The Star Wars Holiday Special Review
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- In keeping with the theme of 1 Star Wars review a month until I can make it through the whole series... it's time for the one that I must admit, several of you saw coming. The made for TV special that has a cult following in much the same way that Manos: Hands of Fate has a cult following... Like hairy family members? Constant screaming? Random disjointed whatever? Well... this special may still make you reassess you life decisions.
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Well, I watched this and then went and watched the Nostalgia Critic's review... yup. I still think you're better at this.
Man, Decker is better than most UA-cam critics
@@TheVagabond627 so true..
NC isn’t bad. I think he tries to hard to be funny
well this a thing 10:02
@@erainmartinez8175 I know right?
Wen we watched this, Me and my mom were in hysterics at the visible wookie hairline !
not lying this movie triggered my depression i tried to watch it about 2 years ago it was so shit i got 30 minutes in and wanted to die
hey decker you should review krampus 2015 since it's a Christmas/horror movie you would probably like it, especially since it's pretty fitting with Christmas coming up
HEY what's wrong with SKELITOR
Hay decker scince the holiday season comeing this is a requist for a movie for you to review. Can you please review THE POLAR EXPRESS
It was a good time! Had some fond memories there! :)
I like you better as sans moustache
In before Mandelorian acknowledged life day. #stupidpastpeople 😜
I am actually old enough to have watched this live. I remember my grandmother laughing at the cooking scene. Believe it or not, this scene actually had an audience back in the late 70s.
Are we just gonna forget about the seen when Chubacca's son stands on the railing, contemplation life and death!?!
Hijacked TARDIS We were all rooting for him to jump.
That's because IT'S SO DENSE, EVERY SINGLE FRAME HAS SO MANY THINGS GOING ON
I was yelling do a back flip!
When the Disney Star Wars films came out, I would not rush to see them over the first weekend but I had a couple of co workers who rush to see them. So I put a sign on my office door.
"If you tell me about the New Star Wars Film, I will force you to watch the Holiday Special and the Ewok Movies ".
It worked . No one ever told me any spoilers .
Itchy keep those disgusting wookie paws where we can see them.
+SkyCommander
*Furious Masturbation*
Why can't we see grandpa's hands
@@jasonkreider8954 Because he was watching space porn
R2D2 vapes? Well at least he doesn't smoke anymore.
Hope you all get that reference.
No, the humour is too subtle.
yes you were referencing THE STAR WARS ANTI SMOKING PSA COMMERCIAL.
So now you, Cinema Snob, and JonTron have all made the same mistake of thinking Kenny Baker was left uncredited. Actually, Kenny wasn't in the R2D2 suit at all during this special. I don't know if they got someone else or if they just had an empty shell puppeteered via RC, but the opening credits are not to blame here.
THIS. It's a hysterical irony that Kenny Baker, the one actor who wouldn't have had to show his face (aside from Mayhew), was spared this special.
Still pretty sure that R2-D2 wasn't played by a real sapient AI machine by the same name tho...
It was a remote controlled R2-D2 (controlled by Luke's receptionist)
@@lizzychrome7630 also Anthony Daniels
So glad they changed the Wookie homeworld name from Kazook to Kashyyk. Kazook sounds too much like a Saturday morning cartoon
Damn it decker I thought as starwars fans we all vowed never to talk about. THE HOLIDAY SPECIAL!!! the film Lucas was actually ashamed and that's comping from the guy who thought jar jar was a good idea
Gideon Horwitz don't forget Howard the duck.how was that a kid's movie.
Jar Jar wasn't a bad idea entirely. Jar Jar was overused if he had less presence in the movie where he's not needed he wouldn't be a big deal. I actually think the Gungans themselves were a good idea. This makes Otta Gunga Sparta and Naboo Athens. Considering all the themes in the prequels and what ultimately happens it makes sense that the Federation is basically Persia. The Neimoidians being Possible Asian stereotypes I never really understood or caught even as an adult not withstanding.
Then again I wasn't aware of Slavery in America until about Middle School. Also George probably grew up on a lot of racist things and his subconscious of all that probably came out through making Ep I. I'm not saying it's an excuse but even the Flintstones has racist moments. However I don't think it was Georges intent to create characters that are stereotypes he wanted colorful (pun not intended) alien characters.
I think the holiday special is the best of the quadrillogy
It's kind of ironic - in regards to something Decker said about Darth Vader around the 7-minute mark.
Truth be told, back when I was a kid and even today, I kind of found at least one moment in the original trilogy where Vader legitimately came off as a "Saturday Morning Cartoon Villain."
It was early in the first movie after he's told that the escape pod was jetisoned without passengers.
"There'll be no one to stop us this time!" - it always struck me as a cartoon villain line.
Especially because...Vader is a representative of the Government and he virtually has full authority to do whatever he wants. So it's not like anything that he was doing was the "dastardly illegal" variety that the "good guys" thwart.
Lost it att "also Lumpy is f*cking insane".
Even a die hard fan of Star Wars would have trouble sitting through the Holiday Special.
I think it’s fascinating
Its not Kazuuk its Kashyykk.
John Avenger might have been called kazzuk before the universe was really fleshed out, this was only a year after A New Hope after all.
Yes but I know my Star wars history especially the name of the planets and such.
congratulations....
I have seen the holiday special for some reason in there is says kazuuk not kashyyk
another mandela effect ???
No wonder Harrison Ford wanted Han Solo to be killed off in Empire. Being in this must've been extremely traumatic.
I hate the special edition but in some way I think it's sort of funny because it's so weird!
Leia seems fine considering it's her first life day since all of her family (that she knew at the time) died. Never forget Alderaan
Damn you Decker, I tried for decades to forget this monstrosity! The horror! The horror!
WOOKIES TALKING FOR 20 MINUTES!
Cannot unsee. Cannot unsee.
stir whip stir whip, whip whip stir. stir whip stir whip, whip whip stir.stir whip stir whip, whip whip stir.
sat through the Summer of Hellraiser , but the SW holiday special is too much torture.
Lucas had nothing to do with this, but yeah, he helped fake the Moon Landing
Harvey your better than this Goddamnit! You were in Blazing Saddles for Christ sake have some pride in yourself.
Just add the Rifftrax commentary and suddenly it becomes one of the best Star Wars things ever!
DECKER !!! I DEMAND!!!! YOU TO REVIEW THE MOST RECENT HOLIDAY PARODY OF THIS FILM "STAR WARS CHRISTMAS : FORCE AWAKENING! I remember first seeing it one faithful Christmas and it turned out to be an awesome parody of this special. It was awesome, funny, and I think everyone generally had a good time making it haha.
WHY ARE YOU SUBJECTING YOURSELF TO THIS?! There are plenty of other Holiday related movies you can do, that aren't anywhere NEAR as bad as this!
Still better than the new crap they now churn out yearly.
And people thought the Prequels were bad....Speaking of which Decker, whats your opinions on the universally hated Prequels? i feel that some of it, especially Episode 3 has some good stuff in it.
been a long time since I've seen them, but I remember actually being interested in the politics come ep 2, and ep 3 being kinda jumbled around the start but of course having the strongest ending of the prequel trilogy. (spare.. well.. we all noooooo what I'm talking about)
I dont know why peopel bitch about vaders "nooo" thing
@zuzoscorner: Have you ever experienced a moment of pure magic, only to have a friend say something stupid and ruin the mood? That's precisely why we hate the "noooooooooo" thing.
Aaron Kalat -_- ment the third movie not the last one, at least that parti can gre that no didn't fit.
i thoguti was just fanboys whining
You know, the Prequels aren't universally hated, only parts of them are universally hated. Like Pod Racing, and Jar Jar Binks, and the "Noooooooooooooo!!", and Jar Jar Binks, and the long boring speech about sand, and Jar Jar BInks, and Jar Jar Binks.
"Escort missions are always a pain in the ass." - Every combat flight game pilot everywhere.
Me: *sits down to watch a funny review*
Decker: on the planet Kazook.
Me: *clicks off the video* nope not even gonna waste my time
Pretty sure Lucas hid this because these were mostly his ideas, but implemented by people who had no idea what Star Wars was. Of the lot, Nelvana, the animation company behind the short and the later Droids series, did the most work in the least amount of time and genuinely seemed to grasp the core concepts.
9:35 "What the fuck is this?" That would be my grandmother's former high school classmate. I won't rest until everyone who reviewed the "Star Wars Holiday Special" knows it.
Anyway, great review, and I love your speaking voice. I hope that doesn't sound creepy, but it's really great.
Deadpool " who you calling schizophrenic, you got 2 different voices, your like your holiday special man, full of bad choices."
There are some good things that came out of the Holiday Special:
Our introductions to Boba Fett, Kashyyyk and Wookiee culture.
That's it, by the way. Everything else is trash.
10:39 poor carry fisher just look at her face. its like all god please kill me now I am no ware high or stoned enough to deal with this shit
alaster boneman I hear that she was drunk or high during filming this
Out of all the horror movies you have done, this was the most horrific. What's even scarier is I remember liking this as a kid.
This holiday special isn't that bad when you're high AF and eating an entire can of Easy-Cheese and a box of Wheat Thins. (I speak from experience)
Now that sounds like a plan
what in gods name possessed you to watch this atrocity much less want to review it. great review, cant say the same about the movie itself though lol
2:21 Uh, Decker, it's pronounced KAH SHIEK, not KAH ZUK!
The Fan Without a Face In the Christmas special it's called Kazook
I made that mistake the first time I saw the name.
No it's not. I seen it many times it's not called that.
It's the holiday special. If it's pronounced wrongly that just gives us more excuses to consider this non-canon so I say go with it.
Yes, yes it is.
I could only get through 15 minutes of the holiday special before I shut it off. Your a much stronger man than me Decker for watching the whole special.
If I could say one-thing about George "getting updates and approving them" about this special...Well, the special was produced and created in a relatively short time in 1978...and during that time, Lucas had begun plans for not only Empire but also started production work on Raiders of the Lost Ark with Spielberg. My point is, I feel like this was so low on Lucas' priorities, that he gave a casual, hand-waving "okay" to each step of the production, without ever actually reviewing what each up-date entailed. Sometimes Directors and Producers can get tied up with other projects; hell, Spielberg started to resent Jurassic Park because he had to green-light CGI Tyrannosaurs during the production of Schindler's List.
"Soon the rebellion will be crushed and bea Arthur will be one of us"
"Why do we need bea Arthur"
"SILENCE"
Crikes, I'm never going to watch that! Even just those tiny snippets made me cringe so badly, I could hardly watch, smeg knows how you managed to sit through the whole special.... if it can really be called that!
i am SOOOOO sorry you had to do this Decker............btw awesome facial hair look please keep it and id love to do a retrospective with you and creepy on the 3 star wars trilogies
Watching this right as I hear about Carrie Fisher's passing. :,(
Wait a minute...if almost every trace from this film was destroyed and this was made for T.V., how did you get this?
Hey Deker do you think how awesome it would be if Boba owned a xenomorph and we best mates with a clan of Predators, I think it would be possible
Wait that is not the home planet of the Wookiees! And isn't mass Chewbacca's girlfriend?
Congratulations on reaching over 40,000 subscribers.
Lumpy should be in Star Wars 8
Chad Williams He already was in Episode 7 because it was a LUMPY pile of shit XD
Azzalack true
Azzalack your sir win my internet cookie for the day I fucking hated 7 and everyone seemed to nonstop suck it's dick for months and now they are praising rouge one for the exact same shit I didn't like in seven
I have seen this. And the only part I thought was cool was the animated segments.
...great. I'd just about managed to forget this existed. Damn your completionist streak Decker!
I loved your review of this, I've seen a couple of reviews now, I cant sit thru the movie, but curiosity and shit...so.. thanks for suffering thru this so we don't have to! :-D
they need to release this on DVD and blu-ray so we all can enjoy the special. But then we all die like Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark.
I thought it was Kashyyyk his home world
Same
it is
until Disney changes that too.....
I saw the thumb nail for this video and was straight away happy as hell!!!
Where in the dark shadows of hell did you find this?!?! I'm now suicidal just from watching the review (not even the actual movie)! Kill It With Fire!
I made my friend watch this, after I watched it myself out of curiosity of how bad it was. Anyways he said it can't be that bad, so one showing of this holiday special later and now he has a appreciation for the prequels a little more. Also he gives me glares when I mention this movie at all. It's pretty funny . :)
Noice! I love your vids Shadow!
well... still better than The Last Jedi.
I think this might be the worst movie ive ever seen.
No amount of bleach can help me unsee this
I'm surprised you didn't mention Mark Hamill's changed appearance following his accident or the fact that Carrie Fisher was high on drugs throughout the whole thing. She says that she does not remember making a Star Wars Holiday Special.
bjnboy
I envy
Carrie Fisher
RIP
no memory of this
Atrocity
OMG. I still got my old VHS Tape with that weird shit on it. Good old weird times.... (damn, i'm old)
why does this movie exist!? wtf
to be honest, the relationship between Han and Chewies family is quite amazing
gaze into the abyss of madness
getting very disturbing here, but the dark fact about this is that this was aired the day before the jim jones suicides, OHHHHHHH boy 😱
PCP Benavidez
explains a few things
doesn't it ?
kinda wondering if during the negotiation phase of lucas selling star wars to disney, if THIS film came up on the board room and what Lucas's response to it was. I imagine it went something like this.
"Well that concludes the main properties of Star Wars 1-6. Now then onto the secondary properties starting with....err... Star wars the Holiday Special. Mr. lucas would you care to describe this property?"
"What property?"
"Erm.... the Star Wars Holiday Special Mr. Lucus. Made in 1978?"
"Never heard of it."
"Mr. Lucus, you created it. Why its right here on the manifest."
"No I'm sorry you must be mistaken, I made episode 5 after 4."
"Well... Yes sir you did. But between those films you made a T.V. Holiday special based on star wars around christmas time..."
"I think I would know what I did and did not create sirs."
"It was viewed by over 28 million people"
"Wait... Was that the one about the ewoks finding 2 children and fighting a hairy giant hairy cave monster?"
"No that was the Ewok adventure."
"Was it the one about a young man fighting a giant cave monster with a metal octopus frisbee?"
"No THAT ONE was Krull.... and subsequently NOT your movie"
"Huh... well then gentlemen I'm at a total loss. I think you may have mistaken a korean ripoff of my films."
"No... we have the certificate of production and the copies of the original on site filming licenses...."
"Pftt... those could be for anyth-"
"And a picture of you on set of the Holiday special, personally directing the scene where an elderly wookie masturbates to a porno staring a gyrating Diane Carol in a silver bathing suit."
"Nonsense I was in prague when this took pla-"
"And here's a picture of you on your knees begging harvey corman to star in said film."
"That... was over something else..."
"Along with a typed letter and a signed check who's memo line reads 'payment to harvey corman for working on Star Wars Holiday Special' signed by George Lucas"
"Ah."
"Look Mr. Lucas we don't care that you made this movie... Everyone makes mistakes. In fact we here at disney can personally assure you that this movie will be locked deep within the disney vault. Right next to song of the south and all those nazi donald duck cartoons we made. We just need you to admit ownership and validate its existence for legal reasons."
"Fine but first you have to understand... it was a long time ago.... and I was on an acid trip that was far...FAR away..."
"Honestly Mr. Lucas we'd be concerned if that WASN'T the reasoning behind the films creation!"
"Ah. Well then I believe were in accord then?"
"Agreed. Now onto the next item on the docket. The unreleased first cut of episode 1 were Jar Jar binks dies in the first 30 seconds of screen time and the alternate ending of episode 6 where the ewoks resort to cannabalism and eat the rebel soldiers at the end celebration..."
Phoenixesper1
Holy Shit !
you freaking killed me !
😂
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WOW!!!!!! You're proving how much artists are willing to suffer for their art. You didn't have to do this. We didn't know how much we mean to you.
A lot of fine art masterpieces are created through suffering.
that's why it's called *pain*ting
So far the ONLY episode 4.5 live action stuff out there!!!!!! I want shadows of the empire and darksaber prequel dangit!!!
Poor Decker, noone should watch this crap.
Gratz on 40k subs!
Kazook. Um Decker. I'm pretty sure its Kasheek unless this is another planet or they pronounced it different in this.
Kashyyyk
voiceofreason467 Talking pronouncement not actual spelling lol
I highly recommend watching that Holiday Special while high. Wait...highly recommend? Yes highly recommend.
In the 70’s and early 80’s variety shows were very popular. While this show wasn’t very good it was made for a very specific audience and is a window into the past.
this is an atrocity
😃
I hated this when I was a kid. Couldn't see the movie so I was ready for a taste of Star Wars. No Stormtroopers,No lightsabers. WTF?!!!!??? Edit: They actually had Stormtroopers!!! I gave up long long before that. I wanted fights and shootouts.
Hey Decker! I love your videos, but have you recently began speeding them up? It just seems so FAST. To the point where it SOMETIMES is difficult to catch. I know other youtubers do such things, sharp cuts and a generally hyper-dialogue. But they play to the perceived shortness of people's attention spans, and you're better than that fastfood McContent. Forgive me if I'm wrong, but your fans like you just the way you are. Keep up the good work, NeoTash xx
So all the clones of Jango Fett and Boba Fett being with the Empire, nobody bothered to tell Leia and Han? Also let me say, Kenny Baker and Anthony Daniels in a script with Jefferson Starship BRILLIANT!!...
The only way I was able to sit through the Star Wars Holiday Special was by purchasing the RiffTrax version. Like "Manos: The Hands of Fate", it is totally unwatchable without the commentary of professional riffers suffering alongside you.
17:45
Typical Harrison Ford "Oh shit! I almost fell, but then I didn't. Someone else fell and I'm so disturbed by watching another person die. That could have been me!" A face and motion that he would perform in every role thereafter. HAHAHAHA.
Truly. My reboot gta universe would include the Star Wars type setting. Where the original trilogy setting and such is set in 1077 years after the original galactic empire from foundation collapsed and then set up the first old republic of Lucas. Then it turned into an authoritarian empire. Set in the lost galaxy or something like that. A galaxy far far away. Something like that or keep it small and set in the far side of the Milky Way. And farthest from Sol 🌞 and such that maybe it makes sense to keep space travel very short.
in Star Wars 3 Tarful was Chewbcca's father, they probably didn't have that
fact 40 yrs ago
and the wookiees homeworld is pronounced kasheik I'm not going to actually spell it
Say what you want but this technically is the first Star Wars Spin off film haha.
Man, Decker, I love your show, your commentary, and above all the chicano stash... but please do the rest of the star wars franchise please? (this one was hilarious btw). From time to time is cool to hear intelligent people like your self talk about actual good movies. I was happy with the star wars review and I know you said you wouldn't do them all in sequence, but it's been a while now from the 1st movie review, and this just feels like you're teasing us. Plus, IMHO empire is the best movie of all the franchise, and I would love to see your objective analysis of it
Speaking of Skelator....did you know there is a He-man holiday special? I didn't until a couple of years ago. Some things should be lost to the flow of time.
I've probably watched this movie more times than the prequals. Combined.
the very mention of Life Day earns EVERYONE A DARK SIDE POINT
lego star wars too
Hey Decker Shado, I have a movie for ya. It's called The Dependables. Yeah, it's a spoof on the Expendables. I'd like to see your take on the movie.
Why is there a MOTHER FUCKING GAINT RAT at a bar is some new alien
Never seen it....but i have it....of course this is horrible....but for the fuck of it,i'm going to watch it one day....
Would you do reviews of "The Force Awakens" and "Rogue One", Decker? Curious to see your thoughts on those films
R2 was actually a full RC Puppet in this one. I guess the budget didn't allow All of the major cast members.
I actually remember watching this on the night it was on TV.It was a long night.