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On Thu, 21 Jun 2018 17:07:40 GMT, usenet@only.tnx (Questor) wrote:

>On Wed, 20 Jun 2018 06:53:31 -0400, Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>JimP <solo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 19 Jun 2018 21:33:20 GMT, Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> 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.
>
>2001?

I don't think I saw 2001: A Space Odessy until years later. I think
the screens in my area, and the sound capabilities, were too low to
book it.

And I got around to checking the date, Forbidden Planet was 1956. I
was in elementary school, not high school.

And 2001 was in 1968. I was in the Navy at the time. Probably saw it
in one of the big theaters in San Deigo.

>>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. I think it started the trend toward
>>higher-class scifi now in the movies and on tv. 
>
>
>The Andromeda Strain, The Omega Man, THX 1138, Silent Running, Solaris,
>Fantastic Planet, Soylent Green, Dark Star, The Terminal Man, A Boy and His Dog,
>Logan's Run, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Close Encounters of the Third Kind...
>just some of the films from that period -- hardly a desert.
>
>It was 2001 that really set the higher bar for science fiction cinema, but
>nobody tried to reach it for quite a while.  Star Wars did spawn a host of
>imitators, none of which were as good and some of which were truly awful.

The Andromeda Strain movie sucked...  a satellite in orbit equipped
with a vacuum ? Nonsense.