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Article #623985Re: George Lucas reveals his plan for Star Wars 7 through 9--and it was awful
From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 21:43
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 21:43
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On 2018-06-21, Freddy <freddy1X@indyX.netX> wrote: > Huge wrote: > >> On 2018-06-21, Questor <usenet@only.tnx> wrote: >> >> [17 lines snipped] >> >>> 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. >> >> All better than Star Wars. And all on the shelf behind me. > > Multics, OS2, and those movies we say are better. Where are the sequels > now? On VHS somewhere, perhaps... :-) > MS Windows, Star Wars, we have more of that than we ever want. Amen, brother. > The market place has (mis)spoken. Old marketing saying: When aiming for the lowest common denominator, be prepared for the occasional division by zero. > Freddy, > bringing it back to computer folklore. What, you don't like thread drift? -- /~\ cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs) \ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way. X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855. / \ Fight low-contrast text in web pages! http://contrastrebellion.com
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