Saturday, December 19, 2015

1980 - STAR WARS: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK

If you can get through the first 30 minutes of this film with all the Millennium Falcon won't fly jokes with Han Solo and Chewbacca hamming it up, this is turns into a pretty decent sequel.

 

George Lucas gave up direction on this film turning it over to a decent director of actors named Irvin Kershner.  But for the most part this was a Lucas production with his hand prints all over it especially in the special effects sequences which are still very goof.


There may be a touch of what Andrew Sarris calls "strained seriousness"  running through this film but it certainly plays better then the mediocre future films in the series


124 minutes, written by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan.

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