the crimes of george lucas ('90s on)

Is there an official place to download this or is it just available through various file sharing sites?

All that stuff is available thru illicit channels. A cool thing about GL is that he doesn't necessarily hunt down fan-made reinterpretations of his stuff.

Oi, I'm really nerding out on Star Wars recently. Here's a story about a rare Technicolor print of the original. Check out the comparison between it (bottom) and the DVD (top):

http://savestarwars.com/images/goutstluke.jpg
http://savestarwars.com/images/goutstluke.jpg

http://savestarwars.com/technicoloribscreening.html

That link is great! Would dearly love to see the original Star Wars in the cinema again, the Technicolor print looks gorgeous.

I've been on a Star Wars Ripoffs kick lately, with "Battle Beyond the Stars" and now watching "Starcrash". I'm starting to enjoy them more than the genuine article. There are lots of gratuitous special effects, silly plot points, hotter babes, and usually some gorgeous pulp-style paintings used for planets. Plus since the plots and acting are so cheesy, you can just kind of run them in the background while you're doing other things.

In "Starcrash" there is a great scene where the Emperor very smugly commands his spaceship "Computer, STOP THE FLOW OF TIME!" so they can escape a nuclear holocaust. This comes right after David Hasslehof has a light saber duel with two Harryhausen-style robots. The Luke Skywalker guy has a huge fro and rainbow-colored Force powers. The main damsel goes through the film in a space bikini and thigh high boots, and she has some awesome hot mess eyes. The main villain looks like a Liberace version of an Italian crime boss and has the greatest evil laugh ever. Some of the effects sequences resemble 60's psychedelic light shows more than anything. Lots of great, quotable batshit lines throughout.

I think the greatest gift "Star Wars" inadvertently gave was the contemporary ripoffs. Does anyone have any favorites?

Holy crap the bad spaceship is a giant hand that turns into a fist!

Battle Beyond the Stars is hilarious

giant boob ship!

In "Star Crash" they fire torpedoes that have soldiers in them! They fly in through the window and the guys pop out and star shooting. LOL

I love Star Crash.

One thing I see is that lots of these films are using scenes that actually ended up in the "Star Wars" sequels, which were made after these. For instance, "Star Crash" has the ice planet (Hoth) and the girl gets kidnapped by the savages being saved by a golden god (Ewoks).

last night i had a dream that george lucas was shooting at me with a laser (it was some sort of new addition to one of the movies) while i yelled "OCCUPY HOTH" at him

omg

where might you find Star Crash or Battle Beyond the Stars? Netflix doesn't seem to have either...

Amazon has 'em.

Torrents.

another noted ripoff is Kinji Fukasaku's "Message From Space"

http://lotuswatcher.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/battlebeyond1.jpg

http://brianorndorf.typepad.com/.a/6a00e54ee7b642883301538f4d5727970b-500wi

^^^George Peppard

Message from Space looks great. Vic Morrow!

Is that a ship, an alien's head, or a scrotum?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukaEGDNeDQk

Is that a ship, an alien's head, or a scrotum?

That is a ship, and I'm pretty sure they've come out and said they were boobs. The ship has nothing on Syb Danning tho.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_iBuNz7Kv1jk/TIUubJ-kuUI/AAAAAAAAA2o/6vmCX5EtfgE/s1600/Battle+Beyond+the+Stars.jpg

looks more like a nutsack with ovaries

looks like Hammerhead!

Here are some still from Star Crash, emphasis on the crazy lofi effects. When they go into hyperspace, it does some extremely gritty video feedback stuff that looks very chillwave.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6100/6331551111_0987588881.jpg
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6120/6331551189_b1bee7a882.jpg
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http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6110/6332303534_37a471744b.jpg
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http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6101/6332304692_71fa3c6afc.jpg
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http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6093/6332308304_49cdc3595b.jpg
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6096/6332311578_188b95052d.jpg

hmm that looks kind of awesome!

Note to self: Watch Starcrash this weekend.

srs

David Hasselhoff is in Star Crash, fwiw

http://a.abcnews.go.com/images/Entertainment/ht_darth_vader_burger_nt_120106_wblog.jpg

jedi burger is totally scarier

giant jedi mouth w/mayo teeth & cheesy tongue

For the Jedi it is time to eat as well. Eat, eat. Hot. Good food, hm? Good, hmm?

Also you will find a new definition of pain and suffering as the burger is slowly digested in your stomach over a thousand years.

what are those chunks on the top of the jedi burger?

Garlic or brie maybe?

either sounds disgusting

Some websites claim marshmallows. I'm going to go for brie.

Are those burgers in 3D?

Also you will find a new definition of pain and suffering as the burger is slowly digested in your stomach over a thousand years.

― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Saturday, January 7, 2012 6:38 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Good joke, needs to be acknowledged.

May the farts be with you.

Are those burgers in 3D?

― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, January 7, 2012 3:47 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

"No, but your face is!"

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfhtf9YYJH1qgsff2o1_500.gif

No but 'Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace How To Make A Crap Film Crapper' is.

DARK VADOR

how do you make a black bun like that?? what's in it?

looks like a couple of patties, some salad and cheese

Midichlorians. Evil ones.

Lucas actually comes across ok in this article from the BBC about his new film Red Tails... right up until the very last line.

Could have been worse, I was figuring it was going to say "Next up will be his Jar-Jar Binks biopic."