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Article #623930Re: George Lucas reveals his plan for Star Wars 7 through 9--and it was awful
From: Peter Flass
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 11:25
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 11:25
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Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote: > On 2018-06-21, 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. > > Star Wars was a dull, derivative and tiresome movie. > >> >> 2001: A Space Odyssey was quite a way in the past, and Star Trek: The Motion >> Picture was in the future. >> >> 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... > > Budget does not a movie make. For example, these are all better than Star > Wars and yet had budgets a fraction of what Lucas spent; "The Girl With All > The Gifts", "Under The Skin", "Cargo". > >> The Andromeda Strain >> Westworld >> Planet of the Apes >> >> Star Wars, of course, wasn't really like _any_ of those; it wasn't *serious* SF. > > I'd argue it wasn't SF at all. It's Robin Hood in space with a dash of > WW2 fighter ace mixed in. > And some westerns. Of course it's derivative, but a lot of this is tongue-in-cheek, and it was fun picking out the allusions. -- Pete
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