Posted on 05/24/2017 5:42:06 PM PDT by EveningStar
No science fiction franchise has been more influential than Star Wars. (Sorry, Star Trek fans!) Over the last 40 years, the space opera saga created by George Lucas has delivered 1,062 minutes of lightsaber duels, intergalactic dogfights and dynastic drama. Even non-fans are likely to immediately recognize iconic imagery like Darth Vader’s helmet, the Millennium Falcon, or Luke Skywalker’s lightsaber. Which begs the question: of the hundreds, maybe thousands, to choose from which Star Wars moments are the best?
The series, now owned by Disney, turns 40 on May 25. So TIME's entertainment team and sundry Star Wars super fans on staff ranked the top 40 scenes. We included only moments from the original trilogy, the prequels, The Force Awakens and Rogue One. (The 1978 Holiday Special not so much.) This list was debated at length. What did we miss?
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My greatest Star Wars moments...
When Star Wars I ended.
When Star Wars II ended.
When Star Wars III ended.
When Star Wars IV ended.
When Star Wars V ended.
When Star Wars VI ended.
When Star Wars VII ended.
When Star Wars VIII ended.........
... I’ve got a bad feeling about this ...
Hey, if you watch it with the RiffTrax commentary, the Holiday Special is a lot of fun!
40 seems like an awfully high number for “greatest” moments.
Even 40 merely great moments would be a stretch.
The prequels absolutely sucked toenail fungus (OK, the 3rd one was somewhat great, with Yoda kicking butt and all). Even the Family Guy parodies were better.
Remember when adults pursued adult interests? What happened to that?
When Princess Layher and Hand Solo had star sex.
Yeah, pretty much all of the moments from the prequels aren’t good (”let’s turn elite Jedi training into some lame public school class—complete with kiddie lightsabers!”) or contrary to the established characters’ personalities (Yoda the Force philosopher/mystic [”luminous beings are we, not this crude matter!”] goes Charles Bronson suddenly?).
It’s almost like Lucas has no idea what he’s doing...
See: 7:50 mark for a Star Trek reply
I confess——I HAVE NEVER SEEN STAR WARS.
Have a good time,folks.:-)
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I liked this better.
Hardware Wars (You’ll Laugh! You’ll Cry! You’ll kiss three bucks goodbye!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ymFxkFfIhU
Somebody needs to lay off the death sticks and rethink their life if they are serious about all of the TFA scenes included
My opinion is prejudiced, since I had the privilege of acting alongside Mark Hamill during high school in Yokohama (Clifford Goldsmith’s “What a Life,” he was Henry Aldrich and I was the school principal). The original trilogy is essentially a horse opera in space, complete with pseudo-Buddhist cosmology. I’ve never watched any of the others.
You glutton you.
Editing out Sebastian Shaw and putting in Hayden Christensen in his place at the end of “Return of the Jedi” was one lame move, IMHO.
>>None of the Star Wars prequels or sequels can hold a candle to the originals. Just don’t understand why Lucas sat on it for so long. <<
That part is easy — Lucas himself said that it was impossible to put what he saw in his head onto the bih screen given the tech of the time.
He always felt like he over-compromised on IV, V and VI.
The drop-off over time between that and I, II and III was GHASTLY! And TFA was not only the worst SW movie of them all it was one of the worst movies of ANY genre EVER made.
I have a a review I write that clearly explains why VII sucked and how it is just a copy of IV if you would care for me to post it.
I wanted a sequel.
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