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On Thu, 21 Jun 2018 07:07:54 +0100, AndyW <An...@nojunqmail.com> wrote:

>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
>

MythBusters did a show on Star Wars and showed two large logs could
take out a walker. Albeit they used an armoured car.