Comments on: Star Wars at 30: The worst programme ever made

by: fernando

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:23:18 +0000

Hello

First of all, i admite that i am a True star Wars fan. I’ve been called Geek so many times just and only because i love star wars. i dont care.

I’ve never had read such a sincere and TRUE Star Wars: Holiday Special critic until yours. After all, i can say that i like (but not love) The Phantom Menace. I like too (but dont love) Attack of the Clones as well. I hate Jar Jar. But after all of this, I’ve never watched Holiday Special till the end. I can’t arrange it. Some friends and I were about to watch it (and tryied not to drive crazy in the meanwhile), but we quit just few minutes after when the little wookiee was watching the coreographic circus holographic sequence. Just Awful. Boring and awful.

I can’t tell you anything after that. Didn’t watch Luke nor Leia there. And have no plans to do that as well haha.

*sigh

by: Takeshi

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:23:09 +0000

You have to admit, Star Wars at least has respect for geeks today, unlike back then when it was just another marketing machine: this is especially apparent in the scene where the Stormtroopers wreck that wookiee kid’s toys just for the hell of it, because they’re eeeeeevil and stuff.

by: Bonnie

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 02:10:44 +0000

I’m actually one of those few fans who loved the Star Wars Holiday TV Special for its campiness, weird plot and Bea Arthur! It captures the bizarre variety TV show craze of te ’70s perfectly! And I have to admit, even if Harrison doesn’t look like he wants to be there, he sure is cute in the show.

by: Mmmm » Star Wars at 30: The Ratings Explained

Sun, 24 Jun 2007 17:08:13 +0000

[…] In any case, and whilst trying to put out of my mind the ‘no stars’ shambles that it is the Star Wars Holiday Special, we reach the lowest rated of the movies, the commercially massive and critically reviled The Phantom Menace. It has its moments, but TPM remains a massive disappointment, mainly because Lucas intentionally plumped for a kids flick whilst paying the lightest of lip service to his long haul supporters. I think it was Alan Hansen who once said you don’t win anything with kids, and here it proves to be the case. Jake Lloyd, who was ten when the movie hit the screens, looks like he has a lot of fun portraying Anakin as a child, yet his is a thankless task, transforming Darth Vader into an annoying, all-American munchkin, which looks wrong even as a set of words on the screen. It just about stays within the realms of plausibility that he wins the pod race on Tatooine. However, once his larking around in space leads to him destroying the enemy starship, any viewer’s patience must have been stretched to breaking point. Throw in Jar Jar Binks (who is conspicuously reduced to cameo roles after TPM), a Jedi Council that does nothing but sit around prissily, spectacularly dull scenes set on Coruscant, acting that shows clear signs of nerves at being set against a green screen, Liam Neeson never looking that interested in his work, and the usual lame gags, and it’s obvious the film is in trouble. The proceedings are very nearly saved by the late appearance by Darth Maul, his sizzling lightsabre battle, and some rather gorgeous effects that are occasionally mixed in with the inspired use of Cesena’s Royal Palace as a location. None of these are quite enough. It’s Jake and Jar Jar that set the tone, and TPM gets a shabby two Darths for its trouble. […]

by: Mike

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:15:45 +0000

I’m with you on that, Amanda, but I have to be honest and admit that even after all the bad/dire/comedy reviews of the Spesh I came across, I still had to see it for myself. Not sure whether it was through wondering if it was as bad as all that, or simply to see how poor it was through my own eyes.

But you are right. It’s an hour of my life I’ll never get back.

by: Amanda Jones

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:58:11 +0000

Everyone -needs- to watch this,
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I don’t really think they do. I don’t think anyone deserves to waste an hour (or however long this takes) of their lives on this. And I don’t think most people CAN sit through this even once. I ‘watched’ in on fast forward after the 10th minute, and don’t exactly feel like I have missed out. It’s just terrible, nothing else.

by: Mike

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 04:54:42 +0000

Too true. Pete - I don’t blame you for an instant. Nothing can prepare the humble, innocent viewer for the horrors of the Holiday Special. It’s jaw-droppingly awful, in a way that both makes you doubt such a sack of cack could ever be made, and leaves you totally unsurprised over the fact it’s only available on the internet black market.

by: TD-0013

Fri, 08 Jun 2007 05:29:58 +0000

Yes. Everyone -needs- to watch this, if only to claim it like a badge of service to the Emperor (George Lucas) and the galaxy at large. A very, very painful chapter in the saga, but still, if you’re going to call yourself a true Star Wars fan, you -must- watch the Holiday Special… If only so you can complain about it. Heh.

by: Pete

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 22:47:17 +0000

Thanks for the review.
Been reading all your other Star Wars reviews up til now, and have really liked them, but I since I’ve never seen the Holiday Special and have heard so many (bad) things about it, I just had to read this.

What can I say?

I want to watch it!

Even if I don’t watch it all, I want to see how bad it is - the make-up, the horrid costumes, the star wars song!!

Plus, I want to see if you can read the “I can’t believe I’m doing this trash” in the eyes of Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher