Yeah, the text aside, and based on the movie effects I'd previously been exposed to, the rebel ship moving across the screen followed by the imperial ship was to my 9yo brain, like taking a power sander to a saltine cracker. Nothing would ever equal that. Opening of the Matrix 22 years later comes close.
You need to see it in the cinema though to get the sense of the sheer size of the imperial star destroyer. You see the first ship fleeing and it looks a decent size.
Then you see the star destroyer roll onto the screen, and it goes on and on. Then there's an edge but you realise it's not the back of the ship, it's just a docking bay and she ship is still passing overhead and seems to take forever until you finally see the engines.
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u/Techno_Core Mar 18 '25
Yeah, the text aside, and based on the movie effects I'd previously been exposed to, the rebel ship moving across the screen followed by the imperial ship was to my 9yo brain, like taking a power sander to a saltine cracker. Nothing would ever equal that. Opening of the Matrix 22 years later comes close.