Quite simply, the greatest

Rating: Null/10 (26 July 1999)

> My emotions about the Star Wars movies run long, but my time is short, but > I'd still like to take a moment to comment about the Star Wars saga, started > with George Lucas' 1977 original. No movie in history has served to ignite > the imaginations of more people than did this underdog of a movie. No other > movie series has been so successful, not only financially, but also > emotionally -- there's really something special about this picture, and the > series in general. One only need to remember the crowds who gathered for > Phantom Menace's opening day, and glimpse at the box office performance of > the movie ($400 million and growing domestically, hundreds of millions more > overseas) to see how big of an impact this series has had on this > planet...