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4140 years later I still haven't seen it.
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4140 years later I still haven't seen it.
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40 years later I still haven't seen it.
I saw it in NYC a week or two after it opened, and enjoyed it.
But as I've said here more than once, I'd just graduated college as an English major and was already a very well-versed film buff and SF reader. Thus I didn't see it as impressionable child: I immediately recognized every trope and narrative strand that Lucas had synthesized. The samurai films, knight errant stories, Tolkien, movie dogfights, assorted myth tropes, Flash Gordon serials, bits of John Ford, old-school adventure flicks, Jack Kirby comics, etc. And a few years later, when Lucas began his campaign for highbrow respect with the whole "I wanted to create a modern mythology based on Joseph Campbell's studies" schtick, I knew it was pure BS.
It doesn't mean I don't like Star Wars, I've seen all the films, some of them many times. I just never had any illusions about it being anything other than a series of fun popcorn fantasy films. This puts me out of step with a whole lot of folks just a few years younger than me who view Star Wars as the brilliant epic modern mythology of their youth.
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