There are two moods that Star Wars movies - well, most of them - do extraordinarily well.
One is a sense of extraordinary, overwhelming evil: the power of the Dark Side; the technological terror of the Death Star; the soul-crushing weariness of being a teenager trapped on a desert planet, staring at a double sunset; the even more soul-crushing revelation that the most evil man in the galaxy is your father. (Star Wars feels your pain, Tiffany Trump.)
Then there's the uplifting heroism that happens when good beings reach out to each other - when that teen seeks a mysterious hermit, when a smuggler stops being selfish, when droids overcome their scaredy-cat programming, when a princess leads her friends into the lair of a slobbering beast to save the man she loves. Read more...
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