George Lucas’ Star Wars series is iconic, legendary, and somehow worth all the hype. In the Fourth Movie (the first one made), Luke Skywalker has to team up with an unassuming crew to save the galaxy from the Death Star, the evil Empire’s massive battle-station. In he Fifth Movie Luke and his friends join the rebellion. Luke goes off to learn the ways of the Jedi warriors and learns his friends are in trouble when Darth Vader sets a trap for Luke. At the end of the movie we learn Darth Vader is Lukes father and Lando Calrissian and Chewbacca go to save Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt. The Sixth and final of the three original movies, they rescue Han from Jabba and attempt to destroy the second Death Star. Meanwhile Luke tries to get his father, Darth Vader to come back to the “light” side (as opposed to the dark).
Going in, I didn’t know what to expect. From everyone that had watched
Star Wars since their childhood, there was so much hype. Yet was there a cult following for the sake of a cult following, or do the movies actually deserve all the build up. After watching the three original movies, I have to say they deserve the hype. Although looking at the special effects through a 2014 lens, it is not always seamlessly realistic, but it doesn’t need to be to put the audience in that galaxy far far away with Han and Luke. Somehow it sucks you in and you can’t help but be enraptured. It is the characters: as an audience, you route for them, you want them to win, you want Han and Leia to be together. The acting improved from the first movie to the second and as soon as the credits rolled on the second, I wanted to watch the third. There was something inexplicable in watching them and how I was instantly pulled neck deep in the story. I might have been the only one to feel that way, but I enjoyed the series immensely. Now the real question arrises: to watch the new movies, or to not.
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