Lucasfilm, Ltd.

12. THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
Directed by Irvin Kershner (1980)

Maybe you're thinking it doesn't feel like an action movie, what with Luke's kinda boring Jedi training on the swamp planet, Han and Leia's chaste romance, Chewie rocking the third-wheeliness, and Lando pimping it up on Cloud City. But the best of George Lucas' sci-fi sextology still found time to blow our minds. Not only did it get us to believe in a little green puppet, it boasted blistering sequences, like the imperial attack on Hoth, the Millennium Falcon dodging through the asteroid field, and the most hand-optional father-son reunion since the Hook family's last Christmas party.