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On Thu, 21 Jun 2018 07:51:49 +0100, Ahem A Rivet's Shot
<ste...@eircom.net> wrote:

>On Wed, 20 Jun 2018 18:42:34 -0700 (PDT)
>Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> 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.
>
>	Definitely, a clear demonstration that space opera could make a
>great film.
>
>> 2001: A Space Odyssey was quite a way in the past,
>
>	and was too complex and strange for many people.
>
>> 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
>
>	Also Solaris and a bunch of earlier and very cheesy stuff like Plan
>9 (now an operating system) and Forbidden Planet (now a chain of shops).
>Some of it was quite good science fiction (not much) but none of it was
>great entertainment.
>
>> 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.
>
>	It was space opera in the grand style of Doc Smith, crap science
>fiction but great fun.
>
>	Star Wars is to science fiction as James Bond is to spy fiction.

We enjoyed Forbidden Planet, we kids where I grew up. Few of us had
televisions.