1) Boba Fett's first appearance in the Star Wars Holiday Special.
2) The Tie Fighter's colliding into each other during the finale of the Asteroid Sequence in Empire Strikes Back.
3) The newly re-vamped Bespin Cloud City sequences in Empire Strikes Back.
4) When the Falcon zooms out of that little hole in the Deathstar with flames spewing out all over the place, Lando goes "YAAAAAAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" I LOVE THAT SCENE. It gets me everytime I see it! It's sooo slick!
5) The first battle with Darth Mahl on Tatooine, when the heroes escape and he shuts off his lightsaber. Made me cheer in the theatre.

1. The Millenium Falcon's takeoff from Mos Eisely
2. The battle of Hoth
3. The first Death Star battle
4. Vader's first appearance in Empire
5. The Emporer's arrival in ROTJ
6. Luke and Vader's duel from Empire
7. Darth Maul's appearances (pick any of em, he was a bad ass!!)
8. The final duel with Vader and Luke when Luke snaps and goes med-evil on Darth
9. Obi-Wan and Qui-Jinns'duel with Maul
10. The Pod race

Oops, went over 5 sorry I couldn't help myself.

1. Destruction of the Death Star (both of them).
2. The flight through the asteroid belt in ESB.
3. The Throne Room battle between Luke and Vader in ROTJ.
4. When Luke tells Leia she's his brother.
5. The opening sequence - you know.

I can't pick anything from the television specials, because I've never seen them.

Also, I won't pick anything from TPM, mainly due to the fact that I really didn't like the movie that much.

1. The Dark Side Beckons (ROTJ)
2. Burning Homestead (ANH)
3. The Executor arrives at Hoth (ESB)
4. Ben's final words to Luke before we cut to the Rebel fleet (ROTJ)
5. The Emperor's Death (ROTJ)

The duel lightsabre battle from TPM

Bonus) The Blooper when the stormtrooper hits his head on the door to the control room were R2-D2 and C-3PO are on the death star in A New Hope.

Those are some of the high points. However let me just say, as an Star Wars fanboy, I like all the scenes of every film.

Sorry, but watch 'Empire' again and you'll see that the Executor does arrive at Hoth. Admiral Ozzel was in command of the Super Star Destroyer and he got strangled for "coming out of light speed too close to the system."

Favorite Star Wars Moments:

1.) Every shot, every sequence, every line.

Honorable mentions (musically):
The Cantina Band
Binary Sunset
When Vader first appears in the Rebel bunker on Hoth

The two worst moments in Star Wars were when Boba Fett and Darth Maul die. Although I refuse to believe either one of them is actually dead, just out of the running for a while.

Audacity

quote:

---

Originally posted by Audacity:
5) When the Snowspeeders search for Luke and Han (Too bad they never got the music for this sequence right on any of the score releases)

---

If I'm not suffering from heavy brain defects, the short piece of music played during that sequence is lifted directly from the "Rescue from Cloud City/Hyperspace" track at the end of CD2 of the score. It is also annoyingly played when the Rebel starships enter Death Star II in ROTJ. In fact, when I first saw this scene with the music in mind, I was distracted, because I had to think where that music originally comes from. Call it the "Horner" effect, if you will.

quote:

---

Originally posted by Audacity:
The two worst moments in Star Wars were when Boba Fett and Darth Maul die. Although I refuse to believe either one of them is actually dead, just out of the running for a while.

Audacity

[This message has been edited by Audacity (edited 05 April 2000).]

---

A NEW HOPE: the walls converge, and then stop converging ("WAHOOO!" "Oh, Artoo, they're dying!" Luke reads the code off the wall ... I can't tell you what that sequence did to me as an eight-year-old, and still does to me now. I wish a single moment in THE PHANTOM MENACE had that kind of spontaneity and clarity.)

A NEW HOPE: "It was a boring conversation anyway -- LUKE, WE GOT COMPANY!" (Quickly followed by Luke cocking his head, still enhelmeted, and Leia observing "Aren't you a little SHORT for a stormtrooper?")

A NEW HOPE: in swoops the Millennium Falcon to save the day.

A NEW HOPE (original version only) The X-wings preparing for their assault on the Death Star, and their wings unfolding just like so. (Lucas jazzed it up for the Other Version, but I think it was better the first time.)

A NEW HOPE: the Throne Room sequence.

(Bonus A NEW HOPE Special Edition addendum: that strange dinosaur-like thing rearing on its hind legs in the midst of Mos Eisley.)

Oh, you meant five greatest from ALL the STAR WARS movies? (feigning misunderstanding) Well, maybe next time. Even my least favorite of all four to date, RETURN OF THE JEDI, easily has five worthy moments in it. (I won't even start on my favorites from EMPIRE.)

1. Empire, the first time we meet Yoda. I laugh every time.
2. The Binary Sunset
3. redemption of Vader in ROTJ
4. lightsaber fight in TPM, even if you hate the flick you gotta admit that's pretty cool.
5. the running gag in Empire about the hyperdrive.

I found out when I bought the Star Wars Anthology box set that the cue used in Empire to accompany the Snow Speeder Search was the track "Hyperspace". I just wish the new 2 disk set of Empire was in film order, not the chopped up order it is in.

Dantoris,

I actually did know that Boba Fett escaped the Sarlac Pit in the books. I read K. W. Jeter's trilogy of books all about Boba Fett, they were really good. I am not so sure that Lucas would have had Boba Fett escape though.

For anyone who enjoys the post trilogy Star Wars books I definitely recommend this trilogy by K. W. Jeter. It follows Boba Fett after his escape from the Sarlac, and includes all of the well known Bounty Hunters, IG-88, Bossk and Prince Xizor even shows up. The books are called, The Mandalarian Armor, Slave Ship and Hard Merchandise.

You could be right about the rest of the cd being in film order, I don't have a good enough ear to tell 100%. But I think it is just the fact that the "Hyperspace" cue when it was used for the Snowspeeder search was one of my favorite parts of Empire so I was a little mad when I found out it was edited in at the last moment. I have the cue Hyperspace now so I am happy about that.

_____________________________________________

"...I've been waiting for this for a long time."
"Yes, I'll bet you have."
_____________________________________________

"You were just afraid I'd leave without giving you a goodbye kiss."
"I'd sooner kiss a Wookie."
"I can arrange that. You could use a good kiss!"
_____________________________________________

"Captain, being held by you is hardly enough to get me excited."
"Sorry, your worship. We don't have time for anything else."
_____________________________________________

"Luke, Obi Wan never told you what happened to your father..."
_____________________________________________