How is the beginning of A New Hope slow? I watched it last night. It starts with Vader invading Leia's ship, people and Stormtrooper's dying, the Princess giving R2 the Death Star plans, them jettisoning from the ship, a quick argument over which way to go like two married people, the Jawas capturing them both, some weird robots (one of which looks like a beta of Wall E), then a quick introduction to Luke and how bored he is at home, they buy the robots, R5D4 blowing up so R2 gets picked instead, Luke seeing "Help me Obi Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope", Vader capturing Leia to find the plans, R2 running off to find Obi-Wan, foreshadowing about Owen being afraid Luke would end up like Anakin, Luke and 3PO going after R2, Sand People showing up and nearly killing Luke, Obi-Wan chasing them off, finding the Jawas have been killed, finding his Uncle and Aunt have been killed, and Luke deciding to go to Mos Eisley with Obi-Wan where it gets really fun. That's a shit ton lot of things going on in like the first half hour.