Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope (1977). Star Wars. Nothing but Star Wars.

CORRECTIONS HERE: Correction 1: Tractor Beam. Not Shield Generator. Tractor Beam. Just like in Empire when the Imperials tried to knock out (checks notes) Shield Generator. In this film, Ben deactivates the tractor beam. Meanwhile, I have a tractor beam aimed at that drone that keeps trying to take photos of my backyard nude sunbathing sessions. Correction 2: Expanded Universe, not Extended.

Between the years 1977 to 1981 this Film was known as : STAR WARS

Forget A New Hope. I remember it when it was just Star Wars. I'd give almost anything to experience the feeling of seeing that movie for the first time again.

The so called "Despecialized Edition" is where it's at.

Han Solo: Everything’s perfectly all right now. We're Stam Fine. We're all Stam Fine here now, thank you. How are you?

A long time ago in the summer of 1977, I was a 10 year old kid who, one day, walked into a movie theatre to see "some far-out space movie" that was rapidly becoming "the talk of the town" on the schoolyard playground... I walked in an innocent, naive little child, only interested in Mad Libs, Duncan Yo-yos, Marshall Brodien TV Magic Cards, and Evel Knievel toys... I walked out CHANGED FOREVER. On that glorious day, I had seen the greatest movie that would EVER be made... STAR WARS... This groundbreaking film from writer/director George Lucas TOTALLY changed my life... It absolutely blew me away, filling my heart with joy, stimulating my imagination, and kick-starting my love for cinema... That day was so momentous for me, and I would never be the same again... I will never forget it... From the moment the 20th Century Fox fanfare and John Williams' theme blasted through the theatre speaker system, and "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" and that "Flash Gordon inspired" opening crawl came on the screen, and that gigantic Star Destroyer appeared, flying over my head, towering above me as I sat in my theatre seat... and kept going... and going...and going... and as the entire audience gasped with amazement... at that very moment, I was instantaneously mesmerized, transfixed, and transformed... and I was only 5 minutes into the movie... I still had 2 more hours to go! As I sat In amazement, I was terrified by a helmeted figure in black, Darth Vader... In fact, the whole audience "booed" him as he made his entrance.. .We knew NOTHING about the story yet, but just KNEW that this guy deserved a collective "booing"!... It was like we were watching a SILENT MOVIE!... And as the movie continued, I was thrilled by the heroic exploits of the dashing smuggler Han Solo and the feisty Princess Leia, and emboldened by the brave, heroic, idealistic actions of the farm boy turned hero of the galaxy, Luke Skywalker! And by the film's spectacular climax of the rebel assault on the Death Star (the greatest ending ever committed to celluloid, BTW), my heart was pounding, and my spirit was soaring... And I will NEVER forget the standing ovation of applause that erupted as the credits rolled... Everyone in that audience didn't know it yet, but we had all just been first-hand witnesses to cinematic HISTORY! This was NOT The Apple Dumpling Gang, Herbie Rides Again, Benji, The Bad News Bears, or any of the other 70's kiddie "dreck" that I was being subjected to at that time... No, this was something VERY DIFFERENT... Now, thankfully, it wasn't ALL awful "dreck"... Even at that young age, I had managed to see a very small handful of very good and (for their time) very impressive big-screen spectacles in the theatre, such as: The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974), Return of the Pink Panther (1975), At the Earth's Core (1976), Logan's Run (1976), and King Kong (1976)... but NOTHING could have prepared me (or the rest of the world) for the earth-shattering phenomenon that was STAR WARS and the change it would bring... the film that would propel a 1970's audience far beyond their wildest film-going expectations, and revolutionize the motion picture industry FOREVER. Words can never fully describe what it was like to be alive in the summer of 1977 during the peak height of "Star Wars Mania"... except to say that it was pure MAGIC. Now, I had ALWAYS loved Sci-fi/Fantasy films, Television, and comics before Star Wars, watching reruns of Star Trek and Batman on TV, watching the Planet of the Apes and James Bond movies on TV, and reading the Amazing Spider-Man comics... but Star Wars took things to a whole new level... This was on the BIG SCREEN, and on such a grand scale that I (or ANYONE) had never seen before. Plus, unlike most Sci-fi around that time (which was very dystopian), this was FUN! I will never forget the day that I went to see Star Wars for the first time... May 25th, 1977... My father took my younger brother and me... I remember we went in my father's company truck (my brother and I rode in the bed of the truck), I remember that we stopped at Burger Chef first to have dinner, and I got one of the four SW promotional posters that they were selling there (I got the one with C-3PO and R2-D2... the first time that I ever laid eyes on ANY characters from SW!)... I remember that the ticket line went on for what seemed like forever... I remember my father bought us both a Hershey bar, and he got a bucket of popcorn with extra butter for us all to share... How do I remember THAT?!?... And when the movie was over, I remember the audience erupting into insane thunderous cheers and applause that I had never experienced before! Naturally, my brother loved the movie, too... but the amazing thing was that even my father (who probably just thought he was taking his children to see some "dumb kid's film") was crazy about it as well!... My mother didn't go that night, and she always regretted it... She told me much later in life that if she had known that it was to be such an important moment in my life, she would have loved to experience my VERY FIRST viewing of SW!... Of course, she did take my brother and I to see it many times after my first viewing ...And she loved it too! I became an instant fanatic... I saw the film eleven times in the movie theatre during its initial run (which wasn't hard to do, as it stayed at our local theatre for an entire year!)... I sneaked my portable tape recorder into the theatre and audio-recorded the entire film so that I could listen to the adventure over and over in the comfort of my own bedroom... I dressed up in a make-shift Darth Vader costume for Halloween... I filled many sketchbooks with countless drawings of the creatures and spaceships... I collected the action figures, trading cards, posters, books, and model kits (and I STILL have all of that "stuff") ... I always wore my Star Wars T-shirt... I always drank out of my Star Wars cup... I listened to John Williams' Star Wars soundtrack album constantly, becoming a fan of symphonic and film score music... I watched "The Making of Star Wars" TV special, becoming fascinated by the way movies were made, even making a few myself with my Super-8 camera... I watched the Academy Awards for the very first time to see my favorite movie sweep the Oscars with 10 nominations and 7 wins... I watched the "infamous" Holiday Special in 1978 ... Lumpy... Itchy... Harvey Korman... Bea Arthur... Wookiee-ookiees... And I LOVED it... ("Hey, I was 11 when it aired in 1978!"). I can't believe how many Slushies that I drank so that I could collect EVERY plastic Star Wars cup, and how many rock-hard sticks of pink gum that I chewed so that I could complete the Topps trading card set... The mind boggles... How did my stomach EVER survive that? An amusing aside: I will NEVER forget when my parents took me to the record store to get the STAR WARS soundtrack by John Williams... We were driving home, and I was in the back seat of the car, looking at the LP... "Something is WRONG here", I said to myself... Well, it turned out that my parents had accidentally purchased the MECO DISCO VERSION! ... What did they know, after all? Obviously, we had to turn around and go back to the store to exchange it! (Of course, I''ve bought the Meco version again since that time). And after 47 years, I continue to love STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE more and more... It has aged like fine wine... It is my #1 favorite movie of all time, followed by my 2nd favorite movie of all time: The Empire Strikes Back, and my 3rd favorite movie of all time: Return of the Jedi...These 3 movies are flawless and perfect, collectively making up not only the greatest cinematic trilogy ever made, but the three greatest films of any kind ever made, and the greatest cinematic story ever told... PERIOD. I love ALL of Star Wars (unlike some SW fans, I absolutely adore the Prequels and the Sequels, I love the changes to the Special Editions, the Spin-offs are great as well)), but it all comes back to that first film... It is the perfect story... The perfect film... A phenomenon... A bona fide classic.. A MASTERPIECE.. I've had the great privilege of seeing (and in a few cases, actually meeting) many STAR WARS legends over the past years: George Lucas. Gary Kurtz, Irvin Kershner, Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, Peter Mathew, David Prowse, Billy Dee Williams, Ian McDiarmid, Hayden Christensen, Jake Lloyd, John Williams, Ralph McQuarrie, Dennis Muren, Ben Burtt, and many other cast and crew members... The three biggest events that I was fortunate enough to attend were the 10th anniversary Star Wars Convention in Los Angeles (1987), the 35th anniversary Star Wars Celebration in Orlando (2012), and the 40th anniversary Star Wars Celebration in Orlando (2017)... Some of the happiest and most thrilling experiences of my life that I'll always cherish and not forget. I will always be thankful to George Lucas for taking me to his galaxy far, far away... Words can never express the utter joy and happiness that his six STAR WARS films have given me... and continue to give me to this very day... And in particular, I would thank him for that life-altering day in the summer of 1977 when I walked into that movie theatre to see "that far-out space movie", aka: THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER MADE, for the very 1st time... It's odd to think a that a mere film could have that kind of power to change one's life in such a profoundly positive way.... And just think, things could have gone VERY DIFFERENTLY and HORRIBLY WRONG that day if I had instead gone to see some "awful piece of dreck" that was also playing in theatres at the same time... like Tentacles ("Yikes!")... or Viva Knievel ("Ouch!")... or Pete's Dragon ("Uhg!").

I was nine in 1977, and everything definitely changed for me after seeing it. My head exploded, and I must have seen it at least ten or more times before Empire came out. And believe me, if I could have seen it more, I would have. I’d have gone to see it daily! I was slightly obsessed. Like others have said, there was nothing else like it.

I’m still fascinated by the making & behind the scenes of Star Wars 77. It’s such an achievement & vision by George Lucas to make it! And boy what he had to create in order to make it. It’s just amazing that he pulled it off! Super cool stuff! 🤯🤯🤯😎😎😎👍👍👍

The first time I saw this in a theater, it was just called Star Wars.

Awesome behind the scenes stuff. Before the re-edit, the light sabers in 'A New Hope' looked terrible -- I'm glad that they changed them as they did. Though Han definitely shot first.

9:56 Watching "2001" now, you can actually spot that in a significant number of scenes the spacecraft are 2D photographs of the model being slid around against the background. It worked well enough for the kinds of shots Kubrick needed, but obviously that wasn't going to cut it with the space dogfights Lucas wanted. Trumbull used early forms of motion control to do things like the Star Gate sequence, but at the time, he was limited to simple analog controls rather than a programmable computer.

Brave to take on this review. Good thing no-one else has ever reviewed it. 🤣

As someone who grew up with the prequels, I believe the Original Star Wars is still the best, and that it always will be, it's a pure, unpretentious film that never tries to be anything that it isn't It was the right elements at the right time, and you just can't duplicate that Thank you for this wonderful video

I was 8 years old when Star Wars came out. I saw it seven times in the theater. It deeply affected my life in ways that are hard to describe. Those of you who were alive before 1977 know what I'm talking about.

On my 4th viewing of Star Wars I took my Mom's small tape recorder into the cinema. Though I couldn't see when to properly change the tapes, I captured most of the film. I listened to those recordings a million times. The film is indelibly recorded in my brain. Star Wars is easily the best of the first three movies (haven't seen the others). By the time the 3rd movie was made, I had done a fair bit of growing up and wanted more from my movies (I mean, teddy bears against a galactic empire, what?)

When I saw Star Wars for the first time, I thought it was the most incredible, exciting, and emotionally moving film ever made; because I was 12..

I was 10 years old when my father dragged the whole family to see a movie that we had no idea about. My mother wondered why he'd want to take the kids to a war movie. I can't describe what it was like, as a kid, seeing this on the big screen for the first time.

This will always be my favourite Star Wars film of them all. Just as a standalone film, and back before the whole Episode marketing, it is still a wonderful experience and it will always be pure Star Wars to me. It all felt like a lucky accident that totally crept up on people at the right place and time.

Another delightful episode. Your writing (script), is remarkably fresh. Not easy. I applaud your production.

Ep 4 is my favourite of all Star Wars media. Empire is a better film, but New Hope has the stronger nostalgia factor for me.