Movie
1980
The Empire Strikes Back is a 1980 American epic space opera film directed by Irvin Kershner from a screenplay by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan, based on a story by George Lucas. The sequel to Star Wars (1977), it is the second film in the Star Wars film series and the fifth chronological chapter of the "Skywalker Saga". Set three years after the events of Star Wars, the film recounts the battle between the…
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Source All rise for the intergalactic knight and true leader of the Empire, Darth Vadar. The ultimate anti hero/hero who brings balance to the force and drew me into the world of science fiction which is my #1 genre of movies followed by fantasy. Source Darth Vadar first graced our screens in *Star Wars: A New Hope* fitted in all black attire with a never before seen helmet. Not only were we blessed with world first…More
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The earliest memory I have of the movies is a scene that I can see when I close my eyes: Rebel snow speeders swooping past some lumbering AT-ATs. It is, of course, from Star Wars Episode V- Empire Strikes Back , which doesn't require much of review because it is a great film, more or less. This is the follow-up to the massively successful Episode IV: A New Hope and it is about, as the title suggests, the Empire stri…More
When people discuss the slow yet unstoppable decline of quality film-making within commercial Hollywood cinema, they often point to sequels as one of the symptoms. Sequels might also be taken as a symbol of those trends, because they illustrate the lack of creativity within big-budget cinematography; instead of innovation, resources are poured into well-established and repetitive formulas. Naturally, the movie often…More
The earliest memory I have of the movies is a scene that I can see when I close my eyes: Rebel snow speeders swooping past some lumbering AT-ATs. It is, of course, from Star Wars Episode V- Empire Strikes Back , which doesn't require much of review because it is a great film, more or less. This is the follow-up to the massively successful Episode IV: A New Hope and it is about, as the title suggests, the Empire stri…More
The extraordinary success after the release of Star Wars (1977) made Lucas Films have to make its follow-up and was released in 1980 with the title of Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back and after the advent of the prequel trilogy this film became Star Wars Episode V. Empire Strike Back is ranked fifth according to timeline and second by year of release. This time George Lucas entrusted the director's chair to Irvin Kers…More
I know. I know. I wrote a post about why Star Wars is the greatest movie ever made . So I why would I write a post about why The Empire Strikes Back is the best Star Wars movie. Doesn’t that disprove my first post? Maybe it does. But I am writing this one anyone anyways. Most of the time the saying goes that the sequel isn’t as good as the original. And it in 99 percent of the cases that is true. But Empire changes…More
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