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How 'Star Wars' ruined sci-fi
CNN ^ | 5/2/2014 | CNN

Posted on 05/04/2014 2:13:54 PM PDT by Dallas59

Now that the cast of the seventh "Star Wars" movie has been announced, you can imagine the anticipation among the millions of fans of the film franchise. And why not? The six "Star Wars" films have been enormous successes: they have grossed over $2 billion domestically at the box office, spawned scores of books, comic books and merchandise (how many kids have their own light saber?) and made household names of characters like Darth Vader, Han Solo and Luke Skywalker.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: cinema; film; movies; sciencefiction; scifi; starwars
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To: TalBlack

I don’t know how old you are, but if you didn’t see the original, “Episode IV,” as a child, you might never get into the whole setup. If you like old John Wayne movies, you’d probably like the first couple of Star Wars movies.


41 posted on 05/04/2014 2:55:34 PM PDT by Tax-chick (There is no Star Wars, there is only Zuul.)
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To: GeronL
Nahh, you need to read LOTR.
42 posted on 05/04/2014 2:55:36 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Dallas59

The first Star Wars was epic, the sequel....trash.


43 posted on 05/04/2014 2:56:19 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Tax-chick

Green alien chicks....hmmmmmm.


44 posted on 05/04/2014 2:58:54 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (If you want to keep your dignity, you can keep it. Period........ Just kidding, you can't keep it.)
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To: Dallas59

what? no reference to babylon 5?


45 posted on 05/04/2014 3:00:55 PM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Regarding the “white heroes”, at the time I don’t think the audiences would be drawn in by non white heroes.

Today? No problem with men and women of color. The number of headlining African American actors and actresses would be widely accepted: Jamie Foxx, Denzel, and Samuel l Jackson come to mind.

We HAVE grown in our acceptance of a good story and good filmmaking. Think of the biggest summer hits in the past ten or twenty years. Lots of actors of color carrying movies.


46 posted on 05/04/2014 3:03:27 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (If you want to keep your dignity, you can keep it. Period........ Just kidding, you can't keep it.)
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To: Dallas59

Don’t agree that Star Wars ruined anything, but I ‘d get a lot of agreement that CNN ruined news reporting.


47 posted on 05/04/2014 3:03:32 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: SkyDancer

The name of the space shuttle prototype too.


48 posted on 05/04/2014 3:04:06 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Dallas59

what? no reference to babylon 5?


49 posted on 05/04/2014 3:05:56 PM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: Dallas59

50 posted on 05/04/2014 3:05:57 PM PDT by jimbo123
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To: Sherman Logan

That’s true. I read “The Hobbit” and all three LOTR novels to my little boys over the last couple of years. I started because our homeschool association had a Hobbit reading club in advance of the first movie’s release. It had been only a couple of years since I read the whole set, but I got so much more out of reading it aloud and having to explain things to the byos.

Now I’m reading “The Silmarillion” to them. We’re about to get out of the mythic prehistory and into some real action sequences, finally! The other day, I said, “Since you’re not doing any schoolwork, we’ll read Tolkien. It’s full of vocabulary.” and my 4-year-old said, “It is not!”


51 posted on 05/04/2014 3:07:18 PM PDT by Tax-chick (There is no Star Wars, there is only Zuul.)
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To: Dallas59

52 posted on 05/04/2014 3:08:03 PM PDT by jimbo123
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To: Vermont Lt

Hmmmm.


53 posted on 05/04/2014 3:09:08 PM PDT by Tax-chick (There is no Star Wars, there is only Zuul.)
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To: SeeSharp

A good director could get several good movies out of the Moties, and they have the special fx to do a good job of it!.


54 posted on 05/04/2014 3:09:44 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Sherman Logan
'Oath of Fealty'. The cold calculating mindset that added the high-dive to the top of the building would certainly make liberal heads explode. But it did stop jumpers. ;)

I think the entire book was about exploding liberal heads.

/johnny

55 posted on 05/04/2014 3:11:20 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Ted Grant

Wasn’t STAR WARS a take off on Samurai movie THE HIDDEN FORTRESS?


56 posted on 05/04/2014 3:11:59 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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To: windcliff

Ya’ think so? Not me.


57 posted on 05/04/2014 3:13:14 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Dallas59

Sci-Fi was ruined by Political Correctness nonsense

Most notably, the empowered fighting female cliché.
You know, the 89lb waif who not only can keep up with the boys, but has to constantly bail them out.

Gone are the captain Kirk, Han Solo, Mad Max, etc Alpha Males. Instead we get Will Farrel bumbling fool or Michael Cera whiney wuss type men and Sarah Connor and Captain Janeway on Steroids women over & over & over.

Sci-Fi blows right now because basically, once the wow she is pretty hot factor wears off, it gets pretty old watching an 89 pound waif take on and beat up multiple 250+lb men


58 posted on 05/04/2014 3:14:46 PM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: Tax-chick

***Leigh Brackett, also wrote a couple of classic John Wayne movies (”El Dorado,” “Rio Bravo”). ***

She only wrote one. Rio Bravo received a “haircut” and became El Dorado, which received a “haircut” and a few Civil War scenes and became Rio Lobo.

Same script for all three, same plot line, same actor John Wayne.


59 posted on 05/04/2014 3:17:09 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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To: Tax-chick

Lol


60 posted on 05/04/2014 3:17:34 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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