My experience of Star Wars: episode IV was one that I did not expect to endure. Usually I am not into the sci-fi, intergalactic type of movies as I had never seen any of the Star Wars movies before. Anyways, my experience was that this was a really exciting movie that is action packed with a great plot and story line. And you can see how this first movie unfolded the path for the success that the series has gone down and still continues to go down now a days. This movie is the second highest grossing movie of all time not only in the US but also Canada. So as you can tell we aren’t the only ones that feel like the Star Wars movies are some of the best ideas ever came up with. When I watched the first movie I definitely didn’t expect to be so locked in and interested in a movie that was based off so much science fiction, but you really have no choice. After watching the first movie I felt as if I had no choice but to continue watching the series just to keep up and know what happened next.
A very significant scene in Star Wars was when obi’wan became one with the force. In the entire movie you hear them talking about the force , like the force this, and the force that. Then when he was struck down by Darth Vader his body disappeared instead of being cut in half, which was the first time the force had actually been proven. The force was talked about by the good and evil people in the movies but ultimately the force never really was shown to be a real thing. Another very important moment in the film was when the destruction of Alderaan occurred. This is the first example of the death star being used. The death star was like a huge ball, no bigger than the moon, that had a crater in it and was used to shoot lasers out and destroy planets. The last but certainly not least moment that I found to be very significant in the film was when Luke turns off his targeting computers and uses the force to manually launch the torpedoes in the exhaust port of the death star, at obi’wan’s request. I feel as if there are too many great moments in the movie to really pinpoint just a couple significant times so I randomly chose 3 just to show how good the scenes in the movie really were.
Anyone I’ve ever talked to about Star Wars either tell me that they really love it and have seen every single episode, or that they’ve never had the opportunity to really get in the movies. The people who haven’t seen Star Wars usually have a pretty negative opinion on the movie and on the people that watch it. I’ve heard multiple people call people who have watched Star Wars either nerds, lowlifes, or anything else they can think of just to justified to themselves that’s it’s ok that they haven’t had the chance to witness such an experience of science fiction. Anyone I have talked to that has seen Star Wars is simply addicted and are always talking about how they can’t wait to see the next episode coming out.
On a technical level I really enjoyed the media and visuals they took the time to put inside of this film. I know it took a whole lot of editing to have to create and entire sequence of movies that all took place in outer space. I would definitely say this this is considered one of the greatest movies of all time and never will lose that title. Even after watching ET and King Kong I was amazed on how great the edits and special effects in the movie were. This movie was released in 1977 and I know it took more than 2 and a half years to get this movie completely produced and finished. So yes, there are films out there that are considered great films, but unfortunately don’t live up to their name. Good for George Lucas, Star Wars doesn’t fall until the overrated category like the rest of the so call “Great Movies” that aren’t really that great. In actuality, this series of movies has been getting greater and greater as time has been passing, technology getting greater, and George Lucas (the director) getting smarter.
sources:
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Wars:_Episode_IV_A_New_Hope
https://www.metacritic.com/movie/star-wars-episode-iv—a-new-hope