# Reexamining Star Wars 50 years later **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [January 19, 2026, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reexamining-star-wars-50-years-later/1026810 "2026-01-19T00:48:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2026, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reexamining-star-wars-50-years-later/1026810/21 "2026-01-19T04:15:33Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > A New Hope had a budget of $11 million A fair chunk of that went into getting Industrial Light & Magic up and running, and Lucas still went considerably over budget (Fox had originally given him $8 million). ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2026, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reexamining-star-wars-50-years-later/1026810/22 "2026-01-19T04:20:19Z")
> [@Stephe96](#): > > we couldn’t get past Yoda being a Muppet who sounded like Gonzo the Great You should’ve paid more attention. He in fact sounded like Grover. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2026, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reexamining-star-wars-50-years-later/1026810/23 "2026-01-19T04:27:28Z")
I was one when Star Wars was released, so I didn’t get the opportunity to see it until circa 1992 when a theater in Dallas showed the trilogy in a triple feature. That was a long, long time to sit in a movie theater. One thing I’ve heard mentioned is that a lot of science fiction movies from the 1970s were fairly bleak with the likes of Soylent Green, Logan’s Run, The Omega Man, and Silent Running. But Star Wars was fun, it didn’t deal with a lot of complicated issues, good & evil were black & white, so it was a nice change for people. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2026, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reexamining-star-wars-50-years-later/1026810/24 "2026-01-19T04:38:55Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > Back in 1977, the look and feel of Star Wars seemed very futuristic For me, seeing it in a theater in 1977, what set _Star Wars_ apart from other Sci Fi movies was that all the futuristic stuff looked _used_. The droids, the spacecraft, all had dents and collected dirt just like present day appliances and cars. That more than anything else is what made the story come alive for me. > [@Odesio](#): > > But Star Wars was fun, it didn’t deal with a lot of complicated issues, good & evil were black & white, so it was a nice change for people. Cinematic space opera kind of died with Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers in the 1930s. _Star Wars_ was part nostalgia and it’s not surprising it was made by the same director who made _American Graffiti_. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2026, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reexamining-star-wars-50-years-later/1026810/25 "2026-01-19T04:43:39Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > For me, seeing it in a theater in 1977, what set _Star Wars_ apart from other Sci Fi movies was that all the futuristic stuff looked _used_. It was a very marked contrast from the bright shiny style of Star Trek. Obi-Wan mentioning that the Jedi had protected the Republic for “a thousand generations” always stuck in my head as a kid - I remember doing the math in my head and realizing that the galactic civilization was ten times older than the Roman Empire. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2026, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reexamining-star-wars-50-years-later/1026810/26 "2026-01-19T04:44:06Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Which is a travesty given how awful it is You have to remember two things: It was _supposed_ to be reminiscent of 1930s serials. Yes, the dialogues was hokey. It was supposed to be. The other thing is when it was released. It was groundbreaking at the time. > [@Stephe96](#): > > When my friend and I went to see _The Empire Strikes Back_ on opening day, we couldn’t get past Yoda being a Muppet who sounded like Gonzo the Great. That was off-putting. But it was amusing when he was moving up and down on Lukes back going, ‘Hmmm… Hmmm…’ Still, there was Leia in the metal bikini… ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2026, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reexamining-star-wars-50-years-later/1026810/27 "2026-01-19T04:45:09Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > You have to remember two things: It was _supposed_ to be reminiscent of 1930s serials. Yes, the dialogues was hokey. It was supposed to be. The other thing is when it was released. It was groundbreaking at the time. I believe the person you were replying to was talking about The Rise of Skywalker - and it’s a fair comparison. If A New Hope is Flash Gordon, TRoS is _Manos: The Hands of Fate_. IMO, TRoS has some good moments, but it’s an unsatisfying conclusion to the saga and a shining example of why Disney should have ignored the chuds complaining about The Last Jedi (which IMO is the best film out of the nine.) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2026, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reexamining-star-wars-50-years-later/1026810/28 "2026-01-19T04:46:22Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I believe the person you were replying to was talking about The Rise of Skywalker If so, my mistake. After the first three, I’m not really sure which is which. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2026, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reexamining-star-wars-50-years-later/1026810/29 "2026-01-19T05:05:50Z")
Yeah, Grover and a little Miss Piggy too. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2026, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reexamining-star-wars-50-years-later/1026810/30 "2026-01-19T05:10:07Z")
I saw it as a kid when it first came out and enjoyed it _tremendously._ > [@Irishman](#): > > That brings us to probably the singular iconic item of the series - the ~~laser sword~~ lightsaber. A sword for a sword and sorcery type movie, but with a twist to make it space age. And boy is the lightsaber concept fun. Of course the practicality of such a weapon really leaves a lot to be desired in a galaxy without the Force. What you need is some sensors that turn it off if it intersects your own body, which ought to be easily doable with their technology. It’s actually a really good weapon and tool otherwise. Oh, non-Jedi can’t use it to stop blasters and such, but a blade that cuts nearly anything and can fit up a sleeve or in a pocket would be very useful. The fact that turned off it’s just a hilt makes it more like a knife than a sword for many purposes; it’s small enough that you can carry it everywhere without it getting it the way as a big, clunky sword does. That’s a reason why people still use knives, even after swords have gone out of fashion; swords are just too big and awkward to carry around all the time for the rare occasions that they are the best tool for the job. Knives (and light sabers) lack that defect. And we see it used as a tool all the time in the setting; a “cuts anything” blade is extremely useful even if you never use it as a weapon. Even better if you can make it variable-length and have a “knife mode” for finer work. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2026, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reexamining-star-wars-50-years-later/1026810/31 "2026-01-19T05:12:11Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > And we see it used as a tool all the time in the setting; a “cuts anything” blade is extremely useful even if you never use it as a weapon. I’ve been playing various versions of the Star Wars tabletop roleplaying games with the same group of friends for about 25 years. Somewhere along the line, we nicknamed lightsabers as “UCTs”: Universal Cutting Tools. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2026, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reexamining-star-wars-50-years-later/1026810/32 "2026-01-19T05:15:53Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > I’ve been playing various versions of the Star Wars tabletop roleplaying games with the same group of friends for about 25 years. Somewhere along the line, we nicknamed lightsabers as “UCTs”: Universal Cutting Tools. 😃 Hah, I like it. They really are. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2026, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reexamining-star-wars-50-years-later/1026810/33 "2026-01-19T05:26:21Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > True. But this is the first time I’ve heard of R2D2 being referred to as ‘she’ Hey, he, she, droid? How would we know? That’s my personal amusement. I know Solo went there first, but it amuses me to think about all that time Luke thinking of R2 as a guy when she’s pinning away and can’t even say it out loud.😉 Fanfic: sometime after the events of Jedi, someone comes along and invents a vocal synthesizer that takes the existing AI identity and creates a voice that matches. Suddenly R2 speaks and Luke realizes she was a girl all along. “Wait, all those times I masturbated to that hologram of Leia, you were watching me?” “Yes, Luke dear.” > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > What get me is that the droids seem to be sentient beings. If they are (and they do seem to be aware of their own ‘mortality’), does that not make them slaves? They are definitely what we would call “strong AI”, have unique personalities, and seem aware of their mortality. That they are somewhat more robust than organic beings does not mean they can’t be killed. That’s the kind of thing my dad would complain about to us kids. “If it’s a robot, they can just rebuild it and it’s as good as new.” I think they are intended as slave analogs to the Roman Empire. It certainly puts a different spin on it when Uncle Owen talks about having their memories wiped. > [@Dinsdale](#): > > So far my impression is that IV is the only really decent movie of the 6, and even it isn’t that good. > > [Snip] > > V is clearly just a transition between IV and VI. VI would have been so much better if so much did not take place on the teddy bear planet. And the versions we are watching are not helped by the added CGI beasts. My observation is that the movies were written as adventure films for 10 year old boys. On that level, they play pretty well. And yes, my sister loved them too, but she was a major tomboy and wanted to be Han Solo. I personally think Empire is a better movie than SW, but that may just be my preference from seeing it first. I think most people agree the teddy bear planet was too cutesy. And the remasters had some improvements and numerous detriments. Crowding the streets of Mos Eisley was overdone. And the whole Greedo gun battle was ruinous. > [@kenobi\_65](#): > > In Star Wars, the “technology” is there to help set up the story, but pretty much none of it has any real roots in how actual spaceships, energy-based weapons, robots, etc. would really work – and attempts (often on the part of fans) to retroactively explain how that tech works in-universe are equally detached from real science or “hard” science fiction. Oh absolutely. It was space fantasy played out by the rule of cool. > [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Which isn’t surprising, given that the climactic battle in the original film – the Rebels’ attack on the Death Star, which prominently featured those X-wings – [was storyboarded and developed by Lucas and ILM using footage from movies about World War II dogfights, in particular the 1955 film _The Dam Busters_](https://www.slashfilm.com/557980/dam-busters-influenced-star-wars/), which was a large influence on the structure of that battle – and even the shots and dialogue – in _Star Wars_. Yes. It is well established that Lucas ~~stole from~~ was inspired by the best, from _The Dam Busters_ for the climactic battle to Kurosawa to _Dune_. Being unaware of all this at the time, it seemed so original and fun, but now I know some of the lifts. > [@Smapti](#): > > IIRC, the lightsaber dueling in the first couple movies is mostly based on kendo - I.e., traditional Japanese swordfighting using bamboo poles, where one scores points by striking the opponent’s body in specific locations which would kill or dismember them in an actual swordfight. And kendo is drawn from katana. > [@DrDeth](#): > > Would a hilt even help? How about a laser hilt of the same energy, like Kylo Ren’s cross hilt. > [@Smapti](#): > > I saw a post once that suggested that a truly savvy Jedi would just use his Force telekinesis to switch his opponent’s saber off. Probably something you could do to a novice, but I suspect fully trained force users are prepared for that kind of thing. Just like Vader starts throwing things at Luke during their first confrontation, but not the second. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2026, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reexamining-star-wars-50-years-later/1026810/34 "2026-01-19T05:41:25Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > Hey, he, she, droid? How would we know? In the original film, Threepio and Luke both refer to Artoo as “he/him.” > [@](#): > > - [C-3PO](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000355/?ref_=ttch_qu): You must repair him! Sir, if any of my circuits or gears will help, I’ll gladly donate them. > - [Luke Skywalker](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000434/?ref_=ttch_qu): He’ll be all right. > [@](#): > > - [Luke Skywalker](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000434/?ref_=ttch_qu): What are you doing hiding back there? > - [C-3PO](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000355/?ref_=ttch_qu): It wasn’t my fault, sir, please don’t deactivate me. I told him not to go, but he’s faulty, malfunctioning. Kept babbling on about his mission. > [@](#): > > C-3PO: I’m quite sure you’ll be very pleased with that one, sir. He really is in first-class condition. I’ve worked with him before. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2026, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reexamining-star-wars-50-years-later/1026810/35 "2026-01-19T08:56:54Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Luke is a lot more broken up over losing his martial arts instructor he just met a few hours ago than his aunt and uncle who raised him. That’s not true. When he discovered the jawas all dead and realized the stormtroopers traced the droids to their farm, he raced off and left Obi-wan to go home. He was torn up and IIRC cried. That we never really hear about them again can be chalked up to their further unimportance to the story, whereas Ben has the force and can come back as an energy glow. > [@](#): > > Leia never really spoke of her home world again after it was blown up. Again, it never really is important to the plot. > [@](#): > > How long exactly was Luke training on Dagoba? Obvious about the same amount of time Han and Leia and the others were running from the Imperial fleet and they never changed their clothes. It’s stated that they are traveling sub-light and that they have a limited range. I don’t know the canon timeline, but it seems like at least a couple of months. It’s not like Leia had time to grab a wardrobe on her emergency evacuation, and they don’t have Star Trek style replicators. I’m sure they have a space washing machine on that bucket of bolts. Whereas Luke clearly has spent time honing his abilities as his one change of clothes become sweat and mud encrusted. Plotwise, those aren’t holes that need filling. Just like we don’t know how long they’ve been cruising between planets before getting to Hoth. It seems like there was plenty of time for Han to run off with his cash, pay off Jabba, and make a rendezvous. What seems much more of a gap is Yoda’s insistence that Luke must complete his training, but when Luke finally makes it back, he blows it off with Luke just needs to confront Vader - which is what he did when he left Degobah. Presumably Luke has been practicing during the time prepping to rescue Han, but still, there wasn’t anything else Yoda needed to impart? Oh well, he can tell him later, after he dies. > [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > It was the perfect movie. You’re immersed from the get-go in a universe that makes sense. Does it follow the laws of physics? Who cares! The characters act like everything is normal, so you buy it. I think this says a lot about why it works. The characters all act like it’s normal. And as somebody else said, or feels ancient and lived in - not spiffy clean. I think some of it is that Lucas drew heavily on archetypes to create a feeling of similarity even while being strange and far away. Parallels to ancient Rome and a corrupt Empire. Imagery drawn from NAZI Germany with the “stormtroopers” and the Imperial jodphurs. Fantasy tropes of the pretty Princess, the rogue scoundrel, the young, naive hero-to-be, the ancient wizard. The huge monsters to slay or to escape. Side note here - what the first three movies had that was taken away in the prequels was the feeling of the vastness of space, the immensity of the Empire. Although there is a tenuous track of contact to link Leia to Obi-wan to Luke, who is more significant than he could know, it still feels like this could be any random set of people thrown together. Finding out that Luke and Leia are twins and their father is Darth Vader is the first tweak that shrinks the galaxy. The prequels try too hard to make everything tie together. Anakin was a slave on tattooine who built C3PO and met R2, who was Luke and Leia’s mom’s droid before getting mindwiped and slanging spending two decades toodling around the galaxy only to be accidentally selected by Leia to send her message. The whole clones plotline with Jengo Fett. There’s a friggin’ young Greedo hanging out with Anakin for Pete’s sake. But I digress. > [@digs](#): > > Until their master gives them a piece of clothing… Snerk. > [@kenobi\_65](#): > > In the original film, Threepio and Luke both refer to Artoo as “he/him.” Like I said, my own personal amusement not to be outweighed by canon. I mean, we never actually hear from R2, so it could all just be assumptions. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2026, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reexamining-star-wars-50-years-later/1026810/36 "2026-01-19T09:16:52Z")
Other elements of the story we are not supposed to think too hard about. The Empire apparently has no OSHA. Power doors that zoom open and closed and would crush you. I assume they have some sort of sensors. Long narrow bridges across deep chasms with no guardrails whatsoever, and the bridges retract. Hangar bays that separate deep space from habitable environment with energy fields that ships pass right through. How about the penchant for ugly hats? Weird wide dome lids abound. Funky jutting chin pieces. Okay, here’s one that recently came to my attention. Luke’s farm on Tattooine supposedly uses 'vaporators, to what, condense moisture from the air? But if Tattooine is a desert planet, where does the moisture come from? Dune at least presents an ecological reason for the availability of moisture on the desert planet. But without the giant sandworms and thus the sandtrout, there shouldn’t be enough water there to sustain much ecology, nevermind human colonists. At least I’ve now seen diagrams that show how the Millennium Falcon has room for three crew members. Though shouldn’t it really be four? Pilot, co-pilot, and two gun turrets. Right? At least they also show space for cargo storage inside. I don’t guess I really picked up on the fact that all the exposed rough surfaces on the MF were in fact because of missing closeout panels. It was supposed to be sleek and solid, but all the missing panels were three source of all the “hunk of junk” comments. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2026, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reexamining-star-wars-50-years-later/1026810/37 "2026-01-19T09:49:50Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > But when you try to make the universe make sense, when you try to explain how this stuff actually works, you make it worse. Explaining the Kessel run, a question absolutely no one was asking for an answer to, was the most stupid thing Lucas ever did. Yes, including Jar Jar. Yes, e.g. midichlorians. WTF? I agree explaining the Kessel run and parsecs was stupid, but I don’t know that was Lucas. Hadn’t he sold the franchise to Disney before _Solo_? But the stupidest thing Lucas did was to remaster the Han/Greedo confrontation so that first Greedo shoots first, and then later Greedo and Han shot simultaneously while Han ducks - while sitting down. ---
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> [@Irishman](#): > > The Empire apparently has no OSHA. Power doors that zoom open and closed and would crush you. I assume they have some sort of sensors. Long narrow bridges across deep chasms with no guardrails whatsoever, and the bridges retract. Hangar bays that separate deep space from habitable environment with energy fields that ships pass right through. I mean, considering the current state of political affairs in this country, I can absolutely believe that a fascist regime would be that incompetent at basic workplace safety. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2026, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reexamining-star-wars-50-years-later/1026810/39 "2026-01-19T10:30:22Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > I agree explaining the Kessel run and parsecs was stupid, but I don’t know that was Lucas. Hadn’t he sold the franchise to Disney before _Solo_? The _Solo_ movie had been in the works from before the sale to Disney, and though it was revived afterward and reworked, it was largely Lucas’s initial idea intact, with Lawrence Kasdan the screenwriter throughout (though he did bring his son on board to co-write). ---
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Note that Ewoks do eat humans – they were about to cook and eat Luke and Han, and it is implied they have eaten Storm Troopers. If you are willing to include stuff outside the movie, they definitely have eaten Storm Troopers. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/-tJxB9tDSP8/maxresdefault.jpg "Another reminder that Ewoks are vicious human-eating predators 🐻🩸") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tJxB9tDSP8) Brian [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reexamining-star-wars-50-years-later/1026810.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reexamining-star-wars-50-years-later/1026810.md?page=3)