Nel 1978, il regista George Lucas si convince a consegnare Guerre Stellari al mondo del varietà degli anni '70, culminando in The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978) e citato come una delle peg... Leggi tuttoNel 1978, il regista George Lucas si convince a consegnare Guerre Stellari al mondo del varietà degli anni '70, culminando in The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978) e citato come una delle peggiori forme di intrattenimento di tutti i tempi.Nel 1978, il regista George Lucas si convince a consegnare Guerre Stellari al mondo del varietà degli anni '70, culminando in The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978) e citato come una delle peggiori forme di intrattenimento di tutti i tempi.
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Also, interviewing Kevin Smith and Patton Oswalt for your documentary is perhaps as bad of a move as making a Holiday Special in itself.
The former is known for his extremely liberal remake of He-Man that flopped - which is great. The latter had every unvaxxed person banned from his comedy shows. How can you even trust the opinions of persons like this?
Young people will have a hard time grasping the magnificent awfulness of these things, but the documentary starts by pointing out - with examples - that by the standards of the time, this was no worse than a lot of others. What made it uniquely terrible was the attempt to make it both a variety show AND semi-serious Star Wars canon.
I honestly don't know if I watched it back in 1978. If I did, I wiped it from my memory. I did watch it a few years ago, after the bootleg showed up on YouTube, and it's is truly horrible. Even if you hate watch it, you need to fast forward to the "good" parts to keep from being bored and/or getting a cringe headache.
The documentary does a good job of breaking down the exact chain of events that led to the Special, and the revelation is that Lucas was far more involved than he admits to now, at least in the beginning. There's lots of entertaining commentary, both by the people involved and by modern celebrities.
I dinged it a little bit for two shortcomings: (1) I would have liked a few more clips from the Special, with direct commentary about them. They did this a few times, but a few more would save you the trouble of ever watching it.
(2) They pulled a punch by making no mention at all of the extreme amount of cocaine that was *definitely* involved in the creation of this. I'm sure they left out some good stories in that department.
Still, fun for Star Wars fans who are also fans of bad television.
The good: it's always funny to watch things go awfully sideways in showbusiness. And this television special indeed does look AWFUL.
The bad: but can one make a 90 minute long documentary about a television special from the seventies and stay interesting till the end? NO. NO. NO.
This idea was fun for some 30 minutes, but then I began to get bored watching it. Perhaps it is fun for the full 90 minutes for the die hard Star Wars fans, who want to collect and see everything (good or bad) related to their much loved scifi classic.
It's not a question of whether the "Star Wars Holiday Special" was a failure, it certainly was, when George Lucas himself disowned it. After all, the whole franchise has always been more of an industry for the sale of children's toys, than a serious sci-fi, driven by an idea, unlike some other series. But as bad as this incriminated special was by all parameters, it is not worse than the Disney sequels that we got this century.
On the other hand, this year we received an interesting documentary film, decently directed, fairly measured, with interviews and TV clips quite tailored, with the aim of a very realistic description of this kind of disaster. There are also reviews of the animated short and the Jefferson Starship performance, which we may or may not like. It is interesting to mention the missed opportunities for Cher, Robin Williams, and even Raquel Welch(?) to appear in the special.
It is also interesting that the question of the importance of editing was raised, which certainly contributed to the debacle of the special. Allegedly, the original film "Star Wars" was also saved in the edit, about which you can find more information on the subject on blogs and YouTube.
Will such documentaries be made and about all the failures of this serial in Disney's production in the future, I really don't believe, because they are not even worth this much mention.
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- QuizThe Star Wars Holiday Special (1978) aired only once in the US on November 17, 1978.
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Gilbert Gottfried: When 70's TV was bad, there was no description for it
- ConnessioniFeatures Donny and Marie: Episodio #3.1 (1977)
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