The finality of Rogue One, Order 66, Luke looking into the double sunset, and Luke choosing to not kill his father after defeating him even though the emperor wants him to.
The opening scene. Lots of movies had featured spaceships like the one we initially see fleeing. When it reveals the size of the star destroyer, we know that it’s going to be a new type of story.
I love that they show Leia’s ship coming in from the bottom of the frame, so we’re above it, but then the star destroyer from the top, so we see it from below. Really ups the intimidation factor and ensures we know who we’re rooting from before anyone has even spoke a word.
Unironically, “you were my brother, Anakin. I loved you” though I suppose it is more of just a line rather than a whole scene. Ewan was too good for those films.
In The Phantom Menace, the entire podrace scene. Yes, it’s goofy as heck, but man does George Lucas know how to make some pure campy exciting fun.
In A New Hope, the trench runs. God, they’re just SO COOL, especially on a big screen.
In The Force Awakens, Han being rescued by the Resistance, from the time Han Solo is captured to the time Leia shows up, is a masterclass example of editing and music.
Visually, you cannot beat the Darth/Luke battle scene in the carbonite freezing chamber in ESB… it is like art. The orange and the blue are so beautiful
From Mando: the part in The Tragedy when Fett goes absolutely fucking HAM on the bucketheads as they’re trying to advance at the base of the mountain (this is the one scene that got me super stoked for the Boba Fett series)
For the same reason, the intro to Episode III. The fadeout from the title crawl to the war drums to the epic space battle. I LOVE that shit, so underrated.