Star Wars - A New Hope: How Flawed is it?

Dang. Letting the bitch Fest spill into a spinoff thread.

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I thought it was a bit of a stretch that luke, a farm boy with very little experience, was able to get into an x-wing and dominate over other experienced fighters .

I haven't seen A New Hope all the way through in a long time, so my memory will have to serve me well (and I don't think it will):

A New Hope is a relatively slow, meandering film with bad acting from much of the core cast. It's director is timid behind the camera, as I recall, with nothing to really make you think much was going on with the visual telling of the story other than to set up a scene so the actors can deliver lines. Instead, the director largely relies on visual effects to blow away the audience. In such a fashion, Lucas is more an engineer than a director. And then, for a film that was so dramatically advanced in terms of its visual effects, it has not aged nearly as well as other relatively contemporaneous sci-fi films (e.g. Blade Runner). As far as story goes, it had holes in it. One of them was how the shite Luke was a master X-Wing pilot as mentioned earlier. But there were others, I'm sure, that I do not remember.

Those are its flaws as I can remember. I remember being rather bored as a kid when watching it. It is something like how the Fellowship of the Ring is a bit of a bore in parts. The difference is that the Fellowship of the Ring is far better in every aspect (though no doubt thanks, in large part, to A New Hope's advancement in the area of visual effects).

All that said, it is not a flawed film. It works. And it does what so many films fail to do: set up a new universe that no one had any background in and weave elements of mythology, religion, action, adventure, comedy, romance, and all the other wonderful things it has in it. Despite its flaws, it is a marvel in filmmaking.

if this is aimed at me, i said it was flawed as in it has flaws yet is still seen as great(which i clarified in the other thread).

I guess it wasn't a flaw until after 1,2 and 3 were made, but why did Ben not remember C3PO or R2D2?

Star Wars has no flaws. It has an answer to everything and that is The Force.

If you go into a Sci-fi film looking for reality then i would have to say you are the flawed one.

I'm sure it has its flaws but they never really bothered me.

I think it comes down to it is a pretty classic, simple but enjoyable plot (I mean we literally have the farm boy, the princess and the good hearted rogue) welded to a new generation of special effects.

Compared to other movies with classic plots and innovative special effects/"style", I'd put it ahead of something like 300 and on a level with or a little behind something like the original Matrix.

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Star Wars - A New Hope: How Flawed is it?

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It was and still is a great film. I don't look for flaws; I just try to immerse myself in the context of the story and enjoy it. Star Wars is and will always be a groundbreaking classic.