Star Wars

Pros: everything
Cons: nothing

When I was a young lass of 11, Star Wars was released to the world. Those of you who know me and have read my reviews probably are figuring that I am a sci-fi geek-ette anyway so of course I headed out to see it. You are wrong. For ...

Pros: Full of action, humour, characters you can care about...
Cons: ... very few...

This isn’t going to quite be a normal film review because after all what would be the point of yet another film review of a film most people have seen several times and that’s been reviewed so many times already? So I’m going to do ...

Pros: Simple story that's applicable to many situations--groundworks of modern myth.
Cons: Luke Skywalker is a whiny li'l Jedi...but that's a good place to start from

I saw first saw this when I was 4 years old. Somewhat impressionable age, right? Well, that first moviegoing experience (the first movie I remember seeing in the theatre) broke something in my soft little skull that made me LOVE Star Wars. I became a...

Pros: This is the best Space Adventure movie series created yet.
Cons: You have to like Science Fiction to appreciate it.

(Note: These three STAR WARS reviews are in celebration of the STAR WARS TRILOGY films, to be released in September, 2004 on DVD as a boxed set, with George Lucas, the man ultimately behind STAR WARS, giving a creator's commentary, along with ...

Pros: This movie reshaped popular culture.
Cons: Not one dang thing.

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. (1977) Directed by George Lucas A Long Time Ago, In a Galaxy Far, Far Away…. This is the movie Star Wars. If you don’t include another title, or episode number, this is the one they mean. ...

Pros: Cast; story; characters; humor; score
Cons: Are you kidding? I even love the low-budget special effects.

Last night I watched Star Wars. Yes, that Star Wars. Episode 4: A New Hope. The story that started the whole saga. The original George Lucas space opera that came to the big screen in 1977 and wowed most of us into awed silence in the ...

Pros: Its mix of space/fantasy, great score, fun story, and memorable characters and lines
Cons: It's hokey, sure, and it's no "Lord of the Rings"...but we love it anyway.

It's been over a quarter century since George Lucas (THX 1138, American Graffiti) first shared Star Wars with millions of awestruck moviegoers in the late spring of 1977. Both the director and the studio executives at 20th Century Fox ...

Pros: Come on, it's entertainment already
Cons: Don't be so trivial

or “A Mighty Fortress is Our God”

It’s been over twenty-three years since the release of George Lucas’s “Star Wars—Episode IV: A New Hope” in 1977. I remember seeing this for the first time with a bunch of my Northwestern fraternity buddies...

Pros: Characters. Plot. Icons.
Cons: Whiny Luke!

Observing Star Wars at the age of 20 almost makes me wish that I hadn't watched it so many times since I was 9. Have the repeat viewings tainted my objectivity? Will my innate love for the characters cause me to lend the film a higher rating than ...

Pros: Groundbreaking, fun, and inspiring
Cons: nothing, absolutely nothing whatsoever

I can’t believe it! Finally, FINALLY, Star Wars is available on DVD! I’m such a geek I took a whole day off work just to watch the trilogy. Since there is SOOO much I want to say about each movie I decided to review each one individually then write a ...

Pros: the first (or fourth) chapter of the archetypal space saga
Cons: those who aren't sci-fi enthusiasts tend to bunch it together with Star Trek

I've been a Trekkie for as long as I can remember, and I got razzed a lot for it during grade school. One time, members of our class were asked to make crafts for the graduating seniors which would be presented at their banquet/roast. Our art teacher ...

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George Lucas's most famous work to date would have to be on the directors Star Wars saga, a series of films that has permeated popular culture to produce a fan base so devout it has literally become a religion to some. However why is this? ...

Pros: The power of faith overides fear.
Cons: The "Force" may offend some Christians.

Ever since Star Wars was originally released in the movie theaters decades ago, it has been one of my all-time favorite movies. Perhaps the main reason for this is that the idea of a "Force" that can not be seen but controls everything sound a...

Pros: Takes me to a very special place
Cons: Mark Hammy.. excuse me, sorry Hamill

If you think picking Star Wars for my “Quotes” W/O is the easy option, wait ‘til you see my next entry Life is hard sometimes. You work and work, but get little or no recognition, your love life is fixed in the future but you can’t ...

Pros: James Earl Jones and Sir Alec Guinness
Cons: Shallow, tedious, B O R I N G plot

When I was younger, the original Star Wars: A New Hope was among those films I avoided with a prejudice. I had seen it once, and never understood why everyone held it so dear to heart. I remember it being at least a half hour too long, with boring...