OK, alright, so hubby DVR's this thing called: Star War IV, A New Hpe...

[bridgit]

what the hell is it? is it the ole Star Wars? the original? an updated version what!?!??! cause i like the original and it's playing like the orignal...what is going on with this thing; oh shit...there's C3PO screaming about being lost on a sand dune, that's seems like the old one, yay!

[idgiehkt]

1. I'm so glad to see you are still up

and not lying down...don't want you to forget about the lasagna...I'm about to go to bed as soon as they catch the wife faction of the husband/wife serial-killing duo and keep them from getting extradited to the U.S. :hi:

[bridgit]

2. what?!?!!? "husband/wife serial-killing duo and keep them from getting extradited to the U.S."...

dammit!! that'z it...this freaking world NEEDS me to regulate matters :thumbsup:

[idgiehkt]

6. ROFLMAO!!!

Well, hubby was extradited to the US but the wife was in WA state so the undercover narc who is the brother of the cop on the case was put in the cell with hubby and told to find out where she was and he went to get her and then she tried to slip him a mickey so he cuffed her and threw her in the trunk and drove her back into Canada. Happy ending, the U.S. got one half of the serial killing duo and Canada got the other one (there were victims in both countries :( )

[petronius]

3. That would be the original story

Except that there is an 'updated' version with some extremely ill-conceived revisions...

[bridgit]

5. hubby's daughter showed me the original May The Force Be With You button....

she still has from when he had taken her to the very 1st showing, it was like looking at a tiny bit of history so as to say

[petronius]

7. You mean the very first one ever? How incredible...

I still remember seeing it in the theater for the first time - I don't remember any other movie for decades after that; it made a huge impression...

[bridgit]

8. yep, the very 1st one ever...

way-long before it was an institution or franchise ;) she is such a precious woman for keeping the moment near & dear :loveya:

[petronius]

9. Wow - what an experience

If that's her in your earlier post, she must have been very young. It says a lot both about the power of the movie and your hubby that it made such an impression...

[bridgit]

4. very well, so there's Uncle Owen....this part i know...

:bounce:

[billyskank]

10. It's the ole Star Wars, renamed

because he subsequently made three prequels to it.

Renaming a film years after the fact is the work of an asshole. ;)

[bridgit]

11. yeah, i think he thought it was going to be a popular success, but had no idea...

it would become the icon it is and so we are to suffer ever-new rounds of lunch pals, t-shirts, prequels & re-titles of the same ole stuff it would seem ;)

[idgiehkt]

14. incongruent reply

just to demonstrate the presence of more than four (4) actual posters in the lounge.

[billyskank]

15. There are only four posters in the lounge

any suggestion of more than that is a mere optical illusion. :hi:

[idgiehkt]

16. clones?

fun-house mirrors?

I've been bamboozled!!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[billyskank]

17. Sock puppets

It's the three admins Skinner, EarlG and Elad with 500 browser windows each all posting like fucking crazy. :D

[idgiehkt]

18. oh shit

that is something to ponder, lol

:hi:

[jmowreader]

12. He didn't rename the film

I went to Star Wars the day it hit the theatres.

Remember the neat "Star Wars Scroll" at the very beginning of the movie? Well...at the top of the scroll is very clearly emblazoned, "Episode IV: A New Hope."

The story of Star Wars was originally envisioned as a "supertrilogy." There were three big epochs--the Episodes 1-3 era, the Episodes 4-6 era and the Episodes 7-9 era--and each epoch would require its own trilogy of movies to explore. Unfortunately for the story line but fortunately for us, the middle epoch is the one Lucas chose to make first.

Be glad he didn't begin at the beginning--Jar Jar Binks woulda so alienated the world, we'd never have learned about Darth Vader.

[billyskank]

13. That may be so (although I never noticed it), but...

the film was in the cinemas as Star Wars. The posters said Star Wars. When I was a kid, the films were: Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return Of The Jedi. Nobody ever called Star Wars "episode four" or anything like that. So yeah, he did effectively rename it.