I grew up breathing Star Wars. I was a huge Star Wars nerd, I played the computer games, owned and played with action figures, books, micro-machines, legos, posters, of course the movies, you name it. Star Wars was a magical escape, a mythology bordering on a legend that I believed might actually be true. Going back and watching the 1970s, 80s Star Wars films now, the halo is gone for me. But the original Star Wars movies, the real ones, were solid films; they were groundbreaking for their time, and entertaining. They aren’t as good as I thought they were when I was a child, but they are classic films.

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