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JimP <solo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
> 

Walkers always seemed to be a spectacularly bad idea, although some great
movie effects. All that weight balanced high up on four relatively slim
legs. H G Wells's 8-legged Martians were at least somewhat better.

-- 
Pete