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Must Watch: A lucky little British kid visits Luke Skywalker on the set of The Empire Strikes Back!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. The swell folks over at Movies.com dug this crazy promo video up. It's to promote The Empire Strikes Back and has a little 8 year old contest winning mega-Star Wars fan visiting Luke Skywalker and R2 in Dagobah.
It's cute and a little creepy, especially towards the end. You have to watch, we'll discuss after and see if you saw what I saw...
There's some really regrettable angles on Mark Hamill's picnic with this kid. His lightsaber is creepily phallic. I'm not crazy, right? You guys saw that, too? And the host of Jim'll Fix It really should have thought his conversation with Chewbacca through. Did Chewy really growl that sometimes eats little girls? Someone involved with that program surely recognized the pedo-tastic double entendre, right?
Despite all that (or perhaps even because of all that), this clip made me smile really big. And it shocked me just how long the clip they ran was! Crazy.
What do you guys think? Dig it?
-Eric Vespe
”Quint”
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That is all.
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HAHAHAHAHA! That shoulder strap does so much.
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooo!!
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It was going to make an obscene amount of money either way. I feel sorry for Mark Hamill for having to help with this dopey promotion but guess it was part of his job.
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I was worried Luke was gonna invite that boy back to his "van"
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In the U.K during the 70's & 80's.
I'm sure Sir Jimmy Saville must have received more Star Wars related requests for him to 'fix' than any other type, save possibly for Doctor Who.
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No one gave a crap back then.
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So disturbing...
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Sep 06, 2011 1:52:13 PM CDT
Never expected to see Jimmy Saville on AICN
by judge dredds dirty undies
Anyone remember that episode where some kid had a replica 1989 Batman Batmobile?
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Sep 06, 2011 1:53:34 PM CDT
I prefer Jimmy Jangles http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK01f5_aKY4
by ugg
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Have you guys seen the latest trailer for the blu rays?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-r_Ja6RTVQ
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National institution. Lives near me. Met him a few times through work. AND HE IS FUCKING MENTAL.
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.. some kid wanted to meet clint eastwood, jimmy couldn't sort it but he got the kid this cool as fuck framed letter and autograph for him from clint instead. I haven't thought about that in ages.
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If you look at it now it does seem a bit creepy, but thats really quite sad state of affairs that people putting them selves out for kids ( ok , to advertise star wars too ) is considered bad.
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Sep 06, 2011 2:03:06 PM CDT
Cool clip but - man, the light saber thing is a freaking tragedy. Oh dear god...I've gone blind.
by trollspotting
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Just pointing something out.
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Now THAT'S creepy
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Sep 06, 2011 2:09:42 PM CDT
I remember watching this on tv when it was first broadcast..
by righteousbrother
Jimmy Saville wouldn't be let near a kids tv show in these strange days where seemingly pedo's are lurking everywhere.
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Is that the voice of Wallace from WALLACE & GROMIT? It sounds just like him!
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It's too obvious the kid is very shy and he's feeling embaraced and intimidated with the whole thing. And Hamill proved to be a very poor host to the kid. He probably was as embaraced as the kid.
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that was to funny!
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Chewies looks fucking awsome.
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this promo would be be perfect!
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if I could have been in the same spot as that kid, Luke's lightsaber cock dangling or not.
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Sep 06, 2011 2:18:34 PM CDT
Typical british! They can even turn a child vising Star Wars into a traumatic chiildhood experience.
by asimovlives
Well, if we learned anything from numerous british movies, Tv shows and PINK FLOYD: THE WALL, childhood in UK was a non-ending series of traumatic events one after the other. Then you hit puberty and things got even worst.
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It's seriously gotta be like a comfort movie for me. And a part of that feeling is coming from the crappy transfer. All I need now is an announcer narrating the trailer with a deep, comforting voice (a la Neverending Story).
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everything about this programme was pedotastic
http://youtu.be/rcFE7HEgX3g
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...Thanks, Quint!! I might not have noticed the lightsaber deal if you hadn't said something, you frikkin' perv!! Shame on you!
Gaahhhh...!!
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Fished in I was. Thanks.
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That just gets better with age, I'm looking forward to settling back with a smoke and a big mug of tea and watch it on blu ray next week.
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Men trying not to scare kids with that approach. Ironic, huh?
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...okay that was level AAA discomfort.
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we channel that pain, that's why Britain produces some of the worlds greatest bands, singers, music, actors, film directors,writers, comic book creators etc....not bad for a tiny little island. Where are you from again? Straight up lets hear it.
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He was just trying to akwardly relate to the kid.
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He was just trying to akwardly relate to the kid.
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was and is a very strange man. but I give him huge credit for keeping his private life. private. and he didnt even like children. never married. but he was a pioneer in the music industry. and raised huge amounts for charity. Former bbc 1 dj mike read said that in the 30 years of working at that station he never had a conversation with jimmy saville and if he did, he couldnt understand a word jimmy saville said.
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I was slightly obsessed with Jimmy after watching that Louis Therox doc.....I'm over it now...just.
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Miss that line... fuck you George Lucas.
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So is he luke skywalker? He lives on Dagobah and has R2. Or is he Mark Hamill? Hes asking about favorite parts of the movie? Is he Luke Skywalker playing himself in the movie?
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Sep 06, 2011 2:51:09 PM CDT
lucky you don't taste very good Great line removed for the dvds
by skiff
I can't believed he took it out maybe he thinks its up the the viewer to 2 and 2 together but i still love the line.
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LUCAS DID FOR STAR WARS WHAT RICK BERMAN DID FOR STAR TREK...THE DIFFERENCE IS, RICK BERMAN DIDN'T CREATE STAR TREK!!
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Sep 06, 2011 2:55:50 PM CDT
Mr Hamil. Why does your face showup when Vaders head explodes?
by knobules
Well Jimmy I have no friggin idea.
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Sep 06, 2011 2:56:05 PM CDT
Mr Hamil. Why does your face showup when Vaders head explodes?
by knobules
Well Jimmy I have no friggin idea.
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The context is that the characters are real, and the movie is about parts of their real lives. Kinda like when Buford Pusser was going around telling everyone about his big movie Walking Tall (then got killed cuz he wouldn't shut up about it).
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Sep 06, 2011 2:57:58 PM CDT
Mr Hamil. Why does your face showup when Vaders head explodes?
by knobules
Well Jimmy I have no friggin idea.
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...days before the Blue Rays hit? Quint, you guys need hits that bad?
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It's an interesting commentary on the age we live in that we should assume the primary motivation behind any enterprise is commercial.
Well, maybe the promo angle was why the film producers agreed to do it, but the point of that program wasn't to provide an advertising vehicle for companies, but to fulfil the wishes of the kids.
In the case of Jim'll Fix It, it was primarily good old fashioned, altruistic wish fulfilment.
Heck, the show wasn't even on commercial televion, but was created by the BBC! No "this dream was sponsored by..." and not even any tv ads.
Kids would write in to Jimmy and tell him something they would really, really, REALLY like to do and Jimmy would Fix It (organise) for them .
It might have been "To meet Luke Skywalker", or it could have been something as simple as a group of boy scouts wanting to eat their lunch on a roller coaster.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wwPeSDCCAs
Jimmy's trick was usually to go "above and beyond", not just fulfilling the kids dream but in some cases exceeding it, which in the case of the Luke Skywalker dream was probably the visit to the set during actual filming (tho I don't know precisely what the kids "dream" was so it's hard to say).
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Sep 06, 2011 3:10:09 PM CDT
redkamel, Luke Skywalker and Mark Hamill are two different people.
by rev_skarekroe
They're cousins though, which is why they look so much alike. This is all explained in a 1980 episode of The Muppet Show.
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circa THE HAPPENING..asking all those questions..
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1980. impressive...very impressive
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cause Id like to know
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awkward-tastic!
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Cmmmon! They weren't introducing Vader. That's just sloppy. Didn't they know I'd gripe about it on the internet 30+ years later?
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golly
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Wow, I had no idea kids were being damaged the Lucasfilm molesting machine that far back!
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I only got to experience the tail end of the 'Jim'll fix it show' because of age but what the show always reflected was the importance of recognising effort wrapped up in a way that was done with magic, innocence and wonder. Imagine being that 8year old at the time i mean it was the biggest movie ever made back then jeez a visit to the set ... Preety cool!
Yes, Mark Hamils light sabre dropped into an unfortunate position and yes Jims comment today could be (and clearly has been by you) taken in a really twisted way BUT really pointing those things out says more about todays sick world then the innocent one that was very clearly portrayed on screen. I thought Mark Hamil did brilliantly for playing along with this - something that would have meant a tone to the kid and everyone who watched. The Chewbacker moment was cool to jeez watching that, i wonder were such innocence on TV has gone. At one time there were shows that helped people to live dreams hope we get them back no one needs reality TV or crappy soaps that contribute nothing to society.
Jim is remembered here with fond memories for the joy he brought.
Quint as a reviewer for AICN your someone who sees movies first hand. IT would be good if you could watch those movies with a balanced view recognising that there are times when its OK to drop the cynicism and risk averse behaviour that is frankly often OTT. It kills joy and wonder and prevents kids (and adults) from being able to live dreams.
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I saw this on original transmission and remember being so jealous, nice find!
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Quoting from Jambe Davdar's excellent "Building Empire"documentary:
" There have been many audio changes to the Trilogy over the years from 35mm and 70mm prints, the Originals through to the SE's.
'You're lucky you don't taste very good' is heard on almost all of the video releases.
Yet, 'You were lucky to get out of there' appears on the 'Story Of', the 70mm Print and the Special Editions "
I also remember seeing this on TV (I was about the same age as that boy) and being extremely jealous! I can't say I found anything creepy about it at all.
Sir Jim raised an awful lot of money for Great Ormond Street Hospital (a world-renowned children's hospital) and also seems to have been the originator of gangsta fashion (what with his love of sportswear and extremely ostentatious jewellery). -
Sep 06, 2011 4:01:29 PM CDT
I missed where he took the kid to the "Dark Side" of the swamp...
by babblerouser
Instead of an submerged X-Wing, Luke hauls him to his broken down van that is stuck in the mud. Yoda informs the kid as they walk into the darkness: "Your under-roos...You will not need them."
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Sep 06, 2011 4:05:04 PM CDT
Quint, your observations are very, very sad. I am sorry that you are that jaded.
by cotton_mcknight
The only one who is having funny thoughts here (besides all of the other deranged talkbackers) is you. Looks like a good time was had by all. Can't you just leave it alone? Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, man.
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Fucking idiots on here ...
This was a 'make dreams come true' show ... Fantastic programme in its time and Jim is a legend. -
had his Joker voice back then, and did the whole thing that way.
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Sep 06, 2011 4:12:47 PM CDT
Seriously only 'GOOD OLD YANKS' could make this into something creepy ...
by ginge_muppet
Fuck Quint ... You're better than shit like this, pathetic ...
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Here here,
What a shame this innocent and fun moment now looks 'creepy' yeah that's a shame his lightsaber is hanging like a cock but I gues this was a rushed production and no one noticded it.Why are people so fucking jaded and twisted. Jim'll fix it was an awesome TV show. -
..well..ok, it was a guy in a mask and they piped in James Earl Jone's voice over a small PA and I didn't know David Prowse from a hole in the wall but me mums took my little ratfink self to a local shopping mall shortly after Empire came out.
I spent the entire morning trying to screw up the courage to ask him "Are you really Luke's father?" but then, when my turn came an he shook my hand (Vader had a good grip too!) - I just smiled like a moron and took the autographed picture he was handing out, unable to make a sound!
I wasn't pissed tho - I was so impressed that I'd met the real guy (long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away not withstanding)..it certainly was the real deal in terms of the costume, LEDs, the breathing, genuine leather and heavy fabrics, tall too (yeah i was a short little kid but he was much taller than the other adults, etc.)
Oh yeah...no creepy pedo vibe anywhere...altho, Mark Hamil is a fucking PURE GENIUS in his voice work for DC's Joker...if you haven't heard it yet, you are just missing out terribly on this guy's brilliant turn as the voice of one of the greatest comic book villains!! -
...'ow's about that then Guys n Gals...?!
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Sep 06, 2011 4:21:58 PM CDT
Ahh, to see the exagerated reactions of the geekry toward Empire Strikes Back. It's like seeing fundies praising god's awesomness. Total fucking dogma in action.
by asimovlives
Thank goodness my favorite George Lucas movie is THX-1138.
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Fuck man - is Chewbacca REAL?
That costume and make-up is quite something but I didn't realise the guy actually did the voice live - always presumed it was Ben Burtt sound effect dept added in post.
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It IS insane that people felt like ESB needed this kind of promotion.
In addition to poor Mark Hamill having to do this piece in character, I swear that I remember seeing a ESB Showcase on The Price Is Right's Showcase Showdown. It had a clip from Bespin and I think that one of the prizes was a set of fur coats (apologies to Chewbacca) to keep contestants warm like the Rebels on Hoth. -
I agree with tazzzer and was about to write something similar, but he communicated it quite eloquently and without malice. It IS easy to jump to the quick joke in this, and to be sure Quint was (maybe subconsciously) heading the talkbackers off at the pass. If he didn't say something, somebody else was sure to. But this clip isn't about that. It's about a time when we were all 8 years old and waiting, waiting for that next Star Wars movie. It was before the Internet could spoil every frame before seen. It was when ABBA and Bruce Jenner and Rocky were still heroes and before John Lennon was shot (maybe) and the money-and-power-hungry sins of the '80s came to be. I'm not a prude. I did giggle when I saw his lightsaber slip into phallic position.
I love this site for both the news and the camaraderie. Quint is one of my favorite writers here. No harm, no foul... just interesting thoughts and nostalgic images. -
How we've changed. Made in an age when life was not quite as cynical.
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It must have killed him to have to give the kid a medal.
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Sep 06, 2011 4:38:33 PM CDT
My asshole feels looser just watching this video
by melgibsoncalledmethenword
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Thank you
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is still better than those fucking rocket boosters.
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After all, he loves re-writing history :s
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Were shell suits ever popular in the States?
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Were shell suits ever popular in the States?
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Sep 06, 2011 4:50:30 PM CDT
Dear Jimmy, can you fix it for me to get a medal for my bravery at the Battle of Yavin. Your pal, Chewie.
by davidwebb
Howzaboutthatthen?
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Well, yeah I can sure as hell see it *now after you've mentioned it dude. (Good god...1980 really was a very long time ago wasn't it??)
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Ah, the good old days - Leslie Schofield (who played Chief Bast in Star Wars:A New Hope, and was also Johnny Brigg's Dad in Johnny Briggs!!) lived nearby, and used to sign autographs regularly when he picked his kids up from school!!
Star Wars was cool, gritty cop dramas were the Sweeney and only the fucking Sweeney (screw CSI!!), and Battle of the Planets was a good reason to trek a mile and a half home!! -
Sep 06, 2011 4:55:55 PM CDT
What happens in Dagobah stays in Dagobah...
by melgibsoncalledmethenword
lucky for luke
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Jimmy should have got those cub scouts to try and eat their lunch in the Falcon while attempting the Kessel Run. I realise that most people on this site won't know what the fuck I'm talking about
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...but I do get tired of the most innocent of gestures becoming fodder for supposedly being phallic or having a double meaning to it. Bit childish, honestly.
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Sep 06, 2011 5:04:45 PM CDT
Watch out Jimmy...there's a lot of snakes in this swamp ::unzip:::
by melgibsoncalledmethenword
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asking to meet "Bruce" from Jaws,he never replied,he's still in my Black book of "people i need to kill"
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Fuck G.L. If you must have sci-fi on blu-ray get fall get the Jurassic Park box set. Dinosaurs never get old.
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Sigh. Bread tags on mebrake cables, spokey dokeys, mini milks, panini stickers, Iron on transfers, Bazooka Joe, 10p mix.............
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and hip hop.
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Oowe-oowe-oo
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It wouldn't be surprise me if he was "meditating in the ways of the force" before he did this gig with the little kid. As for the video. People wouldn't be finding it creepy if the Hamill wasn't acting so nervous and spaced out. But like others said, it was a different time.
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I only said that I thought Mark Hamill a little stoned.
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I could have sworn Yoda was there too! What's with the teleportation though? Did they think it was Star Trek? I also remember the kid driving the Batmobile around the Gotham City set at Pinewood years later. This was after the first Batman movie came out. They had kept the sets up because the sequel was going to be made in England again, but Burton wanted to film in the US instead.
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Watched the clip before the jump just to see if I could pick up on whatever it was that bunched Quint's knickers into a pinch.
That's it? The way the saber hilt dangled off his belt? Really?
Leave it to a liberal to point something out to me that I should have the common sensibilities to be offended about. I'm on the right. I thought it was we who had a lock on that whole censorship thing?
As for the wookie, I'd imagine he'd appear intimidating to 6-year olds. Besides, his fucking name is "Chewy." Leave it to a liberal to infer that it means munching on bald snatch.
Just because your liberal ass is connecting dots that don't exist doesn't mean the rest of us should be in an uproar. As a matter of fact, it says much more about you than it does the rest of us.
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or have the Brits completely taken over this talkback?
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Quint, grow up. You lucked out with this gig, you wouldn't have been succesful in Hollywood if you had actually tried to enter the industry directly.
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that all the Brits are offended at. Sorry, but a little boy having a picnic with a grown man whose lightsaber is angled just so, is innappropriately humorous. Quit being so uptight.
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Sep 06, 2011 6:02:36 PM CDT
Why does he ask if he's okay finding his way back to England?
by kevin_costners_recycled_piss
Aren't they already in England at Elstree Studios?
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the human centipede
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A group will bandwagon onto one comment or idea, then a contrarian will post an opposing view, then talkbackers, seeing an opportunity to be self-righteous, will bandwagon onto that comment...until someone eventually pushes things back the other way. They often settle somewhere in the middle.
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not thought of those in years, wow
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Sep 06, 2011 6:11:44 PM CDT
I have painful memories of destroying my AT ATs/walkers with logs a la ROTJ
by iwasinjuniorhighdickhead
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At least, I didn't notice the stuff you did or think it was creepy. A little lame overall, yes, but not creepy. Seems like your mind is just in the gutter (mine usually is too, but not while watching vintage Star Wars stuff, apparently.)
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Prigs and empire builders...glad we left that party. Not that the U.S. is much better nowadays.
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No, not creepy at all.
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Sep 06, 2011 6:27:12 PM CDT
From the people who brought you "Han(d) Solo" and "Obi-WanKenobi" [wank= masturbate].
by mr stonky
Mark Hamill does looked a little coked-up in this. Of course it's probably just tiredness due to long filming schedules, but he did later admit "I would imagine went through a phase many people my age went through, where drugs and alcohol were a part of their lives[...]"
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Not heroic or "Luke"...just a weirdo.
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u dick - you said 'Prigs and empire builders...glad we left that party. Not that the U.S. is much better nowadays' a total contradiction in just 3 lines. Fuck sake yea u won independence 300 yrs ago honestly we dont give a fuck and all of us brits that come here do so for movies. Movies like Star Wars that simply couldn't have been done without these isles u twat!
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His delivery seemed pretty flat.
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WTF? "Star Wars couldn't have been done w/o these isles"? Are you kidding me? So a few actors wouldn't have accents and it would have been filmed somewhere else...who the fuck cares? As for the contradictions...where? I admit the U.S. has its empire building faults, but that doesn't make England's historical faults Ok. Yes, you gave us Shakespeare. You also forcefully (no pun intended) colonized a large % of the fucking world. I just pointed out that the U.S. might be on the same track now...sigh. Go have some tea and calm down.
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And P.S., your movies and T.V. shows suck rancor dick, so it's a good thing you come here for "for the movies." Your country could learn something.
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I would've given anything to have been that boy when I was that age.
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It's not the lightsabre, it's EVERYTHING ELSE. The way Luke is talking to him, the way the show host talks to him, and then the intimation that Chewie murders little girls. It all comes off as creepy/pedo.
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lol ... Coming from a yank thats fucking priceless ...
A million channels and fuck all worth watching. Be sure to let us know when the latest inferior US 'copy' of a Brit show arrives ...
My personal favourite is the American Red Dwarf ... what a fucking farce.
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Duh. I guess I'm still stuck in a time when Star Wars didn't blow and it was the first in a series of really great movies, not the 4th in a series of increasingly awful movies.
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personally there has to be a little grass on the field for me to play ball...not much, a few shoots will do, but at least a few blades.
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Yeah, I don't understand ANY of the changes made to these films, but the changing of that line makes absolutely the least sense out of all of them.
There was humor in the line, "You're lucky you don't taste very good." The replaced line, "You're lucky to get outta there" is dry and unfilling. It's a complete throwaway line. Why did he need to change this? Did he hate how good Kasdan could write dialogue and go, "You know, that line is too childish. Let's grow it up and have Luke recognize R2's "luck" in this situation. Yeah, that's introspective and humorous."
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Sep 06, 2011 7:04:58 PM CDT
So that's where Mark Wallberg got his inspiration for Dirk Diggler
by harryblackpotter
Funny, quaint but mostly just wrong. Never did see Luke with a girlfriend. Apart from perving over his sister. Just saying.
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Think Hamill was high. Or talking to the Dagobah plants.
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Sep 06, 2011 7:14:59 PM CDT
Not only wrong theme for Chewie, the song hadn't been in film yet.
by jediwise
Since the Imperial March debuted in Empire, the majority of the viewers would have never heard it as of the airing of that show, unless it was already being used in tv ads and trailers.
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Sep 06, 2011 7:16:40 PM CDT
John Barrowman does a Jim`ll Fix it show now for gay musical kids.
by harryblackpotter
I can imagine him luring some boy to the Torchwood set and exposing himself whilst singing I Got a Feeling!
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Haha, are you really comparing British vs. U.S. tv and movies? LOL. Right. Go ahead. No really. HahahaHahahahahahahaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahhaa. OK, go ahead.
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Sep 06, 2011 7:21:18 PM CDT
Entirely possible Hamill just felt awkward entertaining a child who was very shy ...
by ginge_muppet
But far easier to just claim he was stoned ...
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That was directed at bloody you, if you didn't notice. ;-)
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Glad it wasn't only me :> :>.I also met Darth Vader At Brent Cross Fenwicks once & had to George Lucas his autograph as it didn't fit my vision of how his handwriting should be.The ironic thing is it was probably a whiny kid in the outfit who wanted to take over the galaxy as well,I should've got a photo,same thing happened with Tom Baker dammit.Jimmy Saville was playing Louis Theroux because he knew he was being mocked,well played Sir,light up a big blunt on me.Some things in this clip I didn't see because I wasn't looking for them,not that theres anything wrong with that it's 2011,each to thier own I say just remember to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhYwEh0IMCg&feature=related & you should be Ok.
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Why would I compare when its clearly a fucking no-contest ...
British TV shows, Movies, actors and actresses are 99% of the time superior in every single way ...
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I know it was a much more innocent time back then, but a simple "Hey Mark, could you sit differently, your lightsaber is looking awkward" would have sufficed. Thank god he didn't touch it during that clip.
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I love Star Wars and that may have been the best thing since Return of the Jedi. Creepy, funny, awkward and hard to watch...kinda like a Saw movie. Now that I am really thinking about it, I think this was one of those after school specials...you know, where kids learn about how to run from sex offenders, pervs etc.
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Sep 06, 2011 7:41:49 PM CDT
agreed, too cynical these days, but the lightsabre positioning is pure universal humour
by iwasinjuniorhighdickhead
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Lucas, the film restoration/preservation hypocrite:
“In the future it will become even easier for old negatives to become lost and be ‘replaced’ by new altered negatives. This would be a great loss to our society. Our cultural history must not be allowed to be rewritten.”
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Sep 06, 2011 7:44:46 PM CDT
Saville is batshit crazy, but he's good mates with Theroux
by iwasinjuniorhighdickhead
the guy invented DJing and bling, so you've got to give him his due.
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So what was your favorite scene in Star Wars? I'd shit myself if he asked someone that today!
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Sep 06, 2011 7:47:36 PM CDT
I finally got around to watching that video...and I didn't find it all that creepy
by bobo_vision
And I'm pretty twisted. At least Luke didn't ask the kid if he wants to touch his light saber. I did find going on a picnic to be an odd choice. Made it seem sorta like a date...but apart from that, seemed perfectly innocent.
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Sep 06, 2011 7:49:48 PM CDT
Saville has helped raise over 40 million pounds for charity ...
by ginge_muppet
And sponsors medical students costing him over 50 grand a year ...
Top bloke in every way. -
Being American I've never seen this show before. The Muppet Show was the only other time I'd seen Mark Hamill play Luke in the context of talking to Earth people and now I'm wondering just how many promotional gigs Mark Hamill had to do in character. Did they send "Luke" to the shopping mall with R2 to listen to kids' wishes like Santa? Reminds me of when they had Shatner and Nimoy do parades and such in Star Trek costumes back in the '60s. They don't do this kind of in-character promotion much anymore, although the time they had the BSG cast do a Top Ten list in costume on Letterman comes pretty close. Very Galaxy Quest.
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How long till the medal ends up on eBay?
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Right, just like they invented house and techno. Sorry but DJing was "invented" in Jamaica in the 60's and 70's, then went north to NYC, Detroit etc.
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Sep 06, 2011 8:07:07 PM CDT
awesome, i'm getting into an argument about who invented DJing
by iwasinjuniorhighdickhead
I love AICN
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Sep 06, 2011 8:41:33 PM CDT
The pedophilia is all in your minds, people!
by marcel_the_negro_projectionist
Get a life! -
Well said.
Fucking scary that so many watch this and the first thing they think of is sex with kids ... -
Sep 06, 2011 9:04:28 PM CDT
So Yoda's too much of a diva to spend some time with the kid too?
by triple_j_72
Or did Yoda have the day off? haha... But seriously, folks...
I'm guessing Lucas wanted to keep Yoda's appearance a mystery until the movie's release. -
No WAY I would be forced to have shit like this put in my contract. Mark isn't the greatest actor, but he is an artist for chrissake--not a babysitter. Maybe I just hate kids...wait...yeah, that's it.
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I think it's a lot funnier than it is. Sorry about that
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I think it's a lot funnier than it is. Sorry about that
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Spock and Shatner teleported away from this weird gay planet that mixed reality and fantasy.
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That's the crazy kind of stuff that can happen when you have a communist pinko state-run TV channel that doesn't bombard you with advertising every seven minutes. Oh, that and some of the best TV programming in the world.
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Sep 06, 2011 9:35:31 PM CDT
David Gedge likes to claim that the Brits invented Rock & Roll.
by dennis_moore
Bizarre
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NBC's Chris Hansen is there sitting at a table when Luke walks shaking his head, "You rebel scum!"
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http://youtu.be/ZxjdcAibnoo
It was sort of cool and cringey at the same time.
Tricia Helfer, tho.
Wow. -
Sep 06, 2011 9:39:53 PM CDT
See, I didn't think of the dangling lightsaber as cock until I read it here....
by billy_d_williams
BECAUSE I DONT HAVE A SICK MIND LIKE YOU PERVS...
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A kid once requested that Jim fix it for him to be a "strong man" like in the circus, so they got Dave Prowse (the guy in the original Darth Vader suit) to give him some strong man exercises to do in the studio.
From memory the kid basically just did some head-over-heels roles on some bean bags and that was about it.
I think Dave must have needed some beer money... -
Silly debate. Both countries produce some excellent stuff.
Note, however, that the flat subscription model of HBO, AMC et al is closest to the BBC in its setup, and leads to similar quality. (In fact, I would say that the US now produces the best TV drama in the world, whereas the UK used to have that crown.)
The UK does invent most of the reality shows that other countries fall in love with, but I'm not sure how proud they should be of that... -
Sep 06, 2011 10:02:54 PM CDT
Fitting that this can only be refracted through internet bile filters now
by arteska
All these pedo comments and bullshit faux kvetching. Pretend for one second it's better to be a kid movie fan now vs. when this was made.
I guess when there's nothing to eat a 35 year old dessicated morsel is nourishing though. So happy to have lived when this stuff was actually cool and not just fodder for SEO and talkbalker self loathing. -
EVERYONE KEEPS SAYING BRITS OR UK,THE WHOLE CLIP IS ABOUT ENGLISH PEOPLE AND AN ENGLISH TV SHOW,NOTHING TO DO WITH SCOTLAND OR WALES.SAME AS THE ENGLAND RIOTS THE BBC WERE FORCED TO CHANGE THE REPORTS AS THEY KEPT SAYING UK RIOTS,WHY SHOULD SCOTLAND AND WALES BE TARRED WITH THE SAME BRUSH.BRITAIN IS 3 SEPERATE COUNTRYS WITH 3 DIFFERENT CULTURES AND 3 DIFFERENT LANGUAGES.
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Amazingly, the Beeb doesn't have a Ten O Clock hour-long drama slot on a channel that anybody watches. (such as BBC2, not 3 or 4).
Channel four never has the cash to do much in that timeslot, and ITV, of course, collapses into a regional mess at 10:30 every night
This is particularly annoying now that the watershed rule dictates the 9PM slot is a sort of limbo zone where sex and profanity are only theoretically allowed.
Not that they are pre-requisites of good drama, but it's impossible to imagine shows like True Blood or The Wire originating on UK telly. -
or some ring-in?
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yeah, bunch'a freaks. That day was probably the happiest of that lucky kid's life. And Mark Hammill seems like a great guy for doing this. And don't give me that bullshit about his contract. If he really didn't wanna do it, not even a herd of rancors could have gotten him to do it.
Get your heads out of the gutter, you freak'o'philes! -
+1
Post of the day. Grats. -
Sep 06, 2011 10:50:33 PM CDT
ROFL!! that's the funniest thing i have seen in the past few weeks.
by killik
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Touche. American TV is a wasteland of stupidity...we can agree on that. :) I really have nothing against our british cousins anyway...beer and typing is a bad thing...
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Sep 06, 2011 11:13:32 PM CDT
Don't worry though, there's only one sound that really scares me.
by xen11
Hi, I'm Brian Hansen with Dateline NBC.
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Where was that line?! In the movie he says "You were lucky to get out of there." Right? Right?!
Just kidding. Sorta. -
He'd be 40 now. Nah probably not.
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And to England-Thank you for Doctor Who and Red Dwarf and to Scotland for scotch and to Ireland for Guinness. Thank you all.
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It made me think this was a throwaway gag from the Holiday Special..
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kingslayer, scroll up to my first post
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There's a new deleted ESB clip that is HILARIOUS!
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
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The new catch phrase of 2011.
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Is Star Wars lowest moment. Fuck you George.
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And I said DELETED clip, as in deleted scene:
http://tinyurl.com/43pzuxr
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Sep 07, 2011 12:27:21 AM CDT
HarrisonPointyFord's PointyBrilliant InPointy ThatPointy PointyScene
by _nerfee_
Pointy.
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He just seems like he smoked a fatty right before they shot this.
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Sep 07, 2011 12:38:14 AM CDT
Not going to buy the bluray. Remember, there's going to be a bluray-3D set next.
by se7en
He ain't gonna get my money no more.
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Amazing isn't it? He also farted that Imperial March you heard on his way coming in. He's a man of many talents.
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Sep 07, 2011 2:30:06 AM CDT
Can you imagine trying to get Harrison Ford to do something like this?
by stegman84
Yeah, that was never going to happen. And Fisher was always stoned off her tiny tits, so she only made very occasional promo bit appearances, and George Lucas was more awkward than the kid in this clip, so all this kind of shit was usually heaped on either Mark Hamill or Anthony Daniels. Or both. Poor bastards.
Yet they always sucked it up, put up with the often rather humiliating schtick they were forced to partake in, and played along with seemingly good cheer.
Of course they'd always also roll out R2, and maybe have someone in a Vader or stormtrooper or Wookie suit as well somewhere along the way, but at least those people got to hide their faces. Hell, even Daniels did. But Mark Hamill had no such luck. Is it any wonder he got so sick of Star Wars by the end? -
Luke : Would you like to touch my laser sword little boy.
Little boy : Your face looks different from the first film!
Luke : Go on, look at it, its just been polished...
Little boy : nooooooooooooooooooooooo -
U guys must be gay!!! I had to play it again to see what the fuss was about! I wasn't looking at Skywalker's crotch! U guys are a bunch of gay mother fuckers!!!!
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Luke : Have you ever seen a grown Jedi naked?
Little Boy : Why are you always whining in the movies?
Luke : Would you like to sit on the knee of a Jedi Knight ?
Little Boy : noooooooooooooooooooooooooo -
went on to become a very successful movie actor after this, Yes... its Christian Bale
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...can you remember when you were 8 and Star Wars was the greatest thing ever, and you weren't a sex-obsessed cynic yet who saw pedophiles and phallic symbols lurking around every corner?
I'm glad I still can.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and sometimes a lightsaber is just an awesome weapon worn by Luke Skywalker. -
Sep 07, 2011 3:45:46 AM CDT
calastir shut up...the video is hilariously creepy. he fucking knows Luke isnt really a pedophile.
by melgibsoncalledmethenword
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Sep 07, 2011 6:24:40 AM CDT
re: "Darth's Fucking NOOOOOO is Star Wars lowest moment."
by scratchmonkey
It could be worse; Vader could go "Yippeeeee!" in Jake Lloyd's voice as he caber-tosses the Emperor to his doom.
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It ESB one of the first sequels where the intention is CLEARLY to make it even better than the first one?
Obviously Godfather Part 2 is another example. And, I guess, the Bond movies?
I remember as a little'un in the 70s that movies with '2' at the end of them were generally nothing to get excited about. The intention seemed to be a cash-in. Like, with Superman 2, they clearly couldn't afford Brando again. I remember noticing that even as a kid. He was edited out of the 'courtroom' scene reprisal at the beginning.
But now, one can get legitimately pumped about sequels. Spider-Man 2, Dark Knight, the Harry Potters.
I guess the big issue was this: they would tend to want to spend less money on a sequel in the olden days.
But now, we much more follow the Terminator 2 model: the sequel is SUPERCHARGED! -
The general public back then had a vague notion about it, but no one talked about it and when it happened it was all hushed up.
Now its become an "issue we have to confront" the media has done what they always do, up their circulation and ratings by scaring the living shit out of every parent and getting rent-a-mob out on the fucking streets with pitchforks and torches.
So the state of play 2011 is, when its mentioned, parents flinch and an awkward trip to the set of Empire draws kiddy diddling gags. I'm not saying they're not funny, because they are.
I recommend the Chris Morris Brass Eye special, or just repeats of Jim'll Fix It. -
He's Batshit Crazy you know....
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Congrats naked Chewie, you got your medal.
In all seriousness, this was very nice to watch when you were a kid. No kid would have noticed anything wrong with this show as every kid knows you can trust your movie stars and their light-sabers. lol
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Remember that dialogue from the Marvel Comics version: http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lioudlzvra1qcfe1to1_500.jpg
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Sep 07, 2011 9:13:57 AM CDT
Yoda says creepy this video not is. Unfortunate opinion of yours however...is.
by calastir
Real adults feel awkward around kids, because they forget what it's like to be one. That's the vibe you're getting. For the kid it's like sitting on Santa's lap.
Speaking as a kid from the eighties; Star Wars is awesome, adults are boring and the opposite sex is plain dumb and icky. -
Sep 07, 2011 9:51:39 AM CDT
Quint: I wouldn't have noticed if you didn't point it out. I actually think it's a bit worrying that the first thing you think of when you see something involving a kid, is something like that.
by chickenstu
I think this whole thing says more about the way your mind works, than a perfectly innocent bit of 80's english telly.
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Sep 07, 2011 10:08:34 AM CDT
I think they should have played it like "Hi I'm Mark Hamill I play Luke Skywalker"
by cureguy
"Isn't this a cool set?" I'm sure the kid knew it was a set. It wouldn't have destroyed his Star Wars fantasy.
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I seriously want an answer.Everything I see out of Englishmen these days is cursing and disgusting slang.They are so bitter, angry and quick to insult anyone who isn't English. Although English ladies I have met are much,much sweeter.Yeah, Americans are fat but England is right behind and least we are more open and friendly.Thank goodness the sun set on their Imperial Empire. That's right I said it. IMPERIAL EMPIRE! Where do ya think old Georgie got the idea?
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Creepy mental fucker!!!!
Apparently he is forced by law to wear all his jangly jewellery so that people have fair warning that he's nearby - like a bell on a cat's collar!
He famously decided at one point to do a Jim'll Fix It Christmas item where he went to the Holy Land and as no kid had written in asking to go and see Bethlehem he sent his researchers out to find a suitable orphan that could 'ask for this rare treat'.
Of course Jimmy went along too and jingle-jangled his way about the place looking like a Haunted Scarecrow. -
Sep 07, 2011 11:20:05 AM CDT
They totally made his saber look like a dick on purpose
by continentolop
Its subliminal marketing.
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Because England is a very stratified society. A small subsection of England - the home counties types who go to Oxbridge - are almost unfailingly polite. They're very well-educated and brought up with good manners. They also happen to be the subsection that creams off most of the wealth in the country by working in the City, sending their kids to private schools and voting against any fiscal policies that would redistribute wealth and widen opportunity. Little different from many other countries in this respect, except that there are greater cross-class boundaries that come from the way you talk and other shibboleths that help reinforce the encapsulation of the different "classes".
There has ALWAYS been a more aggressive, more cuss-heavy part of English society, but historically it has not been the part that most foreigners see, as that group had less money to travel, and didn't write the books and make the movies that got exported. -
Sep 07, 2011 12:04:38 PM CDT
Outisde of Manchester and London, the English are extremely polite, quaint and friendly, problem with the UK is they all have an inferiority complex and want to come to America
by continentolop
The new generation of chavs, and the scummy city ppl aren't very nice.
No Brits ever actually like Britain, or want to stay there. Every single one of them wants to move to the US. -
Sep 07, 2011 12:06:05 PM CDT
just watch Nil by Mouth for a look at the real England
by bacon_aesthetic
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He was like, "beep boop (head swivel)". I think he was stoned.
Or a pedophile. -
I think in reality you will find millions upon millions of Britons that have no desire to move to the UK.
I personally love living in Britain and have lived in quite a number of other places and in the end I came back.
As for inferiority complex - ah well, might be nice to think that but it's bollocks. In fact there will be many more Brits that have a superiority complex towards America than what you're suggesting.
Me? I'm level headed and am fairly ambivalent towards any country and make my decisions based on each individual I meet.
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Can't we all just get along?
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Sep 07, 2011 2:19:55 PM CDT
Yoda was banned from the set that day because he's a registered sex offender
by bobo_vision
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Sep 07, 2011 2:37:26 PM CDT
Why do people think the English are so polite? by cureguy
by ginge_muppet
LOL ... They don't ...
Its just a comedy stereotype ...
Bit like the people who think all Americans are super-fat, eat burgers all day and talk like George W Bush ...
Bottom line, Yanks and Brits like to gently mess with each other but at the end of day we are as close to best friends as you will ever see on this planet. -
Good man.
Have a beer for me. -
There was nothing creepy or pedophilic about that at all. Grow up.
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My boy is lucky, I never got that option......
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Really, boys are quite fearful of the Armadillo in his trousers.
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Great clip for so many reasons, none of which are related to sex (back off, perverts!). Firstly, hats off to Hamill for doing this - early days in his career still, but that lucky kid couldn't have asked for more. Love the way he even gave his street name when Hamill asked him where he was from - just shows what different times they were back then.
And total respect to the fantastic Jimmy Saville, a legend arguably as big as Star Wars in the UK. He slightly reminded me of The Emperor, sitting in his chair and ruling the world (of British tv in the 70s and 80s). Jimmy rules!
One other thing Hamill did in the UK in this period (and i swear i'm not making this up) was to join the Dennis The Menace fan club in the Beano comic. I have no idea what issue of the long-running grin-mag it was, but he was awarded the Star Letter on the letters page in that week's issue, which i suspect was around 1980. This is an entirely different Dennis the Menace to the American character, by the way. And to any other members of the Dennis fan club who are reading this, I say DING (Dennis Is Never Good). I shall expect the appropriate follow up reply in members code... -
...I thought this was the coolest thing I had ever seen on the TV. Hated that show, but that was amazing to watch when you were a wee lad. No internet so stumbling across stuff like this on TV was enough to make yer lightsabre twitch.
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Dennis owns naughty gnasher.
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And by all means, do cheet on your wife afterward.
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if you thought something "creepy" was going on there, that says more about YOU than the nice folks that made this little kid's dream happen
I didn't even get the innuendo of "eating" little girls you apparently IMMEDIATELY went to, Quint, until you pointed it out - same for the lightsabre-as-phallic-symbol placement
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Ahhh ,these were back in more innocent times , when as kids our imaginations were fired far more by films, comics, stories and good old fashioned play than kids are today and the prospect of meeting ones heroes ( as with this lucky lad) would leave you in awe, speechless.
Back then the ADHD hordes of dysfunctional fuckwits had yet to drag their knuckles and amble into the light of day to make the rest of our lives a fuckin misery. Back then you might aspire to being a postman, a fireman, possibly a builder. Nowadays kids come out in a fuckin rash if you mention work, and go into ruddy faced rage if the aren't guaranteed a life of celebrity style luxury where they can have ipods inserted intravenously and have what they want, when they want it.
Take your modern kid and transport him back in time and sit him ( or her) next to Mark Hamill and sure as god made little apples Hamill probably wouldn't get a word in fuckin edgeways, the kid would be seeking its debut in the next film or acting like some simian dribbler in a hoodie with all the composure of a spastic in wheelie-bin. Jim'll Fix it was indeed a national institution and realized a great many kids dreams. I very much doubt if the same format would work today unless yr modern Jim Fixed It for ya yoof to have lifetime supply of M-Cat or trainers.
But what a wonderful memory for this lad to have, whoever you are mate, congratulations all these years on. And even the shambling Great Merchandising Pseudo- Director Deity himself can't taint this....unless of course he sends the heavies round to confiscate the video. -
And fuck you too my good man, glad you realized in the latter part of your ill judged comment you are in no position to talk :)
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Sep 07, 2011 9:28:16 PM CDT
If you watch this and all you can see is the opportunity for a dick and little kid joke - you may be a pedo yourself.
by professor_monster
This kid is the luckiest boy on the planet - what i wouldn't have given to be in his shoes at age 8 - I mean, c'mon -- walking and talking with LUKE SKYWALKER!!! He's living a Charlie and the chocolate factory moment in REAL LIFE and all Quint can do is pull his pud and make comparisions of a graflex to a penis. I see nothing but goodness in this clip.
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We won't judge you, Quint. Get the help you need buddy.
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Bill Brewster, author of the definitive history of Djing, "Last Night a DJ Saved My Life" on why Sir Jimmy Saville is the most influential DJ there's ever been. Everything can be traced back to him. Incredible.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7v5QVpb1vE
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Mate, you're a legend for that correct reply! Who says the internet is full of geeks living in the past, eh? Now where did i put my members wallet and badges...
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If Lucas gets a hold of it, that kid's as good as CG'd.
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2 parts to this post.
1) Gunterfuckingmonkey u nob - the original star wars was partly made in the UK that is what i meant when i said it simply couldn't have been made at that time without these isles. This comment wasn't done to flame the whole fucking nonsense UK v USA debate - I had already acknowledged that you won independence and that 300 years later none of us here give us a fuck.
2) UK and USA spend most of their time in terms of trade, culture, history and values in bed together. Sometimes u fuck us sometimes we fuck u both like the bonk.
3) Quint - Its seriously disappointing that you invite comments and then can't even be bothered to comment back. The shittiest, weakest thing about AICN is theres little opportunity to engage the reviewers/commentators into debate/discussion. OK they occasionally post a reply but thats poor i would at least expect Quint to make a few responses here. But then again he never responds to email either so fuck him!
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