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[Joey]

Yesterday my sister and I went to the mall. We stopped to see our mom at her job. We ate some lunch at the cafeteria and the we went to see this new movie called Star Wars. The posters were cool, kind of sexy and a bit romantic. Tickets went up some. It cost 1.25 for matinee prices now. I bought a movie program, and some popcorn and cokes. Let me just say this movie is so cool. It's like nothing I've ever seen before. There was a really cool preview for the new James Bond film, the Spy Who Loved Me. Then the movie started and the 20th Century Fox logo came on. The theatre has the new Dolby stereo 4 channel sound system and it was amazing. Then this roll-up or crawl appeared, A Long time ago in a galaxy far far away. The music is by John Williams, who did the music for Jaws, the Towering Inferno, and Earthquake, and it's quite possibly the great thing I have ever heard. Next appeared these space ships, and they looked so real. Some of the ships were grimey and dirty looking. But after this rebel ship flies by the triangular ship called a Star Destroyer flies into view. All I can say was wow. I'm pretty sure that it kept coming and coming and coming. I didn't think it would stop, and to be honest I didn't want it too. You got to see inside the rebel ship and it was pretty clean inside, mostly white. These soldiers had blasters and these funky helmets. It was sort of Japanese. The this bad guy named Darth Vader appears. He must be almost 7 feet tall and he's all dressed in black and he wears this mask and helmet which hides his face. He is very strong and he lifts a rebel soldier with one hand and strangles him. He's looking for this princess. She has something that the rebels stole from the empire. She gives it to this small white and blue robot named R2D2 and this other gold robot named C3P0. He's tall and gold and has a british accent. He's very formal but he reminds me of Doctor Smith on Lost in Space. The robots get on an escape ship and land on the planet below. The Princess gets captured. The robots get out of the ship and go their separate ways but not for long as they are captured by these creepy dirty little thing called Jawas. They are then sold to these farmers. The farmer's nephew is named Luke Skywalker and he discovers the message that the princess has hidden. The message is for this General who is this neighbor of Luke. Eventually Luke meets the General after being attacked by these sand people with scary masks on their faces. The General is named Obi Won Kenobi. He tells Luke he is something called a Jedi which belongs to this religion which believes in the all powerful Force. Obi Won tells Luke he must go with him if he's going to be a Jedi. He give's Luke a light saber which is this cool laser sword. He tells Luke he once new Luke's father who was also a Jedi. Luke tells him that can't be true that his father was something else. Luke then leaves to go home fearing he's in trouble. When he gets home he finds his aunt and uncle have been murdered. He agrees to go with Obi Wan to help the princess. This begins a very exciting adventure.

Meanwhile the princess is take to this thing called the Death Star which is a giant round spaceship. There we meet Darth Vader's boss, who is played Peter Cushing. He's this clearly evil soldier named Grand Moff Tarkin. He looks like a nazi. In fact many of the crew remind you of nazi's or Japanese soldiers. The director named George Lucas must have modeled the villains after the bad guys of WWII. They torture the Princess but she doesn't tell them what they want. They try to coerce her by threatening to destroy her home planet of Alderann. She gives them a name but Tarkin destroys her planet anyways. The they find out the princess lied and didn't give the truthful information.

Luke, Obi Wan and the robots, they are called Droids in the movie, go to this dangerous city and Luke gets attacked by this deformed guy and this alien in this bar. The bar has this weird alien band that plays this jazzy music. Obi Wan saves Luke with his light saber. He cuts the arm off the alien. It's one of the grossest moments I've ever seen in a movie. They guys end up meeting this pilot name Han Solo. The actor playing him was in American Graffiti. He has a side kick named Chewbacca who is this 7 ft tall ape like alien called a wookie. Solo takes them on their ship and they barely escape the empire. The get attacked by a Star Destroyer in space before they escape using their hyperdrive. It's sort of like warp drive on Star Trek. Han Solo's ship is called the Millenium Falcon. It's a fast ship as Solo says. It's asymmetircal but almost as cool as the star destroyers. The Jedi Obi Wan suddenly gets sick and he tells them that something terrible has happened. It reminded me of the scene in Star Trek episode the Immunity Syndrome when Spock feels the Vulcan ship die.
Anyways the Millenium Falcon comes out of hyperdrive into and uncharted asteroid field, which they realize is the Princess' home planet. They spot this small moon which they realize too late is a space station. They get captured by the empire when they are caught in a tractor beam. They hide and the people on the Star Destroyer think the ship was abandon. Han, Luke, and Chewbacca go looking for the princess, while Obi Wan goes looking for the controls to the Tractor Beam. They find the princess and rescue her sort of but get caught in the ships trash compactor and almost get eaten by this thing. Obi Wan turns the tractor beam controls off but on his way back to the Falcon he gets approached by Darth Vader. They know each other and they fight using their light sabers. It was so amazing. Obi Wan tells Vader if he strikes him down he will become more powerful than he can imagine. At that very moment Luke and the rest get back to the Falcon and Luke see's the two fight with light sabers, then Obi Wan gives up and Vader hits him but Obi Wan disappears. Luke gets back on the Falcon, depressed that his mentor has been killed. The Falcon gets away after being attacked by these Empire Fighters called Tie Fighter, because they look like a bow tie. Anyway the Falcon wins and flies to the Rebel Base. The princess knows the escape was too easy and they are being followed. She is right. The get to this moon and then you find out the princess has the plans to the death star and they know how to beat it. They launch this massive attack with all these space fighter planes. It's so cool. They fly into trenches and fire lasers. Darth Vader uses his fighter which is different than the rest and he nearly kills Luke but Luke is saved at the last minute by the Falcon. Luke launches his missiles and the Death Star blows up. The main villain, Tarkin is killed. Darth Vader escapes. They have a medal ceremony and the movie ends.
This is the most exciting movie I have ever seen. Not since Jaws have I seen a movie so thrilling. The music by John Williams as I said was just incredible. If he doesn't win an Academy Award for this there is no justice. For the first time ever the special effects were really special. The villains were cool, the ships cool. Afterwards we went to Walmart and I bought the record. Tomorrow we're going to see it again. In my 16 years this is the greatest movie experience of my life. They will have to have a sequel because Darth Vader lived at the end and you know he will want revenge.

[Mr Big]

What's Star Wars? John Williams scored it???

[Wojo]

Afterwards we went to Walmart and I bought the record.

I never knew they had Walmarts in the 70s.

[Joey]

Afterwards we went to Walmart and I bought the record.

I never knew they had Walmarts in the 70s.

when Star Wars came out Walmart was 15 years old. And since they are headquartered here in Arkansas they are everywhere.

[Wojo]

Very cool. They didn't hit my area in southern PA -- or I just never noticed them, which doesn't seem likely -- until the mid 90s.

[Jason LeBlanc]

Wonderful read Joey

[Miles Prower]

Oh christ, this movie. I saw the trailers for it, looks like cheesy crap. I hope when Lucas is done with his Saturday-morning bullshit, he goes back to making small, personal films.

[BloodBoal]

Well, that's the closest thing to a Star Trek film we'll ever get, I suppose.

[Incanus]

A very nice write up Joe.

[Richard]

Great review, Joey, I can imagine you reading this out to the class at Thomas Jefferson High, or wherever you went to.

Just one thing: "star destroyers"? Imperial cruisers, surely...

 

8/10. Well done!

 

P.S. if you think Star Wars is good, then wait till you see the new Steven Spielberg film, "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind"...

[Joey]

Great review, Joey, I can imagine you reading this out to the class at Thomas Jefferson High, or wherever you went to.

Just one thing: "star destroyers"? Imperial cruisers, surely...

 

8/10. Well done!

 

P.S. if you think Star Wars is good, then wait till you see the new Steven Spielberg film, "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind"...

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