@evay, let's not forget that it borrowed a lot of ideas lock, stock (such as the entrance credits, episode numbers, cloud city etc) from the Flash Gordon films of the '30s. So the 30s/40s feel is........difficult to avoid......Although I'm not sure if I prefer Ming the Merciless to Palpatine or not....
On the subject of Palpatine, is it just me, or were his lines worse in this film? "The FULL POWER of the Dark Side!" - and it's been on charge for the last four-hundred years or something?
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O to be wafted away
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