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Article #623989Re: George Lucas reveals his plan for Star Wars 7 through 9--and it was awful
From: Peter Flass
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 21:47
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 21:47
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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. -- Pete
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