10 More Most Paused Star Wars Moments

More Star Wars moments that demanded greater inspection.

By Jack Pooley /

There are few - if any - movie franchises with as much cultural cachet as Star Wars, which over almost 50 years has inundated fans with a bevy of indelible, awe-inspiring images sure to linger in their minds for an entire lifetime.

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But sometimes these moments don't merely provide an ephemeral, adrenaline-pumping "wow" - sometimes they beg us to go back, hit the pause button, and carefully inspect the frame to appreciate everything that went into making it.

And so, with there being so many must-pause Star Wars moments across the series' illustrious history, it's time for a sequel to our previous thread on the 10 Most Paused Star Wars Moments.

From visually stunning action beats to strange Easter eggs, blink-and-you'll-miss-it oddities, and slivers of incredible comedy, these moments all begged fans to hit pause and just soak them in for a minute or two.

For better or worse - and thankfully mostly for the better - fans have been fixated on these images ever since the respective movies came out, and no matter the franchise's future, these visuals will rank among the series' most memorable forever more...

10. The Holdo Maneuver - Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi

Whether you love or hate The Last Jedi, it does lay claim to one of the single coolest images in Star Wars history, when Vice-Admiral Holdo (Laura Dern) pulls off the near-mythic "Holdo maneuver."

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In a desperate attempt to fend off the First Order fleet and buy the Resistance precious time to escape to Crait, Holdo sacrifices herself by suicidally ramming her ship, the Raddus, into Snoke's (Andy Serkis) flagship, The Supremacy, at near-lightspeed.

The result is pure destruction - the Raddus slices through the Supremacy and obliterates the surrounding fleet, all of this depicted in eye wateringly beautiful slow-motion and near-complete silence.

Every shot in this sequence, as an explosive white streak tears through the First Order armada, is 100% wallpaper-worthy, but they each pass quickly enough that you'll definitely want to smash the pause button a few times and soak in each individual frame.

This might well be the single most-paused moment in the entire sequel trilogy, honestly.

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