My favourite Star Wars movie...possibly my favourite movie

Rating: 10/10 (29 December 2015)

This has always been my favourite movie of the OT. Star Wars (A New Hope) is a sentimental favourite and it introduces us the to Star Wars universe and characters but I think Empire is the better movie.
Princess Leia's character is well developed in this one but I had always wished she'd at least use a gun on the millennium falcon during the hoth escape rather than backseat driving but that's a minor complaint.
Bespin is gorgeous and I remember the "i am your father" moment as being truly shocking. I read that they had to get Yoda to say it in Jedi because kids didn't believe Vader when he said it.
The Han/Leia relationship is great and is really missing from the reboot which is passing as episode 7. The fact that Luke leaves his Jedi training to go and rescue his friends is also a sign of his devotion to them, which is also absent in the reboot.
A great movie and one I can rewatch time and time again.