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t1_jbud1qy wrote

Seen that movie a thousand times but just now realized that Luke never slept on the night that R2 ran away. And how inevitable it was that the Imperials would track the droids to the sandcrawler, and then to the Lars homestead. Only surprised they didn't get there sooner.

Also, Obi-wan's comment that "we were made to think" the sand people did this. Seems doubtful that the empire would give a shit about disguising their slaughter as the act of sand people. How/why did the Imperials forge batha tracks?

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t1_jbufbjw wrote

>Obi-wan's comment that "we were made to think" the sand people did this.

The man hid Darth Vader's kid with his closest living relatives. Just dumb luck that Vader never decided to visit his mother's grave or anything. Clever Obi-wan was not.

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t1_jbuxo3g wrote

Nah, everyone knows Anakin hates sand. He'd avoid Tatooine more than anywhere. Plus it's a place of bad childhood memories and where his mum died

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t1_jbvu7d1 wrote

It's also way out in the boonies, far from the empires seat of power in corusant. And if I remember correctly, obiwan didn't know anakin lived and became Vader for several years.

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t1_jbvx8yn wrote

I just realized the ship was completely captured in the Star Destroyer, yet somehow an escape pod from the ship managed to exit the Star Destroyer?

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t1_jbwlota wrote

So.... the first Star Wars movie is not good.

Its terrible by almost every metric. The only reason we remember Star Wars fondly is because of Empire.

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t1_jbwn40f wrote

That's disingenuous. It's remembered fondly because the effects were revolutionary at the time and it made lasting changes in modern sci-fi films.

While yes, Empire is the best of the original trilogy, it wouldn't have been released at all if A New Hope had bombed at the box office.

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t1_jbwne0w wrote

The effects are one of the bits which were revolutionary, but seriously go back and watch it with a critical eye.

Its not a good film. If anything its a forgettable chase film which, without Empire, would have been a footnote. I'm not being flippant. It's not good.

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t1_jby021h wrote

Not amazing doesn't equal not good, there's levels, and alsonyou have to look at it as a whole. It's disingenuous to call something with fun and enjoyable but not groundbreaking writing with industry standard setting effects as bad, and you know it is. You don't even have to subjectively like it to see its not objectively bad. If you weren't trying to piss so many people off phrasing it how you did and were honest about its shortcomings you'd have gotten a much diff reaction here.

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