One of the Most Overrated Movies of All Time

Rating: 4/10 (15 June 2017)

Why is the movie considered on of the best sci-fi movies of all time? It makes almost no sense from start to finish:
Vader kills one of the passengers, then says he wants the passengers alive.
The gun operators don't shoot down the escape pod just to be sure that no one is inside.
C-3PO and R2-D2 somehow survive atmospheric entry and walk away without a scratch after plummeting to the surface of Tatooine at a rapid speed.
Both droids end up in the same sand crawler despite leaving in opposite directions.
Luke finds R2-D2 on the vast, empty desert planet of Tatooine before the sand people do despite waiting until the next morning to start looking.
Luke walks away from getting hit by a club with spikes on it without a scratch or bruise of any kind.
Obi-Wan waits almost 20 years to give Luke his father's lightsaber instead of introducing it to him at a young age so he'd be more trained with the weapon by the time he's a teenager.
It wasn't explained until 2005 how Obi-Wan even got the lightsaber in the first place.
It's never explained why Obi-Wan didn't tell Luke about his relationship with Leia right after they viewed her message.
Why did the stormtroopers kill Aunt Beru and Uncle Owen instead of simply asking them if they had seen the two droids? There's no reason to believe they wouldn't have cooperated.
How did Han, Luke, and Obi-Wan know their way around the Death Star considering none of them had ever been on it before?
How did Obi-Wan know how to turn off the tractor beam?
How did the dianoga end up in the trash compactor and how has it survived up to this point?
Why did neither Obi-Wan nor Darth Vader use the Force during their duel? We know Obi-Wan has experience with the Force because he used a Jedi mind trick on a stormtrooper earlier, and we know Vader has experience with the Force because he nearly choked one of his military generals earlier, so what was holding them back?
How was Luke able to take out several TIE fighters despite having never operated the guns on the Millennium Falcon before?
After our heroes escape the Death Star, it's revealed that Vader wanted them to escape the whole time so they could track their ship back to their secret headquarters. But, if that was the case, then why did the stormtroopers and TIE fighters bother firing on them at all and risk killing them?
How does Luke master flying an X-wing so quickly?
How is Luke able to use the Force to destroy the Death Star? The only Force training he had was a very brief introduction to the general concept with Obi-Wan, so it almost certainly wasn't enough to instantly master it on his first try.
Han Solo ex-Machina's Luke out of trouble during the assault on the Death Star despite not knowing which X-wing Luke was in (or if he was still alive). Also, how did Han and the Resistance get on the same radio frequency to allow communication with other ships?
What was the point of the medal-giving scene at the end? Those medals are never seen again in any of the other movies. That scene could've been cut from the movie entirely and nothing would've been lost.
Not mention that C-3PO is ANNOYING AF and contributes almost nothing to the story...
...Or that Luke is a whiny brat throughout most of the movie...
...Or that Leia literally sits on the sidelines the whole time while the men do all the work (casually sat in the pilot's seat during the attack by TIE fighters after escaping the Death Star and casually stood over a monitor while Han and Luke destroyed the Death Star)...
...Or the fact that the lightsaber fight between Obi-Wan and Vader was so poorly choreographed, it looked like a third-grader created it...
This movie may have been good for its time but doesn't hold up today NEARLY as well as most people think. I like The Force Awakens more than this because it had better acting, better action, more impressive special FX, a female lead that isn't on the sidelines the whole movie, an ending that isn't pointless, a better droid (BB-8), and fewer plot holes.
And before anyone says, "But The Force Awakens is just A New Hope on repeat!"
The Lion King is just Hamlet on repeat... Avatar is just Pocahontas on repeat... All 3 of Sam Raimi's Spider-Man movies stole their plot from each other... A Bug's Life stole its plot from Antz... X-Men: Days of Future Past stole its plot from Terminator 2... Big Hero 6 stole its plot from X-Men: First Class... The Incredibles stole its plot from The Lost World: Jurassic Park... Man of Steel stole its plot from The Bible... The Dark Knight Rises stole its plot from Hook... Moana stole its plot from Hercules (1997)... Captain America: Civil War stole its plot from Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice... Finding Nemo stole its plot from Toy Story 2... Ant-Man stole its plot from Iron Man... Toy Story 3 stole its plot from Child's Play 2... The Terminator stole its plot from Halloween (1978)... Inside Out (2015) stole its plot from Osmosis Jones...
That's not an excuse. Just because you were first doesn't mean you're better...TFA > ANH