This blog post begins a series looking at the great debates in history.

For example, which movie is better: The Empire Strikes Back or Return of the Jedi?

I was outraged to discover that my comrades at work think that Jedi is better. They are just wrong. Empire is the superior movie in every aspect. I know this is a subject of intense debates. It keeps people like this guy up at night.

What a dork! (But I gotta admit that costume is pretty cool…)
But the debate was put to rest in another cinematic masterpiece, Clerks, when the character Dante aid:

“Empire had the better ending, Luke gets his hand cut off, finds out Vader’s his father, Han gets frozen, taken away by Boba Fett, it ends on such a down-note. That’s what life is, a series of down endings. All Jedi had was bunch of Muppets.”

Amen, brother!

Watch it here.

Empire just moved me. I felt Chewie’s anguish when Han got frozen.

And Yoda’s little psycho moment when he tells Luke “You WILL be afraid” reminded me of some of my acid trips.

Finally, what can you say about Vader dropping a real “f-bomb” (father-bomb, that is)? Now that’s drama at it’s finest!

Now don’t get me wrong–Jedi did have some cool stuff going for it.

For example, Princess Leia in her bikini still fuels millions of adolescent fantasies.

HOT MAMA!

And anything with Jabba the Hutt is awesome. I mean that dude’s brain was too powerful for Jedi Mind Tricks.

Did anybody else ever notice the strong resemblance between Jabba and another one of my movie heroes, Chet from Weird Science?

Definitely one of the most kickass movie men in history. Bill Paxton should’ve won an Oscar for that role!

Now it’s time to rock out!

In the spirit of the theme, here are some space songs.

Here’s the song that started this whole damn blog post, Supernova doing Chewbacca.

David Bowie doing an acoustic version of Space Oddity.

Jimi Hendrix doing Valleys of Neptune.

The Jeff Wayne Space Shuttle doing Apes’ Shuffle.

Lou Reed doing Satellite of Love.

The Upsetters doing Outer Space.

And The Ventures doing Out of Limits.

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