Star Wars: 10 Fanfilms That Did It Way Better Than Lucas

9. TROOPSTROOPS This movie came out in 1997 and was my first experience with fanfilms. It's a blatant rip-off of COPS, with the poor guys in white trying to investigate a couple of stolen droids on Tatooine as well as a couple whose nephew, Luke, has run off, but it's rather wonderfully done. The whole thing is headed up by a sweet little local trooper who sounds like he hails from Wisconsin. Both of the slaughters caught on film in 1977's movie are explained as suicide by stormtrooper. The Jawas resist arrest. Beru and Owen are repeat offenders. Really, you feel more for the poor guys who have to schlep their gear out to Anchorhead every couple of weeks to break up another fight at the Lars homestead. A crucial element of a Star Wars fanfilm is setting: we have to be able to relate what we see in the film to what we recognize from George Lucas' sandbox. While this is not the most high-budget film, it does a great job of inserting the unfamiliar into the familiar with a high level of plausibility.

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