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The Star Wars Holiday Special My Review... at last.

#31 floppydisk

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Posted 25 April 2005 - 07:59 PM

Holy crap. I thought you were joking with the Itchy and Lumpy thing. I just found some screens of the credits. That's thier actual names. What were these people thinking?

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Posted 25 April 2005 - 10:21 PM

Those names were in the Black Fleet Crisis trilogy novels... Lumpawarrump for Lumpy and Mallatobuck for Malla - now I know where they came from.

Still Christopher Lee in the 1982 Holiday Special... Pretty poor consolation, considering he was in line to play the Emperor. That would have been cool...

Also means we wouldn't have had to go "Christopher Lee as Dooku - what a waste!"

Incidentally, how does Lucas explain Dooku in the Holiday Special II?

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Posted 26 April 2005 - 12:01 AM

I see that Bea Arthur's character's role was Ackmena Cantina Bartender.

So, our Mon Calamari friend got his name from the Ack' Bar? Why not.

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Posted 02 May 2005 - 03:57 PM

Chapters 13-18 are up today. They weren't up until about 5:00 PM EST due to a coding error on my part. Sorry about that, everyone.

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Posted 02 May 2005 - 07:42 PM

Many laughs from your review, Chef. Heady stuff.

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Posted 03 May 2005 - 02:01 PM

QUOTE (Chefelf @ May 2 2005, 03:57 PM)

Chapters 13-18 are up today. They weren't up until about 5:00 PM EST due to a coding error on my part. Sorry about that, everyone.

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did you take them down again? I cant get past chapter 12...

edit- whoops...I take that back. I had the crayon taken out of my brain and i'm alright now.

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Posted 03 May 2005 - 07:12 PM

Ummm wow that cartoon was horrid. Is that horse on the millennium falcon supposed to be Han Solo? And I dont quite understand the idea of making a show about the adventures of Luke Skywalker. They could have made it really interesting by having it be a propaganda cartoon for the rebellion or the empire but they opted to just duct tape it in.

I noticed that the majority of the cute little clips and cameos are just completely out of place. They all seem to follow the same line: "Oh, look, something to watch/play/interact with for an unnecessarily long amount of time." And they don't even try to act as though it has any baring on the plot, its just a convenient time waster and excuse for a cameo.

Jariten- Any chance of luring some fanboys from TF.N in here to see if this will break their brains?

"Holiday special... dosnt compute... bea arthur... lucas is god... BUFFER OVERFLOW! BLAMBABAGO!"

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Posted 03 May 2005 - 11:10 PM

Thanks Chefelf. Without you, many people would have to suffer through the Holiday Special to get how horrible it was.

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Posted 03 May 2005 - 11:41 PM

Again... BLOODY HELL!!!

You seem to be willing to suffer greatly for the entertainment of your forum-goers, Chefelf... how brave you are... how brave indeed.

It gives an indication as to where Lucas picked up the 'crap' bug that plagued his later projects - around the time and place of making the holiday special.
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Posted 04 May 2005 - 01:10 AM

you know that imperial guy is evil cause the motherfucker don't do fish...

that is something that has plagued me for some time...

oooh scarry man...

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Posted 05 May 2005 - 01:46 AM

' "would you like this?"
"I don't like fish."
"Jesus, I'm sorry man... please don't hurt me." '

What an amazingly powerful threat! Leaves my "If this were a civilised country I'd have your head" standing at the bus stop.

I musn't be evil, because I think fish are cool, and marvels of nature, and soothing to watch them sweeem around and around... eeeee.

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Posted 05 May 2005 - 12:36 PM

I have never seen holiday special and probably there is no chance of my ever seeing it, but I read the whole tuday and I had quite a struggle not to fall off my chair. I honestly could not believe it. So checked the IMDB and that stopmtokyo website and saw the gallery, and read the review and only then did I believe. Honestly, Chefelf, sorry about that but I thought you're having me on. Nothing, I mean nothing could be as bad as that!!!!!!

My question is - does anyone know how the hell did Lucas agree to do it in the first place? He must have agreed, because the logo is trademark and so on. And he is not credited in this work.

The other question is - how come the actors did ever agree to do that? Unless it was in their contract with the Fox studio. After SW they all knew they were household names and certainlydidn't have to do it to earn their bread, certainly not Harrison Ford! And yet here he is. Holy crap...

But I am waiting for more scene by scene description.
Could you also fill me in who is this Julia Childs I saw mentioned several times in the reviews ?

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Posted 05 May 2005 - 05:25 PM

any idea where I can download it (i'm serious)?

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Posted 05 May 2005 - 06:29 PM

QUOTE (Madam Corvax @ May 5 2005, 09:36 AM)

Could you also fill me in who is this Julia Childs I saw mentioned several times in the reviews ?

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Basically, Julia Childs was a TV chef, Madam. I could be wrong about which Julia Childs it is, but then, a TV chef makes about as much sense as Bea Arthur being in this thing, right?

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Posted 06 May 2005 - 10:03 AM

QUOTE (Madam Corvax @ May 5 2005, 12:36 PM)

Honestly, Chefelf, sorry about that but I thought you're having me on. Nothing, I mean nothing could be as bad as that!!!!!!

Anyone who has seen it will back me up... it IS that bad. It really can't be described. I think I do a pretty good job of creating a review that is more enteretaining than the actual movie but the actual movie is not to be believed. If you were watching it right now you'dk now what I'm talking about.

QUOTE (Madam Corvax @ May 5 2005, 12:36 PM)

Could you also fill me in who is this Julia Childs I saw mentioned several times in the reviews ?

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rock_dash covered that one.

QUOTE (jariten @ May 5 2005, 05:25 PM)

any idea where I can download it (i'm serious)?

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