10 Perfect Movies With One Glaring Flaw
7. Obi-Wans Lies - Star Wars
Star Wars is a film so good it literally changed the entire way we made movies. In its creator's eye, however, it wasn't good enough. In the years since its ground-breaking release George Lucas has tinkered with the film and its sequels repeatedly in an attempt to 'fix' problems and move the movies closer to his ideal vision. His fixes tend to be rather cosmetic, consisting of quick-to-date CGI interspersed with the much more realistic models of the time, while some actual issues get left totally unchecked.
We're not in anyway endorsing any more changes to the Star Wars Trilogy (please no), but if Lucas was actually out to improve the movies, rather than just add a new gloss to justify a rerelease, there's bigger things he could have dealt with, like the massive logic cluster-fodder of everything Obi-Wan says in A New Hope.
When he first doles out the story of Luke's father it has Anakin "betrayed and murdered" by Darth Vader. Subsequent films introduce the concept of Darth Vader actually being Anakin, which makes the whole scene nonsensical. There's a vague attempt to logically explain the lies, but that's only buyable if you take it from a certain, very abstract, point of view; Obi-Wan lied, although not really because he chose certain words.
To be fair this is less a flaw with the film by itself and more the effect of having the story of Star Wars diverge from the original plan mid-way through the trilogy. That doesn't stop the scene in A New Hope being a bit of a cringer.