STAR WARS: EPISODE IV - A NEW HOPE - MOVIE REACTION - FIRST TIME WATCHING
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"The CGI is pretty good to have come out 45 years ago."
This is my favorite quote.
Even the "computer" depiction of the Death Star was animated by hand. It would be 1982's Tron and Star Trek II that would use computers to generate effects for movies for the first time.
More than, "Wait, is Alderaan the island that was destroyed?"
@@jkhoover Alderaans in the stream, that is what we are...
@@mikelarsen5836 Or, some people just make a mistake and people in the comment section show how much of a douchebag they are.
So many "young folks" say this. I think "CGI" has become the new general term for "visual effects" whether they're done by computer or not, the same way that "Kleenex" are what we call facial tissues regardless of who actually makes them.
Luke looking into the sunset is still one of the most iconic movie scenes 45 years later!
*sunsets
More like Tattosets
And no, they are not twin moons!
All Star Wars nerds: “We’ve been looking forward to this.”
Our expectations have doubled since the first time we discovered this channel.
Twice the hype.
Double the joy
@@tailssonicteam1604
Seeing this movie reaction on this channel:
“This is where the fun begins!”
Wizzer!
Seeing she started with the original trilogy “so this is how democracy dies with thunderous applause “
You’re watching the remastered version of 1997 with added CGI, but everything that looks practical is from the original version and is still amazing!
@Gen X Strong oh definitely, it barely ages, while you can definitely see how dated the CGI is.
A remastering of the OTV is all we've asked for since the invention of DVDs.... and it's the one thing they refuse to give us.
@Gen X Strong If you please, sir, could we have....
- NO!!! Watch this SOLO movie that no one asked for and shut up!!
@@bossfan49 The closest thing to a remaster of the theatrical version without all the added CGI is probably the 1995 VHS. Finding a copy isn’t much of an issue, but finding a VCR these days can be.
@@kashcorner5580 I had those at one time. 😒
"Why are they running away?"
Fun fact, in the theatrical cut the answer was *not* that they were running to reinforcements. In that version instead after Han chases them for a bit they suddenly realize they already have the advantage and just turn around. Both versions are pretty funny.
In George’s novelisation, Han is yelling in multiple languages and firing all the time, so the Stormtroopers are at first under fire and hearing all sorts of commotion so they’re assuming that they’re being attacked by a large force in a corridor with no cover. It’s only when they get to the room with other troopers that they can potentially go back on the offence.
The thematic point of the first movie was that gigantic bureaucracies staffed by faceless drones arre incompetent and unable to work to the full potnetial of those that they employ. This was one of the ways this idea was expressed, the storm-troopers are too cowardly to confront the rebels, they have no idea if this is a drill or real-life, they can't see anything through their lousy facemasks, there are no heroes among them.
@@annaclarafenyo8185 But this is the fourth movie -- the opening (s)crawl said so...
@@jb888888888 No, this is not the fourth movie, this is Episode IV, and the first ever Star Wars movie and it started being an independent film by independent film maker, George Lucas, he practically financed the whole movie on his own and spent almost all of his savings... why am I going in a different direction? anyway... they started this amazing saga with Episode IV "A New Hope" and to me that was too way ahead of its time, I'm pretty sure many heads were smoking in agony when they wondered why would anybody start a saga with Episode IV, that right there, was revolutionary, everybody just accepted it without even knowing what to expect next, little did they know it would reborn with Episode I in 1999 but it seems lucas had all this planned out in advance... or not... whatever it was, it was exquisite and no one (that I know of) has ever done that with another movie, so just enjoy the film and don't get carried away trying to understand which episode it starts with and why, ok? it just happened like that and we're all happy, end of story.
@@titools4375 That guy was speaking sarcastically, but in any case, there was nothing planned out in advance, or he would have cast two ethnically similar characters for Luke and Leia, one is a blue eyed Nordic Swede, the other is a Jewish lady (the absurd and unnecessary plot twist of Return of the Jedi then neccesitated casting a Nordic looking Haydn Christensen and a Jewish Natalie Portman for the prequels). He also would have avoided the romantic subplot between Luke and Leia. Lucas called it 'episode 4' only after deciding to make a sequel. The reason it wasn't "Episode 1" is because he wanted it to be like old Buck-Rogers movies, where you would ocme in at 'episode 9' and catch the series from that point on, but it's okay, you wouldn't need to know everything that came before to continue to watch the series. He had a vague idea of a fall and redemption of the father, "Darth Vader", but this was based on the view of 1960s children that their parents were corrupted by fascist evil, either directly, as in Germany, or indirectly, by supporting capitalist imperialism and the Vietnam war. His political views on creeping fascism was reaffirmed in the transition to the Bush years as he saw the passage of the "Patriot act" and other explicitly fascist police-state measures, and commented on this in his films. There is an idea there, an overarching idea, but not an overarching plot.
Lucas got so much flack for that intro. At the time it was expected that you show full opening credits to give credit to the actors, director, producers, etc. He fought hard for it and now it's common to not show credits at all until end. It really helps with the early immersion. The opening shot with the star destroyer chasing the blockade runner is brilliant as well as it establishes the size and reach of the empire and how desperate the situation of the rebels is. So much is conveyed through this type of imagery in the saga.
The Directors Guild dropped George due to his decision to put the standard opening credits at the end of the film.
@@kevinnelson66 That was during the production of Empire. The DGA didn't care about Star Wars, everyone figured it was going to be a huge flop, so it didn't matter where the credits were. After it was a huge hit, and Lucas wanted to do the same thing for The Empire Strikes Back, that's when the DGA had a problem with it. They fined Lucas, he paid it, then left.
Saying that the 1989s was 20 years ago absolutely made my day. I feel like that all the time. I saw this movie in 1977 the day it came out, with my friends in our high school sci-fi club. It was awesome. Dragged everyone I knew to see it again and again.
I was born in the 80's so for the longest time the 80's was "10" years ago. in 2010 I realized that 1980 was 30 years ago and it really hurt my brain coming to terms with that.
1980 is 40 years ago lol if you were trying to say 1980's if you werent my bad and yes i know your comment is old
I saw this movie when it came out. I was 10 years old. I saw Star Wars 14 times that summer. Those were the days when parents would let their kids go out unattended (so long as you were back in time for supper!).
Addie Wan Kenobi: "That's no moon, it's an Island."
Addie "Does Earth exist in this?"
The Opening credits: In a galaxy far far away
LOL I thought the same
on an "island" far far away... 😀
Addie, alot of people loved the "cantina scene" in the beginning of the movie, they got to see a bunch of aliens all at once, in 1997, the director took out some of the aliens and replaced them with cgi aliens, i liked the original ones, they used a bunch of old movie monster masks that they found in 1977, in an old movie warehouse. like there was a werewolf alien and a devil alien.
What's worse is that they changed the music as well. The original Cantina Theme was very popular for a while.
I love how Addie mimics the patrons of the rough bar drinking by raising her pinky finger like she's at a proper tea party. Adorable, but I worry for her.
13:18 this entire scene was not in the theatrical release of the movie, though it was shot at the time. Jabba hadn’t actually been designed yet, he didn’t show up until 1983’s Return of the Jedi, and here he was played by a man in a fur coat with, speaking English with an Irish accent. He was originally planned to be a furry kind of character rather than the slimy slug Jabba eventually became, but they ran out of time and money to put him in this installment. When the film was re released in 1997 for its 20th anniversary, George Lucas added it back in as well as enhancing a lot of the older effects with CG. Han walking around him obviously created a problem for the slug design, so they digitally moved Harrison so it looked like he stepped on his tail.
I think the line still works as well. If calling a human being a slug is an insult, then I would guess that it’s an equal insult to a hutt to be called a human being. Especially, a “wonderful” one. 😄
@@0okamino oh totally. They never intended to leave the human actor there, I think the plan was to superimpose a stop motion creature, so I think it’s Han being his usual sarcastic self.
@@houdin654jeff that's not how they would have shot the scene if they'd intended to add stop-motion effects. They just didn't have the technology to just replace an actor with a stop motion effect. Compare that scene to the rancor scenes in Jedi to understand the limitations of mixing stop-motion with live action, and remember that they didn't have anywhere near that budget in the first movie. It was not possible.
The far more likely story is that that was literally what Jabba was meant to look like at the time that they filmed it, and as usual George Lucas made up some bullshit to justify throwing terrible CGI in twenty years later.
@@jawbone78 to quote the Wikipedia, “Lucas stated in an interview that the initial character he had in mind was much furrier and resembled a Wookiee. When filming the scene between Han Solo and Jabba in 1976, Lucas employed Northern Irish actor Declan Mulholland to stand-in for Jabba the Hutt, wearing a shaggy brown costume. Lucas planned to replace Mulholland in post-production with a stop-motion creature.”
Entirely possible it’s him making up a justification and did not have a way to do it, but it’s at least his stated plan. Lucas often tried to do things that weren’t yet possible, this is an example of not being able to figure it out… for two decades. I do have to correct you about the Rancor example though; That’s not stop motion, it’s high speed photography using a hand puppet. The only stop motion in Return of Jedi are the Imperial walkers (both kinds).
@@houdin654jeff If you believe that story, I don't know what to tell you. It doesn't even come close to passing the smell test.
There was no way to do the thing he's claiming to have intended to do. So either he shot some stuff intending to use it to invent an entirely new way to do special effects, without any consultation from special effects people who would have told him it was literally impossible, meaning he's an idiot, or he made that story up later, meaning he's a liar. I don't really care which it is in this case.
Addie, think of it like this: You may know the secret, but the characters do not. You can still feel the shock through them.
Saw this in the theaters when I was 5 in 1977. Was mind blowing for everyone then. First photorealistic sci-fi fantasy film that felt real.
How many others had you seen when you were 5?
@@papalaz4444244 That might be a good point except for the fact in 1977 there probably weren't many contenders.
@@papalaz4444244 plenty of Planet of the Apes and Godzilla films had been around since then.
@@noirgatherer And you had seen those. When you were 5....
@@cyclone8974 2001 and Silent Running
"I feel like everything's fine"
The Deathstar was built by the Empire, which controls hundreds of planets across a third of the galaxy. Things are not fine
Glad you're finally watching this franchise. Just keep in mind that the versions of the original trilogy you're watching are updated versions with some (not all) completely new digital effects. So you're not seeing the exact versions that came out in the late '70s and early '80s. That said, I hope you enjoy these!
I really wish Disney would give us the full unedited versions. I still have my origenal VHS tapes but would love a updated one.
@@StinkyGreenBud Does Disney even have them? My understanding was that Lucas won't release them....at all.
@@Shadowman4710 Last I checked, Lucas was saying that all the originals he had were destroyed/used up by the process of creating the Special Editions. IIRC he's also made a habit of hunting down and destroying every copy in private hands he could find.
@@Shadowman4710 Lucas won’t even give the Library of Congress the original theatrical print of SW. 45 years later and the only way to watch SW in its closest form to the original cut are unofficial restorations fans have done.
@@davidhunton8197 He released them on DVD in 2006, they exist.
"You've taken your first step into a larger world." Looking forward to going on this journey with you Addie!
"Jabba you are a wonderful human being" Fun fact. In the original cut, Hans was actually talking to a guy. It was in the enhanced cut that they removed the guy and added Jabba instead.
I've seen the clip with the guy in fur coats and it's not bad, but pasting in the hut body necessitating Han to actually step on Jabba was awful. Seriously, Han stepped on Jabba? He'd be dead immediately.
That whole scene was cut out of the original version, and was only added for the special editions. It's indicative of what's wrong with some of the special edition changes: the scene doesn't add much to the story or characters, and replacing the human Jabba with the version they changed the character to in ROTJ makes the dialogue nonsensical. Like many people, I just don't understand why Lucas thought it was a positive addition.
The original had none of the scene with Jabba. Nor the scenes they filmed with Luke on Tatooine running into his old friend Biggs who was joining the rebellion.
@@vincentlyon4563 Yea, no. You cant colect debt from a corpse. Jabba known that. And Han known that Jabba known. Case of being to important to kill. He culd have stepped all over Jabba's head and I bet he wuld have got away vith it.
@@natalijalaonar8187 except he can't collect from a guy in carbonite either, and when Han is out, it's only to be executed. Jabba made no further effort to collect the money once he had Han. Han would be more important as a symbol of Jabba's cruelty and a warning not to cross him. (and since we are talking about the retcon version, it's not as if Jabba wasn't cruel or mad at Han yet. Hell, Greedo had already tried to shoot him for the bounty).
One thing SW fans love to do is record their children’s reaction to Darth Vader saying, (I am your father!) The reactions are Uber priceless! Since you love dogs so much you should know that Chewbacca was based off of Director George Lucas’s pet dog named Indiana, whom the character Indiana Jones was also named after.
Nice one, Addie! This came out the summer before my sophomore year of high school and for the rest of that summer my buddies & I were blasting this soundtrack (LP of course) on 3 foot tall speakers, LOL! It was glorious! 😃
“I’m very curious to learn why he breathes like that.”
Oh boy..!
You’re gonna have to wait on that one. OG Star Wars fans had to wait 28 years to learn that. 😂
“The Force can do a lot!”- “truly wonderful, the mind of a child is.”
The original movie have very little in visual effects when it came out in 1977. It was mostly done with practical effects and models. Over the years, Lucas Films and ILM reissued the movie with more and more visual effects, including CGI. But when the movie came out, nothing had prepared me for the way to movie opened, from the music, to the scrolling of the information, and then seeing the giant space ships from underneath and behind. I had never seen anything like that, and it was in a very large theater with a wide screen that held more than 800 people, and everyone of us were amazed with the effects we were seeing at the time.
A note: visual effects are practical effects (in addition to CGI). The original movie was very heavy in visual effects for its time in 1975-77 (hence the creation of ILM). Keep in mind that during production, any effects on set are called special effects. Visual effects (models, composites, etc.) were done during post-production. In the last 20 years, however, the line is being blurred with the use of real-time motion capture and on-set visual projection effects from The Volume for The Mandalorian.
The motion control camera was developed for the original SW film. 20th Century Fox had shut down their visual effects department by 1975, the year production on SW began
I dunno why, but I love it when people take notice of the Gonk droid and call it a little walking trash can.
Glad you enjoyed this. As others has stated, this is the remastered version where some CGI scenes and other minor alterations were added.
Congrats, I was 9 when it came out in 1977. I first saw it on opening weekend in Memphis, TN while visiting relatives that summer. Then back home in Phoenix, I saw it an additional 9 times. It rocked my world and still does. I was terrified of Darth Vader, but he is my favorite character of all time.
"The CGI is pretty good to have come out 45 years ago." When this movie was released in 1977 it quite literally blew everyone's mind. Prior to this, spaceships were made from cereal packets and egg boxes, painted silver. I was 7 years old and remember it like yesterday. I watched it 18 times at the movie theatre. The only modern day comparison I can think of is if someone were to produce a fully working teleporter now today in 2022.
One of the highest on screen kill counts! Almost 2 billion people lived on that island.
Welcome youngling! What a fun reaction to the beginning of this great saga this was! Just keep watching, the answears will come! And be warned, the fanbase of Star Wars can be really mean sometimes (especially when I look at the top comment right now). But most of us are really nice guys who enjoy when fresh eyes and minds start this fantastic journey. :)
This movie was such a huge deal when it came out in the later seventies! It was a platform to launch ALL the rest of he series - as well as all the other movies/programs with the same storyline! I still prefer the first 3 movies - Star Wars 4, 5, and 6!!!
I was only a young college student when this came out. No one had seen anything like it and my friends and I were totally blown away by how great it was. Seems like yesterday.
"Darth Vader is so tall!" He was portrayed by English actor David Prowse, who was also a weightlifter/bodybuilder and stood 6'-6". He won the heavyweight British weightlifting championship 3 yrs in a row and was Christopher Reeve's trainer for the film Superman (1978) after being turned down for the role himself. The dubbed voice you hear for Darth Vader belongs to legendary actor James Earl Jones (Mufasa from Lion King).
Vader trained Superman
You young people can't appreciate how shocking princess Leia was back in 1977. Back then, women in action movies were just trophies for the hero and villain to fight over. Or maybe just motivation for the hero to fight for.
They certainly didn't take over their own rescue mission and start bossing everyone around, then act like a real military leader.
There's a lot about this movie that blew people's minds back in 1977. That's just one of them.
The basic formula for this movie was the monomyth combined with Kurosawa samurai epics combined with American Westerns combined with old Buck Rogers serials.
The politics of these movies are very radical. America was still wrestling with the aftermath of the Vietnam war at the time of this movie's release. Not only is this movie anti-authoritarian and anti-colonialist, but the movie was basically comparing Cold War America to space fascists.
*"The Force"* is like Duct Tape: it has a light side, and a dark side, and holds the universe together.
The only thing more shocking than the fact that SW came out 45 years ago is that I saw it in the theater at the time 😩
My god and your still living and know how to use UA-cam ? My mind is blown! Jk man ..yeah me too. I distinctly remember the knot in my stomach while waiting in line to see empire strikes back..good times!
@@charliepepper333 I was 16 when a school friend asked if I wanted to go see Star Wars. Had no idea what it was about, don't remember seeing any trailers for it before hand. The long shot of the star destroyer pursuing the blockade runner hooked me right away.
@@danharris5999 I’m a generation behind, but apparently my dad and mom’s first date was going to see Star Wars together! 😄
@@danharris5999 yeah man same here. People wonder why today’s media just doesn’t have that same charm and warmth. It’s simple..hardly anyone uses analog machines for recording audio and the days of practical film making is a rarity. It’s why Lord of The Rings holds a special place in my heart. It was an end of an era..and Peter Jackson fully choose to surround himself in practical effects, real armor ,weaponry and miniatures.
My mom was pregnant with me when she saw Empire in the theater. So I kinda sorta (but not really) saw it in theater.
This film along with The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi we're digitally remastered in 1997 and released on DVD in 2004.
"He's so tall!" I met David Prowse once. It's not the costume or the helmet that make him look huge, he's just big. Scary big.
Leave it to women to love the tall dark and powerful type
When Han's blast at the end sends Vader out of the action, I can't help thinking "Let's try spinning, that's a neat trick!"
For the record, about 4 billion people perished when the Death Star blew up Alderaan. It caused a major outcry and there was a massive riot in the Imperial capital for about a week straight.
When Ben tells Luke, "And he was a good friend," I always hear "Ani was a good friend."
You know what I find funny about Addie's persistent mix-up between planet and island, is that it reminds me of a short-lived Saturday morning cartoon in the 70s or 80s called Gilligan's Planet... I don't have to explain what it was based on, lol.
The scene with Jabba the Hutt was originally filmed with a human playing Jabba. We weren't introduced to Jabba until "Star Wars: Return Of The Jedi".
George Lucas put Jabba in the first film when they were updated.
WELCOME TO THE STAR WARS UNIVERSE, ADDIE! I LOVE watching a newbie experience this for the first time, the way I did as a boy in 1977. Addie, if you liked this, just you wait til you see The Empire Strikes Back!
I was 9 in 77. Still smile when the Star Destroyer goes over at the beginning. That blew us away the very first time. Empire is better :-)
This was very much a standalone movie, since Lucas had no idea how well it would do at the box office. The next one feels much more like it's part of a series (and it's very fierce).
I was only 6 in 1980 when Empire came out. I saw that first in the "big' theater. Then I saw New Hope at a re-showing at a smaller indie theater... not realizing it was the first of the two. I was so confused, but still well entertained. 😀
Yes, the original just said Star Wars at the top of the scrolling intro. No "Episode IV" crap. In fact Lucas was so certain it would bomb, he was on vacation helping Spielberg with Indiana Jones when it was released.
There was no CGI 45 years ago. The CGI you see here was added in the 90's when the original trilogy of Star Wars films were re-released in theaters as "Special Editions" with enhanced digital effects and added scenes. Sadly, the theatrical versions were basically phased out of home media during the transition to DVD's and can probably only be found on old VHS copies.
There was CGI but what you see from the death star plans, that's it, that's the best CGI at the time. Wireframe models and moving dots.
Han shot first.
In the original cut Han shot Greedo without Greedo getting off a shot. In the "improved" version Lucas added the shot from Greedo's blaster. Apparently Han shooting first tarnishes him too much.
Yeah, I never quite understood how that tarnishes him. Greedy is armed and making threats to Han. In Han’s profession, you don’t live long if you give someone a chance to make good on those threats.
I hate that change.Greedo is a professional bounty hunter who would not miss at that range
Just subscribed Addie! Love to see new movie reactors, especially Star Wars! Welcome to the Star Wars family! “You’ve taken your first step into a larger world..” May the Force be with you!!!!
Originally, Jabba the Hutt was going to be a stop motion creature. While the scene was shot, Jabba's stand-in (for Harrison Ford's eyelines and interacting with him) was played by a guy named Beclan Mulholland. As Ford was walking behind Jabba's back, they team at ILM realized when they did the shot after Return of the Jedi's release, that Jabba had a tail, so they digitally moved Harriso up and made him react to Han stepping on his tail. This was originally abandoned as Lucas bugdet for the movie was so tight that he cut it as it wasn't important for A New Hope but for Return of the Jedi, but added it to the Special Edition. Boba Fett was added in the Special Edition as he wasn't thought up of until The Empire Strikes Back. When the movies was first released on DVD, Jabba was updated to look more like he did in Return of the Jedi, as skin textures have leaped inbetween 1997 and 2004.
"I'm the type of person who thinks the 80s was 20 years ago." Man, I feel that...
Okay the Late 80s were
I’m so happy that you enjoyed Star Wars: A New Hope! Looking forward for the others next!!
I was ten years old in 1977 and when that Star Destroyer flew into view, I was hooked.
45 years later, here we still are lol.
Just do me ONE favor on this journey: don't let comments and fan controversy taint your views. Watch them and form your own opinions.
It never gets old seeing a new fan of Star Wars being born. You've taken your first steps into a larger world. We shall watch your Fandom grow with great interest, young one.
As far as Han coming back, it’s most likely that he realized he had come to like Luke during their misadventure on the Death Star, but my personal feeling is that Chewbacca nagged him endlessly until he gave in and turned around.
That opening text crawl and this whole movie was inspired by the Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers movie serials that used to be shown in movie theaters in the 1930s and ‘40s. George Lucas remembered watching them on TV when he was a kid. They were early attempts at science fiction and space adventure.
Does earth exist? Yes, but nowhere near here, Its a Long time ago in a Galaxy far away, 😁
Addie, "I like her" indeed, leia is a badass rebel leader.
The reason R2 is in lukes ship is because R2 is an astrometric droid, he was literally constructed for the purpose of acting as copilot/engineer for starships.
_A long time ago, in a movie theater about 50 miles away ..._
*THERE WAS NO EPISODE TITLE*
The studio didn't think this film would make much money. Lucas was crossing his fingers that it didn't bomb. For all he knew, Lucas was making one standalone movie. "Episode IV" and "A New Hope" were added in later releases, to be in line with the numbering adopted with Episode V.
I first saw _Star Wars_ in 1977, at the Indian Hills Theater in Omaha, Nebraska, US (a city of about 1M). The Indian Hills was one of the last remaining Cinerama theaters in existence (it's long gone, now).
Cinerama was an experimental widescreen format seen in the 1950s and 1960s. It had an extremely curved screen, such that films shot in Cinerama used _three cameras_ and _three projectors_ : one for the center of the screen and one for each side. Everything had to be constantly synchronized so that the film looked normal onscreen.
If you see Cinerama films on DVD/Bluray/streaming today, it often looks distorted on the left and right. This is caused by converting a curved film to a flat screen.
So there I was at the Indian Hills Theater at the tender age of 12 -- the film's precise target demographic. The Indian Hills seated 810 patrons: 662 on the main floor and 148 in the balcony. It was completely packed, as was every screening of _Star Wars_ until the film left theaters.
I'd gotten to the theater rather late, forcing me to sit in the center seat of row one.
This turned out to be fantastically good bad luck.
Today, the center of row one is a terrible seat due to parallax distortion. In a theater the size of the Indian Hills, that distortion didn't exist because the screen was far enough away from the seats. However, it was close enough so that it filled my field of view from top to bottom.
The screen was large and curved enough so that it filled my field of view from periphery to periphery.
_Star Wars_ was shot in CinemaScope, a more popular experimental widescreen format of the era. While not technically the same as Cinerama, it still lent itself well to that screen.
I watched _Star Wars_ with the film filling my entire field of view from top-to-bottom and side-to-side. I didn't have to turn my head to watch it unless I wanted to, and I usually didn't.
It was an astonishingly immersive experience. Not even IMAX comes close.
Add to that the massive audience reaction that shouldn't be overlooked. It was a shared experience that I've only seen at _Infinity War_ and _Endgame_ on their opening nights, when there were a lot of fans present.
This audience reaction happened at every screening, in every theater, everywhere in the world, until _Star Wars_ left the screens.
Imagine 810 people all cheering, clapping, jumping to their feet, and occasionally crying all at once. The shared experience was amazing, as it fed on itself. No one held back, it just kept growing and growing until the destruction of the Death Star -- which prompted massive roaring from the audience.
The film itself was like nothing put to the screen at that time. While cinematically based on old _Flash Gordon_ and _Buck Rogers_ movie serials of the 1930s, this was a big-budget, big-screen version like nothing anyone had ever seen before.
It completely changed science fiction on the movie screen. Until that time, you occasionally got a good science fiction film, but they tended to be years apart. After _Star Wars_ , there were multiple good science fiction movies every year, a trend that continues to this very day.
There would be no modern _Star Trek_ without _Star Wars_ . _Star Wars_ was such a massive hit for 20th Century-Fox that Paramount quickly looked around and said, "Aha! We have this _Star Trek_ thing that Trekkies are always saying they want more of. Let's make it into a movie!"
Thus _Star Trek - The Motion Picture_ was released in 1979. Without that, there would be no _Star Trek_ today.
_Star Wars_ changed filmmaking from a business perspective. The film grabbed audiences like nothing seen in the entire history of cinema. While _Jaws_ was technically the first summer blockbuster, _Star Wars_ cemented summer as the time to release action-heavy, family-friendly films.
The special effects of _Star Wars_ were utterly innovative, and the tools created by the likes of John Dykstra became commonplace in films that don't even have special effects.
Almost all special effects in the Original Trilogy were achieved either in-camera, with optical effects, miniatures, extremely detailed paintings, or a combination of those techniques. CGI that allows an entire film to be shot on a green screen wasn't even a glimmer in anyone's eye.
In 1977, the most advanced computers were the size of an SUV and didn't have the computing power of your phone. CGI as a primary filmmaking technique wasn't popularized until _Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow_ in 2004. By then, computing power/square centimeter had skyrocketed exponentially.
The special effects spawned Industrial Light and Magic, a company created and owned by George Lucas. ILM is still in existence today, constantly innovating with new technologies to create visual effects for many, many films and TV series. From it's inception, ILM has been considered the gold standard of VFX companies.
In short, this film was nothing like what had come before. It changed _everything about cinema_ .
And I got to see it with an audience of 810, on a screen so immersive that I got nauseous during the Trench Run.
( *Speaking of which, on my channel I have the Trench Run as originally released in theaters, pre-Special Editions edits -- the way I saw it at the Indian Hills. I've remastered the scene to 4K and 48fps using AI software.* )
Omg.
Another saga begins! And I agree with you, this film is just plain fun to watch. I'm sure everyone has already mentioned how this is the special edition they altered in the 90's but the main dish is still somewhat intact. I love how enthusiastic and unjaded (is that even a word?!) your reactions are!
Your adventure has just begun!! From here on out I recommend one thing... don't let anyone's opinion make you think what you say or feel about STAR WARS is wrong in any way. There will always be first time watchers and with that the self proclaimed experts who have seen everything, read everything, discussed everything.... blah blah blah
That's the one thing I do not like about SW. Some fans will take it personally if you don't like this character or that one and you should not have to deal with that but there will be one comment telling you what to do. This is YOUR channel and you have the final and only say.
Looking forward to more to come!! Take care, Addie!
As others have pointed out, you're watching the 'specialized' versions which first came out on the 20th anniversary of the original releases (thought they've been updated several more times since then). That said, there are 'despecialized' versions out there, if you know where to look, that restore the original theatrical cuts and practical effects. Would highly recommend seeking those out (especially for eps IV and VI since they had the most tampering). It wasn't just special effects that were updated with CGI, but several scenes were altered/added significantly, and not for the better.
The special editions are the way to go. Mostly. The updated effects help the continuity between them and the prequels.
@@porkins74 ...How do the updated effects help bridge the continuity between anything? What about them adds significantly to the movie? Elaborate.
For the most part they don't improve anything and are distracting and dated.
Where???
Best to see both versions.
ROTJ has more than 2. The original is the best but the additional ending with all the fireworks is nice. So, I recommend watching the original and then rewatching some of the new or just the very end of it.
@@ArmouredPhalanx Stuff like Christensen in Jedi and McDiarmiad in Empire strengthens the continuity.
The Special Editions were mainly done to clean up the films (which had deteriorated over time),fix technical issues, and add in concepts Lucas originally wanted in the films. They're effectively a definitive director's cut (the most up to date version being the 4K versions)
"Why was this scary to me."
You know, we've become so used to it we forget lightsaber is actually pretty terrifying concept. It's a laser sword! Touch it just a little, you lose your fingers!
Not to mention that Luke was pointing it at his face just before he activated it. That could have spelled doom for the galaxy then and there.
Watching them in the order they were released? is a good call.
For anyone who never watched the movies before it's the only call.
@@vinnycordeiro Machete order is better for first-time viewers.
@@gracehiggins2666 I politely disagree.
@@vinnycordeiro It makes a certain twist about a sister objectively better.
@@gracehiggins2666 And I think that's a weak reason to watch the movies in the machete order. Anyway, let's celebrate that Addie is watching the movies, no matter the order it is.
As others will have said, there's a LOT of later effects that have been added into the "remastered" version you're watching, so many of the CGI FX were added in twenty years after the original was released. For example, the most glaring add-in was the Jabba at the Millenium Falcon scene that was cut out of the original since, due to it's lower budget, the original Jabba wasn't an alien, just a portly human male. The investment into practical FX (i.e. not computer generated, but Henson Studios style muppetry with multiple people operating multiple rods, levers, and controls to give "living" movements to a non-living thing) allowed them to make Jabba the huge slug like alien he is depicted as in another part of the trilogy. In the "remastered" version they inserted the original solo scene, overlaid the digital FX for Jabba, and dubbed in Jabba's lines since the original Jabba was speaking English. Which incidentally is why Han refers to him as a human being.
The majority of the battle of the Death Star uses the original FX, which is great. 🙂
And this was the EASY chapter of the trilogy. 😀
Welcome to the fandom, just wanted to mention that this version of the movie isn’t the original this is called the special edition which was released in 1997 and then rereleased in 2004 and 2011 whereas the original version is from 1977, unfortunately the original trilogy isn’t available officially as they were but an unofficial fan edit was made by a dude called Petr Harmy and it’s called the despecialised edition, if you are able to after finishing the movie marathon I recommend watching them to know how the original 3 movies looked in 1977, 1980 and 1983 or there are the original 4K prints called 4k77, 4K80 and 4K83
"Can The Droids Do Anything?"
R2D2 is catagorized as an AstroMech droid, essentially, he's a robotic mechanic
"It looks like a camera but I don't think it's a camera..."
Hey Alderaan! Say cheeese!
So excited to watch this and so happy you’re uploading often now. Keep up the great work!
I'm glad you stated right out the gate that you already knew about the father thing.
Rather than some reactors who would clearly fake not knowing it.
Great reaction as always
3:12 I mean... I guess you could consider planets to be space islands lol
I always enjoy when you see a bit of a jump scare. Your startled reaction is always hilarious and fantastic! A couple notes and tips and general info:
-Han is played by Harrison Ford. He is famous for a couple sci-fi adventure series in the 70s and 80s. Star Wars and Indiana Jones being the two main ones (Patriot games and Air Force One are a couple others as well)
-Princess Leia was played by Carrie Fischer, who sadly passed recently in 2016.
-There are actually human actors inside of C-3PO and R2D2 operating them, they are not just robotic.
-The small brown hooded figures that captured R2 and 3PO at the beginning are called Jawas, they mostly collect mechanical parts to keep their sandcrawlers operating and any spare droids/parts they sell or trade.
-The Sand people that knocked out Luke are called Tusken Raiders and they ride animals called banthas. They travel in single file which hides their numbers from others and allows them to sneak up on Luke.
-Jabba the Hutt is NOT a human being. He is member of the Hutt family, a crime/mobster family who controls much of the business on that planet (or island as you called them lol).
-Yes Star Wars is very much ingrained in pop culture so you will have heard some of the memes and quotes....
-Given that this takes place "a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" Earth would probably not be known by anyone in the Star Wars galaxy
-THe actor who plays Darth Vader and his voice actor are not the same person, so the actor just had to gesture and walk menacingly without saying anything. Which is a harder form of acting.
-The version you are most likely watching is the remastered version (I say probably because it is very hard to find a non-remaster version still around) and it was remastered in 1997 and then again slightly in 2005 so thatmay be why you thought the graphics and effects weren't bad "for 1977". Although they were actually pretty much second to none in 1977 as well!
Still very much look forward to you watching the series. A trilogy of trilogies!
I always enjoy your reactions!
We will be (and have been) watching your career with great interest!
Jawas collect or just straight up steal pieces of technology for resale, they have no ethics about that. XD
David Prowse, the physical actor in the Vader suit did speak his lines. Lucas knew that he couldn't use his voice though and dubbed over them with James Earl Jones because the voice sounded better. Also, in the original theatrical releases James Earl Jones did not want to be credited as Darth Vader for the first two movies, thinking that he was only a special effect rather than an actor.
@@alistairgrey5089 However, Lucas, being somewhat of a jackass, never told Prowse about any of that. He didn't find out that he wasn't the voice of Vader until he saw the film.
@@KthulhuXxx that's not exactly true. He thought he was going to re-read his lines and have them recorded because the helmet muffled his voice too much. But when it never happened he figured it out before release day.
This movie came out the year I was born. My family owned it on VHS and man, did that interrogation droid scare the bejeezus out of me as a kid!
I'm having a blast experiencing all these movies I grew up with through your reaction videos. (I do have to admit, I'm curious what media you grew up with not having seen any of these.) Thanks!
27:28 Addie: "No more Death Star."
Everybody else: "That's cute."
6:20
Addie: "I think Luke has a crush."
Us: 👀
16:43 "Can we go to lightspeed somehow... straight into this thing?"
Uhhhhhhhhhh. That's a very good question!
@Addie, I was 12 years old when episode 4 came out and I watched episode's 4,5 and 6 in the theaters, the worst part was the wait time between the episode's 3 years till episode 5 and another 3 years till episode 6. I really love your reactions to this movie because that's how me and my friends felt when we first seen the movie 😊
Addie, the little monks that captured the droids are called Jawas, i liked them when i first saw this, the guy who did the sound effects sailed from Tunisia where they filmed the desert planet scenes, to Sicily , where he tape recorded old women there shouting along the coast? and used their voices for the Jawas.
Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: You're not allowed to hit the target on the first volley, even in an ambush situation.
I'm sure there will be people suggesting you seek out the "despecialized" versions, but honestly if you didn't grow up with the originals(like I did) it's not that big a deal. The "Special Editions" first appeared in 1997, but additional changes have been made since then. The Jabba scene in this movie for example, is much improved over the 1997 version(Jabba looked REALLY bad in that one). Honestly, I'm okay with pretty much all of the changes, except for one moment in Return Of The Jedi(Episode VI) that I absolutely cannot stand, but talking about it would be a big spoiler. My big beef with Lucas making the Special Editions is he made no effort to preserve the originals as well. I'm glad you're getting into this trilogy, I hope you enjoy it :)
_"A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...."_
*Addie:* "Is this Earth?"
you calling the planets Islands has got to be the cutest thing ever 😅 Love your videos!!
Addie..we will watch your career with great interest.😉
My computer 💻 from 40ish years ago could repeat a word on the screen over and over and it only took 8 hours of programming to make it happen.
'the cgi looks pretty good to have come out 45 years ago'
me: (looks at camera with visible sadness)
'...he looks like he might break out into a musical number.' LOL, _that_ I've never heard in a reaction.
@Addie Counts star wars has so much lore just like the lord of the rings/Hobbit franchise.
You are in for a real treat! 🤩
Addie, this was the era of what we called "Practical effects", special effects in films done with physical models, lighting, makeup, etc. The lightsaber props were the base for rotoscoping techniques that made them glow, and the blaster shots were basically just strobing laser lights. It wouldn't be until around 82 with Tron that true CGI was used in film.
Also, I love that you love C-3PO and R2-D2, they're essentially the Odd Couple in the Star Wars universe. Kenny Baker was the operator of R2, a little person who was ensconced inside the droid. Anthony Daniels also continues to portray C-3PO in the latest films, his iconic voice and mannerisms inside that golden suit are priceless.
“The CGI is pretty good for it to come out 45 years ago”
Oh, you sweet summer child.
All the CGI was done 20 years after the original release. But nearly all the creatures and most of the spacecrafts were handmade and truly amazingly done for its time.
I was 32 years old when this movie came out! It was an amazing experience seeing it in the theater. Now it's such a fun part of my old age (77) seeing young people like you watching this and other great movies for the first time. It's fun trying to predict how you'll react when certain scenes are getting close! Great job Addie!
12:00 A parsec is a unit of distance, roughly 3.26 light years. The definition involves parallax (apparent change is location as the Earth moves around the sun). The line is almost certainly a goof by the writers, using a unit of distance for time. However Star Wars fans have argued that the Falcon can been space so well (how hyperdrive works apparently) that it only has to traverse the 12 parsecs rather than a larger number that others must.
I love your reactions Addie, your one of my favorite youtubers, so i don't know if someone here may have already told you this, but Obi wan did die, when a Jedi is at peace and calm, they disapear becomeing one with the force it self, and he learned how to communicate from the other side so it was indeed him that luke heard those times. there is so much more to come, but I didn't want you to go forward confused like so many other first time watchers usually are.
"You never heard of the Millenium Falcon?"
Addie: "No"
Solo: "It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs"
Addie: "Ok... That means nothing to me"
🤣Join the club, Addie. Join the club.
I had no idea what the Kessel Run was. Short explanation is that it was a 20 parsec (1 parsec equaling 30.5 trillion kilometers or 3.26 light-years) hyperspace route used by smugglers. Han Solo is said to have managed it in a record 12 parsecs which was a shorter distance but apparently way more dangerous.
No. Han was saying he made the run at a faster SPEED than anyone else because George Lucas (who wrote the script) didn't know that a parsec is a measure of DISTANCE). He was better at myth having read Joseph Campbell's classic study THE HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES which guided most of Luke's experiences throughout the original trilogy. (The search for the father, meeting the wise teacher, the belly of the beast and so on. ---think of Telemachus searching for his father in THE ODYSSEY, Merlin's guiding of the young Arthur, Jonah, and the Whale---our guys in the trash compactor) etc. etc.
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@@CassandrashadowcassMorrison It was obvious that Lucas was trying to imply speed, but when he learned it was a measure of distance, he adjusted the backstory of the Kessel Run.
@@CassandrashadowcassMorrison wrong again. The original script was based on Kurosawa's Hidden Fortress. That whole business about Joseph Campbell was after the fact BS to create the legend of Lucas as genius. His original goal was to re-create the Buck Rogers/Flash Gordon serials.
The retcon about the 12 parsecs mistake is the worst kind of fanboi rationalizing. I'm appalled that they included it in the Solo movie. Then again, the producers crammed as much fan service as they could in there.
14:33 "Does Earth exist in this world?"
It's astonishing how many reactors ask a question that's answered in, literally, the first second of the movie proper: "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..."
🌎 Planets: Just think of them as islands in space. 👍😂😂😂
Loved your reaction, this was the first movie my wife went to see when we started dating in 1978. Most of the effects were not CGI, but some were added later such as Jabba. When we saw these back in the 70's we never saw Jabba till episode VI.
1. IRL Sir Alec Guinness didn't want to play Obi Wan, He thought the entire premise was silly, but his wife talked him into taking it
The rest is history.
2. This episode of the saga was released first because Lucas felt it was the easiest one to make and provide an outstanding product with the technology they had at the time.
3. This movie came out way before CGI was available. The scene with Jabba the Hutt, the large critters outside the cantina and the ones being ridden by the stormtroopers are CGI and was put in later with the 25 years anniversary edition.
4. The BEST way to watch these are in the order they were released. Keep in mind that we had to wait years between episodes. there wasn't any internet or memes like. "I am your father" as spoilers.
5. The scene in the detention center where Han Solo ends up saying "how are you" is a goof on Harrison Ford's part. He forgot his lines. 🤣
6. In an appearance on Johnny Carson when this came Carrie Fisher said the Chewy is a 300-year-old Wookie.
7. Obi Wan didn't die. He went into the force.
8. The smirk and shrug Chewy gives Luke after he scares the little black droid is 🤣
9. Welcome aboard. You're in for a hell of a ride.
Just discovered your channel and watched this reaction. I've always loved Star Wars and will watch all your reactions to them as they come out. Your reactions and videos are amazing. Glad to have found your channel.
Everyone "Oh my God, Vader's intimidating as hell"
Addie "You're very tall"
"Wait, is that a bar? Cute! This place looks like fun!"
_WE DON'T SERVE YOUR KIND HERE!_
"He looks like he might break out into a musical number right now!
...and he didn't".
Oh wow, the disappointment was palpable
The CGI was added in 25 years later by Lucas. When he made this movie the technology was in it's infancy.