Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (DVD)

Let's first go back over 30 years to George Lucas, sitting at home, thinking, is it worth releasing this as a film, or are people going to shake their heads and mutter, 'What was he thinking?', looking at each other in that knowing way? No doubt this entered his mind as his masterpiece creation Star Wars was in the early stages of inception. In 1977, the film was released, under the title 'Star Wars', and people flocked to the cinema to settle down for what they hoped to be the next decent sci-fi flick. This is one of the places I would have loved to have been as John Williams' now legendary Star Wars theme tune orchestrated out in booming fashion to full ...

STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE 5 Stars - Genius! End of review. What? You need more? But what else is there to say about the starting point of George Lucas’ behemoth franchise that hasn’t already been said? Countless polls have already established that Darth Vader is the biggest bad arse ever to set foot on celluloid; the Star Destroyer thundering into view over Tattoine is one of cinema’s greatest opening sequences; the Millennium Falcon is the coolest ship ever to do the Kessel run in five parsecs; lightsabers; blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. The pursuit of originality when attempting to review a film that regularly features in the top ten’s of “Best Film ...

i only saw star wars episode 4 after i had seen the first three movies so it made quite a lot of sense to me. Star wars episode 4 was originally released in 1977 and was considered as a technological breakthrough. I must say that the quality has vastly improved on the new dvd. Bcause it was set in outer space many film studios overlooked it as that was not a very popular genre at the time, so the creator George Lucas created a whoel new genre:science fantasy or space fantasy. **spoiler warning** The film is set 19 years after the galactic empire was established, and it focuses on the rebel alliance, led by princess leia. The evil darth vader ...