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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.

Forbidden Planet is a classic, I've seen it several times. The first time I
fell for Robbie the Robot, who unfortunately later prostituted himself in
Lost in Space and other stuff. Later, as I got older, I appreciated other
aspects of it (including Altaira ;-) 

> 
>> 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.
> 



-- 
Pete