Luke has been a film fan since first seeing Jurassic Park at the Odeon in Ipswich, UK back in ’93. The Odeon is gone but the doughy-eyed sense of idealism remains.

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This is it. The big khauna. The original. The classic. This is the one they’ll preserve in a titanium valult when the world finally ends so future cultures can discover it and learn what we humans were all about as a race.

This has heroes, princesses, aliens droids, great one liners and awesome bad guys. This is Luke’s favourite Star Wars movie, as you may have guessed.

As we count down to Episode VIII: The Last Jedi, we continue our commentary series with the fil that started it all, both to celebrate its innocent brilliance but also to reflect on where it will sit in the wider saga from now on.

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