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On 21/06/2018 02:42, Quadibloc wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 20, 2018 at 4:53:32 AM UTC-6, Peter Flass wrote:
>> JimP <solo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>> 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.
> 
> Star Wars was a great and highly entertaining movie.
> 
> 2001: A Space Odyssey was quite a way in the past, and Star Trek: The Motion
> Picture was in the future.
> 
> Other major science fiction films that I can think of also go back to the 60s,
> and many of them were relatively low-budget releases...
> 
> The Andromeda Strain
> Westworld
> Planet of the Apes
> 
> Star Wars, of course, wasn't really like _any_ of those; it wasn't *serious* SF.
> The last time there was anything like it... was the Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers
> serials.

Great film, great sequel and then the rot happened with those damned 
little bears and merchandising.

Star Wars 3 or 6 (depending on whether you count episode number of 
release order) was originally drafted to be on Kashiq, the home world of 
the Wookies and the merchandising people realised the income from cute 
teddies instead of giant growley walking rugs and so we had cute fuzzy 
bonsai teddies  with sticks and stones taking out imperial walkers and 
ground troops that overran countless planets fully armed with heavy 
weapons and hardened soldiers.

Andy