What Is Your Favorite Star Wars Movie?

[crokett]

My favorite is Return of the Jedi because that was the first one I saw in the theatre.

[Hoakie]

Hard one I liked the first and last (Episodes 4 and 3). The others didn't seem to have as big an impact on me.

[jussi]

Original is still the best. Plus it came out the year I was born

[JoeyGee]

ROTJ was also the first I saw in the theater. I was 10. I remember the HUGE crowd outside the theater and someone coming out with a bullhorn announcing all shows were sold out. I think I saw it a week or so later.

ESB is my favorite, but I like them all--well I can at least tolerate Episode 1--or Episode 1: Look What I Can Do With CGI.

[Anna]

ROTJ was also the first one I saw in the theater. I had such a huge crush on Luke Skywalker. I watched the first two movies on video and was just so into the whole thing. I knew every character and gizmo and thingamajig in the Star Wars universe and even read a bunch of the books.

Then I grew up, watched Star Wars (the very first one; I refuse to call it what George Lucas calls it now) again, and couldn't believe what a whiny little brat Luke actually was. Also, the dialogues were kind of cheesy and the acting was... not really that good.

We watched Phantom Menace when it came out and I thought that was one bad bad movie. Badly directed, badly acted, badly-written scripts. And it was all about the CGI.

We still watched Attack of the Clones, and you can tell Anakin must have been related to Luke because they're both whiny little brats. Still bad acting, still bad directing, and I decided I wasn't going to watch the last one.

Which I did finally watch a couple weeks ago when it was on endless loop in one of the cable channels. Turns out the last one wasn't half as bad as TPM and AOTC.

Which leads me to my favorite: The Empire Strikes Back. It has the tightest narrative and a real story arc. It also wasn't directed by George Lucas, which probably explains a lot.

[Richard in Smithville]

I liked ROTJ simply because it had the best entertainment value(IMHO). No other reason...I know what I like, and I liked it.

[crokett]

Which leads me to my favorite: The Empire Strikes Back. It has the tightest narrative and a real story arc. It also wasn't directed by George Lucas, which probably explains a lot.

Not the first time I've heard that.

[rjwaldren]

New Hope - I was 5 and remember seeing it at the theater with my dad. At the time it was amazing. I remember ESB but can't say I've watched all the way through since it was in the theater.

Like most of us I was let down by the last three. I think he was trying to capture a new generation of kids but left those of us who remember out. I had a hard time accepting that the evolution of Darth Vader could have been stopped if Yoda had just taken the annoying brat over his knee.

[gerti]

Star Wars "1": We build a robot army with no autonomous functions, controlled by a single ship with no backup and a reactor that can blow the ship right in the landing bay where any crash-landing little ship can hit it. Yeah, right!

Star Wars "2": Oh wait, didn't I leave my mom in slavery a dozen or so years ago? Maybe I'll check up on her... THEY KILLED HER! Now I am going to be mad for the rest of my life! (Never occurred to me to ask my powerful friends to get her out of there...)

Star Wars "3": Oh, who the heck cares anymore...

[Russianwolf]

[QUOTE=Anna;347973]
Then I grew up, watched Star Wars (the very first one; I refuse to call it what George Lucas calls it now) again, and couldn't believe what a whiny little brat Luke actually was. Also, the dialogues were kind of cheesy and the acting was... not really that good.
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You mean "A New Hope", it's always been titled that, just most people simply refer to it as "Star Wars".

As far as the dialogues go, they were intentionally written in a style to be reminiscent of the old radio plays that had people sitting by their radios on Saturdays (before TV). Yeah, it's cheesy and all that, but it's purposefully cheesy.

[LarryG]

You mean "A New Hope", it's always been titled that, just most people simply refer to it as "Star Wars".

Actually, not. What we now know as "Episode IV" was originally titled "Star Wars" and the opening crawl did not include the lines "Episode IV" and "A New Hope." Only after the film became a smash hit, and it became clear there would be still more Star Wars movies, were those words added.

WRT the dialog, I guess you've heard Harrison Ford's famous remark about that ... "George, you can type this sh*t, but you sure can't say it."

[dkerfoot]

I'm still trying to figure out why the Storm Troopers wear armor that never once deflected a handheld phaser and apparently can't even protect them from rocks thrown by an Ewok.

[rjwaldren]

As far as the dialogues go, they were intentionally written in a style to be reminiscent of the old radio plays that had people sitting by their radios on Saturdays (before TV). Yeah, it's cheesy and all that, but it's purposefully cheesy.

I have the original New Hope radio series somewhere around here, I will second your statement. There is alot more detail and starts before the movie did. It does clarify alot of the "politics" of the Empire at the onset of New Hope.

I've always felt that Star Wars was an attempt to create a Tolkien like fantasy world, but could never touch the completeness that Tolkien achieved which followed throughout all of his works.

[JoeyGee]

This is funny, LOML were having a discussion on Raiders of the Lost Ark last night. She didn't realize Lucas created them. She asked me why GL didn't direct them and why he "Needed Spielberg".

I laughed and told her to watch Episodes 1-3. Two and Three are OK, but just imagine how good they would be if he let someone else do it...

[KenBurris]

only one

Star Wars - - That's what it was called when I saw it first-run in the theater. Liked it, but not enough to go out of my way to see the next 2 (or 3?). But I go to a movie theater about every 10 years - when I think I might like the " theater package" - last was probably Jurrassic Park