 Skonch wrote: | | I can't say that I have ever been involved in War, which is a blessing and yes, you certainly cannot compare the real with Fiction, it would be disrespectful. All I can say about Star Wars is that it expanded my imagination like nothing before or since. I was a completely spellbound 7 year-old and the experience of seeing it in the cinema for the first time was wonderful. I feel sad for kids of today beuase they've seen it all! leaving nothing to the imagination. (I'm beginning to sound like an old man aren't I, OMG!!!) |
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Well, speaking as one who saw Star Wars when it wasn't an episode, and was an adult, I can say that, story-wise, it wasn't anything that no one hadn't already seen... It was a typical 3-act swashbuckler movie... What blew me away as a movie-goer was the FX... NOBODY has seen anything lke that before... With no opening credits (Something Lucas had to fight for, btw), the movie gives you three traveling paragraphs to set the scene, and BAM!- the action starts... We spent the first 5 minutes not knowing who the good guys are, at least not sure, until Vader's entrance. From there, it was just one thing after another that no movie-goer had ever seen, but was still recognizable... Add the beat-up spaceships, aliens of every description, and space dogfights, and it was a winner... I loved that movie and saw it several times while it was playing in my area... I'd never done that with ANY movie before.. That's the movie that turned me on to sci-fi, for sure... (I started watching Star Trek only after Star Wars, with any kind of regularity...) I built the X-Wing and TIE Fighter kits that came out later on too, but didn't get into the figures and toys that followed... I was an adult after all, and my kids were too little for the stuff... When I saw The Empire Strikes Back, I was disappointed at the ending too... Return Of the Jedi (which wasn't titled as an episode at that time) sewed up the loose ends left by Empire and I called it quits after that, other than picking up the Snowspeeder kits and the A-Wings too... By the time Episode I came out, I didn't care much about Star Wars anymore. It was thirty years ago I'd first seen Star Wars and so many movies had come between those two and SFX had come so far that there wasn't anything special about it... I waited for the video to be released and gave it a look, and frankly, I was bored by it... Out of the three prequels, the only good was Clone Wars, and the best of the three was III, Revenge of the Sith, and like the others, I waited for the release on video, and shook my head at the SWNs standing in line outside theaters for all three... Other than that, it was a fun roller-coaster ride as movies go, but knowing how the whole thing ends made for a lot less interest than I felt with SW I. Of them all, A New Hope was the only one that could stand on it's own as a movie... |