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I've just seen Star Wars (1977) for the first time. What cool sites should I read?

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I like to read IMDB trivia after every movie I watch. I feel like for this one, that would barely scratch the surface. Are there any great fan sites I can check out that might tell me bit about production and cool facts about this movie, without necessarily spoiling the others?
 
Definitely watch the rest of the trilogy first. It is practically impossible to look up Star Wars and not spoil the second two movies if you're truly going into them blind.
 
Without spoiling the other movies would be hard, since most retrospectives focus on the whole original trilogy.

Do look up Star Wars Empire of Dreams once you're done with the trilogy, it's a good documentary on the OT.
 
Ah, I'll avoid poking around too much online until I've seen all 3. Thank you to everyone that warned about this. I know a little bit through general pop culture osmosis, but was already surprised by how much I didn't know even from the first movie.
 
Jesus just stay away from the internet until you've seen them.

Form your own opinions on what you like and don't like before you go on the web and get told why you're wrong about everything.
 
Just watch the next two.

At which point you can then dive into maybe the single most written about film series in the last 50 years.

There's:

Skywalking by Dale Pollock
Mythmaker: The Life and Work of George Lucas by John Baxter

if you wanna learn just about Lucas.

The Making of Star Wars
The Making of The Empire Strikes Back
The Making of Return of the Jedi

all by J.W. Rinzler

Which are some of the most comprehensive looks at what happened behind the scenes. For more old-school looks, there's also

Once Upon a Galaxy: A Journal of the Making of The Empire Strikes Back by Alan Arnold, which was used a lot in Rinzler's book, but is a good read on its own.

Do NOT read "The Secret History of Star Wars." People will link it, but they either don't know or don't really care that the entire endeavor is largely drawn from the same resources as the ones I've listed above, and mixed with a fair amount of conjecture and slant intended to drive home the theory that Lucas was an uncreative dipshit who stumbled into success when he married Marcia Lucas, his wife, who was the real reason anything worked, explaining why as soon as she left, his creative output suffered.

It's basically "Confirmation Bias, the book," despite the fact there are some interesting factoids in it.
 
Sites? I dunno. I've somehow never been on any Star Wars fan site.
But some of the stuff they used to build things is pretty strange and cool.
Like the front and rear ends of the Y-Wing fighter engines were made from the old-style L'eggs panty hose containers that were plastic eggs.
The TIE Fighter panel texture was done with tiny metal miniblinds called Koolshade. (Which is only made in a larger size now.)
There are entire (model) '57 Chevy Bel Air undercarriages on the Millenium Falcon.
There's a Star Wars poster in the cockpit of the Tantive IV at the beginning. Inception! (and a Playboy centerfold, Miss July 1976)
 
Do look up Star Wars Empire of Dreams once you're done with the trilogy, it's a good documentary on the OT.

I got this with the OT DVD set from like 2004ish for my birthday. It is a great look into what went into making those films. Especially the struggle for George Lucas in getting the first one made.
 
Watch Empire Strikes Back. Then watch the first two-thirds of Return of the Jedi. That's it.

What are you talking about? The best parts of Jedi
are the final duel between Luke and Vader along with the Rebel Fleet attack on the Death Star
and that's stuff is in the last third.
 
What are you talking about?
The best parts of Jedi are the final duel between Luke and Vader along with the Rebel Fleet attack on the Death Star and that's stuff is in the last third.

Seeing as this is a topic written by a guy watching these for the first time, you should probably spoiler that shit yo.
 
I like to read IMDB trivia after every movie I watch. I feel like for this one, that would barely scratch the surface. Are there any great fan sites I can check out that might tell me bit about production and cool facts about this movie, without necessarily spoiling the others?

Watch them in this order

A new hope, empire strikes back, the phantom menace, attack of the clones, revenge of the Sith, return of the Jedi
 
Watch all 7 movies first

Eh, don't need to watch all 7 first. And I don't mean "lol prequels suck, don't skip them" but I see no reason to wait on them before consuming more material about the first film (and the rest of the OT). It's not like it can really be spoiled, at least the main story beats anyway.

I didn't think about Force Awakens though. That probably should be watched right away to avoid getting spoiled in general.
inb4 "what do you mean, they already saw A New Hope"
 
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