A wonderful, trendsetting film, but...

Rating: Null/10 (10 February 2003)

The writing s***s. It does. The dialog is stilted, corny and moldy. "I thought I recognized your fouls stench" "Who's more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows" etc. The characters have little depth (except what the actors brought to them). The "ideas" are real lowest common denominator stuff. "The Empire". "The Force". "The Dark Side of the Force". Ouch.
And the "Science" doesn't make a lick of sense. Space battles that take place at distances which would be conservative in WWI? And why can't the stormtroopers shoot straight? They can't seem to hit anything more than 6 feet away (But remember Ben saying "only stormtroopers shoot so precisely":) Why do they bother to wear armor that doesn't do anything?
Mr. Lucas, shame on you for some of the lines! "It made the Kessel run in 2 parsecs"...a parsec is a measure of space, not of time.

All that said, I still love the film. It's a part of my childhood.