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I really liked the battles and the sheer sense of power being unleashed onscreen. The Jedi fights in the PT are particularly good, as are basically all of the starship battles. Even the EU has some good stuff in there. Battlefront 2, however, is lame, because everything is a pathetic excuse for what it should be.

My love for it is deeply nostalgic. I was born in May of 1977, and my father and mother took me with them when they went to see ANH in the theatre half a dozen times that summer. I've quite literally grown up on the original trilogy. Even though I can watch the movie now as an adult with a critical eye and say to myself "man that's cheesy" with some of the dialogue or some of elements that have since become cliche, whenever I hear the strident horns of the various theme music, it just gets me right here <points to his heart>.

I barely even begin to list my favorite parts... the opening battle of ANH, that moment when Obi-Wan makes eye contact with Luke and surrenders himself to Vader's final blow, the wide shot of the AT-ATs driving the rebels on Hoth fleeing before them, Vader's last suicidal decision to take the life of his Emperor... man!... the best!

The sense of epic scale and mythology it created. And the fact that the Empire was presented as an actually competent, dangerous foe that demanded respect.

I'm 19 and missed the TRUE OT, but I was right there for the PT (I still LOVE the OT though). The Clone Wars are, by far, my favorite part of Star Wars. I love just about everything about them. We get to see the Jedi at their Prime, and the rise of the Sith. Not to mention a few great battles.

Venators are my all time favorite ship.

I love the epicness of the entire trilogy, but also the sense that there is more to the galaxy then we see, a sense of a million stories played out just beyond the edge of the camera, that we can imagine.

Depends on the movie.
Ep. 1 -Pod Race, Qui-gon & Obi-Wan vs Maul
Ep. 2 Battle at Geonosis
Ep. 3 Anakin vs Obi-Wan, Death of the Jedi
Ep 4 Battle over Yavin
Ep 5 Battle on Hoth
Ep 6 Battle at Endor (Both on planet and around the death star)

But the top reason is the music

I just plain loved the epic feel of the movies and that it was the first great epic film I ever saw, never could that sight of the ISD and the Executor when I was younger, or the imperial march.

Saw RotJ in the theater when I was six years old. I barely made it into the "saw (part of) the OT during it's first run" club.

Old school, yo!

Simplicius wrote:Besides seconding a lot of what's already been said, one aspect of the films that really drew me in was the musical scoring. The OT was my first encounter with a grandiose full-orchestra score that gave a real punch to what was unfolding on screen, and it was something I couldn't resist.

Good point actually.. the first ever saw anything about Star Wars was when an orchestra was playing the main themeon TV, and they showed snippets of the movie... not to mention the Imperial March much later

The badassness of Darth Vader in ESB. He was so cool as a villain, especially when I was like 8 or 9. Everyone always wanted to be Luke, but I always wanted to be Vader.

The story and the characters. The writing has often been attacked by critics, but the simple fact is SW touches a lot of people. Whether it be the spectacle or the deeper mythological meanings, who can say. But for me the story and the characters are the things I remember probably more than anything else. It is epic in scale and scope and the characters are larger-than-life. I also like how the characters change. The Luke Skywalker of ANH is not the same as the one at the end of ESB or ROTJ; the Yoda of episode 1 is not the same as the Yoda of episode 3, who is also not the same as the one in episode 5. And so on.

And the story about Anakin's fall and redemption is the kind of thing classics are about. The story taken as a whole is a tragedy, with a bittersweet ending. You might think of it as a happy ending, what with the death of the Emperor and the destruction of the Death Star, but Anakin still died - and more importantly, Luke and Leia never found out a thing about their mother. I saw ROTJ recently and there is such a sense of sadness in Mark Hamil's expression as he's asking Leia about her mother, her real mother, and how he never knew her. To go through the effort of redeeming his dad, only to lose him soon afterwards, and to be cut off from the only person who might say anything about his mother... because of course, it's not like Obi-wan or Yoda were particularly straight with him on his father.

The Space Battles in 3 and 6 Were my fav, I just have this thing for Sci-fi Naval fleets going at it toe to toe.

When I was a kid, a local TV station used to play old swashbuckler movies, serials, westerns, cliffhangers, Harryhausen movies, and a few badly dubbed martial arts films every Saturday as a matinee feature. I remember asking my older brother something like "Wouldn't it be cool if they made a new version in COLOR?" and he added "And more spaceships!" and we went through a whole checklist of things we wanted in a movie, because kids' movies in the 1970s absolutely SUCKED, including Disney movies -no, ESPECIALLY Disney movies. We essentially picked through what we liked best about the matinee movies and wanted to see if someone would make a movie for us by rolling all those things into one film.

Then my grandparents took us to see Star Wars and my wish was granted, only far better than I expected. There's nothing in the world like being a little boy in grade school and seeing Star Wars for the first time. To this day, every time I see the scene where Luke daydreams as he watches the twin suns I'm a seven-year-old kid again, only nobody can send me to my room now.

Other than the entertaining characters and action, I love Star Wars for the same reason that I love a number of myriad sci-fi and fantasy-verse; the sheer depth of it, not in symbolic meaning, but in terms of creating an entire universe, one that seems alive.

Hmm, At first, i fell love with the characters and their relationships with each other, Han - Leia, Luke - Han, Luke -Yoda, Vader - Luke etc.

The things about Jedi and the Force were interesting, and the lightsaberduels...i was not interested in technology when i first saw these movie (when i was about 12 years old).

But the most interesting thing, which i have noticed just recently, is that when i saw ALL the OLD movies for the first time, I did not understand English speach very well and could not read Swedish at all. I'm from western Finland and couple of Swedish TV-channels are broadcasted there, so the first time i saw the old trilogy was (obviously) in English with Swedish subtitles...but the point is, that i understood what was going on...Luke's true parentage, Empire's scheming and so on... one of the reasons I like SW today is that the movies are not bound to any cultures (that we know) directly and that the story, the emotion and the action affects us all, no matter how old you are or where you come from...

In addition to all that has been said, I've always been mesmerised by the combination of the Imperial March with the scene of the Death Squadron massing in ESB, a scene I've personally dubbed as "The Dance of the Star Destroyers".

If Imperial March had not been scored for the Star Wars trilogy, the only other theme I could see it used for would be in a movie on Jutland, especially when the Grand Fleet deploys.

Back when i saw ANH in 77' i right away fell i love with the whole "used-universe" concept , things where clunky big and noicy like the jawa's sandcrawler or the ISD in the opening shot , Everything looked like something that people actually used on a daily basis.

One of the things that drew me in was the sheer vastness of the SW universe. You only saw a small part of it, and you had to use your imagination to fill in all of the gaps, the planets, people, and stories you didn't see. Enormous (and mostly untapped) potential for a non-hack sci-fi author.

Star Wars was the first movie I went to see without any adults. I was 8 and went downtown on the bus with a bunch of neighborhood kids.

That movie also became the first movie I saw more than once while it was in the theater because I later went and saw it again with my dad and sister.

So at that time I just like the whole movie in general. Then came the comics, the toys the Darth Vader t-shirt.

I was still a bit young to really appreciate ESB when it came out but it was still cool. I ended up really liking RotJ at the time it came out and by then I'd have to say that what put it over the top was the light saber action.

That's certainly what I enjoy the most about the PT and it had it's roots in the OT.



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