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Monday
25May2009

Happy Birthday, 'Star Wars'

DateMonday, May 25, 2009 at 5:35PM
It's hard to even think about what summer movies were like before Star Wars. No, it wasn't the first "summer blockbuster" - that would be Jaws - but after 1977, everything changed.

Now, of course, summer is the major period of big budget popcorn movies every year, responsible for a huge amount of money for the studios. It's not a great stretch of the imagination to look at films like Transformers, the comic book movies, and even a Pirates of the Carribean and think that producers and studio heads envision creating the next Star Wars, but there will really only ever be one. It's The Beatles of movies.

And to celebrate another year of Star Wars, here are ten interpretations of John Williams' famed "Cantina Band." Some are great, some are...well, there's a manualist, one of those guys who makes fart noises with his hands.

May the Force and all that:

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