JoeinAR

Boy in my neck of the woods, someone hear you say that you would be feeding the buffalo swimming in the mightly missip.

Morn, don't you realize the 2001 was 9 years before Star Wars and it was nothing like Star Wars. Star Wars as a boxoffice hit, 2001 was a bomb Star Wars caught the nation's attention, 2001 made the college rounds Star Wars was for everyone, 2001 was cerebral and dull. Both are considered classics, but one is fun the other is boring. Joe, who enjoyed 2010 better.

Insurrection had some really bad moments, but I thought neither film Neil mentions is boring. I cringe everytime Data sings A British Tar. Still I want to see Data do a turn as Elvis. That would be hilarious.

May 1977 internet users are caught completely by surprise :oops: as a moderately budgeted film(8 million though everyon now say 10) hits the screens. Soon word of mouth causes lines never before seen at local movie palaces. Peter Cushing listed in the credits caused lots of people to think this is a British film. It didn't help that Carrie Fisher spends the first half of the film in British english and the last half in American English. It didn't matter, it was such great fun. Oh expectations for this film were non existant. We didn't know that the darkly dressed villian was any relation to the young boy Luke, and that Luke's attraction to what would later become his sister is quite obvious. And the main bad guy didn't wear black, he wore grey, and his name was Grand Moff Tarkin. He held Vader's leash. We all thought Darth was his first name, not his title You see, we didn't know, we didn't care. We just enjoyed one of the great cinematic joys ever put to "film". We revelled in the glorious music that John Williams created. Our 2 disc record albums were fantastic. We never thought about what music we didn't have. We only knew we had a great work in our collection, unlike anything of recent memory. Oh yes those "SPECIAL EFFECTS" were like nothing we had EVER seen. We were used to them, we hadn't had our sense so bombarded by them yet, so we just sat back and enjoyed. Of the 4 sequels, none come close to the complete story line that Star Wars has. And while each of those has been a unique experience not one comes close to capturing the freshness, the innocence, or the wonder that is Star Wars.

Neil and I begin on the new board in complete disagreement. Hang on to your hats guys, its gonna be a rough ride. Joe, who finds it ironic that Phantom Menace actually got alot of great reviews when it came out and is now disliked, while Clones a much better film in every way is being crucified. Puzzled I am.

Ricard more or less help confirm Johnny boys involvement. But my most sought after score is Minority Report. I will worry about Harry Potter and the Room of Secrets(American Title, we don't know what chambers are) later. :wow:

A longer film than Spidey playing in over 500 fewer screens still manages to gross 110 million since it opened Thursday. Spiderman has the legs But Star Wars has the force. Begun this boxoffice war has. Spidey, you are going down. :cry2:

Harry Potter took an ax and gave A.I. forty wacks when he saw what he had done he gave the Clones forty one.

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