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Article #623920Re: George Lucas reveals his plan for Star Wars 7 through 9--and it was awful
From: Peter Flass
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 10:53
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 10:53
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JimP <solo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 19 Jun 2018 21:33:20 GMT, Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote: > >> On 2018-06-19, Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote: >>> On Saturday, June 16, 2018 at 6:35:27 PM UTC-6, Lynn Wheeler wrote: >>>> George Lucas reveals his plan for Star Wars 7 through 9--and it was >>>> awful >>>> https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/06/george-lucas-reveals-his-plan-for-star-wars-7-through-9-and-it-was-awful/ >> >> Star Wars *is* awful. > > The first one, now number 4, was the best sf movie since Forbidden > Planet. My high school buddies and I had given up ever seeing a good > sf movie again. I was in a small nothing town out in Texas when the > first movie came out. I drove over, expecting maybe 10 or 20 people in > line to see it. My recollection is foggy, but my thought at the time was that Star Wars dropped in as a full-featured sci-fi movie into a desert of creature features and cheap B movies. I think it started the trend toward higher-class scifi now in the movies and on tv. As an old-times I enjoyed the allusions to old move cliches such as westerns. > > The line was over 500 feet long. The next showing, in an hour, was > sold out. I stayed in line and bought a ticket, one of the few left, > for the next showing. It was packed. People laughed, cried, cheered, > etc. thoughout the movie. > > My parents asked me what was wrong when I got home. All I could say > was 'wow'. I said substantionaly much more after watching Forbidden > Planet. > -- Pete
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