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[almostwitty]

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People are always amazed when I say I don't like Star Wars. And I don't.

To me it's an overtly cliched rags-to-riches tale of small boy who grows up to defeat a mighty empire. Albeit with sci-fi trappings. But everyone knows the story yadda yadda yadda thanks to mass media culture.

I did go see the Special Edition at the cinema once in 1997, and kept wishing for the fast-forward button. It's so damn slow!

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[m-malcontent.livejournal.com]

Were you old enough see it in the theaters the first time. It (and to a lesser extent Donner's Superman) were just mind blowingly over and above anything else that had been done with effects to that point.

I love the Star Wars original trilogy as movies..but I think they were terrible for moviemaking in general. Since no one wants to make dialog driven movies anymore cause they want to make a few hundred million by blowing stuff up.

[almostwitty]

Never saw either film in theatres the first time. The first film I saw at the theatre that I can remember was The Empire Strikes Back - and I went home at the intermission because I thought that was the end, which shows you how much attention I was paying to it at the time!