SPACE OPERA

Rating: Null/10 (19 July 2000)

Don't see the retouched 'Star Wars' film with the so called extra footage for anything other than curiosity. The stuff they added was just a bunch of cheesy state of the art CGI images that just clutter up the scenery. The 1977 original version is the only TRUE version. Lucas even wimped out and toned down the great scene where Solo blows away Greedo in the nightclub! What a wuss. Still a great film and a great filmmaker but don't waste your time on the re-released version.

'Star Wars' was more than a film, it was an event. It changed movies forever with the single opening shot of the starship zooming over the audiences' head at the beginning. No other epic sci fi film since has been able to show spaceship dogfight battles with as much energy as 'Star Wars' and probably no film ever will.