The first Star Wars movie is a true cinematic masterpiece in many ways, one of the very few films I would call essentially flawless. I feel people have lost sight of just how good the movie actually is just on it's own, as it's become impossible to see the movie with fresh eyes. Even if you're seeing it for the first time, you already inevitably know pretty much everything about it.
There's a reason it was such a massive hit among such a wide audience in it's day, before Star Wars was popular just because it was Star Wars.
(And no, ESB is not even a serious contender for being better. It's frankly a pretty mediocre film until about the last 30 minutes or so, which admittedly rock.)
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