Rey’s Interrogation The Force Awakens When the team behind The Force Awakens scouted Daisy Ridley and Adam Driver from relative obscurity, they discovered a pair of top tier actors. Ridley’s been incredible as Rey at every turn, and Driver has brought immersive physicality to the role of Kylo Ren, as well as building quite the…
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Obi-Wan Faces Vader A New Hope It’s easy to be cynical about the first ever lightsaber duel. We’ve got plenty of examples in the bank for comparisons now and, without doubt, the action in the tussle between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader doesn’t exactly stand up against the rest from a physicality standpoint. Earlier this…
#29 – Top 50 Skywalker Saga Moments
“Chewie, We’re Home” The Force Awakens Most people go to the cinema and complain about having to sit through trailers. Some patrons will deliberately turn up fashionably late as to avoid having to watch them. Well, I absolutely love movie trailers. It’s short form cinema. A well crafted trailer is captivating viewing, be it via…
#30 – Top 50 Skywalker Saga Moments
Kenobi v. Grevious Revenge of the Sith Genndy Tartakovsky’s Clone Wars animated micro-series, not to be confused with the George Lucas and Dave Filoni helmed The Clone Wars of 2008, (you know, the one with Snips), is part of the large library of Star Wars ‘legends’ material. And for the most part, that’s a good…
#31 – Top 50 Skywalker Saga Moments
The Battle of Hoth The Empire Strikes Back It didn’t take long for George Lucas and co to prove that the original Star Wars movie was no fluke, unlike perhaps the rebels big victory at Yavin. Within the first 20 minutes of The Empire Strikes Back, we’re treated to a thrilling battle, matching the grandeur…
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“I Know” The Empire Strikes Back The carbon freezing chamber scene is a microcosm for The Empire Strikes Back as a whole. The rebels are struggling to survive, on the back-foot throughout the movie, as the Empire has rallied following the destruction of the Death Star. Turns out that a triggered Empire is an overwhelming…
#33 – Top 50 Skywalker Saga Moments
Vader Unmasked Return of the Jedi The final act of Return of the Jedi is 30 of the best Star Wars minutes. The ground battle on the Forrest Moon’s surface and the space battle above are both scintillating, but it’s the duel in the throne room between father and son that is most distinctively gripping….
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Dooku’s Offer Attack of the Clones My number one scene in Attack of the Clones is a dialogue scene. Incredible when you consider that I’ll regularly point out that I don’t particularly care for the Episode II script – and that’s some Senate level diplomacy right there. However, the scene in which Count Dooku asks…
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Palpatine’s Big Reveal Revenge of the Sith The Prequel Trilogy is Chancellor Palpatine’s trilogy. Sure, the three movies tell of the tragedy of Anakin Skywalker, but it’s Darth Sideous who is moving the chess pieces. He’s the one stacking the board against the Chosen One and after two and a half films, Anakin finally catches…
#36 – Top 50 Skywalker Saga Moments
Trash Compactor A New Hope Star Wars transcends genres. A New Hope is a fantasy film, an action movie, an adventure flick and all the while has it’s moment of horror – well, as much horror as you can get with a universal rating. Yeah, sure, the trash compactor scene isn’t scary from the comfort…
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