Thursday 22 October 2015

Star Wars Episode V The Empire Strikes Back

And now the big one. The Empire Strikes Back. What is said to be the best Star Wars movie ever so far and one of greatest movies of all time, said by Watchmojo and Chris Stuckmann. It even got a 95% on Rotten Tomatoes and it got a 97% on the "liked it" side on Rotten Tomatoes. And that's the biggest score I've ever seen on that side. What's the story? It's starts with the Rebels on the ice planet called Hoth trying to hide from the empire. When Luke goes out for a search but a creature called a Wompa attacks him and bring him back to its cave. Han goes out to find him and Luke manages to get out but he collapses and almost dies. A spirit of Obi-Wan shows up in front of him and tells him to go to a planet called Dagobah to meet Master Yoda, an old Jedi master who might be able to teach him as a Jedi. Han finds Luke and brings him back to the Rebel hideout. And they fix him up. Later, the empire find them and begin to attack. Luke, R2, Leia, Han, C-3PO, Chewie and the Rebels escape just as the destroy the base. Luke and R2 go to Dagobah while Han, Leia, C-3PO and Chewie are being chased in the Millennium Falcon by Darth Vader and his men in their giant Star Destroyer. They manage to escape by hiding in an asteroid and trying to fix the hyper drive. While they're doing that, Luke and R2 land in Dagobah and the ship crashes and they meet one of the greatest movie characters ever, Yoda. And get this, this version is a puppet. The fact that they did so many amazing things with this character way back then is amazing. In the first few minutes we see him, he's hilarious. And once we see that he is Yoda, he's very serious and very wise. And then he begins to train Luke and Han and the others escape the asteroid to find out that they're inside the belly of a beast. They fly to Cloud City where they meet Han's old friend "Lando" played by "Billy D. Williams." They ask him for help for repairs to the ship but it turns out Darth Vader and the empire was already there. Luke gets a vision of Han and Leia getting harmed at Cloud City and he decides to go there to help them. And the rest I won't give away because you already know it. So yeah, there's so many things to talk about. First, the sets are unbelievably life-like and the effects look awesome for back then. Another is that there's never a single filler moment in the movie. It's all just fast paced story telling and it feels much shorter than it is. And of course the big part of it all, the "I am your father" scene near the end. It's the biggest twist in cinema history. And there's kids on YouTube  watching this for the first time and being shocked by it. Watch.
The fact that no one saw it coming back then is unbelievable. And also the fight scenes are way better than the first one's. The fact that the lightsaber fight is longer, it looks cooler and the way the actors move is much better. So yeah, this is one spectacular movie. Return of the Jedi is actually my favourite Star Wars movie, but then this movie would come in 2nd as my favourite of all the Star Wars movies. But it's still amazing. You've all already seen this movie 10000 times and you know it has great stuff in it. And I don't think I need to say watch it because you already have.

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