I desperately wanted to smile even once while watching this crap... when it finally, thankfully and mercifully ended, I was amazed at how something so awful could still be remembered. The rumors that Lucas liked this snoozefest must be false. Even if he did like Jar-Jar and a farting camel, he couldn't like something that bad and boring, unless he was on drugs, when everything seems funny.
I saw it as a kid on pay-tv in like 1979. You gotta remember, during that time, we were lucky to have five tv channels over the air, and there was actually something watch compared to the 500-channel infomercial universe of today.
E-mail was in its early infancy, confined mainly to universities, there was no internet as we know it. VCRs were a new gadget. The only cell phone equivalent was a car phone, and that was confined to the rich.
It was a different time, and a short fondly remembered.
Larry
Yes and it's still funny to this day. Each to there own dude.
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Spaceballs was funny. This movie is not.
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I just watched it again and loved it!!
It brought back amazing memories and my friends and I still quote some of the lines in the short.
Sorry, but the absolutly only reason anyone would find this funny is because it is a parody of star wars and it came as the first parody of it. Just saw it and it looks like an awful attempt of fan-make-fun-of than a funny parody. Only reason likes this is cus all the others actually tried to make many and were somewhat good. This one is a joke and therefore a safe choice to like for Mr. Uptight...
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I saw it in 1978 on the big screen at a guild function in Hollywood, it was a huge hit.
Remember, before consumer / prosumer video equipment came about and the internet offered world wide distribution, doing something like this on 16mm was a huge personal investment of time and money.
Well said, my friend. I saw it in '78 and laffed a helluva lot.
shareI just rewatched this amusingly goofy short and thought it was still quite funny. Yes, it's very silly, but still gut-busting just the same. There's a sense of blithely dumb merriment at work here that's both endearing and hilarious in equal measure.
"We're all part Shatner/And part James Dean/Part Warren Oates/And Steven McQueen"
I watched it when I went to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo between classes to earn my teaching credential in 1978-79. They showed it constantly on the TV in the lobby area of the student union and it always got a good laugh. It wasn't long but it was good. It gave us something silly to laugh at and relax between the seriousness of our classes. I am looking for a copy of this short and also the short called "Why Man Creates."
shareI always thought it was hysterical. I still do.
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