PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Murphy Howard I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Michelle Ridley The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

E. Catalan For years and years I've read in the press and on the internet about the strained relationship between actor David Prowse and the people at Lucasfilm LTD, mainly George Lucas. What could Mr Prowse possibly do to completely be BANNED from anything Star Wars related for the rest of his life? Did he beat Lucas with a baseball bat? Apparently, it was much worse: Mr. Prowse had a tendency to talk to the press and give "inside scoop" on movies that were supposed to be top secret. I know Hollywood has something like a "non disclosure" agreement, where they literally "warn" actors, staff, crew members and directors from "spilling the beans" on an specific production. Stuff like "Game Of Thrones" surely has it as well as the newer Star Wars films, but back in the late 70s, there must've been something like that, right? Well, apparently not. Mr. Prowse argues that it was not him who spilled stuff to the press, he never did. A massive production like a Star Wars film has an amazing number of staff, crew members, secretaries, actors, and so forth. So why does Lucasfilm insist it was Mr. Prowse? And even if he DID spill the beans, little it did to stop "The Empire Strikes Back" and "The Return Of The Jedi" from becoming colossal box office hits.Spanish director and certified Star Wars geek, Marcos Cabota, made it a quest to finally know WHY Lucasfilm distanced itself from actor David Prowse, now in his 80s. If Lucasfilm was so angry at Prowse, why not replace him completely? The final major blow to Prowse came at the end of "Return Of The Jedi", when Vader finally gets unmasked. It was Prowse who the fans wanted to see, no some old crummy British actor. I felt cheated as a fan, but the most cheated person was Prowse himself. "He looks too young to be his father". Wait a second! Isn't Darth Vader in his late 40s? Wasn't Anakin Skywalker in his early 20s when he turned to the dark side to become Darth Vader? What kind of lame excuse is that??? For the mere 3 lines that actor Sebastian Shaw (Darth Vader unmasked) uttered, those same lines could've been uttered by Prowse, but NOOOO, it HAD to be someone else. Lucasfilm has even admitted that they didn't want Prowse's face at the end. Too young I ask? Have you heard of Dick Smith? Rick Baker? Rob Bottin? Special make up maestros that could've gotten the job done with outstanding ease and turn Prowse into an older, battered man.The only thing I regret not seeing is the supposed reenacted scene from "Return Of The Jedi", where Luke takes his father's helmet off to reveal the human Anakin Skywalker. Director Marcos Cabota kindly asked Lucasfilm permission to shoot this scene, to which he was given a resounding NO. Marcos went ahead and shot the scene anyway, with David Prowse revealing himself from beneath the helmet. The scene was shown to an exclusive number of people, but NOT to the audience of this documentary. So many "rubbish" takes on Star Wars float on the internet that I don't think Lucasfilm has given all of them their OK, so why this one in particular was given a no? Was it because of David Prowse being in it? Lucasfilm was never available for comment on the documentary.Not showing that filmed scene kind of waters everything down about this documentary. Still, I had a lot of fun watching it, and you get to hear the opinions of people who were in the high ranks of Lucasfilm when the original trilogy was in theaters: Gary Kurtz, the associate producer, Robert Watts, executive producer, Ben Burt, sound FX engineer, Kenny Baker, R2D2, etc. There were no Mark Hammill, Carrie Fisher or Harrison Ford interviews, to share their views on the matter, which is sad (unless all of them hate Prowse as much as Lucasfilm hates him).I was actually expecting a boring affair but was entertained and Spanish director Marcos Cabota did this documentary out of sheer respect and admiration to David Prowse, the one and only TRUE Darth Vader!

doctor13 Actor David Prowse played the body of Darth Vader in the original STAR WARS trilogy and was shocked when he learned that another actor's face was to be used during the famous unmasking scene in RETURN OF THE JEDI. Documentary director Marcos Cabata decides to rectify this mistake by re-filming his own version of the scene and surprising Prowse by having him play Anakin Skywalker. This is his intention, which he states at the film's beginning, then pretty much forgets about it until thirty minutes from the end. Between those two moments, we get an hour of Prowse's career history and him complaining about how George Lucas did him wrong. This documentary fails for several reasons: 1. The underlying theme/story here should have been the recreation of the unmasking scene with Prowse, but Cabata doesn't even tell Prowse about the offer until near the end of the film, and Prowse's reaction is anti- climactic, to say the least; 2. Cabata seems to be promoting himself as much he is telling the story of Prowse, and it's noticeable and irritating; 3. Once Lucasfilm realized that Cabata was making them out to be the villains of the piece, they refused to have anything to do with the documentary, and didn't give their permission for Cabata to re-shoot the scene with Prowse, so, with this being the film's main drive, once the reshot scene is shown before an audience, WE DON'T GET TO SEE IT. Cabot doesn't even show the audience's reaction to it!! Absolutely ridiculous and a major fail on his part, making me question the intention of the documentary in the first place.And finally, the main reason for Prowse's getting snubbed by Lucas, the doc ascertains, is because before EMPIRE STRIKES BACK was released, he revealed to a newspaper that Darth Vader was Luke's father. Prowse denies that he talked to any reporter or spilled any such information, and Lucas blocked him from future Star Wars events because of it. The film says that this is the only way the secret could have been spilled. However, I never read that article and I knew going in to the film on opening day, that Vader was Luke's father. How? Because the novelization of the movie was released BEFORE the film opened! Yet the documentary makes no mention of this as another way to exonerate Prowse. Only for the hardest of Star Wars fans.

fjk1138-731-161881 No disrespect to David Prowse, but this film is a poor excuse for a documentary. It attempts to combine two basic ideas: show a brief history on Mr Prowse's life history and with Star Wars, and fulfill some goofy idea on the director's part of re shooting the unmasking scene from Return of the Jedi with Mr Prowse inserted into the shot.The documentary on David Prowse would have been fine as it was, but there really is not enough material to fill a 90 minute movie with his info apparently, hence the rest of the picture's subject matter.What they should have done is just focus on all of the other actors (Jeremy Bulloch, Kenny Baker, etc) show the impact of Star Wars affected their lives. The parts with all of them speaking in interviews, at conventions, etc are the best parts of this film. The rest is utterly useless and not entertaining.As much as I love Star Wars, I can think of better ways to spend your time.

Modern Monsters Arguing that Darth Vador is the evilest villain of movie history and a universal figure, this wet dream of nerdy guerrilla aims at giving character actor David Prowse the place in the Star Wars pantheon that George Lucas, Hollywood's evilest villain, has denied him by replacing him with another actor when the time finally came, at the end of Return of the Jedi, to drop the mask off and die. The concept is to set the record straight by re-shooting the scene in question, this time with Mr. Prowse. The director of the piece is obviously very proud of his idea, so proud that he promptly becomes insufferably self-satisfied, but one can acquire a wealth of useless knowledge before pressing the stop button, which one is ashamed to confess he did.The first shocker comes with the fact that George Lucas was supposed to direct Apocalypse Now, but he dropped out to make Star Wars, which is a great loss if you imagine Apocalypse Now's final 30 minutes with Ewoks. The horror. the horror.A tall and muscular man, Mr Prowse was a personal trainer at Harrod's in 69, where he was scouted and cast to play the Frankenstein creature. Hé then played the Green Cross Man, a British superhero teaching children to cross at zebra lines. "Walk straight across!", he enthuses in a somewhat gayish voice at the end of a vintage TV ad.Through trials and tribulations, he got the role of Darth Vador, with one caveat: his West County accent sounded funny for a galactic villain. One has to side with George Lucas on this one: an universal villain from the future could only sound American, so Edouard James Olmos dubbed Mr Prowse, whose voice, he remarks with legitimate amusement, has become deeper with age and is now pretty close to Olmos'.Firmly establishing himself between a sycophant and a conspiracy monger, the director then gets to the heart of the matter: the father issue. No one knew about Darth Vador being Luke Skywalker's father during shooting, the soundbite having been added in post-production (no doubt one of the foundations of the legend according to which quite about anything can be fixed in post-prod). But wait! Mr Prowse had foreseen this development and mentioned it casually during an interview! He got ostracised by Lucas Films in retribution. Did one mentioned that George Lucas was evil incarnate?A scene at a Star Wars convention – event to which Mr Prowse is never invited – shows a crowd of whatever-they-are-called (Warsies?) wearing short pants, Superman t-shirts over beer bellies and heavy spectacles, questioning the bleebedeeblup midget about Darth Vador.So was Mr Prowse the man who talked too much? Interviews of two producers prove inconclusive. The nice guy says it was not right to deprive Mr Prowse of his big death scene, because an outside source leaked the father thing to the press. The bad guy says George Lucas has nothing to do with Mr Prowse's banishment, because outside people are in charge of the conventions and stuff. Hmmm.At that point, the ax unsurprisingly falls: Lucas Films does not approve of the re-shoot. The director gets all whiny while managing not to alienate Hollywood's most evil villain completely. At that point, one's thumb hits the Stop button. Not much of a Warsy