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Does The Empire Strikes Back Suffer From Middle-Film-Itis?
There’s a complaint about trilogies that are designed to be one long story that the middle film suffers the most because it neither feels like it has a beginning or an ending. Is that a problem with this film? What about being a sequel? Does it do more than the original did? Join us – Pete Wright and Andy Nelson – as we continue our series looking at the original Star Wars trilogy with Irvin Kershner’s 1980 film The Empire Strikes Back.
Here’s a hint at what we talk about.
Obviously, we love Empire so we don’t think it has those…
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