaker 3:I can understand that that wouldn't be my problem but she closed the force and he was hurt.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, dude, so it's okay.
Speaker 3:When I first watched that, my thing was like well, everyone has certain quirks of force abilities. What if she's communicating and she's able to channel like they did in Rise of Skywalker? She channels other. It would have been more cool if we saw she channeled someone in that moment and also it's probably Luke, it was probably Luke, it was his lightsaber.
Speaker 3:Yeah, of all the other stuff that they did. That was I had, it was cool. But you also try and think of. Kylo was shot. Yeah, he was weak. And then her channeling it. In that moment she underestimated him, he underestimated her. You can kind of connect the dots to get it away, but they didn't explain it later.
Speaker 1:That would have been Also last thing before we get into it Fucking gong droid.
Speaker 2:Are you kidding me? That's one of my notes. Gonk, gonk, gonk, gonk, gonk. Is that the one that looks like a trash can? Yeah, and also.
Speaker 1:McClunky baby, what? Which one? Greedo just fucking says McClunky and then just shot. It's the best. Oh, the captions, didn't he's like McClunky.
Speaker 3:I was using my little home server to stream it, so my captions weren't off for their stuff.
Speaker 1:It's just like he just out loud before shoots says McClunky, and I was like I can't wait for that original version to come out. And everyone's going to be like look.
Speaker 3:I could finally die in peace. It shows Hanshaw first, which everyone will not. Shut the fuck up about.
Speaker 1:Let's be real, he changed it, he did, he changed it.
Speaker 3:He did and it looks terrible.
Speaker 2:And him saying it doesn't.
Speaker 1:His neck goes it's like what are we doing?
Speaker 3:It's a clear cut and I'm like dude, why are you? He's like I don't want him to show. That shows me a little bit into inside of Lucas. He's the rogue.
Speaker 1:I don't understand.
Speaker 3:He's supposed to reality Cause I'm like dude, why are you trying to do this? And then like yeah like he's cause. They're trying to say like he wouldn't do that he it's too cold blood, it's like no, it's fine.
Speaker 1:And he just he had Luke, who's never killed a person in his life, shooting people and not even flinching about it. He had all three movies planned out. No he did not.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, Luke may not have killed people, but he was killing a lot of innocent creatures on his planet. That is true. Yeah, for real.
Speaker 1:He's just an asshole teenager. It's just wild to me that he'd want to change Han shooting first to make him like a better guy, when it's like his character arc through this movie doesn't have to be accurate is that he becomes a good guy and is there to save at the end he literally is in the rebellion in the second one. I don't understand it's okay that he killed some guy that was about to kill him, yeah nobody cares.
Speaker 2:I don't understand especially everyone in the bar. Nobody gave a shit.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he was like a devil may care type of character and now he, like, has friends in a family and it's just like. It's like it's the point of his character that he wrote in 1976 or seven and he just forgot after he made other bad movies.
Speaker 3:It's just, no one told him no, and he always thought his ideas were good, yeah All right, y'all ready.
Speaker 1:We're almost an hour in, so we better start.
Speaker 3:Yes, we should All right, do a text scroll.
Speaker 1:Lucasfilm A Lucas joint, because Spike Lee calls his movies the Spike Lee joints.
Speaker 3:So it's like a Lucas joint. How high are?
Speaker 1:you getting If you just add a joint after someone's a white guy, like a short little big white guy. It's just funny to me, I don't know. Let's do some cello.
Speaker 1:Amid a galactic civil war. Rebel Alliance is operating from a hidden base and have been securing victories against the evil galactic empire. Rebel Alliance spies have stolen plans to the Death Star I'm sure they won't make a movie about it A colossal armored space station built by the tyrannical galactic empire that is capable of destroying entire planets. By the tyrannical galactic empire that is capable of destroying entire planets. Imperial Senator Leia Organa, carrie Fisher of Alderaan secretly a rebel leader has obtained the schematics and is rushing home to the rebels' secret base. The plans can save the people and restore freedom to the galaxy.
Speaker 2:Nice, pretty simple. You know that original scroll was six paragraphs long.
Speaker 3:Was it you said that, so I bet they won't. That original scroll was six paragraphs long, Was it? You sit there and say I bet they won't make a movie about it. Out of all the standalones, that's the best one.
Speaker 2:I want to see the part where Leah's on the death star trying to get the plans like dressed like in her gold bikini or whatever, just like hey, I wonder what the inside of this ship looks like yeah speaking of which Carrie Fisher attractive yes, nah, I mean not now.
Speaker 3:She's dead just like Luke's parents in the Star Wars movie she is yeah. I don't know like everyone I watched Return of the Jedi, never was like oh, it didn't trigger the I wanna be a man now. It never, it never triggered that. I never thought she was attractive. Swing, honestly, put some clothes on it. Never, it never triggered that. I never thought she was attractive.
Speaker 1:Swing, honestly, put some clothes on also, when it comes to Leia, people in this movie call her Leia and Leia, yeah, I noticed that.
Speaker 3:Well, I mean, it's the first movie. It's like which is it? Can you imagine get it?
Speaker 1:fucking right. George cause like.
Speaker 3:I don't know much about, like the sci-fi world pre-Star Wars and what it was on, you got Space Odyssey and everything Coming up and seeing a Star Destroyer. That's like. That's just laying it out of like. Because, like, think about, like, what would you see previously for sci-fi movies? Either you don't see the ship on the outside and you're just seeing the internals. This is establishing so much like in one go if you look at what this influences and what comes up later. Because if you think previously I don't know what it looked like, what previous like space stuff, it was like round UFOs. I feel like he set a standard of like let's explore what we can imagine a space vehicles like on the outside.
Speaker 2:Yeah, space battles. Yeah, it's, it's. It's made so much of an impact. Have you seen the spaceship that Katy Perry went in a few days ago? Looks like a penis.
Speaker 3:Does it? Well, it's Jeff Bezos' wife. Well, most rockets do look like this. And they're wondering why are we getting so much crap for flying into space guys? What's the big deal?
Speaker 1:It's like I don't know, because you're letting a millionaire spend $50 million to go up there.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's so cool.
Speaker 1:I don't give a fuck, though you know what would actually be cool if you sent, like you know, like our up and coming scientists and inspired them to be more scientific and like see a cool journey.
Speaker 3:If Katy Perry went up to space, we're definitely getting more porn soon in space.
Speaker 1:It's just like pop stars and just like rich people that it's just like put it in my Facebook feed anymore, but anyways so.
Speaker 1:Leia's ship is intercepted and boarded by an Imperial star to shore under the command of the ruthless Darth Vader. James Earl Jones voices Love the big ship. Also, when we first see Darth Vader something I like about this, just to show that it's kind of like a low budget, like you know, bootstrap type of movie the mask is like a lot less like Darth Vader's not shiny, no, it's all like. His mask is kind of like it's got some like texture and texture to it, versus when you go back and immediately whenever I watch A New Hope and you go straight to Empire Strikes Back bro Darth Vader looking slick.
Speaker 2:I bet he's got like a bunch of like how Batman has a bunch of suits. Maybe he's got a different of like how Batman has a bunch of suits maybe he's got a different.
Speaker 1:I'd love to see him just put like a like green one on it's like. So what do you think it is St Patrick's Day?
Speaker 2:no pinching. I love this Vader going around doing force pinching.
Speaker 3:What about have you ever seen I don't know if you've seen Vader's original voice before Earl Jones?
Speaker 1:yeah, I've heard it it's like a British, it's a British guy and he's like I want the Imperial Commander, and now that's right away.
Speaker 3:He's like oi governor it's way different and like bringing in James Earl Jones the goat.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like the damn guy's got a voice, it's it changes.
Speaker 3:It's just those little things you think about if it didn't go. This, this didn't have, this is one of those movies of just influence and what it could have changed, because I feel like with this movie is the only reason we got that Dune sequel to or original Dune yeah, so it's great the Empire ships all carry like heavily armored stormtroopers.
Speaker 1:This is actually one of the few movies where stormtroopers can actually hit things, which is fun, nice. Just never the actual heroes Because, like at the beginning, they wipe out the crew that's trying to like stop them from getting to Princess.
Speaker 2:Leia.
Speaker 1:They've got plot armor.
Speaker 3:Yeah Well they also mentioned, like later. Like you know, when they say we have tracking on them, that's why they didn't hit them, because they were letting them get away, because they wanted to see where they would lead to the base. But it doesn't explain through the rest of the series. But in this one you can say oh, that makes sense. I could see connecting the dots here. Sure.
Speaker 1:But we have, like Leia is going to be taken prisoner, but before the capture, leia inserts the plans in our R2-D2 droid along with a message. I can't wait to see what that message is. I'm sure we won't see it through the course of a bunch of movies. The droids R2-D2 and the whiny ass bitch, c-3po, escape with the plans on an escape pod, crashing on a nearby planet of Tatooine. Just love that. Like R2-D2 is like just ignore C-3PO, and I love it. He's just like oh, whatever, I just got to do my mission, c-3po, I'm going to try to stop you at every single chance. He's like I'm not going to go in there.
Speaker 1:He's the voice of reason Too much reason he's never right and Darth Vader is going to send his stormtroopers. But just like the reveal of like oh, there's all the smoke in the room, and then Darth Vader walks out Sorry, just smoked a fatty. Yeah, we're gonna take your shit, bro. You hear his voice and you're just like oh, this is immediately a great villain and then he also like his own people.
Speaker 3:He picks him up and says like you failed me and tosses him and it's.
Speaker 1:It's also really great how like spunky Leia is and just like fuck off, dude, I ain't talking to you it's great.
Speaker 3:You know why she has that spunk.
Speaker 1:It's cause she met Obi-Wan, yeah, when she was a child well, uh, luke Harrison and Carrie Fisher, you know like during the set of this, they're all just doing cocaine and having sex.
Speaker 3:Hell yeah, dude, they all had plenty of spunk that photo still pops up with her hand on there and her longer little binky I'm like. Can we stop?
Speaker 1:yeah, no, it's great dude.
Speaker 2:Drugs are fun cocaine well, just the idea of like that's. I never knew that, but that's amazing yeah we gotta do this parsec and what?
Speaker 1:12 castle runs, or whatever it is parsecs so, um, I love this because R2-D2 wants to go one way. C-3po's being a little bish and doesn't he's like? Fine, I'll leave you to die. See ya, R2-D2.
Speaker 3:I love that person and I'm like man C-3PO you move less, like you were more bipedal and you feel like you can move less than the fucking roller droid.
Speaker 1:I can't go where there's rocks.
Speaker 2:It's like but it falls over. He can't really get up.
Speaker 1:He just goes and you rot up his ass, yeah, and then C-3PO does his best. Um uh Green Day impersonation from uh American Idiot. He walks alone. It was a good joke. Whenever else at eight in the morning, it was funny.
Speaker 3:I love his joke of just like that fool, he tricked me to go this way, yeah um, you got the giant alien or the giant snake skeleton.
Speaker 1:It's really good.
Speaker 2:I think it's because when they go to Mos Eisley you see those big old things that throws the Jawas off. Yeah, it kind of looks like one of those.
Speaker 1:Yeah, maybe I like to think it's a flying dragon. Hell yeah, it is. He sees something in the distance and he thinks it's help.
Speaker 2:Then R2-D2, we see him that he's like just like beep booping around, and then we see the Jawas for the first time.
Speaker 1:Oh, bing bop bing bam. That's where Kendrick got it. One of the kind of shit you do, and then the Jawas just electrocute him and he like falls over and it's fucking hilarious.
Speaker 3:Did I ever send that video of Van Damme as R2-D2?
Speaker 2:Yes, I've seen that it's. I've seen that it's basically a bloodsport. That's the version I want to see.
Speaker 1:We need to do bloodsport so they're stuck on the ship. I love the ship. It's just like all ratty looking and it's great. It looks like. It looks better than any movie. It'd just all be CGI.
Speaker 3:Now what I don't understand is how they cannot like. It's right there, what is it? They can't seem to emulate the same effect of looking dirty. It's like you can tell it feels like it's real, but I don't understand it. It's just. Is this the difference of like two people who make do with what they got versus like we have the money? Make do with what they got versus like we have the money? Just do what you can Like it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1:It's just easier and more cost effective to do CGI now, just because the technology is getting better. It's just easier for them. But I mean like in the sequels, I mean like they do a good job with that, but that's because they had pretty much unlimited money. Yeah, r2 finds C-3PO, but first we see the one and only Gonk droid. Baby. Gonk, gonk, gonk, gonk, gonk, gonk. So good, dude Lucas was like what if we had a robot that said gonk? And someone was like he said gentlemen.
Speaker 3:In Bad Batch there's a gonk droid in there, isn't there Probably?
Speaker 1:I think on their ship there's one that's like gong who does stuff for them.
Speaker 3:I'm going to look up what episode that is. He's like do the whole thing.
Speaker 2:They're like we need ideas for robots Go.
Speaker 1:Trash can. Sweet, put legs on it Wait, hold on, carrie Fisher, bring me your pinky now, honey and then we see the storm troopers looking for the droids. This is where we get our first reveal of bad CGI.
Speaker 3:It was unnecessary. Why?
Speaker 1:One of my favorite bits from Spaceballs is when you have like they're like oh, we got the people they're combing through the desert. And then it's just like you know, you got a bunch of black people. They have like a giant afro. It's like did you find anything we can't find? Shit it's so funny, cause he?
Speaker 3:does randomly find.
Speaker 1:Look droid, sarah, he's like you're in the middle of this fucking desert planet. What the fuck are you talking about? I guess there was no wind that day.
Speaker 3:I just made a connection. They find that one little piece of droid stuff, the little condom thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And then when they capture the Millennium Falcon, they can't find them on the ship. Whatever team they had in that desert needs a promotion for ship check.
Speaker 1:I'm sure this ship doesn't have a bottom floor.
Speaker 3:It just shows their cup. It's like there ain't nobody here. Nobody here is like, yeah, my back hurts, I don't want to bend over. You know how hard it is to bend over in this stuff. Yeah, get all plasticky sounding.
Speaker 1:So then we see the Jawas. They're selling the droids to the moisture farmers. Owen, peru and their nephew Luke. I love we see like a bunch of different shots of Jawas at the beginning of the movie. They're constantly different sizes.
Speaker 3:Yes, which?
Speaker 1:is fine, like when you see them with R2, they're really tiny. When they're with like Owen and all them, it's like, oh, these are taller people obviously. So I'm like what happened on the set? They couldn't get the smaller people anymore. Yeah. So Owen needed droids who understand the binary language of moisture evaporators. While C-3PO is a protocol droid, he is trained in the language of load filters, which is very similar to evaporators and Sith language.
Speaker 2:He's like, yeah, I'll take you too, nerd, he can also speak bocce.
Speaker 3:Never comes up later. Yep, bocce.
Speaker 1:Something like that Bocce ball, bocce ball. C3po convinces Luke to take R2-D2 as well. Not really C3PO convincing him, it's just a red trash can boy blew up. Yeah, r5. And I love that there's a theory that R2 is actually the one that made that droid like, convinced that droid to blow up for the greater good, and it's like I was just making a joke in my head about that.
Speaker 2:And it's just like, hey guys, who cares? He's over there like whispering in its ear, like, hey, go fucking kill yourself.
Speaker 3:Yeah suicide for the greater is so canceled.
Speaker 1:R2-d2 has killed a lot of people. He's a straight D, so Owen asked Luke to clean up both the droids before dinner. While Luke is cleaning R2-D2 and complaining about wanting to leave Tatooine, he discovers a recording of Leia requesting help from a former ally named Obi-Wan Kenobi. Hmm, I don't think I know anybody by that name. Do you think it could be Ben Kenobi? I don't know. Man has the same last name. Old Ben Can't be a lot of Kenobis out here on this desert planet, doesn't oh?
Speaker 3:never mind, it's just like the Obi-Wan show.
Speaker 1:It's like, obviously, that's probably because you know I've watched this movie over the course of 30 years a lot and it's like, yeah, obviously it's the guy named Obi.
Speaker 3:It's literally the same thing.
Speaker 1:But Luke is interested in the rebellion and wants to learn more about it. R2-d2 says that the message is a private one for Obi-Wan and that R2-D2 is his property. Obi-wan Kenobi, you're my only hope. Great, right, I mean damn, just so simple. Just so simple.
Speaker 3:It's um one thing's going back and watching this is seeing Mark.
Speaker 1:Hamill's face pre-crash oh yeah.
Speaker 3:Because in the second one, you know, he gets attacked by that wampa and his face is all fucked up.
Speaker 1:He was in a car crash.
Speaker 3:Well, he was in a car crash and when they did the surgery they did not do a good job of like because he broke his face. Yeah, they didn't do it, the plastic surgeon didn't do it. It's also why it sounds kind of different too. Yeah, like his whole face is Empire. You're like, oh, you see the difference, like where?
Speaker 2:yeah, it's pretty fucked up like they.
Speaker 3:Uh, I never knew he was gonna crash though, yeah, that's what caused it, and I was like man I always say, anything's like what happened. If his, if his face didn't get messed up, could he, because kind of attractive, feel like he could have maybe had a little more roles compared to like because Harrison Ford still had the looks yeah if I was doing not a little manner he crashed in an auto driving Tesla. Yeah, I gotta say like as much as his career didn't have much after Star Wars um is he?
Speaker 1:had the Joker, bro. I've been playing for like 20 more years. Yeah, that's a voice acting role. I'm sure it's not what he wanted. Yeah, because.
Speaker 3:Harrison Ford was the only one who still got roles in dogma.
Speaker 1:It's been a lot well, I think he's in dogma. Yeah, but yeah. So Obi-Wan lives on Tatooine. We find out Luke knows of a Binknobi great, an old hermit who lives beyond the Dune Sea. Hmm, I wonder if it could be him. Luke is called for dinner. I love this because R2's like beep boop, bop boop, c3po's just like just you. Reconsider playing that message for him. R you C-3PO. No, I don't think he likes you at all. C-3po no I don't like you either. It's like dude C-3PO, I know.
Speaker 3:You're a fucking robot.
Speaker 1:What do you want to be doing right now? So Luke, who hopes to leave home for training at a nearby Imperial Military Academy to become a space pilot he probably did that. He'd probably become a bad guy, hell yeah Leaves the room angrily to return to cleaning the droids because Owen says he has to help with the harvest and can't leave. I put cat leave.
Speaker 3:Oh, sorry, just made a connection there. Sorry, I mean you're up, we're growing a space pot when you talked about him going to join the military thing. It would have made him a bad guy. People, his family, that's when he becomes the rebel. It's like, oh yeah connections.
Speaker 1:Yes, so luke's aunt, peru, tells owen that luke is too much like his father to remain with them, but no one holds out hope that luke's desire for adventure will subside and express a fear that luke is too much like his father, suggesting owen may know, suggesting that owen may know something about anakin's terrible past. Uh, and then luke goes to look out the two suns and it's beautiful and the score rolls and fuck yeah, we also talk about how, when Obi-Wan hands Luke the lightsaber, he looks literally right down so he's handing someone a gun, looking right down the barrel.
Speaker 1:I always love the edits. There's one where he turns it on and it's like he's like oh shit.
Speaker 1:So it's like the next day R2-D2 is missing. Luke tells 3PO that it's too late to look for R2 because oh, it's the same day. Whoops, r2, because of the dangerous sand people. They call them in the movie, but we'll call them Tusken Raiders Don't want to get canceled In the area and they will set out first thing in the morning to go look for him. Luke and 3PO go on Luke's land speeder, which looks fucking rad in that shot. I'm like man. It looks so good.
Speaker 3:It was funny because I know how they. You know how they did it to get that shot with the land speeder. Yeah, I think I used to. It's a mirror on it because they couldn't hide the wheels.
Speaker 1:Oh cool.
Speaker 3:And I'm watching it and I was like you know, I actually can kind of see the mirror now, but it's still so good, see, and oh, no wonder I grew up liking movies. Well, we don't get that end of like quick, because we don't get to make like, we don't get people who can just try and make a movie anymore, because they're so costly we don't get on YouTube, yeah.
Speaker 3:But they don't get that chance of like doing something because you get to work with a lot of people. When it's YouTube, it's a lot less people, I would say. And now you don't get that like spur of the moment of like we've got a team together here to try and make this movie like you know who we have now?
Speaker 1:a24, yeah, but they're the ones that like it's always like a brand new director doing a horror movie and it's like, oh, thank god. Yeah, but they're not all like, talk to me like they were youtubers. They're doing the backrooms movie. I don't know if they're doing anymore and they're gonna have like a, the kid who invented the backrooms I wasn't like an amazing movie, but yeah, like I guess you're right, that was a good movie still like uh, think of the witch.
Speaker 1:That was that guy's first movie, ari aster so this is what hereditary netflix should be doing with their amount of money they let everybody who make shitty movies we have to have electric state I still haven't seen me neither, but I saw it and I was like I remember when I saw the trailer and I was like, oh, this is the russo's. I wonder what their budget is.
Speaker 3:I'm like that was a Russo movie. Yeah, I think so. Oh my.
Speaker 1:God, and it's like a huge budget. I'm like no, it looks like poop. Eh yeah, so they catch up to R2-D2. R2-d2 is adamant that it needs to get to. Obi-wan Luke is attacked by Tusken Raiders. He is the hermit by meeting a weird yell like I put that down as a note.
Speaker 3:I never I was like that was his quirk, his Jedi quirk. I never realized he was screaming.
Speaker 1:He just like walks up. Sorry, I had a burrito earlier. I put extra jalapenos on. That's how Jedi's fart.
Speaker 3:I still love the family guy one. He's like it was like a chorus. He's like oh they all scared him away. It's like don't worry, they'll be back in greater numbers. Oh, that'll be great.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's gonna be a great show man I did think about while watching this.
Speaker 2:I watched that Family Guy the limp lightsaber yeah good if anybody sees Luke, come here that's my boy, I tell ya oh god, I own those still.
Speaker 1:I think they're up there behind the Mission Impossible thing.
Speaker 2:You know what my kids said? I asked them to watch this movie with me. I turned it on. They said oh, is that Lego Star Wars? I said no, and they're like oh, this looks stupid. Okay, see you, Hell, yeah. So two things.
Speaker 3:Way to go kids One. You already failed by not having them after this. That would explain the ball situation. You're the one that popped the girl's ball it was just out of hate.
Speaker 2:I couldn't help myself.
Speaker 1:It's just like an attack on the clones so Luke addresses him as Ben and says that the droid has been looking for Obi-Wan. Ben said I don't know why I started talking as Ben and says that the droid has been looking for Obi-Wan. Ben says I don't know why I started talking like that. Ben says that he is Obi-Wan but hasn't been addressed as that in a long time. No one's called me that in a long time. I'm Alec.
Speaker 3:Giggs, I love how, like all that stuff that happened to like Luke gets knocked out. 3po got his shit fucked up.
Speaker 1:I was like well, I can probably see why he doesn't like big adventures.
Speaker 3:He's like I get screwed over every time.
Speaker 1:I love this next bit because they're going to go with him and he's like, oh, where's the 3PO? And they go get him. He's like, just leave me. I can't keep going. It's like you're missing one arm.
Speaker 3:He was probably missing a lower half.
Speaker 1:But it's just something he's like I'll never make it. And it's like dude, you're a robot, they can just carry you.
Speaker 3:This is so dramatic. It's like you don't feel pain, bro, that cutaway when they pick him up and it transitions. It's like that was kind of good, just so you didn't have to show his naked body.
Speaker 1:It's like, go on without me. I'm done for now. His past as one of the Jedi Knights, former peacekeepers of the Galactic Republic for over a thousand generations, who drew mystical abilities from the Force but were hunted to near extinction by the Empire and because they completely forgot how to block blasters for some reason. Obi-wan explains that a Jedi receives his power from the Force, an energy field that is created by all living beings that surround us, penetrates us and binds us to the galaxy, like Wi-Fi that's 5G. But there is also a dark side of the Force, which draws power from negative motions and baser impulses and has cookies.
Speaker 3:Oh.
Speaker 1:Luke learns that his father, also a Jedi, fought alongside Obi-Wan during the Clone Wars until Vader, Obi-Wan's former pupil, turned the dark side of the Force and murdered him. Man, I wish we got a story about that, I know, and I bet. Guarantee you Darth Vader's not a Force baby in that one. I just guarantee it.
Speaker 3:Have you ever watched that one?
Speaker 3:That would be insane if that was real there's some person I mean there's a million on YouTube, but his was like a lot. He goes back and rewrites the trilogies and goes through like talks the whole movie out of what he would do different and I did that one day with like Revenge of the Sith some things I didn't like, but I think you would probably appreciate them a lot more than what he did, because it he's not. He's someone who's a, but not the fanboy. Wait, who was this? Some YouTuber? I don't remember his name. I'd have to find it again. I watched it years ago but I really liked what he had done.
Speaker 1:Did you ever hear about Topher Grace's recut of the prequels?
Speaker 3:I heard about it.
Speaker 1:I never got around to downloading and watching them. Yeah, me neither. If you ever download it, give me it File. Yeah, so then? Um yeah, what are we talking about? Oh yeah, then they're still talking about Darth Vader. Then he became the Dark Lord of the Sith, the most feared enforcer of the Emperor. In this capacity, he proceeded to hunt down his former comrades, and the Jedi Order is now all but extinct.
Speaker 3:I will say, of all the stuff, yeah.
Speaker 1:There'll be five more movies. Don't worry, baby.
Speaker 3:Is the stuff that's's like after Disney bought it. Some of the things that they've done right is the Vader comic, because there's this line in it where he's surrounded like in a canyon by like 30 people that said we have you surrounded, drop your weapon now. And his quote is he literally in the comic strip is no, all I'm surrounded by is fear and dead men oh my god, why whoever does these comics knows Vader, obviously. Why are they not helping with movies?
Speaker 2:in the Jedi video game, the one of the I can't remember what it's called, but like they. And when Darth Vader shows up at the end, everybody's like oh fuck, oh, that's Last Survivor, jedi, last Survivor. No, it's like Jedi. Yeah, that was the one before the. It's the first one of the.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, whatever yeah, the first one of the souls like version. That was badass yeah.
Speaker 2:Cal Kestis where you're running from the whole end of the game yeah, that's pretty great.
Speaker 3:We never get that because there was the one that Force Unleashed. Love those ones.
Speaker 1:Well, I like the first one I've never played them, I need to play them.
Speaker 3:Well, you just need to play the first one. Second one I have.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so Luke had been told by his uncle that his father, anakin, was a navigator on a spice freighter. That would have been such a nice job back in the day Spice dune. Obi-wan offers Luke his father's old lightsaber and energy sword the signature weapon of the Jedi and it fucking rules. Even in the first one it rules.
Speaker 3:One thing, even though that was the nice thing that they did.
Speaker 1:when they went back and like made some adjustments, they did make the lightsabers look way better. That's cool, because they were like they barely had color and they look kind of bad in the original, so it's nice to that.
Speaker 3:He did some good things, good, right. Did you notice, right, that, um, when he's using it, his eyes have that reflection in it? Oh really, I'm wondering if, because I was like, that looks very genuine I don't know if it's because it's so far away, but because you know they're just batons I'm like, how do they do that? One thing I really like about about which is interesting to say, is that Star Wars pre with doing just the batons and then adding the CGI later. I prefer that more than what they do now, which is like they have prop lightsabers that are generating real light, but it just doesn't look as good because you can tell it's like that's a toy that you're using.
Speaker 1:That's why I thought the sequel ones looked really good.
Speaker 3:Well, it was very noticeable in the obi-wan show between anakin and uh dude that I was looking at, like it's like all that lighting that they're using. They're using real lightsabers. Now I'm like I don't like either. They need to correct it more. I don't like it now. The sequels were fine because they were the sequels think weren't using the real lightsabers. Now they are now more in the spinoff crowd.
Speaker 1:Hey, Disney, if you're going to make TV shows, make them actually entertaining through every episode. And if you can't make six good episodes, just make like one or two good episodes, please. God, I'm so sick of Disney's crappy, shitty six miniseries.
Speaker 3:You had it so good with Mandalorian first two seasons, yeah, and then you fucked up with Boba Fett. You fucked up horrible. I still cannot think forget about that Obi-Wan scene where he's trying to hide in Leia under his cloak. I'm like, oh my God, this is so bad. I feel so bad for. Yeah, that's another thing. Stop, this is another toxic thing with him. Wait, they're just fucking actors.
Speaker 1:Leave them alone.
Speaker 3:Yeah, as much as I didn't like Rose. Jesus, fucking Christ, get the hell over it, yeah.
Speaker 1:So All right. R2-d2 plays Leia's full message in which she begs Obi-Wan to take the Death Star plans to Alderaan and give them to their father. A fellow veteran for analysis. Yeah, jimmy Smith, baby Jimmy Smith, that's who?
Speaker 2:Help me, obi-wan Kenobi, you're my only hope.
Speaker 1:That's who takes her. Just like and subscribe Bail Organa. That's Jimmy Smith. He's in like.
Speaker 3:Dexter.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Dexter, yeah, Love that actor and I love that. So we've seen the hologram a couple of times. The way that Mark Hamill is really good in those scenes whenever he first sees Leia, because like there's just such a sense of wonder on his face and he's like, it's just like, is there anything else?
Speaker 2:that hologram does or like you know, I don't know he's like gosh, he's so hot.
Speaker 1:I wish he was even though you know the text. There it's the adventure. It's come to him and he knows he can go on it. But he's like uncle Owen.
Speaker 2:I hope he's not a scale man there's a space babe out there with my name on it with no bra.
Speaker 1:Luke initially declines Obi-Wan's offer to accompany him to Alderaan and learn the ways of the Force. Meanwhile, aboard the Death Star Commander Grand Moff Tarkin who that actor was in like a lot of horror movies back in the day.
Speaker 3:Can we talk about how his face is shaped perfectly like an alien?
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's why he was in a lot of horror movies before. This Nice Guy looks like the zombie in what we Do in the Shadows.
Speaker 3:Oh it does, yeah, it does.
Speaker 1:So Grand Moff Tarkin tells his commanders that the Emperor has dissolved the Imperial Senate permanently and, with all the remnants of the old Republic, regional governors now have direct control over the territories. The Empire plans to use the Death Star to breed fear in the galaxy, but are afraid that the rebels might find a weakness in its defense and exploit it. One of the commanders disses the force in front of Vader and he force chokes the hell out of him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was sweet. But then the other guy was like, hey, let him go, Darth Vader. I feel like he would've been like just immediately turned around and blew his head off or something he respects.
Speaker 3:Tarkin Vader has no control.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was the thing you tell Vader to stop doing something I feel like he's going to kill you.
Speaker 1:He would have got a spanking from the Emperor.
Speaker 3:Well, Tarkin had a really close relationship with Palpatine and, since he became a little bitch, that he does listen to him, because he still follows orders, because this is just what he does.
Speaker 1:Jason, I find your lack of faith disturbing.
Speaker 3:I couldn't remember like a five sentence a five word sentence.
Speaker 1:That's ridiculous. I just literally I find your lack. Well, it's the rest of it. Luke and Obi-Wan find some charred Jawas and then race his home to check on his fam. He is left with no choice to join Obi-Wan after Imperial Stormtroopers murder his family no-transcript while searching for the droids. It's some dead as fuck. Skelemon, Fuck yeah. Also, Luke could have been a little sadder about it.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, he wanted to leave. He's way sadder when Obi-Wan dies. He's like yo. These people just took care of you from a baby.
Speaker 3:It's a baby. Everyone talks about that.
Speaker 1:Damn. What's Obi-Wan up to? I guess I'm freed up this afternoon.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like well, it's like you gotta need.
Speaker 3:Also one thing that sucks is that you can no longer enjoy marshmallows.
Speaker 1:That's true.
Speaker 3:Marshmallows, because you crisp them up. Yeah, you crisp them up. He gets flashbacks.
Speaker 2:Emperor, I'm calling Also fucking rules.
Speaker 1:How charred they are. That's sick, bro, like hell. Yeah, show me more of that in Star Wars. So Darth Vader is given the task to locate the Rebel Fortress before the Death Star is operational, darth Vader starts to interrogate Leia regarding the location of the Rebel base. Obi-wan says fuck your fam, let's party. Yeah, dude Seeking a way off the Isley Mos Eisley Spaceport, you'll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.
Speaker 3:And we will be here for the next 40 years.
Speaker 1:They fly in and a ton of shitty CGI creatures are around. It's so good. It's like just add the buildings. If you got to add something. We don't need lizards everywhere getting in the way of the camera.
Speaker 3:I hate it. I was like are we transitioning in a way? I don't lizards everywhere?
Speaker 1:getting in the way of the camera. I hated that. I was like are we transitioning away? I don't understand. It's crazy. It's literally blocking some shots.
Speaker 3:I'm hoping when they release that one it's like the original. Someone gets recording of it.
Speaker 1:I bet we will. I actually had a friend that had the very original VHSes so I got to watch it. That's why I was like I swear that Jabba thing, swear that java scenes. Yeah, maybe it's not. Um, I will say like I mean there are some small additions that would have worked. But man, this stuff doesn't. It's the, it builds out the city but it's like no, mos eisley just doesn't have anything. It's, we're a desert planet, it doesn't have to be bustling I kind of liked it.
Speaker 2:I liked all the bustling stuff. It shows that it's like a lived in place. Do you think like whenever? So after he does the Jedi mind trick on on the stormtrooper? Do you think after they left all the other ones were just looking at him like dude? What the fuck was?
Speaker 1:that he's obviously there's a George dude. I thought we were just playing a bit on him. We're all about to shoot him. I guess he did them all so I just looked it up.
Speaker 3:There's really four different versions of that java scene so there's one where he's talking to a hologram, then cg then, there's one where he's just talking to a guy, yeah that's the one I've seen see, I don't I still don't remember that scene with that guy.
Speaker 1:I feel like that's the one I saw in the movie, I don't know. Um, all right, but anyways. Obi-wan uses the force to hypnotize imperial stormtroopers and provide safe patches to the city Stormtrooper. Let me see your identification, obi-wan. You don't need to see the identification Stormtrooper we don't need to see your identification.
Speaker 3:Minkin.
Speaker 1:Obi, these aren't the droids we're looking for. These aren't the droids we're looking for. He can go about his business. You can go about your business. Your penis is a snake. You're eating worms, so they reach a tavern which is frequented by several space fighter pilots who would be willing to transport anything for the right fee. We get to see the beauty of Star Wars finally, with the creatures and the dope ass song.
Speaker 1:This when they go around and they just show all like the gross little guys. That's fun, and the fucking devils there, yeah, yeah, man, it's great. This is why I like Star Wars guys, that was fun.
Speaker 2:And the fucking devil's there, yeah, yeah, man, it's great. This is why I like Star Wars.
Speaker 3:There's even a guy that looks like a NASA astronaut hanging out. He's just like I don't know where I am, but I'm fucking digging it.
Speaker 1:I like how unfancy this place looks. It feels real. The problem with the Force Awakens when they go into the bar and it's supposed to be like oh, it's like Mos Eisley, but you look around, I'm like it's too. It doesn't feel grimy enough.
Speaker 3:Well, you know why? It's because that's also a thing at the Disney Resort.
Speaker 2:Yeah that's the shit I love that place.
Speaker 1:I want to go. I want to see my Star Wars. I liked it.
Speaker 2:I even went into the bar because you have to get like reservations to get into the bar. It was fun.
Speaker 3:So we did me and her were not me and my girlfriend.
Speaker 2:We were not comfortable.
Speaker 3:We had to sit with people and they were like trying to talk and I was like I'm already like at my limit for people because of this crowd I don't want to talk. I'd already been drinking tequila heat.
Speaker 2:You open?
Speaker 1:the bottle. He is the heat.
Speaker 2:Ooh, we need to do heat Put it in your water bottle to carry around with you.
Speaker 1:So Obi-Wan makes contact with a Wookiee named Chewbacca. You gonna do the noise? Oh shit, you put me on the spot. I just feel like you're gonna do it. Oh, I don't know. I just feel like you would do it. I just knew it. There's something about Jason. What is like he can do Chewbacca.
Speaker 3:I can't. I have no idea how to do it. I'm sure it ties back into his like we'll find out some random things. Yeah, back when I was in the military I did this and I ran into someone who's a Chewbacca.
Speaker 2:So they did put Jedi just for shits and giggles, and I did that and then my third year in military they removed that. So you had to pick between the major religions.
Speaker 3:I couldn't be a.
Speaker 2:Jedi.
Speaker 3:There's like 10,000 of the major religions.
Speaker 2:But there was only like four that you could pick from.
Speaker 3:Which is what Buddhist?
Speaker 1:Hindu, but when you picked one, it made you a better soldier, right? Obviously, yeah, okay, good, see, that's why they did it. I want you to kill in the name of something, please.
Speaker 3:Flying spaghetti monster. Hell yeah, dude so.
Speaker 1:Luke gets pushed around by a bug and a pig-faced looking guy. He doesn't like you, I don't like you either.
Speaker 3:I love how he says.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry, I don't like you either. They attack him in Obi-Wan, but Obi-Wan makes quick work and hits him with his lightsaber and cuts off his hand Hell yeah.
Speaker 3:And the first time we think lightsabers don't cauterize, yeah.
Speaker 1:It leaves blood. So they're going to hire Han Solo baby, harrison Ford. They're going to hire him for 10,000 credits, a smuggler indebted to a local mobster, jabba the Hutt, for a passage to Alderaan. Luke knows that for that kind of money they can buy their own ship, he claims. Han claims that his ship, the Millennium Falcon, made the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs and can outrun Imperial starships. Obi-wan offers to pay 2,000 credits up Free to meet in Bay 94. Yeah, he's immediately a movie star when you see him on screen. Hot as fuck.
Speaker 3:He used to be a carpenter as well.
Speaker 2:Han Ooh, he works with his hands.
Speaker 3:That's why he's Han.
Speaker 1:And it turns out, he's not a good pilot in real life.
Speaker 3:Can't stop crashing planes Did he do that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's like crashed like a plane like three different times, or a helicopter.
Speaker 2:He was a helicopter pilot.
Speaker 1:No, he has like a little, you know those small little planes. I don't know why. Does this make you feel better?
Speaker 2:No, I'm doing the little hand movements.
Speaker 1:So Han hangs back to take care of their bar tab and is stopped by Greedo, a bounty hunter working for feared crime lord Jabba, aka Jabba the Hutt I didn't say his actual name, didn't need to say that, okay.
Speaker 3:The Hutts.
Speaker 1:Apparently Jabba had hired Han to transport a shipment of like glitter, stem spice or whatever, but Han had to dump the shipment due to unexpected Imperial boarding. As Greedo points a blaster at Solo, han insists that he has the 8,000 credits he needs to cover for the loss. Greedo suggests that Solo give it to him as a bribe not to turn him over to Jabba, forcing Han to admit that he doesn't actually have any money. Yet Solo quietly removes his heavy pistol under the table and preemptively fires and kills him McClunky On his way out. Han throws the bartender a few coins, apologizes for the mess because he's a badass.
Speaker 3:And we all agree Han shot first, Yep.
Speaker 1:Fucking better McClunky dude.
Speaker 2:How do you not like these movies?
Speaker 3:Was that a caption that came up when he said that? No, he says McClunky out loud.
Speaker 1:I could not hear it. Do you watch these movies?
Speaker 3:bro, do not get on right now. That's why you have so many bad opinions about them. You can't remember anything.
Speaker 1:I could go on the whole movie right now.
Speaker 3:Clay, is this the mind probe? The mind probe is just a droid coming in with a fucking syringe.
Speaker 2:It's like hey, bitch, give me that brain.
Speaker 1:Hold still. So get this mosquito out. Yeah, so Leia resists the mind probe and gives nothing to Darth Vader, and he's like I can't believe she could do that, bro. As the Death Star becomes operational, moff turns it towards Alderaan, where Leia was headed and her diplomatic ship in the first place. At the docking bay, han is confronted by Jabba the Hutt and just a terrible looking scene.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what makes me think that I do not remember this scene at all is because they repeat the same lines that he was just talking to Greedo about.
Speaker 1:Like Greedo's, like we don't need a ship commander, but this is when we first see a Mandalorian in the background.
Speaker 3:This is why I thought we I don't remember Boba Fett in the first one at all. I remember him strictly being. So. Now I'm like what's happening? What mandala effect is happening to me? Somebody?
Speaker 1:look it up while I talk.
Speaker 3:I do like how he stepped on his tail that was fun.
Speaker 2:That is funny. He's like ugh.
Speaker 1:No, it looks god awful guys, it like it the physics?
Speaker 3:No, it's just funny, it looks the physics looks terrible.
Speaker 1:He's like bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop. It's like. And then you.
Speaker 2:And then he walks up to the ship and he says you're a good human being, jabba. Is that supposed to be a cut a?
Speaker 1:dig on Jabba. I think it's supposed to be, but originally it was because it was a human being that he's talking to, but I feel like he keeps it in because it's like, oh it's funny, like I don't mind the line.
Speaker 3:Maybe it wasn't.
Speaker 1:I still can't tell you know what. This is actually a great moment if you know if the human version was actually in the original, because you can remember that far and you weren't a child. Um, okay, well, never mind, but still leave us a comment it says, lucas cut the scene.
Speaker 3:But when preparing the special edition of the film in the 1990s he inserted a cgi model into that sequence, completely obscuring mahalan's performance. So that scene was filmed. But he, because he said right here, he felt like it didn't add to the plot so it was originally not in there, I believe. Cool.
Speaker 1:So why add it back? It doesn't.
Speaker 3:Well, there's a lot he added in there. We didn't Because everyone just wants more More.
Speaker 1:It could have been like five minutes less, so yeah. So Jabba expresses frustration over Greedo's death and reminds Han that he cannot spare who fell or cross him, lest he appears weak. Han insists that he will soon have enough money to pay off the debt. Blah, blah, blah, blah. Jabba, you're a wonderful human being. Yeah, he totally had all three planned, because he called him a human being, so he obviously didn't so Luke sells his land.
Speaker 2:You're a wonderful slug man.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So Luke sells his land speeder to raise money for their initial payment to Captain Solo. They head to the docking bay. Lucas Worre discovers that the Falcon is a 60-year-old rundown freighter, but Han assures him that he has made extensive modifications to ensure that she can run rings around any modern capital ship. And it's the best spaceship in all movies. Yep, it is.
Speaker 3:I love seeing that when you go to Disney. It's sick as fuck, and apparently I missed out because the ship lights up at night at disney, but it because we got there when they would open and spend all day. So it's okay, we can fuck out of here. You're so tired yeah and same for the avatar place apparently all lit up and look great yeah, that place is cool at night, but I'm also like I don't care about avatar like this.
Speaker 2:I really it is cool as hell like especially if you get stoned to go in there well, I feel like you could easily repurpose the that's a good idea.
Speaker 1:Actually, I feel like I tell all Jason's stories.
Speaker 3:I mean.
Speaker 2:Well, I wasn't, but there were people smoking weed like right next to us. Hell yeah, that's the best place on Earth.
Speaker 3:You could easily convert the Avatar place into like Kashyyyk, if they ever focused on that place.
Speaker 2:But if you ever get caught smoking weed, you get banned forever.
Speaker 3:So you have to be careful, so just smoke it before you go in.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. So they're being pursued by stormtroopers who were informed by the local spies about the location of the droids Luke Obi-Wan, R2-D2, and C-3PO Lee Tatooine with Han and his Wookiee co-pilot, Chewbacca. Good job. On their ship, the Millennial Falcon, they are pursued by an Imperial cruiser. Han manages to jump to light speed before they can be caught. This is where the fun begins. Hope you enjoy hearing that A jump through hyperspace is dangerous as with the wrong calculations, one could travel through a star or supernova and end up dead. Great shot of the. I love when the shot of the millennial Falcons like leaving Tatooine and you get the shot behind the storm troopers and they're just looking up and it's like this was made in 77.
Speaker 3:Looks great. And then they added CGI. That works. Looks worse than the stuff that's currently in there.
Speaker 1:It looks so good when it leaves. It's like it's just it's because they, you know, they filmed it like like a golden hour, so just everything looks amazing. Yeah, oh yeah, like golden hour. So just everything looks amazing. Yeah, oh yeah. So before the Falcon reaches Alteron, the Death Star Commander, grand Moff Tarkin, has the planet obliterated by the station's gigantic laser. Moff wants to demonstrate the power of the Death Star on Leia's home planet, even though she begs that Alteron is peaceful and has no weapons. Moff would have spared the planet if Leia reveals the name of the rebel base. Leia reveals the name of the rebel base. Leia does name Dantooine, but Moff destroys Alderaan regardless, as Dantooine is too far to make an effective demonstration. Hell yeah, um then, yeah, I just want to keep going because I can't well anyways the planet blown up.
Speaker 1:Fucking sick brother it was cool.
Speaker 2:It looked like a little cotton candy.
Speaker 3:I feel like that set the stakes for a lot of movies, because it's like, oh yeah, we got, we destroyed a town, but they just blew up a fucking plant and George was like everybody's, like I hope we keep making round bases.
Speaker 1:So yeah, Obi-Wan senses a disturbance in the force the moment Alderaan is destroyed.
Speaker 3:He's like, oh I thought I was having a heart attack.
Speaker 1:It was just the force. It's okay. On the way Obi-Wan starts training Luke on the use of the lightsaber Chewbacca is about to lose a chess game to R2-D2. C-3po's like, don't fucking win.
Speaker 3:R2. Might want to try a different tactic.
Speaker 1:And then like Chewbacca it's the last time, I promise. Okay, I just love that. Like Chewbacca, like he just like leans back in his chair, like yeah, I bet you fucking won. It's great. Suck my furry balls.
Speaker 1:Han does not believe in the force. Obi-wan demonstrates the existence of the force when Luke is able to defeat a training bot with all the senses blocked. But by plugging into the Force. Han hokey. Religions and ancient weapons are not a good match for a blaster at your side, are not, as are not a good match for a blaster at your side. Kid Luke, you don't believe in the Force, do ya?
Speaker 3:you just learned about it, like 12 hours ago.
Speaker 1:Kid. I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other. I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen anything to make me believe that there's one all-powerful force controlling everything. There's no mystical energy field that controls my destiny. Anyway, it's all about simple tricks and nonsense. Probably didn't have to do all that. Okay, Chewbacca, calm down. Yeah, okay, Chewbacca calm down. Yeah, that was good, the real question we need to know Chewbacca.
Speaker 3:Is it like a red rocket, like a dog?
Speaker 1:I feel like it has to be. Yeah, I don't think they have penises. Oh yeah, they lay eggs that it's like platypuses.
Speaker 3:That would make sense.
Speaker 1:I just thought it was weird whenever they all decided to start to shave down there. No way it decided to start to shave down there. It's like after the 70s, they all just started shaving Because everyone got called Chewbacca bitch over here. So Moff Invader learned that Leia lied about the rebel base.
Speaker 3:I love they're like no way what she lied. So stupid Invader's like yeah, you fucking idiot.
Speaker 1:It's just so funny. They're like we didn't think she could lie.
Speaker 3:Cause he was sitting here. He's like, okay, well, we're going to go to base, Go ahead and kill her. It's like no, dude, double check.
Speaker 1:Did she not know that she was talking to men? Like I'm so confused. Women aren't allowed to do that in space sevent. See man women. Have women had a rough in a galaxy far, far away Long time?
Speaker 2:ago as well.
Speaker 1:So, upon arrival, the Falcon is captured by the Death Star, which is a small moon, they're like. Is that a moon?
Speaker 3:No, that's a I thought that might be one of their quotes.
Speaker 1:What I was like that's no moon, that's no moon and they're getting like tractor beamed in Luke. Luke says I have a very bad feeling about this, won't hear that ever again, um, uh. But there is like this great line, um, by obi-wan. It's like, uh, because they're like. They're like we can't fight and he's like you can't win, but they're all there are alternatives to fighting. And it's great because he's going to sacrifice himself later and it allows them to get away last jedi. So the ship is identified as the same as the one that escaped the Mos Eisley, and Darth Vader believes that they were beginning to bring the plans to the Death Star, to Alderaan. He also feels something he hasn't felt in a long time An erection.
Speaker 3:So funny because like he sits there and he's like something I haven't felt and I was like you could have delayed a little bit longer, he's like I haven't felt Immediate turn away.
Speaker 1:I've got to go put on different clothes. He's a man of business, puts his travel paper in front of his door.
Speaker 3:I've got to poop and you know what it's like trying to poop and getting all that stuff off here.
Speaker 1:Got to put in my breathing mask on and I had Taco.
Speaker 3:Bell earlier. I need to get going.
Speaker 1:No lava sauce, though no, so the group. They're going to escape inside the Death Star by hiding under the floorboards of the ship and making it look like they jettisoned from the ship using the escape pods, and they're going to infiltrate the station by dressing up as Imperial men and stormtroopers and then they get into the communication station. We had the imagination station in Telehama, don't they not? Did they have?
Speaker 2:like a getting dressed montage that they had to cut out.
Speaker 1:I do love that. It's like luckily they weren't watching the ship that closely because they obviously had to run out to attack those guys. But it's great, I love all this. It's wonderful, it's fun, feels like an adventure, yeah, like it's. It's real, like spy stuff, which I guess is the kind of the James Bond-y thing here, and it's just also. Some of the funniest and like best quotes from the entire movie are in this, this section here. So R2-D2 hacks into the computer system and figures out out the schematics of the. He did some chopping motions, oh, and we thought that was hilarious.
Speaker 3:It's been damn R2.
Speaker 1:As Obi-Wan leaves to disable the tractor boom R2-D2, locates Leia on the ship. The force will be with you Always, damn, just like Harry Potter, always. Okay, is it? Jk Rowling is problematic Is this thing on always okay, is it?
Speaker 1:JK Rowling is problematic, is this thing on? So Luke persuades Han and Chewbacca to help him rescue Leia, who is scheduled for execution after refusing to reveal the location of the rebel base. Luke says that Leia is the one on the message and so must be someone important. Han is only convinced when Luke says that Leia is a princess and the message and so must be someone important. Han is only convinced when Luke says that Leia is a princess and is likely to be rich and will reward Han handsomely. Unfortunately, then he got dollar signs on his eyes. Gotta talk his language.
Speaker 3:All her money gone. Yep, she poor now.
Speaker 2:So, han and Luke, she be stripping in the evenings.
Speaker 1:Well, in the third movie, Han and Luke disguise as stormtroopers, with Chewie as their prisoner.
Speaker 2:That's why you kept printing that movie, you horny bastard. I was really young, you horny bastard.
Speaker 1:I didn't understand. I was actually more attracted to Jabba. Yeah, so as they get to, so they address as their prisoner Chewie's a prisoner as they're going to go to Leia's location, vader can sense a presence on the Death Star that he's not felt since the presence of his previous master. Um Chewie, luke and Han um deceive some security. Uh, they like essentially just like just shoot him up, take him out, um, and then you get like one of the best bits in the entire movie. They're like Han's answering an intercom after commandeering an attack on the station. Everything's under control. Situation normal Voice. What happened? We had a slight weapons malfunction, but everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now. Thank you, how are you? We're sending up a squad, negative, negative. We have a reactor leak here now, so give us a few minutes and then it just shoots the thing. What is your number?
Speaker 3:Uh, it's a boring conversation.
Speaker 1:Anyways, I just like it's so um Kasdan, uh, lawrence Kasdan, who wrote most of uh the movie with George and he directed the next one. He said that's his favorite, his favorite thing he's ever written for the Star Wars movies.
Speaker 1:He says it's his best thing he's done. That's funny, so yeah. So then Luke, he finds Leia. She's like aren't you a little small to be a stormtrooper? She shoots her because don't talk back, lady, just kidding. Then Leia comes along when she hears Obi-Wan is with the group, because you know she's just thinking like who are you, I don't want to go with you. This is going to be weird. He reports to Moff that oh Vader reports to Moff that Obi-Wan is on the Death Star, which Moff can't believe as the Jedi are extinct. Well, dude, he didn't even think people could lie a second ago.
Speaker 2:This isn't that crazy.
Speaker 1:As reinforcements arrive, the group is forced to take a different route back through the garbage chute, but they drop into a garbage masher which starts to close in after being attacked by a garbage monster Big, veiny tentacle.
Speaker 3:I love all that thing. It just added more like it's funny, it's on a ship and you got this weird like creature that you just wouldn't think would be alive.
Speaker 1:That's funny, because when I was watching this time I was like this is kind of an awkward scene. We're just taking a really long time for some reason here, but I loved it as a kid.
Speaker 2:Like the rats on every ship. It might have been just the way I was feeling this morning.
Speaker 1:I don't know. But I also love we also get. This is where we get. I got a bad feeling about this. I promise we won't get this anymore in any other movies. We've already heard it twice in one. I love Han and Leia's chemistry. They're immediately like a bickering couple. It's like either I'm ready to kill her or I'm beginning to like her. They have babies together and it's just like true love exists, except it doesn't, Because you know they got a divorce eventually.
Speaker 1:So C-3PO manages to pick up a communications unit. When stormtroopers come into the control room, they do not recognize them as the escapee droids. This is where you get the classic trooper bonk the stormtrooper bonks his head.
Speaker 3:You got a gonk in here and then bonk.
Speaker 1:Bonk. So, using the communications unit, c-3po gets into contact with Luke and with R2-D2 in the control room. They disable the garbage monster Masher. Um. The group celebrates while C3PO thinks it's uh.
Speaker 3:Screams of terror, I love it, it's all my fault, it's all my fault.
Speaker 1:I can't believe it. I'm such an idiot for not thinking. Maybe I should communicate with him. Um Han and Leia, uh uh, bicker some more and eventually the two groups reach the hangar where the falcon is being kept. After fighting, more stormtroopers um han running after the stormtrooper, hold it right and then he sees like it's so funny and good.
Speaker 1:Um, so then darth vader follows uh the force and finds obi-wan on the death star. After disabling all the tractor beams, obi-wan sacrifices himself in a lightsaber duel against vader. Obi-wan vanishes into thin air before darth vader's lightsaber hits him. He's striking me down. I will become more powerful than you can imagine. And uh uh, luke's like way sad about it I love how vader was like.
Speaker 3:I'm just double check here. What the fuck was that?
Speaker 1:yeah, he just starts kicking it like he like.
Speaker 3:I don't remember hitting him because there should be a body here.
Speaker 1:It's like if they did a parody now he'd just start peeing on his coat. So y'all don't like the lightsaber battle.
Speaker 2:It's like two timid people with very pokey sticks trying not to hit each other too hard.
Speaker 3:I always have the joke. It's like remember back when we used to be able to do flips and stuff. It's like yeah, and it's just like, oh yeah, that's because he didn't know he was gonna have him do all these.
Speaker 1:Maybe he didn't really want to hurt his wacky flips.
Speaker 3:Well, I know that someone came out I don't know if he ever finished it and he redid the prequel stuff. But they can move more. That's like more accurate, to like how they would be at that age. That's fun. Why does like it?
Speaker 1:I mean you know, since everybody, just you know, just thinks in their head it's like oh, this is why this is happening.
Speaker 2:I mean, it's two masters going at it and they they're kind of timid and don't want to like playing chess. Yeah, yeah, kind of.
Speaker 1:You just say it's like that.
Speaker 3:But it's very slow chess.
Speaker 1:They just didn't have enough money for stunt doubles Okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, reading each other's, I like it. I think there's a lot.
Speaker 1:There's a lot of story in the slow battle, yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean it's cool, it's time to talk, catch up.
Speaker 1:Well, no, I mean in just because you really get to see the actor's faces acting, except for the guy in the mask, of course. How's your wife Heartbreak? So Obi-Wan's sacrifice allows the rest of the group to escape the Death Star. Then we hear when a voice from the sky instructs Luke to escape. The Falcon fights off the TIE Fighters First time we're really seeing TIE Fighters. I got one Greatest noise for a ship ever. It's the best. So, using a tracking device on the Falcon, the Empire locates the robot base on the fourth moon around the planet. Yavin Leia informs Han that R2-D2 is carrying the technical specifications of Death Star. Han doesn't care about any of the rebellion and just wants the money. I love it, Princess Leia. It's not over yet, Han. It is for me. Sister, Look, I ain't in this for your revolution. I'm not in it for you, princess. I expect you, I expect to be well paid. I'm in it for the money, princess. You don't need, you needn't to worry about your reward. The money is all that you love. Then that's what you'll receive.
Speaker 2:Luke's like stop talking to my really hot sister like that no, he had it all planned.
Speaker 1:Jesus Christ for a moment. It looks like both Luke and Han are interested in Leia, though, cause like she walks off and they're like I'm gonna do her, not you game on.
Speaker 3:We gotta keep our bloodline pure, keep that force strong, like it's such a great load.
Speaker 1:You know like no one really talks about like that little moment there, but it's such a great moment of like they're friends, everybody's kind of together here you got like this budding romance between one of these two people. Honestly, yeah, I'd watch it. So the group lands on the planet and we see X-Wings for the first time. They also look rad. So analysis of the captured Death Star schematics reveals a hidden weakness in a small exhaust port two meters wide, leading directly to the station's reactor. Two meters, yeah.
Speaker 3:That makes two meters. I love the robot chickens where they're talking.
Speaker 2:It's like, hey, should we get rid of this exhaust port?
Speaker 3:They explain it later.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they had to make a whole movie about it.
Speaker 3:They literally did.
Speaker 1:It's like hey you know what Don't really need it because, it doesn't matter, it's okay. We don't have to have everything Put like a cover over it or something.
Speaker 3:Hey, that was a good movie though it's fine, you don't like. Rogue One, it's fine.
Speaker 1:Sometimes I watch it and I'm like it's great, but mainly I just think it's visually great. Sometimes I'm like it's kind of boring. I've watched it.
Speaker 1:It has been. Sometimes I watch it and I'm like, oh, that's pretty good. And sometimes I watch it and I'm like, alright, like let's end this. I don't know, but there's some good parts in it and some parts that I'm just like whatever. So a precise hit will start a chain reaction that will destroy the station. After collecting his reward by rescuing Leia, Han leaves the rebels to pay off Jabba. Luke wants them to stay. Han calls to fight a suicide suicide mission. Then tells look, luke, may the force be with you.
Speaker 3:Um I'm one with the force the forces with me.
Speaker 1:I'm one with the force. The forces with me that's not cool. No, oh my god, it was lame, oh my god dude yeah out of here, I mean, I think, that actor was good and like his, fighting was pretty good, but I was just like the chant, just I'm like it doesn't work for me.
Speaker 2:It sounds silly, yeah, uh, so I love all these the pilots that they picked to the fight.
Speaker 1:They're all fucking so weird yeah it's like what are these george's friends? Probably they all look like such 70s, like background actors.
Speaker 2:That's what's great about it madeline was watching this scene with me. She, she's like why do they sound like family guy? I was like I don't know, Probably because they're from Rhode Island or something, yeah.
Speaker 1:So Leia kisses Luke for the second time in the movie and Luke sees an old friend, biggs. The Rebels plan their attack on the Death Star as they detect it's approaching towards their moon. Luke joins the Rebels X-Wing squadron of 30 ships, with R2-D2 installed on his own X-Wing fighter, in a desperate attack against the approaching Death Star, which will begin within range and will be within range in 15 minutes. So essentially, this is the end of the movie and then, assuming battle, vader leads a squadron of TIE fighters. Well, so Luke and all them start fighting. They're able to like to go around. Their ships are too small for our turbo lasers.
Speaker 2:That's what this battle station is like.
Speaker 3:Like you guys really didn't think about that. It's like I mean realistically they would. You couldn't have some little Ewoks out there with some slingshots?
Speaker 1:They would realistically probably have like a thousand TIE fighters flying around just to make sure nothing gets near them. But budget right, what can you do? Um, but yeah, and they're, they're having some success, but they just keep missing the hole.
Speaker 2:It should put some low flow toilets in there. Yeah, but what?
Speaker 1:I love? Is that vader's like? Fuck it, I'm out here now and he's got like a weirder tie fighter. That also looks rad that's the one I played in like uh, when you the battlefront 2 play, playstation 2, one always loved using that one. Or like the Rogue One game, rogue Squadron I think that was yeah, that was sick. I think we can get that on our little Mii U Mini, I think. I think that was a PlayStation 1 game.
Speaker 1:Yeah, something like that but so, anyways, vader leads a squadron of TIE fighters against the Rebels and they suffer heavy losses. Vader personally thwarts several rebel attempts to hit the exhaust port with a photon torpedoes. Luke is on the last run before the death star will be in range of the rebel base. So I had this pin right and like if I it was like a multi pin, every time I would click one color. It'd say a line from star Wars. My favorite one was I can't shake them. I would just be like doing homework, shake them. So I would just be like doing homework, just like I can't shake them. I can't shake them. I just remember mom's like stop, I can't remember what the other ones were. I just I wore out that I can't get ready porkins um, but imagine me that guy outside it's like what's my character's name?
Speaker 2:porkins? He's like that's a little on the nose, isn't it? Yeah, he's eating Cheetos.
Speaker 1:And everything looks like it's all going to be lost. Luke's all alone, but then yahoo. Mario shows up Haunted Chewbacca unexpectedly returned to aid them in the Falcon, knocking Vader's ship off course. Before he can shoot Luke down, guided by the voice of Obi-Wan's spirit, luke uses the force and switches off the onboard computer to aim his torpedoes into the exhaust port, causing the Death Star to explode moments before it can fire on the rebel base. Obi-wan's spirit reminds Luke that the force will always be with him and also with you.
Speaker 2:It was kind of funny, like when he first started talking in his head he almost crashed because he got distracted. I don't know if that's really what happened.
Speaker 1:If this was made in a galaxy far away around the time about now, I'd just be like texting.
Speaker 2:It's like hold on Texting while driving.
Speaker 1:Darth Vader runs into the Death Star, it's like damn.
Speaker 2:Somebody take his license away. Porkins gets pulled over by a cop.
Speaker 1:Hold on. Let me finish this YouTube video. He's going through Carl's Jr in space. Oh, but it's great they did it. You know, it's just like it's just a small little thing, but like they shot it so well and it looks so good, it's crazy, it was awesome. Like the space looks good. You can tell that it's like a different background, but it's like whatever, I don't know it fucking goes I don't know. I love this. This is like bootstrap filmmaking.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, it makes me feel like I can do it I was so excited when han comes in and fighting like blast those other dudes I was just like I just feel his chill in my spine.
Speaker 1:Yes, just watch it at night everybody's sleeping you're like what I love is also han's.
Speaker 3:Like you know, I don't care about all these other people who die.
Speaker 1:Let me go help my boy out real quick exactly dude, it's a, b Hans Solo, he was just like hmm, we'll get on. Leia was kind of cute. I'd like to lay her it's like also maybe like Luke doesn't look that bad. They kind of look related. But you know, chewie's like give me some of that R2-D2.
Speaker 3:But anyways, the gang they land.
Speaker 1:They're all celebrating. They're a big, happy family. It's great. And in a triumphant ceremony, leia awards Luke and Han medals of their heroism. And you know what? I don't care about cleavage. Who got medals?
Speaker 2:yeah, my god do you think any of the other people in the audience are like why the fuck are they getting medals?
Speaker 1:Yeah, because did R2-D2 and C-3PO get medals? No, without them, none of this happens.
Speaker 3:Did Leia get a medal?
Speaker 1:No, she's the fucking like leader of the whole group. Those are the people that should also be getting medals, though Chewie should have gotten one. But it's also a fantasy movie and okay, we, we really just look at the wrong things, but if you care, I get it. It's fun of Star Wars. It's like it's like see here, it's just like don't make them like change movies, because anyways, that's Star Wars. It's a perfect film. Hate, everybody says it's great second best one hate.
Speaker 3:Everybody says it's boring. You'd love what a girlfriend says she hates the old ones, like they're so boring I don't trust any opinion jibber has about anything that's awesome, I mean the same thing.
Speaker 1:So let's do our first category the good, the bad, the ugly, the fine. It's where we discuss the good of the film, something we like. The bad, something we didn't like. The ugly, something that didn't age well. The fine, something that did age well. Who wants to start with the good shit, don't do me.
Speaker 2:I'm about to say, like all of it uh, I don't know, it was cool to watch again after I hadn't seen it, probably since I was like 12 or something really, really, yeah, oh man, I watch these like every couple of years it's been like probably since Rise of Skywalker, since I watched them.
Speaker 1:No, that's absolutely untrue.
Speaker 2:I did kind of enjoy watching to see what was different, even though some of them didn't track, but still cool.
Speaker 1:I like just the imagination man yeah, it was awesome, great story.
Speaker 3:People had it bring back broke people trying to make movies. Yeah, Bring back that fire that people had. Give me movies that feel like movies again. Then we got Rebel Moon. I couldn't even get past the first 20 minutes so I was so damn bored in it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and also obviously the good is, just you know the models and uh uh models and stuff.
Speaker 2:It's awesome, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:No, just like you know miniatures and things like that.
Speaker 2:It looks really great.
Speaker 1:It's just an inspirational movie for filmmakers.
Speaker 2:And it was. It was fun to just um notice something new about it that I didn't remember, you know? Yeah, I think that's it.
Speaker 3:It gives you to go back and when you watch a bunch of like, when you're watching newer movies, then you go back and watch one of these. It's like why does it feel like these are just like? Always makes you wonder. It's like is it my old man goggles?
Speaker 2:just having nostalgia, it just feels like a warm hug.
Speaker 3:Or is this like watching something and appreciating movies on a different level than you can?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I did think Princess Leia was so much hotter now than when I was that age in this movie.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've always been a big Honda.
Speaker 2:You see people with dance routines. I saw a dance routine of this girl wearing the gold bikini with a big Jabba on stage behind her. His mouth was moving to the words of a song while she was doing a sexy little dance.
Speaker 1:The influence this thing had. Dude, that fucking goes. That's ridiculous. Um, alright, um, the bats should be pretty easy. Uh, did you do your good did?
Speaker 3:you have anything else. This is the cultural influence and what it has like done and I'm just enjoying like the view, yeah, movies in general with it, because this one can really stand. I feel like if it was a one-off it could, it could stand that yeah, still be its own thing, oh yeah, um the bad nothing, the CG, I like it all the CG additions later on.
Speaker 1:Shit uh well, yeah, I got that. My ugly uh adding see adding bad CG to oh yeah.
Speaker 3:I got my ugly um anything else for bad, the bad just no, I mean no, yeah, not really for me.
Speaker 1:I got the ugly and it was Star Wars becoming a product, not a vision. I'll go with that, my ugly is the fandom yeah it's like I hate saying that because you know there are good fans. You know it's not. I hate saying that because you know there are good fans. You know it's not all of them, it's just the loud ones the ones who make the most noise get the most attention.
Speaker 3:yeah, but the thing you can't say it's like not the whole fandom, but when you have a strong enough majority that the guy who played young Anakin had to go, like it fucked with him mentally, like for years he had to go through. He went through a lot because of the shit that they like. Just talked constantly and did everything.
Speaker 1:Yeah, right, guys no good.
Speaker 3:Christopher Lloyd, right yeah something like that.
Speaker 1:yeah, what do you got for ugly?
Speaker 2:Doesn't seem like there's any brown people in space.
Speaker 3:Not until the sequel, don't worry.
Speaker 2:Well, if this, just this one.
Speaker 1:And don't worry, you get. We get the brown person and he betrays the white people.
Speaker 3:Don't worry yeah. Years later when we get the sequels, we got a brown person who was supposed to be a main character gets sidelined to nothing else but saying Ray.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but you know, that was just something I noticed, Like I just I remember that all the other movies kind of they do, and but this, this one, I don't think. I don't think I remember seeing a single non-white person in the whole movie.
Speaker 1:It's pretty wild, or?
Speaker 2:whatever they got aliens.
Speaker 1:I think they're supposed to be the Tusken Raiders and they're not done very well in this oh boy talk about no snake. Okay, so for the fine, I put actors in the music. It's all great.
Speaker 3:Yes, john Williams, man yeah.
Speaker 1:A legend.
Speaker 2:Didn't they change the person who does the music, whatever that's called, from the very composer, huh the composer, Didn't they change from the very beginning, like after the first 30 minutes?
Speaker 1:to a different composer. Well, they had an original composer and they didn't like anything he was doing, so they brought in a little known guy named Williams.
Speaker 3:I got sad the other day. It was like oh, john Williams showed up at this place like a music thing, school, whatever and the comment was like I was not anticipating to see him in a wheelchair and I was like, oh my God, he's that old, we can't lose him.
Speaker 1:He's our last one. Dude's old All right, can't lose him. He's our last one. Dude's old alright. That's that category. We're gonna head to double feature. Sorry, our dog is getting riled up so we're trying to land this let's talk about the what we're landing this falcon as fast as possible so double feature a movie that you recommend to go along with this? Mine was guardians of the galaxy.
Speaker 3:it is modern day Star Wars, hell yeah, I forgot about this part, so give me a moment.
Speaker 1:It's okay, you don't have anything. You don't have anything. Say Star Trek, piss everybody off.
Speaker 3:Shit. I don't like Star Trek you got anything, jason, maybe Spaceballs.
Speaker 1:Spaceballs yes I haven't seen that one in forever. It's funny, it still holds up. I watched it recently. I mean there's long portions of it where you're like this is bad, we're jokes yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I do remember that. I hate it because we did it, but Dune would be my recommendation.
Speaker 2:Hell yeah, man, it's perfect been done.
Speaker 1:but getting a lot on here. It's like a cool, a weird space. That's what happens, yeah, movie idea yeah, um, all right. So that's our discussion on star wars a new hope. I hope you enjoyed it. We did. This was a long episode and it's great. We had so much fun and I hope you did too, and I hope we didn't complain too much at the beginning. But it's hard to do with star wars. It's just what you do, and of course, me and Dakota was gonna do it a little bit. I tried to like stop it when I knew it was gonna go on just keep going.
Speaker 3:I don't think people understand the level of like how many times are both our women the second we bring up the Last Jedi we have talked about for years? If he ever does an episode where it's just discuss the Last Jedi, it will probably be so fucking long.
Speaker 1:Let's see About eight more years.
Speaker 2:That's how long it's going to take to finish all the movies.
Speaker 1:Well, because if I do one a year, I may do like I may like later this year do Empire Strikes Back.
Speaker 3:I don't know. That one, I would say, would just be more of like a commentary episode Maybe.
Speaker 1:January. I'll just do all the prequels in just one month to get them out of the way. Well, I think that'll be our negative year if you want.
Speaker 3:I mean, long episodes really suck, but you could do like a part one, part two if you wanted to do, because I always thought you could do prequels one bunch. We're going to talk about all this in one go.
Speaker 1:Nah, we do one maybe at a time. That's how I'm going to do it. That's how this podcast works. Baby, I'm being attacked, all right, so join us next week, because we're going to do a Nicolas Cage John Travolta classic. That's on.
Speaker 3:Peacock, right now, face off.
Speaker 1:Face off.
Speaker 3:Oh my God, I cannot wait. That's on Peacock right now. Yeah.
Speaker 1:I have to watch that, let's fucking go oh man no, you can, I don't care.
Speaker 3:That's what you need. Someone sitting here while you're trying to watch a movie has done. Come on, it's so good.
Speaker 1:And also, when you watch it this time, pay attention to how good of an actor John Travolta is. He literally does a great job at becoming Nicolas Cage. Nicolas Cage just keeps doing Nicolas Cage, and it's also wonderful.
Speaker 2:No notes Nick.
Speaker 1:But, yeah, so join us next week for that. Yeah, so join us next week for that. Um, yeah, so, uh, please leave us some reviews. Uh, tell us how we did. Tell us what you like about Star Wars. You can go into our description to click uh, um, leave us some fan mail at the very top and you can leave us some fan mail. Or you go to our Gmail at uh, we recommend mailbag at gmailcom. Send us an email, baby, um, I would like to thank Joey Prosser for our intro and outro music. You can follow him on X at Mr Joey Prosser, and God dang it. This has been the we Recommend podcast.
Speaker 2:I've been Jesse, I've been Jason, I've been Dakota Muck wonky. Thanks for watching.
