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Article #623996Re: George Lucas reveals his plan for Star Wars 7 through 9--and it was awful
From: JimP
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 13:18
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 13:18
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On 22 Jun 2018 07:26:34 GMT, ma...@mail.com wrote: >On 2018-06-21, Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> Questor <usenet@only.tnx> 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? >>> >>> >>> >>>> 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. >>> >>> >> >> 2001 was good, but the ending was hokey - not the fault of the movie, since >> the book was also. I saw many of the others and thought some were pretty >> good. Blade Runner beat them all, but I believe that came after SW. >> > >AFAIK, the Book (2001) came after the film, and was really the `bookifying' >of the script. Great film. They were written at the same time. The author and the film maker had a number of arguments.
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