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user-inactivated  ·  2278 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Star Wars Episode 8 is the longest primal hallucination you will ever experience

To be brutally honest Star Wars is not a great movie. Compared to what was in the theaters at the time, however, it was amazing. A New Hope was the Second? maybe third? movie I ever saw in a theater. So there is a decent chunk of folks like me that have a nostalgia boner that is removing needed blood from the frontal, thinking, cortex of the brain.

Star Wars is King Arthur/Western Hero Narative in space with some added Pulp without the sex and violence that makes some of the old pulp novels worth reading.

Go in, turn your brain off and enjoy the film without thinking about it too hard and they are enjoyable.



rthomas6  ·  2278 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think you're especially right in terms of special effects. I don't think anybody had seen a movie that looked or sounded like that up to that point. Except for 2001: A Space Odyssey, but that's like the greatest film ever made.

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user-inactivated  ·  2275 days ago  ·  link  ·  

https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/year/1977

Black Sunday came out that year, a great movie that is under rated. Smokey and the Bandit came out the same week, interesting.

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