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Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... The fourth film in the series, directed by George Lucas, and starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, Alec Guinness Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, Peter Mayhew, David Prowse, Denis Lawson, Phil Brown, Shelagh Fraser and James Earl Jones as the voice of Darth Vader, released in 1977.

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STAR WARS was a good movie. NOT the pinnacle of ultimate tip-top kick-ass space films of all time, as I've heard it referred as. A closer, more objective look at it spells things out. George's direction wasn't everything it could have been, and it shows; the dialogue is hurried and cue-card wooden and a lot of the action is herky-jerky (I swear the last scene of Luke's Tuscan raider attack was reversed and rolled forward again). My biggest beef was with the back-and-forth rocking motion when the cameras focused on the pilots of the Rebel fighter ships; what was WITH that?!? Now that I'm off my soapbox, I DO have to stress my earlier statement that STAR WARS was a good movie: it was a serious take on a subect that was too often the butt of ridicule; the story was simple without being detrimental; and the special effects were dazzling and worthy of enshrinement. Seen through the eyes of a 10-year-old in a theater, it was pure bliss (the part where the Millenium Falcon hovers, backs out of the Death Star hangar, spins and fires the engines.....too cool for words; my jaw was in my lap from there on). Will go down as a monumental influence for generations to come.