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From: reg@vaxine.UUCP (Rick Genter)
Newsgroups: net.movies.sw
Subject: Re: _Star_Wars (spoiler)
Message-ID: <595@vaxine.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 09:59:17 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul  2 09:59:17 1985
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> >
> >
> >                            _Star_Wars_
> >
> >                         by Kelvin Thompson
> >
> >  _Star_Wars_, yet another entry in the recent spate of "Space Operas," is
> >  a bad, morally empty movie.  Look, quick!!  It has lights!!  It has
> >  zooming spaceships!!  It has laser flashes!!  It has explosions!!  Look
> >  closer, and it has nothing.

> Star Wars is a FANTASY-Adventure, that just happens to take place
> "a long time ago, in a Galaxy far, far away".  At this it is Excelent!
> As for value, I recall that it won an Oscar. (Not bad for what you call
> a worthless movie, especially considering that most critics would agree
> with you!)
>         Why to people expect *MUCH* more from a movie in space?  (See a
> previous posting about Battlestar Galactiac posted to net.startrek)

>         Look at how much is made off of James Bond movies....Do they have

... and on and on and on.

     I can't believe anyone has taken this guy seriously.  I *really* can't
believe so *many* people took this guy seriously.

                                        Rick Genter
                                        Automatix Inc.
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