The Perfect Movie from my Childhood

Rating: 10/10 (14 July 2001)

No movie has effected me in the way that Star Wars did the first time I saw it. It was an out-of-body experience; I literally forgot I was in a movie theater. I was transfixed with awe: seeing Darth Vader for the first time as he devastated the rebel ship, all the way to the climatic battle of the Death Star, the universe and John Williams score the stirring backdrop. I left the theater in an overjoyed daze. I saw this movie for the first time when I was seven years old. I don't know if it would have had the same impact if I had first seen it at the age I am now. But when I do view it now, more than 20 years later, the old feeling warms inside.