DRUNK CINEMA 060: "The Empire Strikes Back" Is Up!

 
"I love you."
"I know."
-- Leia Organa and Han Solo, The Empire Strikes Back

Hello again, movie fans!  My wonderful co-host Xan Sprouse and I are back with a new episode of Drunk Cinema! This time, we watch The Empire Strikes Back, the 1980 sequel to Star Wars directed by Irvin Kershner, featuring the return of Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, Carrie Fisher as Leia Organa, Harrison Ford as Han Solo, and introducing Billy Dee Williams as Lando Calrissian!

This time, Xan and I discuss things like tolerating each other's bullshit for sixty episodes, discussing the original Star Wars film in Episode 29 two years ago, the sadly tragic story of screenwriter Leigh Brackett, the various Doctor Who connections to The Empire Strikes Back, tracking down the original theatrical edition of Empire, John Williams losing Best Score to Michael Gore for Fame, period films trumping science fiction films in the Academy Awards, Xan meeting Billy Dee Williams, Star Wars movies not feeling like Star Wars movies without the 20th Century Fox intro and fanfare, Strong Bad sounding similar to Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, Han not caring if his tauntaun freezes and dies, the greatness of Snow Speeders, the greatness of the Imperial March theme, why you never see Snow Trooper cosplayers at conventions, Xan's pizza Star Destroyers, granola cluster bars, Xan explaining Luke's vision in the cave to her mom, the problem with Yoda buying too much into the Jedi religion, Boba Fett's ship Slave I being renamed The Firespray, the positive things about the Star Wars Holiday Special, Chewie becoming Leia's henchman, wondering what happened to the turrets under the Millennium Falcon, the downer ending, my trying to talk Xan into watching Dead Boy Detectives, watching our first Quentin Tarantino film, and more!

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Be sure to come back in three weeks as Xan and I watch Pulp Fiction, the 1994 crime film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, starring John Travolta as Vincent Vega, Samuel L. Jackson as Jules Winnfield, Uma Thurman as Mia Wallace, and Bruce Willis as Butch Coolidge!