Star Wars

Pros: everything

Cons: nothing

The Bottom Line: All other movies that follow owe a debt to George Lucas and Star Wars for leading the way into the more modern special effects.

Review: 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: Great visuals, action, score

Cons: Pretty hard to fault

The Bottom Line: A great movie for the whole family. This DVD has both the 1997 reissue and the 1977 original theatrical release.

Review: Star Wars (1977) A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away... I watched Star Wars for the first time in a movie theater in 1977 and remember thinking - how far movies have sunk since the great old movies ...

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

Cons: ... very few...

The Bottom Line: [Jedi Mind Trick] you want to read this review... you want to rate it Very Helpful... you want to trust CaptainD... these are not the droids you're looking for...

Review: 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

The Bottom Line: The original, and in many ways the best...but when are we gonna see the DVD????

Review: 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: Cast; story; characters; humor; score

Cons: Are you kidding? I even love the low-budget special effects.

The Bottom Line: "Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope..."

Review: 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: Characters. Plot. Icons.

Cons: Whiny Luke!

The Bottom Line: hopes for the world.

Review: 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: A classic, groundbreaking film that sparked the imagination of the world.

Cons: The acting and the script aint all that good.

The Bottom Line: To sum up in 30 words or less the impact that Star Wars has on filmmaking and movie going is impossible, so I shant event try.

Review: What in the hell am I doing? I might as well be reviewing the bible! Nothing I say will change any minds about this movie, nothing I bring to the table hasn’t been said over and over and over again a thousand times by people way smarter than I. Every ...

Pros: Amazing characters, exotic aliens, bizarre locales, and lots and lots of fun.

Cons: None here.

The Bottom Line: Now if they would just release it on Blu-Ray....

Review: A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, a young kid threw off the shackles of his everyday existence and took his first steps into a larger world.  I'm not talking about Luke Skywalker, however, instead I'm talking about, well, me. The "long time ...

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

The Bottom Line: A fine beginning to one of the wildly successful space saga which would go on to become a pop culture phenomenon.

Review: 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 ...

Pros: Groundbreaking effects, cleverly developped characters and storyline

Cons: Flawless

The Bottom Line: Highly Recommended as a Timeless Classic. Star Wars laid the ground for sci-fi movies to come.

Review: When I went to see The Phantom Menace in 1999, I was instantly reminded of the brilliance of the 1977 original. I was in the theater; the movie opened with the now legendary tagline: “A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away …” ...