There also wasnt the internet yet, they knew everyone would see them so they didnt act crazy

Now it would be do I look hot....

$4.50 to $5 but ppl don’t mind. What a time to be alive.

I don't think Star Wars was nerdy until the early 90s

Jeez you act like we’re not chill

Yeah, Twitter dwelling, woke SJW libtards have ruined all that today.

@@ulysses2162 Unironically saying the word libtards? You might be the sensitive one bud. You are probably 11.

@@chrislaidlow3886 or you're just a liberal.

@@chrislaidlow3886 Guess I hit a nerve there bub. Off you go, there's a soy latte waiting for you somewhere. Don't forget to pick up your tampons for that mangina of yours also.

@@ulysses2162 lol actual wee freak so you are. loser

Barbenheimer brought back this vibe.

@@user-ux3vw6mb4k for 2 weeks

Who believes social media was created to make us closer? It wasn't

I read this in JC Denton’s voice.

Government has divided us. It's on purpose.

Bruhhh my deadass thought it was Bill Nye the Science Guy HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAH

How is a that a reveal though? The reveal is more about WHAT he looks like, rather than IF you see him (which you partially already did see in TESB).

and he called him Dark Vader

No he didn’t. He said “dark” Vader. Totally different character.

"tickets are going for 4.50 to 5 dollars" Those were the days!

I prefer watching shit at home but probably the reason why is because I've never experienced a theater like this. The last movie I watched in theaters was Encanto (absolutely amazing shit by the way, 18/10, in the greatest of all time tier of movies) and it was at 9:30 with only 1 other group. Me and my 3 homies I watched it with could've talked freely during the movie if we wanted. Before that, it was Ghostbusters: Afterlife (pretty alright, 7.3/10, better than the original but that's not hard to do) and the theater I watched it at had some pretty terrible seats and the group behind me wouldn't shut the fuck up. Before then, it was almost 2 years ago that I saw Rise of Shitwalker in theaters. Holy fuck I've never seen anything worse in a theater. So yeah, it sucks that I never got to be a part of something like this. I sure do hope a movie that's a genuine masterpiece can get this level of hype around it

@@blitzn00dle50 The problem is with reserved seats and pre-sold tickets, you'll never see lines like this outside a theater again. I've been in some sold out screenings for premieres of movies but it's hard to tell because the seats just slowly fill in.

Well, Return of the Jedi is in theaters again.

There were assholes back then too believe me. The main difference is that when you went and stood in line like that there was NOTHING to do except TALK TO EACH OTHER! I don't think phones are bad but things are defibrillator different now. Its just the way it is and in many ways its better that we have smart phones. We've lost a lot of that kind of forced interaction. Not necessarily a bad thing just different.

@@notsogreatsword1607 One day, technology will allow everyone to read everyone else's mind and society will just have to deal with it. People will no longer be offended or embarrassed by anything because we all know what everyone else is thinking, but the only thing that matters is our _actions._ For example, mind reading technology will let you know that someone is racist, and they'll know YOU know they're racist, but as long as they treat people equally it ultimately doesn't matter what anyone thinks. You'll know if someone finds you attractive and they'll know if you find them attractive, but it ultimately doesn't matter because attraction is normal, so everyone will just get on with their lives (unless you're both seeking a partner, in which case you two can pair up). I'm not sure where I'm going with this, but I guess I was just thinking about how the technology changes society, itself. In 1980, there were no smartphones, so everyone in public was forced to interact with each other. Perhaps in the future, other kinds of technology will fundamentally change the way social interactions play out. I just used mind reading technology as an example.

I remember back then people had conversations at bus stops now their just plugged in!@@notsogreatsword1607

@@notsogreatsword1607 Forced interaction makes us better people.

Yeah people of the ‘70s and ‘80s were much nicer and kinder, and friendlier than now.

Saw it at ten years old too man! Great movie memory.

@@danielm3192 Share more details you guys!

Wow, cool... one moment: Was the movie from age 10?!

@@dignes3446 I saw it in the theater at age 6. I don't remember any lines to get in or anything, but I probably didn't see it opening weekend. I didn't know anything about Star Wars at that time other than that my older brother had a beat up Landspeeder toy in the bathroom. I instantly became obsessed with the movie and the franchise after seeing ROTJ though. Got the other movies in audio cassette storybook versions, started collecting the action figures and bought "knockoff" red and green lightsabers which we fought with inside the house. Every kid at that time had Star Wars merchandise in their house. Always had a lot of debates going on about favorite characters or secret meanings in the plot. Was Boba Fett female? Was Obi-Wan secretly OB-1, a droid?

I don't believe you. Nothing happened before 1997. There is no proof.

You know, there are people who don't like fantasy / fiction movie, so that is a big compliment

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But atleast it was really, really good

@@brezzainvernale To me fantastic is just another word for good

​@@mariguana7918 Look the word up, that's not what it actually means.

Spoiler 😅

He's like "I'm not stupid, but I'm really, really dumb."

@@citygirl5705 Fantastic can also mean "imaginative or fanciful; remote from reality", so I think he was using this definition instead.

It sure was fantastic! And it was good too.

@@TheDinozRule I think in his mind, "fantastic" meant it had great special effects on spectacle, but "good" meant it had a good story.

Definitely a psycho

@Cristian Rodas Do you know what the THX logo is at the beginning of movies?

THANKS FOR ALSO NOTICING THAT THIS WAS THE LANDMARK FIRST FILM IN THE SAGA TO USE THX SINCE 1977 and 1980 HAD NO THX BIG AUDIO YET BUT RETURN USED THAT TO PERFECT EFFECT! GEORGE LUCAS LANDMARKED THE SAGA AND JJ ABRAMS ALSO DID SO WITH FORCE AWAKENS AND RIAN JOHNSON DID ALSO FOR LAST JEDI!!!!!!!!!!

DOLBY ATMOS BETTER

That's because back then the economy wasn't fucked up and people could actually afford things

​@@darthnater9731Um...the 1980s (especially the early 80s) was a horrible economic period.

@@daustin8888 better than it is today.

Exactly. Now the message is everybody is grey, the baddies are good guys, the good guys are dark too...even Luke Skywalker, or Jake Skywalker to be precise

They don’t make them like they used to.

Lol what? The movie doesn’t say that it’s just that she says that LIKE WHAT SHE SAYS! Good does prevail and “we will all conquer” in a positive way but not in the way that she says as there’s clearly WAY more to it than that that the movie itself says!

@@BuscaLoEsencialbut we got The First Avenger and Wonder Woman. Suck at villain department tho, but the goodies are actually good and heroic.

@@Gadget-Walkmenwrong

"All I've got to say: THAT was The Mandalorian".

There have to be so old now

They don’t like Star Wars anymore thanks to............

the The 😂 Hilarious

@@jandyb79 🦝

Star Wars was always meant to be a 9 part film series according to George Lucas, but he only made 4, 5 and 6 because the technology wasn't advanced enough for him to do the whole thing. That's why it took forever for the other movies to be made.

It’s weird to hear that it was known back then that it was 9 parts. If only Lucas did the sequels 😢

@@avisco01 His plans for the sequels involved even more midichlorian stuff, you know the stuff that fanboys hate

@@avisco01 I'm not sure how I feel about Lucas doing the sequels. The sequels we got were abysmal, but if Lucas did them he would probably make them about as mid as the original trilogy. Then they'd be torn to shreds by the critics because we all saw what the critics said about the first 2 sequels. But then again, ROTS seemed to take Star Wars in a completely new and significantly better direction, so if Lucas was to make the entire sequel trilogy like ROTS they could end up being really good.

@@blitzn00dle50 The Prequels were beyond AWFUL after the seeing the OT.

Yup, I remember the cheers in my theater too.

I sometimes wish I could've been born in the late 70s/early 80s. It honestly looks like fun being in those lines for hours, camping in the streets, and chatting with other while waiting for the movies. Nowadays you just click a few buttons on your phone and buy the tickets online.

Also they had good movies

@@xcell5215 it was! I was a child back then but I still remember seeing empire and return in theatres. I remember the excitement and crowed cheering on opening weekend of both films shown on amazing 70mm. It was a different time back then no tension or anger, people didn’t give a fuck who was president or prime minister depending on what country you lived in. It was just pure and good old fans being fans of a franchise. Now I’m sitting her 46 years old 2021 hating everything. Notice how no one wants to stay in the 2000’s or 2010s, no one wants to go back to the 50s,60s or 70s. Everyone wants to go back to the 80s and 90s it was that glorious and fun. No one gave a fuck who you were in the 80s 90s or what you did either now everything is hate hate hate because the media wants to divide us. Sorry for the rant I hate the 2010s and this new fucked up decade

@@xcell5215 it was the best time to be born, ngl.

@@xcell5215 I was born in the 1970s and never stood in a line for a movie until the Spider-Man 3 midnight showing in 2007. I always just waited until the crowds died down to see something. There really was not much opening weekend hype back then. That's a very new phenomenon. These lines you're seeing in these news clips only ever happened in the biggest cities and for probably nothing but Star Wars.

I was 5 years old and saw it in the theater!

@@JeremyAvis1978 I was 6.

I've heard from people over the years that some people disliked Star Wars after 1983 because to them 'ewoks ruined Star Wars'. so even within the OT there's a divide

so watch them... no one is preventing you from watching them NOW

You're here watching this video... You're part of the club, my friend. 🤝

@@bgaona lol that doesn't count and you know it😂

@Abstract I disagree. Unless you're meaning ONLY LITERALLY being there. But why would you, when this magical effect of the movie (and its tone frame) extends so far as to be felt by people even today?

@@bgaona Because you can't interact with any of them. There's no sense of real-time connection.

@Abstract True, you can't interact with them. But you never really would interact much with fellow fans back when these films were released. You just knew they liked the same thing you liked, and it was pretty great to have that community. Same thing here. The guy likes Star Wars, and that resonates with a lot of people. So to me, he's part of our great and crazed Star Wars community; only sensing that enthusiasm, while we can only remember it.

Cinefantastique Magazine spilled the beans months before it came out, yoda dies, Vader is Luke’s father and the emperor shows up. So, there were spoilers then.

No spoilers except when news reports included stuff like 2:24

That’s awesome

As a 6-year-old kid watching Jedi, I didn't really see it as a movie or a part of the culture. I just believed it was a document of something that really happened out there in space. I think Last Crusade in 1989 was the first time I really felt the hype of anticipating a movie and then also being completely satisfied with the experience. I was hyped for Ghostbusters II too, but it was disappointing. Batman 1989 was a good experience, but I really hadn't been looking forward to it, we just went and saw it because it was constantly in the news.

@@jedijones yeah I saw ROTJ as part of a school excursion back when it released. I wasn't a big Star Wars fan as a kid but sure was hyped after seeing it, making lightsabers out of cricket stumps by painting them green and stuff like that....then it all quickly faded again. Didn't really get hyped over the release of Phantom Menace either, saw it at a social club function where I worked and fell asleep halfway through. Wasn't until AOTC was coming out that I was getting back into Star Wars and becoming a big fan again and of course that skyrocketed as ROTS came out. Ironically, Disney made me an even bigger fan....well, made me appreciate the OT more but also stuff like Rogue One and The Mandalorian were great, though of course the ST left a bit to be desired.

That sentence has a different meaning in 2024, lmao.

Because.... this is..... 1983..... hence..... the 80s...

And a big ass tub of popcorn was probably 2 bucks. With a free refill.

Because money was different back then for example of everyone in the world gets paid 8,000 dollars weekly or if we were all rich milk would be 40 dollars or a pack of cigarettes would be 80 bucks

@@shaun7002 the price of two movie tickets was the same as tank of gas. Still is. You are right. And your name is right too 👍

Why? Isn't it about the same as today accounting for inflation?

@@sonoftheway3528 it’d be around 15 dollars today

Well said

Return Of the Jedi Is My Favorite of all of Them.

Lig, your comment is correct of every film including the prequels of the star wars prequel trilogy and 7 and 8 of the sequels so far!!

you can't convince me that anyone born in the 80's or before doesn't like ROTJ

Strength Vs. Power. Apathy is Death

It's getting even better with the Mandalorian for me. I always liked it now it's growing to love

the ONLY thing is the endor fight should have been longer but the movie is PERFECT like the FIRST TWO IN THE ORIGINAL TRILOGY!

I believe that was because Lucas had stated that at some point back then.

There's actually an interview with Mark Hamill where he said Lucas had plans for prequels next back in 1980. Lucas had the whole saga written down before the first Star wars.

We knew back then, it was always talked about, and even reported on the news as you can see. One of the movie adaptation novels also talked about Darth Vader being burned in lava while fighting Obi-Wan in the Clone Wars. You have to understand once a number like Episode 5 and 6 started appearing on the movies, it sparks conversation about how many other parts there are. The problem is Lucas decided to wrap up the saga early in Return of the Jedi. "The other" would've been Luke's sister, not Leia, who had a bigger part in Episodes 7-9. We didn't realize at the time that Return of the Jedi would be the last movie. People got really bored with Star Wars by 1986 when the other movies didn't materialize.

Once again, this is a misconception. THX played in only two theaters during Return of the Jedi. The theaters in this video did not have the THX logo. THX in the old day was a special Theater like IMAX and Dolby Cinema are. THX cannot play in every theater because not all theaters are fit to play THX.

Yeah what's that all about?

Agreed!

amen

I saw ROTJ in theaters at age 6, LOL. Every kid I knew was into it at the time. Not sure how you missed the boat.

I already was. Well, 6.

Move it, move it, move it!!!

He unironically sounds like Luke

Inflation... $5 ist more than $14 today.

Back when a week’s wage was $250

@@onepointtwo500 You do have a bit of a point

That's the same price adjusted for inflation in a lot of theater matinee shows today.

And then the sequels

He said there would be 9 back in 1977 if I'm not mistaken

Well, the 7-9 we got certainly weren't what had planned back in the 70s & 80s

@@timewarpdrive77 no, the plots of those were sort of developed as they went along...

@@wonderfulwookiee6443 Back in the day, George wasn't sure how many movies he wanted to do (at some point ROTJ was the ninth movie & boba as the main baddie of the episode 5 sequel). Even after that, there was a sequel trilogy script that was written back in the mid/early 80's. Theres a few people who were even under contracts to not release any details about how the stories went.

He should have stopped at Jedi.

Now its 20 bucks.. damn

@@timewarpdrive77 inflation

@@stevensepic. Theres more than just inflation at play. The studios themselves have been demanding a higher cut of the profits, which causes them to raise the prices. Inflation doesn't help anything, but thats not the sole factor.

$5 dollars at that time was worth much more than now.

5 dollars would be $14.50 in 2022 using inflation so surprising the price has not changed much. Just the culture is streaming more than going to theaters

OK, Luke Skywalker didn't die, but Darth Vader did!

No Special Edition = no constroversy

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