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Star Wars - Episode V, The Empire Strikes Back (Special Edition)
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VHS Tape - 26 August, 1997 20th Century Fox
Availability: Used and ThirdParty
Director: Irvin Kershner
Number of Media: 1
Features: - Closed-captioned
- Color
- Original recording reissued
- Original recording remastered
- Special Edition
- THX
- NTSC
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| VHS Tape Description The middle film in George Lucas's enormously popular Star Wars science fiction trilogy is a darker, more somber entry, considered by many fans as the best in the series. Gone is the jaunty swashbuckling of the first film; the rebellion led by Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) suffers before the superior forces of the Empire, young hero Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) faces his first defeats as he attempts to harness the Force under the tutelage of Jedi master Yoda (voiced by Frank Oz), and cocky Han Solo (Harrison Ford) is betrayed by former ally Lando Calrissian (Billy Dee Williams). In the tradition of the great serials, this film is left with a hefty cliffhanger. The leap in special effects technology in the three years since Star Wars results in an amazing array of effects, including a breathtaking chase through an asteroid field and a dazzling, utopian Cloud City, where Luke faces the black-clad villain Darth Vader (David Prowse, voice of James Earl Jones) in a futuristic sword fight and learns the secret of his Jedi father. Veteran director Irvin Kershner (The Eyes of Laura Mars, Never Say Never Again) took the directorial reins from creator and producer Lucas and invested the light-speed adventure with deeper characters and a more emphatic sense of danger. The special edition expands Luke's encounter with the Abominable Snowman-esque wampa and establishes the creature as a tangibly more terrifying beast, in addition to refining many of the existing effects. The trilogy is concluded in The Return of the Jedi. --Sean Axmaker |
| Selected Customer Reviews
The best of the bunch, a classic movie with heart and soul The pinacle of the slowly careening Star Wars empire. A movie that packed in action, drama, romance, and comedy. George Lucas had every right to go back and retouch his vision and creation. Too bad the "second" trilogy wasn't as good, but so it goes.
Do or do not. There is no try. And this movie did..it's the best Star Wars movie ever! Simple as that. It starts off where Episode IV left off, when Darth Vader is trying to find the Rebels.. I won't give away any more of it in case there are actually people who haven't seen it (you poor deprived people), but it gets better and better. It's the most exciting of all of them, and I remember being very surprised at the end, when a huge secret is uncovered. All in all, better lightsaber fight, better dialogue, and a better story then the original Star Wars, and way more exciting and emotional...you actually get to realize that these characters are not stereotypes, however much they may seem like it in the first movie. It brings you in depth personality traits of each character, even the evil Darth Vader, one of the first villians to have an actual personality. It also introduces you to several new characters (Yoda!!), who are just as interesting as the originals, and it lets you know that there are politics behind the evil Galactic Empire, with the first introduction to the dreaded Emperor himself.
Big Whoop. Wow, an outerspace shootemup with guys in rubber masks, cartoons, and puppets. And space battles with little plastic space ships. Lazor gunz, humming fire swords, evil robot king, riding claymation kangaroos through a snowstorm. Oh, and a romance plot that's pure velveeta. Plus a guy makes out with his sister. Fascinating film you have here. |
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