The Movie Snob goes back to the beginning. The real beginning….
Star Wars (A-). I recently re-watched this old classic, probably for the first time since I started this blog. Of course it’s awesome. I still wonder how our little band of heroes was able to navigate the anonymous halls and corridors of the Death Star so easily on their very first visit, but never mind. I also ding the filmmakers for not trimming the film a tiny bit to make it a G-rated movie. There are a few mild but unnecessary expletives, and a couple of scenes that are unnecessarily gruesome. (The scene of Luke Skywalker’s home after the storm troopers have murdered his aunt and uncle; the bloody severed arm in the Cantina scene.) But who knows; maybe the filmmakers reasonably feared a G rating would hurt box office. In recent years I managed to get my picture taken with Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill, Corvette Summer) and Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher, When Harry Met Sally) at comic-book conventions. I doubt I’ll ever score the trifecta by getting Han Solo (Harrison Ford, American Graffiti), though.