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| Star
Wars: A New Hope |
Studio executives summary / pitch
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| Death Star munch on my naughty bits - Episode 4 of legendary sci-fi double trilogy |
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Short plot
summary |
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Young man falls in love with sister, fights baddies and sees loner father's best friend killed by man wearing bulldog mask. |
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What our
panel of critics thought |
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"The biggest grossing movie of all time." 1979. "Formerly the biggest grossing movie of all time. " 1984. "Now no longer in the top five grossing movies of all time." 2001. "The grossest movie of all time." "A fairy tale story told in the style of Star Trek but with a decent story, an underlying metaphor for life and no beaming up." "A bit more like Flash Gordon than Star Trek, but a complete absence of sex. Could have been improved by some exciting hot tub action." "'Let the force be with you' - the best ever empowerment phrase to come from a movie. The phrase has been adopted by management consultants around the world. Today there isn't a Fortune 500 company that does not use techniques introduced in Star Wars to make their corporate lives better. Great stuff"- Management Today "A much better film for not bothering with that ass Yoda who unfortunately ruined the next film in the sextilogy for me.." "Chewbacca is a revelation." Carpets weekly. "Harrison Ford was a carpenter before this. Thanks to some skillful career shifting he brings an authority to a role lesser actors would have failed to achieve when handling the wooden props. " "Never to look younger than this, Ford's performance will shock younger viewers who know how crinkled he became in later movies." "I can never watch a Harrison Ford movie without remembering that Amish film. It's such a shame he wasn't wearing those brown pants in this celuloidal outing." |
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Please
tell me the ending
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| This episode ends with the destruction of a moon like baddie-made planet with all of the baddies on board apart from Darth Vader who sneaks off in a capsule. Nobody else of consequence dies, only C/D list actors. |
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How funny
is this film? |
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It's a classic. The film has spawned much mirth from parodies (see Mel Brook''s Space Balls I, II, III and Robin Hood Men in Tights). |
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Could you
base a lasting philosophy on this movie? Specify whether suicide pact or not. |
| 'May the force be with you' is high up in most religious top tens. |
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Does the
film attempt technobabble? If so does this succeed? |
| Thankfully, the writers only attempt limited technobabble: Firstly by the soon-to-be-blasted farmer and his wife, and secondly a couple of times in the Millennium Falcon - however this is attempted by Ford, a qualified carpenter. Watch for reference to an Aquaplumperlumpypumper, or something like that, which is a well known term for a toilet declogger on Alderan. |
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Other comments |
| An all time great of all time. If Lucas manages to finish off his ambitious 6 part story it will be an impressive achievement. |
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