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The Empire Strikes Back celebrates its 30th Anniversary

ProtoAvatar said:
Lucas assumed this exact thing - remember the celebratory fireworks taking place on many worlds after the teddy bears defeated the 'elite' imperial troops, enabling the rebels to blow up the death star:lol:?
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Those weren't fireworks, those were bombs being fired from orbit by the tens of thousands of Star Destroyers in order to put down the uprising. :p
 
T'Baio said:
Wow...it's finally happened. Harrison Ford looked genuinely old in that clip.

Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull aged him 20 years. :lol:
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Yeah, you ever notice how some folks slowly waste away, but others (like Ford) look awesome, young, and spry for years and years, but they allofasudden go geezer on us? He looks at least 15 years older than Sir Alec did in "A New Hope". Hope it's not The Big C. :(
 
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Harvey said:
You mean nerds waited until the movie came out to nitpick it?

What did you old people do without the internet back then? :p
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They lived happier lives.

Python Trek said:
JarodRussell said:
Aragorn said:
Time for Dennis Quaid to start playing Harrison Ford! :p
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Please don't remind me how close we were to get Indiana Jones 4 with Dennis Quaid as Indy's brother. Instead we got Labeouf and Aliens.
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How did I miss that bit?
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The Indy's brother thing was an idea going years back. At one point, I think Kevin Costner was rumored for the part as well.
 
The best of all the Star Wars movies. I was 10 when this came out, and my parents, brother, me and my grandma all went to see it. I don't remember much--you would think I would--but I remember not liking the ending how Han Solo wasn't rescued and how you didn't know if Leia and Luke were going to be boyfriend and girlfriend, even though she told Han she loved him.
I remember still thinking that it was a trick that Darth Vader was.....:wtf: :guffaw:

And whether you like the prequels, think Lucas is a nut, or anything in between, this movie and all that it was about changed the lives of people everywhere, and this franchise changed the way movies were made and thought of.

Love it!:techman:
 
The Stig said:
JarodRussell said:
It was very good for the movie that George Lucas didn't direct it, I believe.
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Or write it. Or have much to do with it at all.
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Claiming that Lucas didn't have much to do with ESB is an erroneous claim at best. Granted, it is true that Lucas didn't direct ESB and Kershner had fairly free hand, Lucas still had considerable amount of control over the film, including being executive producer, crafting the story, writing several drafts of the screenplay, and overseeing nearly everything on the technical end.

I am not a Lucas fanboy, but credit is due where credit is due.
 
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