starwarsnerd
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If any of you have ever been to International Movie Database, I found that one of the members there has perfectly said what I have been trying to say. I'll post the 2 paragraphs that I find the most important and I'll post THE LINK for the rest. I hope this summarizes my problems with the new movies. And thanks to urb1972 for this truly accurate little summary.
"When a director forges a world for you, instead of a film, it's a little different. I was five years old when Star Wars premiered in London, where I was growing up. When I left the cinema, my life had, to some degree, been permanently altered. George Lucas had activated something in my head - a fantasy vision had been created that allowed me, and others who felt the same after seeing it, to see beyond the parameters of the film itself, to the whole world, or even universe, that it served merely as a snapshot of.
A New Hope, or Star Wars as we called it back then, was a perfect film. It had action, love, hope and courage - the old bastions of any good movie, which had perhaps become a little forgotten with the realist, oscar-hunting, star-vehicles of the same time. It was refreshing. It wasn't for kids our age, nor its two sequels - we were always a little on the young side for them, and we knew and respected that. It gave the films a powerful edge...they stood for quality."
"When a director forges a world for you, instead of a film, it's a little different. I was five years old when Star Wars premiered in London, where I was growing up. When I left the cinema, my life had, to some degree, been permanently altered. George Lucas had activated something in my head - a fantasy vision had been created that allowed me, and others who felt the same after seeing it, to see beyond the parameters of the film itself, to the whole world, or even universe, that it served merely as a snapshot of.
A New Hope, or Star Wars as we called it back then, was a perfect film. It had action, love, hope and courage - the old bastions of any good movie, which had perhaps become a little forgotten with the realist, oscar-hunting, star-vehicles of the same time. It was refreshing. It wasn't for kids our age, nor its two sequels - we were always a little on the young side for them, and we knew and respected that. It gave the films a powerful edge...they stood for quality."
