Elaine Jensen at least they didn’t say he was retarded .... those poor kids at the empire premier ....

Now wook here, that's racism from a galaxy far, far away, and I won't hear of it.

@@deanrussell2224 I'm glad I'm not the only one that noticed those poor _retaaded_ children.

Heard a contemporary review of a new hope and they said 'Han is a ruthless rogue, but he has a dog... So he must be a nice guy'

Man, poor chewie. Thinking like this is exactly why he didn't get the medal he deserved.

Josiah Pike there's Leia in that hot Bikini 😍😍😍😍😍😏😍😍😉

Twincest

Apparently all that porn I watch is loaded with "moral messages."

mikeyblaise18 Not in the 1977 film

He was strictly taking about the first one. And anyway, a woman in a bikini is sex? Since when?

I guess they really thought Star Wars was bantha fodder. Oh how damn wrong they all were

It’s because at those times you could no about a movie and still enjoy the film

The novelization of Star Wars was released in Christmas of 1976 and completely sold out. A good portion of the kids going to see Star Wars were seeing an adaptation of a book they read.

@@domino_201 The thing is that it was not so popular nor relevant what minorities such as kids and Nerds among society thought was good back then...

cowboymovie in space without any message.

Call us nerds! Idc! Sniffles

They were a lot more blunt and honest in those days.

Yes even back then there was Centrist liberals networks The Establishment love those corrupted guys. 😅

The first clip is literally them praising the movie and comparing it to the boomer westerns they like.

Oh never mind that was somehow a complaint

@Aaron Morris It didn't need to be colorized as it was already in color. Special editions restored that color.

In 1977 my grandfather seen it in black n white at a theater in oakland,ca. It wasnt untill the late 80s we seen it in colour

@@Alex-bm5rc bull shit its 1977 not 57

@@Alex-bm5rc This. It came out in color, but a lot of theaters didn't support it yet. Only bigger cities had them in full color.

This is not true, there is no such thing as a theater that does not support colour. A film projector doesn't need to do anything different to show colour film vs b&w film. It was Dolby Stereo sound that most theaters did not support and those theaters got prints with mono sound instead. Star Wars was NEVER shown in black and white in theaters.

Rikard Nilsson I mean he said atleast

@@jeremydavis5661 Yes but that's like saying "my stocks in microsoft will increase at least 1 dollar in value the next ten years" in 1985.

@@danejasho Well, I'm pretty certain 9 million dollars was worth more in 1977.

@@barnstormer546 Even accounting for inflation, that would still make no more than 50m in today's $. Marketing and actors' payroll simply cost _much_ more than they used to. Also, cinema ticket prices have soared like crazy over the last few decades, especially due to the VHS revolution.

At least

Funny but Luke was wrong unlike that reporter. Search you feelings. You know it to be true.

@Keithustus “NNNNOOOOOoooo! NOOOOooooo!”

Joshua Moncreiff I mean, Star Wars does sound like a porno name.

At least they got the escapism correct

Considering the other sci fi movies in the 70s that were heavy on message but short on fun it's not a surprise the reporter would say that.

As if Chewbacca was the first nonhumanoid to pilot a fictional spaceship, hehe! The Dalek would zap him first.

Paul Freedman and he didn’t have the high ground.

@@ShamrockParticle Wookies are humanoid

Space Dead - A non-human humanoid.

Classic racism

Sorry to break it to you, but Star Wars is pretty damn simplistic. There's no moral ambiguity.

@Cinematic Curtain: "If you do the research" corroborates the whole idea most people don't follow the writer's influences.

mOrAl AmBiGUiTy

@Cinematic Curtain: I never say whoosh in comments, but I really have to here.

@CrimsonTheNeek: Holy shit, tard cart. He's telling everyone to "do the research". That in itself says that most people don't know obscure influences. How hard is that to realize? You're funny, keep it coming, Chad.

No, thats wookieist

It is!

No, that's a movie!

Zach would be excellent at cinemasins. Lol!

@@thomashumphrey4953 he's just joking

"it's like the force is with us" "The force is with them, occasionally, the police force that is"

At least these encamped people didn't urinate or defecate in the street.

Yep. They were much more blunt and honest in those days... No sugar-coating for all the evil, spoiled babies

Jedidah Fire ok boomer

Still Savage even today!!

Yeah but it’s so true though. That’s why Star Wars was so amazing when it came out. It essentially combined two dead genres. Westerns movies which became oversaturated in the 50s and 60s and the Sci Fi genre which was either Schlock or Twilight Zone. I think that’s why a lot of people like The Mandalorian. It may be different but it feels like a return to roots compared to the sequel trilogy which doesn’t actually feel like Star Wars for most of it and a weird fever dream of corporate pandering and awful script writing.

Firefly foreshadowing

For me star wars is a space samurai movie

@@pavan_kumar556 As impossible as it might be, I’d love to see a western version of star wars, like some alternate universe in which the movies are actually set in the Wild West.

Cowboy bebop foreshadowing

Lmoa

He's right, you know. Those who participate in the Special Olympics are incredibly brave people who overcome adversity. People who create religions based on Star Wars are the real retards.

@@Manx123 Two popular religions, Christianity and Islam, are both based on fantasy fiction books. I see nothing different with a religion based on fantasy fiction movies and cartoons.

@@Domasiukas ​ Dear god you fedoratipping neckbeards piss me off

@@Domasiukas You have a point but it wasn't needed, wanted or a useful addition to the comments.

To be fair, you really have to dig deep for something meaningful other than "good is good"

@@zgSH4DOW Yea

@CrimsonTheNeek boomers think more then this zombie generation everything cool was made back then today's movies,music, and so called art are all shit so easy on the boomer bashing you owned them way more then you think boy!!!

Yeah, no moral or message, after saying it was Good against Evil. Sort of like, oh, I don't know, maybe the Bible? Which apparently also has no moral or message. Then for Empire they say "retarded kids" Groan

Geoffrey Linehan no moral msgs. Really? It’s called a fokin NEW HOPE! Teaches about friendship, corruption, senates, politics, spiritual powers, inner self, love, helping others, science, discipline, war, hope, teachers, books, culture, good vs bad... What the FOK more they want? Same as twilight, iron man, titanic...yeah, right!

Except they try to shove a political message in an escapist movie.

Disney also destroyed the escapism for a lot of us. Now that we know what the future is for our beloved heroes in Disney’s cannon. They’ve become failures, cowards, unhappy lonely people. Thanks Disney.

@@saymynameice-zen-berg511 Speak for yourself!!

@Ch1ll Movies have always had political messages in them you fucking Snowflake even Star Wars

@@whiskeycompany13 but it's not "women power", diversity for diversity's sake, or complaining for representation for lgbtq... Star Wars was a simple good guys fight for freedom from the bad guys and that even the most evil of them can be redeemed. I can see the argument that Star Wars was a metaphor for historical events such as the world wars or religious beliefs but its not social justice propaganda.

You feel that way because it's what just happened. Much as we might complain about boomers today, they had it just as bad (if not worse) when it came to enduring dismissive and judgmental rhetoric on many things they did, or would develop an interest in.

Same

These are the same people who would call gay people like me the f word. Boomers and gen x were horribly judgemental in general.

Everything in this video seems like a joke lmao

He was originally an executive at Wendy's

Jim McCracken his lawyer is named Grim M. Ace

His son is named Pizza the Hut

Griffin French His lawyer was Thanos?

TacShooter george lucas: yeah.....it’s about Vietnam

@@femmefuntime Except that the Empire's uniforms are Nazi inspired and the word Jedi is a contraction of Jehudi (Jew). The Jedis also have a Jewish ethos.

It’s Jedi you stupid fuck not Jedis

@@Keist44 Exactly

TacShooter there is none

That's how a character (recently seen the films but forgot who) I believe was on the rebellion called her 'lee-a' too lol

And don’t forget ham solo

Man not everyone was a nerd back on the 80's. They didn't care nor the viewers.

*cmon, ham, we gotsa save lee-a from da bad gais!*

That’s what most of the characters called her in a new hope

Yeah, Ikr almost as worse as Homer Simpson's infamous flub.

@@MrBoyYankee what's that?

@@alexrecrem9094 Homer told people waiting in line that Darth Vader was Lukes father.

@@MLBlue30 oof

They’re everywhere nowadays lol

Yep, Disney thought they could just cram a bunch of special effects in with sjw rubbish and nobody would notice. They were wrong.

Even Lucas said that you need two things for a movie to be successful and that was a great story and great characters. Special effects didn't even factor into the equation.

@@generalzod7959 Complaining about "sjws" is rubbish you deluded sheep.

@beta wave I'm pretty sure that's exactly where he went wrong. He knew that digitally he could create anything and he really went overboard with it with the prequels. One of the things I really enjoyed about the originals was the special effects at that time and how everything was so real.

@beta wave Haha yeah!

“That’s IMPOSSIBLE!”

Lol what. No it makes it look like it was made in the 70s

Watch like, anything else from the 70s. This checks out haha

The special effects still hold up, but people now are able to better appreciate the characters, story and themes for the films.

@CrimsonTheNeek Hasn't really changed since then.

People were a little more mentally stable back then and didn't have breakdowns over some spoilers

@Wolveon >1977 >2 years after the Vietnam War I wouldn't say people were "more mentally stable" back then lol

Alvin Ong Not every individual went to Vietnam.

Probably because the news was the only marketing you would receive that wasn't a trailer. People could easily avoid it. Kinda like trailer breakdowns on KZfaq.

Yup that struck me...‘twas always thus...

And always will be.

"Pure escapism... no social message.." we could use some of that again in today's SW sequels

Things weren’t that bad in 1980 from what I remember

@@tcraigh1 you dont remember anything do you?

He could save others from the clown but not himself.

Is Ronald McDonald a clown as to make fun of him? Lol

@@highmcfuckas3045 awww you're cute.

No one does that

Calm dowm

Nobody camps out a week before a football game. It doesn't happen.

@@DixiePokerAce You have clearly never been to a big time college football campus.

OK NERD

Are we any kin?, Johnny Hawkins Kentucky USA!!!

What is the moral of Star Wars?

@@PtPartss I wonder how I could apply that to real life. Like, converting my enemies to my friends so that we can fight a greater enemy?

親華會員 the moral of Star Wars is that the force is a cycle, and that it constantly tries to balance itself but over swings every time.

"No moral message" ... guess Rian Johnson didn't get that memo, huh?

@@psych46 Was just thinking the same thing. I'm not a big fan of the new movies at all but I felt the series started over-complicating things with social messages from the prequels onwards to be fair. They just went totally overkill with the newer ones.

A small diverse group of scavenger rebels miraculously defeating a technologically superior (implied racially segregationist) government dressed as Nazis, but no, definetely no politics here.

Also the Rebels are a bunch of spiritual fucking college hippies, it’s really not particularly subtle guys

The news broadcast was about the original Star Wars (what is called “A New Hope” now) The reporter was saying there’s no message in ANH, when in fact there were a lot of supermarket tabloids denouncing (and some supporting) the idea of “the Force” as a secretive message, an attempt to introduce Eastern mythology to American youth (including things like Yoga, if you’re young enough to remember that outcry when schools started having it in PE). That’s what I was referring to, not to the hardcore leftist crap that prances about like it’s legit SW movies.

It sounded like Peter Griffin

Back in the day you could call a spade a spade & a retard a retard.

It was the Boomer years.

I fucking miss it when they could say what it was.

Now 99% of the fans are retarded.

Too be fair, that is when Star Wars fans started to get annoying. Then the prequels came out and crushed their dreams. Sequels came out just to shit on the original and to make money. At least we still have the extended universe...oh wait.

​@@kylevernonand what did the EU start?

A Spectator that pronunciation is used by a few characters namely 3po and tarkin

Andy C next time put this -> 🤓 emoji.

"lee-ah?" Well, to be fair, even that rebel general giving the flight crew their briefing on the Death Star's vulnerable exhaust port mispronounces Leia's name this way... :)

This second one is ridiculous but just the other day I saw an Star Wars Fan comparing wookies to dogs

@@VicEntity Speaking of which, George Lucas, who produced the Indiana Jones movies which were directed by his friend named Steven Spielberg, came up with the name because his pet dog, a malamute, was named Indiana.

That’s what they told middle aged folks and the elderly who watched broadcast news. The younger generations were already Sci-fi fans from things like Star Trek and all the silly sci-fi before ‘77.

@@Keithustus yeah. I live with my grandparents and they still wouldn't give Star Wars a chance lol

@@terratheterribl Mine neither, but that's because they were Christian fundamentalists.

I wasnt going to say.hilarious no one vwr heard of alan ladd jr again.

Until Kathleen Kennedy, that is. 😉😉

ZanFear looking at the rise of sky walker is a mistake

Oh, do they have space horses? I'm so glad they tied to that very important plot point!!

....knew about Tauntauns...

@@davidbrockmeier9538 Those are adorable, fluffy, space lizards, not horses, thank you very much.

ZanFear you mean Mandalorian right?

Also Random Dude: "C O M M U N I S T A !"

first time i've heard the word unmolested and i hope it's the last

Ya when I started watching and it was about a nuclear site I was thinking this would be about Reagan’s Star Wars and to be disappointed.

my thoughts exactly lol

AND HUG

Worst journalists ever

I was thinking that haha

To be fair, he looks like a walking carpet

I was 7 and I got that light sabers and laser noises were cool. We didn't play much moral message on the playground doing Star Wars.

@@TS-qq7vr True, I didn't think too much about the moral message, either, when I was a kid. But I knew what that message was; I knew the Empire was evil, but the Rebels kept fighting despite the odds. Point is, there is a moral message.

Yeah, that's not a message. It's a cliche. Compared to sci-fi which typically explores complex themes, the original Star Wars movie (A New Hope) is pretty devoid of any such nuance. Even your quote doesn't really say anything. "Strive to do the right thing." Well everyone believes that. Tarkin for all you know believes he's doing the right thing. The key is in what *you* consider to be "the right thing" to do.

@@UnchainedEruption It may be a cliched moral message, but it's still a moral message. Nor does a theme have to be complex. You might enjoy complex themes; so do I. But, nonetheless, Star Wars has a theme. And you're taking me out of context, by the way. You know that when I said, "Strive to do the right thing...", it was in the context of good against evil. If you don't believe in concepts such as doing what is "good" or "right", because you believe that such concepts are subjective or relative to every individual, well, then so be it. Just know that the whole history of humanity and storytelling disagrees with you.

It was before any of the sequels. None of the characters hard arcs yet.

The news media has always been good at fearmongering

Never tell me the odds!

They probably didn't want to give credit to George. I mean, listen to the way they describe the fans. These news people seemed to be incredibly cynical and dismissive of the "odd" people waiting in line for Return Of The Jedi.

Not exactly. The reporter said, "Alan Ladd Jr., an executive at 20th Century Fox, whose film this is..." It sounds to me like he meant the film is 20th Century Fox's.

Christopher Thorkon He was actually instrumental in getting the film made. George says none of it would have been possible without him

Christopher Thorkon George had little involvement in the early trilogy. It was his idea and some of his writing, but between Fox and the editing, it was no longer fully his and better off as a result

I mean, the people waiting in line were quite odd. Who the fuck waits in line for a week to see a 2 hour long film.

The Lavian do not make fun of him. He’s a y-wing fighter.

@The Lavian thank the maker he was not on that blasted Death star.. or Dantooine

der kunstler I hope they know how much joy they brought people

The Lavian 😂😂😂

It is a fun story, but still fiction. Try studying history. There are a lot of real life events that are inspirational. This is how I might wax poetically about the early aviation pioneers who inspired me to fly. Now I could see something like "George Lucas inspired me to get into filmmaking..." being emotional. Unless there is something you arent telling us, like you flew the Space Shuttle or something like that...

Jay121 he hurt me

Lol I was laughing. Didn’t expect that.

they went from retarded to special. gtfo.

probably because it was overdone so much it didnt mean anything anymore, language changes over time. Change with it or die mad about it.

The reason is that the word wasn't used as an insult that much back then as it is these days.

Incontinent

Shame that I had to scroll the comments that much to find this

Disney seems to be just as clueless about Star Wars as NBC was back then. Unless *Jon Favreau* is appointed head of Lucas Film, I don't see Star Wars films being any great ever again.

Yep, there was only one black guy in space and it was Billy Dee Williams. How cool is that?

TALK!!!

Of course the first film had a message! It may have been as simple as “nazis are bad”, but it’s no less important...

And the first of the first Star Wars is literally about a bunch of college hippies who follow some weird ass spiritual cult & sit around in jungle temples, miraculously defeating the universe’s most technologically mighty government (whom are all dressed as Nazis & literally called ”stormtroopers”) through guerilla warfare & their belief in spirituality - that came out 2 years after the Vietnam war.

What about when the talking frog butt raped a blond teenager in the swamps?

Not in the 1977 film.

@Sir Knight Errant or maybe two characters in the background kissing for a few seconds isn't a big deal.

@Sir Knight Errant I hate Last Jedi, but only because it was bland and generic. They're not trying to "push a SJW agenda." Force Awakens and Rise of Skywalker were pretty good, though Force Awakened copied Empire Strikes Back a bit too much. You evidently despise the movies for daring to have a female protagonist, which is silly. Some pieces of media can fail because of trying to be "woke" instead of a good story, but hating the message is sexist/racist. Hating how it ruins franchises (Land of Stories, Mass Effect, Charlie's Angels) is understandable. My point is, some people create stories with the express desire of making money off of the Me Too movement. Some people ignore that and make good stories. But a golden few make stories that use a minority in their story in a way that makes sense, and doesn't detract from the experience/story and become amazing tales that move people's minds and hearts.

Sir Knight Errant Cool down man! I’m well aware Disney made it for the money, but the people who were in production clearly wanted it to be good. And I assumed (incorrectly, I now realize) that you disliked her because of her gender from your SJW comment. People who complain about SJW agendas usually use that complain as a way of masking their sexism/racism. But that also kinda makes your comment wrong. You dislike the movies for Disney’s greed corrupting them, not the “SJW” agenda then, right?

There was nothing more spoilery in those reports than we have now in trailers.

The only thing more mind blowing is footage from Japan when Dragon Quest III released. Kids were literally skipping school to buy it and play.

They still make toys in the US. They're just as shitty as they used to be and cost 10 times as much now.

I missed that...that’s a very good point. Defo all made in China now.

... You'd think he man would have had a nicer office than that.

@@jamesanthony8438 George Lucas forbid it! 🤣

SuperBondfan007 I remember when I was 14, I camped out with my older brother to go see Return of the Jedi. It was a really great experience. We meet a lot of cool fans that made camping out for the film really enjoyable. We had a blast exchanging theories about the film, talking about how we prepared to camp out for days on end, and so much more.

Pre release tickets didn’t exist 15 years ago either. Remember having to camp out for games and movies

I rather camp out more meaningful

@@vro981 I saw return of the jedi when I was 6 in the movie theater in long island NY, but I never camped out. Guess my parents waited a bit to take me.

@@sergequick5053 It's only meaningful because you give it meaning :) Personally I would love to camp out to buy tickets for a movie without having the theater call security on me lol

EYIEYIEYIEYAAAAA

go ahead, laugh it up fuzzball.

Torres Boxing then you need to reassess your life.

oh lighten up.

All because of George Lucas accelerating that process by inventing whole new technologies to make it possible.

Daniel Crozier 🤣🤣🤣

Burger King spokesman Ronald 😂

Still?

“Enough of this! Vader release him!”

It was during the Cold War.

It's one of the most simple and relatable forms of narrative. Relatable because family education is based on the Bible.

It's frustrating, to say the least. Seeing as how this pre-dates the prequels, you can't expect them to be savvy about how The Empire was once The Republic...

It's true, I remember going to Star Wars in the 70s and there was no message, in fact nothing even happened at all. They just got in their spaceships and sat there until the movie ended. No message, no content, no anything. I didn't discover til years later that it was actually because of a broken projector

He means moral [of the story]; the lesson to take away from it. Good guys are good and bad guys are bad is not a moral, just self-evident descriptions.

Yeah, and elderly people at that! Nowadays if you're over 45 you're practically unemployable.

8:01 Jonah Hill

"Molested" here meaning harassed or disturbed. Not as in sexually violated.

7:37 ⏰ is better

@@TS-qq7vr how old was he in 1983?

Waaah, my language is being policed.

Roonil Wazlib yeah, you can tell these news people are anti-Star Wars critics who probably didn’t even watch the whole movie.

Star Wars fans don’t have friends

And to choose to be good even when it can be so easy to be bad.

@@malalalalala2985 that’s just a stereotype.

No. A dozen others had fallen out of favor. 'Retarded' was the politically correct term in 1977. 45 years from now the kids will be shocked to hear us referring to special needs...

Nah, plenty of stuff was always offensive. People just didn't have the courage to speak out about it. Now they do. Sorry if that inconveniences bigots (not sorry).

Oh stfu

@@edgeninja no, negative words just get replaced with another overtime because what was once considered the correct term was deemed offensive because any word used for someone with a condition will be viewed as insulting.

Language changes, the context in which we view it changes, culture changes, that's life. If you're going to worry about every little thing that changes around you you're gonna be worrying a lot, fight the battles you know will help people instead of little silly contrivances.

Andy then you gotta see the mandolorian

Yeah but wheres the lassos? Oh wait... Tractor beams. Dammit!

Yeah, with some old Samurai and martial art movies in the mix.

@@DonVigaDeFierro I think that's not til later when the prequels came out

It actually was a deliberate part of putting it together. Star Wars, especially the first film, was a mashup of westerns, WWII films, and samurai.

His wife’s name is Wendy Tacobell

And the president of McDonald's was Burg R. King.