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my review by happy man
it was great but it wasn't, if ya see what I mean... anyway, I'm gay. it was goooooooooooooogley good! aha aha.

Politics, intrigue, and the boy who would be Vader.....
I have been fascinated with screenplays and the art of writing them since I read my first copy of Carol Titleman's The Art of Star Wars, a trade paperback which, along with production paintings, costume designs, photos of models, composites, and storyboards, contained the uncut fourth draft of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope. (This, by the by, was the first time I saw the new moniker for the film everyone still calls "Star Wars.")In that book, I not only read lines of dialogue and relived some of my favorite movie moments (this was before I owned my first VCR), but I also saw scenes that had been left out of the final film, either left unshot or deleted after filming (such as Han's encounter with Jabba the Hutt.) very cool for the more hardcore fans.........
First off, I thought the flick was pretty good, though a little too slow in the middle.It needed more action, more depth, less clumsy dialogue, and less kiddie stuff.We all know that now.Okay.With that in mind, the screenplay is great in some parts, and groan out loud bad in others.If you're one of the more forgiving (and less bandwagon-jumping obsessed) hardcore fans, it's a treasure.Even with all it's faults, it's cool to sit down and read how the pieces begin to fall into place.Also, this is an uncut script, so a lot of the deleted stuff you see on the DVD is in here, as is some cut dialogue.Again, I wouldn't advise this for the passive Star Wars fan, but it is a must-have for the REAL (being a relative term, of course) Star Wars fan. ... Read more

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