I used to think it was called “return of the jedi” because luke skywalker destroys the sith and brings balance to the force yea yea but now im realizing it’s because darth vader dies and turns back into anakin skywalker
It’s both.
Let’s stop the hate.
I don’t mind the Ewoks. I really don’t.
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As much hate as been heaped on Jar Jar Binks, still, most Star Wars hate is still heaped on the Ewoks. Oh, how everyone hates the Ewoks. And oh, how everyone loves to hate the Ewoks. If you ever want to cheap pseudo-geek cred, just expound on how the Ewoks are crass commercialism. Yes indeed - those Ewoks totally and utterly and irredeemably ruined Return Of The Jedi.
Of course, for all the hate, people still love to drool over Princess Leia in a metal bikini. Which, face it, is something straight out of Heavy Metal.
So in one movie, there is Heavy Metal, futuristic motorcycles, a blue elephant playing piano, a psychotic monkeybird alien, and an evil dude who shoots blue lightning from his fingertips. On top of that, the movie also has R2-D2 and C-3PO.
As far as I’m concerned, there could be Ewoks yiffing and I wouldn’t mind.
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It’s kind of like Michael Madsen.
Michael Madsen got a lot of movie cred for Mr. Blonde. Of course, he used it all up and is a fat bloated nutjob. But still - Mr. Blonde bought him a ton of cred.
George Lucas gets mad props for the DEATH STAR, Darth Vader, lightsabers, landspeeders, snowspeeders, AT-ATs, R2-D2, C-3PO, Wookiees, the Millenium Falcon, Force Choking people, Grand Moff Tarkin, Star Destroyers, X-Wing fighters, Yoda, TIE fighters, space slugs, Boba Fett, bounty hunters in space, Hoth, Chalmun’s Cantina, spacemen playing ragtime jazz, Stormtroopers, and blowing up motherfucking planets.
Most filmmakers don’t have any of those.
George Lucas has them all.
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And let’s not forget tauntauns, lovable space pirates, Bespin, Lobot, the carbon freezing chamber, Greedo, Jedi Mind Tricks, Jawas, and Tusken raiders.
In fact, let’s just take Return Of The Jedi by itself. It has speeder bikes.
Motherfucking speeder bikes.
And a green lightsaber.
And thermal detonators, AT-STs, Scout Troopers, Jabba the Hutt, Oola, a droid that tortures other droids, Gamorrean guards, the Rancor monster, the Almighty Sarlacc, Emperor Palpatine, the DEATH STAR II, Admiral Ackbar, Nien Nunb, and Force Lightning.
Plus Han Solo being used as a wall decoration in Jabba’s palace because Han Solo in carbonite really ties the place together.
All of those things are in one movie - Return Of The Jedi.
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Yeah - George Lucas invented Ewoks. He also invented the name “Darth Vader.” It doesn’t matter what you do for a living. You could pump gas at a Sunoco station in Elizabeth, NJ. If your name is “Darth Vader,” no one will fuck with you.
And George Lucas invented that name.
Considering all of the wicked-awesome that George Lucas created, I’m willing to forgive him the Ewoks.
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Also, if you don’t get a little choked up when that one Ewok is dead, then you’re a heartless commie pinko bastard.
(Source: matthewbaron)
Is it just me or does it piss you off too when people dressed up as Slave Leia have their hair in the buns…
Yes. It is irritating.
I know its probably cuz its the most memorable Leia hairstyle, but that’s not how it was!!!
Anakin’s ghost.
Greedo shooting first I’ve always found amusing, but this? It’s the only alteration I hate. Everything else is okay but this.
Growing up to Star Wars, I always see Sebastian Shaw as Anakin ghost at the end of the ROTJ. But when the “new” version of the movie came out I think 2004, I didn’t know about it until I saw Hayden Christensen as the ghost I was confused. I literally found my old VCR tape of ROTJ and saw that George totally redid it. Childhood was somewhat screwed over.
