{"id":27296,"date":"2011-09-19T10:00:45","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T17:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/?p=27296"},"modified":"2011-09-15T21:07:09","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T04:07:09","slug":"50dmc-32-favorite-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/50dmc-32-favorite-sequel\/","title":{"rendered":"50DMC #32: Favorite Sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/The-Empire-Strikes-Back.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"The-Empire-Strikes-Back\" width=\"550\" height=\"242\" class=\"centered size-full wp-image-27609\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/The-Empire-Strikes-Back.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/The-Empire-Strikes-Back-290x128.jpg 290w, https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/The-Empire-Strikes-Back-300x132.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/The-Empire-Strikes-Back-454x200.jpg 454w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The 50 Day Movie Challenge asks one question every day, to be answered by a few paragraphs and a clip, if possible. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/2011\/06\/50-day-movie-challenge\/\">Click here<\/a> for the full list of questions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s prompt: <b>What&#8217;s your favorite sequel?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"firstletter\">T<\/span>his one&#8217;s too easy and obvious, but it&#8217;s true. It&#8217;s pretty commonly believed that <b><em>The Empire Strikes Back<\/em><\/b> is the best of the <em>Star Wars<\/em> films, and I subscribe to that wholeheartedly. When I first watched <em>Star Wars<\/em> (as a jaded teenager), I was not suitably impressed, but I went on and watched <em>Empire<\/em> anyway. I&#8217;m a completionist, you know. <em>Empire<\/em> FLOORED me. I mean, Han and Leia, Imperial walkers, Yoda, I am your father, our heroes losing over and over, the ending that leaves them at their lowest point &#8211; it upped the ante at every turn. I loved it, and that caused me to go back and reevaluate the first one, and loved it too. So yeah. <em>Empire<\/em> not only bettered <em>Star Wars<\/em> for me, it actually helped me see what everyone else did in it and made me a fan for life.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the climax of the film:<\/p>\n<div class=\"centered\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C-DeI3ohVbY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 50 Day Movie Challenge asks one question every day, to be answered by a few paragraphs and a clip, if possible. Click here for the full list of questions. Today&#8217;s prompt: What&#8217;s your favorite sequel? This one&#8217;s too easy and obvious, but it&#8217;s true. It&#8217;s pretty commonly believed that The Empire Strikes Back is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[2145,2241,1281,2240],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/The-Empire-Strikes-Back.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23419,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/50-day-movie-challenge\/","url_meta":{"origin":27296,"position":0},"title":"50 Day Movie Challenge","author":"Jandy","date":"June 28, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"This challenge has been going around on Facebook and a friend is doing it on his blog, too. Since I'm not that much of a Facebook person, and am always looking for good blogging motivation, I thought I'd take up his idea and do it here. 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