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Reason 1: The Battle Of Hoth.

Now you think of 49 other reasons.

Reason 2 : Luke vs Vader (the best dialogue in the entire series)

Reason 3: Acting isn't rigid or forced.

Reason 4: "I am your father" alucard starwars

Reason 5: "I love you" "I know"

Reason 6 : Darth Vader chokes people....OVER THE PHONE

Reason #7: Duh...Boba Fett

Reason #8: Han - "No time to discuss this in committee"

Leia - "I am NOT a committee!"

Reason 9: Captain/Admiral Piett!

Reason #10: Snowspeeders...

Reason 11: General Veers/Snowtroopers/AT-AT's/AT-ST's

Reason #12: The costumes... Han, Luke, Leia, all good...

Lucky number 13. The bad guys win. Yoda's TRUE explanation of the force. no gay midichlorians!!!

Reason #14: Darth Vader blocking laser bolts with his HAND. Badass...

Reason 15: Major Rebel action!

Reason #16: Yoda totally fooling Luke and making him look like an idiot... in a good way...

Reason #17: Chewbacca putting C3P0's head on the wrong way. (although I dont think ESB is the best movie in the saga )

Reason 26, At-AT's.

Originally posted by Rampant ox
Reason #17: Chewbacca putting C3P0's head on the wrong way. (although I dont think ESB is the best movie in the saga )

it isn't my favourite, but i'd have to say it was the best, though i hated the ending...

Reason #18: Lando (PIMP)
Reason #19: Chewie going apeshit and throwing Stormies around like ragdolls...
Reason #20: The Asteroid field chase...
Reason #21: Han's 'float away with the rest of the garbage' ruse...
Reason #22: C3PO trying to tell everyone that the hyperdrive is broken but nobody'll listen to him...
Reason #23: The space slug...
Reason #24: Luke jumping out of the carbon freezer and catching vader off guard...
Reason #25: Han (after being tortured) still having the energy to punch lando...

Originally posted by Blax X
Reason 26, At-AT's.

...uhh...what just happened? Why don't you keep going to 50 there dude?

Reason #27:

-"Bounty hunters. We don't need their scum."

-"Yes, sir."

28) Aproaching Bespin...its beautiful!!!
29) "BRING MY SHUTTLE!" (u have to have seen the OOT)
30) Han banging the falcon with his fist and it restarting

Its the darkest out of all 6 movies

Originally posted by EPIIIBITES
...uhh...what just happened? Why don't you keep going to 50 there dude?

Reason #27:

-"Bounty hunters. We don't need their scum."

-"Yes, sir."

well i had to fill in the gap...

Reason #32: R2 saving their asses yet again...

reason 33: Luke Skywalkers head bouncing back into shot after he jumps off the platform he and Vader were fighting on

Can't believe nobody remebered this one:


Reason 34: "Do, or do not. There is no try."

Reason 35: Yoda lifts the x-wing out of the swamp to his stirring theme.

#36: Luke gets his hand cut off
#37: The Wampa pwns Luke
#38: Chewie strangles Lando after the betrayal

39. Luke and Leia's incest.

40. The emperor reshoot

Originally posted by Darth Subjekt
40. The emperor reshoot
?

I say that's the iffiest one yet.

Reason #41: The brief but precious moments we get to spend with Chewie in the Cloud City detention cell as he's showing the disaproval of his plight, and then attempts to fix 3PO...(nothing even close to that sort of moviemaking in the PT).

Reason 42: C3-PO gets shot

i thought it was once of the best for continuity purposes...boba's voice is the worst. But Ian IS the Emperor, so i like it. we're all different i guess.

43. Vader's obvious "emotion" towards luke after they fight. Good cinema, imo. Depth the PT didnt remotely catch on to until EP3, which still came up a little short.

44. The Imperial March!!! (the score for The Empire Strikes Back was the strongest of the OT)

Reason 45: Vader's super star destroyer

#46: We get to see Slave 1 in action.
#47: We get to see a glimpse of Vader without his helmet.

Reason 49: The introduction of Lando Calrissian.

Hay guys I think that we should go beyond 50 reasons.

How about we start with doing reason #48 first?

...And I got a sweet one...

Reason #48 is: http://www.jedisaber.com/SW/Sounds/ESB004.wav


So who wants to do the last one?

...or should we get a little crazy and change the name of the thread to:
"100 Reasons Why Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back is the best Star Wars film"?

#50

Leia: "I'd just as soon kiss a wookie!"

Han: "I CAN ARRANGE THAT!"

Originally posted by Quiero Mota
#50

Leia: "I'd just as soon kiss a wookie!"

Han: "I CAN ARRANGE THAT!"

Mmmmm Wookie....winkiss

Originally posted by Blax X
Reason 26, At-AT's.

Yes ok AT-ATs...People mentioned Battle of Hoth and AT-ATs way before your post...

So are we goin' to 100 or what? (I sure love ESB)

#51: Luke balancing Yoda while upside down. Let's see you pull that one off.
#52: Space Slugs are hungry little bastards, aren't they? "This is no cave!"

# 53: Admiral Ozzel, AND Captain Needa get choked to death

54: It just is.

55: Lando keeps getting punked by Vader.

"Perhaps you think you're being treated unfairly?"

"I'm altering the deal... pray I don't alter it any further."

56)The CAVE (or is it the dark side tree) - the trippiest Star Wars Moment EVER...
In fact all the Dagobah stuff is trippy,the sounds,the atmosphere
Watched best at 3 a.m under the influence it is.

56) Lobot - one of the weirdest Star Wars characters ever...and hes a humanoid!

57) No Jar Jar

dunno if said already, but

58: VADER!
59: vader told luke about his lineage and stuff...

queeq: 'xactly.

60: The fact that most the people making ESB didn't know that Vader was Lukes father until he said it.

61: No fart jokes

62. Carbonite.

you REaaalllyyyy hate ep 1 don't you queeq?

63. No jar Jar


Actually... EpI got better after seeing ROTS... I thought EpI would always be the worst SW movie, but after ROTS came out, AOTC now has the honour.

Originally posted by JaehSkywalker
62. Carbonite.
Nice!!

...and Queeq, stop wasting reasons with "no jar jar"!!


Reason #64 - When Vader is on the bridge of his starship talking to the holograms of the other starship commanders, one of them goes fuzzy after bieng nailed by the meteors...too cool!

Reason #65: The TIE's being unable to keep up with the falcon even though they're smaller and should be more maneuverable...

66: Awesome music during the asteroid race

67) "GOOD!!,our first catch of the day"
I think the imperial officers are pretty cool in ESB

68) I always like the Ties blowing themselves up after the collission near the asteroid cave

The Ties always have good collision scenes/sounds in the flicks

you could've 'merged' those posts into one you know.. ^_^

69. awEsome lines...

Reason 70: Luke Vs Darth Vader, one of the best fights in the whole saga.

Originally posted by Scarecrow756
Reason 70: Luke Vs Darth Vader, one of the best fights in the whole saga.

uh-hmm...

71. You just gotta love Han Solo.

Originally posted by JaehSkywalker
you could've 'merged' those posts into one you know.. ^_^

69. awEsome lines...

ahem

72. Prolly said already: the greatest line from the saga by Solo: "I know..."

Reason 73: The dialog between C3P0 and R2D2 towards the end of the film.

74 GL did not make ESB thats why its the best

Originally posted by coolmovies
74 GL did not make ESB thats why its the best

But he wrote the screenplay.

Reason #75: The title..."The Empire Strikes Back"...just a cool name.

Reason #76: Return of the Wilhelm.

Reason 77 - Crazy Yoda On Dagobah

Reason 78: The Han and Leia scenes.

79: Yoda pwns Artoo when he tries to take his light.

80. Yodas backwards talking

"Slimy. Mudhole. My home this is.

Originally posted by Impediment
79: Yoda pwns Artoo when he tries to take his light.
Nice!

Reason #81: That cool sound made by the Carbon Freezing chamber...you know the one.

Reason #82: Has the coolest movie poster

Originally posted by Scarecrow756
But he wrote the screenplay.

No he didn't. Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan did. Ah...


Reason 83: Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan wrote the screenplay

84 - The Tie Bomber!!! is the only film its shown in

85: in the original voice: put captain solo in the cargo hold...

#86 - Vader Kneels Before The Emperor - 'What Is Thy Bidding My Master?'

87 - Han with a lightsabre!

Reason 88: "Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Consume you it will, as it did Obi-wan's apprentice."

"Vader."



Some of the most telling, and powerfull lines in the saga.

#88: Vader lowering Boba Fett's rifle.
#89: Boba Fett looking at vader after that like, "WTF?!"

90. its Star Wars.

91)Stormtroopers getting their rep as the worst shots in the galaxy!

Finally AT LAST an affordable replica helmet
Shame aint in time for xmas
http://www.forbiddenplanet.com/1324785.shtml

You said 50 reasions not 91

Well weve changed it to 100
Thats the influence of Lucas
Nothing is ever final
and your sig has inspired number 92

92) Because it pisses from a great height over all the LOTR movies COMBINED thus keeping its place as the greatest fantasy flick of ALL TIME and part of the greatest trilogy ever commited to film !!

93) best shot and line from the saga:
"The Force is with you, young Skywalker, but you are not a Jedi yet... "

94) 100 reasons are never enough to say why ESB is the best

I love ESB as well as LOTR . 95; Its the secound film of the saga thats why its the best

96: A good middle chapter in the Original Trilogy.

97: Boba Fett has the sack to question Darth Vader's motives when freezing Han Solo.

Fett: "What if he doesn't survive? He's no good to me dead."
Vader: "The Empire will compensate you, bounty hunter."

98. Lando was the only pimp in the galaxy....and he got Leia drunk off of Colt 45....its in the EU

99 - "Its A Good Bet The Empire Knows Were Here..." General Rieken Shakes in his boots... "We Better Start The Evacuation..."

Cue The Imperial March!!!

100 - "The Son Of Skywalker Must Not Become A Jedi"
"If He Could Be Turned He Would Become A Powerful Ally"

Originally posted by Impediment
97: Boba Fett has the sack to question Darth Vader's motives when freezing Han Solo.

Fett: "What if he doesn't survive? He's no good to me dead."
Vader: "The Empire will compensate you, bounty hunter."

Only in the original version of course... the kiwi version sucks.

Originally posted by aj_vader
99 - "Its A Good Bet The Empire Knows Were Here..." General Rieken Shakes in his boots... "We Better Start The Evacuation..."

Cue The Imperial March!!!
Nice one!

Well...'twas fun while it lasted.

Closing?

Yeah...stick it in carbonite.

Done