When I saw the original; the wording panning through the cosmos, the star ship shooting it's lasers in such clear color lights, then the HUGE cruiser battle star ship chasing what I could appreciate to be the smaller first ship,,,, well,,, my mind was BLOWN!!
I could not believe the realism that was unfolding on the screen. I was 21 years old.
When I went to see this, how shall we call it, remake of the original, I felt pretty let down. The only lesson of the story was everything just repeats itself, so why bother? Seems that's what Luke himself thought of the movie. None of the technology was newer, better, more sophisticated. Just rehashed in bigger.
I fell asleep during parts of it, it was that predictable of what was coming if you at all paid attention in the original movie.
Oh, and Princess Leia did not age gracefully. The poor old dear. Han has got to be thinking to himself; what was I thinking??!!! Ha!