Posted on 05/04/2014 2:13:54 PM PDT by Dallas59
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.
The first Star Wars was epic, the sequel....trash.
Green alien chicks....hmmmmmm.
what? no reference to babylon 5?
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.
Don’t agree that Star Wars ruined anything, but I ‘d get a lot of agreement that CNN ruined news reporting.
The name of the space shuttle prototype too.
what? no reference to babylon 5?
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!”
Hmmmm.
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!.
I think the entire book was about exploding liberal heads.
/johnny
Wasn’t STAR WARS a take off on Samurai movie THE HIDDEN FORTRESS?
Ya’ think so? Not me.
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
***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.
Lol
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