U.S. Government Deems The Empire Strikes Back, THX 1138 4EB Important

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Surely you can't be serious.

I am serious, and don't call me Shirley.

RIP Leslie Nielsen. /salute

Wow, and in record time too. Hi Five!

 

[Ghengis John]

I wonder what Lucas will do if he wants to eradicate all previous versions of starwars in the future?

 

[Super Toast]

I find it interesting that everyone is talking about Airplane! but not Empire. Nonetheless, it's good to see them both there.

 

[Dana22]

You forgot Return of the Jedi !

 

[Lem0nade Inlay]

Glad to see "Airplane!" in there.

Comedies rarely get the recognition they deserve.

Has a comedy EVER won "Best Picture" at the Oscars?

It Happened One Night (1934), You Can't Take It With You (1938), Going My Way (1944), Tom Jones (1963), The Sting (1973), Annie Hall (1977), The Apartment (1960), Terms of Endearment (1983), Driving Miss Daisy (1989), Shakespeare in Love (1998) and American Beauty (1999).

American Beauty is a comedy?
I think that it's like 5% comedy...

OP: Good to see that Empire Strikes Back is up there! A lot of other good choices too. And wow, "A Trip Down Market Street" was filmed in 1906!

 

[Therumancer]

Interesting, makes me wonder what would have happened if George Lucas hadn't agreed to restore the Star Wars movies while he still could, we would have lost what is now considered a national treasure.

I can't help but wonder what version of the movie the goverment is preserving however, the original, or the version he made a few additions to here and there.

 

[Space Jawa]

I'd put New Hope in there above Empire, but...I'm not the Government.

You forgot Return of the Jedi !

I think that New Hope got in during a previous year, and I believe that Jedi isn't in due to year restrictions or something (it has to have been X number of years since the film was released) in order to give a movie time to properly settle before deciding whether it's actually worthy of getting a spot in the registry. I wouldn't doubt that a few years down the line, Jedi will join both Hope and Empire to complete the trilogy within the registry.

 

[icyneesan]

Nagae Iku must be thrilled :3

Spoiler

 

[DMonkey]

Nice to see that the Government is doing some things I can totally agree on.

Nice to see the Government doing...something! Kinda?


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Airplane! made it as well, that is great! It deserves the recognition. Good comedies is rare. Good parodies are almost impossible to find. Airplane! is certainly a credit to its genre.

 

[Dorian6]

Glad to see "Airplane!" in there.

Comedies rarely get the recognition they deserve.

Has a comedy EVER won "Best Picture" at the Oscars?

It Happened One Night (1934), You Can't Take It With You (1938), Going My Way (1944), Tom Jones (1963), The Sting (1973), Annie Hall (1977), The Apartment (1960), Terms of Endearment (1983), Driving Miss Daisy (1989), Shakespeare in Love (1998) and American Beauty (1999).

American Beauty is a comedy?
I think that it's like 5% comedy...

OP: Good to see that Empire Strikes Back is up there! A lot of other good choices too. And wow, "A Trip Down Market Street" was filmed in 1906!

The last few had comedic elements, so I decided to include them

 

[TsunamiWombat]

Pointing out. THX1138 was Lucas' student film, and he didn't direct Empire.

 

[SimuLord]

An example of the desire of government to complicate everything. The description for Airplane!:

"Airplane!" emerged in 1980 as a sharply perceptive parody of the big-budget disaster films that dominated Hollywood during the 1970s. Characterized by a freewheeling style reminiscent of comedies of the 1920s, "Airplane!" introduced a much-needed deflating assessment of the tendency of theatrical film producers to push successful formulaic movie conventions beyond the point of logic. One of the film?s most noteworthy achievements was to cast actors best known for careers in melodrama productions, e.g., Leslie Nielsen, and provide them with opportunities to showcase their comic talents.

Translation: It's really funny and launched Leslie Nielsen, but we're still a little squeamish about awarding parodies.

If you read between the lines on that description, what it basically boils down to is that "this is the most perceptive comedy film since the Marx Brothers were still in their primes."

 

[DTWolfwood]

Good to know we can still watch The Empire Strikes Back when the world comes to an end XD

 

[Tim Latshaw]

An example of the desire of government to complicate everything. The description for Airplane!:

"Airplane!" emerged in 1980 as a sharply perceptive parody of the big-budget disaster films that dominated Hollywood during the 1970s. Characterized by a freewheeling style reminiscent of comedies of the 1920s, "Airplane!" introduced a much-needed deflating assessment of the tendency of theatrical film producers to push successful formulaic movie conventions beyond the point of logic. One of the film?s most noteworthy achievements was to cast actors best known for careers in melodrama productions, e.g., Leslie Nielsen, and provide them with opportunities to showcase their comic talents.

Translation: It's really funny and launched Leslie Nielsen, but we're still a little squeamish about awarding parodies.

If you read between the lines on that description, what it basically boils down to is that "this is the most perceptive comedy film since the Marx Brothers were still in their primes."

I agree, and wish they would just say something like that. If you can get through the second sentence without your eyes starting to roll into the back of your head, you have a higher threshold for bureaucratic prose than I do.