Hardware Wars - The Original Edition
- MPAA Rating
- NR
- Theatrical Release Date
- May 19, 1978
- Genre(s)
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- Satire
- Comedy
- Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Parody & Spoof
- Rating (Stars)
-
- Description
- San Francisco filmmaker Ernie Fosselius made the most successful short film of all time in the 1978 Hardware Wars, an inspired, mock-trailer for a nonexistent, cheapo rip-off of Star Wars. It worked like this: instead of Chewbacca, Fosselius offers the Cookie Monster. Instead of Darth Vader's breathy, slightly echoed voice emerging somehow behind that black-mask helmet, we get a villain whose every ranting utterance is so muffled even this film's Princess Leia equivalent beseeches him, "What? I don't understand you." And so on. Part of the joke is that George Lucas's revolutionary special effects are supplanted by common kitchen gizmos--mixers, toasters--that serve as spaceships and weapons sources. The updated special edition contains 20 computer-generated "special defects" that don't--the distributor boasts--at all match Fosselius's earlier version. Um... right on? --Tom Keogh
- Director
- Ernie Fosselius
- Stars
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- Sonny Buddy Jr.
- Artie Deco
- Ernie Fosselius
- Paul Frees
- Cindy Furgatch
- Running Time
- 60 minutes
- Original Price
- $14.95
- Current Value
- $249.75
- DVD Features
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- Color
- DVD-Video
- Full Screen
- NTSC
- 1.33:1