Star Wars: 10 Unsung Heroes Behind A New Hope By Ryan LambieĪ New Hope is the story of a band of Rebels who must stand up against an evil and oppressive Empire. This is the space opera you’re looking for. Even after all these years, it remains a stunning storytelling and technical achievement.
STAR WARS THE FORCE AWAKENS MOVIE STREAMING MOVIE
The only movie in the saga that was once officially only called Star Wars with no subtitle or episode title after it. At last, he is reborn as Darth Vader.Īvailable in the UK on: Amazon, Disney+ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope
The result of this duel leaves Anakin horribly scarred and mutilated. This forces Obi-Wan’s hand, and he travels to Mustafar to confront his former apprentice once and for all. It also features Anakin turning against the Jedi, joining the Sith, killing a bunch of kids at the Jedi Temple, and all-around being a bad dude. The movie covers much of the end of the Clone Wars, including a battle on the planet Utapau (a location George Lucas meant to use in A New Hope, but didn’t) and the Wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk, where a young Han Solo would have made a cameo had Lucas not come to his senses. Anakin, bent on saving Padme, whom he believes will die during childbirth, begins to take advice from Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, who you all know by now is actually Darth Sidious, the evil Sith Lord who has been manipulating the Republic and the Jedi all along. If you go in with your expectations adjusted accordingly, you’ll very likely have a blast.The story begins with all-out war above Coruscant and ends with one swift blow of a lightsaber on the volcanic hellscape of Mustafar. It’s a fun and thrilling return for one of the all-time great science-fiction franchises, and one that’s undercut by glaring issues with the script. None of these issues entirely derail the film, but they are nagging and notable.įans surely want Star Wars: The Force Awakens to be the greatest thing they’ve ever seen grace a movie screen – and while I know many will be upset about me saying this, the reality is that it isn’t. Some of the beats are also far too dependent on extreme coincidence – a flaw reminiscent of Abrams’ Star Trek reboot – and have the effect of thinning the plot. From the larger perspective, the MacGuffin that’s introduced in the first act and begins the story really has no correlation with the big, dramatic conclusion – and the adjective “remake-quel” is unfortunately relevant. These issues exist on both the macro and the micro scale.
Old chemistry is reintroduced with vigor and really just watching their familiar expressions play off each other as they stand together in a room is enough to spark memories of everything you love about these heroes.įrom a character and aesthetic perspective, Star Wars: The Force Awakens is tremendously on point – but it’s the construction of the narrative and devices that create significant problems (the kind that damage the movie in your mind the more you think about them). What’s more, they manage to be so fascinating that it’s hard not to cling to every bit of exposition that is uttered, then working to understand what it means for both the past and the future. Obviously helping in that respect is the return of legendary characters like Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew) – who are wonderfully recaptured and only further fleshed out with three decades worth of mysterious history added to their legacy. There’s nothing that feels quite like Star Wars, and The Force Awakens captures that particular sensation. It’s thrilling to be riding alongside an X-Wing during a battle with a TIE Fighter squadron, and to listen to the strings and horns of a John Williams score while watching a real droid roll around an expansive sand-covered desert planet. Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan’s script would be doing you a disservice, as everyone deserves to go into the film with the same level of mystery and wonder that I did, but certainly one thing that can be unequivocally stated is that The Force Awakens is passionately and respectfully rooted in the unmistakable and awe-inspring saga of the “Original Trilogy.” After the ugly, CGI-overloaded prequels, Episode VII truly returns fans to the world they recognize and love.
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