Star Wars Trilogy (Full Screen Edition)

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Summary: The Best Triligy ever!
Review: BUY THE TRILOGY,ENJOY GEORGE LUCUS'S MASTERPIECE. WATCH BREATH TAKING BATTLES ON HOTH AND IN SPACE. BUY THE DAMN MOVIE NOW!!!

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Summary: OVERRATED BUCK ROGERS
Review: Okay, the first movie was cute (and how anyone could be surprised by Vader's announcement in III...how obvious can you get). A movie for people who think "whoosh" is the sound a space ship makes in a vacuum (hint: there is NO sound in a vacuum). And if I never see an Ewok again, I'll die happy. Oh yes, finally...these are outstanding special effects???! It's matted, guys, and painfully obviously so. SWII is a waste of time, and SWIII could have been told in 30 minutes. Enough of a long winded boring series signifying nothing.

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Summary: A classic
Review: Every Sci Fi fan needs this for their collection. If you don't have it get it because it is not always available.

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Summary: The third step and final triumph
Review: This here review only concerns the Return of the Jedi, the third episode, but it is teh crowning episode in most respects. The final episode, the happy ending after a lot of suspense, a masterpiece of creativity. The family gets reunited. The brother discovers his sister and vice versa. The son confronts his father and manages to bring the Jedi back out of the dark side which is definitely destroyed. The Emperor, the dark half of human nature, tha dark evil of humanity, the dark forces of the universe is brought to his end by the father who is thus regenerated and finally can take off his mask to look at his son with his real eyes. During that time, the sister and Solo, the ex-mercenary, destroy the shield of the death star and make friends with some primitive people on the planet. Those are so funny and so cute that they are lovable at first sight, looking like big living teddy-bears. But deeper than those plain events, it is the victory of the bright side over the dark side of things, the victory of the alliance of all the little Davids against the tyranny of the big Goliath. It is the victory of a joyful and happy society of individuals who love each other and love music, dancing and celebrations over an austere and sinister tyranny. The only mystery that survives at the end of the film, once the body of the father is burnt as some kind of religious homage, is why the sister is called a Princess, which is a reference to a monarchy and which builds a parallel with the Emperor of the dark side. She should be anything but a Princess. She should have no link with any non-democratic political system, she should have no link with any political system at all. She is pure life and happiness in a world of death and political tyranny. She is imagined Liberty and realized Freedom and conquered Peace. But well, we can do with this limitation. Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, Paris Universities II and IX.

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Summary: A second essential episode
Review: This here review only concerns the second episode. More about the third later. This second film of the trilogy is an in-between film. Several developments are elaborated in order to prepare the final episode. Luke gets into his training as a Jedi, but he interrupts it in order to go and help the Princess who is in a difficult situation : she is the prisoner of Vedar. His decision is unwise because he is not needed there and the Princess will manage to escape all by herself, and even worse, she will have to come back to save Luke himself. The confrontation between Luke and Vedar is dramatic because Luke is not prepared and he fails, losing one arm in the process, and what's more he discovers that the Dark Side of the Force is in the hands of his own father. He then becomes divided and that is the explanation of his defeat. But this prepares the next episode. This second film reveals the love between the Princess and the mercenary she hired in the previous film. This love will be essential in the last episode because it is going to dictate the sequence of subsequent events. We are also revealed the project of Vedar who plans to get his own son on his side in order to get rid of the Emperor and become the sole master of the Empire and the whole galaxy. Temptation is great for Luke, though he manages to refuse. Even if this film does not have any real unity, it is an essential springboard for the last episode. Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, Paris Universities II and IX.

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Summary: The force is invincible when used by David against Goliath
Review: This here review only concerns the first episode. More about the others later. This first film in a long series is interesting in the vision of the world it provides. The world is dominated by a terroristic and tyrannical Empire. But the vision is centered on simple people who suffer this tyranny but who are in contact with « the force ». They are thus able to go beyond the surface of things and to use the balancing forces of the universe that the Empire negates. Then this first center connects us to the rebellion against the Empire, a rebellion that is seen as a monarchy of some symbolical value, particularly a Princess. The second interest is the fight between this Davidlike rebellion and this Goliathlike Empire, and the rebellion, with its little means, but its enormous personal investment and courage, a bunch of heroes ready to die to assert and give some future to the rebellion, is thus made victorious and it can destroy the énormous war-machine of the Empire : the gnat is stronger than the lion. This makes us feel that this rebellion, in spite of its monarchical aspect, is the real representative of the American ideal : to fight for justice and freedom, through personal commitment. We can think of the model that lies behind : the fight against Nazi Germany, Hitler and fascism. We could also see the model of the fight against a certain type of communism represented by the Wall or the Iron Curtain. We must also note the vision of this intergalactic world as being an assemblage of very different « people », species and subspecies, within a « market » economy where everything has a monetary value, but a wild market-economy where violence is at times the best way to « buy » something. Yet the mercantile and mercenary pilot hired by Luke and his friends becomes a hero because he saves the situation and enables Luke to destroy the warbase of the Empire at the very last second. Hence ideals are successful in the end. Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, Paris Universities II and IX.

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Summary: Don't buy this
Review: Don't take this wrong, this is one of the best set of movies ever put out. So why isn't there a DVD. These movies are to good to only have a VHS format. Don't buy this until George Lucas quits being greedy and releases it on DVD.

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Summary: SIMPLY THE BEST
Review: i love Star Wars and these three movies are just the best! i mean, lots of people agree with me - it has the biggest cult following of any sci-fi thingos in the history of Earth! P.S. Obi is the best. -Little Jedi-

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Summary: ENOUGH, IS ENOUGH, WHERE IS THE DVD?
Review: I would never give Star Wars 1 star...EVER. However, enough is enough. This trilogy is one of the greatest ever made, no doubt, but where is the DVD? Star Wars has been re-released so many times, now we see George Lucas, not as a great director and story teller, but a business man who is just in this to make another buck. Give us, the fans, a break. Release these on DVD and stop wasting our time. This new set features about ten minutes of useless EPISODE 2 footage, that tells us nothing {we already know its too soon to expect anything COOL} So my advice is not to buy this one, unless your a die hard fan who wants to keep this one on the shelf.....WRAPPED of course.

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Summary: These are the Best movies EVER...
Review: Star Wars is different than most other movies. It is a saga, and one that is continuing, allowing the fans to presuse the story. I owe alot to Star Wars, for it has given me many things. I am now reading sci-fi, which star wars lead me to, I am writing stories, which SW has inspired me, and it leaves me a universe where I can go when I hate Earth.