Review of Star wars: A New Hope

This is the start of a great journey. I watched the first 2 trilogies as a kid and a few of the new ones when they came out, but I'm now going through the whole franchise to better understand its origins, its evolution, and what it all lead to.

I watched the first movie and asked for feedback on whether I should write individual reviews, or just compile my thoughts of the whole franchise into 1 big review when I'm done with it. Several people asked for individual reviews, so that's what I'm going to do.

To get started let us first go through the context:

George Lucas is a garbage director and he had no idea what he was doing with star wars. Star Wars is just the classic farmer turned to the knight who rebels against an evil oppressor story, its put into a sci-fi universe and has magic in it for no reason, that combined with the awful structure, lack of direction, 2-dimensional characters, and very boring story, Star Wars had all odds stacked against it.

But because of the very talented people that worked on the music, the costumes, the props, the sets, and the CGI, the universe of Star Wars looked so unbelievably intriguing, most scenes look so full of movement, energy, and life. Even tho the action is bad, the hints of romance worse, and the overall story very boring, Star Wars still managed to be quite funny, sometimes the movie is the joke itself with how bad it is, but when the movie legitimately tries to be funny, it actually does a good job and I find some rewatching value in it with how enjoyable things like the chemistry between C3PO and R2D2 are, they were very funny on their own and even funnier together, I just don't get tired of them.

Now, even tho Star Wars is "so bad that it's good", it's still bad and that should be addressed. As I said, the core ideas are all bad and/or uninteresting and the direction was awful, which lead the actors to perform badly, tho I still think this story could have worked better if it had taken more time. I know the movie is 2 hours long, but it tries to do too much in too little time, for what the movie was going for, the proper build-up, development, and exposition to make the scenes not feel as forced as they are would make the movie at least double of its length.

I want to finish with a disclaimer, I actually really like what Star Wars has become. Yes, the movies are bad, they always will be. The games are bad, they always will be. But this universe that was created from pure chance by an incompetent director has grown into something so interesting and gathered such a large fanbase because inspired people worked on it. Star Wars is far from ever being a masterpiece no matter in what form it comes, but with every new title, I and the other fans always get excited to once again dive into this rich universe and learn more about it. Now that I think about it, star wars could be a really good MMORPG. Has that ever been done? If not, I'm copyrighting that idea.

But back to this particular movie: It's bad, but it looks good, has good OSTs and good sound effects, the audio of the actors speaking has a lot of issues, but it kinda helps with the funny setting. This movie looks like something my classmates would make as a school project and recording it all with a phone. It's a very entertaining movie when there's dialogue and a very boring movie when there's action.

Overall, I would recommend it, it's a great movie to watch if you're alone and bored and possibly even better to watch with friends and have everyone make jokes during the movie.

This feels different. Making a review with such a happy and approving tone. It's legitimate tho, I did have fun. I would not wish for everything to be like this since I do have a lot of fun complaining, but it feels nice to watch and review something fun every now and then. After I upload and share this review I'll start watching the second movie right away but don't expect a review until tomorrow around the same time.

Sincerely, Spoon.