Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Best Movie Series #4

In 1977 I sat in a movie theater in downtown Paducah and saw the most amazing movie I had ever seen. I will never have a movie experience like that again, none of us will. There ended up being 6 movies in the Star Wars series, three of them very good movies. The six in order of story are "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace", "Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones", "Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith", "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope", "Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back", and "Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi".

"Revenge of the Sith" helped to put this series into the top five. I had been so disappointed with episodes I and II, but III made up for them. But this series is number four on the list for two reasons. Episode IV was the most amazing thing I had ever seen on screen. I will never forget the experience of seeing that movie for the first time. Episode V was even better. My dad and I still talk about those walking tanks, they were fantastic.

Like the Indiana Jones series this series is known to everyone and everyone has seen them, but that doesn't mean they are not very good movies.