I’m doing retrospectives of each Star Wars Trilogy. We’re starting off
with Original Trilogy first. I’ll move to Prequels and Sequels.The
first thing to ask is how I got into Star Wars or how I know about it.
As a pretty young kid, I saw my parents watching Return of the Jedi, but
I only saw one or two scenes. I seen involvement between Luke and Vader
inside the new Death Star, and I also remember seeing Yoda in Empire
Strikes Back, but those are the parts I only saw as a pretty young kid.
Years later, I got Star Wars Racer for Windows. I played the game and it
was fun. I never saw any Star Wars movies at that time. A year later, I
watched Attack of the Clones, but we’ll get into that in the Prequels
Retrospective. After that I played few games like Galactic
Battlegrounds, Rogue Squadron, and GB Star Wars game. I played NES Star
Wars on an emulator I found. I knew about Darth Vader’s existence, but I
never knew about him or most characters. That was until I started
playing Lego Star Wars 2: The Original Trilogy. I got the game for
Windows a day after my cousin got PSP and Lego Star Wars 2 for his
birthday, and I decide to get the game myself. It was a very fun game.
It was in November 2007 when we started playing Lego Star Wars. The game
is fun, and it’s around the time The Complete Saga came out. Until
Disney’s Star Wars, TCS was the Complete Saga. I didn’t read much on the
space scroll, so I didn’t know a lot about the films besides the
gameplay. Weeks after, my cousin brought in Star Wars movies for us to
watch. Here are the results:Actually, since I played the lego
games, I know how those films would play out, but I don’t know all of it
since I rarely read the scrolls. Episode 4 was entertaining. I first
thought it was pretty adventurous. I was interested of the beginning,
since I see stormtroopers shooting the rebels, and Leia putting the
death star plans and the message to R2-D2. Seeing both R2 and C-3P0
trapped in Jawa’s Sandcrawer got me to know everything about Jawas. I
was glad C-3P0 got Owen to buy R2 and they stayed with Luke. I was
surprised both of Luke’s Uncle and Aunt got founded and killed, and he
sees their skeletons. It feels like Luke had no choice, but to do some
mission with Obi-Wan. I thought the cantina was a fun place. At times, I
thought the props like the automated doors feels a bit wonky, but I
knew it was a very old movie, so I didn’t mind. I did watch the special
editions first, so I saw Han talking to Jabba, and I thought he looked a
bit fake. Cutting to the death star adventure, their mission were
pretty interesting. The entire scene where they go to the detention
level and rescue Leia, I liked how they made it there to rescue Leia,
and escaped with her. Obi-Wan fighting with Darth Vader was kinda
simplistic, even when I first saw it. With Obi-Wan dying, I found it
interesting he can still walk to Luke with the force. Also, I did like
how destroying the death star went out. Overall, Episode 4 went pretty
well when I first saw it.Around the time, I think Episode 5 and 6
are better. Empire Strikes Back felt very natural and memorable. When I
first saw it, I thought it had more depth as a movie. The action and
the props got better, and the lines are more memorable. I was happy to
see Obi-Wan again, as a ghost. Battle of Hoth was more interesting to
watch than to play in Lego Star Wars due to its difficulty. I realized
those air space battles have a lot of video game versions. I thought
Darth Vader was amazing as a villain. I understand why he is everyone’s
favorite villain. Luke and Yoda interactions seemed funny. I thought it
was interesting on Luke’s character because I knew he wouldn’t be a
great jedi since he has other things in his mind. Obi-Wan did say he’s
not ready to be trained. As a kid, I never knew about him fighting Darth
Vader inside the tree. I didn’t really get how Darth Vader was there
for few years. I also liked the connections with Han and Leia. The
bickering with both of them seems to not be actual bickering that I see
on TV shows at the time, and it was interesting because they were
helpful and respect each other more as the movie goes on. The entire
Bespin scenes have a lot of interesting moments. Han getting frozen got
me attached to know how Leia and Chewie feels when he gets frozen in
carbonite. As for Boba Fett, I thought he looked cool, but he doesn’t do
much other than following Darth Vader around. The fight between Luke
and Darth Vader looked more interesting than the duel in the first
movie. Luke jumps everywhere, using the forces to throw objects, and the
interaction between Luke and Darth Vader. I never knew Darth Vader was
his father until he admitted it. I could see why Luke freaked out about
it, yelling Noooo. Despite seeing the parodies like the Fairly
Oddparents parody and Toy Story 2 Zurg scene, I never think he was
related to Luke until I watched this movie. That’s very interesting even
though I saw the parodies first. This movie is the reason why I think
it’s better than A New Hope, while both being great movies.The
last movie of the trilogy is also a good one. As a kid, I thought it has
really great connections between Luke and his friends, and even Darth
Vader. Boba Fett did more action, and I laughed how he died in Lego Star
Wars. I didn’t mind Jabba as a kid, nor the freaks in the palace.
However, the dancing in the special edition, I could tell it did not
look faithful to the rest of the movie, and I think the two aliens were
weird. Anyway, the actions on the movie looks pretty interesting. The
battle on Jabba’s ships, the Scout vehicle on Endor, and the Battle of
Endor. I was kinda sad to see Yoda dying, but it was interesting to hear
Luke is related with Leia. As a kid and even now, I liked the Ewoks. I
never found them annoying. I get why people don’t like them, but they
never took affect on the movie for me. I laughed when C-3P0 was floating
with a chair. As for Luke and Darth Vader, I see their second duel as
something special. I think this is my second favorite lightsaber duel of
the trilogy because this shows the relations between the two and Luke
learning the dark side is not really good. My first favorie is from ESB
like many people. My favorite scene of the movie is when the Emperor
shocks Luke and Darth Vader decides to do the right thing by throwing
him to his death. It’s because it shows very redeemable moment Darth
Vader has for Luke. Of course, it was pretty sad to see Luke watching
Vader dying. The Battle of Endor was my favorite battle because of the
end of the empire and seeing the connections with Han and Leia, and Luke
and Darth Vader. Back then, I found Admiral Ackbar to be an interesting
character, mostly because the way he speaks. At the end, I was waiting
to see Ghost Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Yoda because of the games. When I saw
Hayden Christansen, I thought to myselfwhen did the movie came out. I
knew it came out in 1983, and Episode 3 came in 2005, and wonder how
Christansen looked the same, until I learned about the special edition. I
know this is the most hated change that George Lucas has made, but I
never had anything against Christiansen. Anyway, I liked the entire
ending and showing the universe celebrating.The three movies are
very likable, especially the last two. I used to favorite 5 and 6 the
most, but over the years, Empire Strikes back is my favorite Star Wars
movie, the entire saga. I would show this trilogy to anyone of I want to
introduce them Star Wars. Those are really good classics. Also, Lego
Star Wars 2 and The Complete Saga are recommended for playing the movie,
and I can also include Super Star Wars games. My next part is me
reviewing the Prequel Trilogy. I am gonna go more about my first
reactions just like the OT here. I will explain what I think about it.
Also, this is my first actual retrospective post, so I may type it like
an average blogger.