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Criticize something about this movie.

it has a woman in it

starslop

Grow up

Obi Wan Kenobis lightsaber skills and suicide.

They removed the first Biggs scene.

Second act (Death Star) isn't as interesting or iconic as the first and third acts.

No medal for Chewie.

Obi Wans incompetence got Lukes aunt and uncle killed.

reminder all nu wars is faggot shit

Ugly cast

special effects while groundbreaking can be a bit jarring for someone coming from the prequels or just used to modern movies

The duel with Vader isn’t great. And I’m not just saying that because of later movies, on its own as a swordfight of any kind it’s not impressive. I understand there’s limitations given Alec Guiness is old and Vader’s suit is probably a bitch to move in. But if we were to compare it to a kendo match or samurai flicks of the prior decades, it leaves much to be desired. Not too much, but it could’ve probably been better.

Porkins is too fat to be a pilot.

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Yeah would be interesting to see a print with that restored. Might be quite a bit better to have an actual arc there rather than just something appearing from nowhere.

I guess they felt it slowed the pace too much at the beginning.

It's too formulaic.

Stormtroopers could've been made a little more imposing but it was trying to be light hearted so that's a small thing.

we're told that Luke is a good pilot without actually seeing it until the trench run itself.
still a fantastic film btw.

Where the Sandpeople attack Luke is a mess. The first bit (the view through the binoculars obscured by the leg) is great. But then it's trying to kill him, then it stops, waves its weapon . . .what? Why doesn't it kill him? Obi-Wan only scares them away later.

I'm surprised how it seems to go right over people's heads that vader fucking dies at the end of the movie
He's just so "iconic", particularly in Empire, that people just overlook that he got thrown into a wild spin 10 seconds before the death star fucking blows up and creates and explosion as big as a planet

Leia has no reaction to her planet and family being blown up, instead she comforts Luke after Obi-Wan died, who he knew for a day.

it's stock

Stormtroopers just mow the rebels down in the opening sequence which is great but then they become comically inept. Yes plot armour but still.

I always wondered if that was all meant to suggest the rebels at the start had crap weapons, hence are plucky underdogs (in the Death Star, Luke etc are using Empire weapons).

It has two jews as the main leads in it. The main Aryan lead immediately thirsts after the jewess.

Naa, he spins away into space, clearly at least as far away as Luke etc. That's fine. He's clearly meant to be surviving (he regains control of the ship doesn't he?)

The only problem is he's in the middle of nowhere ("a fighter that small couldn't be this far out on its own" earlier, etc).

Fisher is ugly

Naa, he spins away into space, clearly at least as far away as Luke etc.

No, and he's spinning away at like half the speed of the fighters that barely escape the blast.

That's fine.

It's not, he be fucking dead and he probably was originally when he was just some enemy officer before Lucas back-doored into a trilogy.

He's clearly meant to be surviving (he regains control of the ship doesn't he?)

No, he doesn't.
Your brain is bridging the gap between the death of a notable henchman (whose first name was explicitly Darth and last name was explicitly Vader, that was not his Sith title) in the first movie and the establishing of Luke's father, formerly known as Anakin in the Empire Strikes Back.
He fucking dies. Lucas did not think he would be making any sequels.

No, he doesn't.

Hmm, I have a distinct memory of the ship spinning (showing Vader in the cockpit) and then he stops it spinning. I'm imagining this? Gonna check it now.

Watch the Plinkett reviews

He fucking dies. Lucas did not think he would be making any sequels.

Huh? They wrote "Splinter of the Mind's Eye" as a potential low-budget sequel in case A New Hope didn't make any money. That has Vader in it, and has Leia and Luke, so can't be a prequel or anything?

This is fucking last frame of Vader in the movie.

It looks cheap and is boring. People in silly costumes pretending to be space soldiers, warriors, aliens, whatever. It's goofy stuff for children.

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The last shot of Vader clearly shows him stabilize his fighter and fly off, after the Death Star has exploded.

Lucas had nothing to do with that.
Lucas still had all his dumb-ass "Legend of the Whills" ideas that he would've used if at the time he thought he would ever get to make a sequel.
This is all very basic shit.

Horrible lightsaber fight, its like someone went to a retirement home and filmed a youtube lightsaber fight.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

It's pretty much reddit meets netflix meets globohomo feminism. Basically it's feminism the movie made to hypnotise the viewer into thinking "white men bad" and "POC women good". There isn't really much more to this dreary film than that.

Yeah, OK, you're a troll. I just checked, I was right. Vader regains control.

And I was right about Splinter too (George Lucas didn't write it but he was involved.)

Well done to waste a little of my time, I guess.

That's fair enough. You gotta get things moving.

Anyway if you showed him actually bulls-eyeing Womp Rats, everyone would hate him. Poor Womp Rats.

It's nostalgiaslop and not interesting in the slightest.

It was already criticized in 1977.

I think he knew Obi-wan longer than that, but more like in a neighborly way. He seemed familiar with him as Ben, so far as I could tell.

Looking at Disney shills, these assessments were pretty spot on.

Naming it "Episode 4"
I saw it as a kid in the 1980s and I was so confused because I thought episodes 1-3 were out already and I had completely missed them.
I felt like I was watching a sequel and I had missed out on information from the previous movies that was important for watching a new hope.

Hardly a critique, but there was huge amount of shooting. I rewatched it and couldn't believe that later half of the movie felt like scifi sam peckinpah with heroes blasting away endless waves of stormtroopers. Well its star WAR after all

Chewie was a clone war veteran too, they should’ve thanked him for his service those ungrateful fucks.

I rewatched it recently and I still think the third act is a bit lame. It's just too long and the rebels are a very lame faction. Outside of the mais cast there are no cool rebels.

third act

The space battle? I thought the whole rescue mission was really boring. I was surprised that it takes so long, almost 1/3 of the movie.

unproportionally too much jews

Every Special Edition (and later) alteration.

a fighter that small couldn't be this far out on its own

Except that Vader ISN'T that far out on his own, he's right there in the orbit of Yavin. Somebody on the Death Star said the rebel base is on the 4th moon, meaning there are at least 4 moons in Vader's vicinity to land on. Plus his TIE looks different so we can assume it can do stuff the standard ones cannot. You don't need any comics, novels or other sequels/prequels to infer any of this.

I'm surprised nobody ever made a C-3PO lightbulb light that.

The double penetration scene was a bit too much.

Those who can, create. Those who cannot, write movie reviews.

Yes you're right sorry, the final battle takes place nowhere near where they got sucked in by the Death Star (which is basically where Alderaan was). Could be trillions of whatevers away.

But still, there are questions, like, wouldn't the rebels be able to capture Vader? He's going to land on some planet / moon not far from them. Unless his special Vader Tie Fighter has hyperspace of course, but that is a stretch.

“But I wanted to go to Toshe station to pick up some power converters!!!” :(

I agree its weird that they kind of cut out Biggs despite them supposed to know each other at the end there. Also Luke barely reacting to his death.

I read an article by the kid Guiness is referring to here (written much later, of course). His version is pretty different, and has backstory as to why he saw SW so many times. His mom dropped him off at the theater by her work every day because it was cheaper than daycare. The entire last paragraph in that pic is fiction. The kid met AG backstage at a talk he gave. The kid told him he'd seen ALL of his movies, and that nobody was rude, nobody cried, and it was a fond memory for him. I believe the kid over a man whose profession is essentially to be a convincing liar.

Really hard to criticize it when it’s the best of them all maybe just how unbelievable everything they do in and around the Death Star so nonchalantly without much regard for life. But a farmer just jumping in and out of space ships is already besides himself especially with nothing to go back to

I remember my dad explaining to me why it was Episode 4 whenever it was that they changed it. He was a sci fi guy so he read magazines and shit. I remember that it was in theaters for pretty much 3 years straight until ESB came out. I saw it many times.

I count 0.75 jews. Carrie Fisher's dad was jewish, and Harrison Ford is a quarter jewish (not too shabby). That's about the least jewish you can expect for a Hollywood movie.

They meant for them to escape. That was the whole point. Leia even called it after the fact. Wouldn't work if the stormtroopers killed them all, now would it? Unfortunately retards like you misunderstood that whole point completely and just equated it to being "Stormtroopers have le bad aim!" meme.

which one? The one in the beginning or the one in Yavin base? Farting around with Luke in the beginning with Biggs and the gang would have made the beginning drag. On the other hand, it was nice that Biggs and Luke met up at Yavin and Biggs vouching for his friend to Red Leader.

Then again, the film works just as well as is.

shit sword play

jank FX(even jankier in the re-release whichbis all you can watch now)

basic bitch story

"only imperial stormtroopers shoot so accurate" - precedes to show them never hitting anything ever again

There's probably more, but because I refuse to watch the CGI slop rerelease, I haven't watched in since the VHS theatrical version in the late 90s.

I assume the rebels would evacuate Yavin IV asap, knowing that their location was exposed, and Tarkin probably informed the Emperor. Luke's X-wing is shown to have hyperspace, but not until the next movie. So it's not THAT big of a stretch. But it's more plausible that he landed, and called for a pickup.

Luke barely reacting to his death.

I'm not sure what you wanted Luke to do? I mean, he was in the trench moments away from taking a shot to blow up the Death Star.

I feel like it really slows down and gets boring as soon as the are on the death star, but alsonescaping the death star feels like the climax, and going back feels meh.
Almost feels like it's a 5 act story missing its 4th act.

In reality if you had a sword that any edge on it would slice through you effortlessly, how you would fight with them would look closer to children stick fighting than whatever the fuck the prequels did.

There's probably more, but because I refuse to watch the CGI slop rerelease, I haven't watched in since the VHS theatrical version in the late 90s.

Doesn't know about 4k77...

I find it disgustingly unrealistic that Obi Wan, a man with so many good friends in his youth, would end up as some lonely hermit, barely known by his neighbors, scaring off the local sand people, just a few decades later.

It's from the '70s so I didn't get to sleep with Carrie

Did you miss the part where the Jedi are vilified and exterminated throughout the galaxy