| Full Length | Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

"We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. ... How are you?", Han Solo, "A New Hope" It's always fun to rewatch Episode IV. I've seen it so many times now that the music soundtrack is embedded in my mind - I feel I would notice if a single note was changed somewhere. Talking about sound, you mentioned WALL-E. The sound designer for this movie, Ben Burtt, who created all the blaster pew-pew, the lightsabre hum, Vader's breathing, R2-D2 beeps, etc. sounds, was also the sound editor on WALL-E and actually did the vocalizations for the WALL-E character itself. It's always nice to see that Stormtrooper clunk his head entering the control room where the droids were hiding. It was a blooper, but much later a foley sound was added and the audible clunk is now in the streaming versions. There were two planets mentioned that are really easy to confuse: "Tatooine" was the desert planet where we found Luke; "Dantooine" was the planet that Leia said was the location of the rebel base. Why movie writers decide to use very similar names for different places is beyond me. Of course, why a fantasy writer would create villains called "Sauron" and "Saruman" and imagine it wouldn't confuse people also mystifies me. Peter Cushing plays Grand Moff Tarkin, who was in charge of the Death Star. Cushing had a really long career - IMDB lists 121 credits, including 24 movies with the equally great Christopher Lee (Saruman in LOTR). Yes, they did 24 movies together! Finally, Chewbacca's lack of a medal has worried me since I first watched the film. I think there are some fan theories but I suspect that Carrie Fisher would just have been unable to reach. I'm not a hugely knowledgeable fan of the Star Wars content. My suggestion, if you decide to only view one more movie, would be to watch "Rogue One".

Andrew Vignaux