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Originally Posted by Nutz and Boltz
....And I thought that I was the only one in the universe who never saw any of them. I never thought that the special effects were that "special", either.
I saw a list of the most popular movies of all time and got down to number 40 , Jaws, before I came to a movie that was a favorite of mine. I guess I have no taste. (Or the rest of the world doesn't).
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Well, Jaws is a pretty good movie, especially the scene where Robert Shaw talks about the U.S.S. Indianapolis, so your taste isn't way out there.
When you look at Star Wars' special effects you really need to put into the context of the mid-70s. By today's standards, they are nothing, but for the time they are really quite brilliant. The level of detail captured in the scale models is really incredible, at least in my opinion. Then to incorporate explosions, etc. Where I think the original SW fails is in the acting. For every Peter Cushing and Alec Guiness, they had a Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, and Carrie Fisher. The Harrison Ford of today is much improved over the young Harrison Ford.
