the best sci-fi baaaad guy ever is just one reason to check out the first in the franchise...back when he was baaaad because what else was there to do...(sniff!...those were the days!...before lucas went and tried to "splain hem ta me".)
For those of us in the Boomer generation, there can be no better set of movies than this -- I'm waiting for the last 3 of the triple trilogy George promised back in 1977!
I would have loved to have seen this in the cinema on it's release, there's not many movies made these days with the WOW! factor that this would have had.