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Patrick . . . Chill . . .

Posted by Auricle (A) on July 26, 2004 at 11:08:13

In Reply to: Re: All the Stars Wars were rubbish.... posted by patrickU on July 25, 2004 at 11:58:59:

during the middle 1960s and 1970s until Star Wars everyone was trying to make the "Great American Film" and, indeed, some of the serious movies of the day were absolutely tremendous. Unfortunately, far more were sophomoric, self-indulgent "serious" merde.

I saw "Star Wars" (1977) in Times Square (in 70mm I might add).I was amazed that a New York audience was so thrilled to be simply entertained for a change that they cheered when the Death Star blew up. Even more amazed that they gave the movie a standing ovation at the end. The reaction of the audience was "Oh, my God, I actually enjoyed that!"

Sadly, the pendulum has swung much too far toward mindless entertainment for 12 year olds which "Star Wars" triggered. One would hope for a mixture of serious films, "art" films and entertainment but that is never the way a pendulum works.

That is why I love DVDs and LaserDiscs. Whether I want to be serious, nostaligic, entertained . . . whatever . . . the solution is in my library waiting for the screen to come down and the projector to light up.

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