The Start of a Great Trilogy | Star Wars - Episode IV, A New Hope [VHS]

This is not the laser disk version | Star Wars - Episode IV, A New Hope [VHS] | Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford

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	• Star Wars - Episode IV, A New Hope [VHS] Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford 20th Century Fox, 1995 average customer review:based on 815 reviews view larger image
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Stop whining about the new effects...they're an improvement!

I think nostalgia is clouding your judgement... Do you really think that the aliens in the cantina for example look more realistic than the Navi in Avatar or that Bespin looks more realistic than Minis Tirith in Lord of the Rings?

It all comes down to how the effects are used. That has not changed one bit since the days of the original Star Wars. There was a hell of a lot of movies in the seventies and eighties with atrocious special effects done practically. Just as there are a lot of movies today with atrocious effects done digitally.

Do you think those old movies with stop motion dinosaurs looked more realistic than the T-Rex in Jurassic Park? That those old Titanic movies that sunk a model boat looked more realistic than the sinking in James Cameron's movie? That 'The Sands Of Iwo Jima' had more a realistic looking war than 'Letters From Iwo Jima'?

"I'm sure you can think of some, like the new King Kong or Spiderman Trilogy, if anyone thinks that crap looked real you need your vision checked."

Yeah, because the stop motion puppet in the 1933 King Kong and Superman hanging by wires in front of a green screen were sooooo much more realistic.

The problem is not with modern effects. The problem is that now that anything can be done easily and simply using CGI they have a tendency to go way overboard to the point where it doesnt look real anymore. When they were doing things practically they were forced by necessity to keep things grounded.

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The Start of a Great Trilogy

This is the first Star Wars film. The dialogue is very funny, the special effects are great, the costumes of the aliens are great and there is lots of action.

The movie has a fine performance by Alec Guinness as Obi-Wan Kenobi. He's the only really serious character in the film and he gives it class. The hero of the film is Luke Skywalker played well by Mark Hamill.

The movie starts with a powerful camera shot from underneath a Imperial Star Destroyer chasing a smaller Rebel ship. This hooked me into the movie. In the rebel ship is Princess Leia who is putting information in the database of a droid called R2D2. Princess Leia is played by Carrie Fischer. Carrie Fischer is actually a beautiful and intelligent woman but they give her a funny hairstyle in the movie so, unfortunately, you can't tell. The droid R2D2 and another droid C3PO exit the craft in an escape pod which falls to the surface of planet Tatooine. Princess Leia is knocked out by a blast from a blaster set at stun and is taken prisoner by Darth Vader who will stop at nothing to accomplish his mission.

James Earl Jones did a great voice over for Darth Vader. I also liked his performance as the villain Thulsa Doom in "Conan the Barbarian". Darth Vader's costume is also really cool and I would definitely say that Darth Vader is one of the best villains in movie history if not the best. He's portrayed as a greatly to be feared ruthless imperialistic general and hunter of rebels with a touch of Jedi mysticism. The other great imperial villain in the movie is Grand Moff Tarkin played by the great actor Peter Cushing.

The two other characters in the movie are Han Solo and Chewbaca. Han Solo, played by Harrison Ford, provides a lot of laughs. His arguments with Luke Skywalker and Obi Wan Kenobi are really funny. He's a smuggler who has run-ins with the Empire and has a price on his head for a gambling debt owed to Jabba the Hut. He hangs out with Chewbaca, a tall alien covered with fur, and has no obligations to anyone and looks out for himself.

The film culminates with a great space battle with imperial and rebel ships flying and shooting at each other all over the place. The part where there is a first person view of an X-wing going into a trench of the Death Star had me hanging onto my seat.

Overall, this movie is science fiction at its most exciting and funnest and I recommend it greatly.

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This is not the laser disk version

Why do you people keep crying that this is the laserdisk version for one thing the laser disk version was a re-release and it clearly said a new hope in the crawl this one does not so end of story the only thing you can complain about is it isn't the 16:9 ratio but hell i have a 2005 sdtv and it looks good to me so no bithing from me just wanted to clear this up because some people need to get their facts straight before they claim to no it all or claim to be real fans

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1977 version not as bad as reviews say

I was very excited to hear that George was releasing the original cut on this "special edition." Then I read the reviews and stayed away. I just rented this edition because my 9-year-old wanted to see it. I tried the 1977 version, and it wasn't as ugly as I was lead to believe. I have a hi-def widescreen tv and adjusted the picture size without distortion, and yeah, it was a little grainy but isn't that better than seeing it with the added Jabba the Hut scene and the unnecessary creatures? And Greedo shooting first. I am going to buy it now, I miss the original Star Wars and the Empire Strikes Back...I will take it any way I can get it.

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