| Khuutra said: Empire Strikes back took the universe established in Star Wars and slapped us across the face with it, showed us the side of it that we had not considered in our fantastical musings. It was a movie full of betrayal, despair, strife, defeat, and the real darkness of the human heart held up like an all-consuming negative flame. Even the best and most uplifting moments in the movie (the times spent with Yoda) were surrounded and colored by darkness, by a sense that the galaxy, when you got down to it, was still a dirty and dangerous place where good people could do terrible things. I could write something longer, more substantial, but I won't. It's not something I have the time to do justice to. |
That's more or less the way I'd put it.
10/10.
For those that don't know (probably not many as it's a common told story bu there are some young people)
the original script called for Han to say I love you as well.
Harrison Ford just improvised the "I Know" on set...
Probably my favorite part of the movie.
This movie, unlike most others, actually establishes the villians as a real and present threat, and even possible suggests they could win.
To make a silly comparison. It's like Kid's cartoon's... the BEST episodes are pretty much always the 2-3 parters where the villians actually win and rule for a while setting the heros to the winds before they come back and win.
