a wonderful, inspiring movie

Rating: Null/10 (24 January 2006)

This is the first movie my parents ever took me to see as a kid. It was 1979, I was 4 & it was the film's original theatrical run. I liked it so much that when it was re-released later on that year we went to see it again. This may be my favorite film. It's a hard call for me to sum up every film I've ever seen & pick a #1, but this one would be close. I'm not one of these people that says that STAR WARS changed or in any way defined my life, but I am a really big fan of the whole star wars universe (the films, the "fan" films, the novels, etc.). I myself am an aspiring film maker & I'd have to say my inspiration to produce my own film stars here. If I had to sum up my biggest director/filmmaker influences there would be 2, & George Lucas is one of them (Sergio Leone is the other).
As for the film...It's amazing. It's one of the greatest achievements ever made in the history of film making. It's the stuff of legends. I figure everybody's seen it by now so I'm not going to write a lengthy review on what it's about. If you somehow have never seen it, no offense intended, but you can read someone else's review. There's probably at least 10,000 of them out there.