# I just saw STAR WARS -- it's really fun! (spoilers OK) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 15, 2003, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-star-wars-its-really-fun-spoilers-ok/175477 "2003-05-15T17:16:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2003, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-star-wars-its-really-fun-spoilers-ok/175477/101 "2003-05-18T01:04:05Z")
Yeah, and did you notice how, in the movie Luke’s like really skinny, but in the poster, his shirt’s ripped open and he has all these rippling muscles? Weird. I know this guy that draws all the time, and he says the same two guys who did the poster also did drawings for those Hobbit books. He wanted me to read them, so I tried the first one, but it was really boring, with people talking like Shakespeare or something. I can’t imagine that anyone would ever make a movie out of **those** books. ---
**Author:** ![FairyDust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ccd318/32.png) [@FairyDust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyDust)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2003, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-star-wars-its-really-fun-spoilers-ok/175477/102 "2003-05-19T01:35:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rilchiam \* > \*\*Yeah, and did you notice how, in the movie Luke’s like really skinny, but in the poster, his shirt’s ripped open and he has all these rippling muscles? Weird. > > I know this guy that draws all the time, and he says the same two guys who did the poster also did drawings for those Hobbit books. He wanted me to read them, so I tried the first one, but it was really boring, with people talking like Shakespeare or something. I can’t imagine that anyone would ever make a movie out of **those** books. \*\* I think I know which Hobbit book you mean. “The Friendship of the Bracelet”? Some kind of jewelry item? Whatever. Yeah. It was pretty boring. Hooo-boy. If anyone ever did make a movie out of those books, I bet it would totally bomb! Probably wouldn’t last more than a week in the theatres before it gets yanked. And I’d pity the actors who would agree to be in that movie. Prolly kill their chances to get roles in any other movies. ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2003, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-star-wars-its-really-fun-spoilers-ok/175477/103 "2003-05-19T15:46:21Z")
I read that book, but it was kind of slow. If you want to see a COOL story about magic and stuff, check out “Wizards” by the same dude who did “Fritz the Cat.” Hey, I bet if HE did those Hobbit books, he could make them rock. ---
**Author:** ![Kaspar\_Hauser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b3f665/32.png) [@Kaspar\_Hauser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaspar_Hauser)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2003, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-star-wars-its-really-fun-spoilers-ok/175477/104 "2003-05-19T18:44:54Z")
I thought Luke and Leia had great sexual chemistry. Keep in mind that I’m only four years old and don’t understand what that means. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2003, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-star-wars-its-really-fun-spoilers-ok/175477/105 "2003-05-19T18:59:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by quasar \* > \*\*And even neater, how about a prequel showing Luke’s mother in the prime of her youth. I’ll bet she was a gorgeous woman. \*\* I hope she has big tits. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2003, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-star-wars-its-really-fun-spoilers-ok/175477/106 "2003-05-19T20:16:54Z")
> [@](#): > > Also, there’s supposed to be a big surprise in the last installment. I think we find out that Luke is gay. Geez, first Jody on “Soap,” now Luke Skywalker? What in the heck is Hollywood coming to? I stepped out for popcorn, so I think I missed something-- are Obi-Wan Kenobi and Ben Kenobi brothers or something? May the force be with you, Happy ---
**Author:** ![Satisfying\_Andy\_Licious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Satisfying\_Andy\_Licious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satisfying_Andy_Licious)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2003, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-star-wars-its-really-fun-spoilers-ok/175477/107 "2003-05-19T20:18:24Z")
I’m not a real big science-fiction fan. I went to see that “Star War” movie because it was directed by a fellow named George Lucas, and he did this marvelous little slice-of-life comedy called “American Graffiti.” But I was pleasantly surprised that “Star War” was an entertaining film. What really impressed me about Lucas is that he’s not afraid to change and do different things. He had a hit with “American Graffiti,” about cars and cruisin’ and rock-n-roll, but he wasn’t playing it safe. He switched gears and did an amusing science-fiction film. I’d say he is one of the top American directors to watch. He’s not going to rest on his laurels. I predict he’s going to take some big risked and do movies that range the entire spectrum. As for who’s going to be a big star out of these two movies, I don’t think there’s any doubt it’s going to be Paul LeMat, from “Graffiti.” Man, he really has presence. What I’d love to see George Lucas do is try to adopt some of the Marvel comic book heroes for the big screen. Marvel always seems to get stuck with movies and cartoons that really suck. With a true auteur like Lucas at the helm, it could be pure cinematic gold. I hope he does one of the hipper Marvel characters – like Howard the Duck. Man, that’d be great. ---
**Author:** ![Satisfying\_Andy\_Licious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Satisfying\_Andy\_Licious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satisfying_Andy_Licious)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2003, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-star-wars-its-really-fun-spoilers-ok/175477/108 "2003-05-19T22:21:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SolGrundy \* > \*\*I don’t know about y’all, but I’m using this new thing that a Congressman from Tennessee just invented. \*\* That’s odd … For a moment I felt like telling you that you owed me a new “monitor,” but I have no idea what that is. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2003, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-star-wars-its-really-fun-spoilers-ok/175477/109 "2003-05-19T23:15:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by HBby \* > \*\*I heard my local Pizza Hut is going to get the _Star Wars_ video game. It’s supposed to be totally realistic. I can’t wait. \*\* A _Star Wars_ video game?!? A “totally realistic” _Star Wars_ video game?!?!! You have **got** to be joking! Such a thing would be technologically impossible! First, you’d have to have **color** graphics. All of the video games out on the market today have black-and-white graphics. (Some of them use colored overlays, but that doesn’t count.) Second, you’d have to have a first-person perspective, unlike those pong and racing-car games (and unlike that Space War game where you and a friend shoot at each others’ space ships, which right now is the most advanced video game on the market). Third, you’d have to have the game speak in the voices of the characters from the movie. There’s no way the sound system of a video game can reproduce anything as sophisticated as human speech! Seriously, dude, whoever told you about a _Star Wars_ video game must have been completely delusional. The technology to accomplish such a feat won’t be available until at **least** 1981! ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2003, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-star-wars-its-really-fun-spoilers-ok/175477/110 "2003-05-20T05:28:46Z")
Hey! No one’s mentioned how great is it that old dude from those Hammer Horror films plays Darth Vader’s boss! He’s too cool to die in the Death Star- I bet he escaped like Vader did. Wouldn’t it be REALLY cool if Chris Lee, who was with that old dude in the Hammer films, is really playing Darth Vader? Btw- I saw Chris in bikini briefs in that new James Bond film- GROSS! “Man with the Golden Gun”… heh heh heh ---
**Author:** ![SchlitzGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@SchlitzGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SchlitzGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2003, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-star-wars-its-really-fun-spoilers-ok/175477/111 "2003-05-20T17:26:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lieu \* > \*\*Wouldn’t it be cool if someday it came out on VCR? \*\* Man, I don’t know. I just saw one of those things at Sears and they want like $1500 for them. And the tapes are like $99.95. For the price of a video recorder, I can almost buy myself a brand new Chevy Vega. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2003, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-star-wars-its-really-fun-spoilers-ok/175477/112 "2003-05-20T20:30:29Z")
I hear that after _Star Wars_ leaves the theaters, it might be available on one of those new-fangled “subscription TV” services. (They broadcast a “scrambled” TV signal that you have to rent special hardware to decode. I’ll bet they designed the scrambling to be so complicated that no one will **ever** figure out how to decode it without one of their descrambler boxes!) ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2003, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-star-wars-its-really-fun-spoilers-ok/175477/113 "2003-05-20T23:08:23Z")
I’m confused; which droids were the stormtroopers looking for, if it wasn’t the shiny metal guy and the dustbin? Anway, When can I get one of those laser sword things? will they have them in the shops? - they’ll have to look _exactly_ the same mind you, not just some light bulb and a crappy plastic tube or something (as if anyone would buy that). ---
**Author:** ![Myndephuquer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@Myndephuquer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myndephuquer)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2003, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-star-wars-its-really-fun-spoilers-ok/175477/114 "2003-05-20T23:41:29Z")
> [@](#): > > My friend said he saw “Episode IV” along with the title but I don’t think it was there. Anyone else see this? That’d be pretty weird to start in the middle of the story! Doi! That Lucas guy is writing Episodes 4, 5, and 6, and Alex Haley is writing Episodes 1, 2, and 3. Lucas is putting his part in the movie theatres, and Haley is putting his on tv at the same time. Lucas is calling his parts “Star Wars,” and Haley is calling his parts “Roots.” If you had read the book by Haley, you would know that Alex Haley was a slave who went back to his homeland (-planet?), got super ticked about stuff and (spoiler alert) became Darth Vader. Didn’t you _hear_ Darth Vader? That’s Alex Haley! I heard that Darth Vader is the guy from “The Exorcist” – James Earl Jones. Maybe Princess Leia is Regan’s sister, or maybe Darth Vader is the son of Obi Wan Kanobie and Regan (you know – the twirly-headed vomiting girl). (Another spoiler alert) Remember Malcolm X from “Roots”? He grows up to develop the fighter that bears his name. One of my friends that works in a movie theatre said he saw something on his boss’ desk that said: James Earl Jones as Alex Haley as Darth Vader in “Roots: The Empire Strikes Back!” btw, Tracer, my Granddaddy has one of one of those subscription services, and if you wrap two coils of tin foil around the wire going to the tv (one to descramble the audio and one descramble the video), you can get all ten channels! ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2003, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-star-wars-its-really-fun-spoilers-ok/175477/115 "2003-05-21T01:52:26Z")
**Myndephuquer** , I really enjoyed that stream of conciousness effect you had going there. You forgot to mention that Kunta Kinte from Roots will grow up to be the new Mr. Sulu on Star Trek. And Regan will become President of the United States and denounce the Evil Empire Or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![mattcolville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90db22/32.png) [@mattcolville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mattcolville)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2003, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-star-wars-its-really-fun-spoilers-ok/175477/116 "2003-05-21T02:17:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by digs \* > \*\*It was GREAT! It had all the adventure cliches: the kid who feels like he doesn’t belong (because his destiny lies elsewhere), the wise-cracking rogue (with a heart of gold), the damsel in distress (who can handle a gun), the wise old hermit (who’s really a powerful mentor) and a bigger-than-life bad guy. And I mean that literally – he picks up a guy and chokes him! What a way to introduce a character. > \*\* So, it’s a fantasy movie? ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2003, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-star-wars-its-really-fun-spoilers-ok/175477/117 "2003-05-21T05:50:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tracer \* > A _Star Wars_ video game?!? A “totally realistic” _Star Wars_ video game?!?!! > > You have **got** to be joking! Such a thing would be technologically impossible! Plus, I forgot to mention: There’s no way **any** video game will ever dethrone pinball machines as King of the Arcade! ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2003, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-star-wars-its-really-fun-spoilers-ok/175477/118 "2003-05-21T06:35:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Laughing Lagomorph \* > \*\*You forgot to mention that Kunta Kinte from Roots will grow up to be the new Mr. Sulu on Star Trek. And Regan will become President of the United States and denounce the Evil Empire Or something like that. \*\* You mean, **Ronald** Reagan? Become President of the United States?!? Come on, he could barely hold his own as governor of California! The man lost an election to **Jerry Brown** , for crying out loud! Hmph! “President Reagan.” :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2003, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-star-wars-its-really-fun-spoilers-ok/175477/119 "2003-05-21T13:38:05Z")
well, I guess Chris Lee ISN’T playing Darth Vader after all… just as long as Lucas doesn’t cast him as some Dracula knockoff character… tho seeing Dracula duel a tiny green Jedi might be cool! ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2003, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-star-wars-its-really-fun-spoilers-ok/175477/120 "2003-05-21T13:54:56Z")
A “tiny green Jedi”? You mean like a Jedi jawa, only green? Well … so long as they didn’t do something _totally_ lame with the idea, like make him a muppet. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-star-wars-its-really-fun-spoilers-ok/175477.md?page=5)