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Originally Posted by Lemon Drop Husker
Star Wars was something nobody had ever seen before.
It was 40 years ahead of its time.
The special effects aren't "weird" even 40 years later.
Movies, comic books, and everything else in between are made due to the original Star Wars.
It is a cinematic masterpiece the likes of which we have never seen before, or ever after.
It took you to a world of unknown, brought you in, and made you believe everything about it was real.
Tatooine. Chewbacca. Darth Vader. The Force. Luke. Princess Leia, Yoda, the Death Star.
40 years later, and movies are still being made about that "world".
Tell me another movie that has had more influence than Star Wars and you are simply lying to yourself.
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I was 14 when it came out. I saw it 3 weekends in a row, missed a couple weekends, and saw it 3 more weekends in a row. Anytime one of the neighborhood guys or school pals said they were going to see it, I went. It really was an experience. A feel good good-guys win, bad-guys lose, but with a ton of flair.
Just like you, I've always realized how it has embedded itself into our generation, and how we've passed it on to the next generation, a generation that can imagine anything that the laws of physics will allow.
It ultimately was a blessing in disguise that Lucas had the marital problems that forced him to shelve it. The series now is a part of 2 distinct generation's psyche.
A simple story really, but told with unparalleled flourishes, in the most unlikely of settings. The setting for the whole series could be set in the Australian Outback, and the same general story line, with all it's themes, could be told effectively.
I was waiting for somebody to bring it up. It's a pariah for serious people that must be challenged when being entertained, that must watch every presentation with a critic's eye. It's the "nerds" thing, even though, by the time the 2nd trilogy started rolling out, that stigma was pretty much gone, and everybody pretty much admitted that it was about time to start the story up again.
