The Star Wars Trilogy: Special Edition is 15 Years Old

The entire Star Wars Trilogy: Special Edition is 15 years old.

More specifically, Return of the Jedi: Special Edition was released 15 years ago TODAY.

Check out the trailer for the Star Wars Trilogy: Special Edition.

Double Feature Friday: Orca and Up from the Depths

Finishing up underwater disasters this week...

Here's the ad for the 1977 killer whale movie, Orca. I love how they built up the killer whale in advertisements for this movie. Watch the trailer, they pretty much do everything except say, "Killer Whales are better than humans". And they almost kind of say that.

Jaws The Revenge sort of borrowed the animal revenge plot aspects of this movie. A killer whale witnesses Richard Harris kill his mate and child. The whale then goes on a killing rampage in the fisherman's village trying to lure the fisherman into a confrontation.

I also love the text on the ad. The killer whale is one of the most intelligent creatures in the universe?! That's a rather bold statement. And the whale will hunt down that person across time? Is there time travel in this movie?  He he hunting for hundreds of years?  It just sounds hilarious.

Here we have an ad for the 1979 monster flick, Up from the Depths. The movie is very C-grade horror about a heretofore unknown species of shark that is awakened and starts killing people at a beach resort.  I love the picture of that crazy ass looking shark on the ad.  You can see the monster better in the poster.

Check out other underwater movies here.


See the trailer for Orca:


See the trailer for Up from the Depths:

The Deep - Jun 24, 1977

We saw Jaws yesterday. Now let's look at another underwater monster movie...

This movie was ridiculously similar to Jaws. It featured a giant sea creature attacking humans (a moray eel and a bunch of tiger sharks). It starred Robert Shaw (Quint in original Jaws) and Louis Gossett Jr (Bouchard in Jaws 3D). And it was based on a book written by Peter Benchley. Not sure how much more similar you can get.  The movie also starred the gorgeous Jacqueline Bisset and an impossibly young Nick Nolte.

I love the offer of free scuba lessons.  I'm not sure how many people would actually want to go scuba diving after watching this movie.

See the trailer:

Saturday Night Fever - December 16, 1977

The Library of Congress National Film Registry announced their 2010 inductees into the film archives.  This week we'll look at ads for 5 of the inductees.

Here's an ad for the most famous disco movie of all time, Saturday Night Fever. And yes, the Library of Congress selected this movie to be archived. That just happened.

Other 2010 Inductees:
1. The Empire Strikes Back.
2. Airplane!

Young Frankenstein - June 7, 1977

Continuing our celebration of Clue the Movie's 25th anniversary this week, here is an ad for Mel Brooks' brilliant Young Frankenstein starring Gene Wilder, Teri Garr and Madeline Kahn (Clue's Mrs White).

This is Mel Brooks' parody of the Universal Frankenstein movies.  Specifically, the movie mostly parodies the third film, Son of Frankenstein.

Interesting, this is the second movie ad I've featured that starred a Clue cast member as well as Teri Garr.  The other one was Mr Mom.