Star Wars Inspired Movies and Scores 1977-1979

[Andy 5,948]

 

 

 

The scores of Science Fiction films that came in the wake of Star Wars have a special meaning to me.  For those not there to remember, it was an electrified zeitgeist.  In the early 70s, UFO mania was already igniting the imagination of those who wished to believe.  Efforts like Space: 1999, Logan’s Run, and the 1976 resurgence of Star Trek primed audience hunger for Space Fantasy. Star Wars lit the match to this powder keg. 

 

Suddenly Outer Space was on toy shelves, in school supplies, on T shirts, bumper stickers, on tv commercials, and airbrushed on the sides of 70s vans, not to mention burning up the disco pop charts. 

 

 

In no time, just about every big composer was being tapped to score either a direct ripoff of Star Wars, or Sci-Fi firmly embracing this new space mania.  


I’d like this thread to be an area to share stories and opinions on both the films and scores of this magical era from 1977-1979.  

 

Why stop at 1979?  Aren’t we forgetting the Last Starfighter, Krull, Explorers, Slipstream, Dune, Star Trek feature films, and countless others?  My cutoff for this discussion is The Empire Strikes Back.  That was the moment when Star Wars became a Saga, and its dominance was unquestionably cemented.  It also took a point (the original Star Wars) and made it a vector.  Other science fiction either had to “fall in line” or completely deviate.  Ripping off the Empire Strikes Back made less sense than ripping off Star Wars.  The era of the groovy 1970s in the immediate post SW moment had a fanciful nature in which direct copies and exploitation were more accepted.  There was less adherence to style guides or key art, even within Lucasfilm.  The galaxy felt wide open, and so did our imaginations.  When there was only one Star Wars film, called “Star Wars”, it seemed like a kid’s imagination could be easily captured by imitation and some kind of connection to the phenomenon.  Post 1980, it just felt different.  Even the disco versions seemed to die out.

 

 

I’m including a few exceptions worth noting.  Close Encounters was not inspired by Star Wars.  And yet its release and marketing took full advantage of Star Wars mania.  It was part of that time.  Likewise for the series of Star Blazers (Space Battleship Yamato) films and TV series.  Although the original Yamato debuted in Japan in 1974, it wasn’t exported internationally as Star Blazers until the Star Wars mania had hit, making its TV premiere in 1979.  And finally, Flash Gordon.  Although it premiered in November of 1980, its production and scoring had begun prior to the release of Empire, and Starlog Magazine (the 1970s internet) had long been previewing glimpses of concept art and tantalizing production information.  Flash is in before the lock.

 

I am hoping to capture a little bit of the playground discussion of my youth, and maybe have someone introduce me to an undiscovered gem I’ve overlooked.  In the meantime, I’ll be sharing my thoughts on the following films and scores:

 

Star Wars

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Starship Invasions

Battlestar Galactica

Star Blazers (Space Battleship Yamato)

Battle Beyond the Stars

Message From Space

Star Crash

The Humanoid

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

Moonraker

Alien

The Black Hole

Star Trek The Motion Picture

Flash Gordon

 

Let's begin now.

 

Star Wars (1977)

 

I can remember life before Star Wars.  In my world it was Batman, Spider-Man, and Superheroes.  Back when Marvel and DC toys could be sold together.  I was four going on five.  My family wanted to see Star Wars.  I wanted to see Disney’s The Rescuers.  They won, and so did I.  My childhood erupted like Alderaan, and Star Wars grafted itself to my DNA, manifesting in a mountain of toys, trading cards, posters, and music.  

 

 

Do you know what a vinyl Ben Kenobi cape first smells like when you take the figure out of the package brand new?  I do, and I’ll never forget it.

 

May the Force Be With You meant something back then.  I loved seeing early attempts at cosplay, and of course Star Wars artwork on the side of a Van would get my dad to honk the horn of the family station wagon.  

 

 

 

Just try to imagine a world where there was no disenchantment.  No disappointment or criticisms.  Just crazy characters with funny names who became our new extended family.  See-Threepio.  Artoo Detoo.  Chewbacca.  Obi-Wan Kenobi.  Princess Leia (Pronounced “LEE-ah” during these years thanks to Peter Cushing and Roscoe Lee Browne who narrated The Story of Star Wars album). Jawas.  Darth Vader.  Han (also pronounced two ways) Solo. And Luke Skywalker, which I thought was the coolest name ever, and often visualized him literally walking in the clouds.  Darth Vader killed Luke's father.  End of story.

 

 

As for the music, I’ll try to be brief because what more is there to say?  The minimalist cover design. My 8-Track Tape.  My mother coming home from the film humming the main title theme to rile us kids up.  The Meco Disco version was all over the radio.  I remember a play date where my buddy threw that on and we danced and pretended to blast each other shielding ourselves behind furniture on the shag carpet of his living room.  Meco was just the tip of the iceberg with countless covers, children's albums with high school band orchestras, and Moog synthesizer concept albums.  Isao Tomita and everyone else was getting into the act.

 

 

A good year of my childhood was listening to that 8 track on a continuous loop.  

 

John Williams needed war drums for his Space War Movie, and he chose the timpani over the snare.  A young child is very receptive to this kind of percussion.  It’s everywhere in Star Wars.  When I think of this score, I think of the blackness of the cover and those pounding timpani in the Death Star battle.   Special mention must be made of Cantina Band.  It was everyone’s favorite scene.  On 8 Track, it began at the end of one track, faded out, and then the track changed (K-ChNK!) and it faded back in to finish the second half.  Frustrating.  But the format allowed you to skip to one of four tracks, and they needed to equalize the time length so you wouldn’t skip to a track of silence.  Continuous play.  Over and over.  That is, until Battlestar Galactica showed up.

 

 

 

[Naïve Old Fart 11,599]

18 minutes ago, Andy said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

18 minutes ago, Andy said:

 

This might just be the greatest album cover of all time.

[Director of Poltergeist 8,046]

 

Needs a Stormtrooper helmet. Much better.

[Tallguy 5,602]

@Andy you have made the perfect post. I can't even take it all in.

[Andy 5,948]

Thank you. Please share any memories you’d think we would enjoy.  This is a memory lane nostalgia thread as much as an analytical one. 

[Tallguy 5,602]

I'll have more, but one that I think of more and more is this:

 

My first experience of Star Wars was not that trumpet blast. It wasn't the crawl. It wasn't the Imperial Cruiser flying overhead, dazzling us for all time.

 

It was Artoo and Threepio in the corridor and the one small ship being pulled into the larger ship.

 

Because we were late to the theater.  

 

So probably the first time I heard THE MAIN TITLE was when I played the record.

 

It's funny: There is Star Wars that I love, always have, always will. I'm sure part of that is because I'm wired for it and part of that is because Star Wars (and all the other 70's sci-fi) wired me for it. I enjoy it in the here and now. Most of it is as contemporary as anything else I might watch. I don't get nostalgia when I see Casablanca unless it's nostalgia for a time when it was normal to make movies like Casablanca. I don't see anything with Star Wars that ever had to be fixed any more than I think there was anything with The Wizard of Oz or Logan's Run that had to be fixed. I love it for it's very own sake.

 

But there is also the stuff like in @Andy's post that absolutely brings me back to that time and place. It's the real gift (I think) of being the exact right age and in the exact right place. I know there are people who have built careers off of that kind of connection. I can't say that I exactly did that but a lot of what pushed me to where I am now has its roots in these experiences. But it has certainly shaped a tremendous amount of who I am and what I know.

 

I also wonder a bit more about what was in my parents' heads: Even at 8 years old I was starting to hear about the phenomenon that Star Wars was becoming. (I still didn't want to see it.) But near as I can figure out if we didn't see it opening weekend (in our area) it had to be close. This would have been late June / early July. So it had time to pick up steam.

 

I remember seeing ads for movies. I remember The End with Burt Reynolds. I remember It's Alive (scared the heck out of me). One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. JAWS! (Even younger!) I'm just saying I remember commercials for movies that weren't necessarily aimed at me. But I don't remember a single ad for Star Wars. I remember magazine covers. But never a TV ad. So I had NO idea what this movie was. 

 

So I still wonder what made my parents say: "Hey. We need to go see this!"

[Nick1Ø66 6,741]

Wonderful post, Andy. And today happens to be my bday (yes, I was born on Star Wars day). What an amazing, and unexpected gift! Serious nostalgia. Star Wars changed my life. Well, like you, there was life before, and after, Star Wars.

 

Thank you for the reminder of how magical it all was, before the dark times.

 

[Davis 3,949]

2 hours ago, Nick1Ø66 said:

Wonderful post, Andy. And today happens to be my bday (yes, I was born on Star Wars day). What an amazing, and unexpected gift! Serious nostalgia. Star Wars changed my life. Well, like you, there was life before, and after, Star Wars.

 

Thank you for the reminder of how magical it all was, before the dark times.

 

Happy Birthday!

[Naïve Old Fart 11,599]

12 hours ago, Nick1Ø66 said:

Wonderful post, Andy. And today happens to be my bday (yes, I was born on Star Wars day). What an amazing, and unexpected gift! Serious nostalgia. Star Wars changed my life. Well, like you, there was life before, and after, Star Wars.

 

Thank you for the reminder of how magical it all was, before the dark times.

 

Many happy returns, @Nick1Ø66.

[GerateWohl 5,916]

Another movie, that I remember in the aftermath of Star Wars was The Ice Pirates, which was more kind of a parody. But that came out already 1984. 

And as far as I remember that film wasn't too bad.

 

And don't forget the alien scene in Life of Brian!

[Tallguy 5,602]

30 minutes ago, GerateWohl said:

And don't forget the alien scene in Life of Brian!

 

I always forget the Alien scene in Life of Brian. Which is why I laugh so hard I nearly piss myself every single time!

[Naïve Old Fart 11,599]

1 hour ago, Tallguy said:

 

I always forget the Alien scene in Life of Brian. Which is why I laugh so hard I nearly piss myself every single time!

"Ooh! You lucky bastard." 

 

 

 

Did anyone see SPACEHUNTER: ADVENTURES IN THE FORBIDDEN ZONE 3D?

 

@Andy, you forgot THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKEROO BANZAI: ACROSS THE 8TH DIMENSION.

[Andy 5,948]

I love Buckaroo Banzai, and can't understand why there's never been a score release.  

 

My lens here is admittedly very narrow for purposes of examination of life when there was only one Star Wars movie and everybody was deliriously loving outer spacey stuff.  Trying to time capsule my thoughts and memories of this weird and wonderful period for perspective of when a franchise is born with a bang and the rest of the industry reacts.  

 

So, you won't see Spacehunter, Space Raiders, Ice Pirates, Starchaser, etc because they all had the influence of two or three Star Wars films instead of just one.

 

I may retroactively adjust my end date to include 1980 for Battle Beyond the Stars and Flash Gordon, films produced before Empire, but released in the same year.  I also plan to add a few other films suggested to me, such as Laserblast and Saturn 3.

[Nick1Ø66 6,741]

9 hours ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

Many happy returns, @Nick1Ø66.

 

It's not the years...

 

1 hour ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

@Andy, you forgot THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKEROO BANZAI: ACROSS THE 8TH DIMENSION.

 

No matter where you go...

[Andy 5,948]

There you are. 

[Thor 9,308]

15 hours ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

@Andy, you forgot THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKEROO BANZAI: ACROSS THE 8TH DIMENSION.

 

It's from 1984.

[Naïve Old Fart 11,599]

[Nick1Ø66 6,741]

Ahem.

 

 

[Tallguy 5,602]

22 hours ago, Andy said:

I love Buckaroo Banzai, and can't understand why there's never been a score release.  

 

Right?!?

 

Of course the great grandaddy is Battlestar Galactica. Which may have started in parallel (to a degree) to Star Wars and has very different ideas. But by the time it was produced it had soaked up all of its DNA from Star Wars. (And its effects team!)

 

It's interesting to see what made something a "Star Wars knockoff". While I'm sure a lot of projects got green lit and certainly knew they had to up their FX game because they were in the "Star Wars boat" how many of them were actually in the same vein as Star Wars other than they had "space"? (Looking at YOU Star Trek: The Motion Picture.) I mean, that's kind of it, right? Better special effects and an orchestral score. Bam! Star Wars!

 

The Black Hole: Other than a rather obligatory fanfare John Barry's score could not be farther from John Williams and still be orchestral. And while the movie has a couple of cute robots and the pew pew pew the movie is a haunted house... IN SPACE.

 

22 minutes ago, Nick1Ø66 said:

Ahem.

 

 

 

To this day I still say "But Basketball is a PEACEFUL planet!" Nobody knows what I'm talking about.

[Naïve Old Fart 11,599]

@Andy, what about GALACTICA 1980?

[Nick1Ø66 6,741]

40 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

@Andy, what about GALACTICA 1980?

 

 

[Chen G. 5,124]

If we were going to enumerate the films and shows that took a page from the Star Wars playbook, we'll be here all night. It's easy to just list other space operas, ripoffs and parodies, but it also got into non-sci-fi action films, adventure films and much else. Even someone who runs relatively cool to the film, like me, would be absolutely foolish to deny that it was a huge, huge watershed for cinema. Not just its special effects but its storytelling conventions, certainly its score.

 

To name just one example, the fantasy film boom of the 1980s is wholly and entirely indebted to Star Wars. Hollywood was quick to grasp Lucas' debt to fantasy stories, and not only greenlit a lot of films in this genre, but also ones that had a direct kinship to Star Wars (Conan the Barbarian) or were clearly influenced by its storyline.

 

Even great filmmakers who had been developing their stories for years prior to Lucas' film airing - like Boorman with his Excalibur - clearly took a page out of the book of, in this case, not so much Star Wars as The Empire Strikes Back (and the accompanying short, Black Angel). The whole concept of "The Dragon" - very much a pastiche of The Force - doesn't figure into Boorman's draft until AFTER the Empire Strikes Back premiere, although he had in fact already started shooting at the time.

[Nick1Ø66 6,741]

Well, all that's true, the ripple effects of Star Wars are undeniable and in some ways, incalculable. Its influence on cinema is such that we can't even imagine. Not only on what movies got made, but what movies didn't get made. I mean, to one extent or another, we can argue that almost every major Hollywood release post 1977/78 was in some way a response to Star Wars. And casting this wide a net almost makes the discussion so unwieldy as to be moot. I mean, there are six-degree stories that Heaven's Gate doesn't get made without Star Wars.

 

That said, I think @Andy's focus here is a little more tailored to science-fiction, and those sci-fi films and shows directly more influenced, or at least enabled, by Star Wars. 

[Andy 5,948]

3 hours ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

@Andy, what about GALACTICA 1980?

I would lump that in with the original BSG as Intrada did, with their music to The Return of Starbuck, the only episode worth remembering. 

[QuartalHarmony 802]

On 5/5/2025 at 4:05 PM, Naïve Old Fart said:

Did anyone see SPACEHUNTER: ADVENTURES IN THE FORBIDDEN ZONE 3D?

Oh yeah. In 3D. In 1983.

 

Forty years later, I’d still run away with Molly Ringwald if she so much as clicked her fingers in my direction.

[Naïve Old Fart 11,599]

8 hours ago, QuartalHarmony said:

Forty years later, I’d still run away with Molly Ringwald if she so much as clicked her fingers in my direction.

Really?

A quick question: Molly Ringwald, or your Naim?

[QuartalHarmony 802]

Duh. I'd take my Naim with me, of course.

 

 

I mean, come on...

[Naïve Old Fart 11,599]

1 hour ago, QuartalHarmony said:

Duh. I'd take my Naim with me, of course.

... is the correct answer 

[Andy 5,948]

Here is a pic of some treasures from my collection. 
 

Before moving on from Star Wars and getting to the imitators and knock-offs, I would like to continue the walk down memory lane by pausing to acknowledge the importance and impact of “The Story of Star Wars” in the 77-79 era.  It does have some important soundtrack implications associated with it. 
 

In the era before home video, movies stayed in theaters for a long time if they were successful.  For Star Wars, well over a year.  Many fortunate kids saw it dozens of times.  I managed to see it seven times in its initial run.  But after that, you had the comics, novel, trading cards, storybooks and your imagination to relive the experience. 

 

Some families with money could afford the Super8 mm film of about 10 minutes of excerpts.  My family didn’t own a projector, but my father worked at Eastman Kodak, so he would occasionally rent one and bring it home.  Problem was, we didn't own any films, and our library never had the first Star Wars. (They did later get Empire).  So no Super8 for me.  Although one time someone brought a 20 minute reel of Superman the Movie to a Boy Scout meeting, and I just about died and went to Heaven. 
 

 

Back to the drama album then, The Story of Star Wars gave us 45 minutes of a condensed audio version of the film with splendid narration by Roscoe Lee Browne.  And it was my primary way of getting back to Star Wars.  There was also a shorter kiddie version with a reading book with authentic sound effects and score, but different voice actors. 

 

So as much as I listened to the OST, I probably listened to the drama album the same amount.  Truly wonderful to hear the movie, look at the trading cards or play with the figures, and remember the film in your imagination perhaps even better than it was.  This was an essential album for kids growing up in this time, and still is worth a listen.  I once found a fan project that matched all the video to the 45 minutes of edited audio. An abridged visual version of the film. 
 

It’s worth mentioning here that during this era, The Story of Star Wars contained music on it that the 2LP OST Soundtrack did not.  The Moisture Farm R2 cue, Tales of a Jedi Knight / Learn about the Force, A Hive of Villainy, Cantina Band #2,  Destruction of Alderaan, and Standing By all could be heard, mixed in with dialogue and effects. But for kids who couldn’t see the film enough times to memorize it, it was our first real experience with realizing, great though it was, the Double LP Soundtrack was incomplete.
 

  And of course there was plenty of music on the OST that didn’t make it to The Story of Star Wars.  For years, I had no idea from where in the film came the melancholic droid motif of Land of the Sandpeople Part 2. The fact that it came from a track called “Inner City” made of several edited cues didn’t help my childhood confusion.  It wasn’t on the Story of Star Wars, and I couldn’t recall it from theatrical viewings.  Until network television debuted the film, or maybe even VHS, it was a mystery for me. 
 

 

One very fun curiosity on this wonderful recording… the Ben Kenobi / Darth Vader duel is scored with “The Swashbucklers” (Chasm Crossfire).  I guess they wanted this climactic scene to have more sonic energy without the incredible visuals of the lightsabers.  And as the Luke & Leia swing scene did not make the cut for the abridged record, they didn’t let the music go unused.   To this day, I sometimes hear the scene with the music. 
 

Did anyone else enjoy this album?  I’d love to hear others’ thoughts on it.  I’m sure it’s on YouTube.  The Force Will Be With You… Always. 

 

 

[Tallguy 5,602]

On the day this thread started I listened to that album while putting up some shelving.

 

In 1978 I knew it was remarkable because it had the dialog and sound FX. (I don't believe I ever owned the LP. I had a tape from my cousin's copy.)

 

Later I knew it was remarkable because it had Roscoe Lee Brown's narration. NOW I know it's remarkable because it uses the mono-mix! (Although in stereo, right?)

 

I'll tell the story one more time (skip it if you've heard it - "But they're all dead".): For years I knew that where the VHS of the film just had the line "Open the blast doors!" I vividly remembered that the movie had the line before that "Close the blast doors!". I may have remembered that from the film. I saw it four times. I certainly had favorite lines. I think I remember that the comic book has the scene but doesn't have the funny lines. So I may actually know it from the movie.

 

BUT: This line is on The Story of Star Wars. Because it's not in the original stereo mix. It's on the mono mix. So I heard that line a LOT for the hundreds of times I played this album. If I didn't actually remember it from the film I had to have had it ingrained in my brain from the album.

 

The part that has me doubting my remarkable memory is that when they added the line back to the Special Edition it sounded wrong. I remembered both lines being spoken by the same person with the same stormtrooper filter. WRONG. I should have even known this because it sounds exactly the same on The Story of Star Wars! Memory is weird.

 

Comic books and Star Wars media - This is why it baffles me that people think more adventures with Luke, Han, and Leia would be "unnecessarily tying up loose ends" or "memberberries" or any of that crap. When I grew up there were Star Wars adventures every month! I didn't think it was making the movie less special or over saturating or whatever. It was A Period of Civil War and I got to see space escapades with my favorite heroes every month! It was AWESOME.

 

In 1977 Star Wars was a comic book / Flash Gordon serial adventure. (I kinda knew what Flash Gordon was.) You can leave this "Generational Story of the Skywalker Family" nonsense at the door, thank you.

 

Let's do Meco next!

 

As an aside, and celebrating the 55th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back, there is a similar album for Empire, narrated by Malachi "Commodore Mendez" Throne. It's just as good. The Return of the Jedi album sucks so much because it only used the music from the LP! Yikes!

[Andy 5,948]

The narrators are all great, even the more corporate sounding ROTJ one.  And yes to the Open the Blast Doors line.  It seemed like removing it was leaving off a punchline.  The Return of the Jedi one is definitely a step down, but it does sound great, and despite only using music from the OST, it makes you appreciate some of the sound design a little more, such as the Endor forest sounds.

[Tallguy 5,602]

24 minutes ago, Andy said:

The narrators are all great, even the more corporate sounding ROTJ one.  And yes to the Open the Blast Doors line.  It seemed like removing it was leaving off a punchline.  The Return of the Jedi one is definitely a step down, but it does sound great, and despite only using music from the OST, it makes you appreciate some of the sound design a little more, such as the Endor forest sounds.

 

It wasn't removed, it just wasn't added in, if you see what I mean. (George can be funny!)

 

"Corporate" is exactly the right word. Great voice, I'm sure. But he sounded like "Regular Narrator Guy".

 

To this day when I see Artoo get spit out on Dagobah I STILL hear "Fortunately Artoo doesn't taste as good as he looks!"

[Andy 5,948]

Oh so many great ones.

 

"But the prize that has eluded Darth Vader for so long now stands before him.  The Dark Lord of the Sith moves in for the attack!"

 

"Attached to the underside of the Star Destroyer, like a pilot fish on a whale, The Falcon cruises serenely in a radar blind spot"

[QuartalHarmony 802]

On 22/5/2025 at 4:14 AM, Andy said:

Some families with money could afford the Super8 mm film of about 10 minutes of excerpts.

Sweet mother of Jesus: the 20 minute colour and sound (!) Star Wars cost £33 which is the equivalent of £180 today. And I complain about the price of 4K discs…

[Tallguy 5,602]

So I celebrated Star Wars day by digging though my internet cable with a shovel. Smart man.

 

But I have 4K77 on a thumbdrive (how is THAT for science fiction?) so we watched that.

 

Two things I thought of:

 

First, time for an eight year old is just weird. Before Star Wars took over my life I was obsessed with Disney's The Rescuers. And that seemed like that lasted a long time. I looked it up: The Rescuers came out on June 22nd! So that means the time between The Rescuers and Star Wars for me was 2, MAYBE 3 weeks? No wonder summers seemed like they lasted forever back then!

 

The other thing I thought of watching 4K77 with my daughter: My parents had a very early video tape recorder. Not VHS. Not even Beta. Some bizarre Quasar brand thing. And we had like three blank tapes for it. (I shudder to think how much they cost each.) BUT: We taped the People's Choice Awards. And they showed three clips from Star Wars. Artoo and Threepio arguing in the desert, blasting out of Mos Eisley (for some reason I don't think it had the hyperspace part), and the TIE fighter attack. After that we would watch those three scenes over and over and over and over. So never mind The Story of Star Wars: I had those three scenes MEMORIZED. And unlike a lot of the movie, I knew EXACTLY where the music for those scenes went. My brothers and I would play Mouse Robot and Blasting off all morning long running down the hall shouting "Chewie, get us out of here!"

[Bayesian 1,510]

@Andy, thank you for this wonderful thread. I was born in 1979 and obviously have no way to know what the vibe was like during those three years post-SW, but to hear you tell it, it was a magical, innocent time. Very member-berry worthy. I almost feel like I could have been there and I would have loved to experience the SW phenomenon like you did.

 

This is all part of the "movie magic" thing that Hollywood used to like talking about -- a cultural zeitgeist that, as you put it, grafts itself to people's DNA. Kids surely forged similar associations after seeing ET or Back to the Future or Stand by Me or any of several other 80s classics. (For me, the first one that really seared itself into me was Batman '89. I was a bit of a late bloomer when it came to movies).

 

I look forward to your next installments as you travel along this particular memory lane!

[Jurassic Shark 14,938]

On 22/05/2025 at 12:33 PM, Tallguy said:

celebrating the 55th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back,

 

You're early!

[bruce marshall 1,477]

Just heard one ...THE LAST STARFIGHTER.

🙄

I mean, c'mon!

[Director of Poltergeist 8,046]

The best SW-inspired movies IMO are Spaceballs and Masters of the Universe, released 1987.

[Tallguy 5,602]

2 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said:

 

You're early!

Ah, right. 45th.