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Date: Thu, 23-Jun-83 17:50:34 EDT
Article-I.D.: mhtsa.336
Posted: Thu Jun 23 17:50:34 1983
Date-Received: Fri, 24-Jun-83 20:01:39 EDT
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As a decedent S_F watcher, the latest SW movie was a disappointing fard.
The only new features were some aliens (mostly disappointing)
and the sky cycles. The Orkish creatures guarding Jabba's house were
cartoon imitations. Jabba itself was a combination of one of the early
muppets from the first year of "Friday Night Live", and Sidney Greenstreet.
( The setting of jabba's room was reminiscent of the fat man's bar from
Casablanca. ) All the space scenes are now dull, after 6 years of
space-special-effects-exploitation movies.
It has been mentioned that the introduction of characters was confusing,
if you did not see the previous films. But even so, I got the feeling that
someone was acting with a green fozzy-bear muppet in one of the scenes.
NO; this film did not add anything to the genre of SF movies, but just
gave children, producers, and trivial space opera boffos something
to enjoy,
sms
[ what are the odds that the emperor has a fake hand? ]