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Post by ck100 on May 25, 2022 4:40:33 GMT
Not really much else you can say about it. It's a movie that helped forever change cinema. Leonard Maltin Movie Guide Review: Star Wars (1977) - 3.5 out of 4 stars
"Elaborate, imaginative update of Flash Gordon incredibly became one of the most popular films of all time. It's a hip homage to B-movie ethics and heroism in the space age, as a callow youth (Hamill) becomes an interplanetary hero with the help of some human and robot friends. R2-D2 and C-3P0 steal the show. Won seven Oscars for various technical achievements and John Williams' rousing score. Full title on-screen (on recent prints) is STAR WARS EPISODE IV: A NEW HOPE. Followed by THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK and RETURN OF THE JEDI. Special Edition released in 1997 features souped-up special effects and about 4m. of new footage. Panavision."   |
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Post by twothousandonemark on May 25, 2022 4:55:40 GMT
My #6 all-time.
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Post by vegalyra on May 25, 2022 10:52:30 GMT
Used to be a favorite of mine until the prequels, unnecessary special edition and the sequels. There was always that mystique behind Obi Wan and the Clone Wars that sparked my imagination but was destroyed when I was older. Still is a fun film in isolation from the rest of that garbage, but I do wish we had an official HD or 4k release of the unaltered version.
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Post by politicidal on May 25, 2022 12:42:26 GMT
Still in my top five movies of all time.
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Post by Popeye Doyle on May 25, 2022 13:15:52 GMT
A landmark in cinema and, despite its many alterations, still supremely entertaining. Yes, a 4K remaster of the unaltered original trilogy would be most welcome. As it currently stands, I'm holding onto the DVDs from 2006.
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Post by ck100 on May 25, 2022 18:17:11 GMT
Used to be a favorite of mine until the prequels, unnecessary special edition and the sequels. There was always that mystique behind Obi Wan and the Clone Wars that sparked my imagination but was destroyed when I was older. Still is a fun film in isolation from the rest of that garbage, but I do wish we had an official HD or 4k release of the unaltered version. This 45th anniversary article may be right up your alley then: www.inverse.com/entertainment/star-wars-a-new-hope-45-year-anniversary
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Post by moviemouth on May 25, 2022 18:25:15 GMT
It's a good movie and has a lot of great technical aspects to it. Great score by John Williams and Darth Vader is one of the most memorable movie villains of all time. I don't think the story is anything special though and the last act is sort of dull. The characters are really what make the movie worth watching. I have always been a big fan of C-3PO, R2D2, Han Solo and Chewbacca.
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Post by Winston Wolf on May 25, 2022 18:32:28 GMT
Anybody here watch this in theaters? Do you remember the reactions?
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Post by Rey Kahuka on May 25, 2022 19:01:43 GMT
Used to be a favorite of mine until the prequels, unnecessary special edition and the sequels. There was always that mystique behind Obi Wan and the Clone Wars that sparked my imagination but was destroyed when I was older. Still is a fun film in isolation from the rest of that garbage, but I do wish we had an official HD or 4k release of the unaltered version. This 45th anniversary article may be right up your alley then: www.inverse.com/entertainment/star-wars-a-new-hope-45-year-anniversary Excellent little article, hard to argue any of those points. I'm still glad Star Wars became an ongoing cultural phenomenon, even if much of what followed the original trilogy has been less than stellar (see what I did there?). While it's true that much of the mythos was clearly created post-Star Wars 77 (despite Lucas insistence otherwise), the retconned story details do make the narrative more compelling as the original trilogy rolls along. Still, Star Wars 77 is for me at least, the most easily rewatchable of them all because it's a self-contained story.
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Post by Spike Del Rey on May 25, 2022 19:36:01 GMT
Anybody here watch this in theaters? Do you remember the reactions?
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Post by jcush on May 25, 2022 19:42:20 GMT
Always been one of my favorites.
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