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Date: Thu, 10-Jan-85 23:18:03 EST
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>> On the subject of Star Wars.  As time goes on, I am more and more
>> impressed with the original movie. I thought it was at best a B
>> movie, but grade inflation has moved it to B+.  The follow on movies
>> have yet to put together scenes in the first SW film (for instance
>> like ) where Luke storms out to view the twin setting suns:
>> composition, music, emotion.  Time magazine said that George Lucas
>> was planning nine films and that the last would be done by him to
>> show them all up.  I hope he does it.

>> --eugene miya

Don't hold your breath.  Lucas has been devoting more and more
energy to gimicks and less and less to plot ever since he started
making movies.  His first, THX1138, was the sparsest in terms of
sets, but clearly the most passionate.  The SW sequence didn't
start too long in the plot dept., yet it kept sacrificing what
scant story there was for special effects.  They are Lucas's admitted
obsession.  He is on record as disliking the saloon scene from the
first SW because he didn't have the money to do it right.  He feels
he vindicated himself with Jabba's place in ROTJ.  Of course, his
first effort remains the true classic.  Which do you remember best?
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