Overpopularized, but good

Rating: 7/10 (8 February 1999)

"Star Wars is the greatest movie of all time" claim the pundits. Nonsense. Star Wars is a good action movie, a reasonable science fiction movie, and a bad character movie. There is insufficient plot to fill out the amount of time you have to sit, and the special effects look like they were made more than 20 years ago. At its time this was a very good movie. It is a very influential movie, but it is not as watchable as Aliens or even Star Trek: First Contact.
Of the lead 6 good guys:
Two are incapable of human speech, and make noises that are supposed to provoke emotion, but just sound stupid.
Two are now famous actors, one (Ford) showing what he does that makes him so popular, showing off his strength as an actor, and the other (Fisher) showing why she is no longer famous.
One is an annoying weak wooden robot...
and the other is C3PO.
Mark Hamill is one of the weakest lead actors of our time, and the fact that three of his movies are rated in the top 50 movies of all time is very questionable.
On the other hand, the special effects were impressive then, and are mildly impressive now. Lucas and Spielberg are two of the most impressive visionaries
and directors of our time. Watch the film, but don't push it down other people's throats.