The STAR WARS MONTHLY MONDAY Thread

[Dan North]

Guys, What movie should I start on with Star Wars? I've never seen any of them and I'm a little confused on how they work, the modern ones are first? I'm just curious to check it out after all the fuss I hear you guys make of it, I love Star Trek with all my heart so it won't be a big leap.

[Arthur Ratnik]

[Joe Anthrax]

[rd666]

Commander USA was awesome! Like Schneider from One Day At A Time hosting Chiller Theater - an even better USA Network 80s gem was the original Night Flight. A total mishmash of weird shit that blew my chemically enhanced teenage mind.

After SW credits start to roll, the wife says 'Why didn't Chewbacca get a medal?' Good question!

Just listened to the 80s audio 'Rebel Mission to Ord Mandell'


The EU craziness continues - as there are at least 3 'Ord Mantell' stories in the canon - but which one is the one Han is referring to in ESB?

I just came across a shitload SW audio books - any recommendations?

[Joe Anthrax]

Night Flight was one of the first places that I saw the Super Sentai series (what would become The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers in the U.S.A.) as a English dubbed parody. It was freaking hilarious!!! I remember it morphing (see what I did there... ) into Up All Night with Gilbert Gottfreid as the host...

Joe -- Despite what he has done to the Tiki Room at Disneyworld/Land, I enjoy Gottfreid as a stand-up, as well as his voice acting in Superman: The Animated Series -- Anthrax

[Arthur Ratnik]

I remember seeing Andy Warhol's Frankenstein and Suburbia on Night Flight, I think they might have even shown Liquid Sky. All hacked to bits, of course.

[NewFun#6]

[NewFun#6]

[NewFun#6]

Oh, and Gilbert Gottfreid sucks ass.

[Joe Anthrax]

[ljacone]

You know I have never seen the Tiki Room in any form? Its got to be the only attraction at the MK which I have never done in one form or another (besides those added since 2004).

[Joe Anthrax]

[NewFun#6]

I hope and pray we get the original version back, or at least one that is more closely in-spirit to the original, as the Gottfried version suuuuuuucks.

[Dan North]

I just finished watching Return of the Jedi. I thought New Hope was pretty meh but did a great job of introducing all the characters. Empire Strikes Back was excellent and I really enjoyed it. Return of the Jedi was all right but I think that there was way to much filler over all the trilogy was meh.

[NewFun#6]

Meh, huh? Okay. Not a word commonly associated with the Star Wars Trilogy, but to each his own.

[ljacone]

Picked up today at Mr. K's -- the Adventures of Lando Calrissian, a collection of the three Lando Calrissian books by L. Neil Smith. All three of them for $3.50 -- and I used trade credit to pay for them so no money out of pocket! Score!

[NewFun#6]

[Dan North]

Gotta say PM was alot better than I expected, I found the politics incredibly interesting. Jar Jar sucks though.

[janson]

[Arthur Ratnik]