Star Wars Nothing But Star Wars

May 5, 2018 10:56 AM

Around 1 hour and 45 minutes of the greatest miso-mash of Star Wars references across the over 4 decades since the first film's release. It's fascinating and horrifying and perhaps a bit hypnotizing.
posted by hippybear (33 comments total)

miso-mash? WTF, autocorrect? mish-mash!
posted by hippybear at 10:56 AM on May 5, 2018 [3 favorites]

May the Fifth be with you!
posted by Sys Rq at 10:57 AM on May 5, 2018 [3 favorites]

two things:
1) I was expecting soup
2) While the idea of a mono culture may be fading, it is worth noting that all of our favorite esoteric blogs, vlogs, podcasts and (well) friends are still bubbling like rabids everytime the Starwars franchise wiggles a little. Meanwhile, none of us want to hear an adult story told, unless it comes thru the neon filter of a Marvel movie. I'm not complaining. I love it. But while I'm still hoping for the nebulizing of cultural touch-stones, seeing this gag-reel of the birth of popular sci-fi referencing makes me wish there was a god, and sure that there isn't one.

(ps miso-mash forever)
posted by es_de_bah at 11:17 AM on May 5, 2018 [4 favorites]

Meanwhile, none of us want to hear an adult story told, unless it comes thru the neon filter of a Marvel movie.

Meanwhile TV series keep on with their grim dark grimdarkness, from Game of Thrones to The Handmaid's Tale to Breaking Bad to The Sopranos to The Wire to House of Cards to Orange is the New Black to whatever.
posted by sukeban at 11:21 AM on May 5, 2018 [1 favorite]

Holy shit this is a never ending train wreck of ludicrous proportions. This might be worse than Meet the Feebles and the Christmas Special combined. I love it.

There's a ton of rare behind the scenes footage scattered through the video along with all the bizarre Star Wars mania dreck.

I highly recommend archiving or backing this up because it's probably going to go away in a hurry. (Look at the view counts.)
posted by loquacious at 11:31 AM on May 5, 2018 [3 favorites]

Also team #MisoMash.
posted by loquacious at 11:32 AM on May 5, 2018 [3 favorites]

It just keeps going. It seems to extend time beyond itself. I'd swear I've been watching this for 3 hours, but it's only been like 45 minutes.
posted by hippybear at 11:33 AM on May 5, 2018 [2 favorites]

More and more I miss that period between Return of the Jedi and The Phantom Menace (though it really began with the big Shadows of the Empire push in 1996) when Star Wars was just this fun old sci-fi thing and not an unbiquitous cultural machine jammed down our throats every waking moment. There was another lull between Revenge of the Sith and The Force Awakens, but that second period was different because the machine didn't really shut down between them like Lucas let it after Return.
posted by Sangermaine at 11:34 AM on May 5, 2018 [10 favorites]

I'd swear I've been watching this for 3 hours, but it's only been like 45 minutes.

Yeah, I started to get sucked in skipping around (OMG, Rainer Star Wars Cantina ads? Eddie Prior roasts and skits? The actual on-set cues and voice of Chewie? Prop fails, so many prop fails!) but I just can't get stuck here for another two hours because I got shit to do like go ride bikes and go to an art co-op meeting.

Which is why I'm downloading it for later, because I'm not actually expecting the link to work when I get back.
posted by loquacious at 11:37 AM on May 5, 2018

Two related questions I've wondered:

1. Would it be possible to recreate every line of dialogue in A New Hope using only quotes of it from other films and TV shows? (You can only use each source once-- you can't just take 99% of it from Family Guy's Blue Harvest)

2. What is the least quoted line in A New Hope?
posted by justkevin at 11:47 AM on May 5, 2018 [3 favorites]

2. What is the least quoted line in A New Hope?

I'd mention it here, but by merely saying it here I'd ruin it because every other single line in the movie has been quoted at least once.
posted by hippybear at 11:54 AM on May 5, 2018 [3 favorites]

I'd call double but it looks like the old links were Death Star'd, and there wasn't much of a thread.
posted by radwolf76 at 12:24 PM on May 5, 2018

radwolf76, Cinefamily TV, the company that commissioned the remix and showed it in their theater for the Star Wars 40th anniversary last year, folded and closed the theater since then. Their YouTube channel vanished. So Marcus Herring, who made it, added a few more minutes and put it on his own channel.
posted by Miss Cellania at 1:46 PM on May 5, 2018 [2 favorites]

Hearing Prowse as Vader just makes want someone to redub Vader with Bernard from Black Books.
posted by ckape at 3:44 PM on May 5, 2018 [2 favorites]

he did the miso-mash
it was a soy bean smash
posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 4:25 PM on May 5, 2018 [8 favorites]

The Auralnauts remixes of the prequel make so much more sense than the actual movies. Plus hearing Obi-Wan and Yoda reliving their glory days on the dance floor and yelling, "Midichlorians, Duke! Midichlorians!" never stops being funny to me.
posted by fifteen schnitzengruben is my limit at 4:33 PM on May 5, 2018 [2 favorites]

Might be worth mentioning NSFW-ish if you watch long enough
posted by Golem XIV at 5:21 PM on May 5, 2018

the 70's really was a paradise for studio bass players
posted by thelonius at 6:01 PM on May 5, 2018 [2 favorites]

the 70's really was a paradise for studio bass players

And for people with cocaine habits.
posted by hippybear at 6:06 PM on May 5, 2018 [1 favorite]

HURF DURF MISO MASHER
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 6:40 PM on May 5, 2018

I was going to list my favorite bits, but they just keep coming!

I wonder how much that R2D2 toy that plays the Andy Griffith theme would fetch on eBay nowadays?
posted by The Underpants Monster at 8:11 PM on May 5, 2018

sukeban, I'm with you as far grim-dark isn't the preferred standard. I'm more wondering where Frasier vs Frasier, Quiz Show, Jack the Bear, The Waitress, and/or What's Eating Gilbert Grape might find a place. None of them are Oscar Bate, just kinda good movies about human stuff.
posted by es_de_bah at 9:40 PM on May 5, 2018

Frasier vs Frasier

Kramer vs Kramer?

Or is this Niles vs Frasier Crane in some duel I wasn't aware of?
posted by hippybear at 10:49 PM on May 5, 2018 [4 favorites]

People say that Mark Hamill is a bad actor, but he kept a remarkably straight face when the interviewer called Luke Skywalker a serious role.
posted by ckape at 10:53 PM on May 5, 2018

That’s a pretty good take on how sci-fi fandom became as repellently, relentlessly overpowering and bland as sports fandom and drove this young sci-fi fanatic into an adulthood of absolutely hating sci-fi. What a depressingly stupid machine.
posted by sonascope at 2:30 AM on May 6, 2018 [4 favorites]

Only one man could so charmingly irk both Star Wars and Star Trek fans with one sentence. Thanks, Obama!
posted by valkane at 6:37 AM on May 6, 2018 [2 favorites]

And for people with cocaine habits.

Yeah, I've been wondering how to bring this up but there's more coke in this video than an unmarked DC-3 CIA cargo plane. Mark and Carrie are both notably and very obviously keyed the fuck up in a bunch of those interviews. You could use them for a flashlight in some of the segments.

And in hindsight there's definitely a pretty disturbing undercurrent of "We're young, we're suddenly megastars and we're suddenly richer than anything we even knew existed... and we have no idea what were doing and we're totally unprepared for this."

And it's even more obvious in some of the weird cultural/comedy/whatever segments.
posted by loquacious at 11:26 AM on May 6, 2018

I really did enjoy the whole sequence of no-budget fan films, though.
posted by ckape at 11:55 AM on May 6, 2018

It's actually a shockingly entertaining and enjoyable (?) 1h45m. I might even watch it again sometime.
posted by hippybear at 12:18 PM on May 6, 2018 [2 favorites]

I mean how do you be ~20 years old and be one of the faces that will be recognized anywhere it goes anywhere in the world? I mean, that's insane. I'm not sure what I would turn to for coping with that, but with Star Wars level money pouring in (what were their contracts, does anyone know?) yeah cocaine would be a part of the mix,.
posted by hippybear at 1:31 PM on May 6, 2018

what were their contracts, does anyone know?

I heard that Peter Cushing rejected a contract with less money and a percentage of merchandising, which seemed like the right thing to do at the time, I'm sure......he thought the movie was going straight to drive-ins......but I do not know if the other actors got deals like that.
posted by thelonius at 2:25 PM on May 6, 2018

1. Would it be possible to recreate every line of dialogue in A New Hope using only quotes of it from other films and TV shows? (You can only use each source once-- you can't just take 99% of it from Family Guy's Blue Harvest)

2. What is the least quoted line in A New Hope?
posted by justkevin at 11:47 on May 5 [3 favorites +] [!]


Not to directly answer 1, but for the obverse, someone made a mash-up which constructed A New Hope entirely from things that was based on (Kurosawa, WW2 footage, etc). It was posted to metafilter but I can't find it if anyone happens to know what I'm on about.
posted by Erberus at 3:34 PM on May 6, 2018

Erberus, I think that was Kyle Kallgren from Brows Held High. This is the video and this is the annotated version.
posted by sukeban at 11:15 PM on May 6, 2018 [1 favorite]