Comments on: Star Wars Holiday Special 30th Anniversary Celebration!

By: Kenotic

Kenotic — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:39:53 +0000

It’s in the “so bad it’s horrible” category. If you go to Rifftrax.com, you can get the later-season MST3k alums to mock it endlessly — both “pretty boy” Mark Hamill and “Coked to the gills” Carrie Fisher get their fair share of ribbing.

By: Meg

Meg — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:25:55 +0000

I only watched about 15 minutes of it (because my brother made me), but those are a few minutes that I desperately want back…or I wish I could at least pretend I had never seen it. So painful.

I must admit, I’m really surprised the official site is “celebrating” this. I thought Lucas was doing his damnedest to destroy what few remnants there are of the Christmas Special. Weird.

By: Terry Letourneau

Terry Letourneau — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:39:27 +0000

Oh man, I saw this when it aired when I was 10. Since that was an age before home video, it was great to see ‘the gang’ again. As I recall, the coolest thing was the introduction of Boba Fett.

@John
I Think Mark Hamill looks like he had a sex change because he was wearing quite a bit of makeup due to a car accident he had just prior to that. The accident then had Lucas add the attack from the Wampa in TESB to explain some of the scars.

By: Mr. Chris

Mr. Chris — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:25:14 +0000

Man, this was bad. And not in the good cheesy kind of way. Cheesy is if Vader and Luke set aside differences to exchange gifts while Han Solo and Chewie saved Santa. And at one point, there would need to be Stormtroopers line-dancing. A concept like this needed to take itself less seriously to work.

Instead, we get Bea Arthur. They really didn’t think much of themselves back then.

By: SX0T

SX0T — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:12:41 +0000

I have a copy as well. A sure-fire way to make any unwanted relatives leave after they have had too much eggnog and are getting aggressive. It blows that hard. Mighty fun if you’ve never seen it before though.

By: Phil Gee

Phil Gee — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:10:59 +0000

Ah yes, happy Life Day everyone.

By: John

John — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:33:51 +0000

WHAT IN GODES NAME WAS UP WITH MARK HAMILL HE LOOKS LIKE HE GOT A SEX CHANGE

By: Gutpunch

Gutpunch — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:03:08 +0000

Naw this is a rare gem really and I think Lucas should at least make this available for the public. The copies out there look like crap and it would be nice to see a better quality one. I have yet to sit through this all the way through, it’s sooo bad. But I don’t think Lucas should try to hide this, I’m sure he can laugh about it now.

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:46:53 +0000

Although I was only 6, I was one of the unfortunate souls who saw this as a star wars crazed kid and was so pissed off I think I whined incessantly to my mom. Lucas should have burned all copies of this tape.

By: mofo toshio

mofo toshio — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:35:38 +0000

Wish they did this for The Matrix, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, heck, even The Godfather series!