May the 25th Be With You

[filkertom]

I like the pun, but I think the real Star Wars Day is the anniversary of the release of the first/fourth movie back in 1977. On the other hand, Star Wars has indeed become ubiquitous enough that saying "May The Fourth Be With You" will elicit a groan of recognition from even the most Mugglish among us.

Which Star Wars story is your favorite? Film, animated series, episode of a series, book, fan fic, fan film, comic, parody, whatever. If you've got a link, please provide it.

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[capplor.livejournal.com]

To everybody who has wished me "May the Fourth..." I have been replying, "I'll take the fifth."

[roman-mclaze.livejournal.com]

Yes, but are you a "Dark Lord of the 5th"?

[pandoradeloeste.livejournal.com]

I haven't read much Star Wars fanfic (it usually includes the expanded universe, and I haven't read all the books; there's too many, and a large subset are of questionable quality). I remain a big fan of Empire Strikes Back. I have an obscene amount of filk on my mp3 player; my favorite Star Wars parodies are:

Jedi Drinking Song (Brobdingnagian Bards)
the Weird Al Star Wars parodies (Yoda and Saga Begins)
Fett's Vette (MC Chris)
Star Wars Gangster Rap (also MC Chris? the one that starts with "it's not the east or the west side (no it's not)")

[stormsdotter.livejournal.com]

I had to look up the Jedi Drinking Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1pgep07CA

[hms42]

Jedi Drinking Song is actually from a group called "Dust Rhinos" from Canada. Jedi Drinking Song Prequel is actually from the Bards.

[atalantapendrag.livejournal.com]

Siubhan's Sith Academy stories have a firm place in my mind as the only good thing to come out of the prequels. Sith Lords are hot shit!

[alverant.livejournal.com]

First place is Mad Magazine's Star Bores: The Musical.
Second place is the NPR radio drama of the first movie.
Third place is the audio book version of Revenge of the Sith (much much much better than the movie for a variety of reasons)

[muddlewait.livejournal.com]

"BEEP! That's 'Hi' in robot talk."

OH YEAH! Someone else remembers this! I still remember the words to the Darth Vader and droid sale songs. And of course, "Weeeee're off to kill the bad guys..."

Sorry, just geekin' out there.

[alverant.livejournal.com]

What do you say to a couple getting ready to split up?
May divorce be with you.

What do you say to someone who just got health insurance?
May Blue Cross be with you.

What do you say to one of Springsteen's roadies?
May the Boss be with you.

What does your dentist say to you?
May the floss be with you.

What do you say to a cowboy?
May the horse be with you.

What do you say to a person who's relative just died?
May the loss be with you.

What do you say to Jesus?
May the cross be with you.

OK I'll stop now.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Star Wars The Original And Best Han Shot First Dammit(tm)(C)(R)(EIEIO).

Also like the Yoda "Everybody's Free" parody Weird Al did a while back.

But trust you me on the sunscreen! :)

When nine hundred years old YOU get, form sentences in order proper YOU will not! heh!

[hitchkitty.livejournal.com]

As MAD magazine suggested, "As older I get, worse my speech impediment becomes."

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

The Star Wars Holiday Special.

Happy Life Day, everyone.

Ha!

[arakasi1.livejournal.com]

Last year, I hosted a bad movie night. After sitting through Nudist Camp of the Damned, Poultrygeist, and Pink Lady & Jeff episode 6, nobody lasted for more than 15 minutes of the SWHS

[shockwave77598.livejournal.com]

Straight up: The original 1977 movie. Nothing like it for sheer wow factor.

Comic: Star Wars Holiday special. Until Lucas smashes my computers, there will always be a copy of this in the world. An annual Xmas Movie night in Second Life and heralds the invention of Wookie Porn (which I joke about in my puppet shows)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hiTLfOoCaE&feature=related

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

From the opening shot with the viscerally biggest ship I'd ever seen, pursued by an EVEN BIGGER ship, to coming out into the daylight so dazed from the experience that I could hardly walk straight, seeing Star Wars for the first time is something that is still with me even today. Nothing in the ensuing franchise has ever matched that, nor have more than a tiny handful of works from other creators in other universes.

[melchar.livejournal.com]

Very similar thoughts. Original movie #1 - with Han shooting first and it all being new is my favorite.

It just edges out 'Empire' - which had so much going for it [before Lucas fell to the dark side of merchandizing and plot compromise]. However plot-points in 'Clones' and 'Sith' make me think that Yoda was a hidden Sith lord.

[terriwells.livejournal.com]

How is it no one mentioned "Hardware Wars" yet?

[shockwave77598.livejournal.com]

I just watched that the other day -- got it from netflix. I was very disappointed though that it wasn't even close to the VHS version which had other Foss films on it in addition to Hardware though.

[wingus.livejournal.com]

I'm going to paint a big target on myself here and say that I generally like The Phantom Menace the most. That's mostly for Qui-Gonn, the Darth Maul fight, and the podrace, though.

[pandoradeloeste.livejournal.com]

Truth. I make fun of Phantom Menace like mad, and I have to turn away whenever dialogue happens, but I could watch the Darth Maul fight all day.

[judifilksign.livejournal.com]

I like Empire best, in German.

The scene in the Hoth ice hallway, in which Leia stops calling Han by the formal "Sie" (you) and uses "du" (familiar, intimate, "thee")

"Han! I need thee!"

Han spins around in this German version and says gleefully "DU!?"
And while the Princess backsteps into the formal address, from that moment on, Han addresses her by the familiar "du," because she did it first.

During the carbonite freezing scene, Leia relents and says "Ich liebe dich," it is so much more poignant!

(swoons)

[terriwells.livejournal.com]

This is the kind of thing I suppose that's GAINED in translation, because English doesn't have separate formal and intimate forms for the word "you."

So...did Han shoot first in the German version? ;-)

[damullet.livejournal.com]

http://Darthsanddroids.net

This comic is truly amazing for anyone who's played tabletop RPGs, and somehow manages to make sense of the hash that Lucas made of the prequel trilogy. One of the best Star Wars fan-anythings I've ever seen.

[terriwells.livejournal.com]

I have to wonder if this is the same person that gave us the Lord of the Rings trilogy as a tabletop RPG.

[bayushisan.livejournal.com]

I think that Empire Strikes Back would be my favorite of the six movies.

[lisa-marli.livejournal.com]

Cause I'm posting late and can read everyone else's comments. ;)

#1 - First movie in the Big Theatre and Han shot first.
#2 - Empire - because the story was still strong, no ewoks.
#3 - Hardware Wars - "I can't understand what you're saying" and
"You'll laugh, You'll cry, You'll kiss $5 good bye"
#4 - Any parody song by Weird Al.
#5 - The LA Filkharmonics had Way Too Much Fun too. I still have their song books. ;D

[hms42]

Agreed with #5. They definitely had a lot of fun with Star Wars in their songbooks and on their tape.

[misterseth.livejournal.com]

1. Star Wars Robot Chicken parodies (cmon! PRUNEFACE!!!)
2. SW Holiday special (animated sequence only)
3. A New Hope
4. An Infinities fanfic I'm working on with Leia on Tattoine and Luke on Alderaan.

[alverant.livejournal.com]

Remember the janitor who was sweeping up the floors at the bottom of the pits people were getting thrown into? "I gotta get a new job!"

I loved how Fett got more lines in one segment than two whole movies.

[dan-ad-nauseam.livejournal.com]

The original - with the mismatched sound reel

[rickvs.livejournal.com]

Any book by Timothy Zahn set in the Star Wars universe.

[hitchkitty.livejournal.com]

Damn skippy. I'm an unabashed Thrawn fanboy, and his other original characters are fun, too.

*sigh* A shame Kevin J. Anderson just didn't seem to GET Mara Jade. I got to hear Zahn at a Q&A session *mumble* years ago, just before the Hand of Thrawn duology came out. Someone asked, "Had you intended Mara to get together with Luke?"

Zahn replied, in an exhausted tone, "Well...I certainly hadn't meant for her to get together with Lando..."

...and I really, really hate the way she was killed off. That was cheap.

[muddlewait.livejournal.com]

Empire, and Luke's arc all the way through Jedi. Yoda boils down the Force to its essential ideas, Han and Leia behave like real live human beings, and Luke proves that sometimes, wisdom needs hope and love to trump it. Powerful stuff, and a huge influence on me growing up.

The Jedi novelization was also pretty important to me, in that it got me inside characters' heads. Seeing the complexities of the competition between the Emperor and Vader, and how much better Palpatine was at that kind of game, was a real eye-opener to me at 12.

[ifics.livejournal.com]

Empire for me. Spoofs would be Hardware Wars and Troops.

Love all the LA Filkharmonics materiel. A number of good filks were written back in that day that is not sung much today.

Anyone have the Star Wars "Christmas in the Stars" album? I have it on vinyl and CD, and play it every Christmas Season.

[bonnie-rocks.livejournal.com]

THE STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL!!!!

I own 4 copies of it: 3 on VHS (don't ask) and 1 on DVD (DVD came with all the Kenner Toy commercials!)

~*::Meow::*~

[dbcooper.livejournal.com]

In addition to several of the above, I also adore "Star Wars: Tag and Bink Are Dead."