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Title: How Often Do You Watch the SW Movies?
Post by: Brian on May 7, 2004, 05:17 PM
Just curious, how often do you think you actually pop in the tape, DVD, laserdisc, or whatever form of the various movies you might have.  Do you watch one more than the other?  Which one do you watch most...or do you watch them at all?  Personally, I can honestly say I don't really watch Phantom Menace or Attack of the Clones all that often....although I watched AOTC a few times right after we got the DVD.  I tend to watch the OT much, much more.  I haven't watched any of them for awhile, but I think I tend to watch Empire Strikes Back the most, followed by Return of the Jedi.  I watch Star Wars (or A New Hope) once in awhile too, but not as much since it is on TV every now and then.  Anyways, how often do you watch the movies...which do you enjoy watching the most?
Title: Re: How Often Do You Watch the SW Movies?
Post by: Mainland05 on May 7, 2004, 11:45 PM
The last time I have actually sat down, and watched a whole Star Wars movie, was Attack of the Clones, when I had strep throat in Janurary.   ???
Title: Re: How Often Do You Watch the SW Movies?
Post by: Matt on May 8, 2004, 12:42 AM
I can honestly say that I don't remember the last time I sat down and actually watched a Star Wars movie--any of the five.  I've got the two legit DVDs, and two bootleg sets of the originals, both, er, original and Special Edition.  Last time I probably watched any of 'em was maybe early '03 or something.  

I'll scan through the satellite every once in a while, and sometimes catch the tail end of Clones on HBO, but only stick around for five or ten minutes--I've got an unwritten law that if I've got it on DVD, I'm not going to watch it on regular TV.

I've had a couple of bouts with insomnia as of late, and have thought about popping in either of the prequel DVDs to use as makeshift sleeping pills, but it seems that even the thought of that has been enough cure in and of itself.

As for the originals, I've kind of had a hankering to watch Star Wars a couple of times in the past few weeks, but I'm kind of of the thought that the official versions will be out soon enough anyway--and there's no sense in further burning myself out on something that I'm already way too burned out on to begin with.  

So I'm going to try to go into September 21st as fresh as possible--and hopefully with a new widescreen DLP to boot.

Other than that, there's no real need to watch the originals again as it is--I can pretty much play them in my head to begin with. . .
Title: Re: How Often Do You Watch the SW Movies?
Post by: Ben on May 8, 2004, 01:29 AM
I'm holding off on watching the OT until it comes out on DVD, so it feels a little more fresh, as fresh as movies I've seen 100 times can be, anyway.
Title: Re: How Often Do You Watch the SW Movies?
Post by: SilverZ on May 8, 2004, 03:42 AM
I actually fired up ROTJ:SE on LD about a week ago to check and see if my little Dolby Digital RF demodulator was working. Ended up watching the whole movie and was shocked to find that the LD's image quality stood up OK on my big-o' screen.

That was the first time in years I'd done so. I was never a fan of ROTJ, but after years of prequels, it's suddenly Citizen Kane. With the exception of "Jedi Rocks" which is the most offensive, inappropriate, and pointless SE modification to the entire series - Greedo shooting first, Jabba's redundant exposition in ANH, Boba breaking the 4th wall, and screaming baby Luke included. It's just plain craptastic.

But overall, I enjoyed what's probably my laserdisc player's swan song. There's not much left to watch that there aren't superior DVDs of now.
Title: Re: How Often Do You Watch the SW Movies?
Post by: jkno on May 8, 2004, 04:32 AM
I watch once a month on bootleg DVD's but not very happy until I see the original stuff.
Title: Re: How Often Do You Watch the SW Movies?
Post by: Logray2776 on May 8, 2004, 11:41 AM
Havent watched any of mone for a couple of months actually. But I am will be watching them all when the dvds come out in September.
Title: Re: How Often Do You Watch the SW Movies?
Post by: Becky on May 8, 2004, 03:54 PM
I watched Attack on the Clones the other night.  But, it's been a while since I watched the rest of them.
Title: Re: How Often Do You Watch the SW Movies?
Post by: DSJ™ on May 9, 2004, 12:35 AM
ANH was on TV a few weeks ago. I had that running in the background. I watched AOTC when I got my portable DVD palyer for work.
Title: Re: How Often Do You Watch the SW Movies?
Post by: Morgbug on May 9, 2004, 11:37 PM
I watch one or two of them a month probably.  Sort of fade in and out with attention and the wife almost always falls asleep.  Too familiar?

Pretty much go back and forth between ANH and ESB.  Occasionally watch ROTJ and would more, but for those accursed furballs.  Shoulda been Wookies.  

Hardly ever watch Clones, though I enjoy it.  Not a bad movie but for the love scenes.  My daughter loves the arena scenes with the animals.  She also likes the love scene where Anakin falls off the beast in the field (the sound of music scene ::)  You hear that LUCAS????  The scene appeals to my four year old!@!!!  Is that the target audience??? >:(

Can't stand Jake Lloyd, so TPM is painful to watch.  Still the best lightsaber battle thus far though.  Surreal.
Title: Re: How Often Do You Watch the SW Movies?
Post by: Brian on May 10, 2004, 01:43 PM
Like many of the rest of you, I have kind of been holding out for the DVD release as well.  I'm really looking forward to seeing them in that format.  I used to watch Empire almost once a month, but it has been a few months since I last did now.  Thanks for the replies so far everyone.
Title: Re: How Often Do You Watch the SW Movies?
Post by: Ben on May 11, 2004, 02:11 AM
I was going to watch A New Hope and Empire last Saturday, but I decided to clean out my DVD backlog instead, watching Master and Commander, Big Fish, The Last Samurai, and Kill Bill vol.1 (love that movie loud.)

I think I can avoid watching them until late June, then I'll be jonesin' for an OT fix while the DVDs are still months away. :P
Title: Re: How Often Do You Watch the SW Movies?
Post by: Scott on May 11, 2004, 12:07 PM
Not very often, like Virex I only watch them when I have some bouts of insomnia.  And in that case, the OT will usually put me right to sleep.  I've seen most of the OT hundreds of times each from almost watching them daily back in the summers of no school.  I think some time in college we sat down, had some beers and watched them all back to back

I've watched both Prequels twice and will watch portions of AOTC on HBO.  Otherwise I'm waiting for the Official DVD's and for my boys to get a little bit older and introduce them to the galaxy far, far away
Title: Re: How Often Do You Watch the SW Movies?
Post by: Matt on May 12, 2004, 12:55 AM
So the other day I'm talking to this buddy of mine and he tells me "yeah, the part where Sebulba loses the pod race and goes 'Poodoo'?  Yeah, they cut that out of the Phantom Menace DVD".  

So, like the dumbass I am, I had to pop the disc in to make sure that yes, Sebulba's "poodoo" was left in tact.

I thought so.

Left it in the player, though, and watched a little of it with the commentary on -- in between commercials on "Elimidate". . .

Title: Re: How Often Do You Watch the SW Movies?
Post by: CloneF13Y35 on May 12, 2004, 11:39 AM
I watched SW:ANH:SE this past weekend for the first time in months.  I've watched Empire and Jedi in the past couple months. Haven't watched Clones in a couple months. Watched TPM on Fox.
Title: Re: How Often Do You Watch the SW Movies?
Post by: JediMAC on May 12, 2004, 05:01 PM
Boy, it's really been a pretty good while for me.  I guess now that we're in the DVD (and cable TV) age, I don't hardly bother tossing in the old VHS tapes of the OT.  I got those Malaysian bootleg DVDs of the OT way back when they first came out, but I've long since misplaced them and don't think I ever even had a chance to actually watch them.  I think I only watched my TPM and AOTC DVDs once when I first got them both respectively.

So really it boils down to watching the stuff on cable TV.  That would be a whole lot for AOTC lately, even though I don't care much for the movie.  I've caught bits and pieces of ANH from time to time over the years as well.  But now that I think of it, man, I'm really way overdue for watching the OT in it's entirety.  I'm still sorting through the catastrophic hobby room, but I know my bootleg DVDs are in there somewhere, so hopefully I can dig them up and take a gander at them after all this time.  Should be fun!  It's definitely been WAY too long...

So thanks for the reminder Brian!   8)
Title: Re: How Often Do You Watch the SW Movies?
Post by: Matt on June 3, 2004, 12:29 AM
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As for the originals, I've kind of had a hankering to watch Star Wars a couple of times in the past few weeks, but I'm kind of of the thought that the official versions will be out soon enough anyway--and there's no sense in further burning myself out on something that I'm already way too burned out on to begin with.

So I got really wasted last night and--inexplicably--had the urge to pop in my bootleg DVD of Star Wars.  An added bonus was that I took my Artoo-Detoo "sound box" (that came with the Artoo 3-D puzzle a couple of years ago), and would make the Artoo squawks and chirps to go along with the on-screen action.

I didn't even make it to Tatooine to continue the festivities, but woke up pissed that I broke my word about not watching anything until September.

Oh well.  Good times, good times. . .
Title: Re: How Often Do You Watch the SW Movies?
Post by: jjks on June 3, 2004, 01:30 AM

So I got really wasted last night and...

Evidently the pictures of your drunken hijinks have already hit the net, because private eye jjks was able to track down these incriminating photos off of google simply by entering in "drunk matt".


For shame  :-[

(http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/j/r/jrd199/misc/Drunk%20Matt%2006.JPG)
Title: Re: How Often Do You Watch the SW Movies?
Post by: Jediknight760071 on June 3, 2004, 01:46 AM
I watch The OT more than twice each week...in all seriousness.

I enjoy Return of The Jedi the most, since it has such a great space battle, and not to mention lightsaber duel.
Title: Re: How Often Do You Watch the SW Movies?
Post by: Vator on June 3, 2004, 01:50 AM
What the hell were you doing Matt?  :-X



Haven't watched the OT sice January, so I'd say ever 6 or so months.
Title: Re: How Often Do You Watch the SW Movies?
Post by: Brian on January 23, 2006, 11:04 AM
Scott's LOTR thread just kind of reminded me of this.  Have any of you watched any of the movies lately, OT or PT?  How often do you pop them in the player?  I actually had some time off around Christmas last year, so I watched Revenge of the Sith through Return of the Jedi.  I didn't have time for all six, and wasn't really in the mood for TPM or AOTC at the time anyways.  To be honest, I'm always in the mood to watch one of the OT movies....so I will pop in one from time to time (most often ESB I think).  There are some movies that I just never really tire of, and can watch about every week if they're on TV or we don't have anything else to watch really:

Star Wars OT
LOTR Trilogy
Indiana Jones (Raiders or Last Crusade are favorites)
The Goonies
Spider-Man or Spidey 2 (usually 2)
X-Men (they've been on FX a lot lately)

Anyways...slightly off topic, but when's the last time you've watched a Star Wars movie, which one(s) did you watch?
Title: Re: How Often Do You Watch the SW Movies?
Post by: Victor_Von_Doom on January 23, 2006, 11:19 AM
I watch them probably about once a month.
Title: Re: How Often Do You Watch the SW Movies?
Post by: Tracy on January 23, 2006, 11:22 AM
With our son into the movies now there's one on about every other day ;D  Right now he mostly bounces back and forth between ANH and AOTC.  He wanted to watch a little of ROTS the other night before bedtime.  After we put him down we ended up watching the whole thing.   On our own we usually pop in ANH, ESB or ROTS about once a month or so.  Every once in a while we'll watch ROTJ or AOTC.  
Title: Re: How Often Do You Watch the SW Movies?
Post by: Darth Slothus on January 23, 2006, 02:02 PM
1-4 movies a month with my son and daughter.
Title: Re: How Often Do You Watch the SW Movies?
Post by: Darth_Anton on January 23, 2006, 02:54 PM
Last one I watched was the bootleg ROTS a few days before it was officially reased on DVD. I haven't watch any of them since. I think my TV viewing has gone down since I discovered X-Box around that time. :P
Title: Re: How Often Do You Watch the SW Movies?
Post by: Scott on January 30, 2006, 11:13 PM
I watched TPM and AOTC right before ROTS

I haven't watched the OT since the SE SE DVD's came out
Title: Re: How Often Do You Watch the SW Movies?
Post by: Reid on January 30, 2006, 11:23 PM
I'd say I watch the SW movies every 3-4 months.
Title: Re: How Often Do You Watch the SW Movies?
Post by: max_one on February 19, 2006, 04:25 PM
their is a SW movie playing in my house at least every other day.
Title: Re: How Often Do You Watch the SW Movies?
Post by: Brian on May 29, 2007, 10:44 AM
In honor of the 30th Anniversary, we watched Star Wars (or, a New Hope if you like) over the weekend.  We didn't quite pull off the marathon of watching all 6, but it was nice to watch the original for the anniversary.
Title: Re: How Often Do You Watch the SW Movies?
Post by: Diddly on May 29, 2007, 12:37 PM
I watched all 6 movies over the month of March this year. It had been my first time watching the OT and TPM in about 2 years, ROTS since mid-2006 and AOTC since God-knows-when. :o
Title: Re: How Often Do You Watch the SW Movies?
Post by: Matt on May 29, 2007, 01:33 PM
Last ones I watched were Phantom Menace and Clones, both in the last couple of months.

But wait, wait, wait!  I have a valid excuse, I swear!

Mike Nelson's RiffTrax (http://www.rifftrax.com/)

Episode I (http://www.rifftrax.com/cart.php?m=product_detail&p=20)

Episode II (http://www.rifftrax.com/cart.php?m=product_detail&p=66)

(And even with the funny commentary, I still couldn't make it through Clones. . .)

Other than those, though, I'm all Star Wars-ed out for the time being, I think.  Probably won't watch any of them again unless I can catch them in HD--or maybe even not 'til when the Blu-Ray versions (eventually) come out. . .
Title: Re: How Often Do You Watch the SW Movies?
Post by: jadesfire on May 29, 2007, 05:38 PM
If I hadn't went to that marathon in LA on Wednesday.....it would have been a good two-to-three years for Episode 1 & 2.
Title: Re: How Often Do You Watch the SW Movies?
Post by: Artoo on May 29, 2007, 05:48 PM
Atleast one a week. I recorded them in HD, much better than DVDs.