As Lacey notes in the intro, this is the de-specialized edition which tries to be an HD master of the original version that was seen in theaters in 1977. So technically, they're not watching "Episode IV: A New Hope," they're just watching "Star Wars." Also, I am not certain how many of these movies we will ultimately watch. I think it's certain that we will commit to the original trilogy and the prequel trilogy is also very likely. We will see how things are going after we finish the first 6 before deciding about how deep we end up going. If these do well, then I'm sure we will watch more. I am going to push Spaceballs sometime after the original trilogy as well ;) Final note before getting into reaction specific notes, this is Lacey's first time really watching Star Wars. Steve grew up with it and has watched it MANY times over the years. So Lacey does know (or think she knows) certain things about the movies. If those things will be revealed in future movies, they should not be answered in the comments. Neither should we confirm or deny the things she thinks she knows. All will be revealed in the proper time. And please go easy on Steve as the guide. This is his first time being the one in the know for a reaction and he's a bit nervous about saying too much. Finally (and this time I mean it) Lacey did see Episode VII in the theater when it came out, but since she lacked the context of the other films, she does not recall much about it. May the Fourth be with you, and live long and prosper🖖🏻🤪.
Thank you for going to the trouble of doing this. It always bugs me that new reactions watching the 90s special editions are defeating the purpose of watching them in release order (then go on to remark on the quality of the "70s CGI")
YES!! Finally! Someone who reacts to the DE-Specialized Editions!! Lacey, very proud of you for making this version your first Star Wars experience! This is how the world experienced Star Wars in 1977, and it’s how everyone should watch it for their first viewing. May the 4th Be With You!
Shanelle Riccio was sent and reacted to the original *de-specialized* edition of the three movies more than 3 years ago, and that is the only other time I remember it happening.
I think everyone remembers their first Star Wars movie experience. Love sharing mine. I was in Bloomington Illinois at the mall. At that time it was newest theatre and the popcorn you could smell as soon as you left the Sears portion and into the other portion of the mall. I was 7 years old and I was absolutely blown away. Ahhh the memories!❤Steve
I was 13 years old in 1977 when I saw Star Wars in the Movie Theatre. The special effects were ahead of its time. It was originally just called Star Wars because George Lucas did not know if he would be allowed to make more Star Wars Movies, He started with the First movie of his middle trilogy. Star Wars was renumbered episode IV when Episode V The Empire Strikes back in 1980.
Oh and when everyone saw the first movie it was destined to be sought after to see the next episode and so on. They did a very good job with the first episode in my opinion. It left a lot of curiosity at least to me after that episode and a lot of unknown. ❤Steve
As a fan of both SW and Trek they’re wildly different. I would say Trek is science fiction where all the tech is explained just enough to make it feasible. Star Wars is more science fantasy leaning into the more mystical. Both are great. I’ve never really understood the debate over which one is better.
I probably shouldn’t have really brought that up honestly but at that time of 70’s through late 80’s even I remember the debate between Trek and Star Wars. But when it’s apart of something big like Trek and SW the debate just organically happens. ❤steve
Fun fact: the Jawas actually were played by kids. And the “trash can” droid is actually called a GONK droid gets the name because of the gonk noise it makes and GONK droids are actually walking power generators/batteries.
Star Wars fans usually don't like all the material, just bits and pieces that they (we) choose. So for everything you like in Star Wars, there will be Star Wars fans who dislike it, and for everything you dislike, there will be people who specifically love that part. That's what happens when you have a huge and diverse fan base.
Grand Moff Tarkin is the boss here. He has authority over the entire Outer Rim territory, (over a thousand planets, moons, stations,) and by extension the death star. Vader in this film is the emperors enforcer he’s there to ensure The Deathstar security and the Emperor’s interests. Grand Moff is a political rank. And only a few people specifically in the death star conference room, even know what Darth Vader is. To the rest of the galaxy Vader really doesn’t exist.
So happy you have finally entered the "Star Wars" Universe, Lacey ( and Steve ). Hopefully, you'll really dive into this world by reacting to the remaining 8 films as well as the 7 TV series.
The TV series are very unlikely. Series take a tremendous amount of time and I don’t think we will go that deep. We will see though how Lacey is feeling once the movies are wrapped up.
@CraigKostelecky Awesome. They of course don't have to be done all together and can be sprinkled on the channel over time so 24 episodes for one series then 7 episodes for one then 6 then 12 then 8 then 6 for another. TM - 24 eps TBoBF - 7 eps OWK - 6 eps An - 12 eps Ah - 8 eps TA - 6 eps
Oh hell yeah. Lacey is watching Star Wars! I haven't been this jacked for something on your channel since you started with GoT. Lacey is going to freaking love both the original and prequel triology. I truly believe Force is strong with her!
Welcome back! Corey I think she enjoyed it don’t you? One of my favorite episode is the Empire Strikes Back so I haven’t seen this particular episode in well a lot of years. Excited to see what she thinks! Steve
I love that you've chosen the best version as your starting point. It only exists because of the strength of the fandom as George Lucas tried very hard for years to erase it from history. The Library of Congress wanted to preserve the original but Lucas would only acknowledge his special editions and gave them those instead.
@@DuoReacts Best answer is more or less George claimed he never felt the film was "finished" when he originally made it. His excuse was that he had a bigger vision for the film but that the time and budget could not get him there and most importantly that the special effects technology of the time could not get him there. Has basically claimed he waited for the technology to catch up to complete his original vision. A lot of people feel that it was mostly bullshit and that George sort of got carried away with making tweaks and such once the CGI got good enough to do so. He also used the changes he made to the originally trilogy in for its 1997 20th anniversary rerelease as a practice run for the cutting edge CGI special effects he used in the prequel trilogy but he not only messed with Star Wars but also made changes to Empire and Jedi and continued to make changes with each new DVD release thus why people felt this wasn't simply a desire to "finish" what he started in 1977. There are probably 56 slightly different versions of Star Wars alone by now since the first special edition released in 1997. New scenes, enhanced scenes, new music and even new dialogue a lot of which was terrible additions to the original films with almost each DVD official release over the years. So most fans feel he got carried away with being able to use this new technology and lost sight of the fact that he was overdoing it. The fact that his own special effects company Industrial Light and Magic which he specifically started to make the first Star Wars was at the forefront of movie special effects from 1977 all the way into the 21st century afforded him to be on the cutting edge of special effects as they became available and thus allowed him to play with the original films as he saw fit. The despecialized editions basically leave the films almost entirely unaltered from the original theatrical prints but massively cleaning up the image quality and making it look its best and bringing the image up to 4K standards. This link will give you a good breakdown of the most of changes he made over the years starwars.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_changes_in_Star_Wars_re-releases
Right as your reaction started, another reaction I had to Breaking Bad started playing in another tab. And at first I thought you guys were watching a Mexican version of Star Wars 😂
@@kaleemdin7963 The video they watched was a Harmy's de-specialized edit - which may be available in 4K now, but it was just a 720p video they watched. And it is a pretty clean upscaling.
@@DuoReacts you should check out Empire of Dreams. It’s the making of the trilogy and it’s free on UA-cam. I saw it in theaters too but I think it’s cool to see how they made it given the era it was made. Lucas pretty much set the standard for special effects.
@@DuoReactsfrom what I can tell, it’s basically the same thing you watched, only meant to look more like film on a projector would look on a 4K screen.
O M G, Star Wars :) One of my favorite franchises :) Question, are you going to react to all Star Wars movies? P.S. Thank You for reaction. I haven't watched it yet, but like from me already :)
That is the plan. We are not sure how frequently we will get to them. We pushed this one for May 4, and we have 2 of our regular TV series returning in June (Hot D and the Boys). But we absolutely want to finish at least the original trilogy and hopefully all of the main movies.
Did you know that ACTUALLY I have not seen that movie yet. ❤steve soooo count on it. Just give us some time to plow through our trilogy first and then Craig will guide the path forward.
Right Mark! Look there was no forcing her at all. Hell I gave up and then Gelon and Craig somehow said something and Lacey jumped on board. I am happier than a pig in mud! ❤steve
...choosing between Star Wars and Star Trek is just stupid (well... nowadays both are just bad shit). Star Wars is fantasy/fairytale/adventure... great stuff. Star Trek (around 10 years earlier) is real, old fashioned Science Fiction with philosophical, sociological questions (and yes... William Shatner hitting at alien women). It is sooo stupid like the question "The Beatles or The Rolling Stones?". If you cannot enjoy both of them... well, too bad for yourself. I love Johann Sebastian Bach (as one of the best composers ever... still) and at the same time I love AC/DC (well... back in the 70s and 80s). I love Hitchcock and Tarantino at the same time. I love Shakespeare or Goethe as well as Hesse or John Irving... "Standarts" (this is for the elite, this is for dumb people") are crap. Like all the things "good"... wherever, whenever, from whom ever they come from... do not limit yourself by "being on team soandso..". It does not matter, whether something is very "trivial" or highly "sophisticated"... just enjoy the artistry and genious in both....
_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 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.
Not interest in a fan edit. A bit disappointed you chose these for your reaction. The OG theatrical releases are not that hard to find. But they’re not in 4k. Boo freakin hoo. Regardless of the quality these are just as much NOT the original theatrical versions as the special or subsequent editions. Unpopular opinion but it is what it is.
I just found out today about the 4K77 project, but this really is very close to the same thing but not as good quality. So THIS is basically the version you want. Han is the only one who shoots, there are no extra creatures in the background, there's no awkward Jabba scene...
Also for the record, the one they watched was only 720p, so your 4K argument is even more silly. I researched the difference between the Harmy de-specialized edit and Prjoect 4K77 and it looks like it's the exact same film, with just different ways of cleaning it up. So your comment is WAY off.
I may have the wrong technological qualities but that doesn’t change the fact that regardless of how close they are, they aren’t the original versions. So your it isn’t 4k but 720p isn’t a valid point either.
@@JCG52577 It *IS* the original version. There is nothing changed in this edit from the theatrical release that they would have noticed (and I would only notice if I watched both at the same time and compared individual frames. And had I known about the 4K77 edit, I would have had them watch that. I chose the edition that I thought was the closest to the original version that was out there. There are many fan edits out there, and I even like a couple of them (ADYWAN especially) but I wanted this reaction to be the theatrical release and this is DAMN close to that.
As Lacey notes in the intro, this is the de-specialized edition which tries to be an HD master of the original version that was seen in theaters in 1977. So technically, they're not watching "Episode IV: A New Hope," they're just watching "Star Wars."
Also, I am not certain how many of these movies we will ultimately watch. I think it's certain that we will commit to the original trilogy and the prequel trilogy is also very likely. We will see how things are going after we finish the first 6 before deciding about how deep we end up going. If these do well, then I'm sure we will watch more. I am going to push Spaceballs sometime after the original trilogy as well ;)
Final note before getting into reaction specific notes, this is Lacey's first time really watching Star Wars. Steve grew up with it and has watched it MANY times over the years. So Lacey does know (or think she knows) certain things about the movies. If those things will be revealed in future movies, they should not be answered in the comments. Neither should we confirm or deny the things she thinks she knows. All will be revealed in the proper time. And please go easy on Steve as the guide. This is his first time being the one in the know for a reaction and he's a bit nervous about saying too much. Finally (and this time I mean it) Lacey did see Episode VII in the theater when it came out, but since she lacked the context of the other films, she does not recall much about it.
May the Fourth be with you, and live long and prosper🖖🏻🤪.
Thank you for going to the trouble of doing this. It always bugs me that new reactions watching the 90s special editions are defeating the purpose of watching them in release order (then go on to remark on the quality of the "70s CGI")
I applaud steve for doing so well at keeping from revealing too much as the film progresses.
YES!! Finally! Someone who reacts to the DE-Specialized Editions!!
Lacey, very proud of you for making this version your first Star Wars experience! This is how the world experienced Star Wars in 1977, and it’s how everyone should watch it for their first viewing.
May the 4th Be With You!
Shanelle Riccio was sent and reacted to the original *de-specialized* edition of the three movies more than 3 years ago, and that is the only other time I remember it happening.
I think everyone remembers their first Star Wars movie experience. Love sharing mine. I was in Bloomington Illinois at the mall. At that time it was newest theatre and the popcorn you could smell as soon as you left the Sears portion and into the other portion of the mall. I was 7 years old and I was absolutely blown away. Ahhh the memories!❤Steve
@@libertyresearch-iu4fyI really like Shanelle’s channel and highly recommend it.
I was 13 years old in 1977 when I saw Star Wars in the Movie Theatre. The special effects were ahead of its time. It was originally just called Star Wars because George Lucas did not know if he would be allowed to make more Star Wars Movies, He started with the First movie of his middle trilogy. Star Wars was renumbered episode IV when Episode V The Empire Strikes back in 1980.
Oh and when everyone saw the first movie it was destined to be sought after to see the next episode and so on. They did a very good job with the first episode in my opinion. It left a lot of curiosity at least to me after that episode and a lot of unknown. ❤Steve
"Apparently I'm Darth Vader on your phone…." 🤣
Hey look it gets my attention! Should have had her call me during that portion of the movie for the effects❤Steve
As a fan of both SW and Trek they’re wildly different. I would say Trek is science fiction where all the tech is explained just enough to make it feasible. Star Wars is more science fantasy leaning into the more mystical. Both are great. I’ve never really understood the debate over which one is better.
I probably shouldn’t have really brought that up honestly but at that time of 70’s through late 80’s even I remember the debate between Trek and Star Wars. But when it’s apart of something big like Trek and SW the debate just organically happens. ❤steve
Stargate is my personal favorite.
Fun fact: the Jawas actually were played by kids. And the “trash can” droid is actually called a GONK droid gets the name because of the gonk noise it makes and GONK droids are actually walking power generators/batteries.
Star Wars fans usually don't like all the material, just bits and pieces that they (we) choose. So for everything you like in Star Wars, there will be Star Wars fans who dislike it, and for everything you dislike, there will be people who specifically love that part. That's what happens when you have a huge and diverse fan base.
💯 that's why we all most make up our minds
Grand Moff Tarkin is the boss here. He has authority over the entire Outer Rim territory, (over a thousand planets, moons, stations,) and by extension the death star. Vader in this film is the emperors enforcer he’s there to ensure The Deathstar security and the Emperor’s interests. Grand Moff is a political rank. And only a few people specifically in the death star conference room, even know what Darth Vader is. To the rest of the galaxy Vader really doesn’t exist.
So happy you have finally entered the "Star Wars" Universe, Lacey ( and Steve ).
Hopefully, you'll really dive into this world by reacting to the remaining 8 films as well as the 7 TV series.
That I believe is the plan. We can find out in the next episode when I ask her! Lol ❤steve (she liked the first one)
The TV series are very unlikely. Series take a tremendous amount of time and I don’t think we will go that deep. We will see though how Lacey is feeling once the movies are wrapped up.
@CraigKostelecky Awesome.
They of course don't have to be done all together and can be sprinkled on the channel over time so 24 episodes for one series then 7 episodes for one then 6 then 12 then 8 then 6 for another.
TM - 24 eps
TBoBF - 7 eps
OWK - 6 eps
An - 12 eps
Ah - 8 eps
TA - 6 eps
I can't believe Lacey haven't seen Star Wars. Steve, you gotta catch her up.
That’s my mission Red Leader! ❤steve
Oh hell yeah. Lacey is watching Star Wars! I haven't been this jacked for something on your channel since you started with GoT. Lacey is going to freaking love both the original and prequel triology. I truly believe Force is strong with her!
Welcome back! Corey I think she enjoyed it don’t you? One of my favorite episode is the Empire Strikes Back so I haven’t seen this particular episode in well a lot of years. Excited to see what she thinks! Steve
Thank you very much, but I think there is no point in forcing someone to watch something they don't like.
I used the force. It worked in the movie now it works in real life! ❤monstersteve.
I love that you've chosen the best version as your starting point. It only exists because of the strength of the fandom as George Lucas tried very hard for years to erase it from history. The Library of Congress wanted to preserve the original but Lucas would only acknowledge his special editions and gave them those instead.
I wonder why he wanted it erased? This is another tid bit I want to know more about. Any suggestions on finding the answer to that? ❤steve
@@DuoReacts
Best answer is more or less George claimed he never felt the film was "finished" when he originally made it. His excuse was that he had a bigger vision for the film but that the time and budget could not get him there and most importantly that the special effects technology of the time could not get him there. Has basically claimed he waited for the technology to catch up to complete his original vision. A lot of people feel that it was mostly bullshit and that George sort of got carried away with making tweaks and such once the CGI got good enough to do so.
He also used the changes he made to the originally trilogy in for its 1997 20th anniversary rerelease as a practice run for the cutting edge CGI special effects he used in the prequel trilogy but he not only messed with Star Wars but also made changes to Empire and Jedi and continued to make changes with each new DVD release thus why people felt this wasn't simply a desire to "finish" what he started in 1977. There are probably 56 slightly different versions of Star Wars alone by now since the first special edition released in 1997. New scenes, enhanced scenes, new music and even new dialogue a lot of which was terrible additions to the original films with almost each DVD official release over the years. So most fans feel he got carried away with being able to use this new technology and lost sight of the fact that he was overdoing it.
The fact that his own special effects company Industrial Light and Magic which he specifically started to make the first Star Wars was at the forefront of movie special effects from 1977 all the way into the 21st century afforded him to be on the cutting edge of special effects as they became available and thus allowed him to play with the original films as he saw fit.
The despecialized editions basically leave the films almost entirely unaltered from the original theatrical prints but massively cleaning up the image quality and making it look its best and bringing the image up to 4K standards.
This link will give you a good breakdown of the most of changes he made over the years
starwars.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_changes_in_Star_Wars_re-releases
Thank you for watching the de-specialized version!
Very rare to see people react to the despecialized edition.
Good on you. Han shot first.
Not just first, Greedo never even had time to consider pulling his trigger :)
@@CraigKosteleckyBut Greedo was about to shoot. Technically Han still shot in self defense.
This was Craig’s idea and I am glad he had it ready for us. This was a success! ❤steve
Right as your reaction started, another reaction I had to Breaking Bad started playing in another tab. And at first I thought you guys were watching a Mexican version of Star Wars 😂
¡Muy bueno!
Oh no lmao! Honestly this got a chuckle out of me thanks ! ❤steve
Happy birthday to one of our longest members, the man who calls himself Darth Sidious. May the Fourth be with you, Anthony.
I will second that Birthday post. Have an amazing day Darth! Steve
Lacey is so unbelieveably funny and witty! She should be a comedian
14:05 Vader didn't go to the evil Sith school to be called Mr. Vader.
Mr. Darth Vader! ❤steve
10:26 they only added the episode 4: a new hope in 1981, after they rereleased the same movie a year later of the empire strikes back.
32:07 The Emperor spoken about in this scene is the true boss man. The Republic of old has been corrupted into the Empire by the Emperor.
at least now you will UNDERSTAND all the references in other MEDIA and shows that about star wars
That is just it and she is seeing the entire story play out without a pre existing story only one can assume. I love it! ❤steve
Hi! Lacey. Is the 4K version of Star Wars? You are watching. Because if it is. It looks so sharp.
That’s actually a 720p rip that was downscaled to 486p for this edit.
What he said^^^^ lol. ❤steve
I meant. Is that a 4K version? Of Star Wars. It so sharp.
@@kaleemdin7963 The video they watched was a Harmy's de-specialized edit - which may be available in 4K now, but it was just a 720p video they watched. And it is a pretty clean upscaling.
0:40 star wars is a documentary
They actually filmed the Tatooine scenes in North Africa
I named the chapter of that section of the video to "Nevada, Tunisia, or Tatooine" :D
Really? I honestly didn’t know that until now so thank you and I am a self anointed expert in Star Wars (in my mind) ❤steve
@@DuoReacts you should check out Empire of Dreams. It’s the making of the Trilogy and it’s free on UA-cam. It’s good for nostalgia
@@DuoReacts you should check out Empire of Dreams. It’s the making of the trilogy and it’s free on UA-cam. I saw it in theaters too but I think it’s cool to see how they made it given the era it was made. Lucas pretty much set the standard for special effects.
Watched the Project 4k77 version last night. The only version I watch. Along with 4k80 and 4k83.
I haven't heard of those cuts. I'll have to look into them.
I will have Craig check that out I am not even sure I have seen the 4k77 or the other two. Diffinitly haven’t seen all of those cuts. ❤steve
@@DuoReactsfrom what I can tell, it’s basically the same thing you watched, only meant to look more like film on a projector would look on a 4K screen.
O M G, Star Wars :) One of my favorite franchises :) Question, are you going to react to all Star Wars movies?
P.S. Thank You for reaction. I haven't watched it yet, but like from me already :)
That is the plan. We are not sure how frequently we will get to them. We pushed this one for May 4, and we have 2 of our regular TV series returning in June (Hot D and the Boys). But we absolutely want to finish at least the original trilogy and hopefully all of the main movies.
Obviously for me it’s a yes. But I have to let the Craigster and Lacey figure out the plan. ❤steve
"Starrr-Track"....LOL!
I really hope you consider to watch star wars rogue one, since it takes place before this one
That is a strong possibility. We will see how things are after we finish the main movies.
Did you know that ACTUALLY I have not seen that movie yet. ❤steve soooo count on it. Just give us some time to plow through our trilogy first and then Craig will guide the path forward.
All I can say is about time! 😁😉
Do you think it should have happened a long time ago...
@@CraigKostelecky Absolutely! Just not in a galaxy far away. 😉
Right Mark! Look there was no forcing her at all. Hell I gave up and then Gelon and Craig somehow said something and Lacey jumped on board. I am happier than a pig in mud! ❤steve
10:14 The talking finally stops and the movie begins.
There are chapters in the video for this as well.
0:00 George Lucas and I have the same birthday I was alive only a few days n star wars came out
...choosing between Star Wars and Star Trek is just stupid (well... nowadays both are just bad shit). Star Wars is fantasy/fairytale/adventure... great stuff. Star Trek (around 10 years earlier) is real, old fashioned Science Fiction with philosophical, sociological questions (and yes... William Shatner hitting at alien women). It is sooo stupid like the question "The Beatles or The Rolling Stones?". If you cannot enjoy both of them... well, too bad for yourself. I love Johann Sebastian Bach (as one of the best composers ever... still) and at the same time I love AC/DC (well... back in the 70s and 80s). I love Hitchcock and Tarantino at the same time. I love Shakespeare or Goethe as well as Hesse or John Irving... "Standarts" (this is for the elite, this is for dumb people") are crap. Like all the things "good"... wherever, whenever, from whom ever they come from... do not limit yourself by "being on team soandso..". It does not matter, whether something is very "trivial" or highly "sophisticated"... just enjoy the artistry and genious in both....
_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 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.
May the 4th be with you, Lacey! Lol.
Should watch Dune too!
Hurray!!!!! Welcome Rebel!
Genuinely can not continue watching...... for someone who has very little backstory Re Star Wars she definitely quickly picks up on subtle ques 😂
Music starts
'That's loud.'
Review is threatening a thumbs down out of the gate.....
Darth Vader > Jack Shepherd+Ben Linus
SHAME! lol
I mean 😂❤steve
The snarky comments are too much. I'm out.
@jasongoodacre Can you elaborate on the "snarky" comments, because I personally feel I gave this movie a lot of respect.... ~ Lacey
Embarrassing
Story of my life and I still don’t know what happened in this moment for you. ❤steve confused(well so am I)
Not interest in a fan edit.
A bit disappointed you chose these for your reaction. The OG theatrical releases are not that hard to find.
But they’re not in 4k.
Boo freakin hoo.
Regardless of the quality these are just as much NOT the original theatrical versions as the special or subsequent editions. Unpopular opinion but it is what it is.
I just found out today about the 4K77 project, but this really is very close to the same thing but not as good quality.
So THIS is basically the version you want. Han is the only one who shoots, there are no extra creatures in the background, there's no awkward Jabba scene...
Also for the record, the one they watched was only 720p, so your 4K argument is even more silly.
I researched the difference between the Harmy de-specialized edit and Prjoect 4K77 and it looks like it's the exact same film, with just different ways of cleaning it up. So your comment is WAY off.
I may have the wrong technological qualities but that doesn’t change the fact that regardless of how close they are, they aren’t the original versions. So your it isn’t 4k but 720p isn’t a valid point either.
@@JCG52577 It *IS* the original version. There is nothing changed in this edit from the theatrical release that they would have noticed (and I would only notice if I watched both at the same time and compared individual frames.
And had I known about the 4K77 edit, I would have had them watch that. I chose the edition that I thought was the closest to the original version that was out there. There are many fan edits out there, and I even like a couple of them (ADYWAN especially) but I wanted this reaction to be the theatrical release and this is DAMN close to that.
You're so offended that someone you don't know watched a particular version of A New Hope. Your life must be exhausting.