![]() ![]() Following the Battle of Hoth, he and several other bounty hunters were summoned by Darth Vader to the Executor and hired to track down the Millennium Falcon and its Rebel crew. IG-88B, also commonly known simply as IG-88, pronounced Eyegee-Eightyeight, or as a Phlutdroid, was a rogue, deadly masculine IG-series assassin droid manufactured by Holowan Laboratories who worked as a bounty hunter. And for one such as I, time means nothing." ―IG-88 Unlike those that breathe, I am but a machine. I have all the capabilities and programming to engineer success. Nothing else has been made to compare to them." I was created to succeed. It was an appropriate reminder how good these movies are, and still ahead of their time. My wife and I watched all three of the movies on DVD this week - Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi - compliments of our local public library. The bit rate is high, and the picture is nothing short of superb. The DVDs finally came out last month, and they are near perfect, as we should expect from Lucas Films and THX. However, an argument can be made that 'The Empire Strikes Back' (now on DVD called Episode V) is overall a better-made movie which has more excitement, and grabs your imagination,than the other two original installments (now called parts IV and VI). It is fruitless trying to argue 'which is best' in a trilogy, because the first one, in this case 'Star Wars', starts it all and has to be the 'father'. The Jedi Knights, a striking parallel to the Japanese Samurai. And how about the jump to hyper speed, then disappearing from the screen as the speed exceeds light speed! And the light sabres of the Jedi Knights. Nothing before had approached the sheer size of the space ships depicted here, huge cities traveling all over the galaxy. Aliens sitting around a tavern, enjoying drinks and speaking in all sorts of languages. The fantastic, strange worlds were presented almost like we were there too. ![]() While there had been other Sci-Fi movies with a theme of conflict in outer space, the 'Star Wars' trilogy filled our imaginations like no other movies before them. My five children were all pre-teens when 'The Empire Strikes Back' came to the theater. ![]()
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