Article about notorious Star War Holiday Special (1978)

[aria]

I just recently found out about this dog, thankfully through the wonders of the internet. I really want to see it now, but thanks to Lucas its very difficult to find a copy <IMG SRC="smilies/smile.gif" border="0">

This is the best article I've seen on it thus far (it gives a hillarious description of what happens): http://salon.com/ent/tv/feature/2000/12/05/star_wars_tv/index.html?CP=IMD&DN=110

There are also decent photo sites out there.

 

[Wolf]

Holy SHIT! I had no idea! I'm off to find some photos... <IMG SRC="smilies/loco.gif" border="0">

 

[aria]

http://www.stomptokyo.com/movies/star-wars-holiday-special.html

All the photos you'll ever need <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0">

 

[Daisuke Jigen]

Ah, what a piece of trash. I actually owned ac opy of this, and I gave it away along with some asian cosplay porn. (it had that fuzzed out crap in it)

 

[Verbatum]

Yep, I remember it well. Very...um, weel, lets just say the word has yet to be invented to descibe this little "Film".

 

[aria]

Damn... This sounds like the great MST3k episode that never was...

 

[Marco's Arms Dealer]

I heard the christmas special on the radio it's basically wookie sounds and other dumb stuff, it was funny for the first time and annoying the rest of the time I listen to it the first time.
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[Taiso]

Being a pretty big Star Wars buff, I made the effort to go and find this fine piece of television. I found it about four years ago, and I tell you it was the biggest hit amongst my college friends ever! It was so bad that it was entertaining! Forget all you've heard about this being Boba Fett's first appearance as the only reason to own it. Who can believe the sheer surrealness of things such as Harvey Korman playing an alien version of Frugal Gourmet with six arms, Bea Arthur as the owner of the Mos Eisley cantina doing a musical number, twenty minutes or so of wookies grunting at each other WITHOUT THE BENEFIT OF SUBTITLES, Chewbacca's grandfather enjoying what is probably the earliest known version of cyber-sex on film, Jefferson Starship as an intergalactic rock group and Harrison Ford as Han Solo having a Captain Kirk-esque fist fight with an Imperial officer? And all of this is to say nothing of it being Mark Hamill's last appearance on film before getting into his face altering car accident and, in what is perhaps the topper to all of this...CARRIE FISHER SINGS TO THE STAR WARS THEME WHILE STONED OUT OF HER MIND!!!! She's admitted it...now, see it with your own eyes!

I STILL break the holiday special out every Christmas. It's THAT bad, THAT putrid, and especially THAT funny! As an added bonus, the version I have still has all of the old commercials that were being shown on TV at the time the special aired in 1978. It's like time travel!

Star Wars: Holiday Special is CRAP-TACULAR!!!

 

[aria]

Taiso, thanks to you I have to see it now more than ever...

 

[Sonic1787DC]

actually i have this video in not the greatest quality rm format... i got it off of morpheus (kaazaa) i still haven't watched it lol

 

[Sifl]

I just scored myself a copy on eBay. I gotta see how bad this is for myself.

 

[Dan Elektro]

Somewhere around here I have a VHS copy. Several generations lost by copying and re-copying. It's a totally unwatchable dog. I know merely saying that makes you say "More!" but really, every year I say "Let's do it" and we can only make it through the first 20 minutes before we start clawing our own eyes out, and failing that, each other's eyes.

There's bad-funny and bad-bad. This is bad-bad. This will scar you. Harrison Ford is the only one who even attempts to act and it's all lost. It's so, so embarassing.

But, you know, no worse than Jar Jar, now that I think of it. Lumpy is Jar Jar with fur.

 

[Dan Elektro]

Originally posted by Taiso:
<STRONG>As an added bonus, the version I have still has all of the old commercials that were being shown on TV at the time the special aired in 1978. It's like time travel!
</STRONG>

Remember--"TOBOR is 'robot' spelled backwards."

And the Trail Tracker showed up too.

 

[aria]

Originally posted by Taiso:
<STRONG>
As an added bonus, the version I have still has all of the old commercials that were being shown on TV at the time the special aired in 1978. It's like time travel!

</STRONG>

The sad thing is, its a trip to a time before most of us were born <IMG SRC="smilies/tongue.gif" border="0">