Review of Star Wars (1977) by Isaac M — 01 Mar 2018

A good opening film to a franchise, it lays a lot of groundwork. Unfortunately because of this the film (particularly the first 40 minutes) feels a little slow. Whenever I introduce people to this franchise I always worry that they feel a little bored during this one. Overall though a good movie. Luke can be a little bit whiny and Leia keeps switching between a British and American accent (which one could argue she uses to mock the imperials, most of which have British accents).

This movie pays homage to many classics though, with a classic, yet simple story of a farm boy, and a wizard rescuing a princess, with its Flash Gordan style of opening crawl, ties to Japanese samurai movies and classic swashbuckling movies and WW2 dogfighting movies whats not to love? Star Wars takes all of these ideas and weaves them into something new and fresh. Even if a little slow, this movie is worth a watch. Go check it out.