This movie changed my life

Rating: 9/10 (7 August 2014)

Whenever my friends ask which movie series is my favourite I will always answer Star Wars. Believe it or not A New Hope was the last Star Wars movie I watched. I guess it was never really on TV that much. But wow! This movie had the perfect balance of every element the characters, the action, the plot and all the emotion put into this. Yes I am one of those relatively new Star Wars fans as in I grew up with the prequels (which I do enjoy especially III) but the fact that this movie still impacted me even though it was released in 1977 really tells me how special this movie is. The hero's journey of Luke to the reluctant hero of Han who initially is only in it for the money, Leia who is an actual character not just eye candy, Chwebacca the great sidekick, R2 and C-3PO their comedy I really miss when watching the prequels again. Ob-Wan the wise old mentor who not only teaches Luke about this galaxy but us too. We must mention the villains of course. Darth Vader was menacing the moment we saw him on screen and Tarkin who I really hope his back story is done right in the upcoming novel by James Luceno.
Just everything in this movie and yes this movie was groundbreaking in visual effects but to me the magic of this movie is in its characters and how we can all fall in love with them. George Lucas dared to dream when no one else wanted to at the time and in a way Star Wars reflects George's own coming of age and being free from the old Hollywood ways into the new. Star Wars will always be amazing to me.