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The Star Wars Christmas Special Still Exists
rapturizer noted the critical news that "Fans of "Star Wars" have a chance to see a free screening of the notoriously bad 'Star Wars Holiday Special' next week in Minneapolis."
Nothing brings out the Christmas spirit like watching what may very well be the worst TV ever produced. Sadly however, I'm not sure that this is the worst *Star Wars* merch ever made.
The only thing worse than watching the special, is watching it on VHS.
Wonderful article. NOT! No mention of what theater? When? No linky to information that would let people know WHY this is so bad? Pfeh!
Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse. -- L. Long
For those of you awaking in your tauntaun right now on Hoth (aka Minneapolis), here's the link.
Never shake hands with a man you meet in a fertility clinic.
http://xkcd.com/653/
For those of you awaking in your tauntaun right now on Hoth (aka Minneapolis), here's the link.
Indeed, from your link:
Film Board director of services Chris Grap is a fan of bad movies. Grap says he "couldn't believe" the "Star Wars Holiday Special" existed. The plot involves Han Solo trying to get Chewbacca the Wookie back to his home planet to celebrate Life Day. The cast includes original "Star Wars" actors as well as Bea Arthur, Art Carney and Harvey Korman.
Keep in mind that this is the birthplace of MST3K and a great time in Minneapolis is a case of beer and one really bad movie with your friends. Slightly offtopic but five episodes of MST3K are on Hulu now.
My work here is dung.
for the notoriously bad prequels
Don't worry, Lucas fixed it up this time. All of the blasters and light-sabers have been replaced by walkie-talkies and Santa shoots first.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXcb7VPw59s
Maybe Computers will never be as intelligent as Humans.
For sure they won't ever become so stupid. [VR-1988]
When I tell people about it, I go on and on and on about how unbelievably bad it is. I insist that it's worse than the worst you can possibly think of and then some. I tell them that it's not one of those things that's so bad that it's good, it's so bad that it's just bad. Really, really, really, really, really bad. Horrible. And not in a way that's funny. It's just bad.
When people I've warned about it end up finally seeing it, they always tell me that my warnings didn't even come close to preparing them for just how bad it actually was.
I'd say that, even if you're a die-hard fan, SWHS is so bad that it's not even worth seeing. I personally can't bring myself to watch it a second time. It's just so freakin' bad.
Do yourself a favour. Stay away from it — far, far away.
"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war." -- Albert Einstein
StarWarsHolidaySpecial.com
Fan site about the special...worth checking out for more details on the subject.
It would be nice if Lucas released a Special Edition of Episode I that had Jar-Jar Binks excised. Or if that's not possible, redub his voice so he sounds normal instead of racist.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
You have no idea. People who say this is the worst TV ever made are NOT exaggerating.
You can't deliberately make something this bad. I don't think you can even accidentally do it again. This is a once in a civilization mass failure that transcends ordinary failure and sets a new standard.
-- "So they told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated." - Bill Gates
The Star Wars Holiday Special
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For those of us in the Twin Cities who are more interested in something less... atrociously awful, there's the Klingon Christmas Carol being performed right now at Mixed Blood!
http://www.cbtheatre.org/KCC2009/KCC2009.htm
Reviewing just the first hour of video games.
Notoriously bad?
I actually kind of liked the Star Wars Holiday Special with the, what was it? The Festival of Life? And the Wookie family. I thought it was pretty neat, personally. I don't know why everyone is so down on it.
Especially in contrast to the new movies.
Not really the new Star Wars movies. Like, Twilight. That had to be, by a wide margin, the worst film I have ever seen. That anyone has ever seen. Acting, directing, writing. All of it was excruciatingly bad. I really don't know why people are so down on this holiday special thing when there are much worse films out there.
When you're afraid to download music illegally in your own home, then the terrorists have won!
Whenever I try to share some of my Malla and Lumpy centric Star Wars fanfic with people, they always turn me down and say something like, "The Star Wars Christmas Special doesn't exist, George Lucas even said so," or, "The events of the Christmas Special aren't canonical." Well, who's laughing now, fuckers?
This might be just whats needed to eliminate fans that somehow survived the prequels!
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OK, go find a copy of Shatner's "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", and listen to it 20 times in a row.
It's *that* bad.
People are down on it not because of objective badness, but because of badness tied to a well-loved series.
Most sane people that aren't teenaged girls didn't expect much from Twilight, and it wasn't an established movie series.
Star Wars, however, was an established canon that was well-loved, and the holiday special was awful. It was a disappointment.
That's all it is really.
The answer is none. None more bad.
Excerpt from Interview:
MAXIM: "Any plans for a Special Edition of the Holiday Special?"
George Lucas: [hangs head] "Right. That's one of those things that happened, and I just have to live with it."
Hehe.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
If further reinforcement is needed, I loaned my VHS copy to a coworker. It literally drove him to drink - he was a teetotaler until he'd sat through the Holiday Special.
It is far, far worse than the Ewok movies.
"...always new atoms but always doing the same dance, remembering what the dance was yesterday." -Richard Feynman
There are six legitimate installments of Star Wars canon. A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Caravan of Courage, The Battle for Endor, and The Star Wars Christmas Special.
That show is touched by darkness, Ambassador.
I see it as a blemish that grew over time.
I could warn you, of course, but you would not listen.
I could kill you, but someone else would watch it in your place.
So, I do the only thing I can. I go.
Oh, if it was a review you wanted? A word or two, about the special itself?
Well, take this, for what little it will profit you.
As I look at you, I see a great hand reaching out of the darkness, trying to blot out the moviescreen.
The hand is your hand.
And I hear sounds--the sounds of billions of people calling your name, telling you "NO!! DON'T LOOK!! CLOSE YOUR EYES!!!"
Although I guess if the point is to emphasize just how bad the Star Wars Holiday Special really was, then that may have helped slightly. Though if it is so bad you aren't willing to give a summary that is worth squat, then why even put it on the front page?
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Racist? I didn't realize you could be racist against a fictional species. I mean, I don't think Gungans even have race; they all seem to have the same basic body type and skin color. Jar Jar says "meesa" a lot, but I assumed that was brain damage.
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
It's a trap!
I saw this "live" when first broadcast. I was 6. I had the Star Wars movie soundtrack on LP record which I listened to many, many times, because we had no way of watching the actual movie unless it was playing at a theater.
So the TV show was just a dose of that universe for me at that age, like throwing a puppy a bone. So of course I liked it - I just wanted to see those characters, regardless of what they were doing.
But here's the odd part. Where I was so young when I saw that, and only saw it once, I would have these vague memories about watching Star Wars on TV. I knew that couldn't be, because Star Wars was never on TV, and because there were specific scenes I remembered that weren't even from the movie. Fairly recently (like in the last 5 years or so) I saw a reference to that special (probably here on Slashdot) and then it all fell in place.
And yes, it really sucked bad. Like a bad blend of taking fictional characters and pulling them into a contemporary environment (1978). It totally destroyed the illusion that so many movie exist to create. Like watching R2D2's top removed and see some little guy lifted out.
Better known as 318230.
I've seen it. It's bad. Really bad. I think this is what drove Carrie Fisher to do drugs. She was in it, and she had to say the lines, and the lines were bad even by Lucas standards, and I cringed with every word. It was torture by proxy; what Jabba did to Leia was nothing compared to what Lucas did to Fisher in that special...
Woosh? Gungans (particularly their Ebonics) showed George Lucas racist sentiments toward uneducated black Americans.
I've never heard of this before. Who came up with that bullshit interpretation?
What's next? Because Yoda doesn't speak with correct grammar he's somehow racist too?
Give me a break.
Tesla was a genius. Edison however was a overrated hack who liked to torture puppies.
You mean what the term “EPIC FAIL” was invented for, before it was used for every dumb shit? ^^
No wait, I have a new term for a failure of *biblical* proportions:
BIBLIC FAIL! — When something is as bad as *half the world* falling for a fantasy story book, believing it is real, and adjusting their whole lives to it for thousands of years! ^^
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
You made me curious. Now, I really have to see it!
I know. That's one of the problems with warning people. It piques their curiosity. Let me try one last time to save you, however. Just because I'm a good person.
You see, there are movies that are bad.
There are movies that are so bad, they're good.
There are movies that are so bad they go past good and are bad again.
There are movies that are so bad they go past good and bad again, and are amazingly awesome (ex. Toxic Avenger).
Then there are movies that are so unbelievably bad they go past bad, good, bad again, and amazingly awesome, landing ultimately on so horrid that no one, no matter how curious, should ever see them.
Now, if you took all of the movies in that last category and ranked them from "best" (for lack of a better word) to worst, SWHS but be dead last.
"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war." -- Albert Einstein
The flying master of Anakin (don't remember his name now) a "troyariam" or something like this, was criticized because racism against jews. (for his nose, and that he always wanted money).
I think racism in this case ir like p0rn, it is in the eye of the observer.
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