A great movie, but not without flaws.

Rating: 8/10 (6 February 2015)

Disclaimer: I am 18 years old and until now I had never seen Star Wars. While most people's view on Star Wars nowadays is clouded by nostalgia, here is my unaffected take on these 'classics'.
Star Wars IV: A New Hope was the movie that introduced the public to Star Wars, when it came out. It's humor, cast and writing is for the most part spot on. In fact, I have only 2 problems with this movie.
1) I watched the 2004 DVD remaster of this film, and it wasn't perfect. In many scenes, the audio quality would suddenly drop and in some cases it just sounded straight up dubbed and out of place. Not quite a problem with the movie itself, but a distracting element nonetheless.
2) The pacing felt off. The movie seems to just jump from scene to scene with hardly any context or explanation between. One scene they are landing on a planet, then they cut to a room where they are planning something, and then they cut to them setting the plan in action. All of this in a couple of minutes! Not to mention that there is a serious lack of character development. Blame this on the film being the fourth in the series all you want, but that doesn't change the fact that this was the first movie to be released. And you can't expect to release a movie, and then develop the characters two decades later.
These were my only issues, and they weren't massive. This movie is still incredibly enjoyable and quite re-watchable. The humor is fantastic and so are the special effects (for their time). I can understand that this is a classic.
It is a great movie, all things aside.