With Rogue One: A Star Wars Story blasting into theaters this Friday, December 16, we are looking back at some of the film saga’s best moments in the galaxy far, far away.
Click next to see our Top 10 scenes from the Star Wars films.
10. Yoda’s Big Fight Scene
Revenge of the Sith
“At an end your rule is.” While re-watching this scene, I forgot how ridiculous of a character the Emperor is with his grandiose laughing, but besides that, this fight scene is just fun to watch with senate seats flying, light sabers clashing and Yoda doing back flips.
9. The Pod Race
The Phantom Menace
The pod racing scene is just one of those cool scenes to watch because it’s so visually well done. Little Anakin may be Watto’s slave in the first film, but he knows how to engineer well and creates a pod-racing car that leaves everyone else in the dust.
8. The Cantina Scene
A New Hope
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“Only passengers. Myself, the boy, two droids and no questions asked.” The Cantina scene is where we are introduced to a plethora of cultures and creatures all shapes and sizes that call Tatooine home. We also are first introduced to Han Solo and his co-pilot Chewbacca when Obi Wan asks them for help transporting Luke and himself off Tatooine. And of course, there’s the iconic jazz song forever stuck in our heads.
7. The Battle Over Coruscant
Revenge of the Sith
This film opens up with one of the most well done, epic space battles in the saga as the audience is flying with the fighter ships in battle as Anakin and Obi Wan attempt to rescue Chancellor Palpatine when he is kidnapped by the Separatists in the last great battle of the Clone Wars.
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6. Palpatine Turns Anakin to the Dark Side
Revenge of the Sith
“The dark side of the force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.” When Palpatine tells Anakin the story of Darth Plagueis, who was so well-versed in the dark side of the force that he could even keep the ones he loved from dying, Anakin turns to the dark side because he is too attached to the ones he loves. Ian McDiarmid delivers his lines so well in this scene and does such a great job of playing the bad guy, it’s no wonder Anakin was so easily swayed to the dark side.
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5. Han Solo’s Big Freeze
The Empire Strikes Back
“I love you.” “I know.” Among all the intergalactic battles and fights to save democracy, there has to be room for romance. When Han is captured by Vader in Cloud City, he is used as a test subject for the carbon freezing process, but right before he get stuck in carbonite Leia admits her feelings for him.
4. Rey and Finn vs. Kylo Ren
The Force Awakens
“I can show you the ways of the force.” Han and Leia’s angst-ridden son Kylo Ren’s face-off with Rey and Finn is not only one of the most visually stunning scenes in the movie. but is also filled with some epic fighting between newcomer to the force Rey and the unstable Kylo.
3. Anakin Skywalker vs Obi Wan Kenobi
Revenge of the Sith
“You were the chosen one! It was said that you would destroy the Sith not join them! Bring balance to the force, not leave it in darkness.” It’s fiery, explosive with epic music and is one of the best fight scenes in the saga. Anakin has joined the dark side and his mentor Obi Wan can’t let him destroy the democracy of the republic, leaving Anakin missing quite a few limbs, burning alive before his transformation into Vader.
2. “I am your father”
The Empire Strikes Back
“No, I am your father.” Fun fact: Did you know that one of the most famous lines in movie history is actually misquoted? True Star Wars fans know the line in the most shocking scene in the saga when Vader reveals himself as Luke’s father is the quote above, not “Luke, I am your father” as popularly misquoted.
Besides the fact, this scene has gone down in movie history as one of cinema’s greatest twists.
1. Darth Vader Saves Luke Skywalker and Dies
The Return of the Jedi
“It is done then now, just for once let me look on you with my own eyes.” After roughly a minute of the Emperor zapping Luke with his electro-fingers trying to turn him to the dark side Vader has had enough. In his final act, Vader makes the decision to save Luke by flinging the Emperor into an endless pit and tells Luke to leave him behind.
It’s the most touching moment in the films for me because you realize that one of the most famous villains in cinema isn’t actually a villain at all, but just another person who lost his way in the balance between light and dark.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story opens in theaters on Friday, December 16.
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