The one that started it all. A curse to some. A blessing to others. A New Hope is the first film, while still the fourth film in the groundbreaking Star Wars saga's chronology.
Carried by some exciting new effects (including some dazzling spaceship dogfights), a bar filled with bizarre looking aliens and a battlestation the size of a moon. It brought the brainless sci-fi pulp style of storytelling back into the mainstream paving the way for many copycats to come after it. Sure the dialogue is terrible, the pacing gets really bumpy in the final 30 minutes and Mark Hamill is quite frankly abysmal but it's the type of fun that makes me think of sugary breakfast cereal.
3½ droids you were looking for out of 5
2 comments:
*fourth
I didn't see the original trilogy until almost my 20's. It was still wonderfully entertaining, but yes, kind of hokey. Only Ford seems to take his role completely seriously.
4 More powerful than you can possibly imagine out of 5
"Fourth"
Feck. I make that mistake more often than I'd like to admit.
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