An Honest Review

Rating: 10/10 (13 November 2017)

Everyone and their mother is going to write reviews about the Star Wars movies...and this one, this one actually came out before I was born.
It breaks the heart. I had to wait until the re-release before I got to see this one on the big screen. This is the one that ruined my Star Wars opening night streak...
...Well The Force Awakens ALMOST ruined it further. I had to drive out to my parents house just to see it, for the sake of tradition, and when I got there they had already gone without me...twice.
Some angry words later and I guilted my mom, pointing out the drive, to force her into a third go.
But that is neither here nor there.
This was the movie that started it all. And the first time I saw it, it was on Beta. Once upon a time my family had the movie in Beta. And then I had the trilogy in VHS. And then I had it on DVD. And it is going to repeat like that as the mediums change.
Its one of those movies that you have to own, even as technology changes. It is actually one of those movies you want to buy right away when the technology changes, just to see it in better and better quality.
That should be saying something right there. But for a lot of you its not.
For the rest of you, it is a fairy tale in space, complete with knights and old wizards and a princess. Only its a fairy tale in space made for, well, made for nerds like me.
It is a legend and the type of legend that stays with people and makes old Gen-Xers like me, cynical and grumpy, feel like little kids again.
It, along with the Godfather, is the type of movie that breeds mental spousal abuse as generations of men force their wives at gunpoint to watch them...and then get confused and a little depressed when most of them don't see the fascination with them.
Unlike the Godfather, however, its the movie that fathers force their children to watch and, then, their children carry the love for it into the next generation.
Star Wars is an endless cycle, even the bad ones are good. And the fans create endless theories about them. They buy the t-shirts, the buy the toys, they do everything they can to preserve that love and pass it on.
A New Hope, this is the film that started all of that, and though there are better installments, this will always be the first.